CHAPTER 59
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 1
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 1
God is still the same as He always was—He never changes, and he is still ready, willing, and able to perform all the wonderful things he did in the days of the Old Testament.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 2
But our distance from Him in our hearts doesn’t allow us to hear Him.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 3-8
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 3-8
Without His guidance we will continually fall into sin—we cannot please God of ourselves—and we can know no peace apart from Jesus. Without Him we are working for the devil—”hatching cockatrice eggs, and weaving spiders web…”
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 9-11
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 9-11
We can wait for God’s light all the time, and not find it—we’re groping in the dark and are spiritually dead without Jesus.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 12
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 12
Because our sins keep us from Him, we are slaves to sin until we repent and let Him take them away.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 13
In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 13
By not being totally, heart-deep honest with God, we are lying to Him and turning against Him.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 14
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 14
“Truth is fallen in the street”..If we’re not true with ourselves and God, we’re living a false life, and Truth is truly fallen. In that state, we cannot receive the Truth that Transforms us.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 15
Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 15
But those who do turn to the Lord and give Him their lives are considered fools by the rest of the world. The Lord is displeased by this attitude of the people of this world.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 16
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 16
God saw in the days of His Prophets of Old, that they were looked at with hatred by the world, as He sees today how His people are called fools. So he sent the Holy Spirit to be our strength, and Jesus as our salvation and our righteousness. (Psalm 69: 8-12)
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 17
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 17
Righteousness is our breastplate just as it is for Jesus, if we are saved. We wear all the clothing of Jesus. He gave us His clothing as a sign of the Covenant. Our position, our rights as a child, and heir of the Most High God and Creator of the universe, is our protection from satan. The helmet of salvation is on our head. It is the Crown of Glory made to protect us in battle. Satan can’t get through to put doubt in us as to our eternal glory. We have garments of vengeance and zeal for a cloak. These are the power and energy we are surrounded by every day in God’s Power and Love, as we walk by the Spirit and live in his Word. (Eph. 6:11-18)
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 18
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 18
He will guide us in our standings against satan and his powers, and we will see our victories in the name of Jesus.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 19
So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 19
So that in the end the world will all see the Glory of God and the Spirit of the Lord will win totally over the enemy because of the Victory of Jesus Christ, and the last enemy, death, will bow its head to Jesus Christ, Lord of Lords and King of Kings!!!
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 20
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 20
All who turn to Jesus will be saved and forgiven.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 59, VS 21
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 59, VS 21
This is a beautiful solemn promise from God. His Word is in us through the Holy Spirit, and will always be in us and our descendants. This is part of how he re-claims the earth, by putting His Word into the earth to stay forever and ever, and we are undeserving partakers of the blessings that come from his covenant. We are guaranteed not only Salvation, but an unfathomable loving relationship with our Lord and God!!!
END OF CHAPTER 59