Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 61:7-8

"Instead of your shame [ye shall have] double; and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be unto them. For I, Jehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them." — Isaiah 61:7-8 (ASV)

For your shame you shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering;

God cannot endure that we should sacrifice to Him what we have gained by oppression and wrongdoing. Some people seem to try to cut themselves in half, and then to say, "So much is to be secular, and so much is to be sacred." Do not believe it; you are only one person, and what you are in secular matters, that is what you are in your entirety.

You cannot say, "So much is to be religion, and so much is to be business." If your religion is not your business, and if your business does not melt into your religion, there is not much that is good in you. We cannot say, "I shall do this because it is religion, and I shall do that because it is business." No, no; the person is one, and there is nothing for a Christian that can be marked off as secular, for all things are sacred to the person who truly serves God.

Therefore in their land they shall possess the double, everlasting joy shall be unto them. For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

There are churches in the world that are not churches of God, and they supply their needs by forged demands from the people; but God hates robbery for a burnt-offering. He accepts the willing gifts of his people, and with those who present them he makes an everlasting covenant.