The Attitude of Gratitude or the Ruin of Rebellion I. Rebellion II. Repentance III. Restoration

1. The Attitude of Gratitude or
the Ruin of Rebellion.
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Isa 1:1-9
1) The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz,
which he saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah,
Jotham,
Ahaz,
and Hezekiah,
kings of Judah.
God sometimes speaks to man abruptly;
when He does,
it demands our undivided attention.
In our text the heavens and the earth
are suddenly called as court reporters;
God is charging His people with rebellion.

2. The matter at issue is between the creature and the
Creator, the child and the Parent.
All thoughts of the mind should disappear
When the voice of God
in anger declares
His controversy with a man.
2) Hear, O heavens,
and give ear,
O earth:
for the LORD hath spoken,
I have nourished and brought up children,
and they have rebelled against me.
“the LORD hath spoken”
Such Divine intervention ought not to have been
necessary.
According to Ps 19 God has dropped man into a 3D
IMAX amphitheater declaring God’s glory 24/7.
Act one is the visible nature (Rom 1:20),
Rom 1:20
20) For the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even

3. his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are
without excuse:
Act two His goodness to undeserving man (Act
14:17),
Acts 14:17
17) Nevertheless he left not himself without
witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain
from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our
hearts with food and gladness.
Act three a personal guide in the conscience (Pro
20:27 Act 24:16 Rom 2:15)
Prov 20:27
27) The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD,
searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Acts 24:16
16) And herein do I exercise myself, to have
always a conscience void of offence toward
God, and toward men.
Rom 2:15
15) Which shew the work of the law written in
their hearts, their conscience also bearing

4. witness, and their thoughts the mean while
accusing or else excusing one another;)
These sources of enlightenment and influence have
not been sufficient
and there has been granted, special intervention from
God.
"The Lord hath spoken".
3) The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib:
but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Ingratitude is the sum of guilt and evil,
worse than any taint of the blood,
more odious than lying, vanities, babbling &
drunkenness,
The wounds I might have healed!
The human sorrow and smart!
And yet it never was in my soul
To play so ill a part:
But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart!

5. —Hood.
“my people doth not consider”
A population of entitled ingrates.
3) Ah sinful nation,
a people laden with iniquity,
a seed of evildoers,
children that are corrupters:
they have forsaken the LORD,
they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger,
they are gone away backward.
Human passion is always on the move.
Ingratitude to God’s goodness soon leads to
apathy,
apathy to active hatred,
and hatred to open revolt.
4) Why should ye be stricken any more?
ye will revolt more and more:

6. the whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
5) From the sole of the foot
even unto the head
there is no soundness in it;
but wounds,
and bruises,
and putrifying sores:
they have not been closed,
neither bound up,
neither mollified with ointment.
6) Your country is desolate,
your cities are burned with fire:
your land,
strangers devour it in your presence,
and it is desolate,
as overthrown by strangers.
7) And the daughter of Zion is left
as a cottage in a vineyard,
as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers,
as a besieged city.

7. 8) Except the LORD of hosts
had left unto us a very small remnant,
we should have been as Sodom,
and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
I. Rebellion
Isa 1:2
2) … the LORD hath spoken,
I have nourished and brought up children,
and they have rebelled against me.
Rom 1:28
28) And even as they did not like to retain God in
their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind,
to do those things which are not convenient;
Isa 1:5
5) Why should ye be stricken any more?
ye will revolt more and more:
[Why? Because…]
the whole head is sick,

8. and the whole heart faint.
Isa 1:20
20) But if ye refuse and rebel,
ye shall be devoured with the sword:
for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Isa 1:24
24) Therefore saith the Lord,
the LORD of hosts,
the mighty One of Israel,
Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries,
and avenge me of mine enemies:
Isa 1:28
28) And the destruction of the transgressors
and of the sinners shall be together,
and they that forsake the LORD
shall be consumed.
You cannot reverse the laws of gravity anymore that
you can reverse the Ruin of Rebellion.
God’s laws are never broken but often proven.

9. II. Repentance
If you are still breathing you have the option to put
rebellion in remission, but it requires God’s remedy.
Isa 1:16-18
16) Wash you,
1. wash up in the water of the Word
make you clean;
2. scrub up it will require work.
put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes;
3. quit overt sin.
cease to do evil;
4.quit covert sin.
17) Learn to do well;
5. re-education program required.
seek judgment,
6. learn God’s cause and effect
relieve the oppressed,

10. 7. get outside of the self-centered world
judge the fatherless,
8. only benefit to others is #6
plead for the widow.
9. Get someone else outside of their self-centered
universe.
God doesn’t ask what you think or how you feel.
He has already identified the rebel as unable to think
(v5 the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint).
Only after you have obeyed God’s 9step program do
you qualify to move on the verse 18 (now you will
have some works meet for repentance)
18) Come now, and let us reason together, saith the
LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.
Isa 1:19

11. 19) If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of
the land:
III. Restoration
Isa 1:25
25) And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge
away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
Isa 1:26
26) And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy
counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be
called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
Isa 1:27
27) Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her
converts with righteousness.
The greatest enemy to gratitude is pride. Pride is the
king of rebellion.
“No man can serve two masters.”
Job 41:34
34) He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the
children of pride.

12. Isa 66:2
2) For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those
things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I
look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit,
and trembleth at my word.
The voice of God that shook the sky in the ears of Isaiah in
760 B.C. is just as applicable today.
Either you will tremble at his word or Rebellion will be your
Ruin.
The Attitude of Gratitude or the Ruin of Rebellion
I. Rebellion
II. Repentance
III. Restoration