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Repentance
Isaiah 58:1-12
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We all make mistakes.
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We all make mistakes.
But, if a doctor makes a mistake, it could cost a
life.
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What would you expect to hear if your
doctor made a mistake?
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1999 study at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in
Lexington, KY.
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1999 study at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in
Lexington, KY.
After losing two big lawsuits, the hospital ruled that its
employees should admit to every medical mistake.
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1999 study at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in
Lexington, KY.
After losing two big lawsuits, the hospital ruled that its
employees should admit to every medical mistake.
After putting that policy into effect, the hospital‟s
court-ordered payment dropped significantly.
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Does repentance count if there’s a big
payoff?
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Does repentance count if there’s a big
payoff?
If apologizing gets you off the hook, can
contrition be genuine?
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If we repent before God, but if it’s not
true repentance, does it count in the
higher scheme of things?
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The Jews in tonight‟s text thought so.
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The Jews in tonight‟s text thought so.
Obviously, God was not amused.
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The Jews in tonight‟s text thought so.
Obviously, God was not amused.
God doesn‟t want “Calculated Repentance,” but he
wants serious repentance.
Calculated Repentance
The Jews in tonight‟s text thought so.
Obviously, God was not amused.
God doesn‟t want “Calculated Repentance,” but he
wants serious repentance.
In tonight‟s text, God rebukes the Israelites for their
fake repentances & urges them to repent genuinely.
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Isaiah 58:1-12
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Curses for Fake Repentance
vv 1-5
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“Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a
trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the
house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily and
delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did
righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their
God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to
draw near to God. „Why have we fasted, and you see it
not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no
knowledge of it?‟ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek
your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. Behold,
you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a
wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your
voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose,
a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down
his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes
under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable
to the LORD?” (vv 1-5, ESV).
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The second half of Isaiah was written prior to the
Babylonian Captivity, but the intended audience
was the Jewish exiles in Babylon.
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The second half of Isaiah was written prior to the
Babylonian Captivity, but the intended audience
was the Jewish exiles in Babylon.
The exiles cold go to Isaiah, therefore, to find needed
encouragement & strength during the Captivity.
Calculated Repentance
The second half of Isaiah was written prior to the
Babylonian Captivity, but the intended audience
was the Jewish exiles in Babylon.
The exiles cold go to Isaiah, therefore, to find needed
encouragement & strength during the Captivity.
That‟s the context of these words: the people are in
Captivity, wishing to undo the consequences of their
sin, & outwardly repent.
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The people ask: “Why have we fasted, and you
see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves,
and you take no knowledge of it?” (v 3, ESV).
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Fasting has long been connected with
repentance.
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Fasting has long been connected with
repentance.
“Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went
up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there
before the LORD and fasted that day until evening,
and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before
the LORD” (Judg 20:26, ESV).
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Fasting has long been connected with
repentance.
Judg 20:26.
“So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and
poured it out before the LORD and fasted on that day
and said there, „We have sinned against the LORD‟”
(1 Sm 7:6, ESV).
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The people did without food.
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The people did without food.
They did what people before them had done to
express remorse over sin.
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So, why is God not pleased?
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The people outwardly repented, but they kept on
committing their sins.
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“Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person
to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head
like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes
under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day
acceptable to the LORD?” (v 5, ESV).
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“Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person
to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head
like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes
under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day
acceptable to the LORD?” (v 5, ESV).
God isn‟t interested in a show of repentance—
he‟s interested in genuine repentance.
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Genuine repentance always involves a change of
heart.
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Genuine repentance always involves a change of
heart.
“Bear fruit in keeping with repentance” (Mt 3:8, ESV).
Calculated Repentance
Genuine repentance always involves a change of
heart.
“Bear fruit in keeping with repentance” (Mt 3:8, ESV).
“We were buried therefore with him by baptism into
death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the
dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in
newness of life” (Rom 6:4, ESV).
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Blessings for True Repentance
vv 6-12
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“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to
undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break
every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the
homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him,
and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light
break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily;
your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be
your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you
shall cry, and he will say, „Here I am.‟ If you take away the yoke from
your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, if you
pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted,
then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the
noonday. And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your
desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall
be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not
fail. And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the
foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the
breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in” (vv 6-12, ESV).
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God told his people the type of repentance he
wanted.
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God told his people the type of repentance he
wanted.
God wanted his people to work for justice & help the
poor.
Calculated Repentance
God told his people the type of repentance he
wanted.
God wanted his people to work for justice & help the
poor.
Justice & benevolence are mentioned, for the Jews
disregarded both.
Calculated Repentance
God told his people the type of repentance he
wanted.
God wanted his people to work for justice & help the
poor.
Justice & benevolence are mentioned, for the Jews
disregarded both.
They would exploit their workers (v 3).
Calculated Repentance
God told his people the type of repentance he
wanted.
God wanted his people to work for justice & help the
poor.
Justice & benevolence are mentioned, for the Jews
disregarded both.
They would exploit their workers (v 3).
They needed to do away with the yoke of oppression (v 9).
Calculated Repentance
God told his people the type of repentance he
wanted.
God wanted his people to work for justice & help the
poor.
Justice & benevolence are mentioned, for the Jews
disregarded both.
They would exploit their workers (v 3).
They needed to do away with the yoke of oppression (v 9).
They needed to feed the hungry (v 10).
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The way we treat others affects our relationship
with God.
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The way we treat others affects our relationship
with God.
“So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there
remember that your brother has something against
you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First
be reconciled to your brother, and then come and
offer your gift” (Mt 5:23-24, ESV).
Calculated Repentance
The way we treat others affects our relationship
with God.
“So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there
remember that your brother has something against
you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First
be reconciled to your brother, and then come and
offer your gift” (Mt 5:23-24, ESV).
“If you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly
Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive
others their trespasses, neither will your Father
forgive your trespasses” (Mt 6:14-15, ESV).
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For Christians “there are only two things that
survive to eternity: our relationship with God and
our relationships with each other. Therefore, the
things we do with our relationship with God and
our relationships with each other are of mutual
significance. So social dimensions are incredibly
important.”
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If the people would truly repent, the Lord would
provide benefits to them.
Calculated Repentance
If the people would truly repent, the Lord would
provide benefits to them.
“If my people who are called by my name humble
themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from
their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and
will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chr 7:14,
ESV).
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If the people would truly repent, the Lord would
provide benefits to them.
2 Chr 7:14.
“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous
man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he
may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he
will abundantly pardon” (Is 55:7, ESV).
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If the people would truly repent, the Lord would
provide benefits to them.
2 Chr 7:14.
Is 55:7.
“If a wicked person turns away from all his sins that
he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does
what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not
die” (Ezek 18:21, ESV).
Calculated Repentance
If the people would truly repent, the Lord would
provide benefits to them.
2 Chr 7:14.
Is 55:7.
Ezek 18:21.
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may
be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come
from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19-20, ESV).
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Do you need to come tonight & truly
repent of sin?