Supernatural Manifestation by C. R. Oliver (paper ebook reader txt) 📖

and non-profit endeavors is overwhelming. 

Lost is the one ingredient necessary to have the God kind of success; it is humble contrition. 

Jesus knew this and chided the Pharisees for their focus on legacy and looseness.

 

Matt 15:7-14

Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: 

"These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'" 

When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, "Hear and understand: Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man." 

Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?" 

But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch."

The only one who can summon for service is on His throne. Far too many languish in a service that He did not commission! That, however, was not the case of Isaiah.

 

Isaiah 6:8

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: 

Whether His call is a Macedonian vision or an Isaiah summons, it must be heard by a pure heart and responded to by the same (Note: the use of "us" in verse 8). 

Nothing substitutes for the Divine Call. We have lost that element sadly. Mission work is more often based on humanitarian need rather than Divine Order. Social ministries crowd out God's work in most religious settings.

"Go Ye" was tempered by "tarry ye, until you are endued with power." (Now it is, "we must hurry or the window of opportunity may close." God can open a door no man can close.)

 

Isaiah 6:8-9

Then I said, 'Here am I! Send me.' And He said, 'Go, and tell this people:'

 

Some say Isaiah volunteered. I say that the call was for Him and no other-He was the only one standing there and He knew it. He voiced his willingness and God gave him a message. When one preaches the message God gives, one gets the response God ordains. The problem is we have heard much preachment and very little of which God has given. The Lord was very specific with His message and its results. (No great crowds, high attendance or accolades would come from the message assigned.) When Isaiah asked, "How long?" the Lord gave no termination date-only an indicator --"until there is no one out there to hear it." 

A God directed message will bring God kind of results. Isaiah's assignment demanded exactness and repetition.

 

Isaiah 6:9-10

'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.' "Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed." Then I said, "Lord, how long?"

 

And He answered: 

"Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, The houses are without a man, The land is utterly desolate, The LORD has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. But yet a tenth will be in it, And will return and be for consuming, As a terebinth tree or as an oak, Whose stump remains when it is cut down.
So the holy seed shall be its stump."

 

(Notice, there will be a distant remnant, "the Holy seed." That should shout to us in these last days when so many are expecting the worst. Prepare for it, "Become Holy.") 

Isaiah now had his platform for ministry. Not only did He have a new sense of the Sublime, he would never be deterred from his mission. He knew the end result would be rejection by his hearers, but his job was to make sure they heard. 

If one will look now at Isaiah's prophecies which came after the illumination, a rather glowing difference appears. Undergirding every message he pronounced was the compact one God gave him. When God spoke, Isaiah listened and was careful to incorporate in every message those truths. He knew his audience would be held accountable, in the judgment, for every word spoken. God's commission compelled him. 

Who, today, preaches with such urgency? Who is he that his very being is so wrapped in his message that he groans for those who hear it and fears only one thing: not completing his task. Who weeps for the condition of the multitudes? Who confronts sin and calls for God's Divine Order? 

Look at this passage in Ezekiel to understand how important being invested really is. This scene is at the Temple in Jerusalem.

 

Ezekiel 9:3-7

Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer's inkhorn at his side; and the LORD said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it." 

To the others He said in my hearing, "Go after him through the city and kill; do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity. Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the temple. Then He said to them, "Defile the temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!" And they went out and killed in the city.

 

Isaiah's prophecies gave exact times, places and events, unlike the nebulous messages of modern "prophets." He didn't consult the news media or the popular opinions of his day, although he commented on politics, economics and government. Because he was faithful, God gave him insight to days yet to come. He was not politically correct, socially correct, verbally correct, but he was God correct! 

No opponent could sway him: He had seen the Lord and heard His call! No weapon could threaten him; he had been commissioned by the King. No harassment could insult him: He knew their hearts in advance. 

(Assignment: go back and review all the listed aspects delivered at the beginning of this study and seek to apply them. The Lord will greatly illuminate you.) 

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Publication Date: 06-02-2014

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Thank to C. R. Oliver and the newsletter division of Zadok Publishing for allowing us to use his newsletters for this Study Book.