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If you take your Bibles, let's
turn to the book of Isaiah, chapter 1. Isaiah, chapter 1. We'll also take a look at some
verses from Isaiah, chapter 5. Use this as a springboard for my
sermon this morning. The Lord was chastising His people
here, verbally, for their lack of considering Him. And you know,
we ought to consider the Lord. And the message this morning
is, have you considered the Lord? Isaiah chapter 1, verse number
2 and 3, Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord
hath spoken. I have nourished and brought
up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his
owner, the ass his master's crib, but Israel doth not know, my
people doth not consider. Look at chapter number 5, chapter
number 5 in verse number 12 and verse number 13. He says, and the harp and the
vial, the tabret and pipe and wine are in their feast. Notice
the next phrase here. But they regard not the work
of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands. Therefore my people are gone
into captivity because they have no knowledge and their honorable
men are famished and their multitude dried up with thirst. Now these two scriptures accuse
the nation of Judah of failing to consider the Lord and his
dealings with them. Their failure to consider the
Lord is what caused them to backslide, and they remained in their backslidden
condition. They refused to return to the
Lord, and it eventually led to their being carried away into
captivity. Now, what does the word consider
mean? According to Webster's American
Dictionary of the English Language, he defines it as to view attentively,
to view or examine with attention to fix the mind on with a view
to careful examination, to think on with care. You've got to have
your mind engaged, amen? The Lord wants your mind and
your heart engaged when it comes to thinking about Him. So we
can say that to consider is to engage ourselves in the proper
analysis of something. And I believe with what we are
seeing going on in our land, right now, I'm talking about
just about on every front, something is going on, whether it be hurricanes,
whether it be fires, whether it be floods or whatever, we
are, our nation is in a world of hurt. It just really is, and
even some of God's people are caught up in this, and we know,
if you know anything about God, you know that God is not happy
with our nation. Our nation is responsible for
killing a bunch of babies, over 69 million babies. That's a lot. And because our nation is in
trouble and refused to return to him. And right now he's even
considering a candidate who is for killing babies. And it is
running on your right to kill your baby. That's what she's
running on. That is what she's hoping is going to win the election. is through that very thing. I'm not getting political this
morning, okay? I'm just wanting you to understand
where God stands on that issue. Listen, when we get into trouble,
it's when we don't engage ourselves in proper analysis. I'm talking
about when we don't use the Bible. God's given us His Word. I'm
glad we got the entire Word of God. We got the Word of God at
our disposal. And you know, listen to this,
to whom much is given, much is required. And we have more than
any generation before us in tools and things that we have access
to cause us to consider things. One thing that we have is the
entirety of the Word of God. We also, those of us that are
saved, if you're saved this morning by God's grace, you have His
Holy Spirit living within. And that is a resource that before
the church was in vogue, before it came into existence, they
didn't have the indwelling Holy Spirit. But we as believers in
this age in which we live, the church age, we know that we have
the indwelling Holy Spirit. The thing is we have to walk
in the Spirit to keep from fulfilling the lust of the flesh. We have
our brain. God gave us a brain. But, you
know, when you take a look in this day and time, it seems like
a lot of folks aren't using their brain. I mean, they're not thinking
about the things the way they should think about. The good
sense that God gave us, think about it. We have good sense. We do it, but we need to use
it when we don't engage ourselves and proper analysis, we can find
ourselves in trouble. Number two, when we don't view
things attentively or examine them with the attention they
deserve. You know, we live in a distracted
society, a very distracted society. When we get distracted and don't
pay close attention to the reality of what's happening and what
we should be doing in light of what's happening, we got a problem.
and that's where our nation is right now. I'm talking that a
lot of believers have no clue what's going on and are looking
at the things that are happening in the world. If you got your
eye on the Middle East and the things that are happening with
Israel, you know we're right on the threshold of the Lord
coming back. Well, if we're on the threshold
of the Lord coming back, what do we need to be busy about?
There's some things we need to be busy about. I want to read
to you from Romans chapter number 13, and verse number 11 through
verse number 13, listen to what it says, it says, that knowing
the time, we should know the time, amen, that knowing the
time, that now it is high time to wake up, awake out of sleep,
for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night
is far spent, the day is at hand, let us therefore cast off the
works of darkness. Let us put on the armor of light.
Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness,
not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying, but
put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the
flesh to fulfill the lust thereof. A couple of things are out of
there. We need to wake up. We need to look up. We need to
clean up. We need to suit up. We need to get up. And we need
to check up, amen. Those are some things that just
fall right in line with that passage of scripture. When we get into trouble is thirdly,
when we don't think on the most important things with care. There's
so much apathy today. So much apathy. People are apathetic
about some of the most important things. Understand that if Judah had
taken time to properly consider the Lord and his dealings with
them, it should have and would have made a difference in how
they lived their lives. But they kept turning a deaf
ear to the Lord. They kept saying, you know, we're
okay. We're all right. And I want to
share with you some things today. The scripture says that we are
to consider when it comes to the Lord. Yes, we're going to
be looking at a lot of Old Testament scriptures, but I want you to
consider this one New Testament scripture that comes from the
Apostle Paul. In Romans 15 and verse number
4, he said, For whatsoever things were written aforetime, talking
about the Old Testament, were written for our learning that
we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have
hope. Now, just as it was important
for Judith to consider the Lord and his dealings with them, it
is important for us to do the same thing because these things
were written for our learning. The Lord has given us He's given
us His Word, including the Old Testament. There are some churches
that you'll go to that they forsake the Old Testament and only preach
the New Testament because, after all, the New Testament was given
to the church and we live in the church age. Well, listen,
we were given the Old Testament first. And we need to pay attention
to it because the Lord's dealings with Israel and Judah have a
lot to do with how we ought to consider His ways. Listen, the areas of shortcoming
that we see in Judah are also possible in us, sadly. Just as they fail to consider
we sometimes fail to consider. Just as their failure to consider
brought about some tragic consequences in their lives, listen, our failure
to consider brings about tragic consequences in our lives. When
we're just not thinking, they're not properly engaging in considering
the Lord. Today the Lord continues to show
himself mighty on behalf of Israel. We can see that. He also continues
to show himself mighty in our own lives so that we can know
that he is God alone. That's the first thing I want
us to see. We need to consider that our God, Lord God, is God
alone. Look at Deuteronomy chapter 4.
Now, I hope that you'll take time to turn with me to as many
of these as you can. I've given them there for you
to go back and look at and study. In fact, I'm not going to read
the whole chapter of Deuteronomy 4, but I suggest that you do
that, and you can see the foundation for what He is giving His people
here. It's an exhortation for them
to be obedient to Him. I just want to look at a couple
of verses here. Look at verse number 35. He says,
Unto thee it was showed that thou mightest know that the Lord,
he is God, there is none else beside him. If Israel and Judah
should have known anything, they should have known that our God,
he is God. And He is the only God, because
He showed Himself mightily in their lives. Look at verse number
39. It says, Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine
heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven above, and upon the
earth beneath, there is none else. Now I know that there are
some who worship other gods, but they're not gods. They're
not even real. They're not gods at all. But
the Lord showed himself mighty on behalf of Israel so that they
would know that all the gods of the heathen were not gods
at all. And the Lord had a history with
his people Israel that should have proved to them who he is
time and time again. Just the very fact that he delivered
them from Egypt with a great, what the Bible calls a strong
stretched out arm. He took and delivered them. Today the Lord continues to show
himself mighty on behalf of Israel as well as in our own lives so
that we can know that he is God alone. Now I want you to turn
to the book of Nahum. In the Old Testament there, right after Jonah, Micah, Nahum,
if you're trying to look forward, it might be easier to turn to
the end of the Old Testament and work your way back. But the
little book of Nahum was written actually for the purpose of telling
how God was going to judge Nineveh. Remember, God gave Jonah to preach
to Nineveh. At 40 days, God was going to
give him 40 days, and 40 days God was going to bring judgment.
Well, they repented. Well, this is about 100 years
later when this was given. It starts out there in Nahum
1, verse number 1, the burden of Nineveh. Why is it a burden?
Because it's a judgment. They did turn, and God delivered
them from the judgment He was going to give them. This was a Gentile nation. It
was a previously very wicked nation. Well, they got wicked
again about a hundred years later. Here we see God's mounting anger
described, and this is a declaration of God's judgment that He's going
to bring upon Nineveh. And it says that the burden of
Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkishite. Notice,
God is jealous. and the Lord revengeth. The Lord
revengeth and is furious. The Lord will take vengeance
on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. The Lord
is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all acquit
the wicked. Notice this, the Lord hath his
way in the whirlwind. What's a whirlwind? hurricane,
tornado, storm's got a circular motion to it, typhoon, you call
them whatever you want to. He calls them a whirlwind. The
Lord has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm. And the clouds
are the dust of his feet. Now let's pause right there for
a minute. What ought that to tell us about what just happened
in our nation? God's got a purpose behind it.
