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A Sinful Nation Isaiah 1:4 · Life For Toledo

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  This is kind of a sad verse. It's Isaiah 1, 4.
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  Isaiah is prophesying about the people, really
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  Judah and Jerusalem, God's people, supposed to
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  be followers of the Lord. And he says in chapter
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  1, verse 4 of the book of Isaiah, O sinful nation,
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  people weighed down with guilt, offspring of
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  evildoers, sons who act corruptly. They have
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  abandoned the Lord. They have despised the Holy
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  One of Israel. They have turned away from Him.
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  I don't know about you, but when I think about
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  the way the world's going sometimes, I wonder
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  if this is not exactly where we're at, a sinful
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  nation weighed down with guilt. Guilt then motivates
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  people to do a lot of things. Sometimes guilt
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  makes people try to do better. But the truth
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  is, when you try to do better out of guilt, you
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  just wind up doing better that's still bad because
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  it's not motivated by the right heart. Realize
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  that God does not use guilt. While a man may
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  be guilty before the Lord, God does not use guilt
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  to motivate people to do things. When they suffer
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  conviction, that is to say, when the Holy Spirit
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  convicts people, and the Bible says the Holy
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  Spirit does do that, when they experience a feeling
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  of conviction, they want to change. They're encouraged
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  by God to be a better man or a better woman.
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  This people had abandoned the Lord. Oh, I hope
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  we're not such a people. Let us focus on God
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  today. Let us give credit to God today for all
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  that he has done. Let us have Jesus alone as
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  Lord today.