Blessing
About this series
We take an in-depth look at Isaiah 61. We hope that this will be powerful series that looks at the prophecy in its immediate context, then sees it fulfilled in Jesus and finally moves to equipping us as we see Jesus’ mission being continued through His people - yet always being rooted in Him.
About this talk
Scripture: Isaiah 61:8-9
God’s mission in and through Christ is now our mission. How can we (and each of us) be a blessing to our communities?
There is a picture here, too, of God’s people being honoured and recognised as “a people the Lord has blessed,” rather than despised as small, weak and insignificant. A goal for the church in our day - that the blessings of God described earlier in Isaiah 61 should be so clearly displayed in us that the people around us are provoked to enquire about the God we serve:
‘So transformed will the Lord’s people be that world-wide they will be quite distinct because of a quality discerned in them which can be explained only as an act of divine blessing’.
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