PC Study Bible Data
THE WORK OF MY KING
Isa 49:1-10, 20
V:1. Listen to me, you islands;
hear this, you distant nations:
Before I was born the Lord called me;
from my birth, he has made mention of my name.
A. Before you were born, God planned your service
To Him.
1. He knew you by name and called you to the mission
of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
2. God has a particular place and a particular
people He wants you to minister to.
B. Your ministry will span beyond where you are located
And to people may not know.
1. God has a way of bringing His chosen to you from
far away places.
2. Before the pandemic, our Bible Study was focused
in the church location.
3. Today with zoom, our Bible Study can reach the entire
world.
4. My lessons are posted on my blogs which have been
visited by over 40,000 people from all around the world.
5. God will make a way for us to proclaim the Gospel,
V:2 He made my mouth like a sharpened sword,
in the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me into a polished arrow
and concealed me in his quiver.
3 He said to me, \”You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.\”
A. Once we accepted Christ as our personal Savior,
God began a training program to get us prepared
For the mission, He decided before our birth.
1. He will train us in the Word through the power of
Holy Spirit to influence the lives that He will
Bring it to us.
2. God has design our education to be effective in
the mission
B. The verbs sharpen and polished indicated the trials and
Tribulations of our lives that builds and strengthens our faith
In God\’s righteousness.
1. Once David was ordained to be king of Israel at 15 years of
age, it took 15 years being chased by Saul before he was
ready for the job.
2. Joseph was gifted by God with dream interpretation in his
teens.
a. He was sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, taken to
Egypt where he rose to the overseer of Potifers\’ house.
b. He was accused of attempted rape by Potifers sex craze
wife and thrown into jail.
c. He extinguished himself as a servant of the jailer.
d. Through all that, he was faithful to God and rose to
second in command of Egypt.
3. God selected us to be his faithful servants. He will
train us for the mission.
a. Our main job is to glorify God in our service
V:4. But I said, \”I have labored to no purpose;
I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing.
Yet what is due me is in the Lord \’s hand,
and my reward is with my God.\”
A. We didn’t start this journey as mature Christians.
1. We started as sinners saved by God’s grace.
2. In our early years, we spent our time pursuing
the desires of our flesh.
3. Our goals were patterned to build a life according to
the world’s standards.
B. Once accepting Christ, we are being groomed to follow
God’s divine plan.
1. The God we serve, protected us doing our sinfulness
and tolerated our behavior to the point where He
drew us to Himself.
2. What God has for you is for you and nothing can
change that.
3. God’s plan includes our spiritual growth where
we store up treasures in Heaven.
4. It is what we do for Christ that pleases God,
V:5 And now the Lord says —
he who formed me in the womb to be his servant
to bring Jacob back to him
and gather Israel to himself,
for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord
and my God has been my strength —
6 he says:
\”It is too small a thing for you to be my servant
to restore the tribes of Jacob
and bring back those of Israel I have kept.
I will also make you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.\”
A. The conversation to the mission of Jesus Christ.
1. He stepped out of heaven, took on human flesh
in the body of a virgin named Mary.
2. The mission of Jesus is to bring salvation to all
mankind.
3. Jesus will not return until salvation has been offered to everyone
on earth
Rom 2:10-11
but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the
Jew first and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God.
4. We were born in the darkness of the devil, shaped in the sin the
devil created
B. Those who follow the commands of the Lord are strengthen to
do His will.
1. Jesus took on human flesh to redeem Israel and re-gather them
to the promised land.
2. While He was in the flesh, He was strengthened by the Holy Spirit.
Mark 1:12-13
At once the Spirit sent him out into the desert, 13 and he was in the
desert forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals,
and angels attended him.
3. Even though Jesus was the same as God the Father, He humbled
Himself to be obedient to the Father’s commands.
4. Jesus set the example of service with the reward of being honored
by the Father
5. Whenever you and I serve God He takes notice
V:7. This is what the Lord says —
the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel —
to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation,
to the servant of rulers:
\”Kings will see you and rise up,
princes will see and bow down,
because of the faithful Lord,
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.\”
A. God knows the end from the beginning.
1. Throughout the Old Testament, never learn to worship
God through any long period.
2. They dishonored God with the worship of idols and mistreating
their brothers and sisters.
3. The Old Testament ended with a 300 year period in which there was
no prophet from God.
4. The New Testament began with Jesus being rejected and crucified
by the nation He came to redeem.
B. This verse looks forward to the second coming of Christ
when Satan will be bounded for 1000 years.
1. Christ will reign during those 1000 years and
Israel will worship God.
Rev 20:2-3
He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan,
and bound him for a thousand years. 3 He threw him into the Abyss,
and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the
nations anymore until the thousand years were ended.
Rev 20:4
They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
2. Christ will be honored by all mankind from the time of the
eternal judgement.
Rom 14:11
It is written: “As surely as I live,\’ says the Lord,
\’every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.”
V:8. This is what the Lord says:
\”In the time of my favor I will answer you,
and in the day of salvation I will help you;
I will keep you and will make you
to be a covenant for the people,
to restore the land
and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
9 to say to the captives, \’Come out,\’
and to those in darkness, \’Be free!\’
\”They will feed beside the roads
and find pasture on every barren hill.
A. This prophecy has not been fulfilled.
1. Israel is still fighting for control of parts of
the promised land.
2. It is obvious that the nation has been favored.
a. Israel ceased to exist in 1500 AD and was reestablished in
May 1945.
B. Jesus ratified the covenant with His voluntary death
On the cross
1. All sins, past, present, and future have been atoned with
the blood He shed on the cross.
2. The atonement is the payment for our sin required by the
Father.
Rom 5:11
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom we have now received the atonement.
C. Jesus gave His mission statement in His first message to Synagogue
In Galilee
Luke 4:18-19
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to
preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the
blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.
D. Abiding in Jesus we have all we need.
John 16:23
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my
name, he will give it you.
V:10 They will neither hunger nor thirst,
nor will the desert heat or the sun beat upon them.
He who has compassion on them will guide them
and lead them beside springs of water.
Isa 49:22
22 This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
\”See, I will beckon to the Gentiles,
I will lift up my banner to the peoples;
they will bring your sons in their arms
and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
A. God describes the abundance in heaven or
the Millennium Kingdom where
The true Israel, Jews, and Gentiles will dwell
together.
1. At the second coming of Christ, the Church will
taken to heaven to reign with Him.
1 Thess 4:15-18
15 According to the Lord\’s own word, we tell you that we who are still
alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not
precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord, himself will
come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the
archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will
rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be
caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
And so we will be with the Lord forever.
2. After this, only nonbelievers will be left on earth to go through
the seven-year tribulation.
a. Christ will do battle with Satan and bound him into hell for
a thousand years .
b. During the thousand years, Christ will reign on earth
and a new Israel will be formed to worship Him.
c. Under Christ\’s reign, there will only be joy and peace.
B. The good news is Christ is already reigning in our lives.
1. It is up to us, to let Him be King in our lives
2. Matt 11:12
From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven
has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it.
THANK GOD FOR KING JESUS
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
5510 West Sam Houston Parkway North
Houston, Texas 77041
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