Lesson from Isaiah
#1"They Received No Correction"
Isa. 1:8-17
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Isaiah 1:1-7 | God’s people refused to receive the correction that God promised He would give to them. The promises of God were a central part of the covenant that God made with Israel at Mount Sinai. These promises include promises of His correction, when Israel needed it, as well as promises of other more well-known blessings such as His protection and care. One of the greatest of all blessings given to a righteous man is that given to David, that there would always be a descendant of his sitting on the throne. The second part of that incredible promise, however, was that God’s mercy would never be taken from David’s descendants, which means that God promised always to extent His reproof and correction to those descendants if they did wrong. |
Why did some of those descendants and most in Israel not receive God’s correction?
Because of faith in other gods.
But why did they cling to faith in other gods?
So they would not have to repent from their sins.
Jesus told me in 1981 that “It tickles the devil for God’s people to blame their problems on him.” Immediately then, I understood that it pleases Satan for God’s people to blame him for their sufferings because as long as they are blaming the devil for their sufferings, they are not seeking God’s purpose for their suffering.
God has not lost control of this universe, to the least degree. He is not running around trying to fix the trouble that the devil causes but is never quite able to catch up with him. It is this knowledge that enabled wise men to write, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”
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Job 37:1-14 | “God causes it to come” | |
Ps. 94:8-13 | God chastens the heathen. Then, will he not chasten His children? | |
Zeph. 3:2 | Jerusalem received no correction. | |
Prov. 15:10 | Correction seems grievous to a person who has forsaken the right way. | |
Heb. 12:1-17 | God’s chastening can seem grievous–until it produces its fruit. | |
Ps. 38:1 | David knew what God’s power could do to His children, if He were like men. | |
Jer. 10:23-24 | So did Jeremiah. | |
Jer. 46:27-28 | Still, Jeremiah wanted to be corrected. He wanted to be loved. | |
Prov. 23:12-14 | To be like God includes possessing His attitude toward correction when we are dealing with our children. | |
Prov. 3:11-12 | To be like God includes possessing the attitude God has toward correction, even when we are the children being corrected. |
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