'Uselessly Wearying Themselves.'
Isaiah 47:12-15.
a) Isaiah 47:12. God is chiding His People.
b) Isaiah 47:12. He told them sarcastically to continue with their enchantments and many spells that they had committed since their childhood.
c) Isaiah 47:12. He told them that maybe they would succeed and maybe they would put terror in the hearts of their enemies.
d) Isaiah 47:13. They had become worn out by all of their consultations.
e) Isaiah 47:13. Let your astrologers who gaze at the stars come forward.
f) Isaiah 47:13. They predict what will happen at each new moon. Let them save you.
g) Isaiah 47:14. They are like stubble that will be burnt by the fire.
h) Isaiah 47:14. They will not be able to save themselves from the powerful flame.
i) Isaiah 47:15. God's People had wearied themselves with occult people like this since their childhood.
j) Isaiah 47:15. All these occultists are going their own way. Non of them can save God's People.
(This QT causes me to Pray for any of God's People who are Uselessly Wearying Themselves)
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'They Took The Wrong Way.'
Jude 1:11.
a) They will be the recipients of woe.
b) Genesis 4:3-8; 1 John 3:12. They followed in the footsteps of Cain.
c) 2 Peter 2:15. They rushed for profit by giving themselves over to Balaam's error.
d) Numbers 16:3-5 & 31-35. They are destroyed in the rebellion of Korah.
(This Second one Teaches me clearly: They Took The Wrong Way)
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Chris.
Some of the things that we may learn from a childhood that is not in a True Believer family, especially a family that believes in traffic with the incorrect types of wrong spirit, can stay with us through to our adulthood. These are things that we need to renounce specifically when we receive Christ. Then we can have a good life that will Glorify Him.
