Isaiah 5:3-4 (KJV) Good Grapes

Isaiah 5:3-4 (KJV)
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

I suppose there have always been “wild grapes” among professing believers. As there were in Jewry, there has been in Christianity.

• Churches such as we find Paul correcting in Corinth
• Churches such as those in Galatia who were so soon removed from the faith 
• Churches such as Jude dealt with

In a sense we could call Catholicism a garden of wild grapes. Protestantism certainly is a cluster of these gardens.

A garden of wild grapes isn’t fruitless. It might in fact yield a large crop. It’s just not an ideal crop and in some cases could be a useless crop. Wild grapes also have the tendency to choke out, compromise and spoil those grapes the gardener intended.

There are a growing number of wild grape gardens among fundamental Baptists these days. It exists among those who see fruit rather than quality as the most important thing in the faith. It can take a number of forms:

• The progressive pragmatists who let anything slide so long as there is growth
• The aggressive evangelists who call anything salvation as long as they can record conversions 
• The resurgence of Reformed doctrine that sounds like a return to faith but is nothing more than an older wild grape

There will no doubt always be wild grapes but the key is to not settle for them. The only way for a vineyard to produce what God intended is have God plant it, till it and fence it in.

When God works God’s vineyard will produce choice grapes.

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Isaiah 5:3-4 (KJV) Good Grapes

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