Publisher's Synopsis
Why a book on the solemn preaching of a prophet who addressed Israel and Judah over 2500 years ago - preaching that was largely rejected by his own people at the time? What's the point? What can Isaiah have to say to evangelicals today? If his own people in his own generation didn't listen to him, why should we?The answer is obvious - or ought to be: Isaiah's recorded discourses - as those of all the prophets (indeed, as all Scripture) - are the very words of God. And, as such therefore, they are always alive and always relevant. In particular, although Isaiah is long-dead, Abel-like (Heb. 11:4), he is still being used by God to speak today. And we need to listen to him! To crown it all, God told him to record his words so that people like us could read them (Isa. 30:8).Isaiah 30 shows us that the people of Judah knew they were in trouble. But they got the diagnosis wrong. Hence they proposed the wrong solution - going to the world for its help. In so doing, they were disobeying God's word; they were going directly against it. This got them into even deeper trouble. There was only one solution: repentance and reformation.In this book, David Gay argues that evangelicals, today, need to hear and heed these very things.Judah was in trouble; in the late 20th century many evangelicals realised the churches were in trouble. Judah forsook God's word to go to Egypt; many evangelicals pragmatically have gone to the world for its ideas. Judah thought it had solved its problem; the same is true for many contemporary evangelicals. Judah was mistaken; modern evangelicals, likewise.A free audiobook of the author reading this work can be found on sermonaudio.com
