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Isaiah 9:1-7 - Unto Us A Child Is Born · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  Welcome to Tabernacle Talk. Tabernacle Talk is a Bible study
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  podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD.
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  I'm your host, Brian Self. We hope this podcast encourages
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  you to know Christ, grow in his word, and show his love to
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  others. Let's dive right in.
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  Welcome back to Tabernacle Talk. Today we are in Isaiah Chapter 9
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  and we are just going to do verses one through 7 today.
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  Isaiah 9 One through 7, We have been walking through God's
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  prophecies to and through Isaiah about what would happen to the
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  northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah.
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  The northern Kingdom of Israel had allied itself with its
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  northern neighbor Syria or Aram to attack the southern Kingdom
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  of Judah. God said that that was not going
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  to succeed and instead God was going to bring the nation of
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  Assyria over from kind of modern day Iran, Iraq area and was
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  going to have them come through like a flood and totally take
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  care of Israel and Syria. The southern Kingdom of Judah
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  was not perfect either though, and they would also experience
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  an exile and then an eventual bringing back to the land.
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  So this is a little bit of what we read in the last portion of
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  Isaiah chapter 8. I'm going to read from verse #19
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  getting into our passage today. That way you can kind of get the
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  the full picture. Verse 19 God says to Isaiah,
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  when they say to you, inquire of the mediums and the Spiritists
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  who chirp and mutter. Shouldn't the people inquire of
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  their God? Should they inquire of the dead
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  on behalf of the living, go to God's instruction and testimony.
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  If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no
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  dawn for them. There is no life outside of the
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  Word of God. Verse 21.
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  They will wander through the land dejected and hungry.
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  When they're famished, they'll become enraged, and looking
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  upward will curse their king and their God.
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  They will look toward the earth and see only distress, darkness
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  and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick
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  darkness. These people that only consulted
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  the dead or evil spiritual beings instead of looking to the
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  Lord into His word, they will not experience any good life.
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  Verse Chapter 9. Verse one.
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  Nevertheless, the gloom of the distressed land will not be like
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  that of the former times when he humbled the land of Zebulun and
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  the land of Naftali. That's the northern Kingdom of
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  Israel, he says. But in the future, he will bring
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  honor to the way of the sea, to the land east of the Jordan and
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  to Galilee of the nations. So all of this area that Israel
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  was supposed to have from the Mediterranean and kind of over
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  to the Euphrates or so was the land that God had said to
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  Abraham. This is what they'll have In
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  Deuteronomy, God reiterated, this is the portion of land.
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  And in the book of Joshua, we read that they at that point had
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  all of that land. So God says even though there
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  was destruction and exile, I will bring people back and they
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  will enjoy this nation again. Verse #2 Then kind of a poetic
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  section. The people walking in darkness
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  have seen a great light. A light has dawned on those
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  living in the land of darkness. The gospel authors pick up on
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  this thread and they recognize even Jesus going to Galilee.
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  When Jesus goes east of the Jordan, He doesn't that in
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  fulfillment of this that the ultimate light that Israel
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  needed was not just to be back in the land and to have a better
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  socio economic or a better political environment.
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  What they needed was the light of God himself and of the living
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  Word of God. Verse #3 You have enlarged the
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  nation and increased its joy. The people have rejoiced before
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  you as they rejoice at harvest time, and as they rejoice when
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  dividing spoils. For you shattered their
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  oppressive yoke and the rod on their shoulders, the staff of
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  their oppressor, just as you did on the day of Midian.
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  God has set them free from slavery, and He has destroyed
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  the instruments that were used to harm them.
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  Verse #5 For every trampling boot of battle and the bloodied
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  garments of war will be burned as fuel for the fire.
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  For a child will be born for us, a son will be given to us, and
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  the government will be on his shoulders.
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  He will be named wonderful counselor, mighty God, Eternal
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  Father, Prince of Peace. The dominion will be vast and
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  its prosperity will never end. He will reign on the throne of
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  David and over His Kingdom to establish and sustain it with
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  justice and righteousness from now on and forever.
