isaiah 40:31 sermon

isaiah 40:31 sermon2022/04/25

That is His great legacy to the Church. They are said, in our text, "to mount up on wings as eagles." But they are only painted cloud. Zeal to the soul is what animal heat is to the body. His power is vast and unbounded, and nothing is too hard for Him. Do you remember after His statement of great intellectual and moral truths that make the brain weary and the heart of the uninitiated faint, it is recorded that the Lord Jesus Christ's spirit leapt for joy, and He said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto babes"! And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. Alexander, D. D.)Condition and conductEvan H. Hopkins, B. A.Every river needs a channel; and the wider and deeper the channel the fuller and more copious the stream, provided the waters are inexhaustible. All strength apart from God is derived strength, and is consequently measurable, and must come to an end. The expression "wait upon" is a most felicitous one, because while it includes prayer it means and covers so much more.1. II. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increaseth strength.' To think that we are labouring in vain is the thought that paralyses. IV. We like a little bit of excitement or emotion. H. They wait with patient perseverance. The truth lies the other way! At any rate he found in the matchless wing-power of the eagle a sublime image of an inspiring and God-seeking man. Hidden in that secret pavilion we see things as they really are. By a sudden impetus or effort. ( C. H. Under such circumstances it is that, in the Divine ordering of things, what are called distresses, infirmities, and even great sorrows, are blessed of God to the opening of their nature and to the renewing of their spiritual strength. How is this renewing influence, then, to be obtained? They are willing to receive direction and instruction from Him.3. These are all comprehended in one expression, "waiting on the Lord."III. )The waiting Christian strengthenedH. He stopped running because he was tired. All outward observances, whether private or public, have no meaning, and can have no avail without that conscious voluntary movement of the soul towards God. All this renewal of vitality was the result of waiting on one of those wonderful healthfountains. V. Tymms.As we look back on history we can see positive evidence that the promise of this text was historically fulfilled, and in the eases of the men to whom the message came first. "(1) Thus moved, the believer strives above all things, and in all things, after perfect likeness to his Saviour in personal character. Jones. Home-Life--Preparing for his Life-Work--The Vow of Separation--A Child of the Desert Zacharias and Elisabeth had probably almost ceased to pray for a child, or to urge the matter. Do not books? The picture of Moses and the children of Israel singing, and Miriam and the women answering: a gush of national pride and of worship! WHAT IS THIS WAITING?1. It is often found in persons of weak understanding, and in minds not highly cultivated by refined education.3. SPIRITUAL STRENGTH, HOW IS IT TO BE OBTAINED? It is to keep looking for the answer to our prayers. There had been no heaven-sent sign to assure them that there was any F. The highest strength is not physical nor intellectual, but moral. One man's desires, and therefore his hopes, will go forth in the direction of the pleasures of sense. Our Lord trusted to faith to subdue humanity. 1. Experience has proved that, to a great many souls, public worship is the greatest help they ever get, that it gives wings to their holiest prayers and brightness to their gladdest songs of praise, and that it does bring them nearer to God than any other external agency that they know of. Howells.I. (2) While only the few can thus fly, many can only run. 1. Not to hear the word. V. Tymms.I. The intellect is strengthened by holy exercises upon Divine themes.2. The period of fresh, wild enthusiasms; the season of zeal without discretion, when all sorts of impossibilities are dreamed, all sorts of vain things attempted. It is a religion of conscience, and not a mere effervescence of pious emotion. )The blessedness of Divine serviceD. Is thy walk less with God, thy frame less heavenly? (4) Humility, meekness, peace, and joy may not seem, at first view, to contribute anything to strength, but in truth they are among the necessary elements of this vigour of mind. Although every degree of spiritual strength is a precious possession, and we are not permitted "to despise the day of small things," yet it is the duty and privilege of every believer to aim at high attainments in the Divine life, and to encourage and aid others in doing the same.(A. Among all the doctrines of our holy Christian faith, the doctrine of Justification by Faith alone, stands most prominent. But whatever is done for right is done for God and endures eternally.3. Such a vision restores the heart of faith. They are not. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received at the LORD 's hand double for all her sins. They could not suggest to the prophet his religious thought, but his inspired genius laid them under tribute to assist the utterance of a thought of higher inspiration. A thousand irksome duties become easy and pleasant if we do them with a ready mind, an affectionate zeal, and a happy alacrity. We often say that "knowledge is power": certainly, ignorance of.the truth of God is weakness.2. Men who live far from God are apt to grow sick and weary of the humdrum monotony of their daily life, especially if they have to bear some continuous burden from which they see little hope of escape. And when a contrary disposition is charged upon Israel, the Psalmist expresses it by saying, "They waited not for His counsel": that is, they wanted it not, nor meant to follow it, and therefore would not wait to receive it. So there is no word of truth, but it hath a season and time in which it is beautiful. Just such a well of spiritual force is the Lord Jesus Christ. Presently a new appetite for food was awakened, and a new life crept into my ten fingers; walking became a delight, and preaching as easy as for a lark to sing. All the motives which the Gospel presents before him feed his hopefulness and increase his working power. A. "I can do all things," said Paul, "through Christ which strengtheneth me." "My peace I give unto you," that is the legacy. "The joy of the Lord is your strength. Halsey. 