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Text: Isaiah 2
Title: Lord of Hosts
Sermon Theme: The Lord of Hosts will bring all people to himself
Goal: to encourage the congregation to walk in the light of the LORD.
Need: Times of war tend to make nations believe that all nations will look to them.
Sermon Outline:
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Introduction: Illustrate how war in Afganistan is not about Muslim vs. Christian
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God’s temple is established
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His word is taught
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His peace covers the earth.
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God does not establish eternal nations
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Human sin
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Human pride
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God is the LORD Sabaoth.
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Christ Jesus, it is he.
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Conclusion: Walk in the light of the LORD.
Never in the pride of a nation or the security of where we live.
Sermon in Oral Style:
Congregation,
Our nation is at war.
Anna is back after spend the better part of a year serving us and our country in war torn Afghanistan.
Our nation is fighting a war.
We could look at this in many ways as a war of religions.
The people of Afghanistan are predominantly Muslim.
And those who are involved in suicide attacks in the Middle East often believe that because they have died while killing the infidels, they are guaranteed on of the highest rewards in eternal life.
Many people picture this as a war of religions.
Western Christianity’s side which is all about peace and justice and rights for all people, and the Middle Eastern Muslim side which stands for the values of the Islamic faith.
*Many look at the war this way.
But as Christians we should not! *As believers we should not believe that this is a war of religions.
As believers we should not believe that this is a war between God and Allah.
*It might be a battle between different views of the world.
In any war, worldviews are at the heart of it.*
One nations perspective is different from another.
One nation views rights differently from the other.
Those nations may end up going to war to establish whose worldview is going to prevail in a certain area.
In Afghanistan, is it going to be the notions of freedom of the Western world, or will it be the notions of terrorism of the Taliban?
*But war is not about Jesus or Muhammed.
Victory for Allied forces in Afganistan is not a victory under the banner of Jesus.*
*A pull out of troops is not a loss for Jesus Christ.*
As we think about war, and about our military, and about the work and sacrifice they make, *it doesn’t change the main thing that is true about our Jesus Christ.
He is the all powerful God.
In spite of what any nation is trying to do in the world, in spite of whatever worldview might be gaining strength in the world, Jesus Christ is the Almighty God that all the world will look to when the end is here.*
Jesus Christ is the Almighty God that all the world will look to in the end.
That message rings loud and clear throughout the scripture that we read today.
*The first way we hear that all nations will look to Jesus, the all powerful God, is in verses 1-5.
It is about the Mountain.*
The Mountain.
*Verse 2. “/2/**In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.”*
The dwelling place of God in the middle of Israel, Mount Zion.
This mountain will be raised up.
*Metaphorically this is saying that God is going be the greatest over all the earth.
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The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis are great books.
In the last book there is a scene that is supposed to be depicting the end of the world of Narnia.
It is the end times.
And everything begins rushing toward where Aslan has gone to reign.
As the children in the story are rushing towards Aslan they find themselves in a river.
And Lewis vividly describes how as they are caught up in the river, they are rushing so powerfully that they flow right up a waterfall.
*I wonder if C.S. Lewis got that imagry from Isaiah.*
The nations will stream to temple of God.
At the end time, when God has accomplished everything, people will rush to the dwelling place of God. *Isaiah pictures it like a stream up people flowing up the side of Mount Zion.
God’s pull on peoples hearts defies any natural laws.*
*What is so powerful about Mount Zion at the end of time?
There are two things.*
*The LAW of God.
* Metaphorically, people will stream up the side of the mountain to hear Christ teach us again the right way to live our lives.
*And the law will not be a burden.
In the end, times finally we will all realize how the law was never intended to be a burden.
It was meant to give us richness and fullness and purpose and direction in life.
That will be the pull.*
And all nations will be flowing up the mountain to have their lives overwhelmed, drenched, covered by the law of God.
And they will come to the mountain for the law, *but also for peace.*
Christ will be the judge over all the earth.
And every place that people have had difference of worldview, and every place they decided it was necessary to take the lives of those of a different worldview, Christ will settle the dispute.
*Verse 4**/4/**He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.”*
In the end, when Christ rules the world once and for all, we won’t need M-16’s, and F-16’s and all the tools for war, but will be tools of agriculture and peace.
*Supersonic jets turned into supersonic harvesters.
Shock and awe turned into lots of bales of straw.*
The picture is almost ridiculous, but our almight God, Jesus Christ will bring peace, that’s what people are streaming to the Mountain for.
So the mountain of God will become the greatest in all the world.
God will reign on high.
*This is great news for Israel, right?
After this part of the prophecy you might expect the Israelites to go dancing in the streets.
“our God is the strongest.
We are going to beat you.
The Mountain is part of our country.
Too bad for everyone else.”*
But God immediately puts them back in their place.
Christ may be reigning from the *mountain*, but he is quick to remind Israel that they have *Messed up.
Israel has Messed up.*
*Verse 6 accuses them, “**/6/**You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob.
They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans.**
**/7/**Their land is full of silver and gold; there is no end to their treasures.
Their land is full of horses; there is no end to their chariots.**
**/8/**Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.**
**/9/**So man will be brought low and mankind humbled— do not forgive them.”*
*That’s a wake up call.*
Israel has messed up.
All of Mankind has messed up.
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