"COME ON...BE REASONABLE"
TEXT: ISAIAH CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
IN AUGUST OF 1980 I LEFT -- UP STATE NEW YORK WHERE I WAS RECEIVING TRAINING IN THE NAVY TO GO TO JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA TO GET MARRIED.... IT WAS A LONG DRIVE AND I COULDN’T WAIT TO GET THERE. WHEN I ARRIVED I PULLED INTO THE DRIVE WAY OF JUDY’S PARENTS HOUSE, SHE AND HER FAMILY CAME OUT TO MEET ME.
LATER WHEN I WAS GETTING SOMETHING OUT OF THE TRUNK OF MY CAR - JUDY’S 3 YEAR OLD NEPHEW DID SOMETHING THAT I WILL NEVER FORGET. WHILE I WAS BENDING OVER THE TRUNK, WEARING A PAIR OF SHORTS (I MIGHT ADD), I FELT SOMETHING WARM AND WET RUNNING DOWN MY LEG AND LOOK TO FIND CHRIS JUDY’S NEPHEW PEEING ON MY LEG....
BESIDES BEING PEED ON I WAS ANGRY.... BUT NO ONE ELSE SEEMED TO TAKE IT TOO SERIOUSLY.... AND I BEING A MERE 20 YEARS OLD WITH NO EXPERIENCE WITH CHILDREN DECIDED I WOULD TAKE ACTION -- I TOOK CHRIS INTO A SIDE ROOM AND TRIED TO REASON WITH HIM (A 3 YEAR OLD) ABOUT WHY PEEING ON SOMEONE’S LEG IS NOT A NICE THING TO DO.. AFTER A FEW MINUTES I GAVE UP -- AS I DISCOVERED THAT REASONING WITH A 3 YEAR OLD ISN’T THAT EASY TO DO...
DON’T UNREASONABLE PEOPLE FRUSTRATE YOU? DOESN’T IT JUST DRIVE YOU CRAZY WHEN PEOPLE WON’T LISTEN TO SOUND REASON? INSURANCE COMPANIES FRUSTRATE YOU WITH WHAT MEDICAL TREATMENT THEY WILL COVER AND WHAT TREATMENT THEY WON’T COVER. EMPLOYERS FRUSTRATE EMPLOYEES WHEN EMPLOYEE’S KNOW A BETTER WAY TO DO THINGS BUT THEIR BOSSES WON’T LISTEN TO REASON....
PARENTS FRUSTRATE CHILDREN; CHILDREN FRUSTRATE PARENTS AND PEOPLE FRUSTRATE GOD ALL BECAUSE THEY DO NOT LISTEN TO REASON.
OUR TEXT TODAY IS THE FIRST CHAPTER OF ISAIAH, WHICH REALLY SERVES AS A PROLOGUE TO THE ENTIRE BOOK OF ISAIAH, A BOOK WRITTEN TO WARN GOD’S PEOPLE OF THE DANGERS OF REBELLION AND TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO RETURN TO HIM.
AND THIS WAS NOT THE FIRST NOR THE LAST TIME THAT GOD’S PEOPLE WOULD REBEL AGAINST HIM.
PAUL WROTE IN I CORINTHIANS 10:11;
"THESE THINGS HAPPENED TO THEM AS EXAMPLES AND WERE WRITTEN DOWN AS WARNINGS FOR US, ON WHOM THE FULFILLMENT OF THE AGES HAS COME..."
IN ISAIAH CHAPTER ONE WE SEE GOD CALLING HIS PEOPLE WHO ARE IN REBELLION AGAINST HIM -- THE ISRAELITES THEN AND US TODAY -- WE SEE GOD CALLING ON US TO BE REASONABLE, ASKING US TO THINK THINGS THROUGH, TO USE A LITTLE COMMON SENSE >> TO USE THE BRAINS THAT THE GOD LORD GAVE US, IN ORDER TO REALIZE WHAT WE ARE DOING...
GOD SAYS IN THE THEME TEXT FOR THIS PASSAGE, VERSE 18, "COME ON LET US REASON TOGETHER...."
NOW UNDERSTAND THAT GOD IS NOT OBLIGATED TO DO THIS -- HE DOES NOT HAVE TO GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO THINK THINGS THROUGH (HE IS GOD AND WE ARE NOT, HE IS IN CHARGE) -- BUT HE DOES!
