the Real WorldIsaiah 2-6

What is ‘the real world’ ?

“My reality is different from your reality”

“But we all must deal with

‘the Real World’.”

What Does the Real World Look Like?

Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD…

“You need My help…”

1.It Is Logical

Literally:"Though your sins

are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow;

Though they are red like crimson, They will be like

wool.

Meaning:

“Although you’ve screwed-up your life, I can correct

these problems…”

What Does the Real World Look Like?

Isaiah 1:31 The strong man will become tinder,

His work also a spark.

Thus they shall both burn together

And there will be none to quench them.

1.It Is Logical

2.It is Fragile

Hard-Working Fathers Loving Mothers

What Does the Real World Look Like?

Isaiah 2:4 …they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they learn war.

1. It Is Logical

2. It is Fragile

3.Set on a Course

What Does the Real World Look Like?

Isaiah 2:4 And He will judge between the nations, And will render decisions for many peoples; And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they learn war.

1. It Is Logical

2. It is Fragile

3.Set on a Course

What Does the Real World Look Like?

Isaiah 2:4 And He will judge between the nations, And will render decisions for many peoples; And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they learn war.

1.It Is Logical

2.It is Fragile

3.Set on a Course

4.Governed by God

Where the %*!# is He?

The Governance of God

Isaiah 2:2-3 Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And He will judge between the nations,

1.“Last Days”

The Governance of God

Isaiah 2:2-3 Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And He will judge between the nations,

1. “Last Days”

2. In “God’s House”

The Governance of God

Isaiah 2:2-3 Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And He will judge between the nations,

1. “Last Days”

2. In “God’s House”

3. A “Big Mountain”

The Governance of God

Isaiah 2:2-3 Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And He will judge between the nations,

1. “Last Days”

2. In “God’s House”

3. A “Big Mountain”

4. An InternationalMountain

The Governance of God

Isaiah 2:2-3 Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And He will judge between the nations,

1. “Last Days”

2. In “God’s House”

3. A “Big Mountain”

4. An InternationalMountain

The King’s Vision Daniel 2:34-35 "You continued looking until a stone was cut out without

hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and

crushed them.

…the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and

filled the whole earth.

The Governance of God

Isaiah 2:2-3 Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And He will judge between the nations,

1. “Last Days”

2. In “God’s House”

3. A “Big Mountain”

4. An InternationalMountain

The Cornerstone 1 Peter 2:6-8 For this is contained in Scripture: "BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE

STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER stone, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE

DISAPPOINTED."

… "THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE VERY

CORNER stone,"

and, "A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE";

The Governance of God

Isaiah 2:2-3 Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And He will judge between the nations,

1. “Last Days”

2. In “God’s House”

3. A “Big Mountain”

4. An InternationalMountain

The House of God1 Peter 2:5

you also, as living stones,

are being built up as a spiritual house

The Governance of God

Isaiah 2:2-3 Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And He will judge between the nations,

1. “Last Days”

2. In “God’s House”

3. A “Big Mountain”

4. An InternationalMountain

The House of GodEphesians 2:20-22

…Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,

in whom the whole building, being fitted

together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,

in whom you also are being built together

into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE IN THE “HOUSE OF GOD” ?

Isaiah 6

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE IN THE “HOUSE OF GOD” ?

Isaiah 6:1 In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE IN THE “HOUSE OF GOD” ?

Isaiah 6:2-3 Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

And one called out to another and said, "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory."

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE IN THE “HOUSE OF GOD” ?

Isaiah 6:4 And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE IN THE “HOUSE OF GOD” ?

Isaiah 6:5 Then I said, "Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts."

Romans 3:13 "THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING," "THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS";

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE IN THE “HOUSE OF GOD” ?

Isaiah 6:8  Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?"

It MeansTalking

like God, for

God

He said to his disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields.” Matthew 9:37-38

Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another.

TRUTH: PEOPLE DON’T LIKE IT

Isaiah 6:9  And he said, “Yes, go, and say to this people, ‘Listen carefully, but do not understand. Watch closely, but learn nothing.’”

John 3:19 “…the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

TRUTH: IT MAKES CALOUSES

Isaiah 6:10 "Render the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Otherwise they might see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed."

Ephesians 4:15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects…

TRUTH: THE “LANGUAGE OF GOD”

Isaiah 6:11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered, “Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, Houses are without people And the land is utterly desolate…”

Matthew 10:26 "Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

THE RISE OF “NONES”

THE RISE OF “NONES”

Isaiah 5:1-3 My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill. He dug it all around, removed its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. And He built a tower in the middle of it And also hewed out a wine vat in it; Then He expected it to produce good grapes, But it produced only worthless ones.

"What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce worthless ones?”

John 15:5 "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.