Isaiah 1:12 Such texts as this ought to terrify us. For they speak of religious people and of a religious nation, and of a fearful mistake which they were making, and a fearful danger into which they had fallen. I. Isaiah tells the religious Jews of his day that their worship of God, their church-... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 1:16 As early then as the time of Isaiah we find the doctrine of the reformation of character dependent on forgiveness of sin distinctly taught. Consider: I. The demand made. (1) The nature of the demand. It is for a reformation of practice. Put in one word, it is Reform. This is the one D... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 1:18 What are a few of the leading lines of God's instruction to the soul? I. He teaches through conscience. Conscience is a "necessary idea." Nothing is so certain as that; from east to west, from north and south, comes testimony to that fact. The poems of Homer, the awful hints and warnin... [ Continue Reading ]