In Isaiah, chapter twenty-two, verses twelve through thirteen, when God’s people compromise with the world and turn away from obeying God’s righteous ways, He calls them to repent, confess their spiritual poverty, and seek His face. Christ wants all churches to examine their spiritual state in the light of the New Testament and its standards, as in Revelation two through three. Like Isaiah, today’s prophets should call for repentance, humility, tears, prayer, and fasting, rather than frivolity.
A call to weeping is the theme title. Isaiah, the prophet, calls for all God’s people to examine themselves, which is the inner person spiritually. The challenge for every believer is the flesh that carries our spirit. Many people do not realize that when we leave this world, the flesh will decay and pass away, but the spirit within us never dies. It will eventually spend eternity either in heaven or in hell. That is the reality that every person born in this world will face when their time on earth is up.
“Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father, as in Romans eight, verses twelve through fifteen. The question is, who is leading within you?
For believers, the inner person is to lead the body, and not vice versa. Our bodies are in opposition to the spiritual things of God. Therefore, we should thoroughly examine ourselves