DISCOURSE: 856 GOD’S COMPLAINT AGAINST HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 1:2. _Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 857 THE SINPULNESS AND INCORRIGIBLENESS OF THE NATION Isaiah 1:4. _Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters! they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why shou... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 858 THE SERVICE WHICH ALONE IS PLEASING TO GOD Isaiah 1:10. Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha: To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and th... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 859 CRIMSON SINS MADE WHITE Isaiah 1:18. _Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool_. MAN is a rational being; and, though prone to abuse his reason for the... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 860 GOD PURIFYING HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 1:25. _I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin_. IN the Holy Scriptures, judgment is often denounced, and mercy promised, with such peculiar force and emphasis, as might lead one to imagine that it was... [ Continue Reading ]