Welcome to our zionsville church I. Messages of Judgment (ch. 1-39) II. Messages of Consolation (ch. 40-55) III. Messages of Desire (ch. 56-66) Isaiah 61:1-3 one The Spirit in the Sovereign LORD is on me, mainly because the LORD has anointed me to evangelise good news towards the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, 2 to proclaim the year from the LORD’s favor plus the day of vengeance of our God, to consolation all who mourn, 3 and provide for those that grieve in Zion– to bestow on them a crown of elegance rather of ashes, the oil of gladness rather of mourning, along with a garment of praise as a substitute of a spirit of despair. They will be known as oaks of righteousness, a planting with the LORD for the show of his splendor. 700 many years before Jesus’ delivery, Isaiah wrote this text that Jesus quoted and utilized to himself in Luke 4 “There you’re, standing at a window observing oak leaves flutter down from your darkish boughs, and with out warning your entire entire body fills having a eager for some thing you cannot name, a thing you have misplaced but never had, that you’re nostalgic for yet don’t remember. You feeling a joy so massive it breaks you, a sorrow so deep it cleanses you…Groaning may be the lexicon and grammar of our dis-location, our perception of being within the wrong place. It’s our mother tongue, the speech we fall back again on when we can’t recall the words to talk in earth language, that foreign tongue we’re attempting to discover to speak fluently but keep garbling.” – Mark Buchanan holy groaning = eager for residence, eager for things to get as they must be 2 Corinthians five:a couple of Meanwhile we groan, longing to get clothed with our heavenly dwelling, Isaiah groaned awaiting the Messiah’s first entry; we groan awaiting His 2nd. “Hope could be the ability to hear the music of your future plus the faith to dance to it inside the existing.” – St. Augustine “The spiritual journey requires intense concentration on God’s point of view…this focus will trigger an intense narrowing of all our pursuits on earth, and an immense broadening of our interests in heaven.” – Jonathan Edwards

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