Let me first mention the fact that our chapter discusses the spiritual discipline of "fasting." But the material is somewhat lengthy and culminates in today's verse anyway. The Jews had been fasting "for show," it seems. Without any spiritual reality … [Continue reading]
ISAIAH, CHAPTER 58 … WHAT A COMISSION!
Notice Isaiah 58:1 with me today. "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins." What a verse! Two strong, imperative verbs front this divinely inspired … [Continue reading]
ISAIAH, CHAPTER 57 … THINGS I DIDN’T SAY
Classic Isaiah! "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the … [Continue reading]
ISAIAH, CHAPTER 57 … NO PEACE TO THE WICKED
Our Text today, with God being the Speaker … "But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked." Isaiah 57:20-21 We have here a "word picture." The … [Continue reading]
ISAIAH, CHAPTER 57 … ONE VERSE, TWO THOUGHTS
Our chapter begins, its very first verse: "The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come." Isaiah 57:1 Several little "nuggets" of … [Continue reading]
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