Blessed Are Those Who Wait On God
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
Up to this point in our studies on the “Beatitudes Of The Bible” we have seen a number of different actions & attitudes that will help us have a “blessed life” in this life and the life to come from the book of Psalms but today we continue that study in the book of Isaiah.
Today we will be looking at the Beatitude of , “Blessed Are Those Who Wait On God.”
Context
When Hezekiah became king at age 25 () he “trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel” and there were no kings, in the Southern Kingdom of Judah, as faithful as Hezekiah.
The Southern Kingdom was under Assyrian rule but Hezekiah rebelled against them and drove them back out of their land ().
In Hezekiah’s 14th year Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came back to the Southern Kingdom of Judah and took their fortified cities ().
In Hezekiah’s 14th year Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came back to the Southern Kingdom of Judah and took their fortified cities ().
In an attempt to fulfill this request Hezekiah took all the the silver from God’s House, the Temple, and stripped the gold from the temple doors & doorposts ().
This of course didn’t suffice and soon Sennacherib and his army were at the door of Jerusalem.
The Assyrian’s mocking Hezekiah and God by claiming neither could save Jerusalem.
We know different and after Hezekiah sought Isaiah’s word from the LORD and Hezekiah prayed Yahweh sent the angel of the LORD and 185,000 of the Assyrian army died that night.
Sennacherib fled and Jerusalem was spared.
It’s in this situation we find our context for ).
God is not pleased with Israel, not Hezekiah, as the people didn’t turn to God like Hezekiah did. Because of this God sent the Assyrians to to Jerusalem as punishment and a reminder of who they should trust in.
They weren’t to trust in Assyria to protect them ().
They weren’t to trust in Egypt to protect them ().
The people were to wait out this trial (God’s justice) and wait for God’s graciousness and mercy.
Because if the Israelites did this they would be blessed.
18 Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
Knowing this context now, can we receive this blessing today?
Can we be blessed today by “waiting on God?”
The answer is a resounding yes!!!
God Is Righteous
God Is Righteous
God is just today.
God is just today.
The God whom we serve, the only true God, is still a God of justice today.
Throughout the Old Testament & New Testament we find this to be proclaimed.
21 Tell and bring forth your case; Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I, the Lord? And there is no other God besides Me, A just God and a Savior; There is none besides Me.
5 He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.
30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
This reality makes it clear…
Justice demands punishment.
Justice demands punishment.
Because God is a just God He must righteously keep His Word and to do such requires punishing those that sin or transgress His law.
4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
This reality means we will go through trials and tribulations because of our own actions.
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Summary
Summary
Sin, by its very nature is corrosive and deadly to the soul of those created in God’s image.
God’s justice demands action on those “practicing sin.”
Considering we all sin and sometimes get caught up in “practicing sin” we will from time to time find ourselves dealing with these trials and tribulations in our lives.
When this happens we must repent & confess those sins and then…
We Must Be Patient
We Must Be Patient
Consequences of sin linger.
Consequences of sin linger.
The consequences of sin can have lasting effects on our lives sometimes long after we have been forgiven by God.
Paul often dealt with the consequences of his past sins.
He wasn’t always trusted ().
David lost many sons because of his past sins.
Absalom being one of them ().
Sin has consequences that, more often than not, don’t simply go away after we repent.
Losing trust with my parents and the ten years it took to get it back.
Thankfully God teaches us that…
Patience wins out.
Patience wins out.
When these consequences arrive we must “wait on God” for these consequences to end.
Most trails, tribulations, and consequences will eventually end in this life.
11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,
2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
For those situations that don’t end in this life they will end in the next.
10 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Summary
Summary
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Conclusion
Conclusion
The context of our text in is dealing with man’s patience with the consequences of his sin but there is another aspect of this reality and that is we must “wait on God” during all trials and tribulations, not just those caused by sin..
By this I mean we must understand that whether our trials are limited or permanent we must wait on God’s mercy and graciousness because…
28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.