When “Good” Isn’t Good Enough - LeTourneau ….pptVIP

10/10/10 What situations can you remember when you really wanted someone to get their “just desserts” – to get what they had coming to them? ? The reality is that we all deserve punishment like that when we stand before God Today we look at why our “good” is not enough to impress God. Isaiah 5:20-23 (NIV) Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. [21] Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. [22] Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks, [23] who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent. To whom does Isaiah declare “woe”? What is wrong with calling evil good and the other reverses listed? What is comforting about the fact that right and wrong are unchanging? What makes someone consider themselves good? What might make someone consider themselves bad? What might be a more reliable measure of good or bad? Why is God’s Word a more reliable standard – more so than our own ideas of right and wrong? Isaiah 6:1-5 (NIV) In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. [2] Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. [3] And they were calling to one another: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory. [4] At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. [5] Woe to me! I cried. I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty. Describe what Isaiah saw, felt, heard, even smelled? What do we learn about the importance of God from these details? How does Isaiah see himself, once he has been exposed to God’s glory? Why