Grace Baptist Church, Nashville Morning Worship

Grace Baptist Church, Nashville Morning Worship

Do you ever feel like someone is not listening to you? If you are a parent, you resort to saying things like look at my eyes or repeat back to me what I just said? Maybe you feel like your mom or dad are not listening. Maybe you feel like your boyfriend or girlfriend is not listening and you say something like he just doesn’t get me.

You might think Isaiah implies a lack of understanding of the people with all the questions he wrote. Rather, he does this as a way to remind them because he was seeing the people giving in and making idols. The context is likely the Babylonian captivity. This is when Babylon takes Israel captive. By this, God is judging Israel because they were not walking in his ways. They have forgotten in practice Who God is and this is what leads Isaiah to ask so many questions but throughout his questions he uses the word behold 6 x’s (104 x’s in the whole book). What we need to understand that most of the times in this passage, he is not calling for action with the word behold. It is similar to how we use the word hey or yo! when we are trying to get someone’s attention. So we are going to look at the times he used the word because, according to William Mounce, what follows is important.

Do you ever feel like someone is not listening to you? If you are a parent, you resort to saying things like look at my eyes or repeat back to me what I just said? Maybe you feel like your mom or dad are not listening. Maybe you feel like your boyfriend or girlfriend is not listening and you say something like he just doesn’t get me.

You might think Isaiah implies a lack of understanding of the people with all the questions he wrote. Rather, he does this as a way to remind them because he was seeing the people giving in and making idols. The context is likely the Babylonian captivity. This is when Babylon takes Israel captive. By this, God is judging Israel because they were not walking in his ways. They have forgotten in practice Who God is and this is what leads Isaiah to ask so many questions but throughout his questions he uses the word behold 6 x’s (104 x’s in the whole book). What we need to understand that most of the times in this passage, he is not calling for action with the word behold. It is similar to how we use the word hey or yo! when we are trying to get someone’s attention. So we are going to look at the times he used the word because, according to William Mounce, what follows is important.

Do you ever feel like someone is not listening to you? If you are parent, you resort to saying things like look at my eyes or repeat back to me what I just said? Maybe you feel like your mom or dad are not listening. Maybe you feel like your boyfriend or girlfriend is not listening and you say something like he just doesn’t get me.

You might think Isaiah implies a lack of understanding of the people with all the questions he wrote. Rather, he does this as a way to remind them because he was seeing the people giving in and making idols. The context is likely the Babylonian captivity. This is when Babylon takes Israel captive. By this, God is judging Israel because they were not walking in his ways. They have forgotten in practice Who God is and this is what leads Isaiah to ask so many questions but throughout his questions he uses the word behold 6 x’s (104 x’s in the whole book). What we need to understand that most of the times in this passage, he is not calling for action with the word behold. It is similar to how we use the word hey or yo! when we are trying to get someone’s attention. So we are going to look at the times he used the word because, according to William Mounce, what follows is important.

Do you ever feel like someone is not listening to you? If you are parent, you resort to saying things like look at my eyes or repeat back to me what I just said? Maybe you feel like your mom or dad are not listening. Maybe you feel like your boyfriend or girlfriend is not listening and you say something like he just doesn’t get me.

You might think Isaiah implies a lack of understanding of the people with all the questions he wrote. Rather, he does this as a way to remind them because he was seeing the people giving in and making idols. The context is likely the Babylonian captivity. This is when Babylon takes Israel captive. By this, God is judging Israel because they were not walking in his ways. They have forgotten in practice Who God is and this is what leads Isaiah to ask so many questions but throughout his questions he uses the word behold 6 x’s (104 x’s in the whole book). What we need to understand that most of the times in this passage, he is not calling for action with the word behold. It is similar to how we use the word hey or yo! when we are trying to get someone’s attention. So we are going to look at the times he used the word because, according to William Mounce, what follows is important.

Grace Baptist Church, Nashville Morning Worship

Grace Baptist Church, Nashville Morning Worship

Grace Baptist Church, Nashville Morning Worship

Grace Baptist Church, Nashville Morning Worship