Week 2!
Hello!!! Week 2 is upon us! Here is the outline for the video for the week
Servant Song Outline and QuestionsPreparation Part II
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
--The immense and incomprehensible God is coming to save us
-Chapter 40 is telling us about the God who is coming to save us
40: commands us to look at God
42: look @ His Servant
Chapter 41 to look or behold 2 places
1) 41:24 stop and take a long and serious look at the idols of your heart.
*pause here, Truly take time today, tomorrow, however long- what idols take your heart or hold your gaze- what causes you to look away from Christ? What has crept in, or have you drifted towards?
-41:29 look at those who make their idol...the idolater.
Every person begins to reflect & look like the image of the idol they have fashioned
**What is our measuring rod, influence, motivation and what fashions our heart? What money all the way to works based righteousness within the church---our idols may look differently but they are idols just the same if our motivation and our measuring stick is not the Word.
Prayer and plea for the week: God, whatever it costs, I will look away from every foul thing and even the nice things and I will turn my heart's longings and all of its hopes upon your Son as revealed here, in your Word.
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