Presented here is a verse by verse exposition of the New . Perhaps this is a preview of believers calling out to other believers in a symphony of praise to God. conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy (Mt 13:10-17). 15:5; 2 Chr 26:20, 21). Page183. The seraphim Isaiah saw are magnificent beings. Both this woman and Isaiah show the close link between humility, coming helplessly before the Lord, and obedience. We do not know God as He really is. The centerpiece is Isaiahs unrivaled chap. Then ask the Lord to translate your sense of brokenness into an eager willingness to follow Him more fully. Consequently "God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to a depraved mind" (Ro 1:24-note, Ro 1:28-note). Prophets GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. There was an advanced religious corruption Departure from God inevitably results in moral and social corruption, and these are apparent, It was to this people that Isaiah was commissioned to preach, and while Judah was not as far degenerate as the northern kingdom of Israel, it was a people so immersed in sin as to be incapable of repentance and correction. He makes himself as we have said, visible to men, and God in him. We see a similar "judicial hardening" of men in the last days (during Daniel's Seventieth Week = the Tribulation), Paul describing the time when, that lawless one (Antichrist) will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming (Second Coming of Messiah), that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because (Here is the root cause of why God "hardens" hearts - His judicial hardening) they did not receive the love of the truth (They made a volitional choice to reject the only Truth that gives life Jn 14:6 and sets free Jn 8:31, 32) so as to be saved. Israel would sprout like the terebinth (an oak-like tree from which, when cut, flows a fragrant, resinous juice) and oak trees. In this sense it is a genuinely strategic chapter, shaping and defining the book as a whole. Luke-Acts (Gal 3:16, cf Ge 22:18 where "seed" = Messiah), the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. Damah - 15x in 14v in the NAS - Ps 49:12, 20; Isa 6:5; 15:1; Jer 6:2; 14:17; 47:5; Lam 3:49; Hos 4:5, 6; 10:7, 15; Obad 1:5; Zeph 1:11. Isaiah was to preach to stony soil in order that it might be apparent that the nation no longer was responsive to God and was ripe for banishment. He was judged with leprosy, from which he never recovered (2 Kin. And for this reason (What reason? Pentateuch They need to have their lips touched with a living coal. The Lord is angry with all nations; his wrath is on all their armies. Pauline Epistles He might allow me to have what I want. To contend that those yet unfulfilled will see non-literal fulfillment is biblically groundless. Wiersbe -"Go and tell" is still God's command to His people (Isa 6:9; see Mt 28:7; Mk 5:19). All rights reserved.For details about our copyright policy, click here: https://www.gty.org/about#copyright Although, one should avoid dogmatic interpretation, it seems to predict that the remnant will pass through another "fire", which could refer to further chastisement. Isaiah 9:6 Isaiah 9:6 may be the most familiar Old Testament prophecy about the birth of Christ. Keep on listening do not perceive keep on looking do not understand - Can you imagine Isaiah's first reaction upon hearing these words he was to speak to the people of Judah - to say they are not seeker friendly would be an understatement! (a) the Masters right to implicit obedience (Jn 13:13; Mt. Given a choice, you certainly wouldnt repeat it. Roma Downey, who has never renounced her extensive New Age involvement, is now firmly entrenched and aligned with contemporary Christian leadership. I know you will apply hard to German, but do not forget the culture of the inner manI mean of the heart. Secondly, if the theocracy was to come to an end, then it must be evident that it no longer had a concern for God. Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth. The same distinction appears in Josh 7:8, 9, 10, 11. Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; (The Commission of Isaiah - Emmaus Journal V4:1, Summer, 95). B & H Publishing Group), it is impossible to link Isaiah 6 solely to chs. (1 Ki 8:10, 11, 12), Tony Garland in his discussion of The Abiding Presence of God (take a moment to read this insightful discussion) writes that. had to take over the duties of king before his fathers death. Isaiah: The Promise of the Messiah (MacArthur Bible Studies) Paperback - January 12, 2021 by John F. MacArthur (Author) 182 ratings Part of: MacArthur Bible Studies (36 books) See all formats and editions Kindle $9.