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Isaiah 63:1-9 main passage read and expounded through the sermon
1 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
2 Why is your clothing red, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?
3 “I have trodden the wine press alone; and of the peoples, no one was with me: Yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.
4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.
5 I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my own wrath upheld me.
6 I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”
7 I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
8 For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
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Song of Solomon 8:5
parallel phrase 'who is this' compared to Isaiah 63
5 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.
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Isaiah 7
brief mention of Isaiah seeing the messiah as an infant, unto us a child is born
1 In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
2 David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
3 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.
4 Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,
6 “Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.”
7 This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people;
9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”
10 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
11 “Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”
12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh.”
13 He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16 For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
17 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
18 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.
20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep;
22 and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land.
23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.
25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.”
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Isaiah 9
brief mention of the messiah described as a divine royal child
1 But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
3 You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.
4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
5 For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
6 For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel.
9 All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,
10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”
11 Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
12 The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
13 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
14 Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.
15 The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
16 For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.
17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
19 Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.
20 One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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Isaiah 11
brief mention of a picture of the messiah's sevenfold spirit
1 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
2 Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
3 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
4 but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
5 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
9 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
10 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.
14 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.
15 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.
16 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
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Isaiah 42
brief mention of the messiah as Yahweh's chosen servant
1 “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights— I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
2 He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.
3 He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law.”
5 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.
6 “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;
7 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
8 “I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.
9 Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”
10 Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.
11 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
12 Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.
13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.
14 “I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
17 “Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.
18 “Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?
20 You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.
21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
22 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers; and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’
23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know; and it burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”
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Isaiah 49
brief mention in list of Isaiah's servant passages
1 Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother he has mentioned my name.
2 He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.
3 He said to me, “You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
4 But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”
5 Now Yahweh says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.
6 Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
7 Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
8 Yahweh says, “In an acceptable time I have answered you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,
9 saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
11 I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from afar; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.”
13 Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break out into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
14 But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”
15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. your walls are continually before me.
17 Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
18 Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.
19 “For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’
21 Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’”
22 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and lift up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
23 Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
24 Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?
25 But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.
26 I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
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Isaiah 50
brief mention in list of Isaiah's servant passages
1 Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
2 Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”
4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
5 The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
6 I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
7 For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
8 He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
9 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.
10 Who among you fears Yahweh, and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.
11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves; walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: You will lie down in sorrow.
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Isaiah 52-53
brief mention of the messiah as Yahweh's suffering servant
52:1 Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
52:2 Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
52:3 For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.”
52:4 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.
52:5 “Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.
52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I.”
52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
52:8 Your watchmen lift up their voice, together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion.
52:9 Break out into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.
52:10 Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
52:11 Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.
52:12 For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
52:13 Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.
52:14 Just as many were astonished at you (his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
52:15 so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him: for they will see that which had not been told them; and they will understand that which they had not heard.
53:1 Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
53:2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
53:3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
53:4 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
53:7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
53:8 He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
53:9 They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
53:10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
53:11 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
53:12 Therefore will I give him a portion with the great, and he will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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Habakkuk
referenced for additional description of earthquakes and storm clouds as the figure marches
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Brian walked through Isaiah 63:1-9, pressing on one question: who is this figure marching in from the desert with blood-stained clothes? The point was not to hand out life application steps but to let the passage paint a portrait of Jesus that most people never encountered in Sunday school, and then let that picture sit.
What was said
Isaiah had already seen the Messiah as an infant, as a royal child, as a chosen servant, and as a suffering servant. But the figure in Isaiah 63 is something else. He comes sweeping in from Edom and Basra, out of the desert, in royal robes, marching with singular purpose and unmistakable strength. Brian noted that desert places in ancient Semitic culture were considered wastelands haunted by disembodied spirits, inhospitable and deadly. This figure has not barely survived that terrain. He has conquered it.
The language Isaiah uses, "who is this," is meant to arrest attention the way any pointed question does in a crowd. Brian connected it to the same phrase in Song of Solomon 8:5, where the young woman returns from the wilderness leaning fully on her lover, transformed. In both cases the question pulls the reader's eyes toward someone who has come through an impossible place and is now unmistakably victorious.
When the figure answers, "It is I, the Lord," Brian stopped on the weight of that declaration. Yahweh is uncreated, which separates him from everything else in any realm. His announcement of salvation is not a suggestion or a veiled hint. It is a command. Brian asked the congregation to try to feel the reverberating force of that answer, standing there with Isaiah as the ground shakes.
