We have a song in our songbook titled, “Where Could I Go?” The first verse talks about the difficulty of facing temptations. So then the question is asked, “Where could I go but to the Lord?” The second verse speaks about having good neighbors. But when my soul needs manna from above, where could I go but to the Lord? The third verse talks about having good friends and receiving comfort from God’s word. But when I face death, where could I go but to the Lord? …In Isaiah 40:27 the people are questioning God. They are saying that God does not see what they are experiencing and that God does not care. Isaiah has given two pictures about God through verse 17. God is pictured as a saving shepherd, gathering his sheep into his arms. God is also pictured as being so great in power and majesty that nothing is too hard or too big for him to handle. The third picture of God that we are going to see begins in Isaiah 40:18. The key question to this picture is asked twice. With whom will you compare God? (Isaiah 40:18,25). What Isaiah is going to tell us about God is so that we will draw the same conclusion as the song, “Where could I go but to the Lord?”

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We are coming to a text in God’s word that is full of controversy and resistance. But we should not be surprised by this because of what the apostle Paul declared earlier in Romans 1. In Romans 1:21 we learn that when we do not honor God and give him thanks then we will become futile in our thinking and our foolish hearts are darkened. In other words, what we are going to be taught in this text we are going to naturally resist. Unless we are open to being taught from God, we are going to reject Romans 1:24-32… So I am going to plead with you as we begin our study of this text to listen to what God is telling us. Do not reject what you read because it does not sound right or because it makes us uncomfortable. God is trying to save us from disaster. God is trying to keep us from destruction. There are three things that God gives us over to when we do not give God honor or give God thanks. We will be able to consider two of them in this lesson. Lord willing, we will look at the third way God gives us up in the next lesson. Open your copies of God’s word to Romans 1:24-27 and we are going to see what God is teaching us the path we are on when we do not honor God or give him thanks…

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In Isaiah 40, the Lord speaks through Isaiah to his people to give them comfort. The greatest comfort you can ever have in this world is knowing God. No one cares about you more than God does. God wants the people to see him the right way. The people think that God does not care what they are going through and will not act on their behalf (cf. Isaiah 40:27). But Isaiah prophesies about the God they need to see when the Christ comes for his people (cf. Isaiah 40:3-5). The first picture that God gave to his people in Isaiah 40 is a picture of himself as a saving shepherd. God comes for his people using his mighty, saving power to gather his sheep to himself. God himself will stoop down and gather his sheep into his arms, drawing them near and caring for them (Isaiah 40:10-11). But now the Lord wants to give another picture to his people. God wants to give his people another lens so that they will see him properly. Open your copies of God’s word to Isaiah 40:12-17…

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In Romans 1:18-20 the apostle Paul has made a very important point regarding the gospel. No one has an excuse before God. There is no one in the world that can say on the day of judgment that they are excused from knowing God. Why? The reason why all are without excuse is because God has revealed himself to everyone through the creation. We are to look at the things that have been made and see God. Psalm 19 begins by proclaiming that the creation shouts the glory of God day after day and night after night. The creation is supposed to cause all people to seek God and learn what this God wants them to do. The problem, according to the apostle Paul, is that we suppress the truth…

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How do you look at God? When you think about God, what do you think about? What characteristics about God come to your mind? How you look at God will change everything about how you live your life and how you will live before him. For example, in Matthew 25 when we read the parable of the talents, the man who received one talent and hid that talent in ground gave an explanation for why he buried his talent. He explained, “Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid” (Matthew 25:24-25). The one talent man proclaims that the reason he did nothing with what the master gave him was because of how he looked at his master. He saw his master as being harsh. Is this the way we think about God? Do we think about God being hard and harsh? The point I want us to think about as we start this series is to consider how we think about God. It is important to consider how we think about God. What do we see when we look at him? The prophet Isaiah is going to tell the people to take a good look at God. But what does Isaiah want his people to see and what does he want us to see?

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The apostle Paul has begun his letter to the church in Rome by proclaiming to them the gospel. In the first six verses of Romans sets forward that the gospel is concerning the Son who descended from David and was declared to be the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead. Paul then puts forward that he is not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God for salvation for all who believe because the righteousness of God is revealed in it. But I want us to think about how the message of the gospel has an important implication. If the gospel is God’s power to save all who believe, then there is an important question that must be asked: Saved from what? Why do we need salvation? Why is God offering salvation through the gospel? What are we being saved from? The rest of Romans 1 tells us the truth about our situation before the Almighty God…

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We are talking about how to have a heart for the city. In the lesson this morning we looked at the first seven verses of Jeremiah 29 where Jeremiah writes a letter to the exiles who have been captured and now living in Babylon. Jeremiah tells them how they are to live while in Babylon. We noticed that they were to settle in the city, seek the welfare of the city, and pray for the city while they lived in Babylon. We drew the same conclusions for us while we wait for the return of Jesus. But there were more directions that God gave through Jeremiah in this letter. There was more about how to have a heart for the city and be the people God calls us to be while we wait for God’s return. So open your copies of God’s word back to Jeremiah 29 and we are going to look at the rest of this chapter. As you are turning to Jeremiah 29 I want us to think about the difficulty of what Jeremiah has told the people to do. It can be hard to wait for God to come return them to their home. It can be hard to seek the welfare of the city and pray for it when you see the wickedness of the city. So how to do we wait and how can maintain these commands while we wait?

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One of the consistent messages that Jeremiah has been proclaiming that has been recorded for us in our recent studies of Jeremiah is that the people who have been captured by the Babylonians are not returning soon. False prophets have been proclaiming that the captured people as well as the captured articles of the temple would return in two years (cf. Jeremiah 27:16; 28:3-4). Instead of a quick reversal, God has proclaimed that the nations will serve Babylon through many of Babylon’s kings (cf. Jeremiah 27:6-7). So what should the people who have been exiled in Babylon do while they live there? What should be their attitude toward living away from their homeland, longing to return? In particular, what should they do in Babylon and what should be their attitude toward Babylon while in exile? We are going to look at what they are told to do while in Babylon because we live in similar circumstances in this way: we are told that our citizenship is in heaven while we wait here for our Savior to return (cf. Philippians 3:20-21). But what should we do while we wait for Jesus’ return and what should be our attitude toward the world and toward the city while we wait?

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The first day of the week has arrived. Mary Magdalene and the women came to the tomb and found the stone taken away. Rather than believing Jesus had risen from the dead, the women believe that the body has been moved. Peter and John also go to the tomb. But verse 9 tells us that the disciples “did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise form the dead.” Mary remains at the tomb crying. She sees Jesus but does not know it was him. But when Jesus says her name, she recognizes that it is the Lord Jesus. The message John is showing by the Holy Spirit through this gospel is that faith comes from understanding the scriptures, not by sight.

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Jesus has explained that the cross is the history changing moment for the world. The cross is the judgment of the world, the neutralization of Satan’s power, the exaltation of Jesus as the Christ, and means by which the world can be drawn to the Father through Jesus. After saying these things, John 12:36 tells us that Jesus departed and hid himself from them. This is the end of the public ministry of Jesus. Jesus has come to Jerusalem with his final offer of salvation and reconciliation to the Father. The cross would be the final message to the world of who Jesus is.

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