 Welcome to all my God ministries. I am your host Reverend Anita Morris. Let's go into prayer We're gonna be very brief and we are going to discuss the injustices of Biblical days and Probably bring it up to current day, which we live in okay into context family father We thank you. We thank you Lord God. Let the meditations of my heart and the words of my mouth be acceptable in your sight My rock my Lord and my Redeemer Thank you heavenly father for your mercy and your grace and your goodness That Meets us every day every night Morning by morning your mercies are new From the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same Your name. Oh God is to be praised Thank you heavenly father for your mercies that are new every morning Amen And the Old Testament we had two prophets Who spoke and proclaimed the message of God for their nations? Oftentimes we do have present-day prophets who are ministers who will intercede and pray for our nation some of them or some of them are renowned and some of them are Quiet prophets, but they are state and intercessory prayer or their proclaim according to what God has called them in their assignment And this particular prophet Isaiah he was called both to speak judgment to his Nation why should nations both northern Israel northern? Community and southern community Israel represented the northern community Judah represented the southern community and it mentions although they advanced the the advancement of the Assyrians posed a great threat to the south and You can see the Assyrians their customs were to Bring atrocities bring oppressions and to keep bondages on Judah But God foretells the destruction of the oppressor Assyria and other evil surrounding nations Through the prophet Isaiah, so that was his proclamation not only to show that there was going to be a foretelling of the destruction of Judah in Israel and Although it didn't happen in Isaiah's timing, but it still end up happening eventually Okay, because we we do know the fall of Judah the fall of Israel was 586 BC and then we also know that the invasion of Judah Was represented and I believe it was in about 735 where the Assyrians begin to torment Israel during the reign of Eos a Hayas, okay, and that is in passage Isaiah 5 26 and 30 Now Oftentimes we can look and recall the prophet Isaiah as He's going around his character profile. He always mentioned about trees and New living translation reads trees and prophets share at least one important characteristic Both are planted for the future Yet seedlings are often overlooked Which are little seeds that will run to trees are often overlooked and prophets Who proclaim God's message often ignored or think you think they are crazy Okay, Isaiah is one of the best examples of this new living translation of page 1101 in your study Bible It says the people of his time could have been rescued by his words So when he was Compassionate to share God's word even though no one was listening He still proclaimed the message even when no one's listening instead a shadow They refused to believe him and with the past and of centuries, however Isaiah words have cast a shadow on all history. So it was the imprint of their history Isaiah was active as a prophet during the reigns of five kings, but he did not set out to be a prophet That wasn't what he wanted to do. He did not have intentions to become a prophet As myself, I did not have intentions to proclaim God's message or become ordained clergy I had set out to be a lawyer Oftentimes God will allow us to be called in his divine purpose, but his divine will and his purposes are greater than our Little finite purposes. So I took to God be the glory. It says by the time King Uzziah died Isaiah may have been established as a scribe in the royal palace in Jerusalem It was a respectable career, but God had other plans for his servant Isaiah's account of God's call Leads little doubt about what motivated the prophet for the next half century His vision of God was unforgettable as we can recall when Isaiah was called and Isaiah 6 5 so I said woe is me For I am an undone because I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of people of unclean lips for my eyes have seen the king the Lord of Hosts of God's armies of heaven's armies. So he took a glance at himself and he mentions that he said To he said to God in answering God's call as the voice shook the temple and its foundation and Then he said to God. It's all over. I'm doomed Because he heard God's voice for I am sinful man I have filthy lips and I live among people with filthy lips. You ever feel a conviction on your life where I'm in a setting where I should not be God's holiness is upon my life his anointing Is on my life for me to do good and to Work what he's called me to do to bring people Into a better place to bring liberty to help Bring compassion, but they want to do other things. They want to speak ill. They want to do evil They want to practice atrocities. They want to oppress people But woe is me. But woe is my arena. I got to get out of this arena. He came to himself and realized There's something different. God's holiness is different from the world from what he was accustomed to And he said Yet I have seen king the king the lord of heaven's armies Then one of the seraphim which is the angel that sets before god flew to me with a burning coal And he had taken it from the altar with a pair of tongues He touched my lips with it and said see This coal has touched your lips Now your guilt Is removed and your sins are forgiven Then I heard the lord asking Whom shall I send as a messenger to this people? Whom shall I say to this people? Who will go for us? I said Here I am Send me And he said yes Go And say to this people So What that entered What isaac entered was his divine calling his purposeful calling of proclaiming god's message to the nations And he was able to enter it because he admitted His wrongdoings He had he acknowledged the flaws in his humanity and those whom he lived with and god put coals and Had touched his lips By the angel of the