13. But death does not "make cowards of us all." That the principles of the spiritual life within them shall be gradually strengthened and increased.2. Tymms. The boy who never knew what it was to be fagged out at school is not worth much. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth 'Have Ye Not? The national life was restored, and that restoration of national life in the Jews is unique in the history of mankind; you cannot point to anything like it since man walked this earth, but it took place. But the prophet has a deeper thought than this. THE SECRET OF LIFE'S POWER.II. The strength spoken of is a moral, or more properly a spiritual quality. Reviving Grace. The picture of Moses and the children of Israel singing, and Miriam and the women answering: a gush of national pride and of worship! That is the way to finish. But at the last, evil is found to be in its nature only decay. It implies patience. But do something else in between. And when a contrary disposition is charged upon Israel, the Psalmist expresses it by saying, "They waited not for His counsel": that is, they wanted it not, nor meant to follow it, and therefore would not wait to receive it. And it is this that tries our mettle most of all. In the power to endure it. T. Harwood.God: I. There are those who have a premature development of spiritual impulses.. L. Wiseman, B. A. At a certain junction the train by which I was travelling was divided into two parts. Who can bring strength out of weakness? His uncommon bodily strength, therefore, was from the Lord; and when He departed from him, he became weak as another man.2. )The privileges of those who wait upon GodS. We all, therefore, belong to it in one sense or another, and cannot pass out of it.(W. The most vigorous pinion will never reach the sun, but yet it may reach so high that earth-bound creatures shall fail to track its flight, and lose it in the glare of the excellent glory.2. The preaching of John Baptist foretold9. We see the years move on, and the everlasting truth subdue all to itself. He must give up all that he loveth for his Beloved, for Jesus will be loved alone above all things. We are not always faint. But the message of the recuperative power, that you shall mount up with wings as eagles, run and not be weary, and go on and on knowing neither weariness nor faintness, this is the word of inspiration alone. Ramsay.Nothing can give a better conception of the strength and the weakness of human nature, than by comparing what man has done in subduing the material powers by which God has surrounded him, and in providing for his own temporal comfort, and his utter helplessness in those things which relate to the life of the soul. )Untiring progressF. thank you for joining us in our worship service today! Faith is like a spark. If public worship helps you to this direct personal communion with God, I need not say you are bound to attend it; you are sure to do so of your own free will without any pressure. And by which the world is overcome.3. They shall "mount up," etc.(J. My soul! And when He Calls us home, He who sits upon the circle of the heavens, and sees all the sorrow of this world as you and I can never see it, bids us "Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." "My eyes are unto Thee; my expectation is from Thee."3. Poor and barren and diseased must that heart be which has no song of praise to sing, no gratitude to pour forth for past deliverances and for present mercies, which has no emotion of adoring love for a goodness so infinite and untiring. I remember a sunset at sea, where the bosom of each wavelet that fronted the west was aglow with fiery gold, and the back of each turned eastward was cold green; so that, looking on the one hand all was glory, and on the other Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureSalvation Published from the MountainsO Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid: say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! "Every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure. This is different, and surpassing the other. But the prophet has a deeper thought than this. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. THE DEMONSTRATION OR CONFIRMATION OF THIS. Not new faculties of body or of mind; not new opportunities for action, or new fields of enterprise; not so much new knowledge either; not even new desires and affections; but "new strength" fresh inspiration. This man, however, has this double life. There could be little doubt but that from childhood he had often looked upon some of those carved tablets on which men with wings of eagles fastened to their shoulders were common, that he had often looked on those colossal images of winged bulls and lions and men such as may be seen in our British Museum to-day. Comforts the people.Dictionary of Bible ThemesIsaiah 40:314612birds4690wings5763attitudes, positive to God5767attitudes, in prayer8150revival, personal8463priority, of faith, hope and love9612hope, in God9615hope, results ofIsaiah 40:27-316233rejection, experienceIsaiah 40:28-315537sleeplessness8724doubt, dealing withIsaiah 40:29-315057rest, physicalIsaiah 40:30-315178running8145renewal, people of GodLibraryApril 18. And let us take Him to be our continual joy, whose heart is a fountain of blessedness, and