00:00 Introduction and Audio Issues

01:10 Youth Night and Upcoming Events

01:39 Anniversary Plans and Casual Conversations

02:16 Golf Outing and Snake Encounters

04:02 Hurricane Disappointment and Sunday Sermon

06:00 Bible Reading: Isaiah 5-8

09:58 The Six Woes in Isaiah

11:35 Exploring the Use of 'Woe' in Modern and Ancient Contexts

12:08 The Fifth and Sixth Woes: Human Wisdom and Alcohol

12:29 Judgment and Exile: Consequences of Rejecting the Lord

12:41 Isaiah's Vision and Calling in Chapter Six

14:38 The Seventh Woe: Isaiah's Self-Realization

16:48 The Commissioning of Isaiah and Its Implications

18:30 Prophecies and Fulfillments: Near and Far

23:59 Judgment and Hope: The Future of Judah

25:43 The Prophetess and the Significance of Names

26:59 Final Reflections and Timeless Teachings

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to Wednesdays.

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Addition to the daily Bible podcast.

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And I'm back with the

right audio this time.

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So sorry.

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We don't know what happened those

last three days, we have no idea.

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And we were, we'd listened to the

recording after the fact, we don't

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listen to them before we ship them.

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Obviously we would've seen that

or heard that beforehand, but I

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no longer have cotton in my mouth.

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I am next to the mic.

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We'll check it now.

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Adam's down under the water, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, well, That or there was a

demon in your microphone could have

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been, it could have been either.

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I mean, maybe it was both.

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Maybe it had cotton in my mouth and

there was a demon in the microphone.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Satan of the airwaves or whatever

we've gotten rid of it though.

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But we hope was asking, you don't know.

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It was pastor Mike's or was

pastor Rod's Mike broken.

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And I just think so everything's plugged

in we've double-checked, it's turned on.

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Remember that time when we

recorded and it was turned on.

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I do remember that.

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I appreciate that you use we

on that because I'm pretty

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sure that was just my fault.

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Well, we're in it together.

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It's a partnership.

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That's a new that you're turning over

a new leaf because I feel like in the

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past year, over year, We all the time.

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Yes, it's both.

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And yeah.

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It's a, it's a, we messed up, but

when it's advantageous to a point

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that making then it's you Besta right.

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That's exactly how that works.

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I don't.

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I'm going to stop somewhere.

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Right?

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Right.

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Yeah, well, Hey, it's Wednesday,

you got youth tonight.

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I do.

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And it's funny because this month

we have, like, we have one week on

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why don't we go off one week on one

week off because next week is BBS,

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but tonight's, we're in Psalm 16.

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And then, uh, there were offered VBS.

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Yup.

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And then I don't know what Solomon

we're in the week after Ellie

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know what's going on this week.

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And then they prepared two sermons

for our summer camp revival.

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So we're off the next week after.

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I guess two weeks from now, three

weeks from now, whatever the math is.

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Yeah.

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So I got a lot going, going on this month.

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The anniversary is this weekend, man.

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That's big.

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How many years.

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16.

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16 crazy.

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Right.

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That's great.

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I can't, I can barely believe

it, but I'm excited about that.

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Yeah.

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We're gonna have some fun together.

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Hang out, play some call.

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I don't want to sh share

cause she doesn't know.

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Okay.

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Yeah, poker is where you're going to say.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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You're going to go gamble.

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Yes at the local casino.

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Yeah, aren't there

casinos up north from us.

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And there are up in Oklahoma.

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Yeah.

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Chalk talk, casino and resorts.

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We might come back bazillionaires

you better watch it.

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As long as you buy.

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The facility.

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If I become a billionaire,

I will buy us a facility.

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Thanks man.

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I appreciate that.

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I appreciate your

endorsement for my gambling.

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Maybe don't though.

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Yeah, no, I got to play golf

with some of the guys on the

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Sunday and speaking of gambling.

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Yeah.

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I was tempted to a dusty

wind to hustle a little bit.

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I mean, I don't think it

pastor's supposed to brag.

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Um, but yes, but you crushed him.

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I don't, I wouldn't say it crushed him.

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It was, it was tight.

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It was tight where they crying

at the end of this thing.

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No.

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Who was all there.

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So Steve yang, Steve yang.

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Okay.

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And, uh, Tim, Pam and Pam.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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And none of them cried.

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Uh, I didn't, I.

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Not there.

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Steve was a little emotional, but I feel

like that's probably because the impending

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birth of his next child at tracks.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I don't think he was emotional

because he, he didn't win.

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Well, a little, this little

that who knows, right.

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It could have been either.

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Yeah.

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Or both.

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We didn't see any snakes

in, I wandered off.

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Oh, they were there to the

rough, plenty of times that.