lord to remove the guilt and to forgive him of his sins And called him out And asked the question and he was able to consciously and genuinely discern And to accept his calling and say yes Here I am Send me And that is what god is asking in a perverse generation which we live Is to acknowledge where you are admit Your sins confess them as sins don't sugarcoat it And when god has asked you to come forward And to say whom shall I send whom shall I have to help this people or help this nation Help united states and sending forth a message to proclaim Healing correction That we may turn From Our ways and turn to god as a nation And god is asking whom will I send will you say send me And that's what god is saying even isaac he went through many afflictions. He said look it In isaac chapter 6 listen carefully You're going to go to people and you're going to require them to listen. They're going to listen carefully But they will not understand they'll watch you closely But they will learn nothing Their hearts will be hearting And their ears plugged And they'll shut their eyes That way they will not see with their eyes nor hear with their ears Nor understand with their hearts in turn to god for healing And this what brings me to mind of a facebook post and i'm bringing it into current Context Where we see a type a typified assyrians who like to oppress Um Registered voters, okay, and like we mentioned in the old testament juda represents the south israel represents the north Well, we still have some voter suppressions throughout our nation And oftentimes this is a critical analysis of people's narrative. We have um A female Who had mentioned on the facebook about The title of this this um pages another election another failure by white women And oftentimes some people will take that and in um Blanket it as a truth And it is not true Oftentimes it's often affects all of us, you know, so this is what one person replied I think the issue goes much deeper than race or gender The issue is far more evil and insidious. The issue is self-centeredness We have become a culture of what? Mine is mine I worked hard for it and i'm not sharing it. We are building walls to keep the refugees out We vote big business rather than homeless Those that have health care don't care whether his neighbor Does not have it or not or does have it Children go hungry In this country we might take canned goods to the state Fair to get it in free, but we don't vote for social programs to feed the hungry We depend on our charities to help those in distress But we don't donate to those charities ourselves And she mentions I am much more frightened about self-centeredness Than all of the biases I am a white senior citizen. She identifies herself as Born and raised in the south I voted pretty much to write down the democratic ticket Which included a black woman running for the house I fear for this country imploding from its own selfishness and greed Somehow we lost god in our governmental process I voted for those who might help restore our humanity And she mentions it's not a black and white thing and often it's not about party But she said she stopped at her particular party and whom she thought will be affected but again And um isaia it mentions the ills of humanity and we do have some of these characteristics as a nation in isaia chapter five and it reads about Judah's guilt in judgment Okay What sorrow for you Who buy up houses after house in field after field Just like how people say it's mine. You know And some people have this um theme of Get all the toys before you die. It's not going to your grave. So I gotta get it why he can So they buy house after house field after field until everyone is evicted And you live alone in the land And we just had a california who had lost their lives and God have mercy upon their their lives and 39 people or more had passed away God's grace and mercy is comfort be with the families who's lost their lives and the The uh Disparities among the rich versus those that didn't have so much. I would say the poorer class The they saw that in reality those that were rich had organized themselves to to go ahead and Pay for private firefighters to save their homes. This is what the rich had done and some Also aided others, you know, their neighbors, but those who didn't have that income or that um The capital to do that There's burned to the ground And it says woe to that until everyone is alone in the land And it says but I have heard the lord of heaven's army in isaia five Swear a solemn old many houses will stand deserted even beautiful mansions will be empty 10 acres of vineyard will not produce even six gallons of wine 10 baskets of seed will yield only one basket of grain What sorrow for those who get up early in the morning looking for a drink of alcohol And spend long evenings drinking wine To make themselves flame and drunk They furnish wine and lovely music at their grand parties Lair and harp tambunes and flute, but they never think about the lord Or notice what he is doing So when we get caught up in our luxuries when we get caught up in Everything's hunky dory And we don't wake up in a tune ourselves to acknowledge a living being within our own soul a living being Who was set high and we set low who's waiting To have a relationship with us who we need to acknowledge He is the king of king and the lord of lords who has who is mother nature. Okay Who makes life to being and who also subdues the nations Okay, so my people will go into exile far away because they do not know me Those who are great and honored will start No matter how honored you are Guys can set those who are on high passive stills and can cause them to fall as we saw in many um Christian sects As far as bishop eddy long or what have you before he passed away Then he was greatly honored But then it says how great how How what do you call it how great that the mighty has fallen people How how you get there? Is also how you would serve god. It's not for your self-service. It's not to be self-centeredness It's not about I but how we can