Seize the Moment – Day 1400
The Response to Judgment!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, January 16.
Isaiah 25 shows the response of God’s people to the righteous judgment of God, foretold in Isaiah 24. Their response was pregnant with the hope of the coming Messiah, as described in Isaiah 25:6-9:
The Lord of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain; a banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow, and refined, aged wine. And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, even the veil which is stretched over all nations. He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces, and He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; for the Lord has spoken. And it will be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited; let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
Jesus bursts forth from Isaiah’s prophecy. God was not surprised by humanity’s sin; He always intended to send His Son Jesus Christ to be our Savior to provide for us His salvation, removing the veil, swallowing death, wiping away our tears, and removing the reproach of death. In Paul’s triumphant description of the resurrection of Jesus, he quotes Isaiah 25:8 in 1 Corinthians 15:50-54:
Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. … But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
Seize the moment and declare the victory of Jesus Christ in how you live your life – “be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:57-58).
God bless you!
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