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Isaiah 59:1-8
Excerpted from: Peace, Peace (Part One): Peace with God

Which is quite the opposite of what we heard in the morning sermon. Martin was imploring us to take that way of peace. But it says these people have made themselves crooked paths. They did not go on a way that was already laid out for them from God. They said, I want to go my own way. And God says, Okay, fine, you take that way. You will never know peace.

Now this passage makes me conclude that as well. It says it right there, humanity has never really known peace. Not the peace of God that He wants us to live. And Isaiah does a fantastic job here of tying their lack of peace with their sins. It was their sins that made peace impossible. Their iniquities were so contrary to the way of peace that it could never even begin. There was so much sin that had built up in their lifetimes that they had an absolute inability to acknowledge and follow the truth, which is another way of talking about the way of peace.

Isaiah 59:1-2
Excerpted from: Reconciliation and the Day of Atonement

Sin—or iniquity or lawlessness, however you want to read that—is what has brought on the need for atonement or reconciliation. Iniquity, sin, and lawlessness produce the opposite of atonement. Sin, iniquity and lawlessness produce separation—not coming together. It separates and builds barriers between us and God and between us and other men.

He says here that He will not hear. We have to understand this. It is not that He cannot hear. What He is telling us is that because of sin, He will not hear. God is not sinning, therefore if there is a separation between a man and God—between us and God—then it is because we have done something. We are the ones who are drifting away. However, to the human being it seems as though God has gone far away, when He has not moved at all.

Articles

Amazing Grace
Anger: Spiritual Drano®
Communication and Leaving Babylon (Part Three)
Five Teachings of Grace
Is the Love of Many Growing Cold?
Leadership and Covenants (Part Two)
Prepare to Meet Your God (Part Five): Religion and Holiness
Prepare to Meet Your God! (Part Four)
Priestly Purity
Separation and At-One-Ment
Sin, Christians, and the Fear of God  (2)
Sowing and Reaping
The Offerings of Leviticus (Part Seven): The Sin and Trespass Offerings
The Seventh Commandment
The Seventh Commandment (1997)
What Is the Second Death?
Who Fulfills the Azazel Goat— Satan or Christ? (Part Four)
Who Fulfills the Azazel Goat— Satan or Christ? (Part Three)  (2)
Who Fulfills the Azazel Goat—Satan or Christ? (Part Two)

Bible Studies

What Is an Abomination?

Booklets

Prepare to Meet Your God! (The Book of Amos) (Part Two)
What Do You Mean . . . Salvation?

Essays

Has Humanity Reached Total Depravity? (Part One)
Manoah (Part Two)
Pentecost and the Wave Offerings (Part Two)
United With Whom?

Sermons

What We Can Learn From This Day of Atonement
Matthew (Part Two)
The Last Words of Jesus Christ
Unity and Unleavened Bread
The Sixth Commandment
Sin Defined and Overcome
Satan, Division, and Humility
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part 8)
The Wearing Out of the Saints
Instruction in the Morning
Human Nature: Good or Evil?
Hands That Shed Innocent Blood
What is Atonement?
Secession (Part One): Separation Wrong?
Genesis 3:20-24: Consequences for God and Man
Leadership and the Covenants (Part One)
Leadership and the Covenants (Part Two)
Offerings (Part Six)
Reconciliation and Unity
Strategies for Interfacing with Babylon without Becoming Assimilated (Part Seven)
From Both Sides Now and the Feast of Tabernacles
A Rewired Society (Part Two): A Post-Truth World
God Expects a Return on His Investment (Part Four)
The Peacemakers
The Peacemakers
Fall Feast Lessons
Our Apostasy
Communication and Coming Out of Babylon (Part 3)
Reconciliation and Unity
The Need for Forgiveness
The Handwriting Is on the Wall (2000)
Examining God's Judgments
The Essence of Self-Control
God the Father (Part 2)
John (Part 22)
Watershed Moment

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