What is wisdom and from where does it come? Do we simply gain it through our own experience or the school of "hard knocks"? Through this sermon, we will be going through Proverbs 1.

2 Peter 1:3-11

From Psalm 70 we learn about one of the fundamentals of the Christian Faith; prayer. David models the urgency of bringing our concerns to God, praying for justice, as well as for God's greatness while demonstrating his own submission and humility before God.

At the end of Isaiah we are given one last glimpse into Zion, the new heavens and the new earth.

Although attracted to many other things, God has created us to be attracted to, and find ultimate satisfaction in his glory. In Isaiah 60 we find that the city of God is the greatest attraction of all time.

From Isaiah 59 we see that Christ has come to buy us back from our bondage to sin. Only he is able to stand as our redeemer.

Returning to Isaiah 56, we see that the local church is charged with carrying out the mission of God to bring the gospel to all peoples. As people who have received mercy, we are called to follow Christ into the brokenness of this world to welcome in the hopeless, the outcast, the others who have not yet believed. 

In Isaiah 56 we're reminded that God's redemptive plan extends to all peoples.

Revival is when God comes down to make himself overwhelmingly real to us. But the message of Isaiah 58 is that God will only awaken us as we truly humble ourselves, acknowledge our need and willingly spend ourselves in the needs of others.