Isaiah 64:5-6

"Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; (or angry) for we have sinned: (See, that's the problem.) in those is continuance, and we shall be (what?) saved. (All right, now read on.) 6. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." All right, now let's jump up to the New Testament and pick up this same concept. You've heard me say it more than once on the program over the years, you can't be saved until you know that you're what? Lost.


Now, what did this verse just tell us? That Israel realized they had sinned. Their iniquities were just compounded. All their so-called self-righteousness was like what? Filthy rags. Now, that's even filthier than what we normally think of. The filthy rags here were really the cast-off rags of a leper with all of its filth. That's what self-righteousness is in God's eyes.


All right, so we're going to use this half-hour, since I've been talking so much about the wrath of God that's coming upon Christ-rejecting mankind, and so that no one who hears my voice will be able to say, if they find themselves in that kind of wrath and vexation, "Well, God, you're unfair. I never had a chance."
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