The clothes stained red like someone who has been treading a wine press alone were not treated as purely allegorical. Brian said he did not know exactly what that image looks like in its fullness, but he was not willing to soften it. The Messiah fights a bloody and lopsided battle at great cost to himself before he ever reaches the locked door of the tower where humanity is held prisoner by sin. Brian described that as a mark of maturity in faith, recognizing the cost, not just the rescue.
The closing verses of the passage shift register entirely. After the imagery of wrath and trampled enemies, Isaiah writes about unfailing love, mercy, and a God who lifts his people up and carries them. Brian read the line "in all their suffering, he also suffered" and connected it back to Pontius Pilate's words before the crucifixion, "Behold the man." The same figure who marches in from the desert in royal robes is the one who was scourged and paraded before a crowd. That is the portrait Isaiah was drawing.
Brian closed by saying his only aim was to hold that picture up, warrior and tender father together, and let the Holy Spirit do the rest. Lissa followed by reflecting on how her own father, a gentle man, showed a completely different side when his family was in danger, and led the room in a time of worship and quiet repentance for the ways people reduce Jesus to something manageable.
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- Brian said he wanted to paint a portrait of Jesus and let the Holy Spirit do the work rather than connecting all the dots to Monday morning application. How did that approach land for you, and what did you notice about it compared to how you usually receive a sermon?
- Isaiah sees the Messiah as an infant, a prince, a chosen servant, and a suffering servant before this passage, but Brian said the figure sweeping in from Edom was a picture Isaiah was unprepared for. What surprised you most about this description, and why do you think it does not come up much in church?
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Welcome to Tribe's podcast. Hey, we just wanna say thank you for making this message a part of your week. Our prayer is that these messages will inspire you to make the name of Jesus famous in your life and to the uttermost bounds of the earth. If you're ever in Jackson Hole, we'd love for you to visit our Tribe fam in person. To learn more about us, you can find us online or at Facebook by searching tribejh.com.
Welcome to Tribe's podcast. Hey, we just wanna say thank you for making this message a part of your week. Our prayer is that these messages will inspire you to make the name of Jesus famous in your life and to the uttermost bounds of the earth. If you're ever in Jackson Hole, we'd love for you to visit our tribe fam in person. To learn more about us, you can find us online or at Facebook by searching tribejh.com.
Alright. Good morning. Good morning. The holidays are upon us even if we barely even have a white strip of death, out at the village. But have you noticed they're trying to rebrand the White Strip Of Death?
What are they trying to call it this year? Yes. Yeah. The slope of come on. It will if you're from out of town, we're talking about our beloved ski area out at the village.
So they usually sometimes just depending on the weather they can open up a variety of the mountain as the season kicks off and some years are better than others but they always try by Thanksgiving weekend to at least have like AV open and whatever that is coming down off of AV, Saint Noel, Warner or something. And so it usually, if it's a low snow year when you're driving out to the village, just you see like this one little white ribbon coming down the mountain where they have been aggressively feverishly trying to make snow. In the the snowmaking crew, I don't know if we have any snow seasonal snow crew people this year. The the night crew, the night creatures they call them, they always are like working really hard and there's a really fun rivalry between making snow and the day crew that makes snow, and the night crew always pokes fun at the day crew by saying day crew blows rain with the warmer temperatures, but it's supposed to get colder this week and so I think we're gonna have a white strip of death which and the reason why it's called a white strip of death is because everybody is excited to start the ski season and so everybody goes out and they ride Tijuana and they ride AV and it's like everybody squeezed onto one run, the white strip of death and it is chaos out there.
Am I right, Jay? Yes. From all the way back in the VIP room. But this year, they're trying to call it the Slope Of Hope. Oh.
I know. It's cute. It's cute. Hey, Liz, would you hand off my coffee so that it could make its way up here? I just I just saw it back there.
I didn't know where it went. I don't know that you'll make it all the way up. I know. Yay. Thank you.
We need a new home. It's coming. If you are sitting next to somebody, a loved one that is home for the holidays, throughout today's service, please feel free to give them lots of hugs and squeezes because that's your little baby home from school. If you're here visiting for the holidays, well, you found us, and I'm glad that you made your way back home to Jackson even if just for the holiday. So I'm glad that you're here.
