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Peace, and No Peace

God's salvation is for those who trust in Him.

Promise and Rebuke: Isaiah 56, 57 (7)

Pray Psalm 22.27, 28.
All the ends of the world
Shall remember and turn to the LORD,
And all the families of the nations
Shall worship before You.
For the kingdom is the LORD’s,
And He rules over the nations.

Review Isaiah chapters 56, 57.

Reflect.
1. In these chapters, for whom does God intend His coming salvation? 

2. Who may not expect to benefit from the salvation of God?

Meditate.
In these two chapters, God continues the theme of expanding His salvation to incorporate the Gentiles. Those who are near (Jews) and those who are far (Gentiles), if they will come humbly to God, seeking His mercy and grace, they will know revival and salvation.

But the leaders of Israel, and all those like them who prefer idols to God, who will not repent from their wicked ways, and who seek to justify themselves by their own righteousness and works – all these will fail of God’s salvation, and they will not know the way of peace.

God’s people must endure a trial in Babylon, soon to begin. But He does not want them to languish there. Rather, He calls His faithful people to look past their trial, to recall His promises to the fathers, and look forward in faith to the coming of His Servant and that great day of salvation.

That’s true for us as well. We have received a great salvation, but a greater measure of it is coming with the return of God’s Servant. We need to be preparing for that great day even now, even in the midst of this secular and unbelieving age. Thus we may know the peace of God now and forever.

Prepare.
1. What is your approach to growing in the great salvation of our Lord?

2. In some ways, our lives here and now are a bit like Israel’s experience in Babylon. Explain. What should we be doing?

3. What’s your primary takeaway from Isaiah 56 and 57?

The church itself is the mountain … we are going to rise again, and we shall be the holy mountain of God. On this mountain dwells whoever has given himself to God. “But those who have given themselves to me shall possess the land and inhabit my holy mountain.” Augustine (354-430 AD), Sermon 45.3-5

Help me to grow in Your salvation Lord. Grant that today I may…

Pray Psalm 22.26-28.

Celebrate with the Servant – our Lord Jesus Christ – the salvation God is bringing to the world, and commit yourself to talking with someone about that salvation today.

Sing to the Lord.
Psalm 22.26-28 (Darwall: Rejoice, the Lord is King)
The suff’ring King shall eat and praise with us the Lord.
Forever we His praise repeat and trust His Word.
Praise God above, all you who keep His vows and who His mercies love!

All nations shall repent and hasten to the Lord;
All those to whom His truth is sent shall praise His Word.
The Lord is King!  His sovereign rule on high now we His people sing!

T. M. Moore

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Except as indicated, Scripture taken from the New King James Version. © Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. All psalms for singing adapted from The Ailbe Psalter. All quotations from Church Fathers from Ancient Christian Commentary Series, General Editor Thomas C. Oden (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2006).All psalms for singing are from The Ailbe Psalter (available by clicking here).

T.M. Moore

T. M. Moore is principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He and his wife, Susie, make their home in the Champlain Valley of Vermont.
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