December 25, 2022 – Song of Salvation

Song of Salvation

Isaiah 52:7-10 - New International Version (NIV)

⁷ How beautiful on the mountains
    are the feet of those who bring good news,
who proclaim peace,
    who bring good tidings,
    who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion,
    “Your God reigns!”
⁸ Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices;
    together they shout for joy.
When the Lord returns to Zion,
    they will see it with their own eyes.
⁹ Burst into songs of joy together,
    you ruins of Jerusalem,
for the Lord has comforted his people,
    he has redeemed Jerusalem.
¹⁰ The Lord will lay bare his holy arm
    in the sight of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth will see
    the salvation of our God.

Whose feet are “beautiful on the mountains” (verse 7)?

What do they “say to Zion” (verse 7)?

What do the watchmen shout for (verse 8)?

What will they see “with their own eyes” (verse 8)?

What will the “ruins of Jerusalem” do (verse 9)?

Who has “comforted his people” (verse 9)?

What will the Lord do “in the sight of all the nations” (verse 10)?

Where will the “salvation of our God” be seen (verse 10)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, where do you see Jesus the Messiah in this passage?

Psalm 98 - New International Version (NIV)

¹ Sing to the Lord a new song,
    for he has done marvelous things;
his right hand and his holy arm
    have worked salvation for him.
² The Lord has made his salvation known
    and revealed his righteousness to the nations.
³ He has remembered his love
    and his faithfulness to Israel;
all the ends of the earth have seen
    the salvation of our God.

⁴ Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth,
    burst into jubilant song with music;
⁵ make music to the Lord with the harp,
    with the harp and the sound of singing,
⁶ with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn—
    shout for joy before the Lord, the King.

⁷ Let the sea resound, and everything in it,
    the world, and all who live in it.
⁸ Let the rivers clap their hands,
    let the mountains sing together for joy;
⁹ let them sing before the Lord,
    for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
    and the peoples with equity.

Why will “a new song” be sung to the Lord (verse 1)?

What has the Lord made known (verse 2)?

Where has the “salvation of our God” been seen (verse 3)?

Who is the earth to “shout for joy” to (verse 4)?

How should music be made to the Lord (verses 5 and 6)?

What should resound (verse 7)?

How should the rivers and mountains respond (verse 8)?

What does the Lord come to do (verse 9)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, where do you see Jesus the Messiah in this passage?

In your opinion, how are Isaiah 52:7-10 and Psalm 98 similar in their responses to redemption and salvation?

Hebrews 1:1-4 – New International Version (NIV)

¹ In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, ² but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. ³ The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. ⁴ So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.

Who did God speak to “in the past” (verse 1)?

How did He speak to them (verse 1)?

How has God spoken “in these last days” (verse 2)?

Who is the “heir of all things” (verse 2)?

What is the Son (verse 3)?

How does the Son sustain all things (verse 3)?

When did the Son sit “down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven” (verse 3)?

Who did the Son become superior to (verse 4)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, where do you see Jesus the Messiah in this passage?

In your opinion, what does Hebrews 1:1-4 reveal about how God provides the redemption and comfort that Isaiah predicted in Isaiah 52:7-10?

In your opinion, why are the things that Hebrews 1:1-4 reveals that God has done the reasons for the “new song” of Psalm 98?

John 1:1-14 – New International Version (NIV)

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was with God in the beginning. ³ Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴ In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

⁶ There was a man sent from God whose name was John. ⁷ He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. ⁸ He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

⁹ The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. ¹⁰ He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. ¹¹ He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. ¹² Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— ¹³ children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

¹⁴ The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

When was the Word (verse 1)?

Who was the Word with (verse 1)?

Who was the Word (verse 1)?

What was made through Him (verse 3)?

Where was life (verse 4)?

What was “that life” (verse 4)?

What has the darkness not overcome (verse 5)?

Who was the man “sent from God” (verse 6)?

Why did he come “as a witness to testify concerning that light” (verse 7)?

What was coming “into the world” (verse 9)?

In your opinion, why did the world not recognize the one who “was in the world” and through whom the world was made (verse 10)?

What did “his own” not do (verse 11)?

What did “those who believed in his name” receive (verse 12)?

How were those “children” born (verse 13)?

Where did the Word make His dwelling (verse 14)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, where do you see Jesus the Messiah in this passage?

In your opinion, how are the redemption and salvation that the beautiful feet on the mountains bring in Isaiah 52:7-10 described in John 1:1-14?

In your opinion, why does Psalm 98 begin with salvation and end with judgment but John 1:1-14 reverses that by beginning with people not receiving the “true light” while others received and believed? 

In your opinion, how does John 1:1-14’s description of Jesus as the light grow richer as we read about Jesus’ radiance in Hebrews 1:1-4?

In your opinion, how do these passages from Isaiah, Psalms, Hebrews and John help us more fully see Jesus the Messiah?

In your opinion, as those who have received and believed in Jesus, what song do we need sing to have beautiful feet today?

 

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