…Reintroduces the theme of worship, the worship of God. Because behind much of what he has said, as he is criticizing Israel, as the representative people of God of his day, and, by projection, has critiqued the church in every age, he has critiqued us for our idolatry, that is for our functional idolatry in replacing the one true and living God who has been revealed by a God of our imagination or a God of our rationalization or a God of our invention. That’s part and parcel of Isaiah’s critique of the church; not just the world, but the church. And implicit in that is the way in which we think of God when we worship him. …Worship is divinely decreed. True worship is divinely decreed. Look how he begins in verse 1: Thus says the Lord, Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool. He begins by establishing … the God of the Bible. Nothing else which we can imagine, nothing else of which we have experience as creatures in the created order [which] he stands apart from and above and over and outside of all reality of which we are conscious. That God by himself is not only infinite in size … but he is incomprehensible to our minds. Now he needs to say this because there is an impulse within our hearts that always wants to make God understandable to ourselves.
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Dr. Liam Goligher was Senior Minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church from May of 2011 until December of 2023. He previously pastored churches in Ireland, Canada, England, and his native Scotland.
Dr. Goligher has been closely involved in Bible teaching and evangelistic ministry...
