1. An Easter Offer
Isaiah 55
A study of Isaiah’s God & His servants

2. “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.”

3. God’s Gift
What exactly is God offering?
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour out water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring and My blessing on your descendants...

4. God’s Gift
What exactly is God offering?
John 4:10,13-14
Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water... whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

5. God’s Gift What exactly is God offering?
“water” = eternal life through the Spirit
“wine and milk” = a life of spiritual abundance – full of peace, joy, love…

6. God’s Gift
What exactly is God offering?
Who is He offering it to?
Romans 3:10–12
There is none righteous, not even one; there is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God; all have turned aside, together they have become useless; there is none who does good, there is not even one.

7. God’s Gift What exactly is God offering? Who is He offering it to?
to sinners just like us

8. God’s Gift
What exactly is God offering?
Who is He offering it to?
What does it really cost?
1 Peter 1:18–19
knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

9. God’s Gift
What exactly is God offering?
Who is He offering it to?
What does it really cost?
Romans 3:23–24
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus

10. God’s Gift What exactly is God offering? Who is He offering it to?
What does it really cost?
John 7:37–38
...Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”

11. God’s Gift What exactly is God offering? Who is He offering it to?
What does it really cost?
1 Corinthians 15:3–4
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures...

12. God’s Gift What exactly is God offering? Who is He offering it to?
What does it really cost?
Ephesians 2:8–9
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

13. God’s Gift What exactly is God offering? Who is He offering it to?
What does it really cost?
Romans 8:38–39
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

14. God’s Gift What exactly is God offering? Who is He offering it to?
What does it really cost?
1 Corinthians 3:13–15
...the fire [of Christ‘s judgment] will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

15. God’s Gift What exactly is God offering? Who is He offering it to?
What does it really cost?
FREE MEANS FREE!
No strings attached, not now, not ever!

16. God’s Gift What exactly is God offering? Who is He offering it to?
What does it really cost?
Why would you say “no”?
every other offer: bread that does not satisfy

17. God’s Gift Revelation 21:6
What exactly is God offering?
Who is He offering it to?
What does it really cost?
Why would you say “no”?
Revelation 21:6
Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.”

18. God’s Gift
What exactly is God offering?
Who is He offering it to?
What does it really cost?
Why would you say “no”?
Isaiah 55:6
Seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.