Advent-ish

 Read Isaiah 42 & 49 VIDEO Really take time this week to sit in this passage and slowly go through your notes. It asks a lot of good questions and sets a lot of hard and yet wonderful truths in front of us. Outline for the video  Intro- Don't get ahead! This is not the first time we have heard this warning. Do not approach the Word with the mentality...Oh I have read this before and interject your understanding. Let the word speak and teach. We won't learn anything new if we continue to try and teach the word rather than listen. Isaiah 49: Rare benefit of this passage- we enter into the human struggles of Jesus of Nazareth -truly God yet truly Man- sinless man but not an effortless human life -we read how the Messiah speaks to His Father when ministry is tough -We must see faith as it is- we are the empty handed recipients of it Read Psalm 77: 3,5,10     -can you relate to these verses?      - min marker 3:21-4:42         ...

 Listen or read Isaiah 42 before your press play! Familiarize yourself with the passage. Pick a verse or 2 to either memorize or write out this week. VIDEO 3 The outline of the video to follow along with or print and take notes: Verse 1 Behold or look...at a servant The illustration used for us today would be perhaps someone you overlook, whether it be a grocery stocker or housekeeping. (To which I had to laugh because within our own home, 2 of us do as such for work) God says, this overlooked one, this servants is: Whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom my soul delights. -He is the Servant of God -God upholds Him making it impossible to fail at the task at hand. *Economy of redemption -truly a man representative of a real people Isaiah 11:2 the Spirit of:        -the Lord will rest on Him       -wisdom and understanding       -counsel and strength     -knowledge and the fear of the Lord Ephesians 1 God choosing t...

 Hello!!! Week 2 is upon us! Here is the outline for the video for the week Servant Song Outline and Questions Preparation Part II Video/Podcast Where do you look during spiritual darkness-truly look. What habits might you turn to, what autopilot activities kick in during despair? Prayer: That God can enable us to look to Him always and that we can follow His commands to "look" Isaiah 40:9-52:12 Bookends with the same command - "Behold my servant" --look of dependence, longing towards Christ.  --this is not separate or a sweet phrase but a command. Do I think of looking at Christ as something extra? Another essential place to look is Hebrews 12- Christ the great Author and Finisher of our faith. 12:1-2 LOOK unto Jesus Looking away from, looking to... --Ambrose book: Looking away from things  sin & its enticements dreadful things Determine to look at Christ, determine to look towards the things of God. This is exemplified between Isaiah 40-42 -...

 Hello! This blog for our Lentish series this year will look different. It will essentially serve as a study guide to the videos provided by Media Gratiae so that we can spend time studying into the Word. This series is beautifully done- primarily because of the exaltation of Christ. He is the Crown Jewel as well as the Sacrificial Lamb. We will learn to see him as both and can watch as the prophecies unfold.  Without further explanation...here is the outline for this week! Study along with me?! CONTEXT *watch the video first just to hear it- follow through a 2nd or 3rd time with the outline at your own pace through the week so you can use the outline to take notes.   Context: Order of the 4 Songs This is a picture of Christ! The coming Messiah! Isaiah 42 serves to explain the coming Christ Isaiah 49, 50 build on this Isaiah 53 Is the song of the Cross which builds on the first 3 Essential to this study: try not to interpret the prophet- otherwise you become the teacher a...