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July 22, 2025 | Isaiah 28-30
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00:00 Introduction

00:07 Discussion on Puberty and Liberty Commercials

00:30 The Epstein Files: A Christian Perspective

01:33 Trusting in God Over News and Politics

05:10 Turning to Isaiah: Judgment and Hope

06:00 The Woe Chapters: Isaiah 28-33

11:34 Judgment Against Jerusalem: Assyria's Siege

13:29 God's Deliverance and Future Kingdom

19:49 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

20:36 Outro and Podcast Information

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Speaker:

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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And happy Tuesday to you all.

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It is Tuesday.

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Yeah.

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Yes it is.

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Yeah.

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Here's a question that I have for

you, and we won't go into detail

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with this because of the, oh, we're

going into detail the of audience.

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You don't even know what I'm about to say.

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I'm doing it, whatever it is here.

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Puberty, that's what I'm gonna say.

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What does that mean?

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Liberty?

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Liberty, puberty.

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It's a commercial.

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The the EMU guy.

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I don't know what you're talking about.

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Anyways, whatever.

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This is one, another one of those.

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Bob, uncle.

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Liberty.

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Liberty, car Insurance,

I, puberty, whatever.

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People out there listening know some of,

two people know anyways the Epstein files.

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Ooh.

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Should we care as Christians

that they are unsealed?

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And is there a yes and a no answer to that

or is there a right concern and a wrong

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concern that we can have as Christians?

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I will hit the ball that you're teeing

up here and I'm gonna say it's both okay.

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It's a yes and a no and I'll offer my 2

cents and I can't wait to hear your 98.

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I, I, I've tracked it from a distance

and I know that there's concerns about

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the hoity-toity in our world using

their power and their prestige and

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their resources to do untoward things.

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I think that's a fair concern.

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We should care about justice on.

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Across all levels of society, especially

those who are given the stewardship of

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greater power and greater resources.

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And so I think there's a right

sense of we want justice.

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If these guys are able to use their

power and prestige to hide from man's

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justice, we should care and we should

try to do something about it if possible.

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On the other hand, if your news stream is

constantly stoking the fires of your anger

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and of your discontentedness, it's very

likely that you're being manipulated as

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opposed to having a biblically informed

co care for the cause of justice.

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And that's probably more likely the case

for most of us because all of us have news

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sources that don't present bare facts.

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They're presenting an angle and

a perspective that's meant to.

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Create something in you.

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If their goal is your eyeballs on

their website, looking at their ads

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and enjoying their services, then

they're making more money off of you.

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And so I don't, I'm not suspicious

of every single news outlet,

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but they're there to make money.

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They're not there to bless me.

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They're not there to present God's glory.

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And so I'm always a bit

suspicious of those things.

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And so I would say take

everything with a grain of salt.

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And trust it to the Lord insofar

as you have a, an ability

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to do something about it.

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And maybe you're in a position that's

unique in this particular season of

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life where you could do something, you

could talk to your governing official.

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Maybe you have a great relationship

with P President Trump.

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Okay maybe you should care more

than we do, but for most of us,

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I would say it's probably not

worth your time and attention.

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And all it's doing is providing

salacious details for you

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to conjure up in your mind.

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And it really doesn't do.

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Any good.

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What would you say?

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PPJI would agree with those statements

that she just made in that moment

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right there in the last 20 seconds.

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That's what I'm saying.

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Record.

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Oh, we got a record.

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Record, yeah.

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Yeah, same.

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I think it, it beco it can become a

form of voyeurism for us when we're

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wanting the names because we want

to, who is it who's on the list?

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I want to know that.

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If the, if that's our motivation,

then it's a wrong motivation.

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If our motivation is, what the names

need to be unsealed given to the

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people that can do something about it.

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And justice needs to be done.

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Okay, great.

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But to your point, I think the majority

of people out there are like, we just

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want the, we want the juicy details.

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We want to know who's on the list.

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We want to know what that list looks like.

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Let it I think it just reminds me what

we've read in the Old Testament about.

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Where a trust is, the idea of some

trust in chariots, some trust in horses.