There's a little connect card in your seat. You can fill that out. We would love to have a record of your visit. On the backside of the card, you can also, fill out a prayer request on Mondays at at our staff meeting. We go over those prayer requests.
We take them seriously. We love it. We consider it an honor to be able to lift up those prayer requests, and so we would love to be able to to pray for you. You can either leave it in your seat or just behind there is a little wooden drop box. You can put it in that drop box.
Today, as we get into this next part of worship, there's a little bit of a preamble or an intro that I wanna give you for the conversation that we're gonna have today. And I do say that word intentionally conversation because I want this to not just be a monologue from me up here, but I want it to be a dialogue that we together engage with. I would submit to you that for over two thousand years since Jesus established the church, the church has looked a lot more like this than it has looked like maybe the church that you've come from or your home church back home. That's not to poo poo the church that you have come from back home, but here at Tribe and where we meet at the TMC, all of us like squeezed in like Shay, you brought your friend to church today. Little did she know she was gonna be on the front row because forward in the worship team.
Yeah. I mean, if you lean if you lean forward, you're gonna be in the choir. And so this this environment, this venue lends itself to to discussion, and so I look forward for us engaging with the material together, not just me doing a bunch of talking. Alright? So that's that's unique thing, I guess, number two.
Number one is the venue. Number two is our format style. Number three, something that's unique that we're gonna do today. It's a little bit different. I was I've been chewing on this passage for some time and reading it and meditating on it and writing about it, and as I was crafting the conversation that we're gonna have today, I kept asking, alright.
So how does this apply to Ellie Monday morning? Like, where does the where does the rubber meet the road for for Ellie? And I think many pastors, well meaning, want to take a passage or the text, share it with you, break it down with we we do that, and then give you the takeaways of how it relates and applies to your life Monday morning. That's good, helpful, and and true, and and great. It has its place.
And for as many years as I have been in this seat, week in and week out, always try to connect the dots for how this impacts your life, how you can apply the principles in this book to your marriage, to your finances. How does this impact me? Is is what what do I get out of this? Is what a lot of, people when they leave church, what they're thinking about? Well, today, I got, today I end end it's it's valuable.
You happen to be the most important person in the world. You are. You're. You are. Today, I wanna do something a little bit different.
Instead of connecting all of the dots leading to how this impacts your life, I wanna try with my my clenched fist with a crayon, try to draw a picture for you of Jesus and allow the holy spirit himself to just preach the message to your heart today. So I just wanna create a portrait or a picture that we see here in scripture and then let the holy spirit do the rest. Does that make any kind of sense at all? And if it doesn't, it's okay. Let's see what happens.
Ah, well, I I had I I used digital crayons for for the slides. But if you have your bible with you this morning, would you turn to Isaiah chapter 63? Isaiah chapter 63, and we're gonna read just a few verses from the book of Isaiah. Why don't I just go ahead and read verses one through nine. If you do have a question, comment, or connection, the way that it works is if you just raise your hand.
We have a mic in the room and you can you can make your contribution. We ask you to share into the mic so that all of the local families that are here that are gone, I'm so glad they are because it made room for all of y'all, but they get to tune into the livestream, they get to participate in the conversation, and your your voice isn't picked up by the mic in the room, but when you have the handheld mic, then they get to hear your voice. And so that's why we have the mic in the room. Let me go ahead and read a couple of verses to you. Brace yourself.
Verse one, who is this who comes from Edom, from the city of Basra with his clothing stained red? Who is this in royal robes marching in his great strength. It is I, the Lord, announcing your salvation. It is I, the Lord, who has the power to save. Why are your clothes so red as if you've been treading out grapes?
I have been treading the wine press alone. There was no one there to help me. In my anger, I have trampled my enemies as if they were grapes. In my fury, I have trampled my foes. Their blood has stained my clothes for the time has come for me to avenge my people to ransom them from their oppressors.
I was amazed to see that no one intervened to help the oppressed. So I myself stepped in to save them with my strong-arm and my wrath sustained I crushed the nations in my anger and made them stagger and fall to the ground, spilling their blood upon the earth. Turn to your neighbor and say happy Thanksgiving. Verse seven, I will tell of the lord's unfailing love. I will praise the lord for all he has done.
I will rejoice in his great goodness to Israel, which he has granted according to his mercy and love. He said, they are my very own people. Surely, they will not betray me again and he became their he personally rescued them. In his love and mercy, he redeemed them. He lifted them up and carried them through all of the years.
