The Masterpiece of the Summit Bartizan (Isaiah 55:3-5) 9/3/2023
Answer 25 of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
The Masterpiece of the Summit Bartizan (Isaiah 55:3-5) 9/3/2023
No matter how much suffering we have around us and how deeply darkness and despair cover this world, all we need is the light that overcomes that darkness and the bartizan that can shine the light to break down that darkness. God said He will send his watchmen if the ones with the light establish a bartizan. Accurately speaking, He is sending watchmen for the watchmen. Those lives will become God’s absolute masterpiece.
Ultimately, this bartizan is a system through which God has no choice but to work among us and use us (absolute bartizan). The covenant we must hold onto and the answer we must receive this week is the summit bartizan that must be raised among our absolute bartizans. We are talking about the bartizan to raise our summits and gather our summits to shine the light of Christ unto this world of summits.
- Why do we need this summit bartizan?
1) It is God’s method to save the world.
① This world is led by the 1% that are only focused on filling their greed and ambition (Tower of Babel in Genesis 11). This is the reason we must save the superpower nation. Until now, the flow of this world was determined by the superpower nations.
② Revelation 18:1-3 says that the fallen and corrupt city of Babylon will cause the entire world will become corrupt and destroyed as well. This is the reason we are living in America, the superpower nation of today (the end of the earth of this age). We are the last runners to save America of this age.
2) It is God’s method to save the summits. We have to save the summits in order to save the world. That is why God sent the 7 remnants to the superpower nations of that age and led them to stand before kings (Joseph and Moses who stood before the king of Egypt, David who stood before King Saul, Elijah who stood before King Ahab).
3) This is the method to break the force of Satan that has seized the world of the summits.
① The world is full of fake summits. That is why wars easily break out. This is the result of Satan’s work (Revelation 20:7-8).
The Bible talks about the three things that Satan has seized. He has seized the world including the unbelievers (John 8:44, John 14:30), the kingdom of the air (Ephesians 2:2) and the rulers and authorities (Ephesians 6:12).
② The believers are who will fight against them and have victory. God has already given us the authority of light to overcome darkness (Isaiah 62:1, Ephesians 6:8, 1 Peter 2:9). Those with this authority must go to the world of the summits to meet them, give them the answers, and save them.
- The passage tells us three things that are promised to us who are the bartizan that will same the summits. When we hold onto the absolute covenant that God gave us, our lives will become the journey of the absolute covenant, and the conclusion of those lives will be to stand as the summit that will save the summits. Our environments, realities, scars or shortcomings do not matter at all. That is why God used David as a model.
1) Give ear towards Him, listen, and save your souls first (verse 3). He says, “I will make a covenant with you, and that is the definite grace that I had given to David.” We must imprint the covenant first. That is why listening to the Word of gospel is important (Romans 10:17). If our souls are revived, everything will be revived (3John 1:2).
① The covenant that David held onto is the eternal covenant. That eternal covenant is the covenant of Christ. David was more certain of this covenant of Christ than anyone else. While he tended his father’s sheep, when he stood before Goliath and even when he was chased down by King Saul, he held onto this covenant and enjoyed victory. The book of Psalm he wrote in prayer during those times became the eternal masterpiece of the prophecy of Christ (Psalm 2, 16, 22, 40, 45, 68).
② The masterpiece that we are familiar with is Psalm 23. David confessed that “God alone is my shepherd and I lack nothing (covenant of uniqueness).” He held onto this when he tended sheep. “He refreshes my soul and guides me along the right paths for His name’s sake (covenant of deliverance).” He held onto this amidst his failure. “Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil for you are with me (covenant of Immanuel).” “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows (covenant of spiritual victory).” “Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever (covenant of witness).”
③ What was the condition for David to be able to enjoy all these blessings? None of this was of his deed or efforts. It was given to him by God, and David believed in that (Romans 1:17). That is why we must hold onto our shortcomings, shame, problems and pain as the opportunity to experience God’s deep grace.
2) What was the detailed covenant that God gave to David (verse 4)? This is the three aspects of the life of a summit that God desires.
① “I will make you the witness to the peoples (covenant of spiritual summit).” In order to truly save our fields and save the 237 nations, we must become leaders. What makes someone a leader? What is the commonality between a boss and a leader? A boss and a leader both have authority, and they stand at the front (meaning of an elder). There is a difference between a boss and a leader. A boss is self-centered, and they only command others. Leaders try to lower themselves to work together and serve. That is why Jesus came to serve and to give his life as ransom (Mark 10:45). Jesus washed the feet of his disciples and told them to do the same for each other (John 13:14-15). Paul told us to embrace the heart of Jesus (Philippians 2:1-5), and learn the life of Jesus who lower himself to death in obedience (Philippians 2:6-11).
③ “I will make you the commander of the people (covenant of the summit hat saves).” Why do we go to war? It is either to take everything, or to have everything taken from. Spiritually, we need this. However, we must go beyond this level and fight the war to save. That is the goal of a commander who steps into spiritual warfare. Satan continues to kill people and destroy the world. We must stand as the ones who save. That is why we need a bartizan to save others (bartizan or evangelism and missions). We must become the bartizan to save at least one person, and to do that work, we receive the answer of a team in the field (bartizan of a team).
Conclusion – The true summit and the gospel summit is someone who enjoys God’s power as the spiritual summit, someone who can serve at the highest place in the lowest form, and someone who can reclaim the things that were taken away by Satan and save others through evangelism and missions. God desires to raise us up as the masterpiece and bartizan of this summit. May we all enjoy this covenant.