God reminds the people of Israel that their worship is false if it follows their own ways, seeks their own pleasure, and uses their own words rather than focusing on God. The document discusses how worship should not be an idolatry that makes the service itself greater than God. It cautions against novelty in worship that draws attention to the service rather than God, and warns that people will turn to teachers that suit their own desires rather than sound teaching.

1. “Tis Mad
Idolatry” Isaiah 58

2. Let us come
HUMBLY before
our God to
HONOR Him
in true FAITH
seeking to
PLEASE HIM.

3. “Let all things be done for
building up”
(1 Corinthians 14.26, CB NT p. 307).

7. Traditional Contemporary

8. Traditional Contemporary
Verbal Visual
discourse stimulation

9. Traditional Contemporary
Soloists,
Congregational
choirs, music,
singing
bands

10. Traditional Contemporary
Reverent Upbeat

11. Traditional Contemporary
Formal Relaxed

12. Isaiah 58, CB OT p. 1175

13. 1)
“Declare to my people
their transgression and to
the house of Jacob their
sins.” (NASB)

14. 2)
“Yet they seek Me day
by day and delight to know
My ways,”

15. 2)“As a nation that has
done righteousness, and has
not forsaken the ordinance
of their God.”

16. 2)
“They ask Me for
just decisions, they delight
in the nearness of God.”

17. 2)
“They ask Me for
just decisions, they delight
in the nearness of God.”
“Why have we
fasted and You do not
see?” 3)

18. 2)
“They ask Me for
just decisions, they delight
in the nearness of God.”
“Why have we
humbled ourselves and
You do not notice?”3)

19. 3)
“Behold, on the day
of your fast you find your
desire, and drive hard all
your workers.”
“Why have we
humbled ourselves and
You do not notice?”

20. 4)
“Behold, you fast
for contention and strife
and to strike with a
wicked fist.”
“Why have we
humbled ourselves and
You do not notice?”

21. False worship is
often deceptive.

22. We expect God
to accept our
false worship.

23. We tend to
blame God for
our failures.

24. We are often
blind to our
own sins.

25. 13)
“If because of the
Sabbath, you turn your
foot from doing your own
pleasure on My holy day,”

26. 13)
“And call the
sabbath a delight, the holy
day of Jehovah honorable,
and honor it...”

27. 13) “desisting from your
own ways”

28. 13) “from seeking your
own pleasure”

29. 13) “and speaking your
own word”

30. Worshiping In Our Own Ways

31. Seeking Our Own Pleasure

32. Seeking Our Own Pleasure
The perfect church service
would be the one we were
most unaware of; our attention
would have been on God.
C. S. Lewis

33. Seeking Our Own Pleasure
But every novelty prevents this.
It fixes our attention on the
service itself; and thinking
about worship is a different
thing from worshiping. ...
C. S. Lewis

34. Seeking Our Own Pleasure
‘Tis mad idolatry that makes
the service greater than the
god.’”
C. S. Lewis (Quoting William Shakespeare)

35. Speaking Our Own Word

36. Speaking Our Own Word
“Our fathers worshiped on
this mountain, but you say
that in Jerusalem is the
place where people ought to
worship”
John 4.20, CB NT p. 167

37. Speaking Our Own Word
“people will not endure
sound teaching, but having
itching ears they will
accumulate for themselves
teachers to suit their own
passions and will turn away
from listening to the truth”
2 Timothy 4.3-4, CB NT p. 374

38. Speaking Our Own Word
“in vain do they worship Me,
teaching as doctrines the
commandments of men”
Matthew 15.9, CB NT p. 29

39. Speaking Our Own Word
“when you received the Word
of God, which you heard
from us, you accepted it not
as the word of men but as
what it really is, the Word of
God”
1 Thessalonians 2.13, CB NT p. 357

40. Speaking Our Own Word
“whoever speaks, as one who
speaks oracles of God”
1 Peter 4.11, CB NT p. 412

41. Speaking Our Own Word
“But grow in the grace and
knowledge of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.”
2 Peter 3.18, CB NT p. 418

42. 4)
Make your voice
heard on high

43. 5)
Humble yourself

44. (6-7, 10)
Care for brethren

45. (14)
Delight in Jehovah

46. Will today be the
day you decide to
go to heaven?

47. Lesson slideshows (with notes)
and audio can be found at:
www.churchofchristmiranda.com

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49. Compiled and Presented by:
Fellowship with Man Dave Stewart
Church 23 January, 2011
Las Cruces, NM
#16 www.churchofchristmiranda.com
“Tis Mad Idolatry”
Isaiah 58
Synopsis: God reminds the people of Israel that false worship involves
worship that follows our own ways, seeks our own pleasure, and uses our
own words. (This lesson was heavily influenced by Showtime: Worship
in the Age of Show Business, by Dan Chambers Chapters 3-4)
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