Sunday Morning November 27, 2011
scriptures: Isaiah 2
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Isaiah 2:1-22
Chapter 2 is a continuation of chapter 1, where God wanted the children of Israel to really turn to Him.
Isaiah maybe thought of as “saintly nagging”, begging for the people to turn from evil and toward God.
It is a reminder for us to check whether or not we are right with God today. Am I where I need to be or am I lacking?
Isaiah continued to warn because the people had not turned.
Are you seeking/running toward God and His wisdom?Or are you running from what will help you?
God will correct you and bring you to repentance.
God will bring a time when we will end warring.
God is merciful and desiring that we get right, not serving ourselves.
The children of Israel were not pleasing God.
They were full of themselves and mingling with the people who were not serving God.
You can’t get into the fortune-telling and such like of the world and thing it is ok with God.
These things will pull you away from the truth. Like Solomon got drawn away by his wives.
The people were rich with a lot of stuff. But they were not pleasing God. They were actually making Him angry. God sees all. Don’t play Him cheap.
You don’t want to be a person that God forsakes or abandons because of sin. Repent and live right.
Not only were people full of stuff, but they also began to worship the idols and things that they made, instead of God.
If you’re not right, the punishment is the same, regardless of the amount of stuff you have or don’t have.
Be humble and fear God. He is truly king supreme, high, full of glory and in control.
God is going to put everyone else in perspective. He will be exalted and things that are exalted against Him will be made low.
He will be exalted above all things. Above the mountains, people, the things that people made to worship.
In the day of the Lord, people will toss out the things they currently value and worship. It won’t matter then.
Just like people throw out contraband when they are pulled over by the police.
God is worth the reverence today. Even more than you give respect to any man or leader.