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Isaiah 12 - The Song of the Saved · 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
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  12 and we're going to do the whole chapter today and it's all
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  of 6 verses. So looking forward to this time
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  together, Isaiah chapter 12 and verse #1 we are jumping back
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  into as Isaiah prophecies that just as Israel and Judah had
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  initially been brought from Babylon to the land of Promise
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  and then from Egypt in the Exodus back to the land of
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  promise. That though they would be
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  displaced by Assyria and eventually Babylon and spend
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  those 70 years in exile. God would bring them back in
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  another exodus in which the Messiah would be the one that
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  would lead them in the right way.
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  This root of Jesse, the the branch from the line of Jesse
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  that that line of King David and there would be wonderful joy in
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  the land. That's kind of the circumstances
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  that we've been looking at. And this is where we find
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  ourselves now in chapter 12 and verse one.
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  On that day, that day of restoration, you will say, I
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  will give thanks to you, Yahweh, although you were angry with me,
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  your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.
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  Indeed, God is my salvation. I will trust in Him and not be
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  afraid for Yahweh. Yahweh Himself is my strength
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  and my song. He has become my salvation.
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  You will joyfully draw water from the springs of salvation,
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  and on that day you will say, Give thanks to Yahweh.
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  Proclaim His name, make His works known among the peoples.
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  Declare that His name is exalted.
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  Sing to Yahweh, for He has done glorious things.
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  Let this be known throughout the earth.
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  Cry out and sing Citizen of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel
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  is among you in His greatness. So here it's just a short kind
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  of song of praise. And I want to highlight two
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  things real quick. I know absolutely that Psalm 96
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  is in view here, and that's starting in verse #4 that Isaiah
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  begins quoting that. You can read that in Psalm 96,
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  verses one through 3. Sing a new song to Yahweh.
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  Let the whole earth sing to Yahweh.
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  Sing to Yahweh, bless His name, proclaim His salvation from
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  day-to-day, declare His glory among the nation's, His wondrous
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  works among all peoples. And then I believe that he's
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  also referencing here Psalm 18. Yeah, right about there, that
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  God has become my salvation, the one that I have turned to.
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  Yeah. So all through Isaiah 12, it is
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  not simply that. Isaiah is, if you will, I'll use
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  it. I'll use this phrase.
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  This is not a a necessarily the best way to phrase it.
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  He's not just hallucinating visions of the future.
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  Isaiah is meditating, contemplating on the word of God
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  in the past. So I already talked about
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  Exodus. We've talked at various points
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  in Isaiah 1 through 11 already that Isaiah draws in pictures
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  from the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve, eating of the good
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  fruit. And when you eat the good fruit,
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  you live. When you eat the bad fruit, you
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  die. We talked about that a couple of
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  times here going through the Psalms as he's talked about the
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  one from the line of David that we would read about in Second
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  Samuel 7. Even the prophet Isaiah, when
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  the biblical prophets are, if you will, doing prophecy, there
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  are things that God himself shows them from time to time.
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  But the majority of the work that they are doing is knowing
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  what God has already done and already said and then applying
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  that into the future to say God is faithful to his promises.
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  Therefore, if he said Israel, as they reject the Lord, will go
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  back to the nation of Babylon that they were sent out from
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  initially with Abraham, then God will be faithful to His promise.
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  If God promised that David would always have a descendant sitting
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  on the throne, or David would have a descendant sitting on the
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  throne forever, rather, then God will be faithful to that
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  promise. And if it's going to be forever,
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  we've seen the regular line of David and we even saw David
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  himself in in murder and adultery, the sin that he
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  committed of having a census of the people in order to like
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  establish military might in direct defiance of what the law
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  of God said. So when you look at David and
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  all of his line, you'd go, well, there's no way that God is going
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  to allow this evil to continue forever.
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  And so based on the word of God and the sign that God himself
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  gave, that there would be a manual God with us, that somehow
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  God would become the Son of David and even David in Psalm
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  110 prophecies about that particular thing, that there
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  would be this Messiah, the seed of the woman that was promised,
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  and this one that is even a seed from the line of Jesse and David
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  like it. It's so cool.