AND I KNOW THAT GOD MUST FIND US AT TIMES AS HARD TO REASON WITH AS I FOUND JUDY’S 3 YEAR OLD NEPHEW, CHRIS.
HEAR ME, IT IS VERY UNREASONABLE AND EXTREMELY FUTILE FOR SOMEONE TO REBEL AGAINST GOD -- IT IS COMPLETELY ILLOGICAL.
BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS; THAT THE ISRAELITES 700 YEARS AGO WERE AND PEOPLE TODAY STILL ARE REBELLING AGAINST THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY -- MAYBE YOU’RE ONE OF THEM....
AND IF THAT’S THE CASE GOD’S PLEA TO YOU IS:
COME ON... BE REASONABLE
YOU’LL NEED A BIBLE AND AN OUTLINE -- IF YOU WANT TO GET THE MOST OUT OF GOD’S HOLY, GOD-BREATHED WORD TODAY....
THIS ENTIRE CHAPTER OF ISAIAH IS AN APPEAL FROM GOD TO HIS PEOPLE TO BE REASONABLE -- TO THINK THINGS THROUGH -- TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE DOING... TO GRASP JUST WHO THEY ARE AND WHO GOD IS.
FOR YOU SEE; THINKING, REASONING AND UNDERSTANDING ARE NOT OUR ENEMIES THEY ARE OUR FRIENDS... IT IS WHEN WE ACT WITHOUT THINKING THAT WE GET OURSELVES INTO TROUBLE. SATAN THE PRINCE OF THIS DARK WORLD, PREFER US TO BLINDLY LIVE LIFE LIKE AN ANIMAL DOING WHAT WE WANT WITHOUT EVER THINKING THINGS THROUGH... WITHOUT EVER THINKING ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES AND THE SUFFERING OUR ACTIONS WILL BRING.
BUT GOD ON THE OTHER HAND CALL ON US TO BE REASONABLE -- TO REASON WITH HIM... AND WHEN WE USE REASON WE WILL SEE THINGS GOD’S WAY.
OUR APPROACH TO THIS STUDY TODAY WILL IS TO READ THROUGH ISAIAH CHAPTER ONE A FEW PASSAGES AT A TIME -- STOPPING TO UNCOVER WHAT IS ASKING HIS PEOPLE TO REASON THROUGH...
ISAIAH 1:1,2
1. "I AM YOUR FATHER, I HAVE TAKEN CARE OF YOU"
NOW REMEMBER THAT THE ISRAELITE NATION AT THE TIME OF ISAIAH HAS TURNED THEIR BACKS ON GOD -- THEY HAD NEGLECTED HIS WORD -- PARTICIPATED IN IMMORALITY AND PRACTICED IDOLATRY (THEY PUT OTHER THINGS BEFORE GOD).
AND GOD WANTS THEM TO THINK THINGS THROUGH IN THE SECOND VERSE WHERE HE IS SAYING; "I AM YOUR FATHER, I BROUGHT YOU UP -- I PROVIDED FOR YOU -- I TOOK CARE OF YOU -- BUT YOU HAVE REBELLED AGAINST ME..." >>> GOD WANTS HIS PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND WHO THEIR REBELLION IS AGAINST:
> IT IS AGAINST ME! YOUR GOD! YOUR FATHER!
> AND ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU’RE REBELLION IS PURE UNADULTERATED OUT INGRATITUDE. AFTER ALL I HAVE DONE FOR YOU --YOU REBELLED AGAINST ME.. YOU HAVE BITTEN THE HAND THAT HAS FED YOU.
AND GOD HAD DONE A LOT FOR THE NATION OF ISRAEL... HE CALLED -- DELIVERED AND BLESSED THEM.
AND HE HAS DONE A LOT FOR US AS CHRISTIANS... HE HAS CALLED -- DELIVERED AND BLESSED US.
COME ON...BE REASONABLE
NEXT LET’S SEE WHAT GOD SAYS IN:
ISAIAH 1:3
2. "EVEN ANIMALS KNOW ENOUGH TO OBEY THEIR MASTERS"
IN THIS VERSE GOD IS SAYING; "YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE INTELLIGENT CROWN OF MY CREATION, AND YOU REALLY DO THINK YOU PRETTY SLICK AND SMART IN YOUR REBELLION... BUT IN REALITY, YOU ARE NOT SMART AT ALL IN FACT YOU HAVE LESS SENSE THAN A DONKEY OR AN OX....BECAUSE AT LEAST THEY KNOW TO LISTEN TO THEIR MASTER.
