Urgent Call to Unbelievers
Again, taking into consideration the entirety of the chapter, it's a bit of an exhortation to believers and unbelievers. Unbelievers, you should listen to what the prophet says and come to the Savior. I don't know how to make that clearer or plainer. If I knew 20 languages, I would say it in 20 languages.
You need to listen to the prophet Isaiah. You've got problems, and your problem isn't, well, I'm just not as well adjusted as everybody else. No, your problem is, you sin against a thrice holy God. Your problem is, is eternal damnation as a result of that sin against a thrice holy God.
Your problem is, is that if you die tonight, or you die today, or you died right now, you drop into hell. The problem is the wrath and fury and judgment of the Most High God. His eye is too pure to look approvingly upon any evil. The prophet tells us that.
The psalmist tells us that God is angry with the wicked every day. There's even an urgency in our own chapter.
The Window of Grace Will Close
Notice in Isaiah 55 verse 6, seek the Lord, notice, while he may be found. What does that imply? There's a time coming when he won't be found. There's a time coming when it will be too late.
There's a time coming when you may knock and there will be no answer. So there's an urgency on the part of the prophet. There's an urgency on the part of the entirety of Scripture. Now is the acceptable time.
Today is the day of salvation. So unbeliever, listen to what the prophet says. Seek the Lord while he may be found. Call upon him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord. And you have this blessed assurance. He will have mercy on him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
So if you're sitting there right now saying, well, I am a sinner. I am an unbeliever. I haven't looked to the Lord Jesus Christ. But man, I'm quite the sinner.
Jesus is quite the Savior. I've got an abundance of sins, Jesus has an abundance of grace. In him, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace, Ephesians 1.7.
Abundance of Sin, Abundance of Grace
So don't try to talk yourself out of coming to Jesus because you're so sinful. Because you're so sinful, you should flee immediately to Jesus. That's my encouragement to any unbelievers. Whether you're old, whether you're young, whether you're a man or whether you're a woman, it doesn't matter.
You've sinned against a thrice holy God. Undealt with sin deserves God's wrath and curse both in this life and that which is to come. If you do not believe, if you do not repent, you will die in your sins. And the Bible describes for us in vivid detail what that looks like.
It's not a walk in the park. It's not like some fools out there say, well, heaven doesn't want me and hell's afraid I'm going to take over. Take over suffering? Take over pain?
Take over weeping and gnashing of teeth? Really, that's what you want to go with that? Well, I'd rather go to hell because all my friends are going to be there. Yeah, what a party that's going to be.
Misery, suffering, pain, weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth. So brethren, or unbelievers, listen to the text. Seek the Lord while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near.
Why? Because He abundantly pardons. Newton said, I'm a great sinner, but I have a great Savior. And everyone in here, in Christ, can testify to the same.