Amen? And it had far-reaching, it's
having far-reaching effects. It's not finished yet. It's still
raining in some areas that's liable to flood as well. But
I want you to understand that it's not, when this thing hit,
and even now, I saw somebody telling about the storm and they
were Climate change, climate change, climate change was everything. Well, the climate change, but
who changed it? It's not mankind that changed
it. It's not based upon using fossil fuels, which by the way,
there's no such thing as fossil fuels, okay. They've discovered
that that's not the way, that's not where oil came from. God
created oil and put it in the ground, amen. It's not fossil
fuels. and they've had to backtrack
on that, but they still call them fossil fuels. They say,
well, we're burning fossil fuels and that's causing the planet
to heat up. I'll tell you what's causing
the planet to heat up. It's God. The Lord is angry. He is. Thank God he's slow to
anger, but he's great in power, and he's not gonna quit the wicked.
The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and
the clouds are the dust of his feet. Look at verse four. He
rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and dryeth up all the
rivers. Bashan languisheth, and Carmel,
and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. The mountains quake at him, and
the hills melt. If you notice all the shaking
going on in the various states, I mean, some states is not used
to shaking. I mean, I've been watching the
news, looking at the news accounts on my computer. One of the first
things I do in the morning is take a look at what's going on
in the world. And there's been places that
are shaking, not just in these United States, but really all
around the world. God is not happy right now. He's
just not. And the mountains quake at Him. and the hills melt. That's volcanoes,
okay? A lot of volcanic activity right
now. The earth is burned. California
needs to take note. And out west, the Lord is not
pleased. The earth is burned at his presence.
Yea, the world and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before
his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness
of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire,
and the rocks are thrown down by him. But notice verse seven,
the Lord is good. He said, wait a minute, Brother
Jerry, you just thought of a lot of things, and boy, that didn't
sound good, but the Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble,
and He knoweth them that trust in Him. You better have your
trust in the Lord. Better be clinging to Him during these
days of trouble, because it's not over. There's another formation
down there right now, in the same area where this one just
went through. Okay, and it's got a real good
possibility of developing if it hadn't already developed.
And what I understand, it's gonna follow about the same path, maybe,
very possibly, we don't know. They didn't know. Last week,
that thing just sat there and brewed for a while, and they
said, well, it could go this way, it could go this way, it
could go that way, you know? And until it actually formed,
they didn't know where it was going. And after it formed, you
just kept changing courses. You can try to run away from
them if you want to, but these storms will find you. If the
Lord wants you to be caught up in it, you're not going to get
away from it. God's judgment was a wake-up call for Israel.
God's judgment was supposed to be a wake-up call for Nineveh.
But listen, I want you to understand that God's judgment against our
own nation is a wake-up call, a wake-up call The Lord woke
me up at 4.30 this morning saying, this is what you're going to
preach right here. This is not the message I had. I was glad
I was still in my series in the book of Genesis and we will get
to that. I was going to talk about where
did Cain get his wife this morning. I know a lot of you wondered
that. Where did Cain get his wife? You know the Bible tells
us where Cain got his wife? He said, well, I've never heard
where Cain got his wife at. Well, it's a thing that turns
a lot of folks away from the scripture when they can't figure
out where he can get his wife at. And that's the reason why
we're dealing with beginnings. Our series in Genesis is we're
dealing with the things in the beginning that people struggle
with. They can't get a grip on. Well, that's what I had already,
I even had to I even had the handouts on the back table and
in the places that I put them. They were out there since yesterday.
And I come over here, first thing I did is gather them all back
up, go back in there in my office and get going on where the Lord
told me to go. And this is where He had us to
go here this morning. We need to consider that our
Lord is God alone. Number two, we need to consider
the great things that the Lord has done for us. 1 Samuel chapter
number 12. I'm not going to look at all
of this, but let me just encourage you to read 1 Samuel chapter
number 12 in its entirety today. The people are being reproved
by Samuel for their ingratitude. I mean, God was trying to be
the mighty Lord for them. They said, oh, we want a king.