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We're gonna trust in the name

of the Lord our God, some trust

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in princes, to deliver them.

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There's a lot of speculation out there

about why hasn't it been released?

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And maybe who's on the list and are there.

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But C word is tossed

around all over the place.

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C word conspiracy.

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Yeah, totally.

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And people are saying there's

Republicans on the list and

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there's Democrats on the list.

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And just let that be a reminder that.

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Our trust is in God at the end of the day.

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And it may be that there's both sides of

the aisle on this list, it may be that

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there's significant people from both sides

of the aisle on this list and that's not

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gonna change anything about who God is

or what he's doing with us or with the

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church or what we're supposed to do.

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Yeah.

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On this, it just reminds us,

made of our trust is in God.

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Our trust is not in an administration,

it's not a human being.

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Our trust is in God.

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Yeah.

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And it really does raise the

question what can you do?

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Realistically, what can you do?

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You could pray.

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That's powerful, that's effective.

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You can pray.

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Yeah.

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What may, I don't know what really

though, what could you do unless you're

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like in the f fbi, I, and you can

go, that's, go and arrest somebody.

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You have the authority and the

capacity to actually act upon what

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may be, and I'll use the word may.

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It's possible that it's a conspiracy,

but even in this own book that we're

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gonna look at today and Isaiah.

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Don't call conspiracy, all that.

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This people calls conspiracy, right?

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Don't fear what they fear.

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We could be fretful and concerned

and ringing our fists and

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saying, man, this is awful.

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This is an abdication of justice

and on, but really what can you do?

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What you can do is pray.

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Yeah.

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Don't be anxious about anything, but in

everything, by prayer and supplication

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with Thanksgiving, let your request

be made known to God and that's

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where we're gonna get our peace from.

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It's not gonna get, even if they were to

make arrests and they arrested every top

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governing official, every hoity-toity

person with a lot of money and a lot

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of resources, they arrested everybody.

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You're not gonna have peace, right?

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You're not gonna feel like, oh,

finally the kingdom has arrived.

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You're just gonna be looking

to the next thing, right?

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That's on the new cycle.

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For sure.

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Trust in Jesus.

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Yep.

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That's a good word.

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Let's turn to Isaiah and talk

about Isaiah 28 through 30,

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which is our reading for today.

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So chapter 28, we are focusing in

on the judgment against the Syria.

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Now, before we hit record, you

said, ah the woes the woe chapters.

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Yeah.

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I don't.

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I don't see the word wo in my Bible.

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Pastor Rob hold on a second there, cowboy.

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Let me point him out to you, Bucky.

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Okay.

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By the way, this week

was all cowboy theme.

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Why didn't you never come,

showed up to, to VBS as a cowboy.

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Why didn't I?

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Yeah, that's so low hanging fruit.

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I don't often dress as a cowboy,

but this is your area, bro.

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If there was anyone who's

gonna dress up as a cowboy.

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It was you really?

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I was.

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I was disappointed.

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People were chanting in the crowd,

asking people were not chanting,

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people were chanting, saying PPJ Dan.

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And they were also noticing that you

weren't dressed up as a cowboy, which

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it just felt like it's not bad, man.

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I don't know, man.

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You're from this area.

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Yes.

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Have you lived in Dallas for very long?

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Chapters?

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Chapter 28 through 33

are the woe chapters.

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Okay.

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And the reason why you don't

see them there is because it's

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represented by the word ah, it's ah.

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In the Hebrew you've heard this word

before, although it's often translated.

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But the word is oi.

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So you might hear someone say if they're

Jewish like me, they might say that

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on occasion the word oi is ah or wo

and depending on the context is really

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gonna depend on how it's translated.

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So here it seems like the

translators see this less as a de

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declaration of judgment and more

as a warning call wo has a stronger

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connotation of forthcoming judgment.

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You are judged for this

reason, ah, feels a bit softer.

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So even though it's the same

word, it has a little bit of

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flexibility, just like all.

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All of our words do.

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There's a fluidity to our words.

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They have parameters.

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It's not freewheeling, it's not whatever

you want it to mean, but that's what.

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So that's what I meant.

