Step Six -- "Related" Scripture

"If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land." (Isaiah 1:19) 

Once again, Celebrate Recovery refuses to rightly divide the Word of God ( 2 Timothy 2: 15)

Isaiah spoke these words, foretelling the Work that Jesus Christ has done for us.

Let's consider another verse in this famous chapter:

"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." (Isaiah 1: 18)

and

"Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. " (Isaiah 1: 27)

Our sins have been wiped away once and for all and forever by the blood of Jesus Christ!

We have been redeemed in Christ (1 Corinthians 1: 30), and we have been made the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 21)

"In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,   "And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.   "For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." (Matthew 3: 1-3)   Repentance means "change of mind", to stop believing the Old Covenant and receive the New Covenant of grace and peace in Christ Jesus:   "And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." (Mark 1: 15)   "At hand" means "right here", not "upcoming", for Jesus Christ was the perfect man, filled with the Holy Spirit:   "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." (Romans 4: 17)   Celebrate Recovery also cites   "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." (Galatians 5: 1)   Yet this "yoke of bondage" is the law, and any set of rules outside of us indicating how are to behave.   "And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;   "And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.   "Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?   "But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they." (Acts 15: 8-11)   We are saved by grace through faith, not by works -- not one thing that we do, but  a Finished Work that has already been done for us -- anything on our part invites only a yoke of bondage on us -- including twelve steps!