00:00 Introduction and Prayer Requests

01:04 Overview of Isaiah 54-58

01:19 The Outcome of the Servant's Redemptive Work

02:34 Israel's Future and God's Everlasting Love

05:28 Invitation to Repentance and Blessings

07:01 Hope for the Nations and Condemnation of Sinful Leaders

08:48 Judgment and Hope in Isaiah 57

12:09 True Fasting and Righteousness

13:24 Conclusion and Upcoming Topics

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to today's edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Hopefully you are

enjoying your week so far.

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Keep praying for our

students down at revival.

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Keep praying for them.

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Keep praying for our leaders.

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Keep praying for our pastors, uh, that

are there, that are leaving the camp

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that are, uh, preaching down there.

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We, uh, are confident.

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I'm confident that they're

going to need that.

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And just so keep that in

mind, keep praying for them.

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We are grateful for their, uh,

their sacrifice, their being

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down there and keep doing that.

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Hey, hopefully things are

going well for you this week.

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I hope you're spending time in God's word.

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And I know Isaiah is a lot, and I know

it's, it's a lot to, to work through some

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times and it can be confusing and there

can be a lot of, uh, questions here of

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going, okay, what do we do with this?

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What do we do with that?

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So, We hope that these

podcasts are helpful.

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I know it's not getting into the granular.

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I know it's not getting

into all the nitty gritty.

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And so if there's things we don't hit

on that, you have questions on that.

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You're going okay.

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You said that, but I still

have a question about this.

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Feel free to send us an

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And we'll do our best to

answer the question for you.

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And if we feel like, Hey, this would

be one that that would be good.

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Maybe we'll bring it to one of our

future episodes here on the podcast,

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but let's jump in for this morning

to Isaiah 54 through 58, Isaiah 54

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through 58, man, just quite a lot of

texts again that we are covering here.

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Isaiah 54 through 57 is really

going to be the outcome of

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the servant's redemptive work.

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So we talked in yesterday's episode

about Isaiah 53 in the suffering servant.

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54 through 57 is really going

to say in, in here's what

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happens as a result of that.

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And so we jump into chapter 54 verses

one through three here in chapter 54.

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Israel's offspring are going

to multiply and fill the earth.

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Okay.

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Look at verse three, you will spread

abroad to the right and to the left and

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your offspring will possess the nations.

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And will and will people, the

desolate city that it's interesting.

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Um, you're Austrian will possess

the nations and will people that

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people is being used as a verb there.

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That's an interesting.

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Use of, of a noun as a verb.

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So, I guess there's precedent

for the word adulting.

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I don't like the word adulting.

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But here's an example of

God using a noun as a verb.

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That your, your offspring are

going to possess the nations and

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will people, the desolate cities.

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Okay, fine.

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I'm still not going to use adulting.

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I don't like that word.

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I don't think it's very adulting

not to use correct grammar.

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So.

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Uh, For whatever it is.

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Not, yeah, fine.

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If you guys have the shirt that

says I don't, I can't adult today.

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That's fine.

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That's fine.

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You can wear it.

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There's nothing wrong with that.

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I just don't.

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I don't like it.

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I don't like it anyways.

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Uh, not that you asked you didn't

ask, but this is what happens

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when pastor Rod's not here.

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Is I just, I just say things.

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I just, I say things like that,

but here's what I want you to

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see in verses one through three.

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This is the, uh, this is the, the,

the Abrahamic covenant back in view.

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Again, this is the multiplication of the

seed of Israel, the offspring of Israel.

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This is part of the gods.

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Of God's promise to Israel

and to the people there.

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And so verses one through three, we

see that that's part of the produce.

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That's part of what is going to come

out of the suffering servant in Isaiah

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53, verses four through eight, then

Israel is going to be taken back by

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the Lord as a husband, a wife, when

he had, uh, who had, had scorned him.

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And so in verses four through eight,

if you remember back to Hosea, we see

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some of the same idea communicated

here that the Lord is going to.

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Take Israel back as, as the, the wife

that has not necessarily been faithful

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to him because certainly she had not.

