We have been considering in our study of Isaiah 5 a nation under judgment. Isaiah lived at a time of moral and spiritual collapse. He lived in what Paul called “difficult times” (2 Tim 3:1) when sin seems to super abound. All generations are sinful but not all are equally sinful. Isaiah lived at a time when men had forgotten how to blush. We have already considered in this chapter the great sins of Israel in the prophet’s day as including materialism and hedonism given to us in graphic word pictures in verses 8-10 and verses 11-12 respectively. In this message we come to another sinful characteristic of the prophet’s day highlighted in Isaiah 5:18-21 in what Dr. Davis has called the “free thinkers of Israel.” We might also call it the sin of humanism where man is the measure of all things and even dares to introduce his new morality. We have the introduction of perversion in the text and the celebrating of it as if it were good and ought to be the public norm. This is what characterized Isaiah’s day and this is what characterizes the west at present. We are considering these things because this is all relevant to us today. What we need to understand is that God has not changed. That which brought divine judgment 2,700 years ago brings divine judgment still. The point of the passage is that we all be made to see the holiness of God, the sinfulness of sin, the tragedy of idolatry, the reality of divine judgment and the need for the gospel. We shall consider,
I. The three woes pronounced upon the free thinkers II. A brief consideration of how the woes were fulfilled III. Profiting from God’s prior judgments
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