Title: Grace of God (Isaiah 28:1-29)
Contents The abundance we enjoy is not for our own comfort and pleasure, but for serving God. The region of Ephraim in the text was like a city built on the top of the valley like a glorious coffin. But because they abused their abundance, they were seen as ‘fading flowers’ in the eyes of God and in the eyes of the prophets.
1. I was proud.-Wealth and abundance make people proud. Pride is an unwillingness to acknowledge God. He is an unbeliever who forgets God and does not acknowledge any existence other than himself.
2. Drunk on the world. - Alcohol makes people foolish (Proverbs 20:1). It exaggerates oneself and makes them obscene.
(Genesis 9:21, Hab 2:15) It causes them to speak evil and lose their reason. Alcohol makes sensuality covetous, which leads to moral and ethical depravity.
The same is true of drunkenness and pleasure and luxury. Now is the time for believers to wake up and pray.
3. The Saint's Choice - Saints always do what they do for themselves.
Two paths to choose (1) The path of suffering - There is a path of suffering that constantly demands vigilance and vigilance that abandons the compromise with reality for the sake of impartiality, which everyone hates to go.
(2) Path of Compromise The path that leads to complacency and self-indulgence by compromising with reality appropriately in the life of faith.
4. The religious leaders of Judah mocked the prophet. (9-10)
They ridiculed the message for being childish and like nonsensical nagging. because their
It was because of pride and debauchery. The content of the mockery was despised as 1) repeated nagging.
2) I hated the lack of consistency.
3) I was ridiculed for lack of sophistication.
5. Learn the wisdom of a farmer (23-25) God's people must come with wisdom in their work.1) A farmer works hard.-You must learn the heart of a farmer. 126:5-6) Weeping seed
The sower - devotes his whole life. There is no neglect. You must learn to be diligent.
I don't know the line. Trying to get more done in the given time.
2) The farmer works with a distant view - he is not in a hurry. You have to learn to be prepared.
It is said in Etmal that ‘one who prepares cannot overcome’.
3) The farmer works on the basis of knowing everything - because he knows broadly and deeply.
You have to learn to work in a balanced way. If there is no balance in your religious life, you cannot stand properly, let alone growth.
No.6. Resolution and prayer 1) Help me to live a humble and upright life.
2) Tree: For the family and mission of church officers
For a family of perfect faith / To fulfill the mission