Isaiah 45:17-25, Rm. 14:11
Pastor Rick
Jackson
I. IN THE
LORD JESUS ONLY IS SALVATION
1. Individual
Jews Shall Be Saved [Is. 45:17, Rm. 1:16]
But Israel
shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be
ashamed nor confounded world without end.
John R. Rice
told the story of his friend, Louis Zuckerman. who had spent 8 years in a
school of the Talmud preparing to be a Rabbi before leaving Russia for the U.S.
In Chicago, this Hebrew scholar taught in the Hebrew Institute. But familiar as
he was with the O.T. in the original Hebrew, he had never noticed Micah 5:2,
promising that the Messiah should be born in Bethlehem in Judea, until he heard
it in the 1st Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas.
He stormed
out of the church declaring that the preacher was a liar and was deceiving the
people, that no such promise was in the O.T. But back in his room he looked in
his Hebrew O.T., and there it was!
As a result
of that verse, he was convinced that Christ is the Messiah, and he accepted Him
as his Saviour.
2. Ignorance
is an Enemy of Salvation [Rm. 10:1-15]
3. Arrogance
is an Enemy of Salvation [Rm. 10:16-21]
II. CHRIST
IS CREATOR AS WELL AS SAVIOUR
1. Jesus
Created [Is. 45:18, Jn. 1:1-5]
- For thus
saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and
made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be
inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
-In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The
same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without
him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the
light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended
it not.
2. Jesus
Calls [Is. 45:19-20, Rm. 10:8,14, 17-21]
-I have not
spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of
Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things
that are right. Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are
escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their
graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
3. Jesus
Commands [Is. 45:21-23, Rm. 14:11]
Tell ye, and
bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this
from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and
there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside
me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and
there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every
tongue shall swear.
III. BOW
THE KNEE TO CHRIST, GOD INCARNATE [Rm. 14]
1. The One
Who is Lord & Master [Rm. 14:1-8]
2. The One
Who Died & Rose Again [Rm. 14:9]
3. The One
Who is the Living Lord & Judge
[Rm. 14:10-12,
Is. 45:23-25]
I have sworn
by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not
return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Surely,
shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall
men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. In the LORD
shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
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