{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fa2745ff2-bb0c-4192-b2d2-1c8938d11cde","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Isaiah 61","description":"Heather Thomas walks the community through Isaiah 61.\r\n\r\nLast week Kyle talked about the vision for who we are at Misiso based out of Jeremiah\r\n29. In Jeremiah 29 the people are in exile. Exile happens throughout the OT as a result of\r\nhumanity failing; not honoring their relationship with Yahweh. Adam and Eve are sent\r\naway from the garden: exiled. Israel is sent away from Jerusalem: exiled.\r\n\r\nThe broader textual meaning is that exile creates in humanity a feeling of being\r\ndislocated and lacking a sense of true belonging. Tim Mackie describes it this way:\r\n\u201c(A) feeling of alienation and longing for something more no matter where you live.\u201d\r\nIn that place we need comfort, hope, vision for who we are and a renewed sense of\r\npurpose and vocation.\r\n\r\nThe book of Isaiah provides poetic imagery describing a person, a human agent who\r\nis sanctioned and empowered to do a deeply transformative work in the community of\r\nGods\u2019 people. What emerges is a picture of transformative, radical reversal and\r\nexchange; where people are brought out of exile, drawn out of sadness, loneliness, grief\r\nand are offered presence, vitality and joy. They become people with energy, vision and\r\nresolve. People whose strength and vitality is restored. Earlier in Isaiah it is clear how\r\nthese people emerge. They emerge though the self-sacrificing servant of Isaiah 52-53\r\nand their subsequent response to him.\r\n\r\nWhen Jesus begins his ministry he reads Isaiah 61. He is about to do a deeply\r\ntransformative work in humanity. Through an act of self-giving love he brings humanity\r\nout of the exile of sin and death. His life proves more powerful than human failure and\r\nexile. The picture in Isaiah 61 then becomes a picture of who we can be when we\r\nrespond to the transformative power of God in our lives.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/1098e41e-8b74-4283-92e9-9abc82aaa9c7/3000x3000_9179372.jpg"}