Christ Church Katy Sermons

For us to receive salvation, we must first realize how helpless we are because our sin has offended a holy God. Once we realize that, we will cry out to God in repentance. God hears our cry and he sends the Warrior Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, to work salvation for us. This is “The Lord's Solution for Evil.” (Isaiah 59:1-21).

God calls us in His word to delight in Him and to seek Him alone. Isaiah reminds us of the danger of false, performative religion. We are always to choose God over our own desires and instead be “Delighting in the Lord” (Isaiah 58:1-14).

We see the “the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy” (57:15). It is a prophecy that contrasts those who dwell with God, and those who are children of idolaters. God’s message through the prophet challenges us to see the horror of idolatry, but also the peace that belongs to all God’s children. For the wicked, there is no peace, but for those who repent and follow Christ, there is everlasting peace!

Now Isaiah starts to describe what that will look like: foreigners and eunuchs will come into the presence of the Lord and will have an everlasting name. What a blessing that we can hear about the God who gathers to Himself the outcasts! This is God’s “Salvation for the World” (Isaiah 56:1-8).

The Lord issues a call to come to Him. It is a call that is compassionate, compelling, and confident.

We begin to see the beauty of the Lord’s work of redemption. Where once we had strife and grief, now we have “The Lord’s Peace” (Isaiah 54:1-17).

In one of the greatest passages of the Old Testament, Isaiah sets forth for us the Lord Jesus Christ as the Servant who suffered in our place. (Isaiah 52-53)

Isaiah brings us the third of the Servant Songs in chapter 50, in which he contrasts the people of God who will not listen with the Servant, who is awakened daily to listen and learn. He then tells us that the only way to find comfort is to listen to the Lord. We are called to “Hear the Servant” (Isaiah 50:1-51:23)

God does not give up on His people, but instead He redeems them from their sin and misery. He does this through the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is “The Restorer of Israel”

It is beneficial for us as we live in this world to never confuse the City of Man with the City of God. Isaiah helps us to see this with “The Ruin of Those Who Reject God.”

Isaiah speaks for the only true and living God when he writes, “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.” This is strikingly familiar to what Jesus tells us about Himself in Revelation chapter 1. The prophet wants us to know that there is “No God but God.”