Worship Experience – August 23, 2026 | Where I'm From

Title:  Where I'm From

Scripture: Isaiah 51:1–8 (MSG)

1-2 “Listen to me, all you who are serious about right living and committed to seeking God. Ponder the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were dug. Yes, ponder Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who bore you. Think of it! One solitary man when I called him, but once I blessed him, he multiplied.

3 Likewise I, God, will comfort Zion, comfort all her mounds of ruins. I’ll transform her dead ground into Eden, her moonscape into the garden of God, a place filled with exuberance and laughter, thankful voices and melodic songs.

4-6 “Pay attention, my people. Listen to me, nations. Revelation flows from me. My decisions light up the world. My deliverance arrives on the run, my salvation right on time. I’ll bring justice to the peoples. Even faraway islands will look to me and take hope in my saving power. Look up at the skies, ponder the earth under your feet. The skies will fade out like smoke, the earth will wear out like work pants, and the people will die off like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my setting-things-right will never be obsolete.

7-8 “Listen now, you who know right from wrong, you who hold my teaching inside you: Pay no attention to insults, and when mocked don’t let it get you down. Those insults and mockeries are moth-eaten, from brains that are termite-ridden, but my setting-things-right lasts, my salvation goes on and on and on.”

Synopsis: Sometimes in order to look forward we have to look back. What we find when we look back often times gives us the encouragement we need. The prophet Isaiah reminds the people to look back to Abraham and Sarah for a dose of a good memory. A memory that reminds us that God blessed so many from just one person. When we feel discouraged, we just have to look back and be reminded where we are from.

Message Points:

1️⃣ WE COME FROM SOME GOOD STUFF.

2️⃣ WE WORSHIP A GOD WITH SOME CRAZY POWER.

3️⃣ WE BELONG TO A GOD WHO WILL LAST FOREVER.

4️⃣ WE KNOW A GOD THAT WILL SET THINGS RIGHT.