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*Justice as Worship – Isaiah 1:10-20*
· *1:18* – the promise that epitomises our *hope* in *Jesus*
* it’s the /what/, not the /how /of salvation
* God’s desire for His creation since *Genesis 3:6*
· “…reason together…” – *reason*?!
* if it were reason we would be destroyed * but this is *God’s* reasoning, not ours – *His* love, not ours
· The wonder of forgiveness
* scarlet red to whiter than snow or wool
*Miroslav** Volf – */Free of Charge/, *p.130*.
· Tension in the Church between /forgiveness/ and *guilt*
* “all things are permissible…” (*1 Cor 10:23*)
*/Picture/*
· /Conviction/, not *guilt*!
* both can motivate – one positively, one negatively
· Holding *conviction* and *forgiveness* together, in balance, we read *1:10-20*
· Reassuring trait for a trainee minister:
* I’d never noticed the *context* of *1:18* before * compare with two passages being widely read at the moment
* *Amos 5:21-24*
* *Micah 6:6-8*
· God is calling us to rediscover the *inextricable* link between worship and justice
* we */cannot separate/* the two * to /ignore/ one is to /ignore/ the other (*explain*)
* have we misunderstood the scope of worship?
· Often left feeling ‘guilty’ after sermons on justice
· Lesotho in the summer
* orphans, street children, poverty etc. * speaking to myself as much as anyone else
· *Romans 8:1* – Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
(niv)
* no doubt that we can be /complicit/ in western society * whatever we may have done or still be doing wrong in terms of justice is now *white as snow or wool*
* and as we hear that, we hear the call to worship…
· What issues of injustice are there around the *world*?
· What issues of injustice are there in the *UK*?
· What issues of injustice are there in our *communities*?
· Isaiah, Amos and Micah (amongst others) present us with an opportunity to see worship in a new way
* to see issues of *justice* in a new /context/ * opportunities to *worship* through /seeking/ *justice* without condemnation and guilt
· *Mission* before *justice?*
· How do we feel about that?
* new idea?
* encourage us to sit with it
* what is not of God fall away…
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