Hearken And Live
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 8/14/2011 AM |
Text: | Isaiah 55:2,3 |
Psalters: | 239, 358, 249, 355 |
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper |
- The call to listen.
- That which all men are seeking to obtain is satisfaction of his needs and wants.
- As our bodies need and crave water, so our soul thirsts for fellowship and approval.
- Every human, standing in relationship to his Creator, longs for evidence of His positive attitude toward them.
- God told these believers that the satisfaction of righteousness and true happiness are obtained without money.
- Because it is free, God calls Hearken diligently (2) is literally: hearken, hearken.
- God call us to listen to him and to do so with great care.
- Unto me is positioned prominently in the word order, so God calls attention to Himself.
- He tells us, over and over, that His favor (and what His favor gives: righteousness and satisfaction) is free.
- That which all men are seeking to obtain is satisfaction of his needs and wants.
- Because if we don t listen carefully to God, the only other thing man would do is put forth his own effort.
- These activities are that of people who are working hard to obtain things through their efforts, their good works!
- But that which human efforts attains is vanity ( not bread ) and thus does not really satisfy.
- Why is it not bread and satisfieth not ?
- We pursue that which is sawdust, not wholesome, and even hurtful and destructive.
- God s promise.
- He commands us to listen and eat that which is good and delight in fatness.
- It is genuinely good and profitable, but also luxuriant and rich food. And most satisfying.
- Human efforts gives only leanness and nothingness, and even damnation.
- Abundant satisfaction with fatness and pleasures (Ps. 36:8; 65:4) are found in the relationship God has established!!
- His relationship with us is called the sure mercies of David.
- Text emphasizes that they sure and everlasting.
- Thus your soul shall live comfortably, plentifully and forever.
- He commands us to listen and eat that which is good and delight in fatness.