1st Corinthians 2 verse 9 (Isaiah 64:4) - Memory Text Lesson 13 – The Ultimate Rest - REST IN CHRIST

Read for This Week’s Study: Rev. 1:9–19; Matt. 24:4–8,
23–31; Rev. 14:6–12; Heb. 11:13–16; Phil. 4:4–6.
Memory Text: “But as it is written: ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has
prepared for those who love Him’ ” (1 Cor. 2:9, NKJV).

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This recording is from the 29th November 2020, but fits well as the 13th Memory text for the 3rd Quarter's studies 2021 "Rest in Christ".

In 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 9 the Apostle Paul highlights all the good things God will do for His people.

However, when I turn to Paul's source for this quotation (Isaiah 64 verse 4) I find that the Gospel Prophet Isaiah uplifts the goodness of the LORD, the giver of all good gifts, "Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change" James 1:17 NRSV.

What's the difference? The first example is all about ME. The second is looking away from self in humble (glorious) adoration. I suggest that the greatest insight, and highest joy, comes from forgetting self and embracing the LORD of glory!

CREDITS:
1) Background THUMBNAIL: Original Graphic by Geordanna Cordero-Fields on Unsplash
2) MUSIC: "Love Letters" by Aaron Kenny from YouTube's Audio Library.

Isaiah 64
New Revised Standard Version
64:1 O that you would tear open the heavens and come down,
so that the mountains would quake at your presence—
2 [a] as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
to make your name known to your adversaries,
so that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

4 From ages past no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,
who works for those who wait for him.

5 You meet those who gladly do right,
those who remember you in your ways.
But you were angry, and we sinned;
because you hid yourself we transgressed.[b]
6 We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 There is no one who calls on your name,
or attempts to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have delivered[c] us into the hand of our iniquity.
8 Yet, O Lord, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.
9 Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord,
and do not remember iniquity forever.
Now consider, we are all your people.
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and beautiful house,
where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
12 After all this, will you restrain yourself, O Lord?
Will you keep silent, and punish us so severely?

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isa+64&version=NRSV

This recording is based on "Isaiah 64:4 quoted in 1 Corinthians 2:9 - BEYOND OUR IMAGINATION" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwQC7YkpLDk