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Show A ROOT OUT OF DRY GRQUND Isaiah 53: 1-6 There are countless numbers of images and types in The Bible. They help us to understand the truth about God in our lives. They are often familiar things used to describe not so familiar things. Today's text includes one of those vivid images, a root our of dry ground, to describe the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ as they impact our lives. Listen at verse 2: "For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground." The Word of The Lord through Isaiah suggesting with that term "dry ground" that Jesus would come out of humble circumstances in birth, that he seems to be 1 will grow and develop in a world of contrast, and that even his death would unexpected victory. Whether you have thought about it or not, your heart is that hard, dry ground into which the Savior keeps springing up and thriving. I know Jesus talked about seed being sown and falling on four types of soil but the prophet reminded us that it is time to break of our fallow ground. "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for poses it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you." (Hosea 10: 12) Our soil needs plowing, preparation if the seeds of God's Word productive. Let's start by yielding to god so that the Master can take root out of the dry are to grow and become 2 ground of the heart. That darkness, greed, envy, and pride on the inside must be broken up. That which is sick must be made whole and that which is dead must be resurrected to life. Indifference must be rooted out and replaced with sincerity and truth. one of those. He soil of Saul of Tarsus was was well trained and religious but hard and calloused of heart. But when he met the Master to Damascus, he plant of Jesus dry ground. was on the road changed and a the Christ sprung out of that We must look for the root out of the dry ground of our culture. It is a shame how our culture is parched with dryness. It is becoming more barren of almost anything helpful or meaningful. Notice the violence and loose 3 sex on TV, the lyrics of our music, the pornography of the internet, and the free use of foul language almost everywhere. Our homes are without training, our crude secular, and our churches are more and more worldly. But I've come to remind you that out of that dry ground of this ungodly culture, Jesus can take schools are root and grow. The grace of God is more powerful than drugs or gangs. For God is still springing up the most unlikely places and changing hearts. There is hope of a root out of dry ground in our place of ministry and service. Listen, God wants us to bend like green trees and be available for Him to use us. No matter how it may seem the doors no are place left, closed and the all Gospel has hope is not yet gone. 4 There is children abusive, good news for those whose gone astray, whose spouse is whose church no longer prays or are preaches Jesus, whose pathway is dreary, whose hope has been dashed. It has been thousands of years in the promise and 400 years in silence. In His own time, out of dry ground, God send John the Baptist preaching, "Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand." When the time was virgin, He fulfilled, Jesus and died to rose came. save a born of a dying world. in victorious shout and ascended to make intercession for you and me. Expect great things and God will send a tender plant to spring up out of your circumstances, a root out of dry ground. 5 , \ |
