Tabor Baptist Church

Introduction

• War is a terrible thing
• Explanation
• The reasons for war are often complicated
• Is the world today a better place?
• Examples
• Our verse is not about a God who divides and scatters ...
• ... This is what man does
• ... Our God gathers
• Do you remember the words of the Lord Jesus Christ?
• "Other sheep I have not of this fold ... there will be one Shepherd and one flock"
• Overview:
• Hope for the hopeless
• A Full house from the Nations
• An everlasting Covenant of Peace

Hope for the hopeless

• Judgment is God's strange work - Isa 28
• There was great sin in the nation - examples
• God called the people to repent, [they didn't] and then judgment came
• Words of promise - in the latter chapters of Isaiah
• Isa 56
• Isa 54:7-8
• God will gather His people to Him
• Isa 57:16-18
• God is angry with sin, but will restore His people and be gracious to them
• What is your personal relationship with God like?
• Have you believed in Jesus?
• Have you given your life to Jesus?
• Have you believed what God has said about Jesus?
• Have you followed Him?
• Are you now backsliding or disobedient?
• Is God angry with you because you are practising sin?
• A word of encouragement for God's people
• Even for those who were cut off and outcasts
• If you cry to God, He will draw you back
• Remember the parable of the Prodigal Son
• Think of those whom Jesus met and healed
• Who would Jesus meet today?
• We need to look at ourself and recognise the deceitfulness of our hearts
• We are sinners
• But Christ came into the world to save sinners
• Matt 12:30 - are you with Jesus or against Him?
• There is a hope for the hopeless

A Full house from the Nations

• This is a forecast of what God will do amongst the nations
• The Parable of the Great Supper
• Explanation
• Quote from Spurgeon
• Jesus has a large heart
• Isa 11:12, 43:5-6, 54:1-3
• God desires more and more people to come into His kingdom
• The words of Caiaphas and John
• Example of Peter Scott
• God has purposes for the nations - a full house from the nations
  • Example of Wales and 1904 vs today
  • Example of Brazil and China

An everlasting Covenant of Peace

• God has established an everlasting covenant
• God has given a people to His Son
• God has made a covenant commitment with His Son, who accepted these terms
• Jesus made peace for us on the cross
• Verses:
• Isa 42:6-7
• Isa 55:3
• The covenant of the Messiah through the line of David
• Isa 54:10
• An agreement within the Trinity
• What are we to do?
• Isa 56:4,6
• We are to lay hold of Jesus
• We are to lay hold fast to the Covenant
• Have you done this?
• Have you laid hold of Jesus?
• Have you come to personal faith in Him?