Sinful People, Saving God
Isaiah 1-12
23 November 2025
When You Trust the Wrong Thing
(Isaiah 8:1-9:7)
by Tan Huai Tze
In this passage, God meets His people with both firmness and warmth: He warns of calamity, but guides them through confusion, and gives them the hope of the coming light. Misplaced trust leads to darkness, but Jesus brings light, joy, freedom and peace.
16 November 2025
What Will You Trust?
(Isaiah 7:1–25)
by Tan Huai Tze
Isaiah 7 tells of King Ahaz, who faced a crisis and chose fear over faith, trusting Assyria instead of God with devastating consequences. God still pursued him and then gave him the sign of Immanuel, pointing forward to Jesus. Christ bears our weight, lifts us to safety, and invites us to stand firm by trusting Him. To stand firm in faith is to stand firm on Christ. When we do so, we’ll stand firm in everything else.
9 November 2025
When Judgment Cannot be Withheld
(Isaiah 5:1-30)
by Chua Si Yang
Isaiah 6 is an important pivot in the opening section of the book. As the prophet Isaiah beheld the holiness of God, he recognised that he is undone before the Lord. At the same time, God showed grace to the prophet and commissioned him for ministry to a rebellious people. If what happened to a man of unclean lips could happen to a nation of unclean lips, this gives us hope that God is not yet done with His people.
2 November 2025
When Judgment Cannot be Withheld
(Isaiah 5:1-30)
by Chua Si Yang
Isaiah 5 reveals a God who has lovingly cared for and richly blessed His people, planting them like a prized vineyard and providing everything they need to flourish. Yet instead of bearing good fruit, they produce only stinking grapes. Through six woes, God exposes how His people have corrupted His blessings and despised His Word, leaving judgment as the only fitting response. The chapter ends in darkness and distress, yet even here God’s judgment is not merely retributive; it is also restorative for those who turn to Him and put their trust in Christ, the true Vine.
26 October 2025
How God Brings His People Back
(Isaiah 3-4)
by Tan Huai Tze
God brings His straying people back by taking away what their reliance on power, and their boasting in beauty. Through Christ, He gives them all that power and beauty promise, but cannot deliver.
19 October 2025
How God’s People Lose Their Way
(Isaiah 2:6–22)
by Tan Huai Tze
God’s people in Isaiah’s time were full—full of wealth, power, and idols—but empty of trust in Him. They had lost their way, putting their hope in what they had, instead of in who God is. Isaiah warns that a day is coming when all human pride will be humbled before the terror and splendour of the Lord. Our only hope is to hide in the Rock, Christ Himself, who was struck that we might stand secure.
12 October 2025
When God’s People Lose Their Way
Isaiah 1:21-2:5
by Tan Huai Tze
When God’s people are unfaithful to God, this affects all of their social relationships. Instead of justice and righteousness, they become marked by greed,corruption, and injustice. God will act to bring His people back through judgment and redemption, and promises them a glorious future hope which is ultimately fulfilled in Jesus.
5 October 2025
Let Us Reason Together
Isaiah 1:1-20
by Chua Si Yang
The book of Isaiah opens with God confronting His people like a grieving father betrayed by his children. They have rebelled against Him completely, and their empty worship only wearies Him. Yet instead of letting judgment fall, God issues an unthinkable invitation, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow”. He offers them a clean slate and resets the relationship they had broken. This is the stunning picture of the unthinkable grace God lavishes on all who are His.