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  The Bible all fits together and I I love.
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  I've mentioned here many times the Bible project that the Bible
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  is 1 unified story that leads to Jesus.
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  And on every single page of scripture you can see Jesus
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  either things that are directly pointing to Jesus as the
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  Messiah, as God. Especially in the New Testament
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  you can see what Jesus character is like.
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  As you see the character of God himself in the Old Testament,
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  you can see the things that Jesus would not do, and that
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  thereby informs you about his character as you look at his
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  family in the Old Testament and you go, yeah, Jesus is part of
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  this family, but he doesn't behave in all the ways that they
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  behaved. And he won the battles that his
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  ancestors lost over and over and over again.
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  And so it gives us confidence in Jesus.
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  It means that every time that I read my Bible, I am on a
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  treasure hunt for the King of kings and for the Lord of Lords.
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  I want to find Jesus within the pages Scripture.
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  One of the reasons that I love the Bible project so much is it
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  incessantly draws that line from here's what the passage says,
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  here's the truth that it's communicating and here's how
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  this points us to Jesus. And that is a wonderful mindset
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  to go through. If you're doing like the Bible
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  in a year reading or something like that, that can be really,
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  really helpful, especially as you go through some portions of
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  the Old Testament law as you go through as we are here, the
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  prophets. If you're looking for Jesus, it
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  will make these things come alive.
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  Now you do got to know some of those interconnections and
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  that's why here on Tabernacle talk I spend time trying to
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  highlight here's all of these things being tied together so
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  that you can rejoice with me and man.
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  We can see Jesus in this passage.
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  So Isaiah here is walking through some of the Psalms to
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  rejoice in this future that God has already promised through
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  here, through songs, through praise inspired by the Holy
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  Spirit given to God. And I want to take just a moment
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  and, and walk through these and if you will praise with Isaiah
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  and with the psalmist and with you all this God who is worthy
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  says, I'll give thanks to you, Yahweh.
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  Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and
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  you have comforted me. God's anger towards us is never,
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  if you will, it's never everlasting for the child of
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  God, because as his anger turns towards us, it is to, if you
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  will, rid us of sin in our life so that we would forsake sin,
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  forsake evil, which is what kills us.
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  And instead we turn to God's way, which is the way of life.
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  And there is no anger of God in that way of life.
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  As we walk with him, there's no residual anger.
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  And so the anger of God aimed at sin is turned away.
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  As we recognize our evil in the sight of God, we repent and we
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  walk his way instead. And not only is it that God's
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  anger is no longer honest, but I love there at the end of verse
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  one that it says and you have comforted me.
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  Your anger is turned away and you have comforted me.
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  There's no comfort like the comfort of God.
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  I know in my life there have been times where I had regrets
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  and I had sadness and places like Ephesians one super
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  comforted my heart to know here's who I am in Jesus.
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  Here's what God thinks about me. Here's the value that God puts
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  on my life, not as a result of how perfect I am, but as a
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  result of how perfect Jesus was and because Jesus bought me and
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  I believe in Jesus, that way I can experience the comfort and
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  the joy and the value of God. Verse #2 it says indeed God is
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  my salvation. I will trust Him and not be
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  afraid for Yahweh. Yahweh Himself is my strength
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  and my song. He has become my salvation.
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  The antidote to fear in my life and in your life here is God
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  Himself. It is a trust in His goodness
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  that though not all circumstances are good, God will
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  work all things together for good for those who love Him and
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  who are the called according to His purpose.
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  And so I need to in my life because I don't know if I've
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  mentioned it much on here with you guys.
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  I tend to be a very anxious person as I think about my life,
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  even over, you know, the past couple of weeks there have been
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  different like maintenance things that I wouldn't know
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  personally how to fix. And like I had some mice and
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  chew through a couple of wires on my car.
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  And so how to go get that taken care of.
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  But it was just a very scary situation that I didn't know
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  what the solution would be, but I needed to trust God and say
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  God, I believe that you will take care of me.
