I Have A Dream

Isaiah 2:1-5 “I Have a Dream”

1. Types of Dreams

• One commentator said, “dreams are not just nighttime visions — they are God-given glimpses of what could be.”

• One type of dream found in Bible is Message dream – where God clearly speaks to you in the dream. (Joseph had a dream was told to take Mary as his wife, Maji warned not to go back to Herod.

• Another type of Dream is symbolic dream – like a ladder Jacob’s For Jacob, the dream was a confirmation of God's covenant. God speaks from the top of the ladder, promising to be with Jacob, give him land, and make his descendants as numerous as the dust of the earth.

2. Isaiah has a Dream

• a prophetic vision of a future time when the "mountain of the Lord's house" (Zion/Jerusalem) will be the highest on Earth, and people from all nations will stream to it to learn God's ways.

• People will seek peace and no more warring.

• They will go up Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways, and that we may walk in his paths".

3. Dr. Martin Luther King had a Dream

• King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and said

• Martin Luther king jr said”I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal

• “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

• I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

• I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

• I have a dream that one day Alabama little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.

• “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

4. Dreams can change or transform our reality

• During the days King lived is way different than it is now.

• Isaiah’s vision is of a Day in which

• Nations come together, not to fight, but to learn God’s ways.

• Weapons of war are transformed into tools of life: swords into plowshares, spears into pruning hooks.

• No more training for battle — instead, training for peace.

• Isaiah’s dream is of what the world can become

5. What is God’s dream for us?

• What is it God wants In our families: reconciliation instead of division.

• What is it God wants In our communities: compassion instead of indifference.

• God wants In our world: peace instead of violence.

6. Finally, Isaiah had a dream, Martin Luther King Jr had a dream. God has a dream for us, what is our dream

• I have a dream one day to hear there is a cure cancer,

• I have a dream no more child abuse, no more poverty, no more children living in fear

• I have a Dream churches are full every Sunday the message is simple Christ and him crucified

• I have a dream no more school shootings, no more random acts of violence

• I have dream this first Sunday of Advent

• I have a dream no more sickness, no more , pain, no more drugs needed, no more crime, no more struggle.

• I have this Dream Everything will be hunkiegori because the King of all Kings is going to reign