We want a king. Like all the other nations, we
want a king. Well, the Lord gave them a king. But we understand
that the Lord was wanting them to look to Him. In 1 Samuel 12, and verse, let's
look at, let's see, verse number 16. Says, now therefore stand and
see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes. Is it not wheat harvest today?
I will call unto the Lord, he shall send thunder and rain that
ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which
ye have done in the sight of the Lord in asking you a king.
So Samuel called unto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and
rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. And all the people said unto
Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we
die not, for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask
us a king. Verse 20, Samuel said unto the
people, Fear not, ye have done all this wickedness. Yet, turn
not aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with
all your heart. And turn ye not aside, for then
should ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver,
for they are vain. He's talking about idols. Idols
are vain gods because they're not really gods. There's no prophet
to be found in an idol or in a god other than the Lord. Verse
22, for the Lord will not forsake his people for his great namesake
because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people. Verse
23, moreover as for me, God forbid that I should assent against
the Lord in ceasing to pray for you, but I will teach you the
good and the right way. And here's the verse, only fear
the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart For consider,
there's the word, for consider how great things he hath done
for you. We need to consider the great
things that the Lord has done for us. Isaiah 5, 12 that we
read a while ago said, but they regard not the work of the Lord,
neither consider the operation of his hands. The song we sang
to begin the service this morning, I already had it picked out.
Count your blessings. Name them one by one. And we
do, we ought to count our blessings. We are fortunate that we got
by as light as we did with this past storm. Oh, how prone we
are to forget the work of God and the many blessings of God
that he has done on our behalf. Sadly, we can get just like Israel
and Judah sometimes. God has been and continues to
be so good to us, and how do we repay Him? Well, many times
it's with a stubborn, rebellious, and ungrateful heart. Think about
it. If the Lord has put upon your
heart that you needed to do something and you're not doing it, what
are you doing? You're rebelling against Him. A stubborn, rebellious, and ungrateful
heart many times shows up in unfaithfulness to Him. Living
our lives in disobedience, beginning to stray away, getting away from
God's house, getting away from God's ways. We need to get back
to God. That's what I'm saying. Consider
how the Lord knows us, yet He loves us still. Aren't you amazed
at that? I am. How God loves us. I mean, Romans 5, 8, but God
commendeth his love toward us and that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. What a wonderful thing. You know,
the Lord sought us. Luke 19, 10, for the Son of Man
has come to seek and to save that which was lost. The Lord
bought us. 1 Peter 1 verse 18 and 19 for
as much as you know you were not redeemed with corruptible
things of silver and gold. It goes on verse 19 to say but
with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish
and without spot. God loved us so much he sent
his only begotten son so that we might have salvation. What
a wonderful thing. We may forsake him but he never
forsakes us. The song Come thou fount of every
blessing. Puts it this way. Says, oh grace
how great a debtor. Daily I'm constrained to be.
Let thy goodness like a fetter bind my wandering heart to thee. Prone to wander, Lord I feel
it. Prone to leave the God I love.
Here's my heart, oh take and seal it. Seal it for thy courts
above. Hebrews chapter number 13, verse
number 5 and 6 says, let your conversation, that word conversation
is talking about more than just our speech, it's talking about
our behavior, okay? Let your conversation be without
covetousness and be content with such things as you have. For
he hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee so that
we may boldly say the Lord is my helper and I will not fear
what man shall do unto me. Cling to the Lord. The Lord daily
loads us with his blessings. Psalm 68 verse 19, Blessed be
the Lord who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our
salvation, Selah. Listen to Lamentations chapter
number three, verse number 21 and 22. It says, This I recall
to mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord's mercies that
we are not consumed. You notice of the Lord's mercies
that we weren't flattened in the previous storm. It's his
mercies. Because his compassions fail
not. They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. Look
at Psalm 103. Psalm 103. And this is another
one of those that I don't have time to get into the whole chapter. We're just going to take a look
at a few things here, but let me encourage you to come back
and look at this. It talks about the mercy of the
Lord in our lives. Psalm 103. It's a Psalm of David. David's known as the sweet psalmist
of Israel. And he says here in Psalm 103,
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless
His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
forget not all His benefits. In other words, folks, we need
to remember the Lord and all the benefits we have from Him.