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I took my snake killer, which is the

iron with me just in case I saw one.

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I was like, you dispatch the snake.

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Yeah, they did.

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And they kept their

distance, which I appreciate.

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Yeah.

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I haven't encountered any poisonous

snakes or venomous snakes rather.

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Right.

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Cause they're not poisonous.

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No, it wasn't that recently.

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Yeah.

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Where did you learn that?

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I can't remember, but somebody told

me, I think through my children,

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they told me the difference

between something that's Right.

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Yeah, we.

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We went to this Alaina.

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I don't know what it was.

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It was one of their

events in the city square.

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And they had a, uh, a snake.

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Not a snake.

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Fetologist.

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I guess maybe that was the person.

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Uh, he was the guy running the show.

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So whether or not he was a

herpetologist, I don't know.

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But he did say that very thing.

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There's a difference between poisonous.

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Is it how many poisonous snakes

are there in the state of Texas?

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And then some smart kids are like,

no, And he's like, that's right.

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None kid cause they're venomous.

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Right?

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But if you do go to the zoo and you look

at all the venomous snakes in the cages,

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it's like habitats and it lists like

Africa and Texas Southeast Asia in Texas.

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Yeah.

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Awesome.

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Yeah.

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I haven't seen him in any, in my house.

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Hey, that hurricane, by the way

was just a total disappointment.

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Well, maybe for us, but for others.

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I mean the power.

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Yeah.

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We might have people listening.

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Yeah.

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Some of our friends.

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Yeah, it just was like, we got drunk.

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We were driving to go to, uh, on a hike.

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And Plano.

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Yeah.

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And as we were making our way over,

we got the dumping buckets on us.

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We were like, okay, I

guess we're not hiking.

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And so we went there and we got out of

the car and we started to walk on the

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hike, but we started walking through mud

and we're like, this isn't gonna work.

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Yeah.

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So we gave up and it was still raining.

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We just thought it was raining lightly

enough that we could make our way, but.

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It turned around.

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It rained a little bit, but

like I was ready for it.

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I was, I was even, I was kind of

looking forward to a rainy day.

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And we got, in fact, I looked at

the radar and you know how the

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hurricane has these like big circles.

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I just watched the

circle, get close to us.

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And then it was like, Nope.

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Just kidding.

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Rejected, faded away.

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Not good enough.

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Yeah, it went Northeast,

which I was grateful for it.

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I don't want the damage or whatever.

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We were on our county was on a notice.

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I forget.

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Uh, who issued it somewhere

at somewhere governmental?

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I don't know who is, who is offering

these things, but they said.

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Uh, be prepared for

something catastrophic.

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So yeah.

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Well, Eric who spoke on Sunday,

he texted me Sunday morning and he

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was like, Hey, I hope I make it.

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And it was a screenshot of the Google

map and it said, Tropical storm

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warning in effect for your area?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Tongue and cheek like.

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There's no.

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He barely made it.

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Yeah, he barely made it out.

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He did great though.

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He did great, great preaching.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Super thankful for that.

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Hey, by the way.

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from us, because in that you'll have

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a way to sign up for their monthly.

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I think he does a monthly email where he

gives updates on what's going on in there.

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That's true there in Dubai.

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I don't think I have that.

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So we'll look for the email

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And the latest newsletter.

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It's.

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It's like the pizza coupons.

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You can use it over and over and over.

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That's right.

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No expiration date.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Every week.

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Let's jump into our

Bible reading for today.

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Isaiah 5, 0 6.

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Isaiah seven.

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And Isaiah eight, that was laborious.

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Why would we do that?

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I'd say a five through eight.

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That's better.

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Yeah.

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All of it.

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Well, I was just stressing that

like, man, this is, this is big.

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Because you hear five and eight and

you think, okay, three chapters.

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No, it's for.

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It's a lot.

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Yeah.

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Weird how math works.

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It is.

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It is deceptive.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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Chapter five.

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Uh, so remember I showed my

cards last week in Petra.

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Maybe you want to chime in on this.

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I think that the call of Isaiah doesn't

show up until Isaiah chapter six.

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So I think we're still kind of in the

preface to the book, given the background,

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the current circumstances of the book.

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Um, and so I'd say a five, I think

continues that, but, but pastor, rod, if

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you, I don't know if you land on that or

you have a different position on that.

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This is.

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This is not something to pound the

pulpit on one way or the other,

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because there are different fountains.

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We're going to do it right now.

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Okay.

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Um, so I think there is a formal

commencement and chapter six, but I

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can't help, but think that the first

five chapters and the Lord is telling

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him these things and saying these

things to him, and he's expecting him

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to commit, communicate these things.

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Um, So I even, if it formally

kicks off in chapter six, I would

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still say that there's something.

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And chapters one through five that.

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All seem to suggest that this is

already formally taking place.

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Profit administry is profit.

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Administry has commenced.

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Uh, practically, but formally it

commences in verse and chapter six.

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Okay.

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Yeah, fair.

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Chapter five though.

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I, right before we get to, to that

formal commencement, we get the, this.

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This image, this metaphor that

the Lord gives through Isaiah of

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the situation there in Israel.

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And that is that things

are not going well.

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He is dug for the vineyard and in

done everything possible to give

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the vineyard the best chance of

growing that he possibly could.

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And it turns out that the vineyard did not

produce good grapes, but wild grapes and

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wild grapes were not good for anything.

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They weren't good for, uh, what they

would have been used for, which is the

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production of wine, which had not just a.

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An intoxicating or a celebratory.

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Impact, but also it was used for medicine

and purification and other things.

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So, um, this, this was,

is a bad situation.

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Uh, the Lord expects good things and

Israel produces bad things, even though

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the Lord had done everything for it.

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So this is really.

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Calling to mind in chapter five here,

uh, the whole history of Israel that

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God had had freed his people from

slavery in Egypt and brought them to the

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promised land and deliver them into the

land flowing with milk and honey and.

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Given them, uh, the, the judges

before and then giving them

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David as king and Solomon.

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And now here we find ourselves in,

in Israel had just gone downhill.

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And so the Lord is basically indicting

them, calling them to account saying,

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look, you have failed massively when I did

everything I possibly could have for you.

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I think one of the bigger things that

stands out to me is the fact that God

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expects fruitfulness from his people.

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Uh, Jesus picks this up in Matthew 21

and the parable of the, uh, what is it?

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The tenants were at the very end of

this parable, Matthew 21 in verse 43.

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He says, therefore, I tell you the kingdom

of God will be taken away from you.

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Israel and given to a people producing

its fruits as is national Israel.

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Obviously there's a spiritual Israel,

which we don't want to want to necessarily

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elaborate on, but that's the idea here.

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It will be given to a

people producing its fruits.

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Jesus calls upon his people

to be fruitful, productive.

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Uh, here in the old Testament,

you always calling on Israel

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and Judah to be productive.

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In fact, with the fact that

we know he's talking to Israel

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and Judah is at verse seven.

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He says the vineyard of the

Lord of hosts is the house of

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Israel and the men of Judah.

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They are his pleasant planting.

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So this is about all of the

people of Israel, north and south.

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And he's saying you guys

ought to have produce fruit.

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That's my expectation.

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That's right.

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That's good.

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That's natural.

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And to not do that violates his

expectation of his covenant people.

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And that's carried over

to the new Testament.

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Galatians chapter five.

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Or to be filled with

the fruit of the spirit.

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And so even though salvation

is one directional in terms of.

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Uh, the justification

sanctification is cooperation.

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It's something that we do with God.

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And God expects us to bear

fruit and that hasn't changed.

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That's very much part of

our new Testament reality.

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Right?

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Right.

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Well, from here then Isaiah

goes into from the Lord.

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The six woes and, uh, the word woe

is not one that we use very often.

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It was a word of judgment,

pronouncing damnation, even cursing

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upon the recipients of the wo.

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And so it's not a good thing

to be the object of the woe.

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And here the six woes are found

in verses eight through 30,

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the rest of the chapter here.

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Uh, verses eight through 10, the whoa.

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Is aimed at the idea of loving

luxury and comfortable living.

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Uh, that they had grown

satisfied in, in complacent.

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And they'd forgotten that

God is the one behind that.

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And so they're going to be judged for

that verses 11 through 12, the woe

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that comes along with loving pleasure.

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They just love the pleasures of the world.

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And they were falling in love with

these things at the world, offered them.

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And again, for getting the.

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Uh, like Ecclesiastes, is it.

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It's not wrong.

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Should we enjoy the pleasures that exist

here, but we need to remember that they

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are given to us by God to be in Jordan.

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Uh, as a result of our

relationship with him.

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People have forgotten that therefore

verses 13 through 17, two things,

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they're going to go into exile and

they're going to go to the grave.

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It's just some of the specific judgments.

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Then, then the third woe comes

in verses 18 through 19, the woe

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for loving sin and doubting God

not believing in his promises.

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Uh, verse 20, another woe here

for loving, evil and hating.

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Good.

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So famous.

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Verse one of the more well-known here

in Isaiah woe to those who call evil.

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Good and good evil who put darkness

for light and light for darkness,

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bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

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That's our culture today.

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I think as we look around and we see

what people are celebrating, man.

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Isaiah five 20 whoa to that.

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And that was true in Israel's day as well.

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Okay, real quick here, before

you continue on the woes.

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