The lord blessed the reading of his word this morning. If you're taking notes, you can write at the top of your notes the title of the conversation that we're going to have this morning. Who is this man? Who is this man? My goal today is simply to just have a discussion about, with my little Crayola words, paint a portrait of the the beauty and the power and the reality of this man and highlight in the book of Isaiah a picture that Isaiah saw that describes a facet of this man's character that you probably did not get in Sunday school.
Leaving us to ask the question that rings in our ears and resonates in our heart. Who is this man? And I wanna we'll see how many verses we we we we get through. But look at verse one. Who is this who comes from Edom, from the city of Basra?
Now if you're familiar with geography, then you know the direction that he's coming from. If you're not familiar with geography, here's a little a little basic sketch map. We have Israel, Mediterranean Sea, what is now modern day Jordan, and then also Saudi Arabia's this region of Edom. It was a a big region, and then he talks about the city of Basra. So if I say for you locals, who is this?
Who comes from Rock Springs? What direction is that person traveling traveling from? Oh, okay. They're coming from the South. They're coming from the South.
Who is this who comes from Rock Springs? Oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna look to the South. I'm gonna look through not Snake River Canyon, but Hoback Canyon. That person. Who is this who comes from Moran?
Where are they coming from? There we go. Okay. So the idea behind this this region and this city is to draw the reader to looking to the East and to the South. Who is this who is coming up out of the desert.
Who is this that comes from Eden? Now look at the words of Isaiah. Do we know if he knows who this person is and he is in a way using hyperbolic language? You know, like when our son Kai comes home from school and he walks in the door and I go, who is that? I know who it is.
It's my Kai boy. But I'm speaking in in hyperbole, in exaggeration, extreme exaggeration. Is Isaiah speaking in exaggeration, or is it a genuine question? I'm not quite sure. However, if I were to say right now, hey who is that?
Look you just looked. Thank you Bethany. Thank you Bethany for that falling right into my illustration. When that question is asked, it draws the reader's attention and focus to consider, well, who is that? That's the purpose that Isaiah is getting at.
Who is this man? Who is this man that comes from Edom? Who is this man that comes from the region in this ancient city of Basra? Basra was a wealthy city. It was a city outside of the region of Israel.
Is he an outsider? Is he one of us? Who is this man? And in the same way that if you were in a group of people and someone said, who is that? And they pointed behind, everybody would look, feel the same effect as Isaiah asks this question.
Who is this who comes from Edom, from the city of Basra with his clothing stained red. We'll talk more about that in a moment. Now Isaiah, he sees a lot of pictures of this figure that for right now, now we will call the Messiah. He's seen many pictures of him before, and he writes down what he sees. So Isaiah in Isaiah chapter seven says that unto us a child is born.
He's seen this messiah as an infant. Isaiah chapter nine describes this figure as a divine royal child. Isaiah chapter 11, we see a picture of his sevenfold spirit. God reveals this messiah as a servant in Isaiah chapter 42. Yahweh's chosen servant in Isaiah chapter 42.
Isaiah chapter 49 and Isaiah 50. Isaiah sees this figure as Yahweh's suffering servant in Isaiah chapter 52 through 53. So we've seen him as a child. We've seen him as a a a prince. We've seen him as a servant, a chosen servant, then we see him as a suffering servant.
And everyone of you are familiar with Isaiah fifty two and fifty three. But now the prophet Isaiah sees a very different picture. And I would suggest to you that the picture that Isaiah now sees that's unfolding that we get to read about is a facet or a glimpse or an aspect that Isaiah was unexpecting and unprepared for. Who is this? Who is this man?
Now I said I wasn't gonna make it about you, but You grew up if you grew up going to church. You grew up learning about Jesus. He feeds the 5,000. He heals the sick. He's tender, lowly, merciful.
He comes riding on the donkey. But this picture of Jesus is very different but has been in your bible all along. I didn't sneak in there last night by your bedside table where your bible should be, phone plugged in in the living room, bible by your bedside table, Brian. Who is this man? There's a a hyperlink that goes off in my brain.
This is worth turning to in Song of Solomon chapter eight verse five. This same phrase is used. It's worth looking at. It's not up here on the screen. Song of Solomon chapter eight verse five.
