Isaiah 7

700 years before he was born, God was letting his people know, this is how I'm going to do it.

Enjoy reading Isaiah 7.

Yeah.

So I, I mean, I think it's fine to suggest that we can describe, you know, different things going on in the text, just like we can say, you know, Isaiah 7 and, uh, Isaiah 36 through 39 are historical narrative or, you know, these are passages that focus on, you know, God's supremacy over the idols, which is, you know, something that we see repeated, and these are passages that talk about the servant.

So I, you know, I know th- I know what Jim is, is saying with that.

We don't wanna, we don't wanna identify it as its own unique genre-

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Uh, but then I think we have relationship here between, um, uh, I have put my spirit upon him and the Messianic expectation established in Isaiah 11:2, when Isaiah says, "A branch...

There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit, and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him." So, you know, one of the things that Peter Gentry notes in his book on, uh, h- how to interpret, uh, the prophets, it's something like that, is he argues that there are kind of matching sections between, uh, the beginning and the end of Isaiah, and that you have these Messianic, uh, prophecies or typologies at the beginning of the book with Isaiah 7, Isaiah 9, Isaiah 11, and then you have these servant songs at the end of the book corresponding to that, and that there's an interplay between these.

So I think what Isaiah describes in Isaiah 11:2 about this Messianic seed who's going to have the Spirit on him is now being identified as the servant who is taking the vo- who's the king of Israel, taking the vocation of Israel in the world, and is going to do what Israel failed to do by bringing justice to the nations.

So no tenacity there, no consistency in the pursuit of a single objective in the life of that particular person.

But what are you, so how is your mind Ought to be Isaiah chapter 26 and verse 3 This is what your mind And this is a person whose trust is in the Lord He will keep him in perfect peace Whose mind is stayed In thee Which means it doesn't go into sever He stayed in thee So what happens to this person is When they are confronted With challenges In what they are doing They enter into the depth of meditation there on the original promise there and the original thoughts that gave them confidence.

As the Bible says, hold fast your confidence, all right, and rejoicing of hope firm onto the head.

But with that, we'll see that they meditate and they start thinking deep in order to find the solutions to that particular thing they are confronting.

God led me to a scripture, all right? See below.

It's a scripture.

If you put Isaiah 7, verse 4.

Let me just read the scripture.