Believers can Selectively Embrace Parts Of The Covenant They Like While Dismissing
The Responsibility And Accountability Passages
Scripture: Isaiah 29:15-16
On the other side of how people view the God of the covenant, we have a passage from
Isaiah’s prophecy to Jerusalem where believers had selectively embraced parts of the
covenant they liked while dismissing the responsibility and accountability passages. Can we
find such streams today? Verses 15 and 16 say, “Woe to those who seek deep to hide their
counsel far from the Lord, And their works are in the dark; They say, ‘Who sees us?’ and,
‘Who knows us?’ Surely you have things turned around! Shall the potter be esteemed as the
clay; (Here is the true heart issue of taking a faith stand) For shall the thing made say of him
who made it, ‘He did not make me? Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it, ‘He
has no understanding’?” The atheists say there is no God, removing accountability making
themselves Lord, but if we aren’t careful we can act as if we are God by declaring and
decreeing what appears to be a blanket promise. Most believers would never see,
contemplate, or understand a potential similarity with an atheist probably because they are
filled with the Holy Spirit, and love God with all their hearts. How in the world could we ever
have anything in common with an atheist? But if we act like we’re the potter and God’s the
clay – then amazingly enough we do have something very strongly in common. It happened
in Jerusalem – are we saying it can’t happen to us? The question is: how do you view the
God of the covenant?
Prayer
Pray that church, that is you-will begin to gain an advantage by learning to live, operate
and pray from the heavenly court.