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Yes, we can. All right, good
to see you this afternoon. I hope you're doing well. This
is a day the Lord has made. And we rejoice to be able to
have one more day of Bible conference after today. Now then, our theme
song this week has been All for Jesus. Hymn 354, go ahead and
get out your hymnals, turn to 354, and let's get ready to sing
all four verses. All together. All for Jesus,
all for Jesus. All my clouds get burnt like
new wings. All my days and all my hours. All for Jesus, all for Jesus. All my days and all my hours. All for Jesus, all for Jesus. All my days and all my hours. Let my hands perform His bidding. Let my feet go in His praise. Let my eyes see Jesus only. Let my lips sing for His praise. All for Jesus, all for Jesus. Let my lips sing for his praise. All for Jesus, all for Jesus. Let my lips sing for his praise. Sing his praise to Christ, our
Jesus. ♪ Always in my spirit's vision
♪ Looking at the crucified ♪ All for Jesus, all for Jesus ♪ Looking
at the crucified ♪ All for Jesus, all for Jesus ♪ Looking at the
crucified Oh, what wonder, how amazing, Jesus Christ, see my
face! Thanks to God we are delighted,
let us be rest in his peace. Amen you may be seated As a part of our chapel, as a
part of our Bible conference this year, we've been looking
at Psalm 119. Our third student council emeritus
is the treasurer, so I'm going to ask Daniel Lee to come and
read cap, not cap, but I guess cap for us, Psalm 119, verses
81 to 82. So I'm 119 versus 81. All right. I'm going to ask,
is there an elementary student who would like to volunteer to
read the next section? Is there anyone? All right. Remember we have a
lot of med for us. That is 89 through 96. You twitched
it just the right time. So it's 119 versus 89 through
96. in heaven, your faithfulness
endures for all generations. You established the earth, and
it abides to continue to stay according to your order of demise. For all are your servants. Unless
your law has been my delight, I will never forget you. I will never forget your decency. But by where you have given me
life, I am yours. Save me. And now, ma'am, this
is Psalm 119, verses 97 through 104. Let's have Cathy Lee come in. Solve 119 versus 97. Before I met you, I had no understanding
of how much effort you put into things like this. I understand
more than I can, and I think it's a good result. I am still
learning from everything you do, but I'm not giving up. I can rejoice in the things you
do for yourself, and also when you listen to my voice, I am
not giving up. Thank you, Kathy. Wonderful message
here reminding us of just how sweet God's Word is. Your Word is sweet to my taste,
sweeter than honey to my mouth. I hope all of us delight in God's
Word and rejoice in its truth, looking for it to help us, to
strengthen us, and to point us to our Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ. Well, this afternoon, our final
song, before we look at the message this afternoon, we need God's
grace every hour. 405, amazing grace, how sweet
the sound, It saved a wretch like me. 405, we'll sing all
verses. Let's stand to sing Amazing Grace. How sweet the sound. Stand to sing. 405. Amazing Grace. and saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I'm
found. Was blind, but now I see. But this can calm my heart to
fear, Embrace my fears, relieve. How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed Through many dangers, toils, and snares
I have already come His grace hath brought me safe
thus far, and grace will lead me home. When leaving nature,
♪ 10,000 years, bright shining as the
sun ♪ ♪ We know that saints do sing God's praise ♪ ♪ And when
we've first begun to pray ♪ We just sang about God's amazing
grace. When you think of who we are,
when you think of what we are like, God's grace should amaze
us. It should be a source of continual
surprise to us that God loves us, that his mercies are new
every morning, that, you know, it's of the Lord's mercies that
we are not destroyed. And so, as we look at God's Word,
we see this testimony that we are indeed sinners, that we do
indeed fall short of the glory of God. And yet, He has mercy
on us. He has compassion on us. Throughout the scriptures you
see a testimony that the holy righteous God looks upon his
creation and sometimes he's disappointed. That was true during the time
of Noah. He looked at the earth and he
saw that every thought, every intention, everything that people
did was only wicked continual. Several times in the Bible, God
basically lays out the case against people and basically has, you
know, if you were going to go to court, this would be your
charge sheet. This is your indictment. These
are the things that you do wrong. And so Bible Church We looked
on Wednesdays at the Book of Romans, and the first three chapters
are just Paul saying, from the Old Testament, from the Scriptures,
we're sinners. There's none righteous, no not
one. In the Old Testament, there was
what is sometimes called a Gospel of the Old Testament. This man
revealed more about the Messiah probably than any other Old Testament
character. But as he proclaimed the good
news, the Messiah is coming. Behold, a virgin shall conceive
and be with child, and shall bear a son, and shall call his
