Isaiah 5:1
I. "He looked that it should bring forth grapes." This is surely not
unreasonable. It is exactly what you and I should do. It will not be
denied by anybody that _we_are receiving the highest advantages that
ever fell to the lot of the world. God might challenge us to say what
He has left... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 5:2
To us God says, as to Israel of old, "What more could I do to My
vineyard that I have not done? Why, then, when I looked for grapes,
brought it forth wild grapes?"
Is not this indictment true? No true patriot, much less Christian, can
look without grave anxiety on the tastes and tendenc... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 5:4
I. The first way of putting, or rather of vindicating, the question of
our text is when we contend that Atheism has a far better apology for
resisting the evidences of a God which are spread over creation, than
worldly-mindedness for manifesting insensibility to redemption through
Christ... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 5:20
I. The sin against which I would warn you is the sin of disregarding,
and even of in the least degree underrating, the eternal distinctions
of right and wrong; it is, in one word, the sin of viewing things in
their wrong aspects, or of calling things by their wrong names. To
talk otherw... [ Continue Reading ]