Based on a series of sermons preached in PCC Prayer Meetings in 2020 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? 28  Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator […]

We saw previously how God is incomparable and unportrayable. Any attempts to compare God with anything in creation or to portray him with images will not only fail but result in the direct opposite of what is intended.

What has idolatry got to do with comfort? Isaiah 40 shows that idols, whether of gold or wood, cannot represent the living God. Instead, comfort is found in Christ, the true image of God revealed in His Word.

Isaiah 40 is one of the most comforting passages in the Scripture. Indeed, one of the purposes of this chapter is to encourage the servants of the LORD to seek to comfort God’s people as an essential aspect of their ministry. How are they to comfort God’s people? They are to do so by pointing them to Christ and making Him known.

It is by the Spirit that the Scriptures are inspired. It is by the Spirit that God’s people have their spiritual eyes opened so that they can see and understand spiritual truths. He was, of course, at work even before the incarnation, but it is especially after Christ ascended that He is sent forth for an intense and worldwide ministry to gather the people of God until the last day.

Based on a series of sermons preached in PCC Prayer Meetings in 2020 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Isaiah 40:12 […]

Based on a series of sermons preached in PCC Prayer Meetings in 2020 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young Isaiah 40:11 Something is appealing in the notion of a gentle […]

In our present study, we come to verse 10, and may draw three things from it: First, Christ will come with a strong hand; Secondly, His arm shall rule for Him; Thirdly, His reward is with Him.

In this uplifting chapter of his prophecy, Isaiah seeks to comfort God’s people with the hope of the coming Messiah.

Based on a series of sermons preached in PCC Prayer Meetings in 2020 6  The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: 7  The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth […]