Christmas Series
Foundation Installation
Isaiah 28:14-16
1. Setting
• start of a series of “woe oracles” (Isa. 28-33)
• more than 700 years before the first Christmas
• more than 700 years before the first Christmas
2. Error 1-13
• Ephraim’s drunken pride
• trusting everything except the LORD
• case of misplaced confidence
• trusting everything except the LORD
• case of misplaced confidence
3. Exposure 14-29
• rebuke of Jerusalem’s leaders
• the scoffing of spiritual cynics
• weakness revealed by crisis
• the scoffing of spiritual cynics
• weakness revealed by crisis
4. Antidote 14-16
• foundation stone in Zion (Rom. 9:33, 1 Pet. 2:6)
• proven, precious and permanent
• settled and not scrambled
• proven, precious and permanent
• settled and not scrambled
5. So What?
• Because God exposes the folly of human pursuit of ultimate security, heed His warnings and hope in His Son.
• Only the installed foundation can bear the weight of reality.
• What particles of panic do you need to discard this Christmas season?
• connection to Christ and NT: 1 Cor. 3:10-15
• “And we will never face life alone now that God has made Himself known, Father and Friend with us to the end, Emmanuel!” (Steven Curtis Chapman, “Our God Is with Us”)
• Only the installed foundation can bear the weight of reality.
• What particles of panic do you need to discard this Christmas season?
• connection to Christ and NT: 1 Cor. 3:10-15
• “And we will never face life alone now that God has made Himself known, Father and Friend with us to the end, Emmanuel!” (Steven Curtis Chapman, “Our God Is with Us”)