What am I suppose to make out from this book?
One minute we hear God's coming and His greatness, His house.
Or, a counsellor, Prince of Peace.
But instead, we choose syria, war, hardship
Is Isaiah a beautiful movie
Or
A movie that is grey and faded, lost
Maybe Isaiah is this...
Exile, lost, alienation.
Exile has two parts when put together its pain.
1. Alienation, alone.
2. Lost, the world looks different. Lost of history, the lost of man, the lost future.
The future is tied together.
Exile isn't just about the lost of place, it is about the lost of the past and future.
To think what happened.
What lost the past which loses the future.
Exile isn't just about the people walking past us, but in a different way it can happen to all of us.
Exile is a reality.
We have lost track of who we are, we lost our paths.
We lost our Christian dream and our present lives.
We think its normal because we're human. We look to history and latch on to it to find an answer. Our fetish for celebrity, wealth, or to live without responsibility. Admit it, we know it.
It's a bit starting to sound like the grey movie.
There's Israel, despondent.
Another character, the nations. The proud, believing they have succeeded in everything.
Then there's the prophets, speaks for God and the people and gets stuck in the middle.
The hardest character of them all is God. Where is God? Where is he?
Maybe I won't do a movie anymore, I'll just stick to preaching.
Isaiah fixates on Israel, how it continuely talks about doom.
We tend to look at the good side of Israel and avoid the bad side.
We choose the life of the ugly, the bad, and the false.
In truth, God really only looks to those that listen to Him.
If God's power came and kissed us on our faces, would we know it?
We are lost in God's language.
God gave me this parking lot.
No He didn't, I doubt that.
I too was looking for one.
Redeemer and Holy One.
How do I know God is holy and majestic?
God reaches down to us, heals us.
That is when I see Him.
God is the author.
He is not my co-pilot, or fishing buddy.
Isaiah keeps saying "God said, God talks"
We keep passing by it, thinking " ohh God spoke"
It is a big deal.
God spoke, we think " Okay God spoke, He spoke and created the earth, wow...."
But why don't we think, " GOD SPOKE, OH MY, GOD SPOKE!!"
Maybe its the truth that we can go home.
Like Israel, they could go home from Babylon.
God has started giving us passions and dreams.
Kindling in us a fire.
It is a important fire that we should be open to it.
We are accountable to it. We need to dream His dreams.
What are our dreams?
What will it look like when we go home to heaven?
Or rather His home is with us now.
The church, a place of safety and hospitality that people could go to meet God.
The church can't look like one person, but everybody. To have diversity. We are in a culture where we look down on people who are different from us. This is not Christianity.
A church that is willing to give up everything to Christ even if it means to give up the world around us.
A place that will not worry about the materials but what will it be when we end up before the judgment seat of God.
Let Him say well done, not because of the great pictures or great job, but rather His will in us.
The church is in exile, when we struggle in identity and focus on the wrong stuff.
We are a bit confuse to who we are. We take for granted things in culture or being a Christian.
We hold things tighter to things we should hold lose and hold some things lose to things we should hold tighter.
We have to let go of things around us, like patriotism, politics, Christ died for us and not those stuff.
The tools we have are to be used to help others. God gave us these things to help others.
Lol this summit is hard, a whole lot of information, stories and stuff. So its hard to get what the speaker is trying to says. All of them have so many main points :P.
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