God To The Rescue - Part 1 // Isaiah 10:1-34

Church let's grab our Bibles tonight and turn if you would to Isaiah chapter 10 God's timings awesome and amazing someone said a long time ago God's never early and he's never late he's always on time so grab your Bibles tonight Isaiah chapter 10 and it's an awesome amazing chapter I have to tell you about four days ago I thought we were in Isaiah chapter 11 and I was reading it and studying I got so excited and then I had this tinge of doubt in my mind wait a minute wait I don't remember chapter 10 I went back and I really didn't do chapter 10 yet we just finished chapter 9 recently and you go from the highs of chapter 11 don't go there it's awesome and then you come to chapter 10 and you look at it you have a tendency listen you have a tendency to get kind of bombed because it's pretty intense but then when you start listen then when you start to unpack God's Bible God's Word when you're studying you begin to take out portions and focus on words and their original meaning and what happened where and this was going on then as you begin to unpack sometimes what might look like the darkest moment the God of the Bible has seen to it that he's woven hope in the darkest moment and my heart's buoyant tonight because I believe that as we as this nation is in a dark hour God is weaving hope maybe it's your life he's weaving hope right now he's always wanting to do that he's the God of hope and the tendency when you and I as Christians look at the world around us we have a tendency to mind - maybe sink down and get depressed or get sad but God has woven hope and so tonight's message is entitled God to the rescue God to the rescue sounds like an action figure type of title Batman to the rescue spider-man to the rescue we have action figures in life to make us feel better to entertain us and somehow have this little bit of wouldn't it be nice if we had a Spider Man we don't need a Spider Man we have the God man we've got Jesus and why settle for Iron Man when you can have the Lord Jesus Christ he's the action figure he's the one that comes to the rescue and so tonight as we look in our study we'll just have this one point tonight because it is so powerful to carry us through if we're able to all 34 verses but it's this God to the rescue even when things look hopeless okay will you write that down please even when things look hopeless and as we look at this this chapter keep in mind everybody as you've been marching through this study together that the Book of Isaiah like any prophetic book of the Bible specifically of the Old Testament there's what's called the near and far fulfillment in the day of the Prophet there are times when God would have a fulfillment that looks like the ultimate fulfillment take place in the time of the Prophet but then there's a deeper or the far fulfillment that will culminate in the end of the age so when you look at this I need all of you Bibles scholars and students and lovers of the word to mark this down in your notes that what we're looking at there will be a near fulfillment in Isaiah's day but there are those clear statements and elements of the ultimate fulfillment a tiny yet future here's the amazing thing do I have your attention tonight and Isaiah chapter 10 we're going to be looking at things that in Isaiah's day was way out in the future you and I are living at a time when that stage has already been set in you and I are at a place and I'm not saying this because I'm living at this moment in this time zone but you'll see that we're living at a time when what Isaiah prophesied could very well happen in our day it's pretty amazing so Isaiah chapter 10 follow along with me as we just begin to walk through this verse 1 now he says woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees who write misfortune which they have prescribed to rob the needy of Justice and to take what is right from the poor of my people first thing I want you to mark down is those 4 words woe to those who will you mark that down woe to those who and we'll talk about the whose in a minute but as the chapter begins there's a very serious indictment that God gives to the nation's watch this it's not only the nation's as we'll see of the world it's the nation's geographically around Israel but listen it's the leaders even of Israel and Judah who are corrupt at the time so it's a very very broad statement but as we walk through this you will see when God will specifically point to certain things he says whoa whoa the word whoa is a great lamentation when God says through the prophets to us whoa this is not like ho oh ho this is in fact a new testament word that Jesus used for whoa remember in the Gospels he says woe unto you scribes and Pharisees the word is of Hawaii not Hawaii but who ie and it means damned or cursed are you or condemned you are you're condemned or it's something that is damned it's it's duh it's over why because God knows where they're coming from he knows their theology he knows their heart he knows their minds when Jesus said woe unto you scribes and Pharisees he's saying you're condemned Wow isn't that amazing imagine Jesus saying that to you there's no hope at that moment over it's done God says that you and I cannot say that no human on earth can ever say that no one's got that sovereignty no one's got that perfection that place but God and he says woe to those who and so first of all those who are in the place of as we'll see leaders leadership woe to the leaders woe to nations woe to powers no matter what capacity think about it or to what degree God holds a leader of people a ruler or a nation's leader in our case a president and his cabinet and the government's responsible are you a boss at a company God holds you responsible did you know that do you have any position of authority at all God holds you and I responsible that's terrifying that should make you sick