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But yet in a moment of an overflowing

anger for a moment, I hit my face from

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you verse eight, but with everlasting

love, I will have compassion on,

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you says the Lord, your Redeemer.

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Again, the Lord has everlasting

love for his people for Israel.

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Uh, versus, or verse 10 then.

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The Lord's love and covenant of peace

is not going to depart from Israel.

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So again, we unapologetically.

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Bashfully and this has come up a lot

and you're probably going really again.

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Yes.

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Again, because this is important

because this is, is something that

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probably a lot of the other people

that you talk to are going to hold to

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a different position and that's okay.

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Listen.

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The view of the future of Israel

is not a view that that impacts

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the gospel and salvation.

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It's not something that says that

churches can't partner together and

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be brothers and sisters in Christ,

not even remotely close to anything

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to divide fellowship over, but.

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I just want you to see, I do think

there's reason to believe that

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there is a future for Israel.

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Look at verse 10, the

mountains may depart.

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The Hills may be moved.

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But my steadfast love

shall not depart from you.

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Question, who is the you in this passage?

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The, you is Israel.

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The use Israel, my covenant of

peace shall not be removed, says

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the Lord who has had compassion on.

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You.

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And so his steadfast love and

his covenant of peace is not

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going to be removed from Israel.

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And it hasn't been guys at Even

now, even during the exile.

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It wasn't removed.

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There was the, the, the faithful remnant.

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And so there's a future for Israel

and, and it's because of verses like

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this, that we have such confidence.

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He's not going to remove his

steadfast lover's covenant of peace.

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There's a future we're in these things are

going to come to fruition and fulfillment.

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Verses 11 through 17 looks to that future.

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It's again, the millennial kingdom

that we find here, verse 14 in

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righteousness, you shall be established.

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You shall be.

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Be far from oppression for you

shall not fear and from terror

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for it shall not come upon you.

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This future for Israel during

the millennial kingdom is

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going to be one of great peace.

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It's going to be amazing.

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And as believers in Christ, we're

going to get to be there as part of the

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administrative realm ruling with Christ.

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And so that's going to be awesome

as he's vice Regents there.

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Isaiah 55.

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This chapter is an invitation and

it's an invitation for stubborn Israel

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to repent and return to the Lord.

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To seek him while he may still be found

and do enjoy the blessings of the future.

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He prepared for them.

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So, yeah.

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As if a device.

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55 it's right there in the opening come,

everyone who thirsts come to the waters.

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He has no money come and buy and eat.

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Come buy wine and milk without

money and without price.

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Uh, verse three, incline your ear and

come to me here that your soul may live.

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And so this is the Lord of

inviting the people back.

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Verse six.

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I love this verse, seek the Lord

while he may be found and call upon

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him while he is near verse seven,

let the wicked forsake his way and

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the unrighteous man, his thoughts.

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Let him return to the Lord that

he may have compassion on him.

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And to our God for he will abundantly.

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Pardon?

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How Austin is that?

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Y'all verses six and seven of Isaiah 55.

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There's the gospel right there.

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He will abundantly.

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Pardon?

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If we come to the Lord,

he will have mercy on us.

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He will abundantly pardon and forgive us.

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How so?

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Such a cool verse.

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That is, and it's the offer to Israel.

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And it's been the offer to us as well.

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Uh, because deliberate salvation is

always going to come through that.

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It's always going to be through that.

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Uh, so just an encouraging passage there

in verses six through nine in the midst

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of chapter 55, where again, the Lord

is saying, Hey, come to me, come to me.

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Uh, verse 11, my word that

goes out from my mouth.

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It shall not return to be empty,

but it's going to accomplish.

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That for which I purpose and she'll

succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

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And so the Lord is sending the word

saying, Hey, come return to me.

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And some are going to respond to that.

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And that's encouraging to think about.

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Isaiah 56 then.

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I say 56 turns to the

nations, the foreigners.

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As the ESV puts it here, but in verses

one through eight, this is an invitation

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now, not just to Israel, but to the

outsiders, to the forerunners, to

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the castoffs, to the pariahs, uh, to

the Gentiles, to come to the Lord and

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know that they will not be cast off.

