"Even Them"

1. Salvation's Coming (1)

2. Salvation's Extent (2-3)

A. Who is Blessed? (2)

B. Who is Left Out? (3)

3. Salvation's Deep Blessing (4-8)

A. Salvation for the Eunuch (4-5)

B. Salvation for the Foreigner (6-7)

C. A Gathered People (8)

Isaiah 55

“Y’all Come”

Introduction:

I. Free Food for Sale (1)

II. Why Throw Good Money After Bad? (2a)

III. We Eat Soul Food with our Ears (2b-3a)

IV. Get God While the Gettin’s Good (6-8) RSVP God’s Invitation

Isaiah 54:1-3

“Enlarge ... Stretch ... Lengthen ... Strengthen ... Spread Out!”

Introduction:

I. Evidence that God is Concerned about Kingdom Growth

II. What Produces Kingdom Growth?

A. The Means of Kingdom Growth is the Gospel (52:13-53:12)

B. The Nature of Kingdom Growth is Supernatural (1)

III. How to Respond to God’s Concern for Kingdom Growth? (2-3)

A. Expect Growth (v. 1 is a promise)

B. Prepare for Growth (2-3)

Matthew 22:23-33

“The Great Resurrection Debate”

Introduction:

I. An Enigma Stemming from Ignorance about the Resurrection (23-28)

II. An Exposure of the Source of Ignorance about the Resurrection (29)

III. An Explanation of Significant Insights about the Resurrection (30-32)

IV. The Enthusiasm Stirred by Instruction about the Resurrection (33)

Application Questions:

1. Are there things about the presence and power of God that frighten or sober you, and to which you sinfully respond by either trying to avoid him or somehow lessen the impact of your accountability to him?

2. What positions, possessions or privileges that you enjoy are threatened by Jesus’ command to yield complete allegiance to him?

3. Like the Sadducees and Pharisees, are you better at studying the Bible than submitting to it? What features of its teaching do you diminish or even ignore to ward off its demands upon you?

4. When you are honest what questionable assumptions from culture, background and personal preferences negatively color your interpretation of Scripture?

5. How should the fact of the resurrection of the body affect the way we think about our lives now and how we live them? Why?

“The Humble Triumph of the King of Israel”

John 12:12-19

Introduction: Many live for recognition --- Jesus fled from it …

Question: Why then did he allow it here?

1. Establishing Prophesy (Zech. 9:9)

2. Endorsing His Throne Rights (Genesis 49:10-11)

3. Exposing the Impotence of His Opposition (19)

4. Envisioning His Ultimate Coronation (Isaiah 45:23)

I. A Kingly Honor … Palm Branches / Hosannas (13)

II. A Kingly Bearing – Humility (14-15)

1. Beast of burden … not of splendor

2. Donkey associated with the pursuit of peace in the O. T.

3. Passover season --- deliverance from slavery

III. A Kingly Fame That Would Soon Fade (17, 18)

Isaiah 53:10-12

“The Spoils of the Servant’s Triumph”

Introduction:

I. He Pleased the Father (10a)

II. He Procured a Posterity (10b)

III. He Prospered the Redemptive Purpose of God (10c-11)

IV. He Plundered the Kingdom of Death (12)

Isaiah 53:4-9

“The Suffering Servant” ... OR ...

“The Silent, Sinless Substitute for our Sin”

Introduction:

I. The Change the Substitute Achieved (4-6)

A. The Centrality of the Substitution Idea

B. The Cure for Our Damage Through His Substitution (4)

C. The Cancellation of Our Debt Through His Substitution (5, 6)

II. The Curse the Substitute Accepted (7-9)

A. Submissive (7)

B. Slandered (8)

C. Sinless (9b)

Isaiah 52:13-53:6

“The Sorrowing Servant”

Introduction:

I. The Victory Effected by His Humiliation (52:13-15)

II. The Violence Exhibited in His Humiliation (52:14)

III. The Vilification Endured in His Humiliation (53:1-3)

Salvation: What? How?

Isaiah 52:1-12

God Provides salvation for his undeserving people.

A. A New Status (1-2)

B. Redemption (3-6)

C. The Message of the Victor (7-10)

D. Leaving and Living (11-12)

Isaiah 45:22-25

“The Only Way of Escape”

Introduction:

I. The Universal Offer of the Only Remedy (22)

II. The Universal Acceptance of the Only Reign & Righteousness (23-24)

III. The Universal Separation between those who Rage against the Lord and those who are righteous in the Lord. (24b-25)