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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:14

GOD OPPRESSEDIsaiah 1:14. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.It is the Almighty who here speaks, and His speech is a protest to men who imagined that by their worship they would conciliate and please Him. Their worship He rejects: it was polluted by the pollution of those who offered it. Instead of cleansing them, as they vainly dreamed, they had defiled it. It is the Almighty who speaks, and in what terms of intensity of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:15

WORTHLESS HUSKSIsaiah 1:15. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear.The Jews had been likened unto the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah (Isaiah 1:10). As such, they are summoned to listen to a series of declarations of which this is the sum, that worship without holiness is a solemn mockery. Confining ourselves to our text only, we may see that it teaches us—I. The worthlessness of ritualism without spontaneity. “When... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:16

MORAL ABLUTIONIsaiah 1:16. Wash you, make you clean.This is one of a very numerous class of passages which summon sinners to the duty of moral purification, of thorough and complete reformation of character (Jeremiah 4:14; James 4:8; Jeremiah 18:11; Ezekiel 18:30-32, &c.) These passages are very clear and emphatic, but they seem to be in opposition to others which assert man’s natural inability to do anything that is good (Matthew 7:18; Romans 7:18-23; John 15:5), with others which teach... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:16-17

TRUE AND FALSE RELIGIONIsaiah 1:11; Isaiah 1:16-17. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord. I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.… Wash you, make you clear; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.What was the business of the... read more

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:17

THE GREAT TASKIsaiah 1:17. Learn to do well.Negative goodness is not enough to meet the Divine requirements. Those who have “ceased to do evil” must “learn to do well.” God demands positive excellence [333] The cultivation of well-doing is the surest guarantee against evil-doing [336][333] All the religion of some men runs upon nots. “I am not as this publican.” That ground is nought, though it brings not forth briars and thorns, if it yieldeth not good increase. Not only the unruly servant... read more

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:18

GOD’S GRACIOUS INVITATION TO SINNERSIsaiah 1:18. Come now, and. let us reason together, saith the Lord; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow: though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.It is scarcely possible to conceive of a more interesting and delightful exhibition of the love and mercy of God than is presented to us in these words; unless they had been found in the volume of eternal truth, we might have justly doubted their veracity. For the speaker is... read more

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:19

SINNERS SELF-DESTROYEDIsaiah 1:19. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land; but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.Delitsch translates—“If ye then shall willingly hear, ye shall eat the good of the land; if ye shall obstinately rebel, ye shall be eaten by the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.”Strachey translates—“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall feed on the good of the land; but if... read more

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:21

AN ILLUSTRIOUS INHABITANTIsaiah 1:21. Righteousness lodged in it.I. A High Commendation. Righteousness lodged in the city—not merely visited it as a passing guest, but dwelt in it as a permanent abode [Alexander and Kay—“had its home there”]. No greater praise could be spoken of any city, nor can be uttered of any man. 1. Let us do what we can to make our city worthy of this high commendation. Much can be done in this direction by the combined, resolute, and persevering efforts of good men. 2.... read more

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:21-23

MORAL DECLENSIONIsaiah 1:21-23. How is the faithful city become an harlot! [430] It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers [433] Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.[430] “The faithful city is become an harlot:”—Jerusalem, the daughter of Zion, the wife of the... read more

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:22

THE POSSIBLE DEGENERACY OF VALUABLE THINGSIsaiah 1:22. Thy silver is become dross.There are many valuable and good things in the world that through varied causes are rendered comparatively useless. They once were silver, but now they are dross. I. The silver of thy character has become dross because of little failings. There have been men known to all of us, of good moral characters, of lofty and heroic soul, but they were betrayed into occasional faults [436] which many condoned, which others... read more

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:14

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:15

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:16

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:16-17

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:17

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:18

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:19

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:21

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:21-23

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:22

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