← ArchiveIsaiahWeep So You Can FeastDateOctober 20, 2019SpeakerDr Josh BurnhamTextIsaiahPassages in this sermonIsaiah 240:46Isaiah 236:13Romans 828:14Psalms 2330:02Acts 241:52TranscriptMachine transcribed. Click any line to jump there.0:00Okay, how are you doing? My name is Josh Lee, pastor here at Bethel.0:30For anyone that would like to complain about the music or the drums today, just take out that Green Connect card. I'll get that to the right person. So just know I'll handle that personally this week and next week. So we're going to be in, again, Isaiah 24-25. So if you have your Bibles with you, join us there. I forgot also to find a page number. So if you are using the Pew Bible, if anyone can find Isaiah 24,0:56and shout out the number, that will help us all. 6-19. 6-19 should get you close. Isaiah chapter 24. And for everyone who's new here, Brad's already welcomed you. Hey, welcome to Bethel Baptist Church. For those who are watching online, we have many people traveling or checking us out. Thank you guys for listening.1:26You know, we sit right here in a tradition of thousands of years of people gathering. Casey Wilson reminded me this morning that, hey, when we were in Bulgaria several weeks ago, that Bulgarians were already worshiping today. So the glory of God and the worship of His name is washing through the world today. And so we're going to worship today, and then we're going to hand that off to our Pacific and Mountain Time friends, and they're going to carry the baton through worship. So what we do on these sacred moments, it matters.1:56So today, Isaiah 24 and 25, again, we are going to look at a very solemn judgment, and then we will rejoice with rejoicing of God's grace on the back end of the Word of the Lord today. I want to start with a poem. And this is going to set into motion and frame the rest of our time together. Written in the 1800s by a lady named Elizabeth Barrett Browning.2:26Language is difficult. Bear with me. It'll make sense. She says this. I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. That only men in credulous of despair, half taught in anguish through the midnight air, beat upward to God's throne in loud access,2:54of shrieking and reproach, full desertness. In souls as country lieth silent bare, under the blanching vertical eye glare, of the absolute heavens, deep-heartened men express grief for thy dead, and silence like to death. Most like a monument statue set.3:21An everlasting watch and moveless woe till itself crumble to the dust beneath. Touch it. The marble eyelids are not wet. If it could weep, it would arise and go. Elizabeth Browning paints this picture of men who are grieving, but in their grief they're hopeless. This picture of hopelessness and this hopeless grief.3:52So hopeless are these people that she's painting here that their eyelids do not weep. They stand as statues because they're overcome. But what if for a moment this poem pictured the church? Not just this particular gathering of saints, but every gathering of saints.4:20What if the greatest danger to the people of God is not an external threat? It's not a government mandate or the loss of charitable status. What if our greatest threat as a people of God is not moral decay or changing culture? What if the greatest threat in our lives is to sing the majesty4:50the majesty of God and be unmoved? What if the greatest threat is to listen to the Word with moveless and minimal expectation? What if the greatest threats to our life are to look at the brokenness of our world with marble eyes and not weep? Oh, that we would not be like these people who have hopeless grief.5:20hopeless grief. Hopeless grief. And God did not, I did not prepare this, but in God's infinite wisdom, knowing that this is my sermon, you know, I'm playing drums today and it's hard not to play some of those songs loud. I just want, you know, as I'm listening to the lyrics and I'm trying not to sing because I don't want the microphone to pick up my voice or to pick up, hopefully, the drums, I'm thinking, how do, Lord, how do I stay quiet when we sing about5:48the unending hope of our Savior? You don't, right? You don't. And so I think the greatest threat to us sometimes is we open the Word of God as statues. So dear brothers and sisters, your stoicism is not a strength. It could be a weakness. And that's exactly what Isaiah shares with us. in Isaiah 23 and 24, we see such destruction and such judgment that we should weep6:18over this. And until you weep over chapter 23 and 24, I don't believe you can dance in chapter 25. And so I ask this morning that we would just simply look at the Word of God as people who have hearts of flesh and not hearts of stone. what if I told you that you would never dance for joy unless you wept6:46in brokenness? Right? What if I, most of us are Baptists and you don't dance. But what if I told you that's a problem? What if God is saying, look Josh, you're not dancing at grace because you don't really believe you have a sin problem. Until you weep at your sin, you cannot dance in grace. I think that's exactly what Isaiah is doing.7:15And so what is the prerequisite for us dancing in the grace of Christ? It's for Him to take our heart of stone, our monument, our eyelids of marble and to give us a heart of flesh, a heart that rejoices and a heart that is emotive, a heart that hears these songs, blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. If you are unmoved at that, something is wrong and it's your heart. But if you give your heart to Jesus, He'll give you