Isaiah 6:9
9 And he said, ['amar] Go, [yalak] and tell ['amar] this
people, [`am] Hear [shama`] ye indeed, [shama`] but
understand [biyn] not; and see [ra'ah] ye indeed, [ra'ah] but
perceive [yada`] not. KJV-Interlinear
9 And
He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on listening, but do not
perceive; Keep on looking, but do not understand.' NASB
Voluntary blindness leads
to judicial blindness. People have the Word of God and have had access to it
since Adam and Eve. People have Gods Word in all of its clarity. There is no
one on earth who has not heard something regarding Jesus Christ who is probably
the most known name on the planet. Not only that, but everyone has heard of the
various stories that are in the Bible from the Garden of Eden, to Noah and the
Ark, to the parting of the Red Sea, to the birth of Christ, to the Lake of
Fire, to heaven and much more.
How many of you know
anything of the Koran, or of the writings of Buddha? Probably very few of you. How many can recite their opening words? Very few.
How many can recite the opening words of the Bible? Nearly everyone.
People hear these Bible
stories and they hear the doctrines that are in the Bible regarding marriage,
and family, and so forth. They keep on hearing, but ... because of their
indifference, because of their disinterest in God, because they see little
value in their spiritual life as defined by the Bible, they just don't formally
recognize what the Bible teaches as being the only real truth and reality.
People lean on their five
senses. What they can see and smell and feel mean more to them, than something
intangible like faith.
People are driven by
their sin nature. The sin nature is emotion driven. The emotions are driven by
the needs, and wants, and desires of the soul that lacks Bible doctrine.
Not that people are
trapped in a trap which they cannot break free from, because people have
volition and they can always say no to their selfish drives. But, people choose
with open eyes, to keep their desires of the flesh rather than change to the
spiritual needs of their soul.
God warns, and warns, and
warns again. How many times do we see mentioned in this Bible, the need for pursuing
ones spiritual life? We read it nearly every day. It can get kind of tedious I
suppose. All of the repetition and such.
But then when you
consider what is really on the table and what you risk losing, then this
repetition is nothing more than what a soldier does on his hourly rounds. Day
after day, night after night, he makes the rounds checking that everything is
secure and accounted for, that there is no enemy on the horizon. And in times
of peace then this alertness finds no danger anywhere.
A person can become lax
in their spiritual duties and risk missing a breach in the security of the
soul.
Be grateful if your life
is rather uneventful with respect to the hardships that can come at you from
life. Why risk major pains when you don't have to endure them. A major pain is
losing a very close loved one, losing ones home with no insurance, losing ones
health, losing ones livelihood, losing ones business or way of life. Many big
things can come along and ruin your life, but why should one have to go through
that before they wake up to the realities of life and God and doctrine?
Yet here is Isaiah who is
now commissioned to tell the people of their ruin, and the people (anyone who
hears Isaiah's words), will actually hear him, but they will not believe him.
They will see the point that Isaiah is making, but they will not acknowledge
that it has anything to do with them.
They will use their
senses to take in all that Isaiah has to say, but that information will never
become a reality in their soul. All the letters and numbers will simply trickle
out of their ears and fall onto the ground.
This is continued
negative volition. This is a continued negative attitude habit. People will
have better things to do with their lives. People will have better ideas
regarding their life. People will place their own beliefs before those
presented in the Bible. And their lifestyles will be shaped around the lies
that they have made into their homes.
Then one day, God will say,
'Ok.' God will then stop giving out the warnings because they are rejected
anyway. God will stop giving sound doctrines because they will be ignored
anyway. God will stop protection because it is not wanted anyway.
What is left? The jungle.
People will hear, but
they will not understand, because they choose to not understand. Also, when a person lacks a functional
spiritual mechanism within their soul, then spiritual phenomena evades
them. But that too is not Gods fault but
their own, because the lack of a functioning spiritual mechanism has been actively
rejected as well.
Disinterest in doctrine,
means failure in the development of a spiritual life, and a person needs a
functional spiritual life in order to have a relationship with God. Lacking that relationship, means Gods grace
and favor likewise are going to be lacking.
And in order to survive
even for a minute in this world, Gods grace in some form, is required.
Without Gods help, Adam
and Eve would not have survived once out of the Garden. Noah would not have survived through the
flood. Pioneers would not have survived in
their pioneering. And you cannot
survive even in your life were it not for some grace provision from God. There is even some grace in Gods patience in
waiting on you to get your life together.
But that patience won’t last forever.
So, throw away God and
Christ and doctrine and what is left for you?
Nothing.
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