Isaiah 5:1-2
"Now will I sing to My well-beloved
a song of My beloved,
touching His vineyard.
My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.
And He fenced it,
and gathered out the stones thereof,
and planted it with the choicest
of the vine and built a tower in the midst of it,
and also made a winepress therein,
and He looked that it should bring
forth grapes,
and it brought forth
wild grapes."
God's work was to "fence" about the prized vineyard (which represents His people). The fence of a vineyard was a three foot by three foot wall. It was made of stones and dirt from the vineyard being prepared. Thorny bushes were planted atop, that would make it painfully dangerous for any varmint or thief to attempt entry into the vineyard. The prepared soil of the vineyard was planted by God with a choice vine... A tower was built for guards to stand watch over the vineyard. A winepress was built because God expected fruit.
God asked the people to judge His work.
Isaiah 5:3
"And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between Me and My vineyard."
Look at what God has done for us...
and look at the efforts He has effected to allow us to make the fruit that God desires...
Then look at what many of His people have done with the vineyard, the wall, the tower, and the winepress...
What more could God have done? What more could we ask of the Lord? God asks this question?
"What could have been done more to My vineyard?
that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?"
Why did the vineyard yield "wild grapes'?
The "wild grapes" were not the harvest that God wanted...
What fruit do Christians exhibit today?
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, etc.
Yet, in the lives of some Christians we find anger, bitterness, gossip, etc.
God asks us to "judge" between Him and His vineyard.
God wants us to evaluate:
what He has done,
and what the vineyard has produced.
Isaiah 5:5-6
"And now go to: I will tell you
what I will do to My vineyard:
I will take away the hedge thereof,
and it shall be eaten up,
and break down the wall thereof,
and it shall be trodden down.
And I will lay it waste,
it shall not be pruned...
nor digged...
but there shall come up briars and thorns...
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it..."
God does not ignore sin.
Isaiah is trying to show his nation that God is not only aware of their sins,
but He also will show in His actions that He greatly disapproves of the sins.
God shows to Isaiah to relate to the people...
that there are "WOES" for the sinners.
F
irst, God shows the sin,
and then He tells what
the "woe" is for such sinner...
The message of Isaiah came shortly before the judgment of God...
and the message of Isaiah relates well to our day...
for we too stand near...
very near to a judgment on the vineyard of our day...
"Now will I sing to My well-beloved
a song of My beloved,
touching His vineyard.
My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.
And He fenced it,
and gathered out the stones thereof,
and planted it with the choicest
of the vine and built a tower in the midst of it,
and also made a winepress therein,
and He looked that it should bring
forth grapes,
and it brought forth
wild grapes."
God's work was to "fence" about the prized vineyard (which represents His people). The fence of a vineyard was a three foot by three foot wall. It was made of stones and dirt from the vineyard being prepared. Thorny bushes were planted atop, that would make it painfully dangerous for any varmint or thief to attempt entry into the vineyard. The prepared soil of the vineyard was planted by God with a choice vine... A tower was built for guards to stand watch over the vineyard. A winepress was built because God expected fruit.
God asked the people to judge His work.
Isaiah 5:3
"And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between Me and My vineyard."
Look at what God has done for us...
and look at the efforts He has effected to allow us to make the fruit that God desires...
Then look at what many of His people have done with the vineyard, the wall, the tower, and the winepress...
What more could God have done? What more could we ask of the Lord? God asks this question?
"What could have been done more to My vineyard?
that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?"
Why did the vineyard yield "wild grapes'?
The "wild grapes" were not the harvest that God wanted...
What fruit do Christians exhibit today?
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, etc.
Yet, in the lives of some Christians we find anger, bitterness, gossip, etc.
God asks us to "judge" between Him and His vineyard.
God wants us to evaluate:
what He has done,
and what the vineyard has produced.
Isaiah 5:5-6
"And now go to: I will tell you
what I will do to My vineyard:
I will take away the hedge thereof,
and it shall be eaten up,
and break down the wall thereof,
and it shall be trodden down.
And I will lay it waste,
it shall not be pruned...
nor digged...
but there shall come up briars and thorns...
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it..."
God does not ignore sin.
Isaiah is trying to show his nation that God is not only aware of their sins,
but He also will show in His actions that He greatly disapproves of the sins.
God shows to Isaiah to relate to the people...
that there are "WOES" for the sinners.
F
irst, God shows the sin,
and then He tells what
the "woe" is for such sinner...
The message of Isaiah came shortly before the judgment of God...
and the message of Isaiah relates well to our day...
for we too stand near...
very near to a judgment on the vineyard of our day...
