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Verse Isaiah 55:9. _FOR_ AS _THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER_] I am persuaded
that כ _caph_, the particle of comparison, is lost in this place,
from the likeness of the particle כי _ki_, immediately preceding...
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FOR AS THE HEAVENS ... - This verse is designed merely to illustrate
the idea in the former. There is as great a difference between the
plans of God and those of people, as between the heavens and the...
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CHAPTER 55 SALVATION'S OFFER AND PROVISION
1. _The invitation to everyone and the promise (Isaiah 55:1) _ 2. _The
sure mercies of David (Isaiah 55:3) _ 3. _The exhortation to seek and
to forsake (Isai...
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SEEK YAHWEH, FOR THE GREAT DELIVERANCE IS AT HAND. Let the exiles seek
Yahweh, for the time is at hand. His plans for His people reach beyond
their own as far as the heavens are exalted above the eart...
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Jehovah's thoughts transcend those of man as much as the heaven is
higher than the earth. The point of the contrast is not the moral
quality of the Divine thoughts as opposed to those of the "wicked";...
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DISCOURSE: 985
GOD’S WAYS ABOVE OURS
Isaiah 55:8. _My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways
my ways, saith the Lord: for as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways highe...
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FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS— This whole period consists of
two comparative sentences; the one of which sets forth the height and
sublimity of the thoughts and ways of God, above the thoughts...
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2. EXTENT
TEXT: Isaiah 55:6-13
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Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is
near:
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let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
and let him retu...
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For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
FOR (AS) THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER THAN THE EARTH, SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER
THAN YO...
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1. WATERS.. WINE.. MILK] These stand figuratively, as the whole
context shows, for spiritual blessings....
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God uses ‘sky’ and ‘earth’ as picture words to show how
different are God’s actions from human actions.
• The sky is far above the earth. And God’s plans are much more
wonderful than any human plan....
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 55
THE *LORD’S INVITATION
V1 ‘Come, all you who are desperate to drink. Here is water!...
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כִּֽי ־גָבְה֥וּ שָׁמַ֖יִם מֵ אָ֑רֶץ
כֵּ֣ן גָּ
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Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 56:1
CHAPTER XXII
ON THE EVE OF RETURN
Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah 55:1,...
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THE FREE OFFER OF PARDONING GRACE
Isaiah 55:1-13
_The Prince of Life_, Isaiah 55:4, r.v. Four times in the New
Testament this title is applied to our Lord, and always in connection
with His Resurrect...
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Immediately following the song we have the prophet's great appeal. It
is made in the consciousness of the victory won by the Servant of the
Lord and the consequent possibility of restoration offered t...
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Among a thousand testimonies in proof of this doctrine, as if to draw
an everlasting line of distinction between the perfections of Jehovah
and the character of all his creatures, this of grace and me...
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9._For as the heavens are higher than the earth. _This agrees well
with that passage in which David, describing the mercy of God, says,
(Psalms 103:11) that it is as much more excellent “as the heaven...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 55, 56, AND 57.
Chapter s 55, 56, 57 are exhortations given in view of these things.
Chapter 55 is full free grace, which consequently embraces the
Gentiles....
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FOR AS THE HEAVENS, ARE HIGHER THAN THE EARTH,.... Than which there
cannot be conceived a greater distance:
SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS, AND MY THOUGHTS THAN YOUR
THOUGHTS; which may denote...
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For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Ver. 9. _For as the heavens are higher than the earth._] And that is
no small...
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For as the heavens are higher than the earth, separated by an
infinitely great distance, SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS AND MY
THOUGHTS THAN YOUR THOUGHTS. At the same time it is true that,
alth...
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ISRAEL CALLED TO REPENTANCE...
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6-13 Here is a gracious offer of pardon, and peace, and of all
happiness. It shall not be in vain to seek God, now his word is
calling to us, and his Spirit is striving with us. But there is a day
co...
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HIGHER THAN THE EARTH; inexpressibly and infinitely; for the distance
between the earth and the highest heavens is unmeasurable by any man
upon earth....
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THE CERTAIN FULFILMENT OF WHAT YAHWEH HAS PURPOSED THROUGH THE POWER
OF HIS WORD (ISAIAH 55:8).
Isaiah now concludes this section from Isaiah 40:1 onwards by a final
statement of the triumph of God's...
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Isaiah 55:8
I. The errors, in opposition to which the doctrine of the text is to
be asserted, are those connected with what has been technically termed
anthropomorphism.
II. The testimony of the text...
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It is the language of infinite mercy, speaking to the abject condition
of mankind. We have become naked, and poor and miserable through sin,
and God, instead of driving us from his presence, comes loa...
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Hear these inspired words, dear friends, as though they came fresh
from heaven, as though God himself spoke them at this moment out of
the excellent glory, for indeed he does so. The Word of God never...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's everlasting salvation.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: All are invited to partake of God's salvation provided
through Christ. All the world's wealth and pleasure cannot sati...
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Isaiah 55:12. _The mountains and the hills shall break forth before
you into singing._ Virgil has the like ideas. _Eclogue 5:_62.
_IPSI LÆTITIA VOCES AD SIDERA JACTANT INTONSI MONTES; IPSÆ JAM
CARMIN...
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_For as the heavens are higher than the earth,--_
THE NEAR AND HEAVENLY HORIZONS
I. THE HEAVENS ARE SO FAR ABOVE THE EARTH, AND THEREFORE SO PURE. By
nature, the trend of our thinkings and activities...
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_For My thoughts are not your thoughts_
GOD’S THOUGHTS
The thought of God! Who can fathom it?
Astronomers tell us of stars in the sky at such infinite distances
that their light, shooting through sp...
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_Let the wicked forsake his way_
THE WAY OF RETURN TO GOD AND ITS ENCOURAGEMENTS
1_._
Here there are apparently two things expressed--a negative and a
positive, two lines of conduct expressed--a for...
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_Seek ye the Lord while He may be found_
THE LORD TO BE SOUGHT
Notice how it reads: “Seek the Lord.
” It don’t say seek happiness; it don’t say seek peace; it
don’t say seek joy. A good many people...
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_He, every one that thirsteth_
THE CRIES OF THE WATER-CARRIERS
Public messages [Isaiah] would, as a matter of course, deliver
publicly in the frequented streets and bazaars, and in khans, and in
the...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 55:7 LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAY... LET HIM
RETURN. Thorough repentance is required. God’s THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR
THOUGHTS—that is, they are as high above man’s thoughts as the...
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GOD’S WAY OF PARDONING ABOVE MEN’S
Isaiah 55:8 _For my thoughts are not your thoughts, &c._
Suppose your sovereign taking a personal interest in you. But you have
become a rebel. She has every justif...
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GOD UNKNOWN YET KNOWN
Isaiah 55:6. _Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, &c._
There is a paradox in these words. They invite us to seek a God who
yet cannot be found, to know a God who yet cannot...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 55:1
AN EXHORTATION TO SPIRITUALITY AND REPENTANCE. The prophet passes from
the ideal to the actual, from the glorious future to the
unsatisfactory present. The people are not ripe...
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Ho, every one that thirsteth (Isaiah 55:1),
Going into the glorious Kingdom Age. Now, God detests and hates
commercialism. God hates how people take advantage of one another.
Profiteering on someone e...
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Matthew 11:25; Psalms 103:11; Psalms 36:5; Psalms 77:19; Psalms 89:2
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THE GREAT INVITATION
Isaiah 55:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Isaiah 55:1 is a marvelous appendix to the fifty-second and
fifty-third Chapter s. In discussing the fifty-third chapter we saw
the marvelous stor...