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After months in Isaiah, we reach the passage the whole book has been building toward. The fourth Servant Song (Isaiah 52:13–53:12) answers how God will make scarlet sins white as snow: the Servant is pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities, and raised to make many righteous.

Israel cried out for God to wake up and save. God answered by telling them to wake up. Isaiah 51:9 through 52:12 shows the Lord comforting his people, removing the cup of his wrath, and publishing his salvation to the ends of the earth. The sleeper is not God.

Our deepest problem is spiritual deafness. Isaiah 50 presents the Servant who heard God perfectly and obeyed him fully, giving his back to the strikers and his face to the spitters. Because he was vindicated, all who hear and obey his voice are sustained by promises that outlast the world.

Zion cried that God had forsaken her. In Isaiah 49:14–50:3, the Lord answers: he desires to redeem, he is able to redeem, and her exile came from her own sin, not his abandonment. The question left is whether we will answer when he calls.

In this second Servant Song, we hear the "new things" God promised to announce: the coming of the Servant of the Lord. He is called from the womb, his mouth made like a sharp sword, and though his labor will seem to be in vain, the Lord commissions him as a light to the nations, that his salvation may reach to the end of the earth. In this message from Isaiah 49:1–13, we marvel at the Servant's calling, his commission, and his covenant, all fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now is the day of salvation! May we respond with exuberant worship and proclaim this good news to the nations.

Israel came back into the land, but wherever they went, they took themselves with them. A change of address does not change the heart. So why does the Lord keep such an obstinate people? He tells them plainly: for his own sake. And in his zeal for his own glory lies our only hope.

In this sermon, Pastor Justin preaches from Isaiah 47, where proud Babylon — boasting "I am, and there is no one besides me" — is brought down to sit in the dust. Her fall exposes every proud heart and points to our only hope: Christ the Redeemer.

Pastor Justin Deeter preaches from Isaiah 46.

A century before it happened, God named Cyrus of Persia as the king who would send his exiled people home. In Isaiah 44:24–45:25, Pastor Justin shows how this stunning prophecy proves the Lord alone rules history — and how the God who wielded a pagan emperor now calls all the ends of the earth to turn to him and be saved through Jesus Christ.

Pastor Justin Deeter continues the study of the book of Isaiah from Isaiah 44:1–23.

Pastor Justin Deeter continues the study from the book of Isaiah from 42:18–43:28.

Pastor Justin Deeter continues the study of the book of Isaiah by expounding the first servant song in Isaiah 42:1–17.