Sermon Text: Isaiah 11:1-10
Sermon Title: “The Greater David: The King Who is Worth the Wait”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Isaiah 6:9-13 – “And he [God] said, ‘Go, and say to this people: ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.’’ Then I said, ‘How long, O Lord?’ And he said: ‘Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste, and the Lord removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled.’ The holy seed is its stump.”SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea: Waiting is Hard, But Waiting was Part of God’s Plan. For the King Who’s Coming … Will Be Worth the Wait.
SLIDE 3 – Sermon Point 1 – The Greater David … Will Be the Perfect King (vv. 1-5)SLIDE 4 – Isaiah 10:33-34 – “Behold, the Lord God of hosts will lop the boughs with terrifying power;the great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low. He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.”SLIDE 5 – Psalm 89:38-39, 46, 49 – “But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust … How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire? … Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David?”SLIDE 6 – [Attached Picture #1 – Terebinth Tree]SLIDE 7 – [Attached Picture #2 – Terebinth Tree, Regenerated]SLIDE 8 – Psalm 51:11 – “Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.”SLIDE 9 – John 3:34 – “For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.”SLIDE 10 – Matthew 5:3, 5 – “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven… Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.”
SLIDE 11 – Sermon Point 2 – The Greater David … Will Bring the Perfect Kingdom (vv. 6-10)SLIDE 12 – Isaiah 9:6-7 – “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called ‘Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness … The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.”SLIDE 13 – Revelation 22:16 – “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”
SLIDE 14 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your LifeSLIDE 15 – All the Davidic Kings Were Types and Shadows of the Greater David.SLIDE 16 – Christ’s Peace is Given on Earth, but Must Be Applied to our Hearts and Homes.SLIDE 17 – Christ is Altogether Lovely, Are You Altogether His?