that should cause a real leader listen there by the way there are no real leaders if they are not followers did you know that you cannot be a leader unless you're a follower it's impossible in fact if you have if you are under the leadership of a leader who cannot follow then you are under a tyrannical rule think think that through for a moment because to have someone who's not answerable or accountable you have a tyrant in your midst and a tyrannical act that person will do as it were a king will rise up if you have been dangling you've ever been to Berlin the Tower of London if you disagreed with the king or the Queen what happened to you your head was cut off that's tyrannical when a power is no longer answerable to anybody woe to those God says he holds them accountable and listen he's gonna judge all who have influence good or bad Romans chapter 16 verse 17 says in the NIV the NIV version Romans 16:17 says I urge you brothers and sisters to watch out for those who cause divisions notice that takes influence to cause division and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned keep away from them do you know anybody who cause divisions among God's people listen they are taking influence that is theirs and they use it wrongly and God will hold them accountable imagine great powers imagine great leaders so here's the reason why there's the woe and to them why are they condemned because it goes on in verse one to say because they decree unrighteous decrease circle the word unrighteous they decree against God himself this is how God views it woe to those who decree unrighteous decrease it's that bad decrease woe to those who are influenced and empower who make stupid decisions he's not saying that it that's just stupid decisions are bad enough they are unrighteous decisions what does that mean and this is where it gets really personal for us right now as a people as a culture as citizens as Christians woe unto those who make decisions against the God of heaven you listen when you make an unrighteous decree it's not just a dumb decree it's not that it's a bad decree it is an unrighteous decree and God sees it they throw it up into his face and he sees it God does woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees the word decree here means listen to this it means laws or rules that are cut into stone listen traffic this is the word cacao in Hebrew to cut into the stone or metal like in primitive times to etch it means to hack away watch to hack away at or etching that which was and to engrave or to etch or to prescribe something or to impose now something on top of what was is that graphic or what what was there like the eternal truths of God are you sitting down everybody I'm gonna I'm gonna freak you out in a second are you ready are you are you guys okay denied there's so quiet there are there are laws that transcend human laws Jefferson called those the laws of nature's God the laws of nature remember I said this a few weeks ago no human being and no government on earth can make a law that violates the laws of nature it's impossible why because there's a courtroom in heaven with a judge and a designer who decreases it so and that is God and when people try to rule on righteous decrease in attempt like Nimrod they're trying to shoot God down out of the heavens by their decision making God says I'm watching you I'm watching you take eternal truths and scratch them out and write something over that a new decree that you make Wow right now today in in our America there's a movement to take down the granite engravings at the Lincoln Memorial there's a movement right now in the last two weeks in Washington DC to at least shut down so no visitors can go to it but eventually tear down the Jefferson Memorial because Jefferson owned slaves that's just the blanket statement person owned slaves tear down his monument yeah listen yatta tonight learn about Jefferson listen in Rome at the Coliseum there is a bust of Nero and they've got all of the Emperor's of Rome there at the Colosseum as you walk through and they're all there they all got their names and they all have their faces amazing by the way amazing you know exactness and then and work it's just amazing and then you come to one face they have you been there there's one face that's been completely removed they've sanded his face off because they hated him so much they carved the face of Nero off carving his face off does not erase him from history everybody knows Nero God says this is what I've decreed and there are those who are deluded in what is called megalomania delusions of grandeur of themself it's a psychological disorder it's a sickness I believe it can it can even traffic with demonic possession where a person elevated Adolf Hitler perfect example a mental maniac demon-possessed begins to make unrighteous decrees and the God of heaven watches and looks and his desire was to eradicate the Jewish people homosexuals and non really non-aryans really white supremacy on steroids Adolf Hitler genetic engineering eugenics whereas Hitler tonight he's gone man he offended the God of heaven he tried to establish what is called the third reich right the new millennium the third millennium by Adolf Hill the third millennium by Adolf Hitler coming to your world soon and he died like a rat in a hole committing suicide why he decreed unrighteous decrees he tried to etch away what God had decreed to be true this is a warning and the word unrighteous is ah then if the word means to exert plot scheme to end in destruction or to bring yourself in your plot to nothingness it means to being bring trouble upon your own head so note this he's saying woe to those who decree you cut away the ancient truth you do your own new thing and in doing that you absolutely set the course for yourself to be completely destroyed is this not graphic ladies and gentlemen we're reading a 3000 year old