a transplant. So may we,7:46may we weep at chapter 23 and 24 today and then may we rejoice at chapter 25. You say, well, we haven't read it yet. We will and it will make sense. So my sermon today is simply entitled Weep So You Can Feast. We're church people. Most of you are church people, but I know you like to eat. So weep so you can feast. Weep so you can feast. So let's look at chapter 24 of Isaiah. Beginning in verse 1.8:14Isaiah writing in 8th century B.C. It says, Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist His surface and scatter His inhabitants, people and priests alike, servant, master, female servant, mistress, buyer, seller, lender, borrower, creditor, and debtor.8:43and debtor. The earth will be stripped completely bare and will be totally plundered for the Lord has spoken this message. The earth mourns and withers. The world wastes away and withers. The exalted people of the earth waste away. The earth is polluted by its inhabitants for they have transgressed teachings. They have overstepped decrees and broken the permanent covenant. Therefore, a curse has consumed the earth9:13and its inhabitants have become guilty. The earth's inhabitants have been burned and only a few survive. Wow. Let's pray. Lord, we and I confess right now to you that sometimes your word is difficult. And Lord, there are times it's difficult because our hearts are not prepared. Our lives are so busy. Our minds are so clouded9:43that we are not prepared right now to focus in on your word. And so, Father, for those of us who are clouded, I ask that you would give clarity. Or sometimes our heart's not ready and we have the heart of stone with marbles that will not weep. Lord, we ask that you would take that heart away from us and give us a heart that understands. Lord, help us weep today so that we can rejoice at your grace10:13and your tender mercy. Lord, we want to feast in your presence. Help us do that. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. So verse one, weep so you can feast. Isaiah says, look, henei, behold. Right? This interjection that basically says, pay attention. Verse one, look, what's happening? The Lord is doing something.10:40Now, often when we say those words, it's like, man, God's about to do something wonderful and magnificent and look at what God's doing. This time, though, Isaiah is saying, look carefully because God is going to lay the earth bare. Verse one, look at the Lord is stripping the earth bare and he is making it desolate.11:10desolate. God's judgment is coming on the people in Isaiah's day and I would argue that God's judgment is coming on the people of today because like today, Isaiah's people, every society was looking for unity and their societal structures and they were saying, do this and we will find peace. Do this and we will find peace and Isaiah is saying, nothing in this world will bring you peace except covenant relationship11:40with God and because you have been looking elsewhere, judgment is coming. You've asked for it, so here it is and I believe this is why Isaiah wants us to look and weep right here this morning because Isaiah is looking at a world and he's saying, guys, the Lord is going going to lay bare everything. Look at verse 1. The Lord is stripping the earth bare. He's making it desolate. He will twist the surface. He will scatter12:10its inhabitants and the people don't see it. I can imagine Isaiah having to speak this with tears in his eyes and he's saying, look, this is going to happen and you don't see it coming. We need to weep for people who do not see the judgment of God coming in their life. There's no way we can read verse 1 and read chapter 2412:39with joy. Do you read the Lord is stripping the earth bare? Verse 3, the earth will be stripped completely bare. Everything will be plundered. Verse 4, the earth mourns and withers. The world will waste away. It withers. The exalted people will waste away. The earth is polluted. How do you read that with joy? We should weep because people do not see this coming. And you know what the world wants from the church? The world wants the church13:08to look at a broken world and is asking us, do you even care? We look at you and you look like a statue. You see all this brokenness and you have marble eyes that will not weep. We need to weep for the world. We need to look at this and we need to say, man, God's judgment is coming upon, it's coming to us first, it's coming to the world and we are weeping for those who do not see it.13:38God, let us weep. And you say, well, who is judgment coming to? Look at verse 2. Isaiah says it, right? People, that's you. Priest, that'll be me. Both of us. Servant, master, female servant, mistress, buyer, seller, lender, borrower, creditor, debtor. Who is immune from the judgment of the Lord? No one.14:09No one. It's coming to everyone and we must weep for these. it's not status of wealth or poverty. I don't care who your mom in them is. Isaiah says God's judgment is coming to everyone. Every person in this room will stand before the throne of God. And we should weep over those who do not know. Spurgeon says it this way. He says, love your fellow men.14:38Cry about them if you cannot bring them to Christ. If you cannot save them, weep over them. If you cannot give them a drop of cold water in hell, you can give them your heart's tears while they are still in this body. And as I was preparing my sermon, as I was looking over it again this morning, I remember thinking, Josh, when's the last time you wept over your neighbors? Not just threw