Lessons Learned

Isaiah 42:18-25

A. Isaiah pleads for ancient Israel to learn the lesson that…

1. closing off your spiritual relationship with the LORD

(vv.18-20), and…

2. giving up your special calling from the LORD (v. 21), means…

3. losing the protection of the LORD (v. 22)

B. This serves as a warning to us that…

1. we need to understand this lesson (v. 23)…

2. that God can “allow” discipline (v.24a)…

3. when we deliberately disobey God (v. 24b)…

4. in order to lovingly woo us to repentance (v. 25)

Jim R. Coleman