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So woes are chapters 28 to 33.

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Gotcha.

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That's helpful.

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Ah.

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The woe in chapter 28 is about the coming

judgment, and it's gonna be Assyria.

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If you look down at verse two, it

says, behold the Lord has one who

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is mighty and strong, like the

storm of hail, a destroying tempest.

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This seems to be the Assyrian army.

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And now there is a near term in the

long term element here that you can

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draw out pretty much across the board

with Isaiah, where it's yes, this

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can refer to the day of the Lord.

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It can also refer to the

short-term things that are coming.

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And I think.

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It's more helpful for us to think

about the immediate context 'cause

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that's what Isaiah's original audience

would've gone to and been preparing for.

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And that is the judgment

coming from Assyria.

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But it's interesting because the judgment

coming from Assyria is gonna be terrible

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for some but beautiful for others.

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Look at verse five in that day,

the Lord of hosts will be a crown

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of glory, a diadem of beauty

to the remnant of his people.

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So there are gonna be some there, as we've

just alluded to in yesterday's episodes.

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Spoken of before that look at the

judging wrath of God as something that's

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beautiful, even as it's being poured out.

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And that's only possible if you

are part of his faithful remnant.

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If you're not being judged.

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If you're not being judged exactly.

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For the others, it's gonna be awful.

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It's terrifying.

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He's talks about the.

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This interesting interchange

here in verse 10, he says, for

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it is precept upon precept.

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Line upon line here a little there, a

little the Hebrew there is it's conveying

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baby talk, basically, or the way that

you would teach a, an infant to speak.

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And so what he's indicting them is saying.

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That's how they're looking at and accusing

the prophecies of being just pedantics,

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just minor stuff that is, is like foolish

talk something that you teach a child.

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And yet verse 13, the word of the

Lord is gonna become just that

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to them, God's judgment of them.

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Not only with the Assyrians, but also

with the way that he's gonna prevent

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them from understanding things.

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Think Isaiah chapter six.

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The, you, I'm sending you to a

people and you're gonna say, here,

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and they're not gonna hear that.

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You're gonna say, see,

and they're not gonna see.

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And so God's judgment is coming

upon them and they're gonna not be

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able to understand even the things

that are being taught to them.

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It's gonna seem like baby talk

to them as it's coming outta

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the mouth of the prophet.

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From here he speaks of the covenant

that they've made, verse 15, with death

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that I, it seems to be a reference

to Egypt as, as best as we can

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understand here, because the people

sought help from Egypt rather than.

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Turning to the Lord again, that

they're looking for help there.

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And that was true of both the northern

Kingdom and the Southern kingdom.

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Specifically the Southern Kingdom.

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Looked to Egypt a lot to try to avoid

the problem that was coming, and

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yet it was going to come anyways.

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Verse 16, I'm the one who has

laid a foundation in Zion at.

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A stone a tested stone, a precious

cornerstone in a sure foundation.

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This is Jesus, right?

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And this is applied to Jesus

in Matthew 21, in Mark chapter

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12 in one, Peter chapter two.

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And he is going to have a future

kingdom that's gonna be marked

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by justice and righteousness.

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Verse 17.

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This is the future millennial kingdom.

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But in the meantime though,

that future kingdom is coming.

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In the meantime, verse 22,

you might be tempted to.

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To scoff or to mock.

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He said, don't do that lest

your bonds become strong.

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For I have heard a decree of

destruction from the Lord, the God

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of host against the whole land.

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It is coming, in other words.

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And so he calls them in

verse 23 to give ear.

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Though again, Isaiah six,

they're not gonna listen to him.

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But chapter 28 is about the impending

destruction that's coming and

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it's also anticipating the future

righteousness that's ultimately

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gonna be established from the.

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Cornerstone from Jesus the

Messiah, who's gonna rule a kingdom

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with justice and righteousness.

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One of the things I love about

his rulership and his reign is

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the contrast in verses 15 and 16.

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It says here, that we have

made lies our refuge, and in

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falsehood we have taken shelter.

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So God is warning them about the

kind of security they're taking.

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Security.

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What is that?

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Is your phone talking to us?

