Isaiah 56:12 Come you, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day… They were wicked men who spoke these words. Just think of what these words are in the mouth of a wicked man. 1. To-morrow shall be another day in which I shall rob God of His due. 2. I will tempt God another day; I will stand out against God. 3. Or, looking at God's mercy, he says, "Well, God is merciful, God is willing to bless me, but I will not be blessed." 4. If the man says this, it implies that he will give another day to fasten the fetters of sin firmer upon him. 5. Again, the wicked man says, " I will encourage sinners another day to continue in their sin; I will set them the example of sinning still further than I have done hitherto." But what are you doing when you are thus encouraging men in sin? You are doing your best to seal that sinner's doom. You are doing your best to make that sinner's death-bed terrible. You are doing the best you can to harden that sinner in defiance of God and in his rejection of all that might save his soul; you are making that man laugh his life away in frivolity and evil 6. You are strengthening Satan in his great argument to keep men from Christ. What is that great argument? No hope for you; how can you expect to be saved? Have you not been living away from God! You have sinned away the day of grace. 7. If you say, "To-morrow shall be as this day then what is your state.? Why, that if you die to-morrow you shall go to hell. If you were to die to-day in your sins, you would go to hell. Then, if to-morrow is to be as to-day, you are deciding — I shall live to-morrow in such a state that if I die to-morrow I shall go to hell. 7. You are keeping Christ another day standing at the door. 8. You mean to have another day of resisting the strivings of God's spirit. (J. M. Hussey.) Parallel Verses KJV: Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant. |
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