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The Fast God Chooses: A House for All Nations and Justice Over Ritual | Isaiah 56–58
Episode Overview
What does God actually want, rituals or a changed life? In this episode we walk through Isaiah 56 through 58. The reading opens with a remarkable expansion of God's family—foreigners and others once excluded are welcomed in, not on the basis of ethnicity or status, but on commitment to God. That same passage warns against blind, careless leaders who fail to guide His people faithfully.
Isaiah then presses past outward religion to genuine devotion, insisting that elaborate rituals mean nothing if the heart is far from God. True fasting, he says, looks like loosing the chains…
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