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6:1 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4 So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? 5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, 6 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!1
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous2 will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,3 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined4 to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin5 a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
[1] 6:8
[2] 6:9
[3] 6:9
[4] 6:16
[5] 6:18
(ESV)
As a young child, one of my favorite things to do was wash the dishes. There was just something about a sink full of warm soapy water that elated me. My father, however, did not like me to wash the dishes without supervision because of my propensity either to leave food particles on the dishes because I did not pay close enough attention to my task or to make quite a mess as I splashed around with my hands amusedly in the delightfully warm water. One evening, I can remember washing the dishes without garnering prior permission from my father. When he came into the kitchen to find me and the floor soaked in water as I was boisterously dunking dishes in and out of the sink, he told me in his best stern tone: "Zach, stop that right now! You're making a mess!" "But, but, but," I stuttered in protest, "I was just trying to help!"
"But, but, but." That was my threefold protest of choice if I really felt that I had been wronged. Interestingly, this is also the protest that Paul uses against a Christian's former sinful life in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11:
"Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."
Sadly, the NIV misses the intensity of Paul's protest when it only translates one "but": "BUT you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified." In Greek, there is a "but" before all three phrases: "BUT you were washed, BUT you were sanctified, BUT you were justified."
Paul says that, in our former lives, we were all slaves to all kinds of nasty sin: sexual immorality, idolatry, adultery, prostitution, homosexuality, thievery, greed, drunkenness, slander, and swindling. And this list is meant only to be illustrative, not comprehensive. The truth is, this list, if we were to include all of our sins, would grow faster than a governmental bailout package. Thus, we were all slaves to all kinds of sin and, finally, to Satan. But then, Jesus showed up. And Jesus protested. "But, but, but," Jesus says, "I've washed these people, I've sanctified these people, I've justified these people by my work on the cross! Satan and sin no longer have any claim on my beloved children!" This is the protest of Christ. And this is the protest that leads to our salvation.
22:1 The oracle concerning the valley of vision.
What do you mean that you have gone up,
all of you, to the housetops,
2 you who are full of shoutings,
tumultuous city, exultant town?
Your slain are not slain with the sword
or dead in battle.
3 All your leaders have fled together;
without the bow they were captured.
All of you who were found were captured,
though they had fled far away.
4 Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5 For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day
of tumult and trampling and confusion
in the valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
and a shouting to the mountains.
6 And Elam bore the quiver
with chariots and horsemen,
and Kir uncovered the shield.
7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots,
and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.
8 He has taken away the covering of Judah.
In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest, 9 and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool, 10 and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. 11 You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.
12 In that day the Lord GOD of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for baldness and wearing sackcloth;
13 and behold, joy and gladness,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating flesh and drinking wine.
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”
14 The LORD of hosts has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die,”
says the Lord GOD of hosts.
15 Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: 16 What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock? 17 Behold, the LORD will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you 18 and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be your glorious chariots, you shame of your master’s house. 19 I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station. 20 In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22 And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father’s house. 24 And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father’s house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons. 25 In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken.”
(ESV)
Isaiah now refers to Jerusalem as the Valley of Vision, (the Kidron Valley runs alongside the city) because in this city God had spoken to His people through Isaiah and other prophets, calling them to repentance and faith. Instead, the people of God continued to act just like the pagan Babylonians, thus Jerusalem was described as a town full of tumult and revelry (compare 22:2 with 21:5). But the tumult and revelry of unbelief would turn into the tumult and trampling of judgment. All the efforts of Jerusalem to shore up her defenses and provide supplies of water against a day of siege would fail. They failed because they failed to put their trust in God, the One who made them. The same situation prevails today. If we try to save ourselves by our own efforts, we will fail utterly. Only if we put our trust in Jesus and look to Him will we be saved. Israel repeatedly heard God's call to "weeping and mourning" but they refused to repent. Instead they carried on in their revelry, thinking, "Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die." The references to Shebna and Eliakim are to officials in the court of King Hezekiah. They were sent to hear the words of the commander of the Assyrian army and report to the King. Apparently Shebna thought so much of himself and his position in the royal court that he created a splendid tomb and monument for himself. Isaiah told him that he would be deposed from office and die in disgrace without being buried. Eliakim replaced Shebna in the royal court but even he, like a peg broken off, would fall from honor when the downfall of Judah resulted in their exile and captivity in Babylon. The words of verse 22 seem to speak of Eliakim, but they actually look forward to the Messiah (of whom Eliakim was a type). The Messiah is the One who would ultimately come to rescue God's people. The Messiah is the One who will take the seat of honor and will possess the keys to open and shut the door to heaven (see Revelation 3:7).
26:1 Vindicate me, O LORD,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
2 Prove me, O LORD, and try me;
test my heart and my mind.1
3 For your steadfast love is before my eyes,
and I walk in your faithfulness.
4 I do not sit with men of falsehood,
nor do I consort with hypocrites.
5 I hate the assembly of evildoers,
and I will not sit with the wicked.
6 I wash my hands in innocence
and go around your altar, O LORD,
7 proclaiming thanksgiving aloud,
and telling all your wondrous deeds.
8 O LORD, I love the habitation of your house
and the place where your glory dwells.
9 Do not sweep my soul away with sinners,
nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
10 in whose hands are evil devices,
and whose right hands are full of bribes.
11 But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;
redeem me, and be gracious to me.
12 My foot stands on level ground;
in the great assembly I will bless the LORD.
[1] 26:2
(ESV)