Isaiah 61

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Isaiah 61
Sunday 3rd February
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Isaiah 611-2a

• The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because
  the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to
  the poor he has sent me to bind up the
  brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the
  captives, and the opening of the prison to those
  who are bound
• to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour, and
  the day of vengeance of our God

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Isaiah 61 Previously

• Isaiah is prophesying to the Jews, who are going
  to be captive in Babylon
• Their history is one of freedom from slavery when
  Moses lead them out of Egypt
• Eventually they take possession of the land God
  had promised them
• Gods law is established
• Keep the law God blesses you
• Follow the law and there will be no poverty

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Isaiah 61 Previously

• Gods principles to stop poverty
• If you did become poor you could sell your
  property or even yourself as a slave
• This is not like the slavery the Jews knew in
  Egypt
• On the 7th year the slaves are set free
• Neither were they to permanently sell the land
  that God had given them
• Every 50 years not only are the slaves released
  but all land returns to its owner
• This is the year of Jubilee

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Isaiah 61 Previously

• Gods people fail to do this
• At the time of Isaiah 10 tribes had been forced
  out of the promised land leaving just 2
• Despite Isaiahs call, they fail to repent
• And the result is the exile to Babylon
• God reminds them of their history and Isaiah
  proclaims liberty to the captives the year of
  the Lords favour
• When they return to Gods land they are never
  fully free
• This is the context into which Jesus says he is
  the fulfilment of Isaiah 61

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming Favour and Vengeance

• to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour, and
  the day of vengeance of our God
• What is it to proclaim something?
• Proclaiming the year of the Lords favour
• Proclaiming the day of the vengeance of our God

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Isaiah 612 What is it to PROCLAIM something?

• Hebrew ??? (qârâ)
• Greek ????ss? (kerusso)
• To preach to proclaim to be a herald always
  with a suggestion of formality, gravity, and an
  authority which must be listened to and obeyed
• When a proclamation is made, action results

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Isaiah 612 What is it to PROCLAIM something?

• Example Ezra 1 The proclamation of Cyrus

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Isaiah 612 What is it to PROCLAIM something?

• Example Abraham Lincolns Emancipation
  Proclamation which freed millions of slaves in
  1863
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Isaiah 612 What is it to PROCLAIM something?

• So when you proclaim something you speak it into
  being
• Genesis 1
• Psalm 29
• The voice of the LORD is over the waters
• the God of glory thunders,
• the LORD, over many waters.
• The voice of the LORD is powerful
• The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

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Isaiah 612 What is it to PROCLAIM something?

• The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars
• the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
• He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf,
• and Sirion like a young wild ox.
• The voice of the LORD flashes forth flames of
  fire.
• The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness
• the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
• The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth
• and strips the forests bare,
• and in his temple all cry, Glory!

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Isaiah 612 What is it to PROCLAIM something?

• When God speaks things happen
• Luke 4 Jesus reeds Isaiah 61 in the Temple
• The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
• because he has anointed me
• to proclaim good news to the poor.
• He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the
  captives
• and recovering of sight to the blind,
• to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
• to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour.

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Isaiah 612 What is it to PROCLAIM something?

• And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to
  the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all
  in the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began
  to say to them, Today this Scripture has been
  fulfilled in your hearing.
• Jesus speaks, he proclaims, and the prophecy is
  fulfilled
• God works this out through the church
• That Jesus sets people free from slavery to sin
  John 834-36
• This is the gospel that God proclaims through his
  church
• This is the gospel that we proclaim

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the year of the Lords
favour

• How do we proclaim the Year of The Lords favour?
• Jesus proclaimed it
• we live it, we are evidence of it
• Ephesians 24-10
• Gods grace has set us free from the slavery of
  sin

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the year of the Lords
favour
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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the year of the Lords
favour
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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the year of the Lords
favour
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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the year of the Lords
favour

• Liverpool Single Mens Centre
• The mission of the Centre
• To provide long term accommodation for
  vulnerable single men who are homeless or at risk
  of becoming homeless and have a range of needs
  including mental health and alcohol issues. The
  centre provides a safe and secure environment
  with support to enable them to live independently
  within the centre and the local community.

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the year of the Lords
favour

• This house was restored, it was saved, for a
  purpose
• Not just so it would look nice, like some stately
  home
• We are saved for a purpose
• Not just so we can have nice lives
• So we feel better about ourselves
• But to bring glory to God
• He has chosen you to usher in his kingdom

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the year of the Lords
favour

• How do we proclaim the Year of The Lords favour?
• We preach
• We live it

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the day of the vengeance
of God

• What is the day of vengeance of our God?
• Isaiah 631b-6
• Gods righteousness means his enemies are crushed
• Isaiahs original audience would not have
  separated the year of favour from the day of
  vengeance
• Their history shows that with release from
  slavery, comes Gods judgement against his
  enemies
• Exodus 1-14

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the day of the vengeance
of God

• What is the day of vengeance of our God?
• So the Jews were expecting the Messiah to set
  them free from slavery and to crush their enemies
• why does Jesus stop at the year of favour in Mark
  4?

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the day of the vengeance
of God

• Because at this point this is what he has come to
  proclaim
• The Spirit of the Lord is upon me
• to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour.
• Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your
  hearing.
• What Jesus audience should have been shocked at
  was that he stopped there

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the day of the vengeance
of God

• Instead what shocked them is what he said next
• That he had come to heal the world
• From slavery to sin
• And so for that reason there is a delay
• That allows Gods plan for salvation to be worked
  out
• Through his church

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the day of the vengeance
of God

• But Jesus is coming back
• Matthew 2531-46
• Which means the day of vengeance is still to come
• Which means that Christs church proclaims the
  day of vengeance as well as the year of favour

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the day of the vengeance
of God

• Mission Impossible?

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the day of the vengeance
of God

• No
• Its Mission Isaiah 61
• This is
• GOOD NEWS

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the day of the vengeance
of God

• We live in a world that cries out for Justice

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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the day of the vengeance
of God

• And it means that we are living in the year of
  favour
• It means that we have been set free from slavery
  to sin

Jesus proclaims the year of favour
Jesus proclaims day of vengeance
The year of favour
Eternity
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Isaiah 612 Proclaiming the day of the vengeance
of God

• The church ushers in Gods Kingdom
• The completion of our mission brings Jesus return
  and the day of justice, when all Gods enemies
  will be judged against the righteousness of God
• And the trumpet will sound
• And the dead will be raised
• The mortal will put on immortality
• And those Jesus has saved will spend eternity
  with him

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Isaiah 612 Summary

• to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour, and
  the day of vengeance of our God
• To proclaim is to bring into existence
• Jesus has proclaimed the year of the Lords favour
• We are proclaiming the day of the vengeance of
  our God

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Isaiah 612 Summary

• This is Mission Isaiah 61

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Isaiah 612 Summary

• This is Mission of Christs worldwide Church

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Isaiah 612 Summary

• This is the Mission of Jubilee Church Coventry
• This is OUR MISSION to Coventry