My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, if we see the portion of
the Bible that we meditated on yesterday in order that none of us should become
weary our Lord God has given us his eternal possession which is Jesus Christ. He
is the stone that is laid in Zion a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure
foundation and cornerstone; We see that God is telling us that he has kept that
stone in Zion, It is written that whoever believes on that stone will not
act hastily.
The scornful people who rule Jerusalem are saying that We have
made a covenant with death, When the overflowing scourge (plague) passes
through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under
falsehood we have hidden ourselves.” But whatever plagues may come they will
not escape. We see that the plagues that God sends is destroying them.
Therefore, God says in Isaiah 28: 17 Also I will make justice
the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet; The hail will sweep away the
refuge of lies, And the waters will overflow the hiding place.
Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement
with Sheol will not stand; When the overflowing scourge passes through, Then
you will be trampled down by it.
As often as it goes out it will take you; For morning by morning
it will pass over, and by day and by night; It will be a terror just to
understand the report.”
For the bed is too short to stretch out on, And the covering so
narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, we must meditate on the
above verses and analyze our lives. Think of the times when we followed vain
things, gave importance to vain things, gave the place of God to vain things
and the times when we thought we can live in the shadow of it. Think of the
times when we lived according to our heart’s desires, thought what we are
thinking is right, did according to our heart’s thoughts and lived as we
desired. God’s servants and gospel workers did according to their heart’s
desire holding on to vain things, followed them and walked according to them
and if we have also followed them and gone in the wrong path today let us think
carefully, think of how whatever God has told is happening in these days. Many
people even those who know God are not able to escape from the plagues and
pestilence that God has sent in the world today, so we must see what the reason
is. Those who thought that there is refuge in vain things should think of the
hail which is the plague and the waters overflowing the hiding place and submit
ourselves completely to God and remove vain things from us and believe only on
Jesus who is out sure foundation and our cornerstone and if we will abide in
His words then no evil shall come upon us.
Therefore God’s words says in Isaiah 28: 21 For the Lord will
rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon— That
He may do His work, His awesome work, And bring to pass His act, His unusual
act.
My dear people of God do not be careless after meditating on all
these words. God is giving us a chance to repent and unite with God. This is
because of God’s long suffering upon us.
Therefore, God’s words in Isaiah 28: 22, 23 says - Now
therefore, do not be mockers, Lest your bonds be made strong; For I have heard
from the Lord God of hosts, A destruction determined even upon the whole earth.
If God is revealing all these things to the prophet Isaiah
through visions and is talking to us, then in these days think of how much we
have to change and receive holiness.
For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to
this people as written in God’s words in Isaiah 28: 11 God is showing that this
is the comfort that he is giving the vain people.
Our God is not a God who gives other tongues in the form of
stammering lips.
Proverbs 14: 6 A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it, But
knowledge is easy to him who understands.
From this we understand that wisdom is Christ. A scoffer does
not wear Christ. Knowledge is the bride. Those who have received wisdom will
gain knowledge. Those who have knowledge will get understanding easily.
Proverbs 21: 11 When the scoffer is
punished, the simple is made wise; But when the wise is instructed, he receives
knowledge.
God is calling our soul simple when our soul does not have
wisdom. When that soul is being punished it will receive wisdom. If we receive
wisdom (God’s wisdom) when he listens to God’s teachings, he will receive
knowledge.
That is why in Psalms 1: 1 it is written Blessed is the man Who
walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor
sits in the seat of the scornful;
From this we have to understand that ungodly are the Christians
who live according to the lusts of the world and by following vain things and
those doing God’s work in this manner.
That is why in Jude 1: 18, 19 how
they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk
according to their own ungodly lusts. These are sensual persons, who cause
divisions, not having the Spirit. These are the people that God calls scornful.
God talks to such people only with stammering lips and other tongues.
When the Day of Pentecost came the Holy Spirit came upon all
those who waited on Him. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began
to speak in other tongues. We can see that no one spoke in stammering lips.
Only if we are the bride – the church whatever plagues or floods
may come it will not affect us. Otherwise our covenant with death will be
annulled, And our agreement with Sheol will not stand.
This is what is happening in these days. Therefore, my dear
brothers and sisters in Christ we must always be careful to stand in God’s
truth. We must be built on Christ who is our sure foundation and our
Cornerstone.
Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all.
- To be continued