Truth Inspires

This is a wake-up message.   In pre-exilic Judah, there was a spiritual famine in the land. In Pt. 1 , we looked at how their worship had become mechanical and self-centered. It was a pitiful sight. Worship and personal devotion had become drudgery and they were not living out what their lips said they believed. The death knell was sounding and on the wind its peal echoed with the distant vibration of approaching enemy hoof beats. Truth was inflight and its surrogate had settled in. God was not pleased.  If Isaiah 58 warns of the impending consequence in forgetting God, Isaiah 59 exposes the impossibility of a return. How did Jesus see mechanical and non-committal worship? In repudiation of the rigid, merciless, and unloving way the religious leaders carried out their practice of worship and consecrated living, Jesus stated twice in the Gospels, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice" (Matt. 9:13, 12:7). Here is why. In Matt. 9 , Jesus was condemned for eating...

Zephaniah 3:5  (NKJV) The LORD is righteous in her midst, He will do no unrighteousness. Every morning He brings His justice to light; He never fails, But the unjust knows no shame. I have heard the shouts of the multitudes saying “There is no God!” In the revelry of the night we have all been prone to say, “God does not see me—nor does He care.” In the moment of a dark decision we postulate, “Oh well, what will it matter. God will not bring judgment; the 'morrow will be the same as today.” And when the night passes little do we realize we just became one step closer to the door being shut on heaven. Oh how it breaks His heart when to Him we say, “No, I do not have time.” Russian Roulette is a game of chance where a person takes a bullet out of a revolver, leaving one or more chambered, spins the cylinder and places it against his temple pulling the trigger of chance. It is a deadly game that no one will attempt on a regular basis and survive. The God of al...