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“No one recalls, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I fall down before a block of wood!” (Isaiah 44:19, NASB95) This…
“You have bought Me not sweet cane with money, Nor have you filled Me with the fat of your sacrifices; Rather you have burdened Me with your sins, You have wearied Me with your iniquities. “I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember…
“But now, thus says the Lord, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine! ” (Isaiah 43:1, NASB95) “…Thus says the Lord, your Creator…” When God speaks to us, He is not begging us to abstractly believe that…
“They will be turned back and be utterly put to shame, Who trust in idols, Who say to molten images, “You are our gods.” (Isaiah 42:17, NASB95) We read a verse like this one and say to ourselves, I sure am glad we aren’t as bad as the heathens back then. They were foolish enough to…
“And on that very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions. (Exodus 12:51 NIV84) Homeward bound, for me, is the feeling after being away, for example in Haiti, and going home to see my bride. I love being in Haiti. I love traveling for business. But when you know it’s time…
“I am the Lord, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations, To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness…
“Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.” — Isaiah 2:5 (NASB95) Here are the words of Isaiah to his people. It is the cry of every pastor to his people. The prophet cries out: “Our situation is not hopeless. The solution to our problem is not complex. All we have…
“Then I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning; after that you will be called the city of righteousness, a faithful city.” — Isaiah 1:26 (NASB95) I have read/listened to the book of Isaiah all the way through in just a few days. The benefit of reading through…
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20, NASB95) When I think about the ideology of our society I have much concern that this verse applies, and the woe is real and certain. Our…
“What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce worthless ones?”(Isaiah 5:4 NASB95) The Lord, through the prophet Isaiah, reveals the root of His concern over His people. He states in chapter 5 that He redeemed…