prophecy as though it was today's news in the New York Times notice he goes on follow along with me who write misfortune which they have prescribed notice the people have no voice the rulers are the are the ones who set the rule the word misfortune means this to work mischief to create sorrow to bring in trouble or two weary people and the word proscribed means to place unders under a load or to place others under a rule a burdensome load to carry does that not sound like a godless massive government machine type of world tyrannical like a like a lord or a king an evil king and they say this you know you guys look I'm graduated from school you know that there were the periods in in European history for example most of it's still going on in the Middle East where people are they work almost you know every hour of the day to pay taxes or tribute to the king and they have no life they just they're slaves of a nation or slaves of a throne God hates that absolutely despises that so listen all this gonna get you going when you look at your freedoms right now that theoretically you have you theoretically have the freedom of speech which you really don't and not anymore but you it's on paper but I warn you if you exercise it you can get in big trouble can the lobby made to really stop you from saying whatever you want to say think now can I lobby made to actually stop you from saying what you want to say you're quiet and you should be you're confused I can feel it because you're right now torn between nature's God giving you the freedom and the laws of the land of men aren't you did you know a Christian is one who obeys God rather than man don't you think about that for a second see this is like wow okay yikes that's heavy yes it is heavy very heavy it's nothing new to the Christian Church in the world but it's heavy here's a wingdinger can a government make a law that will keep you prevent you from protecting your children they can make a law but is but can it even can it even be truly honestly enforced can can someone really make a law that would prevent you from from defending your child or your husband or your wife it's impossible did you know that I want ever you to get this oh listen there's some political science majors in this room right now that are about ready to have a heart attack and yet what I'm speaking is a hundred percent truth you can make a law that says you cannot defend yourself but God placed a law within you as a person made in his image that you will violate that earthly law in one second if somebody came and tried to molest your two-year-old you would kill that individual and God and heaven would applaud you in that moment literally inspect jesus said if you hurt one of these little ones it would have been better for you to have never been born by the time I get done with you and the day of judgment that is awesome so now listens making you think isn't it the Second Amendment for example says that you have the right to bear arms the Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to bear arms to rob banks no if you listen to CNN it's the Second Amendment gives you the right to go around shooting people driving driving down the street in your car no the Second Amendment gives you the right to defend yourself against lunatics like that you say Waldo take away all the guns go ahead first of all you can't it's impossible you can take them away here's what happens good people give up their guns bad people won't so bad people just kill good people cart lunch because good people can't defend themselves against bad guys you don't obey the law in the first place so when you pass a law only good people obey the law bad people never obey the law we need to take away go ahead bad people don't obey laws so what are you actually doing to yourself you see I'm saying so take away is by the way if you take away guns by the way I've truly a gun never killed anybody it's the wicked heart that's behind the trigger you say well take away the trigger and they won't have an ability to kill somebody Cain killed Abel with a rock take away all rocks all bats all bats and knives should be outlawed around the world you know I'm going with this you can out listen now you need to cut off everybody's hands because you could strangle somebody do you see God says woe unto those who make unrighteous decrees who write misfortune which they have prescribed for themselves they're in power they're in their ivory little booth they make decisions that frustrate and make people's lives burdensome they live outside of reality and God says I hate that isn't that something it's a powerful thing and he goes on to say this verse - to rob the needy of justice and to take what is right from the poor of my people note this everybody listen God is saying here in the Bible that he is against those who rob the needy of justice you say Jack come on who would ever be in favor of robbing the needy of justice would you listen let's get personal would you rob the needy of Justice those that are in need of justice would you rob it from them of course not who would do such a thing you might ask that's ridiculous I agree with you it's completely ridiculous but listen the person that would rob the needy of justice is the exact same person who would take what is right from the poor you say come on who would do that who would rob a poor person that weird he sees some guy pushing his cart down the road you know and you know he's got some plastic tarp and a water bottle and he's got maybe his dog with them and he's got it and he's got some Snickers bar you know saying and you pull over in your Mercedes and pull out your rock and you tell them I'm going to knock you out if you don't give me your tween case and your happy meal he said that it never happened I understand that the gut says it does happen kind of person would do that well God qualifies it right here are you ready for this