Isaiah 1:15-17 When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.
'Your hands are full of blood' - we have killed or murdered many.
1 John 3:15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
When we hate a brother we have murdered him by reviling and the spreading of lies, false witnesses and deceptions.
Mat 15:18-19 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
'Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.'
When we avoid righteousness, truth, justice and mercies, God will not hear our prayers for He is a just God and He sits on the mercy seat.
Psalm 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before Your face.
We thank God for all those who are merciful to the poor and needy, and the lawyers fighting for their justice (esp. OA).
James 4:17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Brethren, let us repent of our sins, lies, unrighteousness, deceptions, hatred, unforgiveness, reviling, covetousness, etc. Be merciful and do good and our loving Father in heaven will hear our prayers.
'Your hands are full of blood' - we have killed or murdered many.
1 John 3:15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
When we hate a brother we have murdered him by reviling and the spreading of lies, false witnesses and deceptions.
Mat 15:18-19 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
'Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.'
When we avoid righteousness, truth, justice and mercies, God will not hear our prayers for He is a just God and He sits on the mercy seat.
Psalm 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before Your face.
We thank God for all those who are merciful to the poor and needy, and the lawyers fighting for their justice (esp. OA).
James 4:17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Brethren, let us repent of our sins, lies, unrighteousness, deceptions, hatred, unforgiveness, reviling, covetousness, etc. Be merciful and do good and our loving Father in heaven will hear our prayers.
