Isaiah 55:8-9

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 55:6-9

GOD UNKNOWN YET KNOWNIsaiah 55:6-9. Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, &c.There is a paradox in these words. They invite us to seek a God who yet cannot be found, to know a God who yet cannot be known. For where should we seek God if not in His “ways;” or how shall we know Him except by coming to know His “thoughts”? And yet, while we are urged to seek Him, we are expressly told that His thoughts and ways are as high above ours as the heavens are high above the earth. Is God, then,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 55:8-9

GOD’S WAY OF PARDONING ABOVE MEN’SIsaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, &c.Suppose your sovereign taking a personal interest in you. But you have become a rebel. She has every justification in casting you off. Instead of this she makes an arrangement at great cost by which she is able to offer a free pardon. And this purely because of the benevolent interest she takes in you.Think of the Divine greatness (2 Chronicles 6:18) and holiness. Contrast these with our littleness and... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 55:8-9

Isaiah 55:8-9 I. The errors, in opposition to which the doctrine of the text is to be asserted, are those connected with what has been technically termed anthropomorphism. II. The testimony of the text is not to be overstrained. There are qualifications and limitations that must be practically observed in applying it. (1) We are expressly taught to judge of the heart of God by what is in the heart of man. "Like as a father pitieth his children," etc. (2) But for such a liberty and warrant as we... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Isaiah 55:8-9

DISCOURSE: 985GOD’S WAYS ABOVE OURSIsaiah 55:8-9. My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord: for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.MEN are apt to judge of God by themselves, and to suppose him restricted by such laws as they deem proper for their own observance. The wicked almost reduce him to a level with themselves in a moral view [Note: Psalms 50:21.]: and even the godly... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 55:1-13

Chapter 55Ho, every one that thirsteth ( Isaiah 55:1 ),Going into the glorious Kingdom Age. Now, God detests and hates commercialism. God hates how people take advantage of one another. Profiteering on someone else. God is going to bring down the whole commercial system. And when God brings it down there is going to be great rejoicing in heaven, though on earth there's going to be tremendous mourning and lamentation. But in Revelation 18:1-24 God spends a whole chapter telling of how He's going... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 55:1-13

Isaiah 55:12 . The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing. Virgil has the like ideas. Eclogue 5: 62. Ipsi lætitia voces ad sidera jactant Intonsi montes; ipsæ jam carmina rupes, Ipsa sonant arbusta. That is, the unshorn mountains, elated with joy, raise their voices to the stars; yea, the rocks and groves resound with songs. The poets, as well as the prophets, sung the glory of the latter day. REFLECTIONS. The waters which flowed from the Gihon, the rivers of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 55:1-13

Isaiah 55:1-13He, every one that thirstethThe cries of the water-carriersPublic messages [Isaiah] would, as a matter of course, deliver publicly in the frequented streets and bazaars, and in khans, and in the temple area, frequently using the common cries of the forerunners of the nobles, the morning call of the temple watchmen, who had been waiting to proclaim the striking of the sun’s first rays upon the pinnacles, the groans of the sabbals (or burden-bearers), the tumult of the buyers and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 55:6-9

Isaiah 55:6-9Seek ye the Lord while He may be foundThe Lord to be soughtNotice how it reads: “Seek the Lord.” It don’t say seek happiness; it don’t say seek peace; it don’t say seek joy. A good many people seek after joy, after peace, after happiness. I cannot find any place in the Bible where we are told to seek for peace or joy. If you have the Spirit, you will have the fruit of the Spirit; and you won’t have the fruit without the Spirit itself. You might as well look for an apple or an... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 55:7-9

Isaiah 55:7-9Let the wicked forsake his wayThe way of return to God and its encouragements1.Here there are apparently two things expressed--a negative and a positive, two lines of conduct expressed--a forsaking one way of living and the adoption of another, but in reality the two things are but one. They are two in thought and expression, but only one in conduct. The forsaking the wicked way and the wicked thought is no other than the returning with all our heart to God. You cannot separate... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 55:8-9

Isaiah 55:8-9For My thoughts are not your thoughtsGod’s thoughtsThe thought of God! Who can fathom it?Astronomers tell us of stars in the sky at such infinite distances that their light, shooting through space at the inconceivable rate of 185,000 miles a second, would require 3,500 years to reach this earth. And vet God’s thought placed them thus far away in space, arranged the laws that govern them, not unlikely has set whirling around them planets like our own, peopled with sentiment and... read more

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