Dr. McKellar’s Lesson for November 1, 2020

He Will Carry You!

Isaiah 46:1-13

1. Background

• fall of Babylon in Isaiah 46-48
• idolatry/collapse connection and the future security of God’s people

2. Carried gods (1-2)

• carried as burdens on weary beasts
• carried with their worshipers into captivity

3. Carrying God (3-4)

• command and commitment
• a striking contrast
• comprehensive coverage: from womb to tomb

4. Made gods: burdens void of saving power (5-7)

• clarifying question
• made by human hands: immobile, inarticulate, incompetent

5. The Making God (8-11)

• confrontational command
• declarative rebuke (47:8-10)
• declaring…saying…calling…

6. The Saving God (12-13)

• provision of righteousness for those far from it
• conformity to the will of God

7. So what?

• Because carried gods lead only to collapse, trust the God who carries you.
• “What we revere, we resemble; either for our ruin or restoration.” (Beale)
• “His love, in time past, forbids me to think He’ll leave me at last in trouble to sink: Each sweet Ebenezer I have in review confirms His good pleasure to help me quite through.” (Newton)
• “When man carries his god, the end is destruction; when the true God carries man, the end is salvation.” (Young)
• connection to Christ: 2 Thess. 3:5