Comfort for God’s People. Isa 40:1-8
V. DIVINE DELIVERANCE FROM SIN AND CAPTIVITY, Isaiah 40-48
1. Assurance of Salvation, Isa_40:1-31; Isa_41:1-29
36. What is the first message brought by this herald of Jehovah? the second? What echo of hope is found in the third?
COMFORT FOR GOD’S PEOPLE
“Comfort, O comfort My people,” says your God.
“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, And call out to her, that her time of compulsory service in warfare is finished, That her wickedness has been taken away [since her punishment is sufficient], That she has received from the LORD’S hand Double [punishment] for all her sins.”
A voice of one is calling out, “Clear the way for the LORD in the wilderness [remove the obstacles]; Make straight and smooth in the desert a highway for our God. [Mar_1:3]
“Every valley shall be raised, And every mountain and hill be made low; And let the rough ground become a plain, And the rugged places a broad valley.
“And the glory and majesty and splendor of the LORD will be revealed, And all humanity shall see it together; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.” [Luk_3:5-6]
THE WORD OF GOD STANDS FOREVER
IA voice says, “Call out [prophesy].” Then he answered, “What shall I call out?” [The voice answered:] All humanity is [as frail as] grass, and all that makes it attractive [its charm, its loveliness] is [momentary] like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower fades, When the breath of the LORD blows upon it; Most certainly [all] the people are [like] grass.
The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever. [Jas_1:10-11; 1Pe_1:24-25]
THE CRY OF JEHOVAH’S HERALD
Voices are ever speaking to us from the infinite; let us heed them.
(1.) There is the voice of forgiveness, Isa_40:2. Are you truly penitent? Have you put away your sin? Have you meekly accepted the chastening rod? Then be of good cheer, this promise is for you. The time of hard service as a conscript (the literal rendering) is accomplished, your iniquity is pardoned, you have received double for all your sins. God speaks comfortably to your heart, that you may be able to comfort others as He does you, 2Co_1:4.
(2.) The voice of deliverance, Isa_40:3-4. Between Babylon and Canaan lay a great desert of thirty days’ journey with mountain ranges, yawning gulfs. But when God arises to deliver His children, “who cry day and night unto Him,” crooked places straighten out, rough ones become smooth, and mountains disappear.
(3.) The voices of decay, Isa_40:6-8. The one herald, speaking from his observation of human mortality, describes man and his glory as the “flower of the field.” But in contrast to this, another voice seems to break in with the eternal word of God, which stands forever. The precepts, promises, and invitations of the gospel are as sure as God’s throne, 1Pe_1:25.
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