Where Does the servant of God find His Awesome Strength?

1. Where Does the servant of God find His Awesome Strength? • The great task that God gave His Servant seemed impossible.

2. Where Does the servant of God find His Awesome Strength? • The great task that God gave His Servant seemed impossible. • The Servant was to bring back and reunite Israel. (Isa 49:5)

3. Where Does the servant of God find His Awesome Strength? • Isaiah 49:5 (NKJV) - “And now the Lord says, Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, So that Israel is gathered to Him (For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, And My God shall be My strength),

4. Where Does the servant of God find His Awesome Strength? • He would unite Jew and Gentile! (Isa 49:6)

5. Where Does the servant of God find His Awesome Strength? • Isaiah 49:6 (NKJV) - Indeed He says, ‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

6. Where Does the servant of God find His Awesome Strength? • The first seemed utterly impossible. This verse tells us that is nothing compared to what God will do through His servant!

7. Where Does the servant of God find His Awesome Strength? • In this Servant song we find the true path to the cross for the Messiah.

8. Where Does the servant of God find His Awesome Strength? • In this Servant song we find the true path to the cross for the Messiah. • Jesus listened, learned and only yielded to God’s will. (Jn 5:19; 8:28-29)

9. Where Does the servant of God find His Awesome Strength? • John 5:19- Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.

10. Where Does the servant of God find His Awesome Strength? • John 8:28-29- Then Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things. 29 "And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.“

11. Where Does the servant of God find His Awesome Strength? • Jesus wanted all men to understand that He willingly gave Himself. (Jn 12:32-23)

12. Where Does the servant of God find His Awesome Strength? • John 12:32-33- "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself." 33 This He said, signifying by what death He would die.

13. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Isaiah 50:4-5 (NKJV) - “The Lord GOD has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned. 5 The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not rebellious, Nor did I turn away.

14. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • His tongue indeed was powerful. (Rev 1:16)

15. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Revelation 1:16 (NKJV) - He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.

16. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • He awed those who studied greatly. (Mt 13:54; Lk 2:46-47)

17. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Matthew 13:54 (NKJV) - When He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works?

18. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Luke 2:46-47 (NKJV) - Now so it was that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers.

19. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • He knew how to preserve those who were weak. (Isa 42:2-3)

20. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Isaiah 42:2-3 (NKJV) - He will not cry out, nor raise His voice, Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street. 3 A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench; He will bring forth justice for truth.

21. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Powerful men tend to crush or dismiss the weak.

22. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Powerful men tend to crush or dismiss the weak. • Learned men may not know how to speak.

23. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Our Lord wants us to know His power and wisdom awaits us! (Mt 11:28-29)

24. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Matthew 11:28-29 (NKJV) - Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

25. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Is this how we use our tongues?

26. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • His tongue was guided by His ear.

27. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • His tongue was guided by His ear. • The Servant’s heart was opened to God. He really trusted God!

28. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • His tongue was guided by His ear. • The Servant’s heart was opened to God. He really trusted God! • If we would just truly listen then look at the power available to us. (Psa 119:99; 1 Thess 2:13)

29. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Psalm 119:99 (NKJV) - I have more understanding than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.

30. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • 1 Thessalonians 2:13 (NKJV) - For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed itnot as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.

31. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Are you teachable?

32. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Are you teachable? • Are you willing to hear? (Mt 13:9, 14-15)

33. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Matthew 13:9 (NKJV) - He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

34. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Matthew 13:14-15 (NKJV) - And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive;

35. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • This simple truth is ignored by many! (Prov 18:13; Acts 23:35)

36. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Proverbs 18:13 (NKJV) - He who answers a matter before he hears it, It is folly and shame to him.

37. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Acts 23:35 (NKJV) - he said, “I will hear you when your accusers also have come.” And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s Praetorium.

38. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Acts 25:16 (NKJV) - To them I answered, ‘It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man to destruction before the accused meets the accusers face to face, and has opportunity to answer for himself concerning the charge against him.’

39. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • This is Satan’s first weapon in defeating the gospel. (Acts 17:11)

40. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Acts 17:11 (NKJV) - These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.

41. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Do you have a commitment to principle?

42. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Do you have a commitment to principle? • Some make sincerity an end within itself. It is not. (Acts 23:1)

43. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Acts 23:1 (NKJV) - Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, “Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.”

44. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Far too many “stand” where they do as a result of weighing consequences rather than weighing the truth.

45. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Are you maintaining that commitment?

46. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Are you maintaining that commitment? • The worst listeners I have faced are Christians with great knowledge.

47. The power of the Servant begins with His ear (Isa 50:4-5) • Are you maintaining that commitment? • The worst listeners I have faced are Christians with great knowledge.

48. The Servant had a mission in which He would never be ashamed. (Isa 50:6-7) • Isaiah 50:6-7 (NKJV) - I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting. 7 “For the Lord GOD will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.

49. The Servant had a mission in which He would never be ashamed. (Isa 50:6-7) • The mission God gave Him placed Him in harms way.

50. The Servant had a mission in which He would never be ashamed. (Isa 50:6-7) • The mission God gave Him placed Him in harms way. • He was scourged.