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  The zeal of Yahweh of Heaven's armies will accomplish this, so
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  want to stop there in Chapter 9. This is the crux of this
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  particular portion of Scripture is God's promises to David and
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  to His lineage that he would have someone sitting on his
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  throne forever. As Isaiah remembers the
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  prophecies of old and thinks about when God renews and
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  returns his people to the land, what is going to stop the land
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  from continually doing the God's people get in, they sin, they do
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  bad, they have to be exiled. OK, I'm going to bring them
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  back. Like what would stop that from
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  being a constant cycle? Isaiah says it must be the son
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  of David, the one who will reign forever.
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  Now I'm going to look in verse number.
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  I forget if it's the end of verse 6.
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  Yeah, it is the end of verse 6. We're going to look at a few of
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  these details and kind of look at all right.
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  Why would Isaiah think that the son of David?
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  Because even if you will, the son of David that's currently on
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  the throne in Isaiah's day, Ahaz is not a good king.
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  He is not a godly person. And So what would prompt Isaiah
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  to give these incredible descriptions about this eventual
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  son of David? Let's begin in the first part of
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  verse number six. He says a child will be born for
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  us, a son will be given to us, and the government will be on
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  his shoulders. So there's going to come one
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  from the line of David that will rule forever.
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  Therefore, he will be a child that is born.
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  He will be a son because he's the king that reigns on the
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  throne of his father David. And it says, and the government
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  will be on his shoulders. He will be the one that is
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  responsible for Israel. It will no longer be those
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  sinful individuals, those wicked individuals that have been
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  reigning over Judah. Instead, there's going to be a
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  righteous 1. And because, if you will, Isaiah
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  saw over the course of several different reigns and kings that
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  none of them were ultimately good enough.
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  None of them were perfect enough to change God's people or to
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  change the direction of the nation into something good.
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  That Israel could continue to be in the land if they behaved like
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  they were during those reigns. And so there needed to be
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  someone who was more powerful, who was greater than any
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  generation of king that Israel had ever seen.
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  Even as you think back to the reign of King David, that yes,
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  he was wonderful guy, man after God's own heart, skilled
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  warrior, sweet psalmist of Israel, but he was also the
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  adulterer and the murderer. So there needed to be someone
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  from the line of David that was better than David.
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  So who could that be? How in the world could you have?
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  This is such a wonderful truth. And even as I'm thinking through
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  and reading through this, what a joy that I firmly, emphatically
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  believe Isaiah believed that even the name of his son,
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  Emmanuel, God with us, was not limited to God's presence being
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  with Israel. Because God had already promised
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  Judah is going to get exiled, so it must mean that God himself
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  would come. Now I don't think Isaiah knew
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  all of the specifics of that for no other reason, or if for no
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  other reason than that the New Testament authors consistently
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  refer to the incarnation as the mystery that was hidden from
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  ages and from generations. But we read in the last portion
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  of Isaiah Chapter 9 and verse #6 that he, this one, the reigning
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  king, will be named wonderful counselor.
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  Instead of being a wicked counselor.
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  He was wonderful. He would guide them in the way
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  that they should go. He would, if you will, give the
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  good advice, the advice to follow the Lord and His way not
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  to pursue his own ends. So he will be named a wonderful
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  counselor. He would be named the mighty God
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  He is 1 I don't know how much of this Isaiah understood as he was
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  writing, but all of these titles together very clearly seem to
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  communicate the exact same truth that we would read in Genesis 3.
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  About the seed of the woman who would be able to crush the head
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  of the serpent. About the one prophesied in
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  Genesis 12. That would be the seed of
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  Abraham, that in him all the nations of the world would be
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  blessed. He would be the one in Daniel
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  seven, that is the Son of man, the Messiah, the one that would
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  reign over all of creation at the throne of God.
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  And so here this child is in fact mighty God.
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  Scripture also calls him the Eternal Father, and he is the
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  one that in the best case, the best scenario, a father is one
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  that loves, that cares, that provides for, that protects.