name Emmanuel, which means God with us. This is the one, a child
shall be born unto you, The government will be upon his
shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful
Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of course, this is Isaiah. And
Isaiah not only brings good news, a Messiah, the Christ is coming,
but he, like Paul in Romans, lays out the case First, against
the Jewish people, the people of Abraham, and then against
the entire world, basically saying, look, here are the charges. You
guys deserve God's judgment. God loves you. He will give you
mercy. But let's see where you are. Let's see what you're like. Let's
make sure that you understand, you do not deserve grace. Grace
is a gift. Grace is something that God gives
you despite what you deserve. God grants mercy, which means
he does not punish you the way you deserve. And so what we see
here is we're looking broadly at the book of Isaiah. And this
afternoon, we're not going to get through 60 chapters. tried
to get it into slightly more bite-sized chunks. We'll start
out at the beginning of Isaiah. Isaiah chapter one, I want to
read to you basically the first, I'll start out with the first
six verses of Isaiah chapter one. Isaiah one, verses one through
six. So please get your Bibles open.
We're looking at the Old Testament. The Old Testament book of Isaiah.
In the first 12 chapters of Isaiah, God is talking to his own people. God is speaking to the descendants
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These are Jewish people. These
are people of the Bible. And so as Jewish people, people
who know God's word, they should know what God wants, right? Yes. There are a lot of people
here at Seoul Christian School You have Bible class every day.
Your parents take you to church. So you should know God's Word. You should know what God expects
from you. And so here are God's people, and God's people have
pretty much messed it all up, sad to say. So we're here in
Isaiah, chapter 1. And Isaiah really does point
out that the servant of the Lord, last year we looked at Isaiah
and we saw the servant songs. The servant of the Lord, the
Messiah, triumphs. He wins despite the fact that
his chosen people crucify him. The world, the nations are raging
against him. No one welcomes him as their
own. Very few bow the knee during
his earthly incarnation. Here is what it's like. Alright,
got your Bibles open? Isaiah chapter 1. We'll just
read the first six verses here. So this is indeed the vision
of Isaiah, the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. So here he is. He's speaking
about his own people, Judah. This is 700 years before Christ. He's there in the capital, Jerusalem,
in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. This is the
time period. These different kings of Judah.
Verse 2. Hear, O heavens, and give ear,
O earth, for the LORD. Notice all caps. This is Yahweh,
Jehovah. For Yahweh has spoken. I have
nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against
me. The ox knows his owner. The donkey, its master's crib. But Israel, does not know, my
people does not consider. Alas, sinful nation, a people
laden with iniquity. You've got all
this wickedness, this iniquity. It's like a big burden, a big
basket of bad all on their back. A people laden with iniquity. A brood. A brood, right? A brood of evildoers. Children who are corruptors. They have forsaken the Lord.
They have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away backward. Why should you be stricken again?
You will revolt more and more The whole head is sick. The whole heart faints. From
the sole of the foot, even to the head, there is no soundness
in it. Wounds, bruises, putrefying sores,
they have not been closed or bound up or sued with points. What a picture. Let's pray. Our Father in heaven, this evening, this afternoon,
this is not a happy message. We ask you to use your word to
search our hearts, to search our minds. Lord, know us. Lord, you know our down city
and our uprising. Lord, you know all things. You are God. You are the Holy
One of Israel. And Lord, as we look upon you
and behold your loveliness, your power, your omniscience, your
grace. And we look in the mirror of
your word. Father, forgive us that we are
not like you. Forgive us that we have sins
that we like and sins that we run to repeat over and over again. Father, search us, try us this
afternoon. See if there are wicked ways
within us. Lord, if we are harboring sin,
if there is sin that we have in our lives, we pray that even
this afternoon you would wash us with the blood of Christ. Renew us, restore us to yourself. Do what only God can do. We pray
this in Jesus' name. I basically have two points this
afternoon with a whole lot of sub-points. The two points are,
in chapters 1 through 12, we are going to see God's case against
his own people. Here is God looking at his own
people, his children, those who should know better, and finding
they fall short. And so first we'll see God's
case against his people. And so as God looks at his own
people, he says, this is not good. And then God kind of lifts
his eyes, and he goes beyond, and he looks out at the rest
of the world, and he says, this is even worse. My people are
bad. My people should know better.
