1. Divine Discipline Isaiah 30
A study of Isaiah’s God & His servants

2. God’s Response to our Sin
He Convicts

3. Assyria
701 B.C.
Syria
735 B.C.
Israel
Judah
Egypt

4. God’s Response to our Sin
He Convicts
Through His Word
Deuteronomy 17:16
Moreover, he [Israel‘s king] shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never again return that way.’

5. God’s Response to our Sin
He Convicts
Through His Word
Through His Spirit
1 Corinthians 2:12
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God...

6. God’s Response to our Sin
He Convicts
Through His Word
Through His Spirit
Through our Conscience
Romans 2:14–15
For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them

7. God’s Response to our Sin
He Convicts
Through His Word
Through His Spirit
Through our Conscience
Hebrews 3:13
But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

8. God’s Response to our Sin
He Convicts
He Warns

9. God’s Response to our Sin
He Convicts
He Warns
He Disciplines
Deuteronomy 8:5
Thus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.

10. God’s Response to our Sin
He Convicts
He Warns
He Disciplines
Hebrews 12:10
For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

11. God’s Response to our Sin
He Convicts
He Warns
He Disciplines
Withholds protection
Sends distress
Breaks fellowship
between the sinner & God

12. God’s Response to our Sin
Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.
He Convicts
He Warns
He Disciplines
Withholds protection
Sends distress
Breaks fellowship
between the sinner & God

13. God’s Response to our Sin
Matthew 18:15–17
If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be confirmed. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
He Convicts
He Warns
He Disciplines
Withholds protection
Sends distress
Breaks fellowship
between the sinner & God
between the sinner & God’s people

14. God’s Response to our Sin
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?
1 Timothy 5:20
Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also will be fearful of sinning.
He Convicts
He Warns
He Disciplines
Withholds protection
Sends distress
Breaks fellowship
between the sinner & God
between the sinner & God’s people

15. God’s Response to our Sin
2 Corinthians 7:9
I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us.
He Convicts
He Warns
He Disciplines
Withholds protection
Sends distress
Breaks fellowship
between the sinner & God
between the sinner & God’s people

16. God’s Response to our Sin
He Convicts
He Warns
He Disciplines
Withholds protection
Sends distress
Breaks fellowship
between the sinner & God
between the sinner & God’s people

17. How do we Escape Discipline?
REPENT – “to turn, change your direction”
Result:
Restored fellowship (v20)
Spiritual growth (v21-22)
Blessing & healing (v23-26)