he says God says here in this verse that the needy and the poor look carefully of who of my of who say it again of my what who is his people Israel chapter 10 this guy said it over here it's Israel ladies and gentlemen young people today I'm reading from a three thousand-year-old prophecy God says I've you my people look he's not asking for my opinion or yours God says I've you my people you say 'amen maybe you're here from from the anti Jewish League I don't believe in a Jew that's this is America you don't have to believe in a Jew I think the government Israel's a farce it's a free country you can believe that all you want just the God of heaven doesn't agree with you it's all right he says when you do that is bad enough but he said don't do it to my people don't rob them in fact God said bless them she put the Jews drive me nuts they are amazing people to talk to I will give you that they will test your patience there's no doubt about it I've talked with so many Jews over the course of my life it's amazing I'll talk with one or two Jews and we'll be in an argument about something when I say argument it's not like what you think we'll be discussing and debating yet debating and it's amazing because you can be talking to one Jewish person about God or about anything for that matter and they'll have three or four maybe five opinions it would be one Jew with five different opinions about his argument they are amazing go figure go figure that one out but God didn't God didn't say you know what I loved an easy people I chose my chosen people because they're so simple he didn't he told Moses I picked them because they're a pain and my neck God says I chose them not because they're better than anybody else he said I chose them because they're so stiff necked did you know that this what God said about them why did he do that well I'm Jewish friend told me this if God can save a Jew he can save you isn't that a great word God says they're my people they are my people he says that Joel chapter 3 verse 1 says at the time of those events in the last days he's talking about says the Lord when Bible student marked that that's a timestamp if you're a prophetic student if you're an eschatological minded person at the time of those events oh yeah what says the Lord when look of the word when that's a key what's the first qualifier when I restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem mark it down God says that in the last days a clock is going to go something's going to start ticking and here's what's going to happen I'm gonna focus upon Israel he says number one when I restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem there's another thing here second qualifier I will gather the armies of the world into the valley of Jehoshaphat Church that's never happened before third qualifier there will be judgment upon them for harming my people so listen God says in the last days this is what's going to happen wake up everybody Israel's going to be back in their own land and they've been harmed and I'm coming back says God and listen he says they are my special possession and this is why he's coming back to judge because they scattered my people among the nations did that ever happen and for dividing up my land yikes they threw dice which of my people would be their slaves they traded boys to obtain prostitutes and sold girls for enough wine to get drunk taking God's people the Jew into captivity and dispersing them to the ends of the earth here in the Bible listen young people you can trust your Bible this is exactly what was prophesied and it's exactly what happened in the Holocaust of Israel they were driven to every country of the world for 2,000 years amazing mark this verse down Jeremiah 30 verse 3 here's another timestamp Israel actually is God's timestamp on earth do you guys know what I mean by timestamp those of you who are in engineering for example you if you're if you're running a graph or you're you're you're measuring things you've got a time stamp or an event marker some some of you depends on what field you're in it'll be a tick mark where it's something or like you know it's a good picture here's a good picture or a seismograph for earthquake it's just flat line not here in California is always vibrating but you watch that thing at Cal Tech you can watch it live online it's just kind of moving just kind of moving and then what it I just had an earthquake and that spike every little tick along the way every bit a little bit moment is connected to time and location you know that this is so amazing Canada is not God's time stamp on earth and that's it listen I hate to break the news to you but it's not Southern California there it is not the time stamp of God on earth but it's not it's not even Maui it's one little place smaller than the state of New Jersey says God its Israel that's his time stamp you see what does it mean what do you mean time stamp that when something happens there God's dog God talks about in the Bible and so it's a time step so watch this this is what he says Jeremiah 30 verse 3 for behold the days are coming says the Lord that I will bring back from captivity my people who can i scan you out can you say it again in the count of three one two three yes real time stamp and Judah that's the whole that's northern and southern parts of Israel the nation says the Lord and I will cause them to return to the land that the United Nations gave them and they know that I God says I gave to their fathers and they shall possess it wow that's amazing Ezekiel 37 watch out close to homeless kids Ezekiel 37 verse 21 then say to them thus says the Lord God surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations wherever they have gone and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land and I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel says God Wow he said I don't believe the Bible well how do