But these other nations? that I will use to punish my
people are even worse. And so what we see is God's people
backslidden, God's people not being faithful to God, sinful,
but the other nations of the world also wicked in God's condemnation
of them. then Lord willing, tomorrow we
will see the final triumph of the servant of the Lord. Because
what we have to see first is what God has to deal with. God
has to deal with people like you and like me. People who are
not as devoted to him, who are not as obedient to him as we
should be. Now maybe some of you are doing
your best. Maybe you're an exception here. But for most of us, we could
be seeking God. We could, there are areas which
may, of our lives, which are not under God's control. And
we need to make sure that we are completely consecrated, completely
given to the Lord. Every day this week, we've been
singing, all for Jesus. And I hope that is our commitment. I desire for that to be our commitment. My prayer is that the Lord will
use his word this week to call us to commit to being like him. But if we are saving areas of
our lives for ourselves or for sin, we are not what we should
be. So I'm calling those of you who
are children of God, to ask God to examine you as we look at
this Word. Those of you who have never trusted
in Jesus, this is a time for you to see, am I like these people,
the Jews or these other people? So be looking at God's Word and
comparing yourself. Am I like this? or with God's
help. Am I actually trying to do that?
All right. Why don't we go ahead and get
the back light off so we can see the screen just a little
bit better here. What we want to see in these
first 12 chapters is the obstacle of his own. An obstacle is a
problem. It's like a giant wall or a giant
problem. And God's problem is his people. He says in verse 2, I have my
kiddos. They are my family. They are
my children. Here are my children and I look
at my children and I say, this is not right. My kids are not
the way I want them to be. My kids have not been brought
up right. They have not responded to my
teaching. They have not responded to my
fatherly care. I am their father. And they're like, they're worse
than the animals. Do you remember the other guy
we compared to animals earlier? He was like a donkey. Who was
the donkey guy? Yes. What was it? Not Bilem like a sheep, but Balem. Yes, Balem. Remember, Balaam
was dumber than donkey. Well, here are God's own people,
his children, and God says, you know what? There are ox, oxen,
more than one. They go and they eat where they
should. There are, verse three says,
the donkey knows where to find a place to rest. Oxen, donkeys,
good. They know their owner. Here are
my children, the ones I brought out of Egypt, and they're all
messed up. And so, it's like God remembers
all the past history with Israel. I mean, here are God's chosen
people. 1-1 says it's Judah. Who is Judah? These are the people
who say, Father Abraham. And Father Abraham is their father.
And they can go through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. They go down the
line and they remember, you know, God made a covenant with Abraham. God said Abraham would be the
one that the blessing comes through. And that's true. And they said,
you know what? Not only are we the benefit,
we get Abraham's benefits. We can remember our history.
We remember Sinai. Moses brought the people out
of Egypt. We beat them bad. Boy, they,
we knocked them down. The Lord did it. Ten plagues,
Red Sea. we go through Sinai, God's Ten
Commandments, awesome possum. And God gives his covenant with
Moses and God said, you obey me, I will bless you. Disobey
me and watch out. Blessing and cursing. That's
Mount Sinai. Ten Commandments, all the rest,
that's Moses. And in the Ten Commandments,
and that covenant, the Mosaic Covenant, God said, you are mine. You are my people. And the people
say, yes, God, we are yours. Right, so they have the Abrahamic
Covenant. They have the Mosaic Covenant.
And then, a thousand years before Jesus comes, there's King David,
second king of Israel. And God says to David, David,
you're a man after my own heart. David wants to build a temple. And God says, I love that. David,
I'm going to build you a house. Your throne is going to be established
forever and ever. Look at this. This is a kingdom,
unlike Saul's, that will not pass away. And so here is Abraham. Here is Moses. Here it's David,
these wonderful covenants, these wonderful promises God has made
to his people. And the people were saying, yeah,
oh yeah, oh yes, yes, yes. Right? We have this history. We have this history with God. We have these promises God has
made. God promised Abraham, look, you
will be the instrument. Your descendants will be the
one through whom God will bless all the world. God promises Moses,
look, if your people obey me, if they keep this covenant, you
will be blessed. Now, if you disobey, other things
will happen. And then God promises David,
look, your throne is established forever. There's going to come
from you someone who will reign forever, the Davidic covenant.
