This Week\’s Sunday School Lesson, \”God Has His Eyes On Us\”, 8/2/15

GOD HAS HIS  EYES ON US

Isaiah 59:15-21

 

GOD IS AWARE OF OUR SITUATION

V:15 Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.\” The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice. \”

1. The Lord looked down from His heavenly throne.
2. He surveyed the situation of man.
3. He was not pleased with what He saw.
4. This is what He found.
5. There was no truth.
6. God\’s people were not living according to the truth.
7. There was no life style of righteousness.
8. Those who were living a righteous life had become the prey of evil men.
9. There was no justice.
10. There was no punishment for unrighteousness.
11. The norm was to mistreat one another as if it was the right thing to do.
12. The Nation of Israel lived according to their own standards.

V:16. \” He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene; so his own arm worked salvation for him, and his own righteousness sustained him.

1. God was affected by what He saw.
2. He was grieved at what He saw.
3. His prophets, His teachers and His preachers were not interceding in prayer on

behalf of the righteous.

1. There was no one to administer justice.
2. God saw that there was no cure for sin.
3. We were born in sin, shaped in iniquity.
4. Sin is infectious.
5. It infects the mind the body and the soul.
6. Sin is contagious.
7. It moves from person to person.
8. A little bit of leaven, leavens the whole dough.
9. Sin is generational.
10. It is passed on from one generation to the next.
11. It is in our DNA.
12. Except for Noah and his 7 family members, God wiped out the human population

with a flood.

1. That did not work because sin was in Noah\’s DNA.

 

GOD DEALTH WITH SIN WITH ONE FINAL SACRIFICE

1. God decided to deal with sin.
2. The only way to deal with sin was for God to provide a perfect sacrifice for sin.
3. The sins of man can not be eliminated, but they can be covered with the

atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

1. There is none righteous, no not one.
2. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
3. The wages of sin is death.
4. While Jesus was dying on the cross, God was reconciling the world to himself.
5. It was Jesus Christ that worked salvation into our lives.
6. It is the righteousness of Jesus that maintains our salvation.
7. Believers in Jesus Christ have been sealed to the day of redemption by the Holy

Spirit.

 

GOD IS  ABLE TO FIGHT OUR BATTLES   

V:17. \” He put on righteousness as his breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on his head; he put on the garments of vengeance and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak.\”

1. The Lord is our army. He will fight our battles.
2. No matter what problem we face, God is there for us.
3. We have to put our troubles in the Lord\’s hand and trust that He will take care of

them.

1. We are no match for the devil and His demons.
2. The armor of God starts with the protection of the heart.
3. The breast plate was part of the Roman\’s soldiers armor that protected the upper

part of the body.

1. Out of the heart flows the issues of life.
2. Out of hearts flows the goodness of life.
3. Out of our hearts also flows the bad things of life.
4. Life is found in the Word of God.
5. God is righteous and all the world is sinful.
6. It is the righteousness of God that protects our hearts from the lust of the flesh.
7. The only truth is the Word. Everything else is a perversion that leads us away

form the path of righteousness.

1. The helmet is a soldiers armor that protects the head.
2. Our minds have to be protected by the Word of God.
3. In our minds, we formulate thoughts and make plans for action.
4. Our thoughts and our plans must line up with the word of God.
5. If Satan can corrupt our minds, he can control what we do.
6. It is not what people do to us, it is how we respond to them that counts.
7. The standard for our response is the Word of God.
8. The Lord says, vengeance is mind.
9. We don\’t fully know the enemy nor what he/she is capable of doing.
10. God knows the thoughts of the enemy before they are formulated in his/her mind.
11. God knows your enemies and what can hurt them the most.
12. God may cause your enemy to bless you.
13. God can make the wrongs of the enemy work out for your benefit.
14. God has a zeal to protect His people.
15. God is in control.
16. The enemy can not do anything to you that God does not allow.

 

GOD REPAYS OUR ENEMIES WITH HIS WRATH

V:18. \” According to what they have done, so will he repay wrath to his enemies and

retribution to his foes; he will repay the islands their due. \”

1. God knows the enemy and all of his deeds.
2. Nothing escapes the Lord.
3. He is omniscience. He knows everything.
4. God keeps track of the enemy and all of his wrongs against you.
5. God will repay the wrongs done to you by you enemies with His wrath.
6. God can do more harm to your enemy than you can do or think.
7. God can use other people to do harm to your enemies.
8. What goes around comes around.
9. Whatever your enemy did to you will be repaid to them.

 

GOD WILL CAUSE OUR ENEMIES TO FEAR HIM

V:19. \” From the west, men will fear the name of the Lord, and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory. For he will come like a pent-up flood that the breath of the Lord drives along. \”.

1. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
2. Men will know the glory of the Lord from all parts of the universe.
3. Men will know and fear the Lord from the west to the east.
4. At the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow.
5. God has a way of making your enemies know that He is the one that causes

trouble in their lives.

1. When your enemy get up in the morning they will fear the day before them.
2. A sinful person is always looking over his/her shoulder to see who is trying

to catch up with them.

1. God can use his breath to cause a flood of problems to show up in your

enemy\’s life.

1. One thing about a flood, it can destroy everything in its path.
2. That being the case, you need to stay out of your enemy\’s face and let

God handle revenge.

 

JESUS IS OUR REDEEMER    

V:20 \”The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,\”  declares the Lord.\”

1. We must confess our sins before the Lord and accept Jesus as our redeemer.
2. As the prophecy states, Jesus came from Heaven and sacrificed Himself

for the sins of the Jews and the entire world.

1. Only those who come to Jesus will be saved.
2. Jesus said, I am the way the truth and the life.
3. The Lord not only takes care of our enemies, but He also takes care of us.
4. The Lord reminds us of who we are and whose we are through the power

of the Holy Spirit.

1. Even though we are in the Church, we are not all the Church.
2. Some of us have not committed ourselves to God.
3. We still have some un-confessed sins.
4. We cannot serve the Lord and the world at the same time.
5. The Lord our God is a jealous God and He will not share us with anyone.

 

V:21 \”As for me, this is my covenant with them,\” says the Lord. \”My Spirit, who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on and forever,\” says the Lord.\”

1. God is a God who cannot lie.
2. God keeps his promises and covenants with us.
3. Whatever God said He will do, He will do.
4. The Spirit of the Lord dwells in all believers because of death and

resurrection of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

1. God has given us His word and has preserved the inspiration of it

throughout time.

1. The Holy Spirit is our divine teacher of the Word.
2. The Holy Spirit convict us of our sins by the Word.
3. The Holy Spirit convict us of the righteousness of the Word.
4. Jesus said, \” Heaven and earth will pass away but my word is eternal.\”
5. The copies of the Bible we have are accurate.
6. In 1952, a Bedouin shepherd chasing a stray stumbled into the Qumran caves near

Israel and found fragments of the Bible that have been dated 300 years before the

birth of Christ.

1. The fragments they found are word for word accurate with our present day Bible.

a.122 Biblical Scrolls were found representing every book of the Old Testament

except for Esther.

1. Jesus read and quoted from the same scriptures we are now reading.
2. God maintains His Word so that His people will always have His reference for

righteousness.

 

GOD WILL CARRY YOU THROUGH YOUR TROUBLES IF YOU TRUST HIM

 

Rev. M. Mitchell,

Asst Pastor of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church