Who is this sweeping in from the desert, leaning on her lover? Now you need a little bit of context to be able to get the most out of this connection. So in the book of Song of Solomon, there are there are several different main characters. You have the young man, you have the young woman, and then you have the young maidens, the the the women of the city or her her girlfriends. The young woman receives an invitation to go on the spice laden mountains of opposition, hardship, difficulty, discipleship by the young man.
And at first, she says, I don't know if I wanna go up there. That's a place that's lonely, and it's foreboding. It's arduous. It's difficult. In the mountains, people can die.
I don't know if I wanna go up there. And he says, arise. Awaken, my darling. Come away with me. She says, yes.
Everybody sigh. She goes on the journey of love and discipleship onto the spice laden mountains with the young man. There, it's a a beautiful allegory of what Jesus does for the person who can hear his voice and follow his footsteps. And at the beginning, she says about herself, darken my my skin is dark and tan, dark like the tins of Kindahar, meaning that she's been out in the the sun, meaning that she has been a product of the world's systems and been living the life of the world and experienced its ups and downs and heartaches and hardships, and she bears on her body the scars of living in this broken world. But yet the young man says, come away with me.
Come away with me. She agrees to go on the journey of discipleship. And then as she is coming back from this time alone of intimacy with the lord where she's transformed and she comes to this place where she is she says, I am my beloved, and my beloved is mine. As she comes back down from the mountain, from the wilderness place, the young women exclaim in Song of Solomon chapter eight verse five, who is this coming up out of the desert? And now she is leaning on her lover, fully trusting him, fully in union with him, fully in partnership with him.
But once again, we have this language of who is this sweeping in out of the desert like Paul Atreides hopping off of his. Inhospitable. Desert places are haunts for jackals. Desert places, it was believed in in ancient Semitic cultures that the desert was a wasteland and you couldn't cultivate it for crops. There was no water.
It was a place to just skittle through as quick as you can on your way from one well to another. Desert dry places were inhospitable in places where disembodied spirits floated around and dwelled. And here is this figure having survived that, I would say having conquered that, having mastered those dry wilderness places, now comes sweeping into view of Isaiah. We're still on verse one. Who is this in his royal robes marching in his great strength?
Royal robes are for pomp and circumstance and palaces, not desert battlefields. Are the the the words and the language is intended to shock us. Why is he why is he wearing a tuxedo? That's the the most formal thing our western minds can think of. A tuxedo to battle.
Why is she in a prom dress herding cattle? It's supposed to shake us. Who is this in his royal robes? I wrote this in my notes, my little crayon. Oh, how wonderful, how delightful, how beautiful.
Jesus is the king of kings. His robes, his fine robes speak of his majesty, but not just a pristy prince of a man. He's got dirt under his fingernails. His clothes are wrinkled and bloodstained, and his hair is matted with sweat. What is he doing?
He's marching. Now if any of you were in the military, you could say it might be aimless but nobody marches in no particular direction. If you are marching, you have a singular focus. You're you are restrained. You are disciplined.
You know exactly where you're going. Like marching down to the fridge for a midnight bite of shredded cheese that you then fold up and put in the drawer. It's midnight. You don't know. Marching.
Now you're thinking. I want you to think. He's marching. He has purpose, focus. He's not he's not he doesn't come dragging in from the desert barely alive, dehydrated and chapped lips.
He's marching. It's almost as if victory over dry, dusty, barren places increases his strength. He's conquered the desert. He's conquered the wilderness. And here he comes marching.
From other places in scripture, we can see, captives that have been set free behind him. His enemies are also there bound in chains. And with my crayon, I'll add probably stripped naked. No dignity left. We see in other places that as he marches forward, innumerable angels accompany him.
He is the captain of heaven's army. Resurrected saints with glorified bodies march with him. Who is this man? In places like Habakkuk, we can read more about what's happening as he marches forward in his royal robes with his strength. The earthquakes, dark storm clouds pouring down like heavily laden with rain, crashes of thunder.
And I've never seen a spring crocus. It's what the Bible says, but it's like a flower, a wildflower. That in his wake with torrents of rain, remember in dry places, that spring flowers erupt on the hillsides wherever he marches. Who is this man? We're still in verse one.
We get an answer. It is I, the lord. God has a an entomological description, what type of being is he? He is an Elohim among other little e Elohims that are described in the Bible. There's more than one Elohim, but there's only one capital e Elohim.
