Peter Barnes | Isaiah 49:1-13
SERMON NOTES
Good News for the Gentiles
(Isaiah 49:1-13)
1. The Servant’s call to all the world.
– v.1; His weapon will be His word (v.2: Rev.1:16; Heb.4:12)
– to Israel and the world (49:6; Acts 13:46-48); a kind of second exodus in 49:9b-12
– Matt.8:11
2. The Servant’s apparent failure.
– 49:4 is a jarring note
– Heb.4:15; 5:7-8; Matt.17:17; John 12:27; 6:66-69; Matt.26:37-39; Luke 22:43-44; Matt.27:46; Acts 1:15
– 49:7a; John 1:11
3. The Servant’s certain victory.
– 49:7-9a
– Richard Sibbes: ‘Nothing is stronger than humility, which goes out of itself, or weaker than pride, which rests on its own foundation.’
– respond with a song of joy (49:13)