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  And there would never be a stop to this Kingdom because of what
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  God had already promised to David, that this one that would
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  come from his lineage would reign forever.
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  That we would read in the end of Genesis that there would come a
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  ruler from the line of Judah who would reign over God's people,
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  Israel, and so this would be an eternal and everlasting Father
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  who would consistently care for them.
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  I want to make one note here real quick.
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  This is not declaring that there is not separate persons of the
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  Father, the Son, and the Spirit here, even as this one that has
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  prophesied to be Jesus is being called eternal Father.
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  This is in relation to Israel, in relation to God's people.
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  This is not in relationship to other persons in the Trinity.
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  So though Jesus is eternal Father in his care and love and
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  providing and protecting for us in Jesus's relation to if you
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  will, God the Father that he Jesus is God the Son the father
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  is God the father. So I just wanted to highlight
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  that real quick. If you have any more questions
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  on that like please ask that would be like a great over a
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  meal or over a phone call via video can be kind of hard to
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  make that more specific then it says so he'll be named wonderful
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  counselor, mighty God, eternal Father, Prince of Peace into
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  this war stricken crazy world that Isaiah is prophesying to.
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  They needed someone who would rule and who would rule with
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  Shalom, with rest, with peace, That was there.
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  Verse #7 The dominion will be vast all over the world and all
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  over creation. Jesus will reign, as the old
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  hymn puts it. Jesus shall reign wherever the
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  sun does successive journeys run.
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  His Kingdom spread from shore to shore, till moons shall wax and
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  wane no more, it says he. Oh, and its prosperity will
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  never end. This coming Kingdom in which
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  Jesus rules and reigns will be a wonderful time.
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  There will be overflowing prosperity for every single
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  person says he will reign on the throne of David and over his
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  Kingdom to establish and sustain it with justice and
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  righteousness. That when Jesus comes, he will
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  do everything right and he will reign here on the throne of
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  David. That ultimately the Kingdom that
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  is to come is the continuation of this Kingdom of the people of
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  God. That from the Old Testament,
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  from the line of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, all the way
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  down to David. And that is, if you will, the
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  the nation. Jesus has a national identity.
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  It is not American, it is not British, it is not Canadian.
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  His his national identity is that he is Jewish according to
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  the flesh. Now, I do not have time to go
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  into dispensationalism and covenantialism and all of the
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  various ways in which that might work out, but suffice it to say,
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  the goal of Jesus's Kingdom is justice and righteousness.
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  It is right dealing with God and with others, and that where
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  there needs to be people lifted up and helped, that would
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  happen. And when there needs to be
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  people that are punished, that will take place and Jesus will
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  do that forever. And then what's the promise
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  like? Why should anyone believe that
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  God will send this child, This son says the zeal of Yahweh, of
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  heaven's armies will accomplish this.
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  It is God's passion that gave us Jesus.
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  Jesus was not a reluctant gift from the Father.
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  Instead, Jesus delighted to come for the joy that was set before
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  him. And the Father eagerly gave the
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  Son so that we who were formerly enemies of God, that we were
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  alienated from him. We didn't seek him.
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  We could be brought near by the blood of Christ.
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  And what a joy. I hope that even as you know, I
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  talked through some of the various aspects of who Jesus is
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  and the coming Kingdom, that you have surrendered your life to
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  Jesus. If you have never turned the
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  keys of your life over to God to say God.
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  I, I believe in Jesus and who he says that he is.
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  I believe that he died, that he was buried, that he rose again.
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  And I believe that he wants to be in charge of my life, and I
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  will let him be in charge of my life.
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  Now, if you have never surrendered to Jesus, today can
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  be the day that you do so. And he is a very, very good and
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  worthy God. He's the one that loves, that
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  cares, that protects, that provides.
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  And so there is no better, there's no better life than a
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  life lived with this one, this coming king.
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  And I look forward to to the day in which he returns and
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  everything is made right and he establishes his throne with
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  justice and righteousness forever.
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  Thanks for tuning in and I hope that you have a wonderful day.