Isaiah 64:1-12
What did they ask God to do?
Oh God just show up
“Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you” Is 64:1
Irresistible change
“As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil” Is 64:2
To make His name known
“...come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!” Is 64:2
What are the conditions for God to show up?
Learning to wait on God
“From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.” Is 64:4
Practice joyful integrity
“You come to the help of those who gladly do right...” Is 64:5
Conform to Gods standards
“...who remember your ways.” Is 64:5
Admit your spiritual condition
“But when we continued to sin against the, you were angry, How then can we be saved.” Is 64:5
What did they admit?
They were impure before God
“All of us have become like one who is unclean...” Is 64:6
They were ineffective in their service
“...and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags.” Is 64:6
There were spiritually weak
“...we all shrivel up like a leaf and like the wind our sins sweep us away.” Is 64:6
“...and make us waste away because of our sins.” Is 64:7
They were disconnected from God
“No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us”” Is 64:7
Appeal to the fatherhood of God
“Yet O LORD, you are our Father, We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.” Is 64:7
“Oh, look upon us, we pray, for we are all your people.” Is 64:9
“After all this, O LORD, will you hold yourself back?” Is 64:12
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