SPARKS

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Thank you.  I enjoyed this and it has encouraged me to study more closely the word
of God.

Judy

Fretwell@aol.com wrote:

>                             SPARKS
>
>         Isaiah 50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass
> [yourselves] about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the
> sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie
> down in sorrow.
>
>         Isaiah was a Prophet mightily used of the Lord to instruct and chide
> with Israel of the Old Testament time.  It is often difficult to separate the
> places where he writes of coming judgment, and where he is writing of the
> future glory of God's provision for His People.
>
>         Chapter 50 seems to be one of the times when the Lord, through Isaiah,
> is chiding the nation for not following His precepts, and asserting His
> autority and power to punish them for their neglect.
>
>         You will recall that in chapter six, Isaiah had seen the Lord High and
> lifted up, and His Train filled the Temple.  The Prophet immediately saw his
> own unworthiness, and cried out in dismay.  The Lord then cleansed his lips,
> and gave him a commission to go to the nation.  Isaiah asked what he should
> tell them when he went to them.  The Lord did not tell him to do a lot of
> preaching.  Rather, He sent the Prophet to Isaiah 6:9  And he said, Go, and
> tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but
> perceive not.   Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy,
> and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,
> and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
>
>         It was a message of blinding and deafness.  The nation had not wanted
> to hear the word of the Lord, nor had they wanted to do what His Word
> instructed them to do.  God would be very obliging.  If they didn't want to
> hear, He would make them deaf to His Word.  If they didn't want to see, He
> would make them blind to His dealings.  It was that simple.  It is very
> dangerous to know, and not do.  It is disasterous to hear and not hearken.
>
>         The result of having refused to walk in God's ways was to be led
> astray by a delusion, and fall into wrong practices and beliefs.
>
>         We are no better today than they were in the "year that King Uzziah
> died."  Judgmnet had been decreed, but God would not initiate it until His
> chosen King was dead.  God wanted to spare Uzziah the pain of seeing what He
> was going to do to a rebellious nation.
>
>         The Church of the Living God has squandered their resources by
> bickering back and forth among themselves over minor differences of
> interpretation of God's Word.  Strong-willed men have drawn unsuspecting
> saints after themselves, for their own benefit, and condemned others who did
> not follow them in their pernicious ways.
>
>         As the Prophet was anointed to write, they kindled a fire and sparks
> around themselves (God's way of describing a self-induced "anointing" to
> preach a private interpretation of the Word.
>
>         Some of the strongest "anointings" we have seen are those which men
> get when they are preaching their private set of teachings and practices,
> which may or may not be a correct interpretation of the Word.
>
>         The Lord has a message for these people, "This shall ye have of my
> hand, Ye shall lie down in sorrow."
>
>         It is extremely dangerous to indulge in the propagation of an idea
> which stems from a private or faulty interpretation of God's Word.
>
>         Let's be very sure that the scriptures DO SAY what we make them say by
> the manner in which we put them together.  If we put them together improperly,
> we MAKE THEM INTO A LIE.  In doing so, we condemn both ourselves and those who
> follow us.
>
>         Revelation 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing
> that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie:
> but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
>
>         Revelation 22:15 For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and
> whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a
> lie.