Let Them Return

The speaker begins by praising the Lord and discussing the importance of seeking Him. They then focus on a verse from the book of Isaiah that talks about the wicked and unrighteous returning to the Lord. They explain that even those who have turned away from God are still invited back and offered compassion and pardon. The speaker emphasizes that no one should be written off and that God's compassion extends to all. They conclude by encouraging listeners to return to the Lord, regardless of their past actions. ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ្ទ� 랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑랑� Praise the name of the Lord and a pleasant good morning to every one of you wherever and however you connect in such a blessing to be with you on this wonderful Tuesday. This is indeed the day that the Lord has made and we'll rejoice and be glad in it. The Bible declares, I sought the Lord and he heard me and he delivered me from all of my fears. Today I want to take us to the book of Isaiah the 55th chapter and verse 7, Isaiah 55 7. That's where we're going to focus for the next few moments together. Isaiah 55 7 reads, Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord that he may have compassion on him and to our God for he'll abundantly pardon. Let me read this again. He said, Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord that he may have compassion on him and to our God for he'll abundantly pardon. Just the hearing of this scripture raises some curiosity, raises some deep thinking. It brings us to the place where we've got to think about who we are, our journey. Everyone doing a self-examination. What I also find very interesting about this verse is that it opens up a new form of dialogue. Many years you may have heard this scripture outed from the pulpit and from the street corners toward the unsaved, toward those who don't attend church. But when the prophet Isaiah, in these words, when the Lord gave him these words, these words were given to Isaiah for the people of Israel, God's people. Come to think about it. God's people, those that he has, he had ransomed, brought out of Egypt, those who had seen the hand of God in very powerful ways. They turned from God. They did their own thing. Not just on one occasion but on many occasions. On many occasions they continue to walk away from the face of the Father. They continue to follow their own devices. They continue to follow their own intentions. But Isaiah now tells us exactly the intention of God. He tells us what the Lord will have us to know. He tells us how God deals with the wicked and the unrighteous. Think about it. Even the wicked and the unrighteous has a place in the heart of God. Even those that are moved and that are being led by their own thoughts and those who have literally crafted their own way. That which is removed, that which is contrary, that which is contradicting the will of God. The Bible says, God gives an invitation. And that invitation was both to the wicked and to the unrighteous. As a matter of fact, the wicked and the unrighteous, they are not quite different. Because the wicked is, the wicked moved rather at their own way. They did things based on how they felt, based on how they thought, based on how they wanted to. They had their own plans, their own decisions, their own choices. So what the wicked lived for is their own way. How they conduct their affairs was in their own way. They did not stop to think about God. They did not stop to think about the Lord. They did not stop to inquire what is the Lord saying. They simply did it their way. Have you ever heard the expression, I did it my way? But when you think about it, it's the wicked, those that are clueless in their hearts, where their hearts are bent on destruction, bent to mischief, bent to doing harm to others and what belongs to others. There is an invitation for them. There is an open door for them. Perhaps we've all discarded or turned our backs on the wicked. God is still willing to invite them back. Notice, the wicked once had a communion or relationship with the Father. You may say, how do you know it? This is evident because the verse tells us the wicked is encouraged to turn from their way and the unrighteous man must seek his thoughts and let him return. This suggests that they were once at a place with God. They were once doing things according to the will of God. The wicked was being led by God. The wicked, not in his wickedness, not in the wickedness, but he was not wicked because his way was conditioned. His way was governed. His way was led by God. Even the unrighteous man was not thinking according to his own thoughts, but he was thinking the thoughts of God. But something happened. We don't know what happened, but I believe it's very clear what happened is that if you go after your own way, if you go after your own thought, you will eventually become a habitual practice of your own way and your thought. Even at that state, even in that condition, God says, I want the wicked to come back to me. I want the unrighteous man to find his place in me. Let them return. Let him return. Let her return to the Lord that he may have compassion. We don't return to God to tell God how wrong he is. We don't return to God to tell God how much we have invested so much time in doing our own thing. The return or the request for the return, the invitation for the return, it's in order that the wicked man or the wicked person would no longer be wicked, that the righteous person would no longer be righteous. Let's stop for a moment. Let's think about it. We ought not to write people off. We ought not to write people off. I mean, we as humans, we can be so distasteful in our own eyes, in our own ears. We can be so much to handle. We can be a handful. But for God, we are still His people. We are still His creation. We are still those that He invites and welcomes. There is a welcome for the wicked. There is a welcome for the unrighteous. Humanly speaking, it's very easy for us to discard and disregard and say to the wicked and to the unrighteous, I don't want to have anything to do with you. But in the wicked ways and in the unrighteous thoughts, God says, return. He says, come back. You see, this is that we can't go too far. We can't walk too far. We cannot go too deep. There is no distance