Sunday, January 9 AM

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If you have your

Bibles with you this morning, would you turn to Isaiah? In the

Old Testament, Isaiah chapter 13, and I'll be reading verses 1 through 12 this morning.

So this is the word of the Lord. Isaiah 13.

And the weapons of his end will be feeble.

They will be dismayed. Be in anguish like a woman in her faces will be a flame filled with wrath and fierce anguish and desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.

For the stars of the heavens will be their light. The sun will be dark at its rising.

And the moon will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity.

I will put an end to the punishment. I will make people more rare than fine gold.

And in your word this morning, your word through your prophet

Isaiah concerning that indeed, as you promised that the day of the

Lord was that day did come and the kingdom that thought itself to be invincible was removed.

Lord, as we read these sobering words through the mouth of your prophet

Isaiah, we are reminded that when it will happen, that when you promise judgment, justice will occur.

You will not let the guilty go free. You also extend to those who would come to you.

Lord, thank you for what you have said.

Forever as your judgment is drawn, will your judgment be on all who do not name you as Savior and Lord.

Indeed, your wrath will be cruel. And for the sake of your glory and your faith, to hold out the word of life,

Jesus, and be saved. God, of a crooked and perverse generation, that in our words and in our deeds, we would always be pointing people to the grace that is in Christ.

Thank you for your faithfulness. Thank you for your kindness toward us. May Jesus Christ be praised, along glory and honor and blessing.

In Jesus' name we pray, amen. You may be seated.

Amen. My Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Give us this day our daily bread. O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? O 'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

About tonight. But we encourage you to take a short time to be encouraged in the word.

So I want to dismiss from the end of this prayer of blessing.

Would you stand with me? Chapter 13, verses 20.

Who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, by the blood of the eternal covenant, everything good, working in us that which is pleasing, to whom be peace.