Isaías 5

Isaías 5

Ryle writes… The Lord Jesus calls “blessed” those who are poor in spirit (verse 3). He means the humble, and lowly-minded, and self-abased; he means those who are deeply convinced of their own sinfulness in God’s sight: these are people who are not “wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight” (Isaiah 5:21). Parallelism - In Isaiah - same thought repeated in different verse with different words. Wise in their own eyes - This is the root of sin and leads to a decrement in one's estimate of the Most High God which in turn manifests itself in a gradual decline of personal purity as Paul explains in Romans 1… Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over (Ed: Even as He gave Israel over to her enemies) in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. (Ro 1:22, 23-note, Ro 1:24-note; 1Co 1:18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,25) Solomon the wisest man who ever lived warned… Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. (Pr 3:7) Comment: Such wisdom is folly and self-delusion! This is another way of telling us not to lean on our own understanding (Pr 3:5b). The NJB says “Do not congratulate yourself on your own wisdom.” Real wisdom begins with a healthy, holy fear of Jehovah! (Pr 9:10, Job 28:28, Ps 111:10) And note that when saints fear God, saints flee sin!