Isaiah, chapter 55 versus 10 and 11.

For is the rain and the snow come down from heaven,

and return not thither but water the earth making it bring

forth and sprout giving seed to the sore and bread to the eater. So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth.

It shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose and

prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

This morning's text is like a booster rocket to the rest of what we've seen in Isaiah 55.

It lifts off the payload and sustains it and I hope you'll see that before we're done.

What's helped me most in my own fight of faith this week is the connections that I've seen between

verses 10 and 11 of Isaiah 55 and the other things we've seen in the last three weeks in verses 1 to 9.

And my prayer is that the same thing will be true for you this morning that your fight of faith will be as helped as mine has been

in seeing these things.

Now, there is no doubt what this text is about.

It's about the word of God. You see that at the beginning of

verse 11 very clearly. So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth. That's what he's talking about in verse 10 and 11.

God says my word. So it's God's word that we're talking about and in order to be faithful to this text then, we have to talk

about the word of God.

And what I want to do is focus your attention on three things about the word of God.

And at every point, let's ask,

why does this particular thing about the word of God

get revealed right here in Isaiah 55. Let's not just lift these two

verses out and say this, this, and this, three points, and not why they happen to be said here, in view of what's gone before.

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