Comfort and Strength for God’s People 
Isaiah 40

Comfort For God’s Embattled People vv1-2

2 Corinthians 1:3-4a Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation....

“God comforts us not to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.” John Henry Jowett Romans 8:37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

The Voice In The Wilderness vv3-5

Matthew 3:1-3 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying,

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the LORD; Make His paths straight.’ ” John 1:6-8 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, Against the LORD and against His Anointed...

The Message of the Forerunner vv6-8

1 Peter 1:24-25 because “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, But the word of the LORD endures forever.”

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Behold Your God v9

Behold Your Returning Lord v10

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Matthew 25:46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. 2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Behold the loving Shepherd v11

John 10:14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.

Behold the God of Creation v12

Behold the God of All Wisdom v13-14

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.