“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
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… this last week in our country, and last week I was in Isaiah 40 one day, which talks about the authority of God the Lord over everything in the world, including all the nations of the world. Just listen to this, Isaiah 40, 15. You gotta see this. Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket and are accounted as the dust on the scales. Behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust. Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering. All the nations are as nothing before him. And they're accounted by him as less than nothing. How is that even possible? Less than nothing and emptiness. So I read that and think, okay, the nations. All this turmoil in our nation. How does God view it? The nations are like a drop from a bucket. Let's take a bucket of water. and a dropper. Here we go. All right. Here we go. I give you a picture of all the nations of the world. …
… a light into my path. You want to know God's will, God's purpose for your life? Go to the word. It gives guidance and direction for your life. Isaiah chapter 40, verse 1 through 11, comfort and strength in our troubles. Comfort, comfort, my people. That's how Isaiah 40 starts, and it comes to the in and it says you will mount up with wings as eagles. You will run and not grow weary. You will walk and not be faint. Comfort and strength in our troubles. John 1, 1 through 14 tells us that the Bible, the Word of God reveals Jesus himself. John 17, 17 says it is the source of truth and holiness. Philippians 4, 4 through 7 says it gives us peace amidst anxiety. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and petition present your request to God. And what does the Bible will promise you the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and will guard your minds in Christ Jesus. …
This is God's word. We're doing a series on who God is, and the thesis has been that God reveals himself in the Bible under many images, under many figures. He's father and friend and lover and king. And if we take any one of those images and lift it up to the exclusion of the others, or even lifted up in favor of the others, you come up with a one-dimensional God. You come up with a cartoon God, a God like those one-dimensional characters in those action movies that get blown away. There's no personal engagement with a God like that. Now, I guess you could actually say, in a sense, if you don't know him as all of these, you don't know him at all, Unless you know him as all of the ones that he reveals himself to be, you don't really know him at all. Father, friend, lover, king. Now today we look at Isaiah 40, and Isaiah 40 would be a very, very famous passage, even if Handel hadn't written the greatest music in the history of the world about it, put it to it. …