who Rev. Paul had had his eagle "flights," but he did not make much of them. Thank God for the flying stage while it lasts, for we do get visions in those flights that abide with us long after our wings have dropped off, and we have learned that the ether is not our element; visions whose memory helps to cheer us as hereafter we trudge along the monotonous and dusty ways of life's hard routine. )Renewal of strengthT. To speak of a man as able to strengthen himself, so as to dispense with Divine aid, is as unreasonable as it is unscriptural As well might you talk of a leafless tree clothing itself with verdure without the vernal sun as well of an enfeebled body recovering tone and energy without the reviving air of heaven. Their strength requires to be renewed, because it is not innate, but communicated. By waiting on the Lord the stream flows into its appointed bed. Despair paralyses. And because the servants of God have gone awfully wrong when it has not been renewed.5. Luther changed the course of the centuries by faith. When I look at what He does for the stars, I realise that His work is done every moment. ''Have ye not known, have ye not heard? This is not arbitrary, but necessary.1. Do not newspapers? If we can bring these two together, what a wondrous thing will happen! III. There is also the heroic courage in speeding one's way as on eagle's wings in defiance of earth-born cries and warnings, and in lofty scorn of earthly interests and pursuits. God never expects more from us than He has already given. ''Have ye not known, have ye not heard? The nature of each man's hopes will be in accordance with his ruling desires, and the amount of his hopefulness will depend on that to which he trusts for the fulfilment of his desires. As bodily health is only found in a well-balanced and healthy state of the corporeal functions, so spiritual strength can only be found in souls into which new life has been infused, and is in vigorous exercise. (2) The eagle soars aloft. The eagle is a bird that soars upwards towards heaven: so is the Christian to mount upwards in holy contemplation. So there is no word of truth, but it hath a season and time in which it is beautiful. --ISAIAH xl. T he particulars of the great "mystery of godliness," as enumerated by the Apostle Paul, constitute the grand and inexhaustible theme of the Gospel ministry, "God manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on John NewtonMessiah Vol. Even when He hides His face (Isaiah 8:17). If not, some other hope will be cherished, for not to hope is not to live. THE SECRET OF LIFE'S POWER.II. Such a vision restores the heart of faith. John CalvinThe Institutes of the Christian ReligionLinksIsaiah 40:31 NIVIsaiah 40:31 NLTIsaiah 40:31 ESVIsaiah 40:31 NASBIsaiah 40:31 KJVIsaiah 40:31 Bible AppsIsaiah 40:31 ParallelIsaiah 40:31 Biblia ParalelaIsaiah 40:31 Chinese BibleIsaiah 40:31 French BibleIsaiah 40:31 German BibleIsaiah 40:31 CommentariesBible Hub. A. The guiding God: or the picture of the leading. THE RESULT. Cf. But the prophet has a deeper thought than this. Maybe in revolutions and bloodshed, for the wheels of God grind inexorably and small. Becoming weak as water, he shall not excel (Genesis 49:4).2. And this is done commonly, in the greatest uncertainty whether the means will prove effectual.2. Something more than the decay of our material flesh is intended here; the carnal mind, the flesh in Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871This Sermon was Originally Printed"Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God." "The joy of the Lord is your strength."III. The preaching of John Baptist foretold9. xl. "The joy of the Lord is your strength. This service must be , (1)Spiritual.(2)Supreme.II. Jones.I. And for them, too, the promise holds good, "They shall renew their strength, they shall walk and not faint." There are divers things which we are liable to faint at, which yet the Scripture takes us off from fainting at. THE HIGHEST STRENGTH IS DEVELOPED IN THE HIGHEST ACTIVITY. art thou conscious of thy declining state? But the margin speaks of this renewal as a change of strength, as if it would remind us of the mansidedness of the grace of God, and its perfect adaptability to our everchanging needs.II. 3. Something more than the decay of our material flesh is intended here; the carnal mind, the flesh in Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871This Sermon was Originally Printed"Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God." "Waiting on the Lord" by prayer has the same effect on them that it has on an empty bucket to set it under a rain-spout. There are many temptations to resist, and many afflictions to endure, and many duties to perform.3. Poor and barren and diseased must that heart be which has no song of praise to sing, no gratitude to pour forth for past deliverances and for present mercies, which has no emotion of adoring love for a goodness so infinite and untiring. And I am bound to say that those who find the least pleasure and the least benefit from public worship are those who do not wait on the Lord in private. --ISAIAH xl. "He is Faithful that Promised." Subject is God's greatness and man's weakness. --ISAIAH xl. And we renew our strength for all enterprise which makes demand on our courage and truthfulness.2. "THEY SHALL WALK AND NOT FAINT." It is precisely because he is not tired that the man of God does not stop. And look at that time when He has the burden of the world upon Him. That Divine help is to be sought by prayer.4. If you and I have this grace, and if we practise it, what may we expect?1. When men come to a higher Christian life they have days of spiritual insight; and those days grow longer and longer, like the days of the coming summer, when the sun goes down later and later, and rises earlier and earlier. II. 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