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120904 Tues Isaiah5 Pastor John Hwang www.ccbccostamesa.com

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New Living Translation (NLT)
Isaiah - Chapter 5


The Theme of This book, Salvation, the central focus of this book is Jesus Christ

Isaiah5 is a Song


Isa 5:1 Now I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a rich and fertile hill.

The wellbeloved is God,

Isaiah had a close relationship with God

do you have a endearing name for God

The story of redemption, salvation, restoration

God wants deep personal relationship

Isaiah gets it, he realizes its about an intimate relationship

Isaiah5:7 the Vineyard is Israel

This is a song about God & His vineyard Judah

Isa 5:2 He plowed the land, cleared its stones, and planted it with the best vines. In the middle he built a watchtower and carved a winepress in the nearby rocks. Then he waited for a harvest of sweet grapes, but the grapes that grew were bitter.

In this song its about God & Judah, He cared for His vineyard, ...

The reason He did this, anticipating a good crop & good wine

God lavished his vineyard with good care

The vineyard produced wild grapes instead of good grapes, stink fruit, it was rotten, it stank

here God is demonstrated good, but something rotten was produced, this is the Spiritual condition of Israel & Judah


Isa 5:3 Now, you people of Jerusalem and Judah, you judge between me and my vineyard.

3-6 God is speaking addressing His people as members of a jury, requesting a fair hearing

God is putting Judah & Israel on trial, but the very people on trial are right now in the jury box

Isa 5:4 What more could I have done for my vineyard that I have not already done? When I expected sweet grapes, why did my vineyard give me bitter grapes?

God is calling His people to stay averted,

God is asking, "What more could have been done by Him for the vineyard"

God provided the best care yet the vineyard produced stink fruit

the problem was not with God, the problem was with God

The vineyard coming to the verdict would recognize the problem is with them not with God


Isa 5:5 Now let me tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will tear down its hedges and let it be destroyed. I will break down its walls and let the animals trample it.


Isa 5:6 I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.

So here God tells His audience what He's going to do, He will make it a wasteland

when we think of a vineyard we think of it flourishing good crop

when you have a vineyard that's not producing fruit then the best thing to do is clear it out

God is describing drought & famine, Deu28:23-24 God warned the results of rebellion by His people Israel & Judah

Looking back to 722BC Israel fell to Assyria

Judah & Jerusalem fell to Babylon 586BC,

70 years Jerusalem was exactly as God said, briers & Thorns

Isa 5:7 The nation of Israel is the vineyard of the LORD of Heaven's Armies. The people of Judah are his pleasant garden. He expected a crop of justice, but instead he found oppression. He expected to find righteousness, but instead he heard cries of violence.

God reminding the people He was looking for good fruit, justice, but all He heard was a cry for help

In Hebrew language, these words are in word play

justice same as blood shed

righteousness=cry

in english this verse sounds something like this

did he find right or riot...

God the wellbeloved planted a vineyard, He poured into it care, & protection, He deserved good fruit

8-30 Isaiah listed the stink fruit, the 6 woes=expression of grief & judgment

8-10 the first woe

Isa 5:8 What sorrow for you who buy up house after house and field after field, until everyone is evicted and you live alone in the land.

The first woe=addresses the sin of covetousness, the 10th commandment, Ex20

the word covet=mean to desire something some else has

shopping malls, people go there every week worshipping things, "I wish I had that"

its worship, its covetousness

especially when you're driven by it

The shopping malls are dedicated to covetousness
Here Isaiah

quote by... amos2:6-8 the powerful rich to deceitfully exploit the poor

houses & fields were being seized from the poor by the rich for their own

Isa 5:9 But I have heard the LORD of Heaven's Armies swear a solemn oath: "Many houses will stand deserted; even beautiful mansions will be empty.


Isa 5:10 Ten acres [fn] of vineyard will not produce even six gallons [fn] of wine. Ten baskets of seed will yield only one basket [fn] of grain."

This is God's response to the exploiters, He would reduce their production

one bath=6 gallons

out of 10 acre of vineyard, only 6 gallons worth of fruit

you're sowing much more than you're return

If you're going to be oppressing the poor, all you acquire, God will make it produce nothing, there will be famine in your land

Isa 5:11 What sorrow for those who get up early in the morning looking for a drink of alcohol and spend long evenings drinking wine to make themselves flaming drunk.


Isa 5:12 They furnish wine and lovely music at their grand parties— lyre and harp, tambourine and flute— but they never think about the LORD or notice what he is doing.

2nd sin was drunkness Eph5: drunkness, addicted to intoxicating drink, enslaved to wine, wine was their life

Because they were worshipping wine they didn't recognize what God was doing

Drunkness goes beyond the symptoms, its idolatry, alcohol has become your god

This is not an issue about whether Christians drinking alcohol

This issue is about letting something else rule your life other than Jesus

Isa 5:13 So my people will go into exile far away because they do not know me. Those who are great and honored will starve, and the common people will die of thirst.


Isa 5:14 The grave [fn] is licking its lips in anticipation, opening its mouth wide. The great and the lowly and all the drunken mob will be swallowed up.


Isa 5:15 Humanity will be destroyed, and people brought down; even the arrogant will lower their eyes in humiliation.