GOD WANTS YOU TO SEE THAT IN YOUR REBELLION YOU ARE NOT SO SMART, YOU ARE NOT SO SLICK -- YOU HAVE NOT FIGURED OUT EVERYTHING -- DON’T BE SO FULL OF YOURSELF FOR YOU ARE DUMBER THAN THE DUMBEST DOG.... YOUR JUST PLAIN STUPID!
AND IF YOU WOULD ONLY STOP LONG ENOUGH TO THINK THINGS THROUGH YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THIS, BUT LIKE THE ISRAELITES YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND... LISTEN TO:
ISAIAH 1:4
NOT TO SMART OF A MOVE
COME ON...BE REASONABLE
NEXT ISAIAH 1:5-8
3. "THE LIFE YOU ARE LIVING ONLY RESULTS IN SUFFERING"
(WALKING DOG -- CHOKER CHAIN; PULL AND STUBBORNLY STRUGGLES AGAINST >> GAGGING, CHOKING, SORES ON NECK)....
NOW, IF AN ANIMAL WILL SUFFER FOR DISOBEYING IT’S MASTER, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT YOU WON’T SUFFER FROM DISOBEYING AND FIGHTING AGAINST GOD? GOD’S PEOPLE SUFFERED GREATLY BECAUSE OF THEIR SIN AND REBELLION.... THERE COUNTRY WAS LEFT DESOLATE... THEIR CITES WERE BURNED WITH FIRE... THEIR FIELDS STRIPPED BY FOREIGNERS... (AND REMEMBER WHAT PAUL SAID IN 1 CORINTHIANS 10; THESE THINGS WERE WRITTEN AS EXAMPLES AND WARNINGS FOR US)
GOD WANTS HIS PEOPLE TO BE REASONABLE -- TO THINK THINGS THROUGH....
THEIR REBELLION WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED...
IT WILL EFFECT EVERY INCH OF THEIR LIVES... (AND MANY TIMES THOSE AROUND THEM)
YOU KNOW EVEN A DOG -- AFTER A WHILE WILL STOP PULLING ON THAT CHAIN AND LEARN TO WALK RIGHT... (EVEN MY DOG AND SHE IS PRETTY STUPID) -- BUT AFTER A WHILE A DOG WILL EVENTUALLY WITH HIS LITTLE MIND SOMEHOW THINK THINGS THROUGH HE’LL FIGURE THINGS OUT; "HEY; MY DISCOMFORT COMES FROM STRUGGLING AGAINST MY MASTER’S HAND....
IF I STOP STRUGGLING AND START OBEYING HIM THEN I WANT SUFFER.... AND SO THE DOG WALKS BESIDE YOU, EVEN MY DOG.
BUT UNFORTUNATELY MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT AS SMART AS A DOG -- AND THEY WILL STUBBORNLY STRUGGLE AGAINST THE CHAIN -- HATING THE DISCOMFORT IT BRINGS, BUT JUST TOO STUPID TO FIGURE OUT THE CONNECTION OR TO STUBBORN TO BE REASONABLE AND THINK THINGS THROUGH....
THAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH THIS NATION - WHICH ONCE DID TRUST AND WAS TRULY UNDER GOD; (IT’S UNGODLINESS STUPID!)
AND THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH MANY LIVES... UNGODLINESS..
COME ON...BE REASONABLE
ISAIAH 1:9
4. "DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND WHO YOU ARE MESSING WITH"
WHEN WE REBEL AGAINST GOD WE ARE NOT REBELLING AGAINST:
> SOME PANSY WHO WE CAN PUSH AROUND
> SOME IDIOT THAT WE CAN FOOL
> SOME DOPE WHO CAN’T SEE WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON
> OR SOME NODDLE BACK WHO WILL REFUSE TO CONFRONT US AND JUST LET THINGS SLIDE
WE ARE MESSING WITH/WE ARE FIGHTING AGAINST THE LORD ALMIGHTY....
HE SEE’S EVERYTHING
HE KNOWS EVERYTHING
AND HAS THE POWER "HE’S ALL MIGHTY, " AND GOD WILL USE THAT POWER TO HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE.. DO YOU NEED AN EXAMPLE...
