Isaiah 5:1 I. "He looked that it should bring forth grapes." This is surely not unreasonable. It is exactly what you and I should do. It will not be denied by anybody that _we_are receiving the highest advantages that ever fell to the lot of the world. God might challenge us to say what He has left... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 5:2 To us God says, as to Israel of old, "What more could I do to My vineyard that I have not done? Why, then, when I looked for grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?" Is not this indictment true? No true patriot, much less Christian, can look without grave anxiety on the tastes and tendenc... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 5:4 I. The first way of putting, or rather of vindicating, the question of our text is when we contend that Atheism has a far better apology for resisting the evidences of a God which are spread over creation, than worldly-mindedness for manifesting insensibility to redemption through Christ... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 5:20 I. The sin against which I would warn you is the sin of disregarding, and even of in the least degree underrating, the eternal distinctions of right and wrong; it is, in one word, the sin of viewing things in their wrong aspects, or of calling things by their wrong names. To talk otherw... [ Continue Reading ]