AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Tuesday – June 13, 2023, Sivan 24, 5783
THE BLESSING OR THE CURSE
Greetings dear and precious saints of God and welcome back to this wonderful Bible Study of the Book of Isaiah. What a wonderful Book, but of course they all are! God is so good to us, to illuminate our path. This is His good path! We are a rebellious people like our first father the devil. We are born with a fallen and rebellious spirit and a flesh concerned about self. Any of you who had had children know that rebellion is innate in the child. They are way better at learning the word “no” than “yes”. What about you and me? Please take a moment and share this teaching as widely as possible by every means available to you. Thank you so much for sharing. The featured picture today is of a family. This is provided to remind us to pray for families in America and around the world. Let’s review a Scripture I presented yesterday since these thing are the core of an eternally successful family. God wants us abundantly successful first spiritually and then physically. Isn’t so much better to have a family that excels in the things of the Kingdom of God and in occupying what Jesus got back and then spend eternity in Heaven. God needs way more millionaires and billionaires, even trillionaires. No, I’m not cussing. Again, consider the following.
Ephesians 6:1-4 (KJV)
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
This is the core of a successful life for all of us in the earth. Way too fathers are absent and mothers too, it is violence (vehemence, aggression, hostility, cruelty, even sadism) against the spouse left with the children and the children.
Psalm 127:3-5 (TLB)
3 Children are a gift from God; they are his reward.
4 Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows to defend him.
5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. That man shall have the help he needs when arguing with his enemies.
Now let’s turn our attention to our primary Bible text continuing to read out loud.
Isaiah 42:21-25 (KJV)
21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
The Lord is lamenting the suffering His people have endured and all of it at their own hand, their own choosing. Right from the Garden of Eden to this day the following Scripture has been true.
Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJV)
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
How many times has mankind, Israel, we ourselves chosen death in place of life? We are a rebellious people even in our salvation. Remember this Scripture?
Jeremiah 17:9-10 (KJV)
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
He is talking to those who claim to be His people, He is talking to you and me! Are we listening?
Lord willing, I will pick up right here tomorrow.
By: Dr. David R. Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
2 Chronicles 20:20 b (KJV)
20 … Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
Receive the blessing in Jesus’ name!
Numbers 6:24-26 (MSG)
24 GOD bless you and keep you,
25 GOD smile on you and gift you,
26 GOD look you full in the face and make you prosper.
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