God told Isaiah to go meet Ahaz and give him
this message: vs. 4
‘Take
Heed, and Be Quiet”
Isaiah
7:1-9
Charles
e Whisnant, Pastor/Teacher/Counselor
January
02, 2013 # 27
Be
on guard and rest: Good thought, right?
Matthew 11:28-30. This is the
right attitude to take in life:
On one hand: vigilance,
determination, earnestness.
On the other hand: silence,
resignation and hope.
Here we find balance between the
passive and active aspects of life.
Herein we find rest in our heart.
(my message from Matthew 11:25-30:
Jesus’ invitation to us to “rest.”)
1A All True Life is a Listening: “Be attentive, alert and take heed.”
1B Light
doesn’t come into careless, inattentive souls.
2B A
prayer attitude must be to think on these things.
3B Revelation
comes to those listening. God’s voice is lost because men come with souls full
of noises.
(God’s
voice is heard through the Holy Spirit in our spirit, and comes as we pray and
read the Scripture and listen to the preaching of the Word of God)
4B Our
personal life, history: is a revelation of the mind of God, but we often miss
the instructions.
5B Give full place to observation and
reflection: “Be Quiet” and you will find plenty of light and you will have no
room in your heart for anxiety, unbelief, and despair.
2A All True Life is a Watching: Be caution, vigilant, circumspect.
1B There is no room in life for
presumption. When earnest prayer has been cultivated into a habit of prayerful
watchfulness. Let us be quiet.
2B Most feel the need of
1. Walking softly
2. Being on the alert
3. Soul is full of sober caution
But they never know: how to
combine with this, that strong confidence in God which brings the sensitive
heart’s assurance and peace.
3B All True Life is a Striving:
1C Life must be full of:
1. Effort,
2. Aspiration,
3. Strenuousness,
4. Perseverance.
2C Life calls for us:
1. To Consider.
2. To Discriminate.
3. To Decide.
4. To Act.
3C Yet We are to be “Quiet”
1. Calm amid tumult.
2. Tranquil in severest effort.
3. Full of peace
4. Full of confidence, when life is
most difficult and denying.
4C In our Earthly life:
1. It is not a life to be lazy.
2. It calls for us to be:
A. Earnest
B. Discreet
C. Economical
D. Prudent
E. Pains-taking
Then we are to be “Quiet: which
means: ‘No painful, misgiving thoughts of word.
5C In our Christian life:
1. Never to dream ourselves into,
but seek:
A. Spiritual knowledge
B. Strength
C. Beauty
D. Completeness
2. When we have given ourselves to
God’s service and glory. With a single, purposeful heart. Let us for the rest
be quiet.
3. Investigate, with caution,
patient and hopeful.
4. Life has many puzzling avengers.
Life presents things that are of confusions and contradictions.
5. Reading the Word of God: Its
content speaks clearly, to the glory of God. We are not to glide over such
pages and loosely think over them.
6. Our life at times may be going
very smoothly – health good, business good.
7. Other times life circumstances
change: our health fails, creditors’ call, popularity falls
A. Then we are staggered and ask
skeptical questions.
WHAT ARE WE TO DO WHEN WE ENCOUNTER
CHANGE!!!!!
B.
BE QUIET
1.Proceed with caution. Look before
you leap. Think before you act.
2.Do nothing before you have thought
it over and prayed about it
C.
TAKE HEED:
1.Worldliness is gradually creeping
in.
2.Doctrine of all sorts is at a
discount.
3.
D.
SIT TIGHT: FEAR NOT:
1.Self-control in the time of
stress and storm. The world says: “How can they do that? What is the secret of that wonderful
composure? GOD.
2.Too often we believe the worst is
going to happen. We are afraid of the outcome so much that we don’t do
anything.
3.Fears, yes. Don’t cherish them.
4.Have patience: see the end of
this trouble.
5.Fear not Tomorrow, God is
already there.
E.
CAUTION WITH CONFIDENCE:
1.Life is danger. We are walking in
jeopardy every hour.
F.
VIGILANCE AND GLADNESS:
1.Be like the birds, they sit and
look around.
G.
STILLNESS OF SPIRIT
1.Allow the Holy Spirit to draw His
various graces upon you.
H.
CHRISTIAN SERENITY:
1.The child of God should live
above the world, moving through it as a star, quietly moving – clear, serene
and still.