up a prayer,15:08a prayer, but when's the last time these aisles were stained with tears for people who don't know Jesus? And that's not a question I'm asking you. That's a question I'm asking me. When's the last time I wept over people who need Christ and I know they need Christ and they don't know they need Christ and I can see where they're going and I can see the path of destruction and God is saying, Josh, when's the last time you wept over them? Really?15:38Really? not just prayed and hoped for the best, but when did your heart break for us the salvation of a friend, the salvation of a child and salvation of someone who might be your enemy? Oh, that our hearts would weep over people who do not see. Oh, that we would weep, church. That we would weep. Now, why is this so? Why is judgment coming?16:08Why must we weep? Well, look at verse 4. The earth mourns and withers. The world wastes away and withers. The exalted people of the earth waste away. Why? Because the earth is polluted, it's defiled. And, well, who are these bad people? Who would defile God's perfect creation? Look at the next phrase. It's16:37It's inhabitants. It wasn't aliens. Like, we, that's us. Like, we have defiled the earth. It's polluted by us. This is not an oil spill. It's not nuclear waste. It's not carbon emissions. It's the ungodly living in breach of God's holy law and word. It's your fault. It's my fault. And begin to look at this and ask, when is the last time17:07I wept over sin of the world? Really? When's the last time we looked at the pollution in our world and we went? Let me give you some ways to weep. And I'm not going to ask you to be emotional if you're not emotional. That's not what I'm looking for. But I'm asking if you are in Christ, our hearts should break over what I'm about to tell you. This is pollution. Did you know that the U.S. is the top consumer17:36of child pornography and obscene images in the entire world? That's the nation we live in. The largest viewer of sexually charged imagery are 12 to 17 year olds. 94% of people have viewed pornography by the age of 14. Church, where is our purity? When was the last time we wept over people who were living in sin?18:06And maybe we don't weep because we don't think it's a big deal. When I talked about child pornography, I'm sure you're back, Stephanie, you said, ooh, who would do that? Americans? We would. But you know what? The whole, everything else, eh, the movies we watch, the commercials, the lyrics, yeah, it's pornographic, but eh, it's not near as bad. Oh, when's the last time we wept we wept over the purity18:35and the pollution in our churches and in our nation? Oh, that God would call us back. When's the last time we wept over the Kurdish Christian community in Syria right now who are dying, who feel abandoned? or are we simply content to say, it's not my fault, not my fight? Oh, that we would weep19:05over war and brokenness and sin. When's the last time that we wept, that I wept over families who were torn apart at any border in any nation because of political status? to see a son or daughter ripped apart from a mom or dad, to see families taken advantage by runners who have promised if you pay me this money I'll give you citizenship. Regardless of political allegiance, when is the last time19:35that we wept, that I wept over families torn apart? I said, God, where are you? The world needs to see us weep over this. People of God, when's the last time that we wept over the 800,000 abortions in our nation every year? Knowing that a life was ended. When's the last time we wept20:05we wept knowing that there was a mom or a family that felt like they were in such difficulty they had no other way? When was the last time that we wept as a society knowing that we would rather abort a child with Down syndrome because we do not value children with special needs as much as we value those who can play on a travel baseball team? Church, where is our heart? The world is looking at us and saying don't you guys care?20:34Look at the pollution by its inhabitants. listen, listen, I'm not saying this to make you feel bad but I do want to let you know it is our fault. It's not the world's fault. Don't turn on the news and say those bad people I can't believe they've done. No, we own this and we should weep. It is our fault. Look at verse 5. people have21:04people have transgressed teachings. That means they have overstepped the decrees of God because they found innovative ways to be moral. Sound familiar? Well, we've evolved as a society. We don't need to follow those ancient writings anymore. Let's just do this. The inhabitants refused to live in covenant relationship with God. They broke the permanent covenant. When's the last time21:34we wept over that? When's the last time that we wept over the corporate and public sin of our nation? Church, do you have marble eyes? How dare we look at the world and say, that's bad, but you know I'm going to heaven one day. It'll be okay. That attitude in my life will cause someone to rather desire anything but the people of God.22:04When's the last time that our hearts wept, but we do not weep as those who have no hope? Those who are stoic are stoic because they have no hope. We weep because we know that even in this something unique is coming. So turn to verse one of chapter 25. Weep, church. Weep. We must cry so that we can do this in verse one of 25. Are you ready? Listen to what Isaiah says.22:34Lord, you are my God. I will exalt you. I will praise your name for you have accomplished wonders and plans