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I'm going to invite you to open Isaiah 55:6 and go all the way to the end and then we'll set that the backstage for what is going on.

In this particular text man, his thoughts turn to the Lord that he may have compassion on him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon.

He's a very familiar and difficult situations in our life for my thoughts.

Are not your thoughts, neither are your ways.

My ways just to clarify the Lord.

First thing first, the heavens are higher than the earth.

So are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

As to rain in the snow, come down from heaven.

What are the Earth making a break?

Words, which I sent it.

Will you still have the thorn?

So come up the Cypress and Myrtle name for the Lord of everlasting sign.

That shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 55:6, through 13. good morning to keep your, you're Your finger there.

We're going to go through these versus one of the time and there are four things that I would like to bring out to you this morning.

But I got my message is between the now and the not yet.

We are living in the now.

How do we, how do you make a follower of Jesus lived?

And the not yet the context of Isaiah 55.

Let me take you back a few hundred years from the writing of them.

After Solomon's, death numbers of elements.

Project building project of defending the nation.

Has the expanded, the kingdom.

And the people.

instead of looking to the advisors of his father,

the young man who How is complex with him and then gave him the advice to tighten the screws so to speak and make it harder on the people and put them for the speak.

And the people who rebelled and comes back with Solomon and all the sudden he comes back and he takes the northern tribes who leave their loyalty.

And so this happened at 9:30 BC Israel.

The northern kingdom is part of Israel, the nation of Israel.

In their existence before they were carried off into captivity.

They were 19 Kings, 9, different families represented, It wasn't one Godly king among the northern kingdom.

They immediately went into a Dollar Tree under jeroboam.

Checked out all the levite who becomes very idolatrous but yet God hasn't given up on.

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Patrick Lee the nation of Assyria came and led the northern kingdom into captivity in the Assyrians.

One of their main goal was to create a loyalty to the Assyrian Empire and they would break any family, religious connection that they have conquered Israel in captivity, Northern tribes, In the book of Isaiah.

And you will return to the very land that you've been taken from.

And this is very important in history because God promised Abraham that Israel This Promise of the remnant and this return to the land is all wrapped up in the servant language should have a capital f, capital A the coming promised Messiah, Jesus himself.

There has been a disconnect from everything that they know, family, land, all their social structure, while you're in captivity live between the And the not yet.

So this is the context in which we find ourselves this morning and the not yet.

Just think of our history.

What happened globally in the last 3 years, look at all the changes that have transpired social changes that have taken place overseas of all the stuff that's happening around us.

What are we to do?

Not encourage us to live in the now looking forward to the night to look at four ways that we are encouraged to live between now.

And then the first points I have this morning at 6 and 7 and it's this, recognized the predicament of man Recognize the predicament of man is here and prophesying to the nation of Israel.

He's telling them to remember, got you to where you're at or long suffering or they may be found, let the wicked forsake his way.

And the unrighteous man, his thoughts, let them return to the Lord that he may have compassion on him into our God for he will abundantly pardon.

Here's a nation in captivity due to their own wrongdoing, continues to your ways, and your thoughts and your desires.

But yet, I haven't given I'm still here for you.

Here's what I'm asking you to do through the prophet.

Isaiah, are you saying here's what you need to do?

Three things.

Seek the Lord call upon him.

Thirdly Return of the Lord, each one of these come with a descriptor.

So seek the Lord while he may be found, there is a point in time where you can so move away from God.

But God says, I'm going to leave you to your own devices.

He's already started this with the pain.

I'm going to let you and let you reap the repercussions.

God gave them over you.

Haven't gone too far for him while he is near.

giving them, hope he's telling them how to live in their current situation in the and then it calls them to return to the Lord, because God is compassionate and he will pardon Willing and ready to purchase and to restore.

And this is the promise, was that Isaiah keeps bringing in the entire book of Isaiah to the nation of Israel.

The idea of repentance Turn from your wicked ways and your wicked thoughts returned to me a call upon me return to me and I will abundantly pardon, there's this idea, wrapped up in here.

A restoration, lucky, unrighteous man, his thoughts.

The word Israel in their desperate situation.

You know what they want?

Get in trouble.

You need to see me.

You need to call upon me your hearts need to return to me.

You need to forsake, your thoughts, and your ways and learn to live in the now, not in the not yet.

That's coming, it will come, but you will have to learn to live in the now.

How do we do that?

Israel has encouraged to repent to turn back to the Lord.

God is more concerned about the affections of our heart that he has about the actions that we bring out.

If he has our affections that, our actions are Behavior.

God is longing to restore Israel?

Israel is learning to live.

You see, Israel did not need to be out of their captivity.

That's the not yet that's coming, but it's not yet.

Israel needed to be rescued from themselves.

As followers of Jesus Christians.

Who have been redeemed?

We have to admit.

The motto that you read.

It sounds very familiar.

This morning Andrew gave a broken Church.

Full of broken people.

All in need of God's grace.

This is what we say.

Original sin.

Each one of us has original sin and every part of our human Constitution, we are broken as broken can be.

Our ways and our thoughts.

We are broken people.

What we still need, most is exactly what his real name.

You.

And I need to be rescued from ourselves from our own sin and God through his servant.

Jesus provides that opportunity.

Let me read a portion this morning from a book that I recently read called Dangerous calling by dr.

Paul Tripp, I think it really will help explain

Are we willing to get to the point where we are willing to admit the, I messed up that without God's grace.

The only place that I would be myself, let me read this to you.