better the community and show in compassion and not to coerce abuse manipulate our power Or our wills upon others or to ignore the cries of the poor and the turn You know a naked eye And it says in the common people will die of thirst The grave is licking its lips in anticipation isaia 5 verse 14 It says the great and the lowly and all the drunken mob will be swallowed up Humanity will be destroyed and people brought down Even the arrogant will lower their eyes and humiliation because it's like why did this happen? I am awestruck You know they're gonna be in awestruck, but the lords of heaven's armies will be exalted by his justice The holiness of god will be displayed by his righteousness and that day Lamb's little children will find good pastors and fat and sheep and young girls will feed among the ruins so Just take and consider some of the things that you And I are seeing in these Tough and hard days that we have seen Week after week months after months the shootings the floods The tornadoes the fires More shootings more floods more fires So I pray that you have a right relationship with god He says if you confess with your mouth the lord jesus and believe in your heart That god raised christ from the dead you shall be saved It says with them with the heart Man believe if humankind believers onto salvation And what the mouth Confession is made onto salvation So I just want you to continue to bask in god's glory It says god has not given you a spirit of fear But of love of power and a sound mind and just Continue to consider those things And and the mist of all the chaos and confusion that this world can offer there is still peace There is still beauty. We just actually enjoyed um veterans day Um a week ago a couple of days ago And it remember the hallmarks of which this country Was erected Established oh beautiful. Oh gracious guys, you know from sea to shine and sea, you know And so just know that you have some hallmark songs of our nations that we hold on to Um, there's a lot to be proud to be an american. There's a lot to be proud for your ethnicity Your race your gender your your um People's act your descendants are Your predecessors your ancestors know that you have rich history as You only know and if your family passed down that oral tradition of knowing your history that is remarkable Just know your love and god is smiling upon you and that He loves those whom the world says are outcast. He said i've called you my by name He called you by name and you are mine Hallelujah, isn't that beautiful and i can read that with you and isaiya You i called you and you are mine Says the lord hallelujah, hallelujah isaiya 43 and 1 Redeemer of israel says but now the says the lord who created you o jake up And he formed you o israel when you see those names just put your name there That's what i was taught when i was growing up, but however jake up Was giving a new name israel because he Stride with the lord and he prevailed And god called him when he was a child Or when he was not a child i would say youthful naive when he was Adult and gave him a new name israel and tells him fear not and tells you and i fear not For i have redeemed you I have called you By your name You are mine, so therefore do not fret Know that you are redeemed and some people say i can't be redeemable I've done too much god's just like how god forgave isaiya the prophet whom he used and said i am a man of unclean lips I work among people who Are half unclean lips and god had to remove his guilt and forgive him And god is the only one that has the power to forgive our human sins Which are many okay, and he can cleanse us as a nation and forgive us as a nation As the chronicles mention if my people who are all of us We are all created and we were created to give him glory If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves don't want to be arrogant Don't want to be prideful will humble themselves Seek my face turn from their wicked face And seek my face Then will i heal their land and forgive their sin and heal their land Wouldn't you want god to heal your territory? heal your city heal your state heal your Nation heal your region heal heal the world But it's going to take you and i to continue to be ambassadors for christ to be uh ministers of reconciliation Reconciling reconciling people to god Showing that there's peace that we are peacemakers in this world Showing peace to one another Giving out peace for giving one another loving one another and sometimes it might trip you up But know the resiliency of other uh other Humanities and and there are um particular race or niceties and how they Was able to sustain me being a woman of color and share both uh African-american history and also rather distant, but it's still a native american history the atrocities on both sides Imagine being shipped here forcefully You know being beaten being tighten it with with all manner of disease chained Even though didn't happen to me physically, but that's in the history books Of when we say african americans we have to go and Instead of saying americans sometimes some people put african americans that our society and america Places us and separate us and put that on paper So i am not naive to that so when you are in societies you have to know your narrative Of of of what people group? And what nationality does it matter in god's sight? No, it doesn't matter because you belong to god You know you are one race that is the human race But i don't want you to be naive out there either Okay, so know and be confident in who god has created you to be and to become a well-developed intellectual Or identify yourself as creative or whatever you want and become And and show God's good purposes He has established in your heart to do justice and to do good And continue to walk and power and faith And honor the lord your god Amen, who is your redeemer who loves you and has called you by name? Amen. Amen. God bless you the lord loves you Then you make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you and give you peace In jesus name. Amen. Amen