you how do you consume that right there is I don't believe it you've got to believe it I'm listen oh I feel Honore with this truth because listen I love you I want you to hear this you got to hear this you consider tonight say I don't believe it but wait a minute you are educated what do you mean by that what I'm reading to you has been written down for thousands of years you could you could have read this for thousands of years it's always been there is there a nation called Israel yes was there not a nation of Israel for 2,000 years yes was there an Israel existing for thousands of years before they were not a nation 2,000 years ago yes hmm God says the land that he gave them it's their land some of you who go to college right now because you see the the apartheid wall that visits your college campus that Israel's the occupier you ever heard of that Israel it's not their land it's Palestine that's actually impossible and that's what well you know what just find me a Palestinian ancient Palestinian coin or an ancient Palestinian King can you find a name can you get some pottery can you get a flag can you get a temple can you get artifacts archaeologically the best you can do is go to Rome because it was invented by Emperor Hadrian in 135 ad 135 ad he's the one that named Israel Palestine after the ancient name of the palace of the Philistines which a Palestinian you don't know it or not they don't realize it but you're actually declaring that you're a Philistine that's not those are not my words and so you're gonna have to choose between a modern-day Wikipedia worldview or a biblical worldview I would suggest you go with the foulness worldview and by the way we're we're at a time and I'm we're in verse 2 we have 32 more verses to go I will end with them we know we're at we have to end listen here's a great way for in fact to those of you are in caught anybody in college right now raise your hands god bless you may the god of wisdom be upon you and discernment be upon you and I mean that check this out follow along with me now the Bible says that before Joshua crossed over the Jordan River into Canaan there were tribes there were the city states they were called but they were tribal groups their Canaanites gibbehhh' Knights all of these various tribes bazillions of them right Amalekites you've read all those some fantastic names in your Bible okay they were living in the land listen carefully this is not a trick statement this is how God rules before Israel crossed over the Jordan with Joshua were there people in the land before Israel showed up absolutely yes you see pastor you're wrong I'm not done God says you see that land that's my land go in there and take it there's a gut says in the Bible you see I have a hard time with that well I just follow along with me that's why it's called by the way the promised land God promised the land to his people but there were other people there before his people showed up see you and I think first-come first-serve but if you think that thought keep thinking it all the way through to the origin of the world who made it God made it see it comes out to this you're gonna either believe the UN or God the flesh always happens first and the flesh has got to be circumcised doesn't it or in this case as a New Testament era you were born into this world a sinner I was too and you to go to heaven you need to do you need to be wet born a second time white because the flesh always comes first listen you know this in your life before you turn from your sin of thievery you first of all realized that you're a thief my mom and dad had to teach me not to steal our neighbor's strawberries why because I was born a strawberry thief just like you and I were born liars every one of us was born a liar you mean you may have forgotten but you used to hide stuff in your diaper remember I mean really blue I didn't eat any cookies mommy you have to learn how to tell the truth why cuz the flesh comes first the land of Israel is a living breathing parable but if you don't believe in the God of the Bible then Israel is showing up right now too late but if you believe the God of the Bible it was their promised land from the beginning do you see if you told that logic to the UN which is pure truth they still wouldn't get it because listen the natural things of a man the Bible says can the spiritual things a natural man cannot discern because they're spiritually discerned a spiritual man understands spiritual things a man of the earth only understands earthly things and I'm sure that you'll want to miss next week's message cuz lord I pray that you'd help me to get through this book of Isaiah Lord I don't know if I'm doing a good job or not on this I don't know 66 chapters gonna take is a hundred and twenty years apart but your word it's so spot-on our lives I mean verse one I mean it's it's the world we're living in verse two it's happening now even in our own communities the poor are being ripped off in the needy are being abused Oh Lord Jesus we need you back tonight God we love you Lord it's so obvious we don't belong here anymore we want to see you Lord until you come father we do pray that for each of us tonight no matter where our hearts may be that if they're not hot with you that you would speak directly now to us maybe some things have been said tonight that have cut someone's traditions to the quick maybe someone's bias or prejudice or position has been challenged that's a good thing for us to be challenged God visit us with your truth shine your light in and upon us that there'd be nothing left within us but Bible Lord may we go from this place tonight being radicalized lovers of God that's true the needy will have representation the poor will be taken care of and we'll pray for the Peace of Jerusalem in Jesus name and all God's people said

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Published: Fri Jul 24 2015