What do you like to Hear?
Do you like to hear people tell you how wonderful you are? How great and awesome you are? Do you like to hear about nice and positive things? And you hate to hear hard truth, correction, and much less a rebuke? Then join Israel’s “Illusion Club”. They were tired of the prophets confronting them with their sin and “thus says the Lord” stuff. So Isaiah tells us that Israel told their prophets: They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the prophets, "Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions. 11 Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!" Isaiah 30:10-11 Many current modern day “Illusion Club” members go to churches where all that is preached is that God wants us healthy and wealthy. Positivism Maximus is their motto. Sin, hell, and repentance, are scary topics for these people. They want to live in Disney’s Fantasy Land and never want to fac