WELL, HOW ABOUT SODOM AND GOMORRAH:
THE PEOPLE THERE WERE IN SOME SERIOUS REBELLION AGAINST GOD.. THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD LIVE ANYWAY THEY WANTED TO, THEY WERE GROSSLY IMMORAL -- STEEPED IN SIN. BUT FELT THEY HAD NO ONE TO ANSWER TO.
THEY DIDN’T REALIZE WHO THEY WERE MESSING WITH -- THE LORD ALMIGHTY... GOD RAINED DOWN UPON THAT WICKED CITY BURNING SULFUR KILLING EVERYTHING LIVING THING THERE... ALL THAT WAS LEFT WAS THE DENSE BLACK SMOKE ROLLING UP INTO THE SKY...
GOD CALLS US TO BE REASONABLE >> TO THINK THIS THING THROUGH >> IF FOR HIS ENTIRE HISTORY OF DEALING WITH MANKIND GOD HAS HELD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS >>>>>
AND IF HE HAS TOLD US THAT HE WILL HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE -----
"NOTHING IN ALL CREATION IS HIDDEN FROM GOD’S SIGHT. EVERYTHING IS UNCOVERED AN LAID BARE BEFORE THE EYES OF HIM TO WHOM WE MUST GIVE AN ACCOUNT..." -- HEB 4:13
SO, DOESN’T IT STAND TO REASON THAT HE STILL HOLD’S HIS PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE TODAY?
WHEN GOD’S PEOPLE REBEL AGAINST HIM, WHO IN THE WORLD DO THEY THINK THEY ARE MESSING WITH? SOME PUNK ON A STREET CORNER?
THEY ARE MESSING WITH THE LORD ALMIGHTY.
COME ON...BE REASONABLE
NEXT, ISAIAH 1:10-15
5."DO YOU REALLY THINK YOUR SO CALLED `WORSHIP’ MEANS ANYTHING TO ME --- IT DOESN’T!
GOD’S PEOPLE HAD REBELLED AGAINST HIM -- THEY WERE LIVING CONTRARY TO HIS COMMANDS -- YET; ON EVERY SPECIAL FEAST AND SABBATH THEY WOULD SHOW UP AT THE TEMPLE TO GO THROUGH THE RITUAL OF WORSHIP....
AS IF SOMEHOW THIS WOULD PACIFY GOD...
AS IF THEIR OUTWARD MOMENTARY RITUAL WOULD PLEASE HIM...
GOD’S PEOPLE WERE HANDING GOD THE SCRAPS AND LEFT OVERS OF THEIR LIVES; AND THEY EXPECTED HIM TO BE GRATEFUL... LIKE A LITTLE PUPPY SNAPPING AT THEIR HEELS >> THE EXCEPTED THE LORD ALMIGHTY TO HAPPY AND EXCITED FOR THE LITTLE ATTENTION THEY SHOWED HIM WHEN THEY ONCE A WEEK SHOWED UP TO SCRATCH HIM BEHIND THE EARS.
WHAT KIND OF GOD DID THEY THINK THEY WERE SERVING....
DID THEY THINK THAT HE DIDN’T SEE; THAT HE DIDN’T CARE....
THAT IT DIDN’T MATTER TO A HOLY GOD HOW THEY WERE LIVING THE REST OF THEIR LIVES...
LISTEN TO WHAT JEREMIAH SAYS IN JEREMIAH 7:9-11 TO PEOPLE WHO LIVED AS THEY PLEASED; BUT STILL CAME TO OFFER GOD WORSHIP..
"WILL YOU STEAL AND MURDER, COMMIT ADULTERY AND PERJURY, BURN INCENSE TO BAAL, AND FOLLOW OTHER GODS YOU HAVE NOT KNOWN, AND THEN COME NA STAND BEFORE ME IN THIS HOUSE, WHICH BEARS MY NAME, AND SAY, `WE ARE SAFE - SAFE TO DO THESE DETESTABLE THINGS?’
(IN OTHER WORDS SAYING IT IS OKAY THAT I LIVE THIS WAY --DO WHAT I DO LIVE FOR MYSELF -- GOD DOESN’T REALLY CARE, IT DOESN’T REALLY BOTHER HIM AND IT IS STILL OKAY FOR ME TO COME AND WORSHIP HIM ON SUNDAY MORNING).
GOD CONTINUES IN JEREMIAH
HAS THIS HOUSE WHICH BEARS MY NAME, BECOME A DEN OF ROBBERS TO YOU? BUT I HAVE BEEN WATCHING DECLARES THE LORD!’"
