Turn with me in your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 45, Isaiah 45 and go to verse 19.
The title of my sermon is God declares things that are right.
I'm going to read just a verse in the context just to get some context established.
But the Bible says in Isaiah 45 verse 18, for thus saith the Lord that created the heavens,
God himself that formed the earth and made it.
He hath established it, he created it not in vain.
He formed it to be inhabited.
I am the Lord and there is none else.
Verse 19 says, I have not spoken in secret in the dark place of the earth.
I said not unto the seed of Jacob, seeking me in vain.
I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
So what I want to preach about today is the fact that God's word is true and what we believe
should come from the Bible and not our own opinions because God is the one that speaks
things that are right.
Jesus said, thy word is truth, right?
When we look at the Bible, we have the words of God and we know that because God's not
a liar, because God tells the truth, because God knows everything, when he says something,
he's right.
So it doesn't matter if you believe something that's different than what the Bible says,
you have to conform your beliefs and your opinions to what the Bible says if it contradicts
it.
Turn with me to Isaiah 30, just a few chapters back, Isaiah 30 and go to verse 9.
I mean you probably run into this a lot like just talking to unsaved people or people out
soul-winning or whatever where you show them a clear verse in the Bible and you say, this
is what the Bible says and they say, well, I just don't think that's true.
I believe something different.
I was taught something different in my church and I'm just thinking like, well, you say
you're a Christian, you say you believe the Bible is the word of God, I'm showing you
what God said in his word and you say, well, I just believe something different.
Well, who's right?
I mean, we're not God, we're man.
We haven't lived forever, I mean, we're just human beings that have been on this earth
for a few decades or whatever.
It's like we don't know everything, but God does know everything.
So if he said that salvation is by faith alone and you say, well, I think you have to do
works, we are wrong.
So you've got to change your beliefs and believe what the Bible says, because God is the one
that declares things that are right.
Now in Isaiah chapter 30 verse 9, the Bible says that this is a rebellious people, lying
children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord, which say to the seers, see
not, and to the prophets, prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits, get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy
One of Israel to cease from before us.
So notice that these people that he's talking about, these lying people, these lying children
in this chapter, he said that they're basically telling the prophets of God to stop preaching
what they're preaching.
They say, you're wrong.
We don't want to hear it.
Just preach lies to us because that's what we want to hear.
They're turning aside to fables instead of listening to what God says, because they just
hate what God says.
They hate the truth, so they don't want to hear the things that are right.
And we as Christians, we should not be down on what the Bible says and we should not be
down on what the preacher of God's word says either.
When the Bible, or when a prophet of God, a man of God, a preacher gets up behind the
pulpit and they say, thus saith the Lord, and they preach the Bible, we have to understand
that they're not just preaching their own opinion, they're preaching the words of God,
and God is right.
So we shouldn't despise prophesying.
The Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 5, despise not prophesying.
We shouldn't hate what's preached to us and we shouldn't be against what's preached to
us.
There's a lot of people in this passage that say, prophesy not unto us right things, speak
unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
They're basically saying, tell us lies, tell us things that will make us feel good.
Tell us things that we want to hear, don't tell us the truth.
But we've got to listen to the Bible because it's the truth and God declares things are
right.
Let's have prayer.
Father in heaven, thank you Lord for the opportunity to preach and pray to God that you please
fill every other preacher with your spirit and please help us God to listen to all your
words.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.