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And so you see some classes of people

here that are listed, including the Unix.

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Well, the Unix are a unique class

of people that we'll just leave at

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that for sake of the appropriateness

here of the, of the podcast.

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But, uh, they were, they

were rejected by people.

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They were rejected by, uh, the.

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The Israelites, they were rejected.

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They were not cleaned.

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They were, they were outcast because

of what had happened to them, what God

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is now saying, Hey, look, even that.

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I'm going to be able to even overcome

that they will be welcomed even they will.

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The Gentiles, the 400.

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I'm going to be the Messiah

is there for the whole world.

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It's it's for the nations.

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Remember, we've talked about that.

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I think in yesterday's episode

or maybe the date day before, but

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the Messiah was for the nations.

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And so there it is, uh, there in.

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In verses.

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Uh, chapter 56 verses one through

eight, the nine through 12.

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Uh, God turns and says presently to

Israel again, we're, we're kind of

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shifting to the future then back to the

present and we're back to the present.

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And he's saying to Israel,

you've got a problem though.

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And your problem is there

you're sinful leaders, verse 11.

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They are shepherds who

have no understanding.

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They've all turned their own

way each to his own gain.

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One and all come, they

say, let me get wine.

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Let's fill ourselves with

strong drink tomorrow.

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We'll be like this day.

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Great beyond measure.

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And so God is indicting the spiritual

bankruptcy of the leaders and also

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their pride fullness and saying,

Hey, we're going to be fine.

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Uh, we're we're, we're fine because

God doesn't care how we're behaving.

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Again, it's just a reminder.

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Don't, don't presume upon the

kindness and patience of God.

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That's meant to lead us to repentance.

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Right?

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All right.

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Chapter 57.

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Chapter 57.

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Uh, the verses one through two, the

righteous may die from oppression,

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but there they're going to enter into

peace and enjoy rest in this way.

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They are spared from calamity.

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So Isaiah 57, 1 through two is, is

talking about the future for those

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that are, are righteous in Israel, that

there is a peace that there is eternity.

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Um, and, and that's something

that's so unique for us, right?

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Because thinking about heaven and

eternity in the afterlife is, is something

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very prevalent in the church today?

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It's something we talk about a lot.

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We find a lot about it in the.

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The new Testament.

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Uh, and yet in the old

Testament, there's not a ton.

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That addresses it.

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There's not a ton that

addresses the afterlife.

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There are some things that, that we read

about here, but, uh, but a verse like

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this is one that does, that says, Hey,

you know what, there's going to be peace.

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And there's going to be rest for

those that are righteous, that perish.

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And they're going to be

spared from calamity.

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So we see some there, but I also

want to encourage you to think about.

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Uh, just the millennial kingdom as some

of that eschatological, uh, fodder that,

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that we find in the old Testament as well.

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But, uh, it wasn't absent.

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It just, wasn't the main thrust there.

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Um, God was establishing his people.

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He was establishing his

covenant with David.

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He was establishing

the Abrahamic covenant.

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He was building up and anticipating

the cross, preparing the way for

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the cross in the old Testament.

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And then the new Testament we find

the cross and then the application,

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the realization of the cross.

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So.

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It does make sense that there is more

about the afterlife in the new Testament

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than there is in the old Testament,

because in the new Testament, the

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writers, the authors had a better

understanding, a more fully developed.

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Eschatology than did the old Testament,

but it's not absent like an NSA of.

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57 verses one through two.

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The righteous man is

taken away from calamity.

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He enters into peace and they rest in

their beds who walk in up rightness.

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That's euphemistic

language there for death.

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And it's saying the death is going

to bring peace and rest and they're

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going to be freed from calamity.

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So there we find that in the

first part of Isaiah 57 verses one

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through two, then three through 13.

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Uh, the rest of the people had

turned aside to idols and they

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didn't have the same confidence.

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They'd rejected the Lord and

they were going to suffer for it.

