Pastor James will post his Sermon Study Questions every Tuesday with the previous Sunday’s sermon. Our hope is for these study questions to promote deeper personal study and further edify our church body.
Sermon Study Questions – November 2, 2025
1. Read Isaiah ch.19-20
2. Who was Marcion? What was his error? How do you demonstrate the unity of the OT and NT?
3. In v.1-15 Isaiah delivers an oracle of judgment upon Egypt. The judgment he describes focuses on three areas of Egyptian life, and as such, three things they placed their hope in. What are they?
4. We learn three lessons from this oracle of judgment. What are they?
5. Among these three lessons we learn the folly of human wisdom, as the wisdom of the world can’t discern the things of God, but those things are foolish to them. Where is this seen in our text? In thinking about the rising and falling of nations, where does this manifest in the way we view the strength, power, and sustainability of nations?
6. In v.16-25 we see the grace of God proclaimed as He speaks of a time when the gospel will go to the Egyptians and Assyrians they will be saved. What do we learn about salvation from God’s promise to save the Egyptians and Assyrians?
7. It was always God’s plan to save the nations. Where do we see this in the text and elsewhere in Scripture?
8. In ch.20 God commands Isaiah to strip down and “walk naked and barefoot” (v.2) for three years. Why does He do this, and what was the message this was communicating to Judah?
9. What practical application can you make from this text/sermon?
10. Pray!
Reading of Law: Matthew 22:36-38
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment.”
Prayer of Confession:
Our Father in heaven, You are great and greatly to be praised. Truly, there is none like you in heaven or on earth. You are worthy of all our love, affection, adoration, attention, and devotion. As our Creator and Redeemer you are to be honored, revered, obeyed, and submitted to with all gratitude and humility at all times and in all circumstances. But Father, how far away we are from doing this. Though we praise you with our lips, our hearts are often far from you. We ponder, desire, love, and pursue the things of this world more than we ponder, desire, love, and pursue you as our hearts are so often drawn to the lesser, temporal things of this life rather than to you. We confess we fail to love with all our heart. We fail to love you with all our soul. We fail to love you with all our mind. We confess that in failing here, we are failing to keep the first and greatest commandment. And we fail to do this daily, which presses home to us how desperately we need the righteousness of Jesus Christ. We thank you that in confessing our sin we have assurance that in Christ we are forgiven, as He took the punishment for our failure upon Himself. We thank you that through faith in Him His perfect obedience is imputed to us and we are counted as righteous in your sight. We thank you and we praise you in Jesus’ name, Amen.
Assurance of Forgiveness: 1 John 4:9-10
“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
Heidelberg Catechism: Lord’s Day 9
Q.26 What do you believe when you say, “I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth”?
A. That the eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who out of nothing created heaven and earth and everything in them, who still upholds and rules them by his eternal counsel and providence, is my God and Father because of Christ the Son. I trust God so much that I do not doubt he will provide whatever I need for body and soul, and will turn to my good whatever adversity he sends upon me in this sad world. God is able to do this because he is almighty God and desires to do this because he is a faithful Father.
1 Gen. 1-2; Ex. 20:11; Ps. 33:6; Isa. 44:24; Acts 4:24; 14:15. 2 Ps. 104; Matt. 6:30; 10:29; Eph. 1:11. 3 John 1:12-13; Rom. 8:15-16; Gal. 4:4-7; Eph. 1:5. 4 Ps. 55:22; Matt. 6:25-26; Luke 12:22-31. 5 Rom. 8:28. 6 Gen. 18:14; Rom. 8:31-39. 7 Matt. 7:9-11
NT Reading: Romans 5:6-11
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person– though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die– 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.