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Isaiah 64:1-12
Pray
Context about why Isaiah wrote this chapter.
One theme in this chapter is a warning.
Isaiah is warning the people of the evil that is all around them.
Enemies surround them.
The nation of Israel is split.
Israel to the North and Judah to the south.
Isaiah is living in Judah.
The Northern Kingdom is being swollowed up by evil.
The people are being carried away to exile and slavery by a ruthless and violent nation.
Pressure from other nations around Judah are attempting to cause the leadership to cave.
The people are turning against God.
The Temple is desecrated and has fallen to ruin.
Isaiah is giving warning to repent.
To turn back to God as He is the only Deliverer who can save.
It is in this context that Isaiah writes:
Isaiah is calling for God to come down from His throne.
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1. Isaiah calls for God to come down in judgement against those who oppose truth.
He calls for God to judge as fire that sets twigs ablaze and boils water.
Isaiah is calling out to God for judgement of sin so that the people can be set free.
Isaiah remembers the time when God rested atop Mt.
Sinai and set the Mountain on fire.
The people trembled at His presence.
Isaiah is calling for God to deliver again, as He did when He brought the people to Sinai.
Nations trembled at the power of God as He led His people through the desert.
Isaiah admits that there is no other god who hears the cry of His people.
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2. It is only the One True God who acts on behalf of those who call out to Him for help.
3. Isaiah takes comfort in this truth.
God comes to the help of those who remember your ways.
Verse 5 transitions:
In this verse Isaiah recognizes that people have strayed.
They chose not to remember.
They chose to live in their sin.
Isaiah asks the question, how can we be saved?
How can a people who turn their back on the source of Salvation be saved?
There is no hope apart from God.
Everyone has become like one who is unclean because the voice of God has been rejected.
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4. All the righteous acts that we attempt to do in our fallen human nature are like filthy rags.
Sin corrupts.
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Filthy rags: “Filthy rags is ‘a garment of bodily discharges were considered a defilement because they were the ‘outflow’ of a sinful, fallen human nature.
So, even what we might consider to be in our favour, righteous acts, partake of the defilement of fallenness.”
(Motyer)
i. Preachers of previous generations thought this passage so extreme in its graphic description of sin’s likeness that it should not be preached honestly.
“If preachers knew properly the meaning of this word, would they make such a liberal use of it in their public ministry?”
(Clarke) “The expression, ‘filthy rags,’ in the Hebrew, is one which we could not with propriety explain in the present assembly.
As the confession must be made privately and alone before God, so the full meaning of the comparison is not meant for human ear.” (Spurgeon)
Sin sweeps us away in human desire.
Isaiah cries out that no one calls for the Lord.
No one strives to take hold of Him.
Therefore God’s face has been hidden.
And the people are given over to sin.
We need to relay on the covering of Righteousness.
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5. Our covering of Righteousness is Jesus.
Click for Jeremiah 17
Essentially what Jeremiah is saying is that the Lord allows us to reap the fruit of our desire.
He gives us the reward of our heart.
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If our heart is wicked, we reap wickedness.
7. If our heart seeks to draw closer to God, we reap fruit of righteousness.
Think back to what Isaiah is lamenting.
Turn back to Isaiah 64 verse 6
No one seek the Lord.
Those who choose to dwell in sin are taken away by it.
They are consumed by it.
Isaiah is lamenting the reality that so many people are giving themselves over to the vile condition of the unrepentant heart.
We can have confidence that in our repentance, God does not remember our sins.
Meaning, we are covered by the blood of Jesus so that we can find reconciliation.
But the prayer is also to help us to remember.
Help us remember vitality of our faith in Jesus.
It is only in Christ that we can be set free form the penalty of sin.
The people have forgotten.
Isaiah looks upon a desolate landscape.
Isaiah is echoing the heart of god as God looks across the desolate landscape of the human heart.
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8. Holiness is desecrated by a people who do not care to remember.
The treasured things of God lie in ruin.
Then to close this chapter, Isaiah call upon the Lord to act.
This is the heart if Isaiah.
This is the heart of God as He looks upon a people who choose not to remember.
We are in the same situation.
We live in a world that is running toward evil.
We live in a world that is governed by corruption.
The voices which are predominant in the culture call to silence God.
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These loudest voices in our world call for the exaltation of evil, sin and perversion.
So many people choose to harden their heart toward God.
The proliferation of sin in our world has caused the heart of many to grow callosed.
This is what the enemy wants.
He wants hope to be lost.
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The enemy wants us to feel like it is pointless.
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No chance of victory or overcoming sin.
He wants us to give up and give in.
He wants us to let go of conviction and morality.
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