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback $11.79 20 Used from $6.49 30 New from $7.71 Save 50% on 1 when you buy 2 Shop items Great on Kindle Tame' describes that which has become ceremonially impure by not following the Levitical laws properly or who had come in contact with something that rendered him unclean. The Whole Bible Pastor John MacArthur. 14 "In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, 'YOU WILL KEEP ON HEARING , BUT WILL NOT UNDERSTAND; YOU WILL KEEP ON SEEING, BUT WILL NOT PERCEIVE; 15 FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS BECOME DULL, WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY HEAR , AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES , OTHERWISE THEY WOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES , HEAR WITH THEIR EARS , AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART AND RETURN , AND I WOULD HEAL THEM. zera, a collective singular; cf. This well-known passage teaches us a lot about the God we worship and the ministry of worship itself. Isaiah contributes nothing; all is of GodThis touched your lips and your iniquity went. Oklahoma high school wrestling 2023 state championship results His ministry of expository preaching is unparalleled in its breadth and influence. True worship ought to lead to witness and service. That fits His role as Judge (see Jn 5:22, 23, 27, 30; 9:39)." Too many Christians want to hold on to a "spiritual experience" with the Lord, rather than be prepared to go out to share the Lord with others. On the other it is the execution of Gods righteous judgment. In fact, over 600 years after Isaiah lived, John heard the same testimony in heaven: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty (Rev. In the majority of cases chatta'ah denotes sins against man, e.g. In the OT the terms for smoke appear chiefly in three contexts: theophanic portrayals (Ex 4:5, 19:18, 40:38, Ps 104:32, Ps 144:5), descriptions of mundane events whether actual or prophesied, and comparisons or figurative descriptions (eg, anger of God, Ps 74:1, 80:4). Behold, His glory filleth all the earth!. Only so can we really be prepared to give an effectual testimony. 2 Chronicles They need to confess the sins in their lives, because their service will be sterile and frustrating until that takes place. Perfect in power, in love, and purity. 3:15), God is still saving individuals (Rom. Volume 96:325. (Beasley-Murray, G. R. (2002). The thought of Isa 6:9, 10 is complex and must be viewed from different aspects. . Iniquity (05771)('avon) is a verb with the basic meaning of to bend, twist, distort. Pastor John MacArthur. Cookie Notice: Angels tremble, martyrs weep, and saints perfected praise Him now! He places His Spirit within us so that Christ is formed in us (Gal. More from John MacArthur The Home of a Godly Shepherd John MacArthur, 3 days ago (Moody). Overwhelmed by acute awareness of his own sinfulness This is remarkable considering Isaiah was a member of the religious elite" (Jerry Bridges), I am ruined - KJV "I am undone". Isaiah received the message of chapter 5, and in ch. Who did Isaiah see? Every hope I must abandon! The Gospels (a) worship God and praise him with the heavenly hosts; (b) repent of daily sins in order to enter the presence of a holy God; (d) speak the message God gives regardless of its popularity or severity; (e) cause some to harden themselves for destruction; or. His enemies react to His miracles with hatred and reviling; His true disciples, with homage and reverence. Isaiah 6:1-13 Commentary - Sermon Writer He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. (cf Ex. God will send upon them a deluding influence (Their repeated rejection reaps righteous retribution from God!) How did God show mercy to Isaiah? It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus. Humility and brokenness arent very popular in our culture. Isaiah 6:10b reflects the people's attitude and might be paraphrased accordingly: "Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their mind, repent, and be restored, and they certainly wouldn't want that, would they?". Beloved, we all do well to ponder the truth that the