Isaiah 61 8a

Isaiah 61:8 English Standard Version (ESV) For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong;[robbing with a burnt offerings] I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

John 2:14-16 English Standard Version

14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”

In other translations “house of trade” is said to be a “den of thieves.”

These two verses together show the promise and fulfillment of a prophetic promise in Isaiah 61. Together they identify Jesus Christ as the one who would come to make the everlasting covenant. Father God sent His Son into the world to both speak truth and to reveal Himself to mankind.

John 14:7 English Standard Version (ESV) If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

Romans 15:18 English Standard Version (ESV) For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed,

It is left to us to do both, by word and deed, to preach the gospel to the lost. If our deeds do not match our words, we will be branded hypocrites by those who do not see the Lord in spirit and truth.

Matthew 15:7-8 English Standard Version

You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: “This people honors me with their lips,    but their heart is far from me;”

Honor God from the heart.

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