An Encounter with Isaiah

Song of Woe…Who will go?

Isaiah 5:1 – 6:13

Lesson 3

Isaiah 6:8:Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

An Encounter with Isaiah

Song of Woe…Who will go?

Isaiah 5:1 – 6:13

Lesson 3

The Song of the Vineyard

The Provision

The Perspective

The Pronouncement

The Song of the Vineyard

Isaiah 5:1-2b: I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well.

The Provision

The Song of the Vineyard

John 13:34-35: “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

The Provision

The Song of the Vineyard

Isaiah 5:2c-4: Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit. “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it?When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?

The Perspective

The Song of the Vineyard

Isaiah 5:5-6: Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the cloudsnot to rain on it.”

The Pronouncement

The Song of the Vineyard

Isaiah 5:7: The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

Psalm 147:11: the LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.Psalm 149:4: For the LORD takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory.

The First of Six WoesIsaiah 5:8-10: Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land. The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing: “Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants. A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine; a homer of seed will yield only an ephah of grain.”

Colossians 3:5: Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. (NKJV)

The Second WoeIsaiah 5:11: Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine. They have harps and lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord, no respect for the work of his hands.

Job 31:3: Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong?

1 Peter 3:14: But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats ; do not be frightened.”

The Second WoeIsaiah 5:12-17: They have harps and lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord, no respect for the work of his hands. Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; those of high rank will die of hunger and the common people will be parched with thirst. Therefore Death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers. So people will be brought low and everyone humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled. But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts. Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture; lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich.

The Third WoeIsaiah 5:18-19: Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes, to those who say, “Let God hurry; let him hasten his workso we may see it. The plan of the Holy One of Israel—let it approach, let it come into view, so we may know it.”

Hebrews 10:31: It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

The Fourth WoeIsaiah 5:20: Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness,who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

Chaos – the state of utter confusion

Job 25:2: Dominion and awe belong to God; he establishes order in the heights of heaven.

The Fifth WoeIsaiah 5:21: Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

Agnostic - derived from the negation of the Greek word [gnosis], which means esoteric knowledge of higher things. Thus, a'gnostic means No-knowledge or not knowing.

Psalm 14:1: The fool says in his heart, “There is no God”

The Sixth Woe

Isaiah 5:22-23: Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks, who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.

• Alcohol is the number one drug problem in America

• There are more than 12 million alcoholics in the U.S.

• 3/4ths of all adults drink alcohol and 6% of them are alcoholics

• A person is killed every 30 minutes in alcohol-related car accidents

Convictions Against Alcohol

Ephesians 5:18: Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit,

Father as a role model

Admired Christian leaders as role models

Motivation behind arguments for drinking alcohol

Therefore

Isaiah 5:24-25: Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel. Therefore the Lord’s anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

An Encounter with GodIsaiah 6:1: In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.

An Encounter with GodIsaiah 6:1: In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.

Isaiah 6:2-4: Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

An Encounter with GodIsaiah 6:5: “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

Job 42:5-6: “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.”

Revelation 1:17: “And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead.”

Daniel 10:8: Therefore I was left alone when I saw this great vision, and no strength remained in me; for my vigor was turned to frailty in me, and I retained no strength.

An Encounter with GodIsaiah 6:6-7: Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”

1 John 1:9: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

The Right Answer to the QuestionIsaiah 6:8: Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

The InstructionsIsaiah 6:8: Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

Isaiah 6:9-10: He said, “Go and tell this people: “‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes.Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

For How Long, Lord?

Isaiah 6:11-13: Then I said, “For how long, Lord?”And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged, until the Lord has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken. And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”

For How Long, Lord?

Isaiah 6:11-13: Then I said, “For how long, Lord?”And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged, until the Lord has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken. And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”

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