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  Or even over this past weekend, my fridge started making some
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  not great noises. And so I'm going to have to get
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  that checked out. But in those moments, I can
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  either choose despair and fear and panic, or I can say God has
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  a plan and God will make all things right in my life and so I
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  can trust in God and not be afraid.
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  I can either say this thing is going to get me or God is going
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  to get me. And I want to have more
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  confidence in my God's ability to rescue than in this broken
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  world's ability to destroy me or to kill me or to strip me of
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  everything that is good in life. I want to believe in my Lord who
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  can sustain me. And then I love how he describes
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  Yahweh. He says he's my strength when
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  when I have no strength, when I don't have enough power of will
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  to, to go through sick situations, Yahweh is my
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  strength. I can say, yeah, I can't handle
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  this. I firmly believe that God can
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  handle this and he is the one that I'm relying on, not on my
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  own will, not on my own bank account, not on my own ability
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  to problem solve. I am relying on God.
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  And God may use my bank account or my will or something to, to
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  accomplish some things, but my, my trust has to be he will make
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  a way when there seems to be no way.
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  And I love that it says Yahweh is my song.
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  He is the one that I am consistently praising.
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  And for people to know me like what's my song?
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  What what's the theme song of Brian's life?
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  My firm prayer is that my song would be God.
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  It would be Jesus over and over again that He is faithful and He
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  is the one to be adored. Verse #3 Isaiah says you will
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  joyfully draw water from the springs of salvation.
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  This is what Jesus was telling the woman at the well in John
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  four said, ask of me and I would give you living water, this
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  water of salvation that is brought from that wellspring of
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  life, who is our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And if you need salvation, if you need forgiveness for your
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  sins, you can go to Jesus and you can find full salvation.
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  And on that day, that day of salvation, we will say, give
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  thanks to Yahweh, proclaim His name, make His works known among
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  the peoples, declare that His name is exalted.
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  God is always worthy of the attention, worship, praise,
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  bragging that we can put on him. So do that.
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  Do that in your life. Do that with your family.
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  Do it with those that you're having conversations with.
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  Brag on the God who loves you, who has given you salvation, who
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  has given you everything in your life, who has given you an
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  eternal home with Him. You can brag on God.
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  You can tell other people about what God has done for you and in
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  you and through you. That would be a good thing to
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  do. Verse #5 Sing to Yahweh, for
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  He's done glorious things. Let this be known throughout the
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  earth. Said 1000 times.
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  I'll say it again, sing. Sing because God is worthy.
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  Don't sing because you have a great voice.
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  Don't sing because perhaps whatever song they're singing on
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  Sunday is your favorite song. Sing because God commands it of
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  you. Sing to the Lord.
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  Verse number six, cry out and sing.
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  Citizen of Zion. That is a one who belongs to the
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  Kingdom of God, for the Holy One of Israel is among you in his
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  greatness. And certainly we can think of
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  God's own presence with us right now and the person of the Holy
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  Spirit that God himself lives inside of me and in you, if you
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  have professed your faith in Christ.
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  And what a joy that that is. God's presence in my life
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  demands that I sing. And one day we will get to sing
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  in the presence of Jesus himself, bodily, this God who
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  became man for us, not losing any of his deity, but taking on
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  to his deity humanity as well. And on that wonderful day, what
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  will it be like to hear the songs?
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  The praises of God come from the mouth of the Infinite Incarnate,
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  Eternal Word from the beginning. I'm looking forward to that day,
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  man. And hopefully, maybe even by the
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  time that this episode airs, Jesus will have come back.
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  But I want to encourage you, if you don't yet know Jesus as your
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  Savior, make that choice today. The Bible says whosoever shall
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  call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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  For with the heart man believeth, resulting in
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  righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made to
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  salvation. So if we confess with our mouth
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  that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that God has
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  raised him from the dead, we will be saved.
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  And that's the word of the Lord. So thanks for tuning in today.
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  We'll pick up next episode in Isaiah 13.