Whom are You Mocking?

Isaiah 57:2-5 ESV

“..they rest in their beds

    who walk in their uprightness.

But you, draw near,

    sons of the sorceress,

    offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.

Whom are you mocking?

    Against whom do you open your mouth wide

    and stick out your tongue?

Are you not children of transgression,

    the offspring of deceit,

you who burn with lust among the oaks,

    under every green tree,

who slaughter your children in the valleys,

    under the clefts of the rocks?”

There are two kinds of people in this world – the righteous and the unrighteous, i.e. those who walk (in conduct, in practice) in holiness and in righteousness and in obedience to the Lord, and those who make sin their practice and who do not walk (in conduct, in practice) in righteousness and in obedience to the Lord. So, the dividing factor is not what people often term as the “saved” and the “unsaved,” especially since it appears, at least here in America, that the “saved” is a loosely defined grouping of people who at least once in their lives made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ.

So, there are those who are the genuine “saved,” and there are those who have given lip service to God only, who have made professions of faith in Jesus Christ, and who have even made a performance of being followers of Christ, but who are not living the Christian life. For they are those who are living in spiritual adultery against God, professing faith in him while they walk in sin and in wickedness. So they don’t really know the Lord. For they are liars and deceivers and adulterers and the morally impure who habitually and deliberately engage in sensual pleasures and in sexual immorality.

And so they mock those who are of true faith in Jesus Christ, who are walking in faithful obedience to the Lord, in practice, and they mock God by their professions of faith in Christ while they deliberately and habitually continue in their sins of idolatry and adultery and in the lusts of the flesh. And they are leading their children to do likewise, for by example and by their words they are leading their children to follow a gospel of man, which is of the dead, which permits them to continue in their sinful practices unhindered, and which allows them to live worldly and ungodly lives.

Isaiah 57:8 ESV

“Behind the door and the doorpost

    you have set up your memorial;

for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed,

    you have gone up to it,

    you have made it wide;

and you have made a covenant for yourself with them,

    you have loved their bed,

    you have looked on nakedness.”

Many people professing faith in Jesus Christ today are believing in a false faith which coddles them in their sins and which makes no demands of them for walks of obedience to the Lord, for true repentance, and for walks of holiness and righteousness. They prefer the lies because the lies do not confront them in their sins and make them feel guilty when they habitually and deliberately keep on repeating the same sins over again, often without conscience. The lies tell them they are forgiven and they are “good to go” even though they habitually deny the Lord by their sinful practices.

So, although they profess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips, they are dishonest, deceitful, and corrupt people who are underhanded and misleading in their actions towards the Lord and towards other people, especially towards those who are living righteously. And this is huge, the number of people here in America who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who are following after the lies, instead. For they are the vain and worthless and the self-indulgent who are lovers of intoxication to sin who are following after a gospel of man and not of God.

And so many of them outwardly, in front of other people, are giving off an appearance of being followers of Christ while behind closed doors they are living in moral impurity, lying, cheating, manipulating, and devising evil. And some of them are devising evil against those who are the genuinely saved, who are making righteousness their practice, and not sin. For like Cain, they hate those who are living righteously, because their own deeds are evil. And so they “murder” the righteous in their hearts and by how they treat them in contrast to how they treat the unrighteous.

Isaiah 57:11-13 ESV

“Whom did you dread and fear,

    so that you lied,

and did not remember me,

    did not lay it to heart?

Have I not held my peace, even for a long time,

    and you do not fear me?

I will declare your righteousness and your deeds,

    but they will not profit you.

When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you!

    The wind will carry them all off,

    a breath will take them away.

But he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land

    and shall inherit my holy mountain.”

So God is chastising them for their false righteousness and for their evil deeds and for following after and even creating the lies which permit them to continue living in sin and not in righteousness and holiness. Even though they profess him as Lord with their lips, their hearts are far from him, for they follow the gods of this world, instead. So, when they profess to know God and to serve God and to be in fellowship with God, they are liars. And even though God has been patient with them for a very long time, still they persist in their fakery and in their ungodly behaviors. They do not fear God!

So, when they cry out to God in any given situation, perhaps for some type of aid or help, he will not help them, for they have helped themselves to what is not of God and they have denied the Lord by their actions.

But those who take refuge in the Lord, who believe his word, and who follow him in obedience to his commands (New Covenant), they are the Lord’s, and they are the ones who will enter into God’s eternal home. For they are the righteous who follow in the ways of the Lord and not in the ways of the world and the ways of sinful practices. This does not make them perfect people, but they are those God calls the righteous who, in practice, are following the Lord in obedience and who are no longer walking in sin. And they will inherit the kingdom of heaven because they obeyed the Lord.

[Matt 7:21-23; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 9:23-26; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14,24; Rom 12:1-2; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-17; 1 Pet 2:24; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 3:6,14-15; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15] 

He is Lord  

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He is Lord; He is Lord.

He has risen from the dead,

And He is Lord.

Every knee shall bow,

Every tongue confess

That Jesus Christ is Lord.

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