Sermon: Believe in God's Precious Cornerstone

“Believe in God’s Precious Cornerstone”

Isaiah 28

February 21, 2016

Pastor Tony Felich

 

Isaiah 28:5 In that day the LORD of hosts will be a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people, [6] and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. [7] These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment. [8] For all tables are full of filthy vomit, with no space left. [9] “To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast? [10] For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.” [11] For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the LORD will speak to this people, [12] to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear. [13] And the word of the LORD will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. [14] Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem! [15] Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”; [16] therefore thus says the Lord GOD,  

“Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’            

No matter how chaotic this world seems, we can be sure of God’s firm rule through Christ and trust in Him.  

• A sense of chaos will often characterize this life  

• God’s rule through Christ, the Cornerstone  

            - The Cornerstone motif in Scripture  

            - We can trust in Him