He is an eternal uncreated. That's an additional separator from everything else in any realm that you could ever go to or travel to. He, Yahweh, is uncreated, and he has a proper name, and it is Yahweh. That is who is speaking. It is I, the lord.
My translation, I'm reading from the NLT says, announcing your salvation. What does it say in somebody's somebody else's translation? I'm just curious if there's some other richness there. I, the lord we're we're still in verse one. I speak in righteousness.
If the native language of the devil is lies, the native language of Yahweh is righteousness. Announcing vindication mighty to save. Finally, we have the question answered. It is the lord. It is the messiah.
The Jews would recognize this as the messiah. When it says announcing, it means to declare, to speak, to promise, but also to command. Not suggesting, not hinting at, not speaking in veiled shrouded parables only for those with eyes to see and ears to hear. This is a command. And notice this.
It is I, the Lord, announcing your salvation. It is I. It is I, the Lord, announcing your salvation. It is I, the Lord, who has the power to save. Set foot on the scene where Isaiah is witnessing this unfolding vision before his eyes.
Stand there with Isaiah as he sees this figure coming up out of the desert, sweeping in from Edom, from the city of Basra, who's mastered the desert and who has beaten the desert, the desert and dry places have not beaten him? Who is this? Stand there with Isaiah as your chest reverberates with the answer from this figure sweeping in. It is I, the lord. Can you feel it in your chest?
Can you feel it as the ground shakes beneath your feet? Now survey the scene. Look all around you. Who else can save? Who else can be the solution to the most difficult problem in the history of this or any other parallel galaxy.
And the critical the the crucial problem is this. God is holy. The Bible says that he's too holy that his eyes can't even look at sin. In him is pure light, and there's no darkness that dwells within him, not even the tiniest sliver of darkness. He's pure light.
His eyes are too holy to look at sin. One. Number two, we are created in his image, and he loves us. He longs to have relationship with us. But number three, we've all fallen short.
There's no one not righteous. No. Not one. For all have sinned. So how does a pure and righteous and holy god embrace sinful man?
You can't separate your sin from who you are. It's interwoven all the way down to your DNA. So how does he do it? Does he overlook it? Does he dismiss it?
Does he maybe he just sweeps it under the carpet. Well, then he would be less than just. He must punish sin. So how does he punish sin without obliterating the man? That requires brilliance that is far above and beyond any human mind could ever figure out.
Not even Grock knows the answer. Only this man only this man. Because as Isaiah saw, he was divine from before birth. He was the suffering servant who died for man's sin was buried, went down to rob the grave of death, has resurrected triumphantly, ascended into heaven, and will someday come again sweeping in from the desert causing all of human history to say, who is this man? And he will command salvation.
All of the self help books that have ever been printed will turn to dust and be blown away like chaff. All of a person's effort and energy and strength trying to earn right standing with God by being a good person will count for nothing. I and I alone, says this figure sweeping in from the desert. Verse two and three, why are your clothes so red as if you've been treading out grapes? I've been treading the wine press alone for no one was there to help me.
And in my anger, I've trampled my enemies as if they were grapes. And in my fury, I've trampled my foes. Their blood has stained my clothes. That is not allegorical. Exactly what that means and looks like.
I don't know. For the time has come verse four. For the time has come to avenge my people, to ransom them from their oppressors. We all love the idea of being oh, I'm making it about you. We all love the idea of of being ransomed, of being rescued.
We all like to be the damsel in distress in the tower. Here comes our prince charming. And the Bible does an amazing job of describing the messiah as that prince charming. But before he kicks open the locked door in the tower in which the human condition was held prisoner by sin, there has not been much discussion about the bloody battle that will be waged at a great great cost to the Messiah that allows him to reach the door. Isaiah saw it.
It's been in your bible all along. Who is this man? I talk about this from time to time, and I hope you never hear this as a negative derogatory thing, but I talk about the difference between immaturity and maturity. In immaturity, people like the ransoming and the rescuing and flowers springing up. Maturity means realizing that it comes at a great cost and in the context of a epic, extremely lopsided, asymmetrical battle where there is a clear winner.
And that in the midst of the chaos and confusion of war, it is in the midst of that that the redeemer strides forward. Let's let me just read the the these last couple verses from seven to ten nine, and then that's as far as we'll go. Your contributions have have been great. I I I take it that you are in I take it that you're in absorb and consider mode that that yeah. Let me just try and draw up my crayons.
