Dec 15, 2018 - Suggested Reading Isaiah 22 for Dec 16th's message on 1 Corinthians 15:20-34 in our worship service at 9:00am

““Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!””

Isaiah 22:13 (NIV)

Isaiah 22 contains the same geographical vision of Psalm 110, for they both look towards Jerusalem and Zion.

But Psalm 110 sees the mighty scepter and the mighty army with their mighty King conquering the foe, whereas Isaiah 22 sees utter defeat and disaster.

Defeat instead of victory.

Disaster instead of joy.

All because they are unwilling to repent, to mourn over our sin, to ask God to change them,
to save them.

No- instead let us embrace our defeat and indulge ourselves for the few short hours we have left.

Do we do this in our lives? Do we embrace disaster? Do we refuse to mourn over sin?

Refusing to repent is the unforgivable sin.

The people of Isaiah’s day committed this sin.

Will we continue in our sin? Or will we repent of our sin?

Turn away from our pride and our sin - look to our Lord,
put His commands into practice in our lives.

Then we will see the vision of Psalm 110 instead of the vision of Isaiah 22.

Victory instead of defeat.

Joy instead of disaster.