722 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 2 Book - The Chosen Nation Redeemed - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 61 THE CHOSEN NATION REDEEMED - PART 2 ISAIAH 42:8 – 45:3 You have to determine what the Word of God says. Isaiah 42:17b-19a "…Ye are our gods. Israel. Isaiah 42:19b-21 Who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD’s servant? They’ve got the Torah. They’ve got the temple. They’ve got the priesthood. Isaiah 42:22-25a The Lord did in chastisement. Isaiah 42:25 "Therefore he hath poured upon him (that is the nation of Israel, now. We’re referring to it as Jacob or Israel.) Here Paul is referring back to Elijah. Now, remember Elijah lived 200 years before Isaiah. Now, get your timeframe, again, that at 2000 BC you’ve got the call of Abraham, you’ve got the beginning of the nation of Israel. King David rules about 1000 BC, halfway between Abraham and the cross. All right, look how Paul refers to it, then, in Romans chapter 11. Romans 11 verse 2, where Paul says: Romans 11:2a "God has not cast away his people, whom he foreknew…." God hasn’t cast them away. Romans 11:2b-4 (Now, verse 4, but Paul reminds us:) 4. But what saith the answer of God unto him? A pagan idol. All right, now then Paul brings it on up to his own day and time. Romans 11:5 All right, now drop down to verse 7. Romans 11:7 All right, now, let’s just move on into chapter 43. Again, God is going to constantly remind the Nation of Who He is. God is just sort of a passing thought. Well, Israel was no different. Isaiah 43:1a Here we’ve seen Israel steeped in idolatry. "But now" we’re going to see the real God, not the god of wood and stone, but the God of Creation. Isaiah 43 1a "But now, thus saith the LORD who created thee, O, Jacob, he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have (what?) redeemed thee,…" All right, so "I have redeemed thee." Now, that’s the beginning of the nation of Israel. Joseph. Ishmaelites. All right, so Joseph gets sold into slavery and he ends up down in Egypt. All right, now a lot of people can’t comprehend this. God lost them. Now, when God loses something like He lost the human race when Adam sinned, what does God have to do to get them back? All right, now you’re back there in Egypt and God has lost the nation, but they’re still increasing in population. God is going to be watching over them, don’t think He won’t. Redemption. Now, how is He going to redeem the nation of Israel? When you’ve heard me teach Exodus, I always made the point that it has never changed, God’s plan of redemption has three things: it takes the blood, it takes an individual, and it takes the power of God. God does. Jesus Christ was the person that God saw fit to be the deliverer and then at Resurrection morning it was the power of God that delivered it and brought the whole plan of Redemption to its completion. All right, so for Israel then, God redeemed them when He brought them out of Egypt. All right, now then let’s go back to Chapter 43:1. "…Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by my name, thou art mine. 3. For I am the LORD thy God, I am the Holy One of Israel, thy (what?) Now, this is God speaking with regard to His beloved, chosen people. If God was such a God of love why did he permit His chosen people to suffer and suffer and suffer? Isaiah 43:5a Sound familiar? "Fear not: I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." Isaiah 43:5-6a Sound familiar? They’ve been scattered into the nations of the world. All right, reading on in verse 7. Isaiah 43:7a All right, verse 8. Isaiah43:8 "Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears." Physically they’ve got ears. Physically they’ve got eyes. Deaf and blind. People have got ears to hear. Isaiah 43:9a Who among the Children of Israel has the knowledge that their God has? All right, now Israel is the same way. All right, read on, verse 10, oh, I’d better finish verse 9. Isaiah 43:9 Truth. What’s truth? The Word of God. Everything else becomes just so much vapor, it just disappears, but the Word of God is truth. Isaiah 43:10a "You are my witnesses, (God says to Israel. They alone had a knowledge of the One True God) saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen:…" Servant. Isaiah 43:10b-11 All right, reading on, verse 12. Isaiah 43:12 "I have declared, and have saved, and I have showed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God." That was Israel’s role. Isaiah 43:13-15 15. I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your (what?) King." You remember?) King." Oh, indeed He’s Israel’s King. All right, verse 16 and our time is running out. Isaiah 43:16-17 The God of Glory! Israel’s God as a chastisement for their idolatry. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible