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Isaiah 42

Sermon Outline:

  1. The Lord has a Chosen Servant who He delights in
  2. The Lord’s Servant gently and surely brings His law to all nations
  3. The Lord’s Servant is given as a covenant to the blind of all nations
  4. The Lord does not share His glory but shares the enjoyment of it
  5. The Lord’s Servant brings a new song of joy and long-awaited justice
  6. The people of God are a blind servant
  7. The Lord delights to show His law through His servant


Family Discussion Questions:

  1. How do we know that the servant of verses 1-9 is the Lord Jesus?
  2. Why did God give us His law?
  3. How does Jesus bring the Law gently?
  4. How does Jesus bring the Law surely?
  5. How are blindness, deafness and imprisonment used by Isaiah to speak of the salvation the Servant of God will bring?
  6. How do the images of childbirth and a mighty warrior explain the patience of the Lord in bringing
    justice to the earth?
  7. What does it mean that the Lord does not give his glory to another?
  8. Explain what “glorification” means and how it fits with verse 8
  9. What does this passage have to say to a person who belongs to the church and whose confidence is in his own law-keeping?
  10. What does this passage have to say to a person who belongs to the church and who isn’t
    interested in keeping God’s commands?
  11. How does covenant headship explain that both Jesus and His covenant people are called “my
    servant” by God?