formed long ago with perfect faithfulness. You have turned the city into a pile of rocks, a fortified city into ruins. The fortress of barbarians is no longer a city. It will never be rebuilt. Verse three, therefore a strong people23:04will honor you. The cities of violent nations will fear you. Listen to this. For you have been a stronghold for the poor person, a stronghold for the needy in his distress, a refuge from storms and a shade from heat when the breath of the violent is like a storm against a wall, like a heat in a dry land. You have to do the uproar of the barbarians. Of the shade of clouds cools the heat of the day. He will silence23:33the song of the violence. Listen to verse six. On this mountain, the army of the Lord will prepare for all people a feast of choice meat. A feast with aged wine. Prime cuts of choice meat from vintage and fine vintage wine. On this mountain he will destroy the burial shroud, the shroud over all peoples, a sheet covering all nations. He will destroy death forever.24:02death forever. The Lord God will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the people's disgrace from the whole earth for the Lord has spoken. On that day, look, it will be said, look, this is our God. We have waited for him. He has saved us. This is the Lord we have waited for. Let us rejoice and be glad of his salvation. If we do not weep, you will never rejoice. Chapter 25.24:32Chapter 25. So let me give us some reasons to rejoice this morning. Y'all good with that? Okay. If you have your Bibles, hold on because here we go. Right? Verse 1. Lord, you are whose God. He doesn't say, thank you for being my dad's God. Man, thank you for loving my neighbor. Lord, thank you because you are my God. We can rejoice because it is personal. It is personal. Rejoicing in our life25:02begins with a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. And I would submit to you today, if you are not rejoicing in your life about anything, you don't know the God that Isaiah knows. You don't know the God that I know. You say, well, Josh, you don't understand what I'm going through. Well, Isaiah, look at chapter 23 and 24. You want to compare your life? That's pretty bad. And Isaiah says, but this personal God loves me and therefore I will rejoice.25:30This is a pledge of personal loyalty and affection by one who is bound up in covenant relationship. He doesn't say, God, Elohim, you are there. He uses a personal covenantal name for the Lord. Lord, Yahweh, you are mine. And if we have, if you have nothing else in this world, if the only thing that you have is Jesus Christ,25:59you have reason to rejoice. If we have nothing else and the only verse I have ever heard in scripture is verse 1 of chapter 25, if the only thing I can say is, Lord, you are my God, that is enough to make our hearts sing with confidence. It is personal and a personal God gives us no option but to rejoice, to exalt,26:30to exalt, to praise, to make vocal expression of admiration and gratitude. So I don't know about you, but if there's any place to make a loud noise because something has happened in our lives, this is it. Like Bryant, Denny should never, ever hear a noise like they've heard here before. Right? Like these football stadiums should say, what is going on in these churches? They're louder than we are. Yeah,27:00Yeah, because we have greater eternal reason to celebrate. Because God has changed us. Rejoice because it's personal. If it's not personal to you, you don't rejoice but I pray that you will one day because God loves you and He's called you into relationship. Secondly, rejoice again in verse 1 and 2 because I will praise your name, God. Why? Because you have accomplished wonders. Wonders from when?27:29From long ago. Okay? So longer than chapter 23. Longer than chapter 24. So before the hopelessness of chapter 24, the stripping the earth bare and everyone dying, before all of that, God's faithful plan was being accomplished. So Isaiah is saying, Lord, I'm looking at a hopeless situation27:58and this situation is hopeless but God, you're not hopeless. And so God, I'm not going to rejoice because of where I am today. I'm going to rejoice because I know that your plans are faithful. Isaiah is living out Romans 8 that God works for the good in all situations for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. Isaiah is looking at a hopeless situation and he's saying, there is hope because of the Lord.28:27And that's what the world needs to see in the people of God. They need to see when our life falls apart and we are weeping, we weep because we have hope. And then we dance because we have hope. Knowing Jesus and that His plans are eternally formed changes everything about us. Isaiah says, you have planned this from long ago, your perfect faithfulness.28:57Therefore, I will pick myself up and I will rejoice because even in the midst of tragedy, God, you are there. This is time to rejoice. But it doesn't end there. He continues. Look at verse 6. He says, Lord, I know judgment is coming but on this mountain the Lord of armies will prepare all the peoples a feast of choice meat.29:26I would say this for our vegetarians in the audience. Get ready because God's going to make you a meat feast one day. And for all of our badness, right? And there's going to be fine wine there. Fine wine. This is not a Taco Bell meal. Right? This is not, God doesn't say, Josh,29:56Josh, I'm going to the dollar menu for you. No, the Lord, and I think about Psalm 23, that God is doing what? He is preparing a table before