01 (Isaiah 1) Introducing Isaiah: A Call to Repentance

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1. Rightly Defining Prophet, Prophecy and Prophesy[1] (Ex 7:1, Rev 19:10)
2. Isaiah – Who, what, when
   1. Who was Isaiah? (Is 1:1, 6:3, 2Kings 19-20, 2Chr 26 & 32)
   2. What did he say?
   3. When did he live, work, and die? (Heb 11:37)
3. Isaiah 1
   1. A Divine Lawsuit (Isa 1:2, Dt 31:28)
   2. A Family Relationship with Discipline (Heb 12:7, 9-10)
      1. God and his people are a family.
      2. The pain of a broken relationship
      3. The people are worse than animals (Is 1:3)
   3. What’s the problem? 4 descriptions of Judah’s Moral state (Isa 1:4)
      1. First – sinful nation. (Judg 20:16)
      2. Second – Laden with iniquity
      3. Third – offspring of evildoers
      4. Fourth – Children who deal corruptly (Lev 22:25)
   4. What’s the effect of this? (Isa 1:5)
      1. Threat of punishment & Lack of protection (Isa 1:7-9)
      2. Continuous Rebellion (Rom 1:24, 26, 28)
      3. Deformation of humanity (Isa 1:6)
4. What was the Specific sin of the nation? (Is 1:10)
   1. What it isn’t: (Isa 1:11)
   2. What it is. An issue of the heart and a failure to understand repentance (Isa 1:21-23)
5. What does God want? (Isa 1:16-17)
   1. God is inviting his people to a way of living that melds cleanness of heart with cleanness of life.
   2. In the courtroom God is saying to his very religious people – do this!
      1. The Conundrum: Can we stop doing evil?
   3. God wants us to live holy lives in service of others
   4. God wants to see our sin washed away (Is 1:18-19)

[1] Joseph Alexander’s Prophecies of Isaiah, Scribner & Sons, ©1865 p1