Lord always fulfills His Word, even though the fulfillment may be long in coming. Therefore, we need to have the redemption of Christ applied to our lives again and again and again. The LORD of hosts - In Isa 6:1, 8, 11 the divine name is Adonai but the Seraphim acclaim Him as Jehovah Sabaoth, LORD of the armies. Since God is perfectly holy and heaven is His dwelling place, it follows that heaven must be a holy place where no sin can exist. Furthermore not only was Isaiah himself a man of unclean lips, he was a member of a nation with unclean lips. The triplicate is the strongest way the Hebrew language can express the superlative (cf Ezek 21:27, Jer 22:29, cf NT triplicates - Re 8:13, ). It would be beneficial for us to review these Scriptures, lest any of us should think we stand (1Cor 10:12). Holy, holy, holy! By the gracious work of the Majestic and Holy One upon the throne through atonement his sins are taken care of along with the resultant guilt. Trembled (05128) (nua/nuwa) means to move back and forth, to and fro (cf Ex 20:18, 1Sa 1:13). Other titles give it the sense of dwelling, which portrays what the Shechinah Glory does. O Lord, he was saying, Lord, you called me to be a fisher of men and I failed. Isaiah 53:10-12. As with Moses, the Lord of life and service enables His servants to carry out His commands when they yield themselves to Him and obey. Sennacherib, the Assyrian king, invaded the coastal areas of Israel, marching toward Egypt on Israels southern flank. Who was, and is, and evermore shall be. Yet the period witnessed a decline in Judahs spiritual status. who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" The mission is to catch persons alive. (Zech 14:8, 9+), is a man with unclean lips. Many hear the sound of God's word, but do not feel the power of it. Johannine Writings It may signify 1) the presence of God (cf. (Ibid), We make calls out of our own spiritual consecration, but when we get right with God He brushes all these aside, and rivets us with a pain that is terrific to one thing we never dreamed of, and for one radiant flashing moment we see what He is after, and we say - "Here am I, send me." (The Commission of Isaiah - Emmaus Journal V4:1, Summer, 95), Motyer observes that "The two verbs, has touched and is taken away, are co-ordinate perfects, stressing that as soon as the one happened the other happened also. Compare other allusions to physical manifestations of God's power (Ex 19:18, Acts 4:31). Above the throne were stately seraphim; Job had an experience similar to Isaiah's, and his reaction was, "I abhor myself." His writing style has no rival in its versatility of expression, brilliance of imagery, and richness of vocabulary. The NET note however feels that "The plural pronoun ("us") refers to the Lord, the seraphs, and the rest of the heavenly assembly. In Old Testament times, slaves were the absolute possession of their master and had no rights of their own. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications), Nathan Stone comments on use of Adonai in Isaiah 6 noting that. The Government on His Shoulders - Grace to You Nashville: Thomas Nelson). His writing style has no rival in its versatility of expression, brilliance of imagery, and richness of vocabulary. He essentially offered himself as a blank check, to be filled in as God saw fit With Isaiah we see a three-step process: first, acute realization of ones own sinfulness in the light of Gods holiness; second, hearing the gospel that ones sins are forgiven; and finally the response of gratitude, love, and surrender leading to actionFor many of us, such realizations may come in stages as we gradually grow in the Christian life. 15:37). We teach that there is but one living and true God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 45:5-7; 1 Corinthians 8:4), an infinite, all-knowing Spirit (John 4:24), perfect in all His attributes, one in essence, eternally existing in three PersonsFather, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14)each equally deserving worship and obedience. In fact Paul says that God dwells in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen or can see (1 Tim. Also, he does not provide as clear a distinction between the future temporal kingdom and the eternal kingdom as John does in Revelation 20:110; 21:122:5. Isaiah saw himself Those who are hardened by God are simply confirmed in their own sinful thoughts and desires. (See