Sermon outline
Bad fruit?
“What more could have been done!?” (5:1-7)
Woe! Israel’s cluster of rotten fruit
- Oppressive materialism (v8-10)
- Thoughtless hedonism (v11-12)
- Cynical wickedness (V18-19)
- Moral confusion (v20)
- Proud arrogance (v21)
- Drunken corruption (v22-23)
Therefore!
- Exile (v13)
- Death and humiliation (V14-17)
- Decay (v24)
- The Lord’s anger burns (v25)
Yet, for all this, his anger is not turned away… (v25-30)
The wonder of the gospel: What more was done
- Anger turned away at the cross (Mark 15:33-39)
- The true vine who enables good fruit (John 15:1-8)
Receiving the Gardener’s gracious pruning