The goodness and severity of God ---------------------------------------- The parable of the vineyard explored Vineyard: House of Israel Plant: Men of Judah Good Grapes: Justice, Righteousness Bad grapes: Oppression, Cry of distress Let us render our Grapes to God Contrast with Jesus' parable of the Tenant

1. Let me sing a love song to my
beloved about his vineyard
Isaiah 5

2. Isa 5:1 Let me sing for my
well beloved a song of my
beloved about his vineyard.
My beloved had a
vineyard on a very fruitful
hill.
 My beloved: Yahweh of Armies
(Note Isaiah’s and Israel’s
intimate relationship with Lord
Yahweh)

3. Hebrew word “Beloved” – yed-eed’
 Benjamin is called beloved of Yahweh
 Deuteronomy 33:12: About Benjamin he said, “The BELOVED of
Yahweh will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all day long. He
dwells between his shoulders.”
 Psalmist refers himself as the beloved of God.
 Psalms 108:5 Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be
over all the earth. That your BELOVED may be delivered, save with
your right hand, and answer us.
How intimate is your relationship with Lord
Yahweh?
The first command is to love our heavenly Father with all our heart and what you love
with all your heart is definitely your beloved.

4.  Isa 5:2 He dug it up, gathered out its stones,
planted it with the choicest vine, built a
tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a
wine press therein. He looked for it to yield
grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
 Infrastructure:
 Love, Care and protection, Laws and
statutes
 dug it up,
 gathered out its stones,
 planted it with the choicest vine,
 built a tower in the middle of it,
 cut out a wine press

5.  Isa 5:2 He dug it up, gathered out its stones,
planted it with the choicest vine, built a
tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a
wine press therein. He looked for it to yield
grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
Vineyard:
house of Israel
Plant:
Men of Judah
Good Grapes:
Justice, Righteousness
Bad grapes:
Oppression, Cry of distress

6. Infrastructure – Israel’s application
(Psalms 80:8-11)
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the
nations, and planted it.
(gathered out its stones / built a tower in the middle of it)
9 You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled
the land.
(gathered out its stones / built a tower in the middle of it)
10 The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs
were like God’s cedars.
(built a tower in the middle of it)
11 It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.
(also cut out a wine press therein)

7. Isa 1:2 Hear, heavens, and listen,
earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I
have nourished and brought up
children, and they have rebelled
against me.”

8. Infrastructure – Our application
(Eph 1:3-6)
 Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in
Christ;
 (gathered out its stones / built a tower in the middle of it)
 Eph 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the
world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;
 (You brought a vine out of Egypt/World)
 Eph 1:5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus
Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
 (You brought a vine out of Egypt/World)
 Eph 1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave
us favor in the Beloved,
 (also cut out a wine press therein)

9.  Isa 5:3 “Now, inhabitants of
Jerusalem and men of Judah,
please judge between me and
my vineyard.
 Isa 5:4 What could
have been done
more to my vineyard, that I have
not done in it? Why, when I
looked for it to yield
grapes, did it yield wild
grapes?

10.  Isa 5:5 Now I will tell you what I
will do to my vineyard. I will
take away its hedge, and it will
be eaten up. I will break down
its wall, and it will be trampled
down.
 Isa 5:6 I will lay it a wasteland. It
won’t be pruned nor hoed, but
it will grow briers and thorns. I
will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain on it.”
 Isa 5:7 For the vineyard of
Yahweh of Armies is the house
of Israel, and the men of Judah
his pleasant plant: and he
looked for justice, but, behold,
oppression; for righteousness,
but, behold, a cry of distress.

11. The goodness and severity of God
 Rom 11:21,22 for if God didn’t spare the natural
branches, neither will he spare you. See then the
goodness and severity of God. Toward those
who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if
you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be
cut off.

12. But Lord Yahweh is tender as a Father
pities his children
Rom 11:23 They also, if
they don’t continue in
their unbelief, will be grafted in,
for God is able to graft them in
again.

17. Mar 12:9 What therefore will the lord of
the vineyard do?
An example of the severity of God
Assyria, the rod of My anger

18. Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger! And My fury is the staff
in their hand.
I will send him against an ungodly nation, and against
the people of My wrath. I will command him to plunder, and to
strip off spoil, and to trample them like the mud of the streets.
[Isa 10:5-6]
Assyria will also not be spared
• And it will be, when the Lord has broken off all His work on
Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will visit on the fruit of the
proud heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his
lofty eyes. [Isa 10:12]

19. All of us must appear in front of Christ’s
judgment seat. Then all people will receive
what they deserve for the good or evil
they have done while living in their
bodies. As people who know what it
means to fear (terror) the Lord, we try
persuade others.. [2Co 5:10,11]

20. Let us render our Grapes to God
–But we being of day should be sober, “having put on
the breastplate” of faith and love, and the hope of
“salvation as a helmet;“ because God has not
appointed us to wrath, but for obtaining
salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, [1Th 5:8, 9]

22. The prophet Zechariah
7:9-10 wrote
 “Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken,
saying,
 ‘Execute true judgment, and
 show kindness and compassion every
man to his brother.
 Don’t oppress the widow, nor the
fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and
 let none of you devise evil
against his brother in your heart.’