The God Who Sees

Prelude
Our God Saves

Greeting

Opening Song

The Same Love

Welcome

Invocation

Worship In Song

Responsive Reading WS 76 (no. 58)
Let us call to mind the reason for our hope: Because of the Lord’s great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”

The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quitely for the salvation of the Lord.

- from Lamentations 3:21-26

I Will Wait For You

Run To The Father

Pastoral Prayer

Offering

Christ The True And Better

Announcements

Scripture Reading

10 For the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep.
He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries.

11 All the future events in this vision are like a sealed book to them. When you give it to those who can read, they will say, “We can’t read it because it is sealed.” 12 When you give it to those who cannot read, they will say, “We don’t know how to read.”

13 And so the Lord says,
“These people say they are mine.
They honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
And their worship of me
is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote.[a]
14 Because of this, I will once again astound these hypocrites
with amazing wonders.
The wisdom of the wise will pass away,
and the intelligence of the intelligent will disappear.”

15 What sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the Lord,
who do their evil deeds in the dark!
“The Lord can’t see us,” they say.
“He doesn’t know what’s going on!”
16 How foolish can you be?
He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you, the clay!
Should the created thing say of the one who made it,
“He didn’t make me”?
Does a jar ever say,
“The potter who made me is stupid”? —Isaiah 29:10-16

15 This is what the Sovereign Lord,
the Holy One of Israel, says:
“Only in returning to me
and resting in me will you be saved.
In quietness and confidence is your strength.
But you would have none of it. —Isaiah 30:15

Message: Doug McHenry

Place your own notes here:

“For the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries.” —Isaiah 29:10

Why did the Lord close the eyes of the prophets?

They stopped

and spoke

Reveal Answer

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message.

What did the Lord do?

He gave them over to spiritual

and

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.

What was the result?

and paucity of

Reveal Answer

“These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote.” —Isaiah 29:13

“The wisdom of the wise will pass away, and the intelligence of the intelligent will disappear.” —Isaiah 29:14b

What was the cause?

and

Reveal Answer

’The Lord can’t see us,’ they say. ‘He doesn’t know what’s going on!’” —Isaiah 29:15b

“Should the created thing say of the one who made it, ‘He didn’t make me’? Does a jar ever say, ‘The potter who made me is stupid’? —Isaiah 29:16

Lesson #1

The Creator always

better than the created.

“This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “Only in returning to me and resting in me will you be saved. In quietness and confidence is your strength.” —Isaiah 30:15

Lesson #2

Only in

and

Reveal Answer

is salvation found.

The people of Israel had stopped trusting in God, and relied upon their own understanding. As a result, they lost their way…and they lost their freedom.

Question:

Is there an area of your life in which you are leaning upon your own understanding?

Takeaway

The key to joy is to

and

Reveal Answer

.

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Song of Response

Benediction