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The climax of this section is found

in the second half of verse 11.

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Where the Lord says, have I not

held my peace even for a long time?

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And you do not fear me.

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So judgment was coming and they

would, where would they be when, when

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judgment came, who would they turn to?

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Then?

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That's the implied question here.

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But the Lord had.

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Had said.

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I've been patient with you.

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And he had been patient with them

for, for years and years and years

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and decades, hundreds of years, even.

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The Lord had been patient throughout

all of the wicked and evil Kings and

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in all of the rebellion against him.

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And finally he was saying, you know what?

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No, no, no, no enough is enough.

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And in where are you going to be then?

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Where are your idols and where

are they going to, how are

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they going to deliver you?

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But verses 14 through 19, you know what?

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Even still, there's still hope.

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There's still hope for those who

humble themselves and repent.

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The Lord would not spurn them.

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No reject them to remain angry with them.

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Instead he would make

his dwelling with them.

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Isaiah 57, 15.

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Uh, and so there is a hope, even in

the midst of the threat of judgment,

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there's hope for those that will repent.

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And so there's still that call just like

we, we read about back in chapter 55,

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that invitation to Israel com Israel.

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He's still doing that here in.

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In chapter 57.

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Then verses 20 through 21, the

wicked though, who don't see

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from their seat, they're going to

be like the waves of the ocean.

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And they are not going

to know peace with God.

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And so chapter 57, finally, chapter 58.

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Chapter 58 in verses one through five.

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The Lord was done with the pseudo

righteousness of Israel, seeking

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him while holding onto their sins

and going through the motions

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while holding onto their idolatry.

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Specifically the load was done

with their empty feast and fast

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or not feast opposite fast.

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The empty fast for which they expected him

to, to bless them and to forgive them when

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their hearts were not truly repentant.

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And so there.

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They're going through the motion.

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They're fasting.

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They're thinking that they're going to

be accepted by God because they do this.

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And God's saying I'm not, I'm

not going to bless your fast.

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These are, uh, are just a show.

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This is a far, it's not a fast.

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And then verses six through 14,

he says, you want to know what a

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true fast of the Lord looks like.

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It, it looks like this.

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It's a company by a repentant life.

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Uh, life that departs from wickedness.

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And so in this passage,

the Lord had a, the.

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The oppression of the vulnerable

and needy and Vue says you need

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to leave off the oppression.

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She needed to leave off the wickedness.

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If Israel would cease from

their oppressive ways.

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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I'll gladly hear your prayers and respond

to them and lead you even as it had been

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in the, in the, the time of the Exodus.

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Right.

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And that's verse 11, he's talking about

that, but, but don't come presume upon me.

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Don't come presume that you can come

into my presence with fasting and think

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that I'll be good with you just because

you're going through the motions when

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your heart is far from me, themes that

we've talked about plenty of times before,

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but that's where he goes in Isaiah 58.

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All right.

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Y'all well, there's four through 58.

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Another section.

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Of Isaiah.

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Don.

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We're coming up on the end,

in the not too distant future.

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In fact, we've got two more days.

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So, uh, it looks like by Thursday, We

will be finished up with Isaiah and then

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we'll get into the Kings a little bit.

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We've got another small profit.

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Minor prophet, Nathan, and

then we've got Zephaniah.

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We've got some more in the Kings.

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We've got Jeremiah.

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Kevin got a lot of good stuff coming up.

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So keep, bring your Bibles with us, but

let me pray as we wrap up this episode.

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God, thanks for your word.

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Thanks that.

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Uh, the truth that we read about earlier,

that it does not return void, thanks

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for the reality Lord that, that you call

us to seek you while you may be found.

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And so I pray that that would be

true of everyone listening to this.

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That they would have truly humbled

themselves and insult you and realized

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the glorious reality that is that re that

truth, that, that you will abundantly

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pardon us for our transgressions.

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And so we thank you that

that is the God that you are.

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And pray that you'd be pleased

with us the rest of this day.

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We pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Keeping your Bibles, you all and

tune in again tomorrow for another

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episode of the daily Bible podcast.