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1 Preached in Dingwall on 6 August 1882, and edited.
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enced how He has made good the promises that are past, and they know He
will show the same unchangeableness in those that are to come. They know
His name is Jehovah – God that has His own being from Himself, and that
will give being to all His promises. This encourages them to wait. It was the
Apostle’s logic in his generation: “Who delivered us from so great a death,
and doth deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us” (2 Cor 1:10).
It is ignorance of God that causes the heart to distrust. “They that know Thy
name,” says David, “will put their trust in Thee” (Ps 9:10). God’s children
know His name; therefore they will wait.
(7.) They expect satisfaction from the enjoyment of what is promised.
They know every promise of God will bring full contentment of heart when
it is fulfilled. They cannot now expect so much as they shall then find in the
promises of God. They know these promises are, as the Apostle speaks,
“exceeding great and precious” (2 Pet 1:4). They know the harvest will make
amends for all their expectation; therefore they wait for it.
“He Was Oppressed” 1
A Sermon Outline by John Kennedy
Isaiah 53:7. He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His
mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her
shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth.
is oppression points to the treatment which He received from the hands
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of His creatures; all was unrighteous oppression on their part; afflicted
points to what came to Him from heaven.
The Oppression from Creatures.
This was to Him whose throne as God is for ever and ever.
As such He was over all creatures, having omnipotent power.
He was the eternal Son of God, under His Father’s infinite love.
He undertook to be the Kinsman Surety of His people.
As such He was made flesh, made sin, and made a curse.
On this account He was delivered to the hands of oppressors.
The Nature of the Oppression.
It was both unrighteous and cruel on the creatures’ part.
As to His personal rights, all honour, trust and service was due to Him.
His sinful creatures denied all this to Him.
Being made sin justified God’s action in permitting this.
Notwithstanding the display of His glory, they crucified Him.