THE LORD IS COMPASSIONATE Isaiah 54:110

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THE LORD IS COMPASSIONATE Isaiah 541-10

• Introduction
• The theme for this month is Affirm Spiritual
  Certainties,
• Focus Messages of comfort and encouragement for
  sinners who turn to the Lord for help.
• This morning's spiritual certainty - The Lord is
  Compassionate
• MESSAGE of Isaiah
• The people have sinned against the Lord, and
  judgment was coming to the land.
• Emphasis on the Holiness of God
• He is the Holy One of Israel
• Also emphasis on the Sovereignty of God over the
  NATIONS!
• Overall message To call the people to become a
  Holy nation!

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Restoration to JOY (Isa 54 1)

• God will restore the nation to JOY.
• Occasion for singing. A time of glorious praise.
• When in exile and in captivity, they cannot sing
  the songs of victory.
• Psalms 1371-4
• By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we
  remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our
  harps, for there our captors asked us for songs,
  our tormentors demanded songs of joy they said,
  Sing us one of the songs of Zion!
• How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a
  foreign land.

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• The image of Israel is of a woman who is barren,
  not able to produce children.
• Barrenness was therefore a cause for sorrow and
  shame.
• Hannah in 1 Samuel 1, was in misery because she
  had no children.
• But God opened her womb.
• She prayed My heart rejoices in the Lord in
  the Lord my horn is lifted high. My mouth boasts
  over my enemies, for I delight in your
  deliverance. (1 Sam 21)

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• God wants to free us from the bondage of sin and
  to live in freedom as sons and daughters of God.
• Have a sense of celebration when we come to
  worship Him.
• Delight in His deliverance like Hannah
• God wants to restore to us the JOY of our
  salvation.
• Burst into song, shout for joy!.

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2. Restoration to FRUITFULNESS (ISA 542-3)

• The nation will increase and need more space.
• Not simply be returning to a former state of
  prosperity, but they will reach new heights and
  influence.
• When we are in bondage to sin we are like the
  barren woman.
• We will not be fruitful in your Christian life.
• What do we mean by being fruitful?
• And we pray this in order that you may live a
  life worthy of the Lord and may please him in
  every way bearing fruit in every good work,
  growing in the knowledge of God. (Col 110)

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• FRUITFULNESS
• Effective in winning souls.
• Increasing in the gifts of the Spirit to serve
  others.
• God can empower you with the Gifts of the Spirit
  to enable you to serve the church.
• Each one should use whatever gift he has
  received to serve others, faithfully
  administering Gods grace in its various forms.
  (1 Peter 410)
• Increase in the fruit of the Spirit.
• The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
  patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  gentleness and self-control. (Gal 522)

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• Not only can God restore but He can also increase
  their fruitfulness beyond what they were before.
• you will spread out to the right and to the
  left your descendents will dispossess nations
  and settle in their desolate cities. (verse 3)
• What great potential you have when you return to
  God.
• God will not limit you.

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3. Restoration to CONFIDENCE (Isa 54 4-10)

• But there will be a restoration of confidence for
  Israel.
• The Lord told them, Do not be afraid you will
  not suffer shame (Verse 4)
• Key to understanding why they were fearful is the
  word widowhood.

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• Three (3) reasons God gave why they can place
  their Confidence in HIM
• 1. The Lord Forgives the PAST. (4-5)
• For I will forgive their wickedness and will
  remember their sins no more. (Jer 3134)
• 2. The Lord Love is everlasting (6-8)
• 3. The Lord Honors His Covenant (9-10)

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• But God wants the best for the nation of Israel
  and for US!
• Live up to your greatest potential to be
  fruitful in our lives. To fulfill His purpose He
  has for you.
• Not to live this life in fear
• Fear of the future. Fear of people.
• Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but
  whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
  (Proverbs 2925)
• We are NOT to live like spiritual widows.
• Feeling insecure about our live and our future,
• God is NOT dead but working in your lives.
• Jesus says, "Everything is possible for him who
  believes." (Mark 923).

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CONCLUSION

• The Lord is Compassionate. He will restore!
• Restoration to Joy
• it will be an occasion for celebration!
• Restoration to Fruitfulness
• Fruitful in evangelism, in the gifts of the
  Spirit and growing in the fruit of the Spirit to
  be more Christ-like.
• Restoration to Confidence.
• Knowing that you are NOT a spiritual widow.
• Know that all things are possible for those who
  believe.
• Be willing to turn away from sin and live in
  obedient to God.
• Be willing to step out to fulfill your spiritual
  destiny.