[Fast and Sabbath to be merciful and rebuke hypocrisy] 1. A religion that denounces self-righteousness and hypocrisy (verses 1-3a) 2. The etiquette of accusing self-righteousness and hypocrisy (verses 3b-7) 3. The fasting Sabbath day acceptable to God (8-14) 

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M18 Commentary on the fifty-eighth
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2. Commentary on Isaiah Chapter 58
• [Fast and Sabbath to be merciful and rebuke
hypocrisy]
• 1. A religion that denounces self-
righteousness and hypocrisy (verses 1-3a)
• 2. The etiquette of accusing self-righteousness
and hypocrisy (verses 3b-7)
• 3. The fasting Sabbath day acceptable to God
(8-14)

3. Interpret the Bible using Bible
• Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
• Isaiah 55:9 “As the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and
my thoughts than your thoughts.
• John. 16:13 “However, when He, the Spirit of
truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth;
for He will not speak on His own authority, but
whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell
you things to come. ”

4. holy
• Heb. 12:14 “Pursue peace with all people, and
holiness, without which no one will see the
Lord:”
• 1Thess. 4:7 “For God did not call us to
uncleanness, but in holiness.”
• Exodus 20:25 25 And if you make Me an altar
of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone;
for if you use your tool on it, you have
profaned it.

5. Commentary on Isaiah Chapter 58:2
• 【 Isaiah 58:2 】 For day after day they seek
me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as
if they were a nation that does what is
right and has not forsaken the commands of
its God. They ask me for just decisions and
seem eager for God to come near them.
• they seem eager to know my ways
• has not forsaken the commands of its God.
• seem eager for God to come near them

6. seek me every day
• Matt. 7:7 “‘Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and
you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
• Matt. 7:8 “For everyone who asks receives, and he who
seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
• 【Proverbs 1:7】「The fear of the Lord is the
beginning of knowledge, but fools[a] despise wisdom
and instruction.」
• 【 Proverbs 2:4 】 and if you look for it as for
silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
• 【 Psalm 63:1 】 You, God, are my God, earnestly I
seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

7. Willing to know My Word = Knowing
Him
• 1John. 2:3 “Now by this we know that we
know Him, if we keep His commandments.”
• 1John. 2:4 “He who says, "I know Him," and
does not keep His commandments, is a liar,
and the truth is not in him.”
• 1John. 4:6 “We are of God. He who knows
God hears us; he who is not of God does not
hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth
and the spirit of error.”

8. do not forsake them God's ordinance
• 1Tim. 4:1 “Now the Spirit expressly says that in
latter times some will depart from the faith,
giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of
demons,”
• 2 Chronicles 24:20 20 Then the Spirit of God
came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the
priest, who stood above the people, and said to
them, “Thus says God: ‘Why do you transgress
the commandments of the Lord, so that you
cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the
Lord, He also has forsaken you.’”

9. joy near god
• James. 4:8 “Draw near to God and He will draw
near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and
purify your hearts, you double-minded.”
• 【Isaiah 29:13】「“These people come near to
me with their mouth and honor me with their
lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their
worship of me is based on merely human rules
they have been taught
• Eph. 2:13 “But now in Christ Jesus you who once
were far off have been brought near by the blood
of Christ.”

10. Commentary on Isaiah Chapter 58:3
• [Isaiah 58:3] "They said, 'Why don't you see us
when we fast? Why don't you notice that we
afflict ourselves?' Behold, you seek profit in
the days of your fast, and make people work
for you hard work."
• We fast => why don't you see?
• We afflict ourselves => why don't you bother?

11. On Fasting, Matthew 6
• Matt. 6:16 “‘Moreover, when you fast, do not be like
the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they
disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be
fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.”
• Matt. 6:17 “But you, when you fast, anoint your head
and wash your face,”
• Matt. 6:18 “so that you do not appear to men to be
fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place;
and your Father who sees in secret will reward you
openly.”

12. Commentary on Isaiah Chapter 58:4,
15
• [Isaiah 58:4] "You fast, but you quarrel with each
other and beat with your fierce fist. You fast this
day, so that your voice will not be heard above."
• [Isaiah 57:15] "For thus says the One who is
called the Holy One, the one who is the most high
and who lives forever and ever: "I dwell in the
most high and holy place, and with the contrite
and humble dwell together with each other; to
revive the spirit of the humble, and the heart of
the contrite. "

13. Commentary on Isaiah Chapter 58:6, 8
• 【Isaiah 58:6】“Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of
the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break
every yoke? "
• [Isaiah 58:8] "Then your light shall break forth as the
morning light, and your healing shall be swiftly made.
Your righteousness shall go before you, and the glory of
the LORD shall be your rear guard.”
• John. 12:46 “I have come as a light into the world, that
whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.”

14. will call
• [Isaiah 58:9] "Then you will call, and the LORD
will answer; you will call, and he will say, Here I
am." If you remove from among you the heavy
yoke, and the finger-pointing, and the evil words
• John. 9:31 “Now we know that God does not
hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God
and does His will, He hears him.”
• 1John. 5:14 “Now this is the confidence that we
have in Him, that if we ask anything according to
His will, He hears us.”

15. Commentary on Isaiah Chapter 58:10
• [Isaiah 58:10] "If your heart goes out to the hungry and
satisfies the afflicted, your light will shine in the
darkness, and your gloom will become like the
noonday.”
• [Lu Zhenzhong translation] "If you give your food
[tradition: yourself] to feed the hungry and satisfy the
afflicted, then your light will rise in the darkness, and
your darkness will be turned Like noon.”
• John 6:27 “Do not labor for the food which perishes,
but for the food which endures to everlasting life,
which the Son of Man will give you, because God the
Father has set His seal on Him." ”

16. Commentary on Isaiah Chapter 58:13
• [Isaiah 58:13] "If you turn away (or "careful")
your steps on the Sabbath, and take no joy in
working on my holy day, but call the Sabbath a
delight, and the holy day of the LORD
honorable and respect this day, not to go
about my own business, not to follow my own
will, not to speak my own words,'

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