July 11, 2010
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Isaiah 28 by Pastor Don Moore
Teaching from 4-16-10
Isaiah 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
To gain knowledge we gain it precept upon precept, line upon line.
Isaiah 28:11-12 For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people, to whom He said, “This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest,” and, “This is the refreshing”; yet they would not hear.
God speaks to us with tongues, gifts, signs, wonders in the supernatural. It can be in a language that we cannot hear or understand in the natural.
Isaiah 28:13 But the word of the LORD was to them, “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little,” that they might go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and caught.
Precept upon precept. What does it mean to fall backward, be broken and snared, and caught? After this process comes refreshing. In the literal people fall backward, are broken, snared, and caught by God. But figuratively, in the prophetic process we are refreshed if God is ministering to us. Or we can fall backward, fall from the way of God, and get caught in a snare.
WHEN THE FLESH OF MAN COMES IN CONTACT WITH THE POWER OF GOD SOMETHING HAS GOT TO GIVE AND IT WON’T BE GOD. You are going to fall down.
What happens when we fall down? We can be on the floor thinking about things that we are not ordinarily thinking about. We are taken by the Spirit and the Spirit begins to minister to us. It is a supernatural experience, where we receive messages, visions, etc. This happened to Paul on the road to Damascus, Peter on the roof, to the priests in Solomon’s temple, to John in Patmos.
If a person is yielded to receive something, God will give it to him.
Isaiah 28:14 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
Therefore (when you see “therefore” you have to wonder what it is THERE FOR). Scornful leaders.
Isaiah 28:15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”
Sheol is the grave. If you reject the promises of God, and make lies your refuge, you will end up lying to yourself. You will end up scornful and finding answers that are not God’s.
We all have lies that we tell ourselves and play games with ourselves. We fall in line with the lie and end up facing persecution caused by believing the lie.
Isaiah 28:5-6 On that day the LORD of hosts will be for a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the remnant of His people, for a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
There are special rewards for people of discernment. What does the Bible say? Some bend the scriptures or teach things that God never said.
For example, Swindoll used 1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. to say that signs and wonders stopped. That they were completed, finished with the disciples. But in context we see that this verse does not imply this at all. Not all prophesies have been fulfilled. There is no new Temple, and we have not reached the end of the Bible’s prophesied events. When we reach the end of the Bible, then prophesies will cease for they will then no longer be necessary for we will be with Christ. While we are still on the earth we need tongues, gifts, and prophesies.
The end of the age – AION is a mental concept. There is no clock, no passage of time, in the eternal. God is God of all the ages, and He moves from AION to AION, which is not clock time (Chronos time).
God deals with EVENTS IN TIME.
We want EVENTS BY TIME.
With tongues in the Spirit before God. Your spirit speaks thought to thought with God’s Spirit, your mind speaks mind to mind. We are seeking to have the mind of Christ. Our Spirit can give us knowledge, detailed understanding of something. We want to make our minds line up with what the Spirit of God is saying to us.
1 Corinthians says that where there is knowledge, it will vanish away. Knowledge has not passed away. Gnosis – knowledge of the mysteries of God. Knowledge of the things about God. We stop seeing the things of God when we stay in the presence of God.
1 Corinthians 13:9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
If prophesy has passes away why is Paul still prophesying?
1 Corinthians 13:10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
Has perfection come yet? NO! What is perfect and perfection? This whole passage pivots on verse 10, and things have not passed away because we have not achieved perfection. Only the Word of God is perfect. The words of men and demons are not perfect. We are being BROUGHT TO PERFECTION. But we are not perfect yet. What did Jesus say was perfect?
Matthew 5:48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
We measure perfection by God. None of us are perfect like God is perfect. Only God is perfect.
Matthew 19:16-17 Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
Jesus the man was in an imperfect physical body – He as God is perfect, but in the physical His body was physical, not Spirit. He had to depend on the Holy Spirit for instruction, but as God He knows all. But in the physical, He needed guidance from the Holy Spirit.
We will not have this perfect faith until Revelation 21.
1 Corinthians 13:11-12 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
If there was no need for gifts of the Spirit we would be seeing clearly, not dimly. Are we seeing face to face? NO! We only know in part. There still is more power available that we have not used. The limitation is with our thinking. We talk ourselves out of what God can do. We limit ourselves and limit our knowledge and understanding. The Lord gives us gifts to use so that we place the enemy under our feet. The effects of the devil are still on the earth so we need all the gifts we can have available to us. Say thank you to God for the gifts of the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 14:3-4 But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men. He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
Paul wanted the prophesies to be edifying to people, but that does not mean that we don’t speak in tongues. We still need our personal prayer language to edify ourselves. Paul said. 1 Corinthians 14:18-19 I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all; yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue. Paul told the people he spoke in tongues more than all of those he was teaching. Should we not use the same gifts that Paul used?
The flowing of the Spirit is likened to living water. Pastor Don said that once he was at a meeting where there were over 500 people speaking in tongues and it sounded like a waterfall – rivers of living water.
Praying you are edified and blessed.
Heather
