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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®
Are Some Sins Worse Than Others?
Communication and Leaving Babylon (Part Three)
David the Prophet
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
Should We Pray for the World?
Sin, Christians, and the Fear of God  (2)
Sowing and Reaping
The Beatitudes, Part 6: The Pure in Heart
The Offerings of Leviticus (Part Seven): The Sin and Trespass Offerings
The Seventh Commandment
The Seventh Commandment (1997)
The Sixth Commandment (Part 2): War! (1997)
This Body of Death  (2)
Trends in Global Religion
What Is the Second Death?
Who Fulfills the Azazel Goat— Satan or Christ? (Part Five)  (2)
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

Admission of Sin
Should We Ignore Our Feelings of Guilt?
The Fruit of Justification
What Is an Abomination?
What Is Propitiation? (Part One)  (2)

Booklets

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

Essays

Another Look at the Prosperity Gospel
Has Humanity Reached Total Depravity? (Part One)
Jesus' Sufferings on Passover
Manoah (Part Two)
Pentecost and the Wave Offerings (Part Two)
Repentance: The Genuine Article (Part Six)
September 11 One Year On
Snapshots (Part Three)
The Relationship Deficit (Part Two)
Tracking the Ten Tribes (Part Eighteen)
United With Whom?
Unity and Division (Part One)
Unity and Division (Part Two): Who Scattered the Church?

Sermons

Things Pertaining to the Kingdom!
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part 8)
Hands That Shed Innocent Blood
Hosea's Prophecy (Part 4)
Human Nature: Good or Evil?
The Wearing Out of the Saints
What's Wrong With Christmas?
Profanity (Part Two)
Satan, Division, and Humility
Sin Defined and Overcome
Are You Feeling Guilty Of Past Sins?
The Sixth Commandment
Unity and Unleavened Bread
Whatever We Ask
Hands That Shed Innocent Blood
What We Can Learn From This Day of Atonement
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)
The Post-Resurrection Last Words of Christ (Part One)
Forgiving, Giving, and Living
Truth-Based Worship Vs Spiritual Confusion
The Doctrine of Israel (Part Six): New Testament Teaching
Jesus in the Feasts (Part Four): Atonement
Reconciliation and Unity
Psalm 51 (Part Three): Verses 5-12
Strategies for Interfacing with Babylon without Becoming Assimilated (Part Seven)
From Both Sides Now and the Feast of Tabernacles
The Cursed Redeemer
A Rewired Society (Part Two): A Post-Truth World
God Expects a Return on His Investment (Part Four)
The Peacemakers
The Peacemakers
Micah (Part Two): Rest for the Restless
Fall Feast Lessons
Our Apostasy
Our Apostasy
Reconciliation and Unity
The Last Words of Jesus Christ
The Need for Forgiveness
Healing the Breach
Isaiah 58 and Fasting
The Handwriting Is on the Wall (2000)
Examining God's Judgments
A Merry Heart
The Essence of Self-Control
God the Father (Part 2)
John (Part 22)
Matthew (Part Two)
Communication and Coming Out of Babylon (Part 3)
Our Walk Out of Darkness Into the Light
Watershed Moment

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