Partakers Christmas Thought 10 December 2021 – Christmas 13

Partakers Christmas Thought

10 December 2021

Looking Ahead to Christmas – Part 13

1 ‘Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters;
and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labour on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a ruler and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendour.’ 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

(Isaiah 55:1-7)

Recently we looked at the City of God which is to come. It will be a time where all those who have accepted God's invitation into relationship with Him through Jesus Christ, will live and worship the Lord God Almighty for ever! Who is this invitation for? This invitation to join is to all people of all races and nationalities! But they have to respond to the call! Have you responded to this call? It is still not too late!

“Come”, cries Almighty God through the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 55:1). Come! The gates to my City are open to all who believe! There is no entry charge, its free! This food is free for all! What is this food? It is mercy and pardon. Mercy from God and pardon for sin for all those who respond to the call God has put out. The invitations have been sent! Have you accepted this invitation yet?

This is the everlasting Covenant (Isaiah 55:5-6) or the new Covenant we have talked about and was proclaimed by other prophets such as Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Just as each of the previous covenants had a symbol to authenticate the agreement, so does this! Noah’s covenant had the rainbow, Abraham had circumcision and Moses had the sprinkling of blood. This new and everlasting Covenant will also have a sign! The sign is disclosed in Isaiah 55:13 as an everlastingly transformed universe! Amazing! This is the climax of Isaiah so far! Therefore, the Messiah Servant must suffer in Isaiah 53! This new everlasting covenant does not cancel the other covenants, but rather fulfils them. The result of the Messiah Servant’s work will be everything that Almighty God has promised, and all promises of God will find their Amen in the Servant.

In the podcast today we continue looking ahead to Christmas and its consequences, by seeing what the prophet Isaiah had to say concerning the God’s invitation to the world via the coming Messiah and an everlasting Covenant between God and humanity! How does Isaiah talk of this Covenant? What are the details of this everlasting Covenant? How does this relate to the future promises of God? What relevancy does this have with Jesus Christ?

 

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