I will tell of the lord's unfailing love. Look at verse seven. What? I will tell of the lord's unfailing love? I will praise the lord for all he has done.
I will rejoice in his great goodness to who? Who who is it? You can answer. Who is it? Israel.
Israel. I will rejoice in his great goodness to Israel. Which he has granted according to his mercy and love. He said, they are my very own people. Surely they will not betray me again.
This is, he's not speaking sarcastically. This is this this is a a yet future to unfold image of Jesus. We've not seen this picture of the Messiah yet in in human history. A still to unfold. And when he says they won't, surely they will not betray me again.
He's he's not saying, well, surely after I've cleaned up the living room, the kids won't mess it up again. Yeah. Right. He's saying he's saying, surely, like, you can take this to the bank. He's saying definitively.
That's what he means. They will not betray me again. And as that's happening, he becomes their savior. In all their suffering, he also suffered, and he rescued them. In his love and mercy, remember the description of the kitted up battled I I can't say scarred.
He's got scarred on the cross. He's no more scars. He personally rescued them in his love and mercy. He redeemed them. He lifted them up and carried them through all the years.
As Pontius Pilate said after the scourging of Jesus in the Roman Praetorium before he was crucified. He paraded Jesus out, and in Latin he said, look at the man. Behold the man. Today, behold the man as the picture that Isaiah describes. That's what I got.
Jesus what a powerful name it is the name of Jesus
we're singing that just with your eyes closed just for another minute. I just get this picture in my mind of when I was a little girl and my dad and I were super close. We still are. And my dad is really tender and never raised his voice my entire life. I never heard him raise his voice, maybe once at the cat on the counter, but that was it.
And, boy, but when my dad thought that we were in danger, a different side of my dad came out. It was in those moments I would notice how just so strong and big his hands were when he would have to handle something. And I just the fear of the Lord just comes over me when I sing this. And I just feel like maybe we could just take a minute and maybe even we need to repent of making Jesus fit into some kind of box that we want him to fit into, but that he is almighty, that he is all powerful. And that reverence for his power and awe of him to return.
That it would be in the fear of the Lord that we would be obedient. Even though he would love for it to be in just his loving kindness. Lord, remind us of who you are, both the tender, intimate father and the warrior, the one who goes before us and fights for us and is coming back again.
Jesus what a powerful name it is the name of Jesus you have no rival you have no equal now and forever ago you reign yours what a powerful name it is the name of Jesus Christ my king what a powerful name it is oh nothing can stand against what a powerful name it is the name of Jesus what a powerful name it is the name of Jesus what a powerful name it is the name of Jesus
When we sing that song, like, with a full band, if I'm on keys, if you ever see me doing this,
it's because my body's about to elevate. She's trying to raise
her hands. I'm, like, kinda worshiping my keys. This is such a powerful spirit of that song and the lyrics just be on our heart all the time. Here at Tribe, we talk about how Sunday morning should not be the biggest slice of your Christianity pie. Right?
It's just a time where believers come together as a local family, as a local church. It definitely should not be how's this? There we go. Los simple. Amigo.
So when we come together every Sunday, we worship the Lord in so many different ways. We've worshiped him today by honoring his word. We have worshiped him with our hands raised and our voices, to him, and we worship him again through bringing our tithe and our offering. And here at Tribe, we just wanna emphasize. We don't feel like that's just something you do when you come to church so you can check the box.
You know, I sang I gave, and now I have a good week. Like, it's just one expression of worship to our heavenly father, and it's a really important one because it keeps our hearts calibrated to him. It's not in human nature. Our sinful human nature just to give money away. And we, you know, we're we do philanthropy.
We give. We're generous in every other area. But when we give to our local church, whether it's tribe or somewhere else, practically speaking, you are giving to do the work of the ministry. We went to the mission last night, the Good Samaritan Mission, and actual money paid for the lasagnas we made and the things like that. You know, so it goes to do practical work, but also it keeps your heart calibrated because we say, god, I love you and I trust you.
When I give a portion of my hard earned finances to you, when you're just sending it through a text or giving, we'll talk about how to give like when you put your check-in the box. It's money that is going away and especially at holiday time, we feel like we need it but it is supernatural. It's a supernatural way to keep our hearts calibrated to our heavenly father. So, that's why we give when we're at tribe or any any local church. We bring our tithe and above and beyond that, our offering to him as an expression of worship.
