Isaiah 42 | The Servant of Yahweh

Preacher: Joel Fair
Scripture: Isaiah 42

HoR11 | The Servant of Yahweh | Isaiah 42
The Pleasure of the Trinity - VS 1
The Way of the Servant - VS 2-4
I AM YHWH - VS 5-9

Eugene H. Peterson, The Message
"For Isaiah, words are watercolors and melodies and chisels to make truth and beauty and goodness. Or, as the case may be, hammers and swords and scalpels to unmake sin and guilt and rebellion. Isaiah does not merely convey information. He creates visions, delivers revelation, arouses belief. He is a poet in the most fundamental sense—a maker, making God present and that presence urgent. Isaiah is the supreme poet-prophet to come out of the Hebrew people."

James M. Hamilton Jr., God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment
"Great books make great readers, and exposure to lofty thoughts is a challenging and inspiring experience. Loftier thoughts than Isaiah’s, recorded in chapters 40–66 of his prophecy, are scarcely to be found. In these chapters Isaiah draws out the implications of what it means for Yahweh to be the one true God, Maker of heaven and earth, and his expression of these ideas is piercing and transforming. Making one’s way through these chapters is like climbing a mountain: the experience is demanding and exhausting as the air thins, while the breathtaking beauty of the glory of God shines like clear Colorado sky."

C. H. Spurgeon
"My text saith, 'Behold my servant'; and that matchless servant of God is to be beheld—not with the eye of sense, that were little worth, for men saw him in that way, and crucified him; but he is to be beheld with the eye of faith, and this is a noble sight; for those who look to him in that manner are lightened, and their faces are not ashamed. At the commencement of my discourse, I beseech you, dear brethren, to look to Jesus Christ the ever-living Worker. If you have been troubled and fretted by peering into these gloomy times and perceiving nothing that can raise your spirits, I pray you look about you no longer, but look up! There he sits at the right hand of God, even the Father, the appointed man, the glorious, chosen Deliverer. Behold him, and your fears and sorrows will fly away."

Michael Horton, Pilgrim Theology
"'In the doctrine of the Trinity,' wrote Herman Bavinck, 'beats the heart of the whole revelation of God for the redemption of humanity.' As the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, 'our God is above us, before us, and within us.' The doctrine of the Trinity—God as one in essence and three in person—shapes and structures Christian faith and practice in every way, distinguishing it from all world religions."

Isaiah 53:7 (ESV)
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

Matthew 11:29 (ESV)
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Isaiah 53:11 (ESV)
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.

C. H. Spurgeon
"Note well the spirit in which he works. He is gentleness itself, and that always: “A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.” You cannot work in hot haste in this spirit. Gentleness makes good and sure speed, but it cannot endure rashness and heat. We know reformers who, if they had the power, would be like bulls in a china-shop; they would do a great deal in a very short time. But the world’s best Friend is not given to quench and bruise. Here is a bruised reed, and it is of no use to anybody: you cannot even get music out of it, much less lean upon it; yet he does not break it. Here is a smoking flax, a wick with an offensive smell, containing very little heat, and no light; yet he does not put it out…..
There stands the Crucified this day, upon the vantage ground, at the right hand of God, and he surveys the battle-field in calm expectancy until his enemies are made his footstool. Tender towards the weakest of the weak, and kind even to the unthankful and the evil, we may see in all this mercifulness the pledge of his success. 'He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he has set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.'"

Job 38:4–11 (ESV)
4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
5 Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
6 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,
7 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,
9 when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,
10 and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors,
11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?

Isaiah 61:1–3 (ESV)
1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
3 to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.