context inThe MacArthur Bible Commentary), Gary Smith has a good summation of the principle of judicial hardening explaining that, The doctrine of hardening people's hearts is a controversial perspective that initially seems almost inappropriate for a preacher or for God. Grogan writes that "This verse teaches us that in order to be an effective channel for Gods penetrating word, the power of that word must be felt in the persons own conscience. Ironically, Israel's rejection of prophetic preaching in turn expedites disciplinary punishment, and brings the battered people to a point where they might be ready for reconciliation. Ex. Ryrie -After the 70 years in Babylon, a tenth would return. 40:30; Ezek. J C Ryle comments on Peter's reaction in Luke 5:8 - We should observe how much a sense of Gods presence abases man and makes him aware of his sinfulness. 1 Samuel So in 701 B.C. The basic sense of the word "holy" is "set apart from that which is commonplace, special, unique." Notice the extent of his sense of sinfulness. This sovereign act of God, designed to make His power known (Ro 9:17-note) might seem cruel except that Pharaoh volitionally hardened his own heart against God (Ex 8:15), and so fully merited God's judgment. At the same time his holiness encompasses His moral authority, which derives from His royal position. It functions with both sections, both showing the way of hope for the future (in chs. Major Prophets Because Christian leaders and day-to-day believers have given Roma Downey a get-out-of-the-new-age free pass, Lighthouse Trails is releasing a second Roma Downey booklet today. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, (Hebrew/Greek Search by English Definition), * 'Number Delimiters' only apply to 'Paragraph Order', Search verses, phrases, and topics (e.g. Poetical Books What will my heart feel? All unclean, my lips, my spirit, vile and foul in all I do! A genuine meeting with Jesus alters ones perspective. TODAY ALONG THE WAY - Isaiah 6 is not the kind of text we can just read and put down. ', 16 "But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear. Isaiah refers frequently to the doctrine of the remnant (and a term often used synonymously = "survivors"), Remnant - Isa 10:20, 21, 22-note, Isa 11:11, 16-note, Isa 15:9, 16:14, 28:5, 37:4, 37:31, 37:32, 46:3, Survivor = Isa 1:9 Isa 4:2, 3 (he who is left and remains) Isa 37:32 Isa 66:19. Multiple related passages dealing with "judicial hardening"and the related topic of Jesus speaking in parables - Dt 29:4+, Isa 6:9,10+ Mt 13:11-15+ Mk 4:11-12+ Lk 8:10+ Jn 9:39-41, Jn 12:38-40Acts 28:26,27+ Ro 11:7-10+, 2Co 3:14-15+, Eph 4:17-18+, 2Th 2:10-12+. His focus on unclean lips may foreshadow his calling, but more likely signals that he understood how far short his worship fell of Gods worthiness. For example, nothing in Isaiah reveals the extended period separating the two comings of the Messiah. Numbers Only Thou art holy; there is none beside Thee, The reaction of Isaiah to such a vision is revolutionary. (The Commission of Isaiah - Emmaus Journal V4:1, Summer, 95), Regarding the trembling of the foundations Harry Ironside makes a piercing comment. TODAY IN THE WORD - Visitors to the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington can now peer directly into the huge crater left by the volcano's deadly eruption on May 18, 1980. isaiah 49 commentary john macarthur - senorzorro.com Praise God. A final question which needs to be answered is why Isaiah was to preach and call the nation to repentance which was already judicially blind. ), so the ruined Israel contains the indestructible germ of the future kingdom of God, the holy seed is wrapped up in it. The third presidential term of Franklin D. Roosevelt began on January 20, 1941, when he was once again inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States, and the fourth term of his presidency ended with his death on April 12, 1945. Woe! At this we need not wonder. He saw his need of Jesus Christ. Our knowledge of God is never exhaustive and perfect, but it is nevertheless true. 20:7). in the light of the Lord's infinite holiness. Like two sides of the same coin, both are real but can only be viewed and pondered separately. And when they had done this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish; and their nets began to break; and they signaled to their partners in the other boat, for them to come and help them.