These are the promises of God. And here is Judah on the throne. These kingdoms, Uzziah, Jotham,
Ahaz, Hezekiah, these are all descendants of David. Right? And to these kings and to these
people of this nation of Judah, God says, man, you've missed a lot. You've gone
off course. You call me my, you say my God,
you say, You are my people, but look at the way you are living.
I mean, the wickedness of God's people, the people who went about
saying, you are my Lord, you are my God. These are God's people. And God says, look, you, you're
my people. You're my children. We just read
verse two, my people. I brought up children. You're
my kiddos. Right? Fathers love their kids. And when kids rebel, when kids
disobey, there is a way to grieve and hurt your father. And these are children that have
made their dad sad. They've disappointed him. And
so God says, look, verse 3, the ox knows its owner, the donkey
its master's crib. Israel doesn't know. Israel doesn't
consider. Who am I? Who are you? You are mine. You have promised
to obey, and you're not. You promised to be my people,
to go by my covenant, and you are breaking my covenant. You
are breaking The things I told you to do, you said you do, and
you're not. And so these people are stupid.
They're worse than the ox, worse than the donkey. Israel doesn't
know. An ox knows his place. A donkey knows where to find
its food. But these people are not looking
to the God. Trusting in Him, they forgot
about God. They were unhealthy, spiritually
speaking. It's like they have a bad case
of COVID, of leprosy. From head to toe, they are sick. Sick, sick, sick. Nasty people. And so they are spiritually unhealthy. They are sin sick. Thirdly, because
of their sin, now they are under God's judgment. Verse 7 says
your country's desolate. Your cities are burned with fire.
Strangers devour your land. Why? Because God, remember Moses
said in the Mosaic Covenant, if you disobey, bad times come. It's all coming. Not because
God is out of control or lost control. It's coming because
these people broke God's law. They disobeyed God and it's not
fun. It's not cool. It's not good. It is painful. Verse 9 says, unless the Lord
of Hosts had left us a remnant, we would have been like Sodom
and Gomorrah. Do you remember Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis 19? A fire righteously destroyed
those cities. Brimstone, ashes. Terrible fate. A deserved end. Because of their sin. But
that's not all. It would be bad enough if God
could stop here, but he continues. He says, look, my people, what
have they done? Look at verse 10. He is now calling
his people Judah by the name of these wicked people. Look
at verse 10. Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom. Wait a minute, Sodom was destroyed.
Yes. This city, God, this country,
God's country, Judah, is as bad as Sodom. Give ear to the law
of our Lord. What? You people of What is the purpose of the multitude
of your sacrifices to me? See, they're killing animals
right and left. They're sacrificing. They see
the rule book and it says, do this, and they're doing it, but
their worship is wrong. Their worship is not acceptable. The rams, the cattle, the bulls,
the goats, Verse 13 says, bring no more
futile sacrifices. You are trying, you say you're
worshiping me, and you're doing all these things, and they're
even right things, otherwise right, with a right heart. But when the heart is wrong,
all your money, all your sacrifices are for nothing. Bring no more futile sacrifices,
verse 13. The incense, the things that
I command, no. Once something good, a good smell,
a perfume, now it's an abomination. Now it's like a dead, decaying
corpse. It stinks. Incense is an abomination to
me, verse 13. New Moon Sabbaths, Culling of
Assemblings, I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meat. What should be to the praise
and glory of God has become something God rejects. Verse 15 says, when you spread
out your hands, right? They're praying. I will hide
my eyes from you. Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear. Why? Your hands are full of blood. So instead of doing righteousness,
they tried to escape righteousness. Verse 21. How the faithful city,
right, Jerusalem, that wonderful city, the peaceful city, the
faithful city has become a harlot. It was full of justice, goodness,
righteousness, but righteousness lodged in it. But now, instead
of righteousness and justice, who's there? Murderers. killers, right? They're trying to get away from
righteousness instead of doing righteousness. They're rebellious,
verse 23, they're thieves, they like to be bribed. This is not
good. So what we see is God's own wicked
children were indeed offered grace. They were given a chance
to return to God. Verse 16. Wash yourselves. Make yourselves clean. Put away
the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease. It means stop. Cease to do evil. Stop the badness. Stop. Learn to do good. That's what you're here for,
right? Learn to do good. Seek justice. Rebuke the oppressor. Defend the fatherless. Plead
for the widow. Verse 18, come now and let us
reason. Use your brains. Stop being senseless. Come to your senses. Return to
me. Come now and let us reason together,
says the Lord. Don't your sins be as scarlet. Right? You are bloody. You are
murderers. You are killers. You are thieves.
