Sole Jones: Isaiah 1:2-4, 10-20 Outline for 5 November 2006

Here's an outline for this week's scripture. You can always click TM for the passage in The Message .

2. Listen up! The Lord says, "I brought up children and they have rebelled against me."
3. "Animals know their master, but not my people."
4. This whole group is guilty and corrupt. They have turned their backs on the Lord.
10. You're as sinful as Sodom and Gomorrah. Listen to the word of the Lord. Measure yourself against the law.

11. "I'm not into all these offerings you bring to try and buy me off. It doesn't do anything for me."

12. "You come before me, but not when I've called you."
13. "Don't try to bribe me with an offering. You're not even in the ballpark."
14. "All your ritual is pathetic. It's a pain."
15. "When you reach out to me, praying for something, I'm going to deliberately not see you, even if you pray and pray and pray. You're hands are bloody; you're in the wrong; you're guilty."
16. "Clean that up! Deal with those things correctly. Get forgiven, and really repent; turn away from your evil deeds."
17. "Learn to do the right thing and do it. Love justice. Take up for the weak."
18. "Let's talk this through. Though you are as guilty as can be, you don't have to remain that way. You can be guilt-free."
19. "If you have the right attitude and obey me, you will have it good."
20. "But if you fight me and rebel, you'll be destroyed."

Sole Jones