LET’S REASON THIS THING THROUGH....
GOD IS HOLY AND BECAUSE HE IS HOLY HE CALLS US TO BE HOLY. GOD
DOES SEE AND HE DOES CARE HOW HIS PEOPLE LIVE DURING THE WEEK... AND WHEN PEOPLE SIN WITH NO THOUGHT TO HOW HE FEELS ABOUT IT AND THEN COME INTO HIS HOUSE AND GATHER IN HIS NAME TO WORSHIP HIM.... GOD WILL NOT FIND THEIR WORSHIP ACCEPTABLE...
IT TURNS HIS STOMACH
HE FINDS IT MEANINGLESS, DETESTABLE -- HE HATES IT
THAT KIND OF WORSHIP IS A BURDEN TO HIM -- IT WEARIES HIM OUT...
AND IF OUR WORSHIP IS LIKE THAT WILL HIDE HIS EYES AND NOT LISTEN TO OUR PRAYERS.
GOD HAS NEVER ASK US TO BRING HIM MEANINGLESS WORSHIP...
WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT WORSHIP IS NOT A SUNDAY MORNING EVENT.... IT IS A LIFESTYLE.... GOD DOES NOT WANT JUST 1 HOUR A WEEK OF YOUR LIFE HE WANTS YOUR ENTIRE WHOLE LIFE...
AND IF THAT’S TOO MUCH FOR YOU JUST STAY HOME! UNDERSTAND YOU DON’T COME TO CHURCH TO START WORSHIP - YOU COME TO CONTINUE AND CELEBRATE WORSHIP!!
GOD RIGHT NOW IS SEEKING TRUE WORSHIPPERS, THOSE WERE WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH... AS HE LOOKS DOWN TODAY, RIGHT NOW AT OUR ASSEMBLY, AS WE WHO HAVE GATHERED IN HIS NAME >>> WHAT DOES HE SEE? IS HE PLEASED? WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN AT ME? AT YOU?
COME ON... BE REASONABLE
ISAIAH 1:16,17
6. "DON’T YOU REALIZE WHAT IT IS THAT I REALLY WANT FROM YOU"
IF WE REALLY THINK ABOUT WHO GOD IS -- IF WE REALLY THINK ABOUT WHAT HIS WORD SAYS, THEN IT BECOMES PRETTY CLEAR WHAT HE WANTS US TO DO.... AND IT DOESN’T TAKE A COLLEGE DEGREE TO FIGURE IT OUT:
HE WANTS US TO TAKE OUR EVIL DEEDS OUT OF HIS SIGHT.
WELL, HOW DO WE DO THAT WITH A GOD WHO SEES EVERYTHING?
"NOTHING IN ALL OF CREATION IS HIDDEN FROM HIS SIGHT.."
THE ONLY WAY WE CAN TAKE THEM OUT OF HIS SIGHT IS WHEN;
WE STOP DOING WRONG AND LEARN TO DO RIGHT......
PRETTY EASY TO UNDERSTAND, EVEN FOR DUMB ANIMALS LIKE US...
COME ON...BE REASONABLE
ISAIAH 1:18,19,26,27
7. DON’T YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I WANT TO CLEAN YOU UP
"COME NOW LET US REASON TOGETHER, SAYS THE LORD. THOUGH MY SINS ARE LIKE SCARLET THEY CAN BE WHITE AS SNOW; THOUGH THEY ARE RED AS CRIMSON, THEY CAN BE LIKE WOOL. IF I AM WILLING AND OBEDIENT I WILL EAT THE BEST FROM THE LAND..."
DESPITE OUR SIN AND REBELLION -- GOD STILL LOVES US....
"BUT GOD DEMONSTRATED HIS OWN FOR ME IN THIS: WHILE I WAS STILL SINNING, CHRIST DIED FOR ME..." -- ROMANS 5:8
GOD JUST LOVES TO FORGIVE SINNERS -- HE JUST LOVES TO CLEAN UP DIRTY PEOPLE....
OUR SINS MY BE AS SCARLET BUT HE CAN WASH THEM WHITE AS SNOW - BECAUSE:
- HIS GRACE MATCHLESS -- HIS GRACE IS DEEP -- IT’S HIGH -- IT SPARKLES -- IT’S BROADER THAN THE SCOPE OF ANY TRANSGRESSION ... HIS GRACE IS GREATER THAN ALL OUR SIN AND SHAME.... AND IT IS "ALL" SUFFICIENT FOR EVEN YOU...
