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Isaiah (17)
Hollow Vanity
!!! Welcome and announcements
!!! Doxology /Hymn 329: “Be still and know that I am God” (repeat)/
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Call to worship and Greeting
!!! Hymn no 327 (tune 319): / “Lord Jesus, when your people meet”/
!!! Prayer of adoration and Confession of sins
!!! Declaration of pardoning
!!! Hymn no 285: / “How blest the righteous in their life” /
!!! Offering and Dedication
While the Offering is taken up, all (remaining seated) sing) Hymn no 494: /“”Take up your cross, the Saviour said”/
!!! Prayer of Intercession
!!! Bible Reading
Old Testament: / Isaiah 3:16-26/
New Testament: / 1Peter 3:1-7/
!!! Sermon /“Hollow vanity”/
!! Introduction
When women are wholly vain and self-centered, the cancer of moral decay is truly consuming the nation's heart.
Proper adornment and true beauty in women should be a reflection of the glory of God.
When women cultivate and cherish beauty only for itself, they are infringing upon and detracting from the glory and beauty that belong to Him.
That ordinary women of the world should be vainglorious might be expected.
But the daughters of Zion, women who live in the city of God, under the very shadow of the Temple, who should have set the example of the beauty of holiness, these are haughty and walk with outstretched neck.
Is Isaiah, however, one who can see no place in life for the beauty of adornment?
Does he condemn beauty and ornament as such?
That is not the case.
It’s not the various articles of jewelry in themselves which are reached by his condemnation.
Something more serious has gripped his attention and drawn down upon itself his condemnation.
In Jerusalem there was an inner pride and corruption of the heart which manifested itself outwardly.
"Wherever," says Calvin, "dress and splendour are carried to excess, there is evidence of hankering after, and many vices are usually connected with it; for whence comes luxury in men and women but from pride?"
And again he remarks, "First then, he justly declares pride to be the source of the evil, and points it out by the sign, that is, by their gait."
Isaiah is in no conflict with Peter, who stated,
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes.
Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.
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