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Study Section 4: Chapters 9 - 10

4.1 Connect.

The Bible says in Galatians 6, that what a person “sows”, he will “reap”. If a farmer wants to
grow corn, he must prepare the soil and then plant corn seeds. Months later, the corn will
grow, and he will be able to harvest a crop of CORN. He will reap what he sows. And most of
the time, he reaps MORE than he sows. Each corn seed produces hundreds of seeds.

What the Bible is saying is that there are consequences to everything we do. If we are kind to
others, kindness will return to us. But if we mistreat others and are greedy, some day that will return to
us in mistreatment and poverty. What you dole out to others will return to you.

Israel during Isaiah’s day rejected God’s leadership in their lives. As a result, God planned to bring
judgment for their disobedience. They were to reap the consequences of their rebellion. Let’s try to
understand this truth from Isaiah’s perspective….

4.2 Objectives.

1. The student should be able to discuss Isaiah’s predictions concerning the coming of the Messiah
as God with us.

2. The student should be able to explain how God uses Assyria to punish Israel, then He judges
Assyria for doing it, because of their motives.

4.3 Chapter 9 - Main Idea: The deity and humanity of Jesus and the nature of His kingdom are
clearly predicted; God’s hand of wrath is raised to strike sinners with judgment. The cross of
Christ is the only refuge.

Throughout history, people have sought a ‘righteous’ form of government. But we know that
there are none who are righteous, no not one.

In every single example you can think of, human depravity has made a truly righteous
government impossible. The pharaohs of Egypt enslaved people to build their pyramids.
Dictators through the ages have left piles of bodies behind them.

During the middle Ages, a theory called ‘The Divine Right’ of kings prevailed. The idea was that no
matter how bad the king may have been, God ‘divinely’ put him there, so the people resigned
themselves to enduring it.

In America, the Revolutionary War was fought to allow people certain ‘inalienable’ rights: life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. Even the hands that wrote those words denied the same things to an
entire group of humanity and kept them as slaves.

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