THE ARGUMENT OF GODDiscovering the Salvation of the Lord

Through The Grace of God

Isaiah 1-2

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, And who will go for

Us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.” 9 And He said, “Go, and tell this people:

Isaiah 6:1, 8-9

THE ARGUMENT OF GOD

1. Look what’s happening to your life v. 1-3

THE ARGUMENT OF GOD

1. Look what’s happening to your life v. 1-31a) You haven’t taken anything to heart

“I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled

against Me;

Isaiah 1:2

The ox knows its owner And the donkey its master’s crib; But Israel does not know, My people do not

consider.”

Isaiah 1:3

Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers, Children

who are corrupters!

Isaiah 1:4

THE ARGUMENT OF GOD

1. Look what’s happening to your life v. 1-31a) You haven’t taken anything to heart

b) You’re not really into the worship of me

Unless the LORD of hosts Had left to us a very small remnant, We would have become like Sodom, We would have

been made like Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, You rulers of Sodom;

Give ear to the law of our God, You people of Gomorrah:

Isaiah 1:9-10

THE CYCLE OF A NATION1. The age of pioneer.

2. The age of conquests.

3. The age of commerce.

4. The age of affluence.

5. The age of intellect.

6. The age of decadence.

7. The age of decline and collapse.

(vision, passion, simplicity self-rule)

(expansion, development, growth)

(wealth and influence)

(leisure and pleasure)

(self reliance and arrogance)

(tolerance and acceptance)

(greatest amount of rule and law)

Each stage helps the progression to the next as the values of a people change over time. Military, politics, economics and religious developments – these all shape an

empire's citizens to act and believe differently over time.

“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?” Says the LORD. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle. I do not

delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs or goats. …

Isaiah 1:11-15

…12 “When you come to appear before Me, Who has required this from your

hand, To trample My courts? 13 Bring no more futile sacrifices; Incense is an

abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of…

Isaiah 1:11-15

…assemblies - - I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. 14 Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They are a trouble to Me, I

am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out your hands, I…

Isaiah 1:11-15

…will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not

hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 1:11-15

He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you

But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8

Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you swoop down on the

spoil, and do evil in the sight of the LORD?” :20 And Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and gone

on the mission on

1 Samuel 15:19-23

…which the LORD sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly

destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and

oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to…

1 Samuel 15:19-23

…sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.” :22 So Samuel said: “Has the

LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than

sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of…

1 Samuel 15:19-23

…rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected

the word of the LORD, He also has rejected you from being king.”

1 Samuel 15:19-23

Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His

ear heavy, That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your

God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.

Isaiah 59:1-2

This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie

and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light…

1John 1:5-10

…as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the

blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our

sins, He is faithful and just to…

1John 1:5-10

…forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say

that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

1John 1:5-10

“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,

17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow. …

Isaiah 1:16-23

…18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your

sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red

like crimson, They shall be as wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, …

Isaiah 1:16-23

…You shall eat the good of the land; 20 But if you refuse and rebel, You shall be devoured by the sword”; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken. 21 How the

faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; …

Isaiah 1:16-23

…Righteousness lodged in it, But now murderers. 22 Your silver has becomedross, Your wine mixed with water. 23

Your princes are rebellious, Andcompanions of thieves; Everyone loves

bribes, And follows after rewards. They…

Isaiah 1:16-23

…do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the cause of the widow come

before them.

Isaiah 1:16-23

“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are like

scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They

shall be as wool.

Isaiah 1:18

When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14 if My people who are called

by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from…

2 Chronicles 7:13-15

…their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and

heal their land. 15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer

made in this place.

2 Chronicles 7:13-15

Therefore the Lord says, The LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, “Ah,

I will rid Myself of My adversaries, And take vengeance on My enemies. 25I will turn My hand against you, And

thoroughly purge away your dross, …

Isaiah 1:24-26

…And take away all your alloy. 26 I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning.

Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city

Isaiah 1:24-26

“Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, Who write misfortune, Which

they have prescribed

Isaiah 10:1

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man

rules, the people groan.

Proverbs 29:2

Zion shall be redeemed with justice, And her penitents with righteousness. 28 The

destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together, And those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed. 29

For they shall be ashamed of the…

Isaiah 1:27-31

…terebinth trees Which you have desired; And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens which you have

chosen. 30 For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades, And as a

garden that has no water. 31 The strong shall be as…

Isaiah 1:27-31

…tinder, And the work of it as a spark; Both will burn together, And no one shall

quench them.

