Man's Problem

Problem of Humanity  •  Sermon  •  Submitted   •  Presented   •  1:15:02
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Isaiah 59:1–13 NKJV
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity. 4 No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out. 6 Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths. 8 The way of peace they have not known, And there is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace. 9 Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness! 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places. 11 We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it is far from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before You, And our sins testify against us; For our transgressions are with us, And as for our iniquities, we know them: 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, And departing from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Introduction: The people of Israel receive their due punishment from the LORD God Almighty because of the
Isaiah is writing some 150 years before this message is actually makes sense.

I. Your Situation

Isaiah 59:2 NKJV
2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.
But your iniquities (perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity) caused a separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden [His] face from you, So that He will not hear.
Deuteronomy 31:18 (NKJV) “And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.
Deuteronomy 32:20 (NKJV) And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end [will be,] For they [are] a perverse generation, Children in whom [is] no faith.
Deuteronomy 31:17 (NKJV) “Then My anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God [is] not among us?’
Job 13:24 (NKJV) Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy?
Job 34:29 (NKJV) When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides [His] face, who then can see Him, Whether [it is] against a nation or a man alone?--
Psalms 10:11 (NKJV) He has said in his heart, “God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see.”
Psalms 13:1 (NKJV) To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Psalms 22:24 (NKJV) For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Nor has He hidden His face from Him; But when He cried to Him, He heard.
Psalms 27:9 (NKJV) Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalms 30:7 (NKJV) LORD, by Your favor You have made my mountain stand strong; You hid Your face, [and] I was troubled.
Psalms 44:24 (NKJV) Why do You hide Your face, [And] forget our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms 69:17 (NKJV) And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in trouble; Hear me speedily.
Psalms 89:46 (NKJV) How long, LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath burn like fire?
Psalms 102:2 (NKJV) Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble; Incline Your ear to me; In the day that I call, answer me speedily.
Psalms 104:29 (NKJV) You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
Psalms 143:7 (NKJV) Answer me speedily, O LORD; My spirit fails! Do not hide Your face from me, Lest I be like those who go down into the pit.
Proverbs 6:16-19 (NKJV) 16 These six [things] the LORD hates, Yes, seven [are] an abomination to Him: 17 A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, 19 A false witness [who] speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren.
COMPARE THE THINGS GOD HATES AND THE SEPARATION AND HIS PRESENCE

Your Corrupt Works

Isaiah 59:3 NKJV
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood [SHED INNOCENT BLOOD], And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies[LYING TONGUE], Your tongue has muttered perversity.

Your Cunning Ways

Isaiah 59:4–7 NKJV
4 No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out. 6 Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
4 No one calls for justice, Nor does [any] plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity [DEVICES EVIL PLANS]. 5 They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And [from] that which is crushed a viper breaks out. 6 Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works [are] works of iniquity, And the act of violence [is] in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.

You are Clueless

Isaiah 59:8 NKJV
8 The way of peace they have not known, And there is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.
8 The way of peace they have not known, And [there is] no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.

II. Your Solution

Recognize

Isaiah 59:9–13 NKJV
9 Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness! 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places. 11 We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it is far from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before You, And our sins testify against us; For our transgressions are with us, And as for our iniquities, we know them: 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, And departing from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Isaiah 59:1 NKJV
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.
Look, pay attention, take this fact in the LORD is able to hand is not shortened, that it cannot caused to save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.

Repent

Acts 20:20–21 NKJV
20 how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house, 21 testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 26:20 NKJV
20 but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.
I. The source of the problem: iniquity
II. The
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