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Sermon outline

Who likes to wait?

1. 1. 1. We want life now.
      2. Isaiah 24-27 is known as “the Little Apocalypse”
      3. Waiting until that day (Isa 26:8-9,16,20)

2 Reasons: Why must God’s people wait for the Lord?

1. 1. 1. World is broken awaiting judgment (v5)
      2. Even the righteous can change things (Isa 26:16-18)
      3. What God establishes will not be shaken but will endure. (Isa 26:1,4)

When God’s people are willing to wait upon God:

1. 1. 1. Then they are trusting in the Lord
      2. They will suffer with all the rest, yet they will have peace (Is 26:3,19, 2Cor 5:1, Rom 8:35-39)
      3. They will Pray (Isa 26:20)
      4. They will recognize that Waiting is Worship

When will our waiting end?

1. 1. 1. The First Coming
         1. Our initial waiting came to an end, this is the last days (Heb 1:2, Act 2:17, Jam 5:3)
         2. In Jesus there is salvation (1Th 5:9)
         3. In Jesus humility defeats pride (Phil 2)
         4. In Jesus peace comes to the waiting (Jn 14:27)
         5. In Jesus is security (Jn 10:28)
         6. In Jesus we find the path of righteousness (Jn 14:6, 1Cor 1:30)
      2. The Second coming of Jesus
         1. Then the Kingdom will obliterate every competitor
         2. Then dead will rise
      3. Never stop waiting, longing, hoping for the coming of God.