Isaiah 1:27-31

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 Now it

shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the LORD’S house Shall be

established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all

nations shall flow to it.

Isaiah 2:1-2

For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace, And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, Until her righteousness goes forth as

brightness, And her salvation as a lamp that burns.

Isaiah 62:1

Who is this who comes from Edom, With dyed garments from Bozrah, This One

who is glorious in His apparel, Traveling in the greatness of His strength? - “I who

speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

Isaiah 63:1

“I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I

will put them together like sheep of thefold, Like a flock in the midst of their

pasture; They shall make a loud noise…

Micah 2:12-13

…because of so many people. 13 The one who breaks open will come up before

them; They will break out, Pass through the gate, And go out by it; Their king

will pass before them, With the LORD at their head.”

Micah 2:12-13

For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the

coming of the Son of Man be.

Matthew 24:27

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and themoon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the

heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in…

Matthew 24:29-30

…heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son

of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Matthew 24:29-30

His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a namewritten on him that no one knows but he

himself. 13 He is dressed in a robedipped in blood, and his name is the Word

of God. 14 The armies of heaven…

Revelation 19:12-14

…were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white

and clean.

Revelation 19:12-14

3 “I have trodden the winepress alone, And from the peoples no one was with

Me. For I have trodden them in My anger, And trampled them in…

Isaiah 63:3-4

…My fury; Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, And I have stained all Myrobes. 4 For the day of vengeance is in

My heart,

Isaiah 63:3-4

Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the

LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall

walk in His paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And…

Isaiah 2:3-4

…the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 He shall judge between the nations, And rebuke many people; They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up

sword against…

Isaiah 2:3-4

…nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore.

Isaiah 2:3-4

For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place, …17 There I will make the horn of David grow; I will prepare a lamp for My

Anointed.

Psalm 132:13, 17

Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the

throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and

justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts

will perform this.

Isaiah 9:7

“In those days and at that time I will cause to grow up to David A Branch of

righteousness; He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. 16 In those days Judah will be saved, And Jerusalem

will dwell safely. And this is the…

Jeremiah 33:15-16

…name by which she will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.’

Jeremiah 33:15-16

O house of Jacob, come and let us walk In the light of the LORD. 6 For You have

forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways; They are soothsayers like the Philistines,

And they are…

Isaiah 2:5-9

…pleased with the children of foreigners. 7 Their land is also full of silver and gold, And there is no end to their treasures; Their land is also full of horses, And there is no end to

their chariots. 8 Their land is also full of idols; They worship…

Isaiah 2:5-9

…the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made. 9 People

bow down, And each man humbles himself; Therefore do not forgive them.

Isaiah 2:5-9

Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, From the terror of the LORD And the glory of His majesty. 11 The lofty looks of man

shall be humbled, The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, And the LORD alone

shall be exalted…

Isaiah 2:10-17

…in that day. 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts Shall come upon everything proud and lofty, Upon everything lifted up - - And it

shall be brought low - - 13 Upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted

up, And upon all the…

Isaiah 2:10-17

…oaks of Bashan; 14 Upon all the high mountains, And upon all the hills that arelifted up; 15 Upon every high tower, And upon every fortified wall; 16 Upon all the

ships of Tarshish, And upon all the beautiful sloops. 17 The loftiness of man…

Isaiah 2:10-17

…shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;

The LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

Isaiah 2:10-17

But the idols He shall utterly abolish. 19 They shall go into the holes of the rocks, And into the caves of the earth, From the terror of the LORD And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the

earth mightily.

Isaiah 2:18-19

Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and

island was moved out of its place. 15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty

men, every slave and…

Revelation 6:14-17

…every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the

wrath of the…

Revelation 6:14-17

…Lamb! 17 For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

Revelation 6:14-17

In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver And his idols of gold, Which they made, each for himself to worship, To the moles and bats, 21 To go into the clefts of

the rocks, And into the crags of the rugged rocks, From the…

Isaiah 2:20-22

…terror of the LORD And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake

the earth mightily. 22 Sever yourselves from such a man, Whose breath is in

his nostrils; For of what account is he?

Isaiah 2:20-22