The World as God Intended | Isa 65:17-25 | Pastor Dave Hentschel

In the final message of our From Ruin to Redemption: The Gospel According to Isaiah series, Pastor Dave Hentschel brings us to the summit of Isaiah’s prophetic vision in Isaiah 65:17–25. This passage unveils God’s promised future—a new heavens and new earth—where sorrow, injustice, futility, and fear are no more. Isaiah is not offering speculative timelines, but reshaping our moral imagination, showing us the world as God originally intended it to be: a world marked by joy instead of weeping, security instead of loss, fruitful work instead of frustration, intimacy with God instead of distance, and peace instead of violence. This sermon challenges the assumption that brokenness is normal or permanent, reminding us that God is not patching the old order but replacing it entirely. As God’s people stand between two worlds—the one that is and the one that is coming—we are called to live now as citizens of that future kingdom, allowing God’s promised world to shape our faith, ethics, hope, and daily lives.God’s promised future is not an excuse to wait—it is a summons to live now in the joy, justice, and peace of the world He is bringing.