Isaiah 6:13. But yet - "
You never get this deep bass note of divine justice without having a "but yet" to accompany it.
Isaiah 6:13. In it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
When the oak sheds all its leaves, it is not dead; there is living sap that will again cause the tree to be verdant. Though the nation was to be brought very low, there was still to be left a remnant according to the election of grace. Sin never reaches such a point in God’s people but what grace triumphs. Still, where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. This is a terrible chapter; it shows the sovereignty of God in a lurid light, and reveals how, when sin comes to a certain point, the Lord gives men up, and leaves them to the blindness of their heart, so that even the means of grace, the prophetic message, becomes a means of condemnation to them.Now we are going to read in one of the many places in the New Testament in which this passage is quoted.
This exposition consisted of readings from Isaiah 6.; Matthew 13:10-17; and Luke 18:35-43.
Isaiah 6:13. But yet - "
You never get this deep bass note of divine justice without having a "but yet" to accompany it.
Isaiah 6:13. In it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
When the oak sheds all its leaves, it is not dead; there is living sap that will again cause the tree to be verdant. Though the nation was to be brought very low, there was still to be left a remnant according to the election of grace. Sin never reaches such a point in God’s people but what grace triumphs. Still, where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. This is a terrible chapter; it shows the sovereignty of God in a lurid light, and reveals how, when sin comes to a certain point, the Lord gives men up, and leaves them to the blindness of their heart, so that even the means of grace, the prophetic message, becomes a means of condemnation to them.Now we are going to read in one of the many places in the New Testament in which this passage is quoted.
This exposition consisted of readings from Isaiah 6.; Matthew 13:10-17; and Luke 18:35-43.