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

2013-10-15 ILC Chapel — God is qualified to be…

2013 Chapels -
God is qualified to be in charge and has redeemed us.

 

Date : 2013-10-15
Speaker : Steven Sippert

Isaiah 45:18–22 (Listen)


18   For thus says the LORD,
  who created the heavens
    (he is God!),
  who formed the earth and made it
    (he established it;
  he did not create it empty,
    he formed it to be inhabited!):
  “I am the LORD, and there is no other.
19   I did not speak in secret,
    in a land of darkness;
  I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
    ‘Seek me in vain.’1
  I the LORD speak the truth;
    I declare what is right.


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.

Footnotes

[1] 45:19 Hebrew in emptiness

(ESV)

Hymn: WS 775, st. 1,3,4 :
Thy Strong Word

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