Isaiah 47 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 47:11-15

I. Look at this picture of utter and most painful bewilderment. It is the necessary and inevitable result of sin.

II. Hear the Divine challenge addressed to the false powers in which we have trusted.

III. See the doom of false securities. (1) We cannot escape the trial of our securities. (2) If we set ourselves against God, we challenge all the forces of His creation.

Parker, City Temple,vol. i., p. 114; see also Pulpit Notes,p. 214.

References: Isaiah 47:14. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. viii., No. 444.Isaiah 48:8. Ibid.,vol. xiii., No. 779; Ibid., Evening by Evening,p. 353.Isaiah 48:9-11. Ibid., Sermons,vol. xviii., No. 1041.Isaiah 48:10. Ibid.,vol. i., No. 35, vol. xxiv., No. 1430; Ibid., Morning by Morning,p. 63; Preacher's Lantern,vol. i., p. 501.Isaiah 48:10. G. Calthrop, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xxvii., p. 33; J. Keble, Sermons for Saints' Days,p. 199.