Isaiah 57.

Who does God promise to revive?

Who does God promise to revive?

Isaiah 57, beginning in verse 14, it will be said build up build up prepare the road

remove the obstacles out of the way of my people for this is what the high and exalted

one says he who lives, whose name is holy,

I live in a high and holy place. All right, stop there. The exalted God, the one who is supreme

overall, the one who holds the universe together with this powerful word, the one who is supreme overall, the one who holds the universe together with this powerful word,

the one who speaks and whole planets can explode, the high and exalted one who lives in a high and holy place,

look at this, but I also live with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit.

To revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.

And that Hebrew word contrite comes from a word meaning to crush.

It can even mean to pulverize.

There's another form of that word which even means dust,

that which is completely pulverized.

To those who are pulverized, to those who are crushed, to those who are broken in spirit,

God says, those are the ones I will revive.

Jesus said, I didn't come for the healthy, but for the sick.

When he rebukes the church in Sardis in Revelation 3, he says, you have a

reputation for being alive and yet you're dead. And because of that, they did not recognize their

need. He says to Laodicea in Revelation 3, you say, I'm rich, increased in wealth, and have need of nothing. That was their self-perception.

He said, but you don't realize you're wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. It's terrible to be

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