Isaiah 1:1-17
A Rebellious Nation
The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.
Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me.
Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
You are doomed!
Although Jerusalem was not finally destroyed until 587BC, the nation had, a century before, virtually reached the point of no return. God's people have rejected him, breaking the sacred covenant that bound them to him. And God is sickened by their moral degradation, social injustice and religious hypocrisy.
Why?
God angry and sad to his people rebellion to the Truth. they don't know what are they doing. Their hearts are afflicted, head is injured.
Listen to do right; seek justice, defend the oppressed, take up the cause of the fatherless ; plead the case of the widow. This is the right way to every christian.
Meaningless offerings is detestable to the Lord, same as pray to the Lord and worship God in church without love and justice are detestable to the Lord.
How?
Take care of my heart do not turn away from the Lord, what God likes is the love, justice and take care of the needed. Guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. (Proverb 4:23)
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