Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. — Hebrews 13:17 (ESV)
There is a day coming when death will be no more. No more pain and crying, no more death and separation. We long for that day, but as we wait we must not be idle.
In this message on Isaiah 23, Isaiah gives his final oracle about the nations around Judah. Tyre and Sidon are places of commerce. But their importance as merchants could not save them from the judgement of God.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to have joy, but there is a time and a place for everything. In today’s sermon we look at Isaiah 22, and will explore the coming judgement of Jerusalem.
While this world may seem to have all the answers, and while we might want to put our hope in our world, our only true hope is found in Jesus Christ, crucified and risen.