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Siri?

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Oh, Siri's eavesdropping on us, bro.

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Stop.

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Stop.

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That is the FBI.

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They heard us talking

about the Epstein files.

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How did supposed to be my voice?

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I don't know.

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Did you hack it?

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So God's rulership, it's truthful

in contrast to making lies, refuge

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and falsehood taking shelter.

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In that he says that the reign

in the Messiah is the opposite.

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It is the contrast.

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It is the light to their darkness.

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And it says here in verse 17, he'll

make justice the line righteousness,

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the plumb line, hail will sweep away.

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Here we go again.

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The refuge of lies.

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The same verbiage there in verse 15.

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So I love the way that scripture

paints Jesus leadership.

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It is not falsehood.

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It is not a shoddy security.

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It is truth.

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It is justice, it is righteousness.

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It is everything that we long

for and is found perfectly and

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most beautifully in Christ.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 29 pastor, who is Ariel,

because we know her as The

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Little Mermaid, but, ah, Ariel.

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Ariel, ah, Ariel.

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Whoa.

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Oi.

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Oy.

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Ariel.

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Ariel is likely a nickname for Jerusalem.

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Yeah.

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And we know that much.

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What?

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What God intends to communicate by the

nickname is a little harder to diagnose

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because a name could mean a hearth.

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It could mean lion of God.

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There's a lot of things it could mean.

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Yeah.

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But whatever it does mean, it's a point.

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To Jerusalem.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And so this is the judgment that

he's turning against Jerusalem.

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Now in verse three, I will

encamp against you all around.

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I'll besiege you with towers and I

will raise siege works against you.

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Now, it's important for us to remember, we

immediately think Babylon when we think.

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Judah, when we think Jerusalem, when

we think of siege, when we think the

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downfall of Jerusalem judgment against

Jerusalem, our mind goes to Babylon and to

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Nebuchadnezzar and rightfully so because

that's what ultimately does happen.

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But here, this is still Assyria 7 0 1

BC under Akra, the Ssha and everything

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else that we're reading about in Second

Kings that's gonna come and he's going

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to be siege the city and it's going to

be a, an awful time for the people there.

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And chapter 29.

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He's referring to the fact that God

is going to bring this judgment by

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the hand of the Assyrians against

the people of Judah, and yet he's

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not gonna bring them to a full end.

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Look at verse eight.

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When a hungry man, dreams and behold,

he is eating and awakes with hunger,

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and his hunger is not satisfied.

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Earth thirsty man.

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Dreams and behold, he's drinking wakes

faint with his thirst, not quenched.

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So shall the multitude of the nations

be that fight against Mount Zion.

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In other words, they're not gonna be.

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Their goal of destroying

Jerusalem is not gonna be met.

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They're not gonna be satisfied because

God is going to spare the city.

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They're gonna come right up to the neck

of the people in the Southern Kingdom,

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and yet God is going to deliver them.

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At this point in time, are

they gonna turn to God?

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Verse 13, the Lord said, because this

people drawn near to me with their mouth

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and honor me with their lips, their

heart is far from me and their fear

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of me as a commandment taught by men.

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Therefore, I will again do

wonderful things with these people.

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Wait.

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What?

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What?

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Wonderful.

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In a bad way?

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Yes.

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Explain because, wonderful.

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When I read that, the exact

opposite, I read that as God's

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judgment mixed with grace.

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I'll do wonderful things,

wonderful as any positive.

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I'm gonna, I'm gonna upend what they think

and then surprise them with mercy and

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grace and kindness, which I think fits

the fact that they're delivered in 7 0 1.

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It, it does.

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Except here, the wonder upon wonder,

the wisdom of the wise men shall perish.

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Their discerning discernment of

the discerning men shall be hidden.

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So I still think there's

a judging element there.

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That's a fair point.

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I guess I, I understood

it as God's deliverance.

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But you're right.

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That's fair because I think it is the

deliverance, but then I think it's also,

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but they're not going to, this isn't

gonna be effective, in other words.

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And so the wonder being the wonder of.

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Of terror, of being in of you can

think something is wonderful in the

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sense of, oh, that's so wonderful.

