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Don’t go through the motions
One writer said humanity’s problem is that we are bent toward self-exaltation.
Contrast this with what God says he wants in verse 2. a humble, submissive spirit… someone who takes God’s word seriously.
DO YOU?
God is not against their sacrifice or ours (He tells us to present our bodies as living sacrifices), but he is against empty, half-hearted, or wrong hearted sacrifice.
In God’s relationship to the Jews, he strictly forbade them from eating pork, and certainly from sacrificing pig’s blood.
But verse 3 shows people were doing what ever in the name of worship.
In verses 4-5 God contrast the care he gives to those who tremble at His word, and those who will not heed his call.
and again he promises judgment to those who are not genuine… those who are just going through the motions.
Don’t think you can make it without grace
Remember that much of Isaiah is written in poetic form.
And much of Isaiah is judgment.
But Isaiah can’t go long without offering hope in the midst of the judgement.
Such are these verses.
And he uses pregnancy, labor, childbirth, and nursing as an illustration.
He tells Judah and Jerusalem that their return to their land will be an act of His grace.
He does so to remind us of grace....
Look at it.
Birth without labor.... God’s people, a humble, submissive people receive what we cannot earn.
We don’t LABOR, God GIVES grace.
What does a baby do to satisfy its needs?
Nothing but reach out to the breast of the mother.
A Baby is dependent on the care and nurture it receives.
We are to be that dependent on God’s care and grace in our lives.
We can’t be right with God on our own… we can’t live God honoring lives on our own.
We can’t forgive our sins against God.
God has to do that.
God goes on to promise two things I think our hearts often long for… Peace and comfort.
Don’t dismiss the twin realities of hope and judgment
Just like most of the book of Isaiah, he ends his prophecies with a back and forth between judgment.
On the one hand, he promises that the unrepentant will perish.
On the other hand, he promises that everyone who is left will worship the Lord.
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