Isaiah

The survivors of Jacob will no longer rely on sin

After Jesus receives John’s baptism he goes to the wilderness and meets the tempter. But he says No in the desert to everything Adam and Eve said Yes to in the Garden. He emerged from the wilderness leaning on the Lord as the New Israel and the Second Adam. He makes children of the serpent into the sheep of his flock.

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Falling Into Our Own Pit

He plotted. Legislation offered. Legislation signed. Check. Gallows built. Check. Expecting to be celebrated, Haman illustrated the wisdom of the Proverbs, “Dig a pit and you’ll fall in it.” Haman’s fall was not broken by the bottom of a pit. They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Esther is not about…

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