Immanuel Lutheran High School, College, and Seminary
Eau Claire, WI

2008-02-28 ILC Chapel — God has given numerous signs…

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God has given numerous signs and promises. Let us trust in the LORD and believe His promises for they are sure.

 

Date : 2008-02-28
Speaker : Seminarian Scott Schiermeister

Isaiah 45:20–25 (Listen)


20   “Assemble yourselves and come;
    draw near together,
    you survivors of the nations!
  They have no knowledge
    who carry about their wooden idols,
  and keep on praying to a god
    that cannot save.
21   Declare and present your case;
    let them take counsel together!
  Who told this long ago?
    Who declared it of old?
  Was it not I, the LORD?
    And there is no other god besides me,
  a righteous God and a Savior;
    there is none besides me.


22   “Turn to me and be saved,
    all the ends of the earth!
    For I am God, and there is no other.
23   By myself I have sworn;
    from my mouth has gone out in righteousness
    a word that shall not return:
  ‘To me every knee shall bow,
    every tongue shall swear allegiance.’1


24   “Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me,
    are righteousness and strength;
  to him shall come and be ashamed
    all who were incensed against him.
25   In the LORD all the offspring of Israel
    shall be justified and shall glory.”

Footnotes

[1] 45:23 Septuagint every tongue shall confess to God

(ESV)

Hymn: TLH 366, st. 1: One Thing’s Needful

Hymnary.org Organ Audio

1. One thing’s needful; Lord this treasure
Teach me highly to regard;
All else, though it first give pleasure,
Is a yoke that presses hard.
Beneath it the heart is still fretting and striving,
No true, lasting happiness ever deriving.
The gain of this one thing all loss can requite
And teach me in all things to find true delight.