Sharing with All

Thursday, September 10, 2015
Isaiah 1:15-18 NIV 

15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood! 16 Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. 17 Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. 18 "Come now, let us settle the matter," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) After rebuking the people of God because of their rebellious ways, what did the Lord say that He would do when they prayed to Him? Why? (v.15)
2) What did the Lord counsel His people to do to restore relationship with Himself? (v.16-17)
3) After repenting of their wicked ways, what would the Lord do concerning the former rebellious ways of His people? (v.18)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
4) Have you, your church family, and/or this nation repented of rebellion against the Lord? If so, how?

LIFE LESSONS
5) The Lord cannot pardon the evil ways of His wicked and rebellious people until and unless all have repented of their sin and do that which pleases the Lord.
6) The Lord is pleased when we care for the least among us.
7) The greatest evidence of genuine repentance is a heart to share the love of Christ with those who have been marginalized in our lives, our churches, and our nation.