Reference

Isaiah 2: 1-6 and Mark 11: 20-25

Sermon Notes

Prayer People

Isaiah 2: 1-6

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

          It shall come to pass in the latter days

                   that the mountain of the house of the LORD

          shall be established as the highest of the mountains,

                   and shall be lifted up above the hills;

          and all the nations shall flow to it,

                   and many peoples shall come, and say:

          “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,

                   to the house of the God of Jacob,

          that he may teach us his ways

                   and that we may walk in his paths.”

          For out of Zion shall go forth the law,

                   and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

 

          He shall judge between the nations,

                   and shall decide disputes for many peoples;

          and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,

                   and their spears into pruning hooks;

          nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

                   neither shall they learn war anymore.

 

          O house of Jacob,

                   come, let us walk

                   in the light of the LORD.         

          

          For you have rejected your people,

                   the house of Jacob,

          because they are full of things from the east

                   and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines,

                   and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. 

 

Mark 11: 20-25

As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.” And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.” 

 

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