IT CAN WASH AWAY THAT SIN, AND REMOVE THAT SHAME...
AND AFTER HE HAD CLEANED US UP WE SHALL EAT THE BEST OF THE LAND... ENJOY THE BEST THIS LIFE HAS TO OFFER.... AND STOP LIVING ON THE WORST...
WHY SOMEONE NOT WANT TO GET A BATH LIKE THAT?
(BOOT CAMP -- LUCANT -- STUNK REAL BAD -- REFUSED TO BATH -- HE WOULDN’T LISTEN TO REASON -- 5 GUYS YELLOW SCRUB BRUSH TOOK CARE OF HIM...)
COME ON...BE REASONABLE
ISAIAH 1:20-25, 28-31
8. PLEASE UNDERSTAND THIS, IF YOU CONTINUE IN YOUR REBELLION YOU WILL BE DEVOURED
IN BOOT CAMP WE WERE ABLE TO FORCE SOMEONE TO TAKE A SHOWER -WE DID IT FOR HIM.... BUT UNDERSTAND THOSE IN REBELLION AGAINST GOD MUST UNDERSTAND THAT IT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY WITH HIM....
HE WILL NOT FORCE US:
"IF I RESIST AND REBEL I WILL BE DEVOURED.. SAYS THE LORD.."
"BUT REBELS AND SINNERS WILL BOTH BE BROKEN, AND THOSE WHO FORSAKE THE LORD WILL PERISH..,"
LATER GOD SAYS IN ISAIAH 65:2,3
"ALL DAY LONG I HAVE HELD OUT MY HANDS TO AN OBSTINATE PEOPLE, WHO WALK IN WAYS NOT GOOD, PURSUING THEIR OWN IMAGINATIONS -- A PEOPLE WHO CONTINUALLY PROVOKE ME TO MY VERY FACE."
JESUS AS HE RODE INTO JERUSALEM FOR THE LAST TIME AND AS HE CONTEMPLATED THE FATE THAT AWAITED THE CITY & PEOPLE WHO HAD REJECTED HIM... HE SAID
"HOW OFTEN I HAVE LONGED TO GATHER YOU TOGETHER, AS A HEN GATHERS CHICKS UNDER HER WINGS, BUT YOU ARE NOT WILLING"
-- MT 23:37
CONCLUSION
WHEN WE HAVE TURNED AWAY FROM GOD AND LIVED LIFE OUR OWN WAY, IF WE ARE REASONABLE AND WE THINK THINGS THROUGH WE WILL CONCLUDE
THAT:
1. WE ARE REBELLING AGAINST A FATHER WHO HAS TAKEN CARE OF US
2. THAT WE ARE DUMBER THAN ANIMALS
3. THAT THE LIFE WE ARE LIVING HAS BROUGHT US SUFFERING
4. THAT IN OUR REBELLION WE ARE MESSING WITH THE LORD ALMIGHTY
5. THAT AS LONG AS WE ARE LIVING IN REBELLION OUR WORSHIP IS MEANINGLESS
6. THAT WHAT GOD WANTS FROM US IS CRYSTAL CLEAR:
STOP DOING WRONG AN LEARN TO DO RIGHT!
7. THAT HE IS READY/WILLING AND MOIRE THAN ABLE TO CLEAN US UP.
8. AND THAT IF WE CONTINUE IN OUR RESISTANCE AND REBELLION WE WILL BE DEVOURED... WE LOSE OUR SALVATION.
WHEN WE REASON THINGS THROUGH WHAT REALLY MAKES SENSE
THE ONLY THING THAT REALLY DOES
IS TO LIVE FOR HIM WHO DIED FOR US:
ARE YOU TODAY...
"COME LET US REASON TOGETHER SAYS THE LORD; THOUGH YOUR SINS ARE LIKE SCARLET THEY CAN BE AS WHITE AS SNOW; THOUGH THEY ARE RED AS CRIMSON THEY CAN BE LIKE WOOL... IF YOU ARE WILLING AND OBEDIENT YOU WILL EAT THE BEST FROM THE LAND...
IF YOU ARE NOT RIGHT WITH GOD TODAY THE REASONABLE THING TO DO IS COME TO HIM TO GET CLEANED UP..
