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[744.14 --> 745.46] Do you not know?
[746.54 --> 748.08] Have you not heard?
[748.78 --> 751.02] The Lord is the everlasting God,
[751.24 --> 753.34] the creator of the ends of the earth.
[753.48 --> 755.54] He will not grow tired or weary,
[755.78 --> 758.62] and his understanding no one can fathom.
[758.62 --> 761.24] Now, notice here,
[762.04 --> 764.38] Isaiah doesn't minimize the fear
[764.38 --> 767.08] or all the anxiety his community has.
[767.14 --> 768.54] He doesn't say, it's actually not that bad.
[768.88 --> 770.54] I think it's a terrifying reality.
[770.84 --> 773.98] But what he does is point them to the character of God.
[774.86 --> 775.92] And it's at this point,
[775.96 --> 778.74] I want to point out a dynamic we see all over the Bible.
[779.30 --> 780.58] And once you see it one place,
[780.60 --> 781.70] you'll notice it many places,
[781.70 --> 784.78] that in order to instill hope for the future,
[785.56 --> 788.78] Isaiah is constantly pointing people back
[788.78 --> 791.50] to both who God is and what God has done
[791.50 --> 794.54] to give them a sense of what God is still able to do.
[795.44 --> 796.56] So he's constantly saying,
[796.76 --> 798.80] let us look back together at who God is.
[798.88 --> 800.36] Let's look back at what he's done.
[800.58 --> 803.32] And that will remind you that your life in our world
[803.32 --> 804.86] is in the hands of a God
[804.86 --> 808.62] who cares and has power to do something about it.
[809.50 --> 810.30] Like, listen to what he says.
[810.30 --> 811.50] He's like, have you not heard?
[812.48 --> 813.64] Do you not know?
[814.34 --> 816.64] Your God created the whole world.
[817.70 --> 819.66] Your God rules the nations.
[820.40 --> 822.98] Your God does not get tired.
[823.78 --> 824.82] He doesn't need sleep.
[825.18 --> 826.28] He doesn't take naps.
[826.56 --> 830.68] He rules over the world with a sense of eternal power.
[831.30 --> 832.94] In fact, if you read earlier in Isaiah,
[833.30 --> 836.12] he says to the people, who can you compare God to?
[836.72 --> 837.94] Right, he rules the nations.
[837.94 --> 839.34] He has total authority.
[839.34 --> 840.72] And it says this specifically,
[840.96 --> 843.30] he brings princes down to nothing.
[844.22 --> 846.90] And that's a specific reference, by the way, to the Exodus,
[847.40 --> 849.26] which Isaiah and many other biblical writers,
[849.34 --> 850.38] you'll know, you read the Old Testament,
[850.70 --> 851.70] they're constantly saying,
[851.84 --> 854.78] do you remember what God did in the Exodus?
[855.50 --> 856.56] And it matters right now
[856.56 --> 859.62] because that was the time when Israel watched God
[859.62 --> 862.86] roll into Egypt, which is the Assyria of that day,
[862.86 --> 867.14] and go toe-to-toe with the Pharaoh who was claimed to be a son of God
[867.14 --> 871.56] and showed Pharaoh just how much power and authority he had
[871.56 --> 873.02] as he brought plagues.
[873.02 --> 877.04] And then he brought this little slave nation out of this Egyptian power
[877.04 --> 879.18] with a sense of ease and authority.
[879.18 --> 883.26] That's the kind of God we worship.
[884.26 --> 884.98] And Isaiah is saying,
[885.08 --> 887.16] if you want to learn how to have a hope for the future,
[887.84 --> 891.16] look back on who God is and what he's done.
[891.66 --> 894.42] Sort of the receipts to show that God comes through
[894.42 --> 895.96] on what he says he's going to do.
[896.92 --> 898.06] And it's out of that
[898.06 --> 900.46] that Isaiah has the boldness and the confidence
[900.46 --> 903.64] in both Isaiah 9 and 40 and 41 and 42
[903.64 --> 905.46] to give these powerful,
[905.60 --> 907.56] and I do mean powerful prophecies,
[907.78 --> 908.92] on what is coming.
[909.68 --> 911.90] The reason you always hear Isaiah during Advent
[911.90 --> 913.50] is because he's the one who says,
[913.86 --> 915.58] the glory of God is coming.
[915.98 --> 918.60] He's going to reveal the light that shines in the darkness.
[918.92 --> 920.96] He's going to show his authority over the nations,
[921.08 --> 922.02] and it comes through what?
[923.26 --> 924.24] A child.
[925.38 --> 925.54] Right?
[925.68 --> 927.82] Last year we preached on Isaiah 9
[927.82 --> 930.72] where this child is going to be the wonderful counselor,
[931.26 --> 932.84] the mighty God, the prince of peace,
[933.04 --> 934.42] the everlasting father,
[934.60 --> 936.46] and he's going to rule the nations with justice.
[936.74 --> 938.14] He's going to stand against oppression.
[938.50 --> 939.80] He is going to be the one
[939.80 --> 941.64] that establishes the kingdom of God.
[941.92 --> 943.98] And Isaiah, in the midst, think about this,
[944.28 --> 947.14] in the midst of Assyria invading Israel,
[947.70 --> 950.96] he's saying, we have hope for the future.
[951.62 --> 952.86] The glory of God is coming
[952.86 --> 954.50] because he's been faithful in the past.
[955.44 --> 956.20] That's profound.
[957.82 --> 960.74] And it's at this point I want to acknowledge
[960.74 --> 962.72] that we live in very, very different times than Isaiah,
[962.88 --> 963.22] don't we?
[963.40 --> 965.20] We're not worried about Assyria coming into Surrey
[965.20 --> 966.14] that I know about.
[967.36 --> 969.36] But we do have things that threaten our hope.
[970.12 --> 971.26] A lot of different things.
[971.32 --> 972.14] And maybe for you,
[972.34 --> 974.04] it's sort of the big picture things.
[974.14 --> 975.68] You look at the news around the world,
[975.76 --> 978.00] you look at rising war and escalating violence,
[978.16 --> 979.32] and you think, this is awful,