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Introduction
Background of the Text:
-Theological reflection on the exile.
-Isaiah consistently views the people of Israel as unrighteous and lacking care for the needy.
It is this way of acting that WILL lead to the exile.
-In some sense, all of Isaiah is a reflection on Moses in Deuteronomy.
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The exile will occur because of the disobedience to God’s commandments.
Main Idea of the Text:
-Now, here’s what Isaiah is specifically getting at in 58 - WORSHIP of Yahweh means obedience to his commandments, that is, caring for his image.
What does it mean for me:
-I cannot replace religious worship practices with actual worship of God through care for others.
Structure/Outline:
Intro -
Background
Explanation of Exile
Explanation of Isaiah themes
The question: What kind of worship does God want?
What is fasting?
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Main Idea: The kind of worship God wants is worship that takes God seriously in real life by caring for the people God cares about.
The problem: the people of Israel thought they could worship God sometimes, in their religious life.
(They go to the temple, they practice personal discipline, they know a lot of stuff about God).
NOTE: Are they sincere?
Maybe, maybe not.
But it doesn’t matter.
It’s wrong either way.
Is it enough to come to church or to Canvas?
Is it enough to sing praise songs, or listen to them in your car?
Is it enough to read your Bible, even to fast (which most of us don’t do)?
Is it enough to learn lots of stuff about God, or even to try to be close to God?
That’s not true worship.
True worship includes EVERY area of life.
Fasting is supposed to be a denial of oneself for God, but here they are fasting and simultaneously seeking pleasure.
Fasting is supposed to be an act of humility, but they are simultaneously misusing power to put people under them, or to fight with them.
If you truly want to worship God, if you really want to show your love and devotion to him you do it through love and devotion to his creation…other people.
Bible Project Quote:
“In the Heberew scriptures, Israel’s Babylonian Exile became an image of something more universal.
It’s that feeling of alienation and longing for something more, no matter where you live…In the Bible, exile is the human condition.
We all keep repeating this pattern of human corruption leading to a Babylon we can’t escape.”
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