Bounce off Me, Stick 2U

WTW 2021
January 30
Isaiah 65

Bounced off Me & Stuck to You:
God is ‘Holier Than Thou’

Those who hate God take his NAME in vain, and they take his WORD in vain.

God continually reaches out even to those who hate Him.

Those who hate God even misuse the very passage of God’s WORD where He declares His love for these who hate Him in this very way.

They have taken God’s WORD and misunderstand that the words they misuse to refer mockingly to God & His people who He calls & declares holy are actually applied as a divine indictment against those very God haters who are right in their own eyes but not in His eyes.

Their mockery turns back on their own heads. ‘Bounced off me and stuck to you.’

In God’s words: ‘These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.’

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“I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.’ Isaiah 65:1‭-‬5