you in the presence of your enemies. God is preparing for us this amazing feast. This is the greatest and most costly meal you have ever laid your eyes on. So I don't know where you are in your life but rejoice30:26but rejoice because God is preparing you a feast if you are in Christ Jesus. Here's the catch though. This is the most costly meal you have ever been invited to. But who's it for? it's for the poor it's for the needy it's for people who can never afford a meal like this. And it's without price. There's no price tag on this meal.30:55God is preparing this for His people. That's grace. It's like going to your favorite restaurant and you rack up a couple thousand dollar bill like you pig out and you go to pay for it and they say oh we didn't tell you when you walked in. It's been paid for. Someone came last week and prepared this for you. This the most costly meal you've ever been invited. This VIP meal that's what God31:24is preparing. That's reason for us to rejoice. That is grace. And so I don't know where you are in your life and you think well I'm eating I'm eating at a Taco Bell right now. Barely. Like ramen noodles beans and rice. God says but Josh I'm preparing for you and you might not see it right now but I want you to trust me because I am preparing a feast for you that you cannot even believe if I told you it was going to happen. That is grace.31:55And Josh I want you to know that I'm not preparing this meal for you because of what you're doing. And I'm not going to take the meal away because of what you're not doing. I'm preparing this because I love you. Because I'm your heavenly father and my son has paid the price for that meal. That's grace. That is reason for us to rejoice at the feast. Because we have wept we can dance. But there's more.32:26He says in verse 7 on this mountain where you're feasting on the same mountain he will destroy the burial shroud. Rejoice because church sin and death have been defeated. And I know some of you are looking at me thinking okay we're all going to die so what gives? well there is a second death an eternal death and that death32:55has been defeated in the Canaanite religion the context that the people of God lived they had a deity named Mut or Mat and it was believed that that this God of death had an insatiable appetite so much so that he would swallow up other gods. He ate the fertility God Baal Hadad as if death could not get enough of the people enough of the other gods and here's Isaiah33:25saying you think your God death swallows up people? I want you to know that the one true God he swallowed up death. That is time to rejoice and so what gives at Christian burials? Because we can look death square in the face and we can say is that all you got? Like really? Because we know the story right? I mean death you killed33:55you killed our Messiah but three days later he rose again and I know the story that if I have given my full hope and my full trust to Jesus Christ that one day I will be resurrected again and he calls me into abundant life so death I know you feel like you have a say but it's not the final say Jesus has swallowed up death and you know I think about swallowing when you remove something it can come back when you swallow something34:24something it's there one moment and gone the next that is reason for us to rejoice death is the principal evidence of the curse and it is the ultimate consequence of our sin and Isaiah is pointing to a greater picture saying hey there is a Messiah that swallowed up your sin that swallowed up your death church that is reason to rejoice that will make Baptist folk dance if you can't34:54rejoice in that I have no hope for you but give your life to Jesus and watch what happens but it doesn't end there he says that he will also in the same verse in verse 8 and 7 he will destroy death forever and he will wipe away the some of you are going to recite to me the King James he will wipe away35:23every tear from your eye now I find this fascinating because of Christ tears will be wiped away from our face but why why tears the fact that God would wipe away your tears insinuates for us that we have cried that we have looked at the injustice in chapter 2435:53and the pollution and that we have wept we've looked at death and we say God you never intended this we look at cancer and we look at we weep for those who have lost children and we say God this was not your way God we are weeping and we're weeping because we want you to come quick and I have often wondered if I never weep am I telling36:23telling God God I don't need you to wipe away my tears God you can wipe away their tears but God you don't need to wipe away my tears because I'm not going to cry I'm not going to weep we even know our Savior wept and I wonder if this is the small way of God saying Josh when you weep you are weeping with tears of righteousness and I don't know about you I like to36:53think constructively concretely sometimes have you ever imagined what it would be like just think about this for God actually to come up to you and literally put his hands on your face and wipe away your tears I know we know the verse right God will wipe some of you think he's just like a divine leaf blower just blowing tears away but what if Isaiah is saying there will be a day37:22when we see him face to face that he's going to come here and say Josh I know that you wept with this family I know you wept at their cancer I know you wept at lust that is rampant I know you wept at lives that are being taken and I just want you to know it's