I WILL MAKE YOU A TERROR TO YOUR ENEMIES

Thursday, 22ND JUNE, 2023.

I WILL MAKE YOU A TERROR TO YOUR ENEMIES

By Pastor Dr. Samuel Bayonle Ayorinfe

MEMORIZE: "Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff."  Isaiah 41:15.

SCRIPTURE READING: Isaiah 41:14-16.

“Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.”

EXPOSITION:

Becoming a terror to the enemy is gaining freedom from and becoming a threat to the forces that have been dominating and controlling one’s life. It is the will of God that His people should become a terror to those who were now a terror to them, and that victory should turn on their side, Isa 41:14-16. We need to examine how Jacob and Israel are reduced and brought very low before we examine how to be restored. 

It is the worm Jacob, so little, so weak, and so defenceless, despised and trampled on by everybody, forced to creep even into the earth for safety; and we must not wonder that Jacob has become a worm, when even Jacob's King calls himself a worm and no man, “But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.” Psalm 22:6.  God's people are sometimes as worms, in their humble thoughts of themselves and their enemies' haughty thoughts of them--worms, but not vipers, as their enemies are, not of the serpent's seed. God regards Jacob's low estate, and says, "Fear not, thou worm Jacob; fear not that thou shalt be crushed; and you men of Israel" (you few men, so some read it, you dead men, so others) "do not give up yourselves for gone notwithstanding." 

Note, The grace of God will silence fears even when there seems to be the greatest cause for it.  Perplexed but not in despair. How Jacob and Israel are advanced from this low estate, and made as formidable as ever they have been despicable.  But by whom shall Jacob arise, for he is small?  We are here told: I will help thee, saith the Lord; and it is the honour of God to help the weak. He will help them, for he is their Redeemer, who is wont to redeem them, who has undertaken to do it.  Christ is the Redeemer, from him is our help found. He will help them, for he is the Holy One of Israel, worshipped among them in the beauty of holiness and engaged by promise to them. The Lord will help them by enabling them to help themselves and making Jacob to become a threshing instrument.

Observe, He is but an instrument, a tool in God's hand, that he is pleased to make use of; and he is an instrument of God's making and is no more than God makes him.  But, if God make him a threshing instrument, he will make use of him, and therefore will make him fit for use, new and sharp, and having teeth, or sharp spikes; and then, by divine direction and strength, thou shalt thresh the mountains, the highest, and strongest, and most stubborn of thy enemies: thou shalt not only beat them, but beat them small; they shall not be as corn threshed out, which is valuable, and is carefully preserved (such God's people are when they are under the thrash, Isaiah 21:10: O my threshing! yet the corn of my floor, that shall not be lost); but these are made as chaff, which is good for nothing, and which the husbandman is glad to get rid of. He pursues the metaphor, Isaiah 41:16.  Having threshed them, thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall scatter them.  This shall be accomplished in the final doom of all the ruthless enemies of the church of God, and to have its accomplishment likewise in the triumphs of the cross of Christ, the gospel of Christ, and all the faithful followers of Christ, over the powers of darkness, which, first or last, shall all be dissipated (degenerate), and in Christ all believers shall be more than conquerors, and he that overcomes shall have power over the nations, Revelation 2:26. 

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, make me a terror to all my enemies in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Psalms 99-102.

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