Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. Isaiah chapter 1, verses 16 and 17. Wash. Make yourselves

clean. Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. Learn to do good.

Seek justice. Rescue the oppressed. Defend the orphan. Plead for the widow. Oh, God is talking to

a people who worshipped him regularly through their offerings and their sacrifices. Picture it like

they were in church every Sunday. Yet they were missing the whole point. And so God speaks clearly, sternly to them,

says, wash, make yourselves clean, remove the evil of your doings from my eyes, cease to do evil.

They were walking in disobedience to him and using their worship as a cover up for that. Is it possible

for you and I to go through the routine of worship and not pay attention to areas of disobedience in our lives?

Absolutely that's possible for any one of us.

God says, stop it.

Learn to do good.

And then he defines that.

Seek justice.

Worship that doesn't lead to doing justice is not true worship.

Rescue the oppressed. Worship that doesn't lead to rescuing the

oppressed is not true worship. Defend the orphan. Worship that doesn't lead to defending the orphan

fatherless is not true worship. Plead for the widow. Worship that doesn't lead to pleading and working

for the widow is not true worship. This is strong

language from God that should drive all of us to our knees in prayer for sure and to repentance

in any way that we are prone to worship God and not do any of these things that he commands us to do

with exclamation points. At the end, God, we pray, based on Isaiah 1, 16 and 17.

Well, first and foremost, we confess we cannot make ourselves clean.

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