So we're gonna pray together. I just have couple announcements and then we'll get you out of here. But practically speaking, before we pray, if you have a a cash or check, something physical, and you want isn't that weird that there's other versions? For years and years, that was the only thing. The past buckets, and that was digital currency.
But there's a box right here with a little tribe logo, and then downstairs, there's a black lockbox. You can always put cash or check-in there any time of the week. Tribejh.com. There's a giving link, and then the easiest way, and you'll see the instructions on the screen. If you little
bit
little let's a pray together. Where you, whether you're giving now or another time or try it's not your home and you're not giving it all, let's just pray because when you're here, like Olive Garden, when you're here, you're family. So, close your eyes with me. Breadsticks will be passed out of the air. Heavenly father, we love you so, so, so much.
Thank you, lord, that we cannot take ourselves seriously, but we take you and our faith very seriously. You are so worthy of our praise and our worship and our surrender. Thank you so much for who you are and that you are your character and nature never changes. Father, as we bring a portion today or sometime this this week, whatever our rhythm is of our hard earned finances to you, Lord, we just say thank you in advance. Whether we see the fruit of what we give or not, we trust you with it.
We say thank you for putting your super on our natural act. We just love you so much. Thank you that every penny brought in to this local church in this little old mountain town called Tribe Will go to make your name famous, to bring people to you, to draw people to you, Jesus. You are what it is all about. We're just a pile of sticks without your fire that you bring.
We thank you so much for everybody in this room and our hearts. Thank you that you'll help just individually meet it. Thank you that you meet us where we're all at when it comes to giving and other things, father. Just wrestling those things with us and how we can be calibrated to you. We love you.
We trust you and we say thank you for who you are and for what will come of these tithes and these offerings. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Real quick before you go, just like everyone's home, anything that's important is on your refrigerator, so please just take a look at that on your
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out. It's actually, it's all on there. We let's see. We have done the Good Samaritan Mission. That's something we're gonna do.
If you're like, oh man, I missed it or what is that? You can talk to us after service, but it's just where we go and we serve. Last night, we served food and we played music and we chatted with friends. It's the lowest hanging fruit of mission work that we can do right here in Jackson. We also, with the holidays coming up, we have an angel tree gift for local families.
Stay tuned for that. We'll have little tags that you can take. And then just like every year, it's become tribe's tradition. And on Christmas Eve, we have our Christmas Eve service on Town Square. So this year, it's no different.
It'll be at 5PM. It'll be pitch black. It's like 5PM. But yeah. So you can and we and we'll talk about this closer as we get to Christmas, but you never just say, what are you doing for Christmas?
You say, where are you going? When you're asking your friends, where are you going? And then you invite them. Also, I would love for you to come to my house this Thursday for Thanksgiving if you need a place to go. It's on the fridge right there too.
We have a puppy. We need a bigger.
We need a bigger.
Comfort Jesus and then the puppy. Good.
Yeah. The puppy needs lots of attention.
Ladies
Christmas luncheon, Friday, December 12. It's always awesome at noon at the classical academy. How about I just send all this out in a group text? So fill out the con connect card if you're not on the list, and I'll send out all the info.
As we get close to the time for you to leave, we're close to the year end, and I wanna remind you about our year end giving campaign. It is a great time to make that gift write it off on your taxes. You can go to tribejh.com or you can text an amount for your year end giving and in January we're going to be talking more about a new initiative that we're starting with, we're calling our next campaign. We obviously need a new home and we're gonna be saving and giving and working towards that aggressively starting in the new year. And if you have questions on how to spell million, please come find me.
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And I will personally help you with that. Alright? Just before you leave, I need to poke at Amanda just really quick. In your prayer, you were like, Lord, we're just a pile of. I was like where is she going?
Sticks. Sticks. Alright Sticks stand up let me pray for you. Jesus we love you, we love you. We you.
We love you. Thank you for being our redeemer, our champion, our conquering king. Lord as we go into the holidays this week help us to be mindful that you are above and far beyond any desert or wilderness that we may find ourselves in. You're the champion and king over that. I command a blessing over each and every person here today, Lord.
Give us a great week. Give us a great Thanksgiving time. We pray these things. In Jesus name, the strong son of God. And everybody said, amen.
I love you so very much. Have a great week. Eat lots of turkey and remember, you got this.
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