Big Thought: Only God’s power is truly . And because He is , we are the realization of all of God’s .
1. The power of God’s . (vs. 9)
Isaiah 14:27 (ESV) – For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
God is sovereign over our .
Proverbs 16:9 (NASU) – The mind of man plans his way; But the LORD directs his steps.
Proverbs 20:24 (NASU) – A man’s steps are ordained by the LORD; How then can man understand his way?
2. The power of God’s . (vs. 10-11)
a. God’s wrath overcomes the most of enemies.
Micah 7:4a (ESV) – The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
b. God’s wrath overcomes the most conniving .
Nahum 3:18 (ESV) – Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them.
3. The power of God’s . (vs. 12-15)
a. God’s assurance to His people. (vs. 12-13)
1) God’s assurance in spite of the of our enemy. (vs. 12)
2) God’s assurance that will end. (vs. 12)
Isaiah 40:2 (ESV) – Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.
3) God’s assurance of from slavery.
b. God’s assurance to His .
1) God’s assurance has the power to end the mightiest of from continuing. (vs. 14)
2) God’s assurance has the power to end entire systems.
Isaiah 10:10-11 (ESV) – [King of Assyria speaking] “As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria, shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?”
3) God’s assurance has the power to completely bury the of nations.
c. God’s assurance of
Isaiah 52:7-10 (ESV) – How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” The voice of your watchmen – they lift up their voice; together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the LORD to Zion. Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem. The LORD has bared His holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Isaiah 9:6-7 (ESV) – 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 from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.