You are wicked. Don't your sins be as scarlet.
They shall be as white as snow. Forgiveness. Cleansing. Refreshment. Especially in this summer, right?
It's hot out there. Though they be red like crimson,
some of you are red shirts, right? Those red shirts like wool, white,
fleecy sheep, right? White sheep. If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good of the land. So God offers restoration. Look at chapter 2. It says, and
God says, you know what? One day this offer will be taken. In the latter days, the mountain
of the Lord's house will be established at the top of the mountains.
All the people, all nations shall flow into it. Many people shall
come and say, come, let us go to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways. So grace is offering. there's
a chance to return to God. God's people are going to turn
from their useless riches, verse seven, a land that's full of
silver and gold, no end of their treasure, a land full of horses,
no end of their chariots. They're going to turn from this
materialism, this stuff, from the terror of the Lord, verse
21. They'll go to the glory of his
majesty. So sever yourselves from the wickedness whose breath
is in their nostrils. They're going to turn from their
idolatry. Verse 8 says, their land is full
of idols. And they're going to turn, verse
18, to the true and the living God. Verse 18 says, he will abolish
idolatry. God will judge. They will no
longer be so proud. Verse 11, the lofty looks of
mine, they will be humbled. The Messiah, the branch, will
come. This is the Lord Jesus Christ. This is one of His names. And
so, look at Isaiah chapter 4, verse 2. In that day, the branch
of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious. And the fruit of
the earth shall be excellent and appealing for those of Israel
who have escaped. There will be a day, there has
been a day, when the branch, the Messiah, has come. The branch,
the Messiah, is the one who is beautiful. The branch, the Messiah,
is the one who comes to offer forgiveness, who comes to make
an unfruitful people fruitful. So in Isaiah 5, there is a vineyard,
a place with grapes. And God is a farmer, and he goes
out and he looks for yummy grapes. You guys like grapes? Anyone
here like grapes? I see a few of you. Alright, the grapes are good,
right? And so he goes out to get grapes, and eww, man! It's sour! They're wild! They're
not... Man! Here is the farmer going
out to get good grapes, going out to his people, and they're
not the way he should be. They should be. And so, what
we find is Jesus says, you know what? I am the branch. I am the vine. You are the branches. You guys, when you get life from
me, you are able to bring forth good fruit. You are able to bring
forth the fruits. So this wild vineyard, chapter
5, becomes a good place. And those of us who have trusted
in Jesus Christ are able to bring forth good fruit with the Holy
Spirit. Now then, that was God's people. Quickly, the world. The world
in chapters 13 through 24, just note this, Babylon, Assyria,
Philistia, Moab, Damascus, Jacob, Push, Egypt, all of these guys,
the rest of the world, also bad. God's people bad. The world bad. What's God going to do? He's
going to send his Messiah. He's going to send the servant
of the Lord to redeem bad people and make them good through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Let's pray. Our Father in heaven, we do thank
you for redemption when it comes to Jesus Christ, our Lord. Lord,
we look at the world and we see that the world, like us, are
sinners. We need Jesus. We need him so
badly. Lord, we are so bad. But Lord, we can be good when
we trust in Jesus and by his grace, learn to do good. Lord,
I pray that you would use your word, even this afternoon, to
cause us to see our need for your son. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, elementary first,
and then middle.
The Problem of Sin in Isaiah
Series SCS Secondary Chapel
Isaiah could be described as the Gospel of the Old Testament. Yet, like Romans, Isaiah bringer of Good News, pronounces that Judah has been characterized by sin. Judah is a mess, a sinful mess. What can be done?
| Sermon ID | 8272471011581 |
| Duration | 46:13 |
| Date | |
| Category | Conference |
| Bible Text | Isaiah 1-39 |
| Language | English |
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