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That's so great.

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And also something that's wonderful, as

in it inspires wonder and awe and even

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terror in you as you consider it there.

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Yeah.

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Awe would've been a good word.

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Yeah.

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Wonderful.

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Sounds pleasant.

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Maybe they didn't use

awe because you use awe.

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No, not ah, A WE.

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A HH.

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And then he goes on in verse

16 and he indicts them.

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He says, shall the potter

be regarded as the clay, the

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thing that made save its maker?

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He did not make me, or the thing

form save him who formed it.

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He has no understanding.

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So again, I think he's telling the people

of Judah you still don't understand here,

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and yet you're the one trying to instruct

me as to what is right and what is good.

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And this reminds us of Romans nine because

that's what happens there in Romans nine.

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And Paul grabs the same imagery there.

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And we'll get there and that'll have its

own podcast, which is a, a fun day in the

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future that you get to look forward to.

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Man.

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Verse 19 though.

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Can we just camp on that

for just a quick second?

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Yeah.

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The meek shall obtain

fresh joy in the Lord.

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I want that.

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Yeah, I want that.

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And notice here the kind of

person that gets that fresh joy.

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I think about fresh bread.

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When you smell fresh bread, bacon

in the oven, or you walk by one

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of those restaurants where they're

cooking it up in their own ovens,

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it just WAPs through the air.

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And it's a smell of joy and happiness.

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And Christmas, I don't

know what else to say.

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It's Christmas.

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It's so good.

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And here it says here, the people that

get that fresh bread, that fresh joy

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in the Lord are those who are meek.

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It is those who are humble in spirit,

those who rely and depend upon him.

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Those who acknowledge that.

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He defines them as the poor among

mankind, not financially poor necessarily,

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but those who are spiritually poor.

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Jesus will say later on in the

Sermon on the Mount, the blessed

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are the poor in spirit, for they

shall see God fresh joy in the Lord.

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And this is the same idea

here captured in verse 19.

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I love that the meek shall

obtain fresh joy in the Lord.

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If you want fresh joy.

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Humbly submit yourself to the Lord.

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Yeah, that's so good in, in fact,

beginning in verse 17, really through

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the end of the chapter here, is in a lot

of ways, I think, a depiction of what's

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happening in the millennial kingdom.

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These are the future blessings that

are gonna be there, and that day the

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deaf shall hear the words of the book

and outta their gloom and darkness.

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The eyes of the blind shall see.

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Verse 18.

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The ruthless shall come to nothing.

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The scoffers shall cease.

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Those who watch and do

evil shall be cut off.

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I think this is looking forward

to the reign of Christ on earth.

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The reign of the cornerstone from

back in chapter 28 is described

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here, I think in chapter 29.

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Chapter 30, then we are

ing the stubborn children.

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Whoa, ah, stubborn children, declares

the Lord who carried a plan but not mine.

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And I think that's the plan

of their returning to Egypt.

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Continuing to seek help there rather than

trusting in God who set out there it is.

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Verse two.

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You don't have to think it's right there.

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Who set out to go down to Egypt

without asking for my direction?

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So they're trusting Egypt

and they're not trusting God.

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They're turning there instead of

turning to him, he says in verse

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three, therefore shall the protection.

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A Pharaoh turn to your shame.

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He then says about their humiliation,

verse seven, Egypt's helps is gonna

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be worthless and empty, and therefore

I have called her Rahab who sits

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still, and so God is gonna judge them.

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Yeah, again about.

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They're turning to Egypt

rather than turning to him.

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And the reason being

is their stubbornness.

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Verse nine, they are rebellious people,

lying children unwilling to hear the

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instruction of the Lord, who say to the

seers, do not see into the prophets.

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Do not prophesy to us what is right.

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Speak to us.

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Smooth things and prophesy illusions.

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And so again they're putting their

fingers in their ears saying la.

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We don't wanna listen to this.

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We don't want to hear this.

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Tell us things we want to hear.

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Instead the New Testament's gonna

talk about, there's gonna come

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a time when men are gonna want.

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Preachers and teachers that are

gonna itch their ears that are

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gonna tell them soothing things.

