Isaiah, Week 11, Days 5 & 6: Isaiah 56-57
Day Five: Read Isaiah 56:1-8
1. What does the Lord expect of those He invites into His Kingdom?
2. What two groups of people, previously excluded from God's people, will now be included? (See Deuteronomy 23:3, 7-8
3. How has the Servant's work made this possible? (See Colossians 1:21-23; 2:13-15)
Day Six: Read Isaiah 56:9-57:21
1. Who are Judah's "watchmen"? Describe their attitudes and actions. Judah's watchmen are their priests and religious leaders who are likened to dogs, described as blind, without knowledge, silent, love to lay down and slumber. They are greedy, each turning to his own way and gain, without regard for the flock they were to tend.
2. According to Isaiah 57:15, where does the Lord live? In a high and holy place but also with those of a contrite spirit
3. God will heal, lead, and restore comfort to the contrite. In contrast, the wicked are likened to a restless sea that cannot be quiet, that tosses up dirt and mire...no peace for the wicked.
1. What does the Lord expect of those He invites into His Kingdom?
2. What two groups of people, previously excluded from God's people, will now be included? (See Deuteronomy 23:3, 7-8
3. How has the Servant's work made this possible? (See Colossians 1:21-23; 2:13-15)
"We are not to burden ourselves with anxious cares about the future, but neither are we to pledge our future income to meet our present expenses. Nor are we to use, as bread for to-day, what God has sent to be sown as seed for the morrow.Forecasting is ever close by foreboding, hope is interwoven with fear, the golden threads of the weft crossing the dark ones of the warp, and the whole texture gleaming bright or glooming black according to the angle at which it is seen. So is it always until we turn our hope away from earth to God, and fall the future with the light of His presence and the certainty of His truth. We have an unchanging and an inexhaustible God, and He is the true guarantee of the future for us.
We ought to study the law of proportion, and to live in proportion to our income, to give in proportion to our income, and to save in proportion to our income and the position of responsibility in which we are placed, either as to family or work-people." -A. Clarke, Biblical Illustrator
1. Who are Judah's "watchmen"? Describe their attitudes and actions. Judah's watchmen are their priests and religious leaders who are likened to dogs, described as blind, without knowledge, silent, love to lay down and slumber. They are greedy, each turning to his own way and gain, without regard for the flock they were to tend.
2. According to Isaiah 57:15, where does the Lord live? In a high and holy place but also with those of a contrite spirit
3. God will heal, lead, and restore comfort to the contrite. In contrast, the wicked are likened to a restless sea that cannot be quiet, that tosses up dirt and mire...no peace for the wicked.
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