Sermons on Isaiah

Pastor Terry opened Isaiah 59 to describe the moral and spiritual moment we’re living in: “judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter” (v.14). The problem isn’t God’s inability—“the Lord’s hand is not shortened… neither his ear heavy” (vv.1–2)—it’s our iniquities that have created the separation. When truth (God’s Word) is pushed out of public life and private hearts, judgment is paralyzed, justice drifts, and equity can’t…