going to be okay and let me wipe those tears away can you imagine and I am not saying that we should weep just so that we would experience that but I know that we should weep over injustice37:51and I believe there will be a day where God will say to us when you wept I saw those tears and when you wept I was there with you because I weep over those things too but Josh it will be okay because of my son Jesus it will be okay so as you weep rejoice because the rejoicing comes in the morning sorrow will last for the night church we weep because we have one that will wipe away our tears and then Isaiah says this38:19verse 9 he says on that day it will be said now we started off in chapter 24 with this horrific judgment and Isaiah began with this word right hene behold look look at the judgment now here is here is Isaiah again saying look at verse 9 he said38:48he said on that day it will be said look behold right I know you were looking at injustice but look at this this is our God we have waited for him and he has saved us this is the Lord we have waited for him let us rejoice and be glad for his salvation so I just simply want to say to you people of God look at this look at verse 9 this is the day we have been waiting for this is the hope39:17that we have this work of salvation in verse 9 it is not through any agent of humanity who's doing this work of salvation in verse 9 look this is our God we have waited for him he has saved us there is no construct of humanity that makes this happen it is the grace39:47the grace and the mercy of God alone God does not save us on our terms or by our strength he saves us by his divine merit and his grace and I was reading a devotion this week by Paul Tripp and this is what he says about salvation about this day he says here's what you need to understand Jesus asked us to die and in asking you to die40:16to die Jesus is giving you eternal life the only way it can be given he has to ask you to die because you are in the way of having life you are in the way of having life and as Isaiah proclaims this verse maybe that's your story that you have never experienced a salvation in verse 9 because you're in the way and you think if I just tried harder40:46then God would accept me if I just if I just forsook these sins then God would welcome me into his kingdom or if I if I could just get the strength to become baptized if I would just you know do the new members class and become a member of the church then God would accept me and I just want to share lovingly you're in the way of your salvation and if you would41:15look at God as Isaiah looked at him and said Lord I am saved by your grace Lord you have saved me this is the day I have been waiting for that God will hear your prayer the prayer of faith and repentance and he will draw you back to himself and what if today I told you that you would you have never danced the dance of salvation because you have never wept41:44wept at the brokenness of your sin until you see your sin as God sees it you cannot be saved Peter in Acts 2 they ask him what must you do to be saved Peter they hear this great sermon they ask him what must we do Peter says repent and be baptized repentance is the weeping over your sin and I believe there are42:14there are Baptist folk that don't think they really need God because they don't think their sin is a big deal and I want you to hear it from my mouth right now if you choose the road to hell in the Baptist church you are not doing that because you're going to do that over my dead body I want you to know that your sin is a huge problem my sin is a huge problem with God and he will not ignore it and we should weep over our sin that we might rejoice in the salvation when we say God here it is42:43God says okay now I'm offering you grace and mercy that is covenant relationship if you're here today and you need to be saved would you simply by faith trust in the Lord turn from yourself realize you are the one in the way and run to the cross of Jesus Christ who died for you who rose again that you might have eternal life I pray that would be your response43:13to the gospel maybe you're here today and and you have not wept at anything in a long time maybe today is a day that you should be weeping over injustice and hurt and pain maybe today is a day that someone needs to come to this place and weep over a neighbor weep over a child weep over a friend weep over an enemy and say God they don't understand the judgment but I do so I'm going to43:42weep for them today that way you might see my tears and that you might send Lord send someone their way church we need to weep over the world they need to see that we care maybe you are you've already wept today maybe you need to feast maybe you just need to dance I know this is a Baptist church maybe you just need when we sing a song a response before the throne that you dance44:12because God has prepared a feast for you oh that we would not sit here emotionless I don't want to be a statue that has marble eyes I want to be the one who God has given me his heart and I sing and I rejoice because of the glories of Calvary and I weep over the difficulties of this world and the world looks at us and they say you guys get it you care44:41you care you love Jesus and we see that he loves you I don't know how you need to respond today but I know we need to respond and may you let the spirit move in your life in a radical and merciful way let me pray Father← Previous in IsaiahLessons from a stumpNext in Isaiah →Get Your House in OrderMore sermons on Isaiah →
