THE LEADING OF THE LORD
Isaiah 55:4
I have made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander of the peoples.
I. LED FORTH
Exodus 15:13 "In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling.
1. FROM BONDAGE
Psalm 106:9 & 10 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led them through the depths as through a desert. He saved them from the hand of the foe; from the hand of the enemy he redeemed them.
2. REDEMPTION
Hebrews 9:19 – 22 When Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people. 20 He said, "This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep." 21 In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. 22 In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
II. LED OUT
Exodus 15:13 "In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling.
1. LED BY THE :LORD
John10:3 & 4 The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
2. TO DELIVER US FROM THE WORLD (SEPARATION)
Galatians 1:3 – 5 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
III. LED ON
1. GUIDANCE
Psalm 78:14 He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.
2. PROGRESS
Psalm 78:52 – 54 But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the desert. 53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies. 54 Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
IV. LED ABOUT
1. DISCIPLINE
Deuteronomy 32:10 In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
2. INSTRUCTION
Deuteronomy 32:10 "He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye. [NKJV]
V. LED IN
1. PROVISION
II Peter 1:11 there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. [RSV]
2. TRIUMPH
II Corinthians2:14 But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ,
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Proverbs 4:11 I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way. [BBE]
Psalm 107:7 Guiding them in the right way, so that they might come into the town of their resting-place.
Jeremiah 42:3 Pray that the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do.
Psalm 27:11Make your way clear to me, O Lord, guiding me by the right way [BBE]
