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Isaiah 
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Day 208

"Their works are in the dark"

Text: Isaiah 29:15

THE DEFIANT DETRACTORS

There were those who had defied the word of the LORD. They were arrogant detractors, They did not fully realise the consequences of their actions.

“Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the LORD,
And their works are in the dark;
They say, ‘Who sees us?’ and, ‘Who knows us?’
Surely you have things turned around!
Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay;
For shall the thing made say of him who made it,
‘He did not make me’?
Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it,
‘He has no understanding’?”
Isaiah 29:15-16

1. Those who believed they can hide from God.

a) They believed that they could hide their counsel from God.

b) They sought deeply to hide their plans from the LORD.

c) They hid their nefarious works in the dark.

d) They declare:

i) Who sees us?

ii) Who knows us?

e) They did not believe in God’s omniscience.

2. Turning things around.

a) The potter is seen as the clay.

b) The pottery piece.

i) It denies that he was made by the potter.

ii) It declares that the potter has no understanding.

3. The spirit of the detractors.

a) It was arrogant.

b) It was foolish.

c) It became rudely defiant.