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And it's similar here with Israel.

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Like then is gonna be like the

future to quote King Solomon.

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There's nothing new under the sun.

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People are like that as well.

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And then he goes on to talk about

this breach in the high wall.

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Again, I think this is Assyria in

him prophesying the fact that Assyria

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is coming against the people here.

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I was convicted by verse

two verse one and two.

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Not that I'm.

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I'm setting up my own kingdom or

trying to go to Egypt for alliance.

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That's good.

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I don't possess those resources, but

I just thought, man, there are so many

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times that I just presume upon the Lord

the thing that I think is the right path.

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And yet he tells us he charges

them of going down and doing a

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certain thing without asking for

his direction, without seeking his

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leadership and his will on the matter.

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And I thought of James chapter four

of saying, not presuming upon the Lord

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to say I'm gonna do this or that, but

really opening up your plans of the

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Lord and saying, Lord, if you will.

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We'll do this or that.

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We'll go to that city, we'll make a,

we'll make a profit here and there.

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We'll establish this ministry

program or we'll do this thing.

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We'll go on this vacation.

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Nothing wrong with

making good plans, right?

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God's not charging them

with being strategic.

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He's charging them with failing to

talk to him first, failing to get

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his input and to get his direction.

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They carry out a plan but not his.

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And I think there's two things

that he's talking about there.

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Number one, obviously his revealed will.

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He had clearly told

them not to go to Egypt.

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He had given them every indication

in his word not to go back to Egypt

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for their support and their guidance.

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But number two, there is a there is a

subjective sense in which they should

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just open their plans to the Lord.

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Say, Lord, what do you wanna do?

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Yeah, Lord, how do you wanna lead

us in this particular situation?

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So I think that's perfectly viable for

you to take home today as you're reading

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through your Bible to recognize, man I

wonder if I'm presuming upon the Lord.

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Now I remember I had one friend who would.

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Ask the Lord about what kind of

t-shirt he should buy and whether

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he should wear the blue shoes or

the red shoes or whatever else.

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I think you could take that too far.

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Yeah, that's my guess.

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Yeah.

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But I think the spirit is great

honoring the Lord by saying, Lord,

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I want your input on my life.

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That's a great posture to have.

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So even if you do ask the Lord about your

shoe color, I, maybe there's better things

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to pray about, but better that than not.

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Yeah.

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I think that's a better posture

to have and I think the Lord

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would be pleased by that.

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Yeah.

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The rest of chapter 30 God does say, Hey,

I still, I am gonna be gracious to you.

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And I think this, there's again, the

near term, far term here, I think

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in the short term he's talking about

he will deliver them from Assyria.

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In fact, he says that in verse 31.

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He says, the Assyrians will be

terror stricken at the voice of the

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Lord when he strikes with his rod.

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We're going to read in two Kings 19 that

the angel of the Lord's gonna come out

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and destroy 185,000 of the Assyrians.

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That are encamped against Israel,

that are besieging Jerusalem there.

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And so that's what's here.

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But I think it's also he's pointing

forward to the millennial kingdom that

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they, again, people are gonna dwell in

Zion, they're gonna dwell in Jerusalem

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there, and this is gonna be a time

of great prosperity for God's people.

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So there's short term with a Syria,

but long term also looking forward

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to the millennial kingdom as well.

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It's exciting.

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Let's pray and then we will be

done with this this episode.

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Yet we find it hard sometimes to fully

wrap our minds around what was going on

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then and what goes on now, and yet we're

grateful for things and insights like

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what Pastor Rod was just talking about

seeking you and discerning your will.

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In our lives.

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And not just presuming upon you, that's

part of having a high view of you, which

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we were talking about earlier as well.

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And so we want to have that, we

want to approach you in that way.

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We want to trust you and we want

to seek you and not presume, not

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assume what's not ours to to plan.

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And so help us to be a people that

really does take our plan to you and

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say, if the Lord wills, let us do this.

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And if the Lord wills God, we wanna

be a faithful bride to you until

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you call us home to be with you.

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And so we pray that we

would be in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep you in your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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