that can really separate us out of the voice, out of the welcome, out of the invitation of the Father. There is nowhere you can go or I can go that God's voice won't reach us. Think about it. Think about it. In spite of the ways or the direction, the action, the lifestyle of the wicked, and in spite of what the unrighteous man is laboring, thinking, processing and putting together, what if God says, God invites them back. God invites them home. God invites them to himself. We may not invite them. We may not have a welcome for them. We may not say, oh, you know what, I want you to come in. I want you to come close. We may not be able to do that. We may not want to do that. But God does it. And He did not only do it in the time of Isaiah, but He continues to do it. God continues to invite the wicked. God continues to invite the unrighteous. Because in God's mind, wicked will not always be wicked. In God's mind, the unrighteous will not always be unrighteous. As a matter of fact, He did not create the unrighteous to be unrighteous, and He did not create the wicked to be wicked. He created all of them, every one of them for Himself. Hence the invitation, hence the welcome. That's the reason He says, I will have compassion. I will show them mercy. I will show them mercy. You see, it's very difficult to show compassion or to express mercy, or to embrace somebody after you know the state or the condition of someone's life. God says, I have the ability, I am capable of showing them mercy. I have the capability of stooping, picking them up. God says, I am able to do this. I am able to snatch them out of whatever they are in. Because the return is an act of mercy. The return is an act of compassion. Because of loving kindness and compassion, I am drawing them. I'm bringing them back. God is still drawing people to Himself. God is still bringing wicked men out of wickedness. God is still bringing the unrighteous out of the unrighteous ways of thoughts. And it is all done in the power of His compassion. Think about this. It's all done in the power of His compassion. God is so compassionate that He does not look for the righteous or He doesn't look for the good. But His compassion extends to those that don't deserve it. Think about it for a quick second. His compassion reaches those who we would not reach. His compassion touches those perhaps we would not want to interact with. And He says, and to our God. For He will abundantly pardon. God's invitation rides on the wings of compassion. It's empowered by His own mercy. But then it's fulfilled in His abundant pardon. Beloved friends, God will pardon. That will pardon means He will cancel the charges. What pardon means is that He will not enter into a verdict against those who had wronged Him. Those who had walked away. Those who had been doing their own thing. God is always willing and able, ready to pardon. Correct, to erase, to dismiss. Not to as it will look over. But it's to allow them to come back as they are. And to transform them, to change them, to transform us. Because let's face it, as humans we become unrighteous. As humans we can be wicked. But if we find ourselves in that situation, the Bible says, There is compassion, there is pardon. There is compassion, there is pardon. No matter where you are today, there is compassion, there is pardon. No matter how far you have gone from the Father. No matter how deep you may think or feel that you are in sin. Perhaps your own mind, perhaps the people that you are connected to. Perhaps where you leave your family. Perhaps everyone has written you off. Listen, there is a welcome. There is an invitation. It is crafted through the mercy and the pardon of the Lord. You can come back. You can return. We can return. We all can return. Our culture writes people off. Our churches may dismiss people. Our pastors, our priests may discard and excommunicate and say, I don't want, we don't want to have any kind of interaction or connection with such individuals. Because they are wicked, they are unrighteous, they are wretched, they are worthless, they are helpless. God says, return. Return. If that is where you are today, return. If you find yourself on your own way, on your own path, in your own thoughts, literally drowning in your own self. You are the Word of the Lord today. From the book of Isaiah, verse 5-7. Return. There is compassion. There is abundant pardon. Father, in the name of Jesus. The Word is clear. Your hearts. You have opened your arms and you have made it plain. Even those who have gone astray. Even those who once walked with you. Who have soiled their garments. Even those who have turned their backs upon you. You are saying to them. You are saying to us. That there is a way of return. Every person who is connected to every person who will stumble across this session. It is my prayer. That they will hear your voice. They will hear your word. They will hear you so clearly. They will hear beyond my own voice. They will hear that you were saying. It's okay. It's alright. Come back. Because in that invitation, you will never allow us to continue on the path that we were. I thank you that there is pardon. I thank you that there will be dismissal of the charges. I thank you that which stained us. You are able to clean. Which disqualified us. You are able to qualify us after we have come back to you. I pray for the persons who are trying to find their way back. May this message, may this session today. Be that moment, that time in their life. Where they say yes. I am on my way back to the father. So, individually and together we return. Because we want to be at the place of your compassion. My father, we want to be at the place of your abundant pardon. Perhaps we have been handed a little compassion, a little forgiveness here, there and everywhere. But we want to experience it from you. We want to experience it in its fullness. In its entirety. I thank you for those that are returning. I thank you for those that are returning. I give you praise. And I honor you. In the strong, the mighty, the powerful name. Jesus the Christ we pray. Amen. Amen. It is my prayer that this word has ministered to you. Your life is impacted from today. Feel free to reach out to us. You can do so by calling the number 71848409 to it. Until then, this is Frampton Poole, wishing you Godspeed. Shalom, shalom.