Cushing Indian Baptist Church Sunday School

Book of Isaiah Chapter 53 Verses 1 through 12 Alrighty. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our Sunday school lesson today. And today we are going to be in. Sorry, putting my notifications down or turning off my notifications. We are in session 11, almost done with this season already. Let's see here. Sorry for the, Sorry for the late start. We, I think I have a solution for that, but I think it's everybody connecting at the top of the hour. So everybody's trying to go live at the same time. I think that may be what it is. I'm not sure, but, I always try to get it started at five minutes ahead of time, but everybody's already streaming by then. I don't know if it's some kind of scheduling thing or whatever, but we'll get it figured out to where we can, get started, right at 10, at least LA way in session 11, Isaiah chapter 53. we're gonna read verses, we're gonna read through verses one and 12 one through 12. but the title of today's lesson is God justifies. And before we really jump into that, let's think about the current sport that everybody is in. it's funny because with pandemic and everything, The current or the transition into the sports is already happening, even though we just got done with one sport, and talking about basketball, It was a few weeks ago. yeah, it was a few weeks ago that we, finished up that season. But then now we're already starting into that season because again, pandemic it delayed it that long. And then football kind of had a late start. and I'm pretty sure they're probably going to have to like, not have their, usual things go on. Not only because they're not making enough revenue, but because it's just that time of pandemic things are starting to ramp up. things are starting to get worse and a lot of these things, but they get about football. They get about the sport. That we're the season that we're currently in. And usually in, we see sometimes a penalty flag. the referees will throw out a penalty flag and now they got different colors. It used to be just yellow. and then like bean bags or something like that, different color bean bags for like fumbles or interceptions or whatever. But now they have a pink one. They have a red one for the coaches, but when you see that yellow flag, that it means there's a penalty. that the player that was, that just occurred probably got wiped clean. With the boys this season, there was a penalty where it erased a 74 or 75 yard touchdown run. I just wiped it because, there was a penalty that the referee called a foul saying that there was an illegal move. When a player breaks the rules, the referee throws a penalty flag on the turf, holding pass interference and unsportsmanlike conduct, or a few examples of penalty causing infractions. A penalty usually means they lost our gain of yardage in one direction or the other. And that's the point, right? By paying the penalty of sin through his sacrifice, the Lords serve it atone for the sin of all humanity for all. Time, they see there is penalty flags. There's probably penalty flies that you can think of here recently being thrown at you left and right. Because, the things that you were doing or the things that was going on around you in the best way, the best for you. And so you see where. God is intervening and the, the fly gets thrown and you have to either move back or maybe sometimes the stuff was against you and you get to move forward. in the first few verses here, we're going to see that, well, Christ isn't specifically named. the author says that the theologians let's see here, we're talking about the wiping away of those penalties. the, it's called a tone mint, but like making a way for those penalties not to be enforced. See if we had that, opportunity right there to challenge that penalty right there in that little league game that we probably could've made a case to say, Hey, that wasn't really, Oh, that wasn't really is what has happened, but you can't argue with the referees.

Good morning, everyone. I just want to welcome you to our Sunday school. All right. We're going to be in chapter 49 of the book of Isaiah today. So make sure you guys get your books or the study guide if you guys were, um, are following along in that the personal study guide is available on our church, Facebook group. Page. Um, and you can go and download that and follow along and we're session we're in session 10 today. So if you guys will get your Bibles or your study guides and flip on over to there, the title today is God comforts. And man, do we need some comforting today talking about all the stuff that is going on today? All the. I wouldn't call it craziness, just a complexities of everything. One of the things that I did not get to do yesterday, one of the things that I did not get to do yesterday was listened to, um, the assumed has it been confirmed, confirmed, but the assumed president elect, but I heard that he had some good words to say, and maybe I don't think that a lot of people are going to really hear him out. Right now, but, um, one of the things that I had heard him talk about, well, not, I heard him talk about, but one of the things that I know that he mentioned was healing our country and in today's Bible study, the, one of the, one of the, um, illustrations that the author is trying to use is a bandaid. Now we all know what bandaids are for right. Little minor cuts, scrapes or bruises. Oh, no, no, not so much a bruise. Maybe like to let you know that it's still there. Maybe. I don't know, but minor cuts and scrapes. Right? You might put a bandaid on it. Think about when you was younger and how much comfort that bandaid provided that assurance. And see if you can go back in November, remember? Yeah. You, you, all you really wanted was that bandaid, all you really wanted was that, that, that, uh, so to speak that little, um, item that. Covered your wound, right? It wasn't so much that you knew that you needed stitches or, you know, you had a really bad injury and all you was looking for was that healing to start to take place that, that removal of baby, that pain, right? Um, no matter how big or small applying that bandage seemed to make it better. And sometimes we even wanted our mom just to acknowledge that we were hurt and, you know, to do their little things. Some of them may have been kissy or someone may have been Patty. So some. Someone may have just reminded us, Hey, you're older than making a big deal about that. Go on and play. And you know, not using those kinds of words, but we get the point, right? Snap out of it. Go on. You get on in Isaiah, we see God comforting his people. It says after this is the writer speaker, he says after decades of Babylonian, captivity and exalt from their land, God promised to rescue the remnant nation. Redemption is both. Immediate and in forthcoming than forthcoming, the nation would return to their land and have it restored most significantly. The servant of the Lord would bring the message of salvation to the world. And we see that even in today, we see the comforting that the Bible can, can provide us. In that there is a better time ahead. There's going to be turmoil. There's going to be things going on. There's going to be a complex world that we live in today, but knowing God will complete what he said, that he's going to do complete, bring, bring to, to realization the promise that he's given us. We can take a little bit of comfort in that. Jesus is the ideal servant and ultimate fulfillment of God's promise as the servant Messiah. He's the light of the world. Offering salvation to the ends of the earth and the one to whom one day, every knee will bow. And I really liked that verse out of Romans 14. My phone will not unlock code on, so I want to read that real quick. Um, moving through Romans, um, you can see that was our study during the springtime, moving through Romans, you seen that there was like three separate sections in Romans and...