Chapter 43 Part 2 - A new
Thing
Isaiah 40:1:Comfort
ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Why do they need comfort?
Numbers 11:16-17, 24-30;
Exodus 35:30-35. In Judges the spirit of the LORD came upon the
judges (Judges 3:10) [Judges 13:24-25, 14:19, 16:20] to
prepare them for a special task. .
God’s spirit was not given to everyone, only to those chosen for a
particular purpose. The LORD would give his spirit and withdraw it.
*When the people sacrificed their sins were covered by the Spirit.
Romans 4:6-7 - Psalm 32 - Hebrews 10 4 states the sacrifice of the
animals did not take away sin. Add Isaiah 30:1 with Hebrews 10:4 and
you can conclude their sins were covered by the sacrifices. When
they profaned the sacrifices this covering was removed and The LORD
looked upon a sinful people. The covering of the Spirit lasted on as
long as their belief and obedience.
*Israel's condition during the captivity Ezekiel 37:1-3 - God’s
people are seen as dry bones
Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have
forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out
cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. ( they wanted to
be able to get water their way - their way was lake a a cistern that
is built defective- it won't hold water.
Lamentations 1:9,16 - Jeremiah speaking of The city of Jerusalem
*Imagine an artesian well flowing through a pipe into a
concrete tank with a crack in it. If you stop the flow of the water
from the well the tank will become dry, but as long as the water
flowed into the tank it would stay full. See why the it is
comforting to know the Holy Spirit never leaves us for even a brief
moment. This was not true in the lives of the old testament Jews.
When they forsook The LORD it was like the leaking tank the Holy
Spirit would leave them comfortless.
*What did Judah chose to
do with the Holy Spirit's covering in Isaiah 30:1? They chose
their sin instead of The LORD's offer to cover them with the Spirit.
Their cistern leaked.
The comfort: Ezekiel 37:4-6 these dry bones will come back to
life - How?
Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall
spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the
wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Psalm 63:1 ¶ <<A Psalm of David, when he was in the
wilderness of Judah.>> O God, thou art my God; early will I seek
thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry
and thirsty land, where no water is;
A desert is a dry and parched place with very little life.
Unbearable heat and dryness. Imagine you are in the middle of the
desert and all of a sudden a spring begins flow out of the ground
and soon a river begins to flow, you would be surprised. Life would
begin to be seen along it's bank. There would be a new thing in the
middle of a dry and thirsty land an place of new life.
*Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty,
and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed,
and my blessing upon thine offspring: Isa 44:4
Psalm 105:41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran
in the dry places like a river
Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall
spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the
wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
*Pouring out the spirit upon the future generations of Jews will
produce the same results as pouring out water upon dry land - new life
is seen - production of fruit will begin -
The comfort He will seal the cracks of their cistern.
John 7:37-39 ¶ In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus
stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me,
and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out
of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he
of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for
the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet
glorified.)
*Jesus makes it clear living water is the Holy Spirit (John 7:37-38)
*Take note that the term living water is seen in the new testament
only in John. This ties John (43 rd. book) with Acts (the 44th book)
See John 20:22 - This is the first giving of the Holy Spirit by
Christ. This is not seen in the other three accounts (Matthew, Mark
& Luke)
The New Thing
Hebrews 10:4 - The blood of the sacrifices did not take away their
sins - It was the sacrifice of Jesus Christ - Hebrew 9:13-14 - If
the blood of bulls, goats and an heifer purified the flesh for
service The blood of Jesus
Christ purifies our spirit through His Spirit for service. He had to
offer himself once and only once for our sins and purifying. -
End
of the sacrifices
Acts 1:5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be
baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
Acts 2:1-4 - The Holy Spirit filling and indwelling them that
believe. (John 7:37-39)
The New Thing - The Father offered His Son once as the
Eternal Sacrifice and now doesn't cover but fills and indwells those who believe on Jesus Christ. - 2Thessalonians 2:16 ¶ Now our
Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath
loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation
and good hope through grace,
John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall
give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him
shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting
life.
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
John 14:18 ¶ I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you
The comfort - the time is coming when God’s Spirit will poured out
into into the Jews and never removed -
*Take note that in the new testament the term comforter is seen only
John. - In The Gospel Of John the deity of Jesus is presented only
God can offer everlasting consolation through himself.
John 16:7 ¶ Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for
you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not
come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto
*The Comforter is promised in John and delivered in Acts 2:1-4 In
Isaiah 43 the rivers are promised In Isaiah 44 the water is poured
out.
*The comfort offered to Israel has always been been the offer of His Holy
Spirit abiding with them, first covering them (Old Testament)
than indwelling them (New Testament).
The New Thing The LORD was going to do: The permanent indwelling of
the Holy Spirit that flows out of belief in the eternal sacrifice of
their Messiah - This comfort it’s not just for Israel - It’s for us
and all who believe.
The holy spirit makes that which is dead productive. and able to
produce abundantly.
Isaiah 12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells
of salvation. Isa 21:1 ¶ The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the
south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible
land. (What sea one of the seas that Israel is on? - the Dead Sea)
Isa 35:1 ¶ The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for
them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Isa 32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a
covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the
shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Isa 35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of
the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and
streams in the desert.
Joh 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift
of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou
wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living
water.
Joh 4:11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw
with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living
water?
Cyrus is a picture of John The Baptist setting the path straight,
Jesus Christ sitting on His throne ruling in truth. But He is not
used as a picture the one that has the Holy Spirit flowing from His
inner being. Only the creator, only the Great I AM can give of
Himself to indwell the believer.
Christ told his apostles in
2Thessolonians 2:16 ¶ Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God,
even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting
consolation
Hebrews 6:17-20 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto
the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it
by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible
for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled
for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we
have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which
entereth into that within the veil; Whither the forerunner is for us
entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec
What is the last verse containing desert - Acts 8:26 And the
angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward
the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza,
which is desert. What did Philip take to the desert? The
living water - The Hoy Spirit - As the gentiles heard the gospel (a
new thing: the other sheep) new life went into their dry bones. |