The Picture In Isaiah 2
Categories: Sermon Outlines, Textual Sermon Outlines, Topical Sermon OutlinesIntroduction:
1. Isaiah 2:1-4. A very striking picture of the church, from 700 BC.
2. Old Testament prophecies tell us much, later to be seen in fulfillment in the New Testament.
I. First, A Point Or Two About The Prophets And Their Prophecies.
A. Men sent to their own generation to teach, warn and rebuke as to the sins of the day; they emphasized a RETURN TO GOD!
B. They kept alive the picture of the coming Messiah and His kingdom — “they … showed before the coming of the Just One…” (Acts 7:52).
II. In Isaiah 2 We Have One of the Best-Known, And Fuller, Pictures Of The New Testament Order Of Things.
A. Isaiah, one of themost-cited Old Testament Prophets in the New Testament.
B. Thus, called the “Messianic” prophet.
C. Isaiah is the one to speak of the coming Lord (9:6), His government (9:7), His virgin birth (7:14), and His being the suffering Servant (Isa. 53).
III. Now, The Picture In Isaiah 2.
A. A picture of the New Testament Age.
1. In “the last days” (v. 2).
2. The days in which God’s son speaks (Heb. 1:1-2).
3. Peter sees fulfillment of Joel — Acts 2:17.
B. A picture of The Church Of The Lord (v. 2).
1. The “mountain of the Lord’s house to be established” yet, such already existed in Israel — in Judah, in Jerusalem.
2. Something yet future, then, to be exalted.
3. We see the church pictured as the Lord’s house (1 Tim. 3:15), and those making up the church called the temple of God (1 Cor. 3:9 — God’s building; v. 16, the temple of God).
C. A picture of That To Embrace All Nations (v. 2).
1. The Old Testament system for the Jews — Gentiles excluded.
2. Isaiah, writing under the system only for the Jews, then points to God’s great future house, and “all nations shall flow unto it” (v. 2)
3. The Great Commission thus embraces the thought — the whole world (Mark 16:15-16), and salvation (Rom. 1:16). “Other sheep” — not of the Jewish fold (John 10:16).
D. A picture of a New Law, Going From Jerusalem (v. 3).
1. Many people (all nations) to go and learn the will of the Lord. A law will go forth from Zion (and not Sinai) — the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
2. Acts 2, the gospel proclaimed in the name if the resurrected Lord.
E. A picture of the Rule Of Peace (v. 4).
1. Jesus, Prince of Peace (Isa. 9:6).
2. Bringing peace to men, and turning men to peaceful endeavors. A warfare, to be sure (2 Cor. 10:3-5), but one spiritual in nature.
Conclusion:
1. Men are added to that kingdom, the church, upon obedience (Acts 2:47).
2. Faith, repentance, confession, and baptism are the terms upon which one can come to, and into, that kingdom.