To: ALL WHO HAVE
EARS TO HEAR
From; GOD THE
FATHER, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HIS SON and Ministered through the HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, The Helper, that He
may be with you forever. [John
14:16 ]
Subject: MY WORD
BEHOLD MY Servant, Whom I uphold, My elect
in Whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth
justice and right and reveal truth to the nations. [Matt. 3:16 , 17 .]
16After his
baptism, as soon as Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened to
him and he saw the Spirit of God coming down in the form of a dove. 17And
a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, and I am wonderfully pleased
with him.”
2 He will not cry or shout aloud or cause His voice to be heard in
the street.
3 A bruised reed He will not break, and a dimly burning wick He
will not quench; He will bring forth justice in truth. [Matt. 12:17-21 .]
17This fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah concerning him:
18“Look at my Servant. See my Chosen
One. He is my Beloved, in whom my soul delights. I will put my Spirit upon him,
And he will judge the nations.
19He does not fight nor shout; He does not raise his voice! 20He
does not crush the weak, Or quench the smallest hope; He will end all conflict
with his final victory,
21And his name shall be the hope Of all the world.”
4 He will not fail or become weak or be crushed and
discouraged till He has established justice in the earth; and the islands and
coastal regions shall wait hopefully for Him and expect His direction and
law. [Rom.
22For we know
that even the things of nature, like animals and plants, suffer in sickness and
death as they await this great event. 23And even we Christians,
although we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, also
groan to be released from pain and suffering. We, too, wait anxiously for that
day when God will give us our full rights as his children, including the new
bodies he has promised us—bodies that will never be sick again and will never
die.
24We are
saved by trusting. And trusting means looking forward to getting something we
don’t yet have—for a man who already has something doesn’t need to hope and
trust that he will get it. 25But if we must keep trusting God for
something that hasn’t happened yet, it teaches us to wait patiently and
confidently.
5 Thus says God the Lord—He Who created the heavens and stretched
them forth, He Who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it, He
Who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:
6 I the Lord have called You [the Messiah] for a righteous purpose and
in righteousness; I will take You by the hand and will keep You; I will give
You for a covenant to the people [Israel
7 To open the
eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit
in darkness from the prison.
4Jesus told
them, “Go back to John and tell him about the miracles you’ve seen me do—5the
blind people I’ve healed, and the lame people now walking without help, and the
cured lepers, and the deaf who hear, and the dead raised to life; and tell him
about my preaching the Good News to the poor. 6Then give him this
message, ‘Blessed are those who don’t doubt me.’ ”
8 I am the Lord; that is My name! And My glory I will not give to
another, nor My praise to graven images.
9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now
declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.
10 Sing to the Lord a new song, and His praise from the end of the
earth! You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, the islands and
coastal regions and the inhabitants of them [sing a song such as has never been
heard in the heathen world]!
11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voices, the
villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of the rock [Sela or Petra
12 Let them give glory to the Lord and declare His praise in the
islands and coastal regions.
