LOOK TO ME, AND BE SAVED
Text: Isaiah 45
9 December 2012
(I) AN INVITATION TO BE SAVED
“Look to Me, and be saved,
All you ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.” Isaiah 45:22
1. An open invitation
a) To Israel
b) To the ends of the earth
2. Looking up to God for salvation
a) Recognising our need of salvation
b) Returning to God
c) Looking up to God for His promised salvation
(II) THE STRIVINGS OF THE SOUL
1. Ignorance
“Though you have not known Me” Isaiah 45:4d, 5c
2. Conflict
“Woe to Him who strives with his Maker!” Isaiah 45:9a
3. Insolence
“Woe to him who says to his father, “What are you begetting?”
Or to the woman, “What have you brought forth?” Isaiah 45:10
(III) GLIMPSES OF THE PROMISED SALVATION
1. An everlasting salvation
“But Israel shall be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation.” Isaiah 45:17a
2. No disappointment
“You shall not be ashamed or disgrace forever and ever.” Isaiah 45:17b
3. Not in vain
“I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth;
I did not say to the seed of Jacob, “Seek Me in vain.”
I, the LORD, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right .” Isaiah 45:19
4. Fully justified
“In the LORD all the descendants of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory.” Isaiah 45:25
(IV) ENCOURAGEMENT TO BELIEVE IN GOD
1. The LORD (Isaiah 45:1a, 5a, 6c)
2. The Holy One of Israel (Isaiah 45:11b)
3. The Maker (Isaiah 45:11c)
4. The LORD of hosts (Isaiah 45:13e)