And he begins to detail some of those. who forgiveth all thine
iniquities, we've got forgiveness, who healeth all thy diseases,
who redeemeth thy life from destruction, who crowneth thee with loving
kindness and tender mercies, who satisfieth thy mouth with
good things, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's,
the Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are
oppressed. I believe that we're going to
one day have the Lord show us the many different ways that
His mercies were in our life, keeping us back from the evil
that's in this world. I like verse 10. Skip down to
verse 10. He hath not dealt with us after
our sins. Aren't you glad for that this
morning? Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the
heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward
them that fear Him. As far as the East is from the
West, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us. Like
as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that
fear Him. For He knoweth our frame, He
remembereth that we are dust. And that doesn't mean we get
a pass, okay? Thank the Lord that He doesn't
give us what we deserve, though. Thank the Lord for His mercies.
Ephesians 1 and verse number 3 says, Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with all spiritual
blessings and heavenly places in Christ. Listen, we need to
consider that our God is God alone and we need to consider
the great things that the Lord has done for us. Thirdly, and
I move quickly here, we need to consider whose we are. whose we are. Deuteronomy 32
verse 6 and 7 says, Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people
and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath
bought thee? Hath he not made thee and established
thee? Remember the days of old. Consider
the years of many generations. Ask thy father, and he will show
thee thy elders, and they will tell thee. In other words, the
Lord's the one that's established us. He's the one that's established
this country, with the liberties that we enjoy. Just as one of the songs we sing
says, now I belong to Jesus, Jesus belongs to me, not for
the years of time alone, but for eternity. Aren't you glad
you're one of the Lord's this morning, if you are? And if you're
not, we can show you how you can be. Israel was the Lord's
precious possession. So are we who are his children. Listen to 1 Corinthians 6 verse
19 to 20. What? Know ye not that your body
is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have
of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price,
therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which
are God's. Turn quickly to Ephesians chapter
number two. Ephesians chapter number two. Ephesians 2, in verse number
13. Ephesians 2, 13. But now in Christ Jesus ye who
sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Praise God, hallelujah, amen. We're made nigh by the blood
of Christ. Look at verse 18. For through Him, talking about
through Christ, we both, Jew and Gentile alike, that's what
that's speaking of. For through Him we both have
access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore you're
no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the
saints and of the household of God. Listen, if you're saved
this morning, you're part of God's household. and are built
upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself
being the chief cornerstone, and whom all the building fitly
framed together groweth into an holy temple in the Lord, and
whom ye are also are builted together for inhabitation of
God through the Spirit. Skip down to chapter number three
and look at verse 14. And Paul offers a prayer here. He says, Well this cause I bow
my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the
whole family in heaven and earth is named. and that He would grant
you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened
with might by His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell
in your hearts by faith, that you, being rooted and grounded
in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth
and length and depth and height. And to know the love of Christ,
which passeth up knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the
fullness of God. Now unto him that is able to
do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according
to the power that worketh in us. Unto him be glory in the
church, by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. Last thing I want us to see this
morning is Not only do we need to consider whose we are, but
we need to consider how the Lord deals with us. The Lord deals
with us as children. We are his children. He deals
with us as children. Deuteronomy 8 verse 5 says, Thou
shalt also consider in thine heart that as a man chastiseth
his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Proverbs 3 verse
11 and 12 says, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord,
neither be weary of his correction. For whom the Lord loveth, he
correcteth even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. For sake of time, I'm not going
to turn to Hebrews 12, but Hebrews 12 quotes this passage right
here, okay? It quotes Proverbs 3, verse 11
and 12. And we need to understand that
the Lord in the New Testament church, he treats us that are
saved as his children, and that includes chastening when we need
it. Oh, my friend, are you considering
the Lord like you should? If you're here without Christ,
all I can think to say is, why is that? Why are you not considering
the Lord? If you properly consider who
the Lord is and what He has done for you, tell me, how can you
continue to reject His mercy and pardon and grace that He
has provided for you and His Son, Jesus Christ? It's foolish
to forsake the Lord. Believers, And thinking about
all that we've said, are you considering the Lord like you
should? We need to consider that our Lord is God alone, consider
the great things that He has done for us, consider that we
are His, and consider how the Lord deals with us. Look at your
life. Is the Lord dealing with something
in your own life personally? If so, this is the time to get
back to Him. Come back to the Lord and allow
the Lord to once again shine down on your life with the fullness
of His grace. Amen. Let's pray. Father, we
thank you today for the words of Scripture.
Have You Considered The LORD?
| Sermon ID | 929241928483615 |
| Duration | 38:39 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - AM |
| Bible Text | Isaiah 1:2-3; Isaiah 5:12-13 |
| Language | English |
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