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Verse Isaiah 55:6. _SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND_] Rab.
_David_ _Kimchi_ gives the true sense of this passage: "Seek ye the
Lord, because he may be found: call upon him, because he is near....
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SEEK YE THE LORD - The commencement of religion in the heart is often
represented as seeking for God. or inquiring for his ways Deuteronomy
4:29; Job 5:8; Job 8:5;...
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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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MAY BE: i.e. letteth Himself be....
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The call to repentance, because of the nearness of the kingdom of God.
_while he may be found … while he is near_ in the "acceptable time"
the "day of salvation" (ch. Isaiah 49:8). Comp. further Jere...
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DISCOURSE: 983
OF SEEKING THE LORD IN TIME
Isaiah 55:6. _Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him
while he is near_ [Note: There is a beautiful plan of a Sermon on this
text in Claude...
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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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Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is
near:
SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND. The condition and limit in
the obtaining of the spiritual benefits (Isaiah 55:1):...
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1. WATERS.. WINE.. MILK] These stand figuratively, as the whole
context shows, for spiritual blessings....
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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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God is not a distant God. People can easily reach him. He is close to
them. He hears their prayers....
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WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND... — The appeal shows that the promised
blessings are not unconditional. There may come a time (as in Matthew
25:11) when “too late will be written on all efforts to gain the
inh...
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דִּרְשׁ֥וּ יְהוָ֖ה בְּ הִמָּצְאֹ֑ו
קְרָאֻ֖הוּ בִּֽ...
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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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_Near. He will shortly (Calmet) turn to the Gentiles, John xii. 35.,
and Acts xiii. 46. (Haydock)_...
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Oh! how blessed is it to see the earnestness with which the Lord
pleads with his people. The gospel is called the ministry of
reconciliation, 2 Corinthians 5:18....
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6._Seek ye Jehovah. _After having spoken of the good success of the
gospel among the Gentiles, who formerly were strangers to the kingdom
of God, he urges the Jews to be ashamed of loitering while oth...
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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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SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND,.... The Lord is to be sought
unto at all times, whenever the people of God meet together,
especially on sabbath days, and while the external ministry of the
wor...
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Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is
near:
Ver. 6. _Seek ye the Lord while he may be found._] Seek not his
omnipresence - for that ye need not do, since he is not far...
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_Seek ye the Lord_, &c. Having discoursed of the office and work of
Christ, and showed that he should call people and nations to himself
and to God, the prophet now endeavours to persuade the people t...
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Seek ye the Lord, so the Lord now calls out to Israel through the
proclamation of His prophet, WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND, while the time of
grace is still present with them; CALL YE UPON HIM WHILE HE IS N...
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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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SEEK YE THE LORD: having discoursed of the office and work of Christ,
and showed that he should call people and nations to himself, and to
God, he now endeavours to persuade the people to hearken to h...
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Isaiah 55:6 Seek H1875 (H8798) LORD H3068 found H4672 (H8736) Call
H7121 (H8798) near H7138
Seek -...
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THE COMMAND TO SEEK YAHWEH (ISAIAH 55:6).
And now as a result of the triumph of the Servant and of the Davidic
King the call of mercy can go out to all.
Isaiah 55:6
‘Seek Yahweh while he may be fou...
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Isaiah 55:6
I. Consider what we are to understand by seeking the Lord. It is in
His double aspect, combined but not contradictory character, as at
once just and the justifier of them that believe in J...
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Isaiah 55:6
I. Observe the order of the steps of grace. You are first to feel
after God in your own heart, "if haply you may find Him;" and when
this has brought you a little near, then you are to cal...
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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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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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Isaiah 55:1. _Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and
he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and
milk without money and without price._
The description of...
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This chapter might very well have been found in the Gospel according
to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John, for it is so plain, so simple,
and so full of Gospel teaching.
Isaiah 55:1. _Ho, every one...
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Isaiah 55:1. _Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and
he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and
milk without money and without price._
Let no one ask whet...
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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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_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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_Behold I have given Him for a Witness to the people_
WITNESS; LEADER; COMMANDER
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Most modern authorities hold that the person spoken of in Isaiah 55:4.
is the historical David, and that Isaiah 55...
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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 55:6 SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND.
Since this is God’s offer, he is free to withdraw it. People should
not be foolish and delay (see...
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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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1 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Chronicles 19:3; 2 Corinthians 6:1; 2 Corinthians
6:2;...
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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...
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Seek — Labour to get the knowledge of God's will, and to obtain his
grace and favour. While — In this day of grace, while he offers
mercy and reconciliation. Near — Ready and desirous to receive you
t...