The Righteous Live By Faith (Isaiah 36-37) Saraland Sermons - saralandchristians.com
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The Bible is full of discouragements, griefs, and losses. We aren’t promised an easy life. If we live long enough, we will experience unexpected heart breaks and situations more difficult than we can imagine. In the midst of that, we have a choice to make. We have to decide what we are going to do. If you have ever been in one of those difficult situations, you might have been unprepared, thinking, “How will I get through this?” We might try many different things. But I want us to know how to handle those situations before they happen. I want us to see the path ahead as clear as day so that, even though we are looking through tear filled eyes, we don’t have anxiety about what the next step will be.
Today, we will be looking at the story of Hezekiah and Jerusalem. This story is a beacon of hope, reminding us that the righteous live by faith. Not a faith that is blind to reality, but one that sees beyond the immediate, to the God who promises, the God who delivers, and the God who saves. Today, I would like for us to study, not just this story of the siege and how God overcame the enemy. But I want us to learn anew what it means to say, "The righteous shall live by faith." I also want us to see the implications of these events on our lives.
The Challenge to Faith
Isaiah 36:1–10 (ESV) — 1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 2 And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer’s Field. 3 And there came out to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder. 4 And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? 5 Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me? 6 Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 7 But if you say to me, “We trust in the Lord o
The Bible is full of discouragements, griefs, and losses. We aren’t promised an easy life. If we live long enough, we will experience unexpected heart breaks and situations more difficult than we can imagine. In the midst of that, we have a choice to make. We have to decide what we are going to do. If you have ever been in one of those difficult situations, you might have been unprepared, thinking, “How will I get through this?” We might try many different things. But I want us to know how to handle those situations before they happen. I want us to see the path ahead as clear as day so that, even though we are looking through tear filled eyes, we don’t have anxiety about what the next step will be.
Today, we will be looking at the story of Hezekiah and Jerusalem. This story is a beacon of hope, reminding us that the righteous live by faith. Not a faith that is blind to reality, but one that sees beyond the immediate, to the God who promises, the God who delivers, and the God who saves. Today, I would like for us to study, not just this story of the siege and how God overcame the enemy. But I want us to learn anew what it means to say, "The righteous shall live by faith." I also want us to see the implications of these events on our lives.
The Challenge to Faith
Isaiah 36:1–10 (ESV) — 1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 2 And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer’s Field. 3 And there came out to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder. 4 And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? 5 Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me? 6 Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 7 But if you say to me, “We trust in the Lord o