Isa 5:16 But the LORD of Heaven's Armies will be exalted by his justice. The holiness of God will be displayed by his righteousness.


Isa 5:17 In that day lambs will find good pastures, and fattened sheep and young goats [fn] will feed among the ruins.

For me words matter

I've learned over the years, being a student of the word, & a teacher of the word, I see this conjuctive adverb connects verse 17 to 18... sinful life styles results in bad results

Gal6:7-8

The law of sowing & reaping, what you do is what you get

13-15 pronounces captivity, humiliation, Judah will be taken away into captivity, ...

both the unrepented coveteous & drunkard will go into sheol, the place of the dead, the Hebrew word for the realm of the dead

These people who think they're going to live forever, their greed, their covetousness they think when they get what they want will make them happy, they think when they die someone else will have it,

people with bumper stickers "those who dies with the most toys win" they're wrong

16-17 God's judgment against Israel & Judah will show His holiness, God keeps His holy word as a covenant

God will restore His people, Isa 5:16 But the LORD of Heaven's Armies will be exalted by his justice. The holiness of God will be displayed by his righteousness.


Isa 5:17 In that day lambs will find good pastures, and fattened sheep and young goats [fn] will feed among the ruins.

The reason why God disciplines is to bring back His people to Himself
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Isa 5:18 What sorrow for those who drag their sins behind them with ropes made of lies, who drag wickedness behind them like a cart!


Isa 5:19 They even mock God and say, "Hurry up and do something! We want to see what you can do. Let the Holy One of Israel carry out his plan, for we want to know what it is."

3rd woe, against those bound by sin that speak flippantly

The name "holy one of Israel" is used 25 times in the book of Isaiah, the holy one of Israel is not to be treated like this, mocked, openly living in sin before God, challenging God to do something, to judge as God has said, just mocking God.

Lots of people still do that today

Those people that say, "I'm just going to keep living my life and when I get to heaven I'm going to tell Him a thing or two"

People who sin, confess their sin & keep doing it again, repeatedly, confessing to the point of mockery, thinking you got away with it the first time so you keep doing it again.

You misunderstand God's mercy, judgment is going to come

Paul writing to the Romans God's mercy

People are so bold to live in sin openly, they mock God they think they're going to get away with it.

Isa 5:20 What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.

People were people were speaking a language from God but not God's dictionary

When Christians compromise, the things that once shocked no longer shock, thinking, "Its not so bad"

We allow culture to shape & mold our view rather than God, justifying things

When we used to cringe hearing people, using the name of Jesus in vain, now we're ok with it.

That's the way people talk in tv & movies

we have to be so careful not to allow the world conform our view

the 5th woe, pride


Isa 5:21 What sorrow for those who are wise in their own eyes and think themselves so clever.

"Their own" assumed they knew better than God, the most arrogant way to think

Romans1:22

Proverbs14:12 the end is death

Pro3:5-7 trust in the Lord with all your heart.... do not be wise in your own eyes, fear the Lord & depart from evil.

The best way to demonstrate we trust the Lord is to acknowledge the LORD daily, instead of acting on our own

Isa 5:22 What sorrow for those who are heroes at drinking wine and boast about all the alcohol they can hold.


Isa 5:23 They take bribes to let the wicked go free, and they punish the innocent.

6th woe of injustice

the judges were to judge wicked & letting the innocent free, but it was not that way

Isa 5:24 Therefore, just as fire licks up stubble and dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will rot and their flowers wither. For they have rejected the law of the LORD of Heaven's Armies; they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isa 5:25 That is why the LORD's anger burns against his people, and why he has raised his fist to crush them. The mountains tremble, and the corpses of his people litter the streets like garbage. But even then the LORD's anger is not satisfied. His fist is still poised to strike!

describes Gods justice against the injustices of Judah & Israel

verse24 God comparing them to cut down flowers

verse25 thoroughness of coming judgment

Isa 5:26 He will send a signal to distant nations far away and whistle to those at the ends of the earth. They will come racing toward Jerusalem.


Isa 5:27 They will not get tired or stumble. They will not stop for rest or sleep. Not a belt will be loose, not a sandal strap broken.


Isa 5:28 Their arrows will be sharp and their bows ready for battle. Sparks will fly from their horses' hooves, and the wheels of their chariots will spin like a whirlwind.


Isa 5:29 They will roar like lions, like the strongest of lions. Growling, they will pounce on their victims and carry them off, and no one will be there to rescue them.


Isa 5:30 They will roar over their victims on that day of destruction like the roaring of the sea. If someone looks across the land, only darkness and distress will be seen; even the light will be darkened by clouds.

God in judgement, God is going to send the Assyrians to Judah & Babylon to Jerusalem as the description prey attack

God's hand will not come down until His judgment is complete

God loves His people

God loved His vineyard, cared for His vineyard, their actions brought their judgment

things look different in Isaiah6

1-6 always breath taking to me

Isa 6:1 It was in the year King Uzziah died [fn] that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple.

739BC Isaiah saw the LORD=Adonai, sovereign LORD

Jn12:41 Isaiah saw Jesus on the throne

Use your imagination, the Lord is in His temple, it appears, Isaiah was in His te