My God is Master
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“Listen” - Pay attention.
Note the highlighted words in Isaiah 48
We speak of someone not paying attention as it “went in one ear and out the other”
As I have thought about this message all week long, I want to ask a question
DO YOU COME TO HEAR A SERMON LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO OBEY, OR DOES IT GO IN ONE EAR AND OTHER?
DO YOU COME TO HEAR A SERMON LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO OBEY, OR DOES IT GO IN ONE EAR AND OTHER?
It should be pointed out that great emphasis is placed on hearing to obey throughout the Scripture.
6 You have heard it. Observe it all. Will you not acknowledge it? From now on I will announce new things to you, hidden things that you have not known.
Consider the Words of Jesus
27 My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me.
24 The one who doesn’t love Me will not keep My words. The word that you hear is not Mine but is from the Father who sent Me.
24 “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on the rock.
And the Words of James
22 But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
And from Hebrews
15 As it is said: Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
Let’s Pray together that God would help us obey what we hear. I don’t want to be a person who hears from God and its in one ear and out the other.
What is it that God is SAYING in this chapter?
He speaks to sinful people!
He speaks to sinful people!
1 “Listen to this, house of Jacob— those who are called by the name Israel and have descended from Judah, who swear by the name of Yahweh and declare the God of Israel, but not in truth or righteousness.
2 For they are named after the Holy City, and lean on the God of Israel; His name is Yahweh of Hosts.
Judah were a frequently rebellious people and their rebellion had led them to come under God’s hand of judgment for a season.
Is the thought that God speaks to sinful people good or bad? YES
Bad in the sense that He is not overlooking sin. He never does.
Note that these are people who are calling themselves believers. They lean on God.
But God is calling them out for not walking in truth or righteousness.
He is wanting them to ACT on what they say they believe
But it is also good, because it shows that God still desires to fellowship with sinful people. He has not given up on them.
He wants to them to walk close and clean with Him. And he desires the same from us.
HE CONDEMNS LIP SERVICE, and going through the motions.
He predicts and it comes to pass!
He predicts and it comes to pass!
3 I declared the past events long ago; they came out of My mouth; I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they occurred.
4 Because I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is iron and your forehead bronze,
5 therefore I declared to you long ago. I announced it to you before it occurred, so you could not claim, ‘My idol caused them; my carved image and cast idol control them.’
6 You have heard it. Observe it all. Will you not acknowledge it? From now on I will announce new things to you, hidden things that you have not known.
This major contrast between Him and any other God is that He knows the future. He causes it to happen. He is already there.
Note why he reveals the future. Verse 4-5
They are stubborn, and would try to claim that their deliverance was at the hand of an idol. So God tells them ahead of time so they can know the deliverance came from HIM.
Remember that God is preparing to sent Judah out of exile from Babylon and back home. Isaiah is writing about 150 years before it ever happened.
Verse 6 is the big question.... Will you acknowledge the source as the Lord. You heard. You observed. BUT WILL YOU GIVE HIM THE GLORY? or will it go in one ear and out the other.
He works for our good and for His Glory!
He works for our good and for His Glory!
6 You have heard it. Observe it all. Will you not acknowledge it? From now on I will announce new things to you, hidden things that you have not known.
7 They have been created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today, so you could not claim, ‘I already knew them!’
8 You have never heard; you have never known; For a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew that you were very treacherous, and were known as a rebel from birth.
9 I will delay My anger for the honor of My name, and I will restrain Myself for your benefit and for My praise, so that you will not be destroyed.
10 Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
11 I will act for My own sake, indeed, My own, for how can I be defiled? I will not give My glory to another.
What are the new things? I think they are that he plans to restrain Himself.
No doubt God disciplines His children. “Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love.” Thank God he never leaves us nor forsakes us.
22 Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end.
23 They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
9 I will delay My anger for the honor of My name, and I will restrain Myself for your benefit and for My praise, so that you will not be destroyed.
He refines us and tests us but He does it for our good and for His glory.
I want to return to this next Sunday.
For now, what is the Master saying to you?
Give you life to me?
Don’t just give me lip service?
Learn to walk close and clean?
What you are going through is for your good and for My glory?