Northwoods Table Talk

  God’s Recompence  Comes To Save You Isaiah 35:1-10   Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.   If you have not noticed, I love the Old Testament. I mean, how can you not love it? At least, there is a lot to love if you understand the Old Testament correctly.   Now I suppose you want to know how to understand it correctly. It is rather simple. You need to understand it as Jesus does, and as Jesus desires you to understand it.   Of course, there is something that gets in the way. What is it that gets in the way? Human pride and hubris! OK, let us be more honest, SINFUL human pride and hubris. I am sure you have heard it, and maybe even expressed it yourself. It comes out like this – “we are New Testament Christians, not Old Testament Christians. We are about the Gospel, not the Law. The Old Testament is Law, the New Testament is Gospel.”   Is that really true? No, it is not! In fact, Jesus, Tru God,...

  Comfort? Isaiah 40:1-11   Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.   Have you ever heard the phrase, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence?   It is commonly used to get people to stop wishing for those things which they do not have. Although things might look splendid in someone else's life, all have the same desire. Unless something in someone’s life sticks out as sorely miserable, another person's life always seems to look better. Have you ever wondered why other people have it so much better than you? Have you ever contemplated the question of why life seems so miserable? In fact, you probably know someone who claims that man is born, he suffers, he dies. That is all there is! So, what's the purpose of life? I can safely say that in a moment of doubt we have all asked the same sort of a question. Our text from the prophet Isaiah seems to echo those thoughts: The mouth of the Lord has sp...