ISAIAH 60-66

REFLECTING ON SRCC’S SEASON

• Where have we been?• What was God doing?• What could learn?• What has happened in our

lives?

PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED

• Health• Family• Work/Money• Marital• Bills• Life’s Stress

IMPACT OF OUR PROBLEMS

LONGING FOR HELP AND HOPING

GOD’S ANSWERS FOR OUR PROBLEMS

• SAVIOR. Seeing God’s presence expressed through HIS glory and splendor in the lives of His people;

• Isaiah 60:21 - Then will all your people be righteous and they will possess the land forever. They are the shoot I have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor.

GOD’S PLAN FOR OUR PROBLEMS

• Isaiah 65:16-17 – 16 Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth; he who takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the past troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my eyes. 17 "Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

GOD’S METHOD FOR OUR PROBLEMS

• Spiritual relationship with Him. • Desire my God. • Seek my God. Enjoy my God. • Be in His Presence.• Isaiah 61:10a - I delight greatly in the

LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness,

OUR PARADOX• There must be more…this is too

simple. Surely, this can’t be MY ANSWER TO MY DEEPEST LONGINGS! THE PARADOX!

OUR PARADOX• Ephesians 6- Our battle is not against

flesh and blood…• Isaiah 64:8-9 - 8  Yet, O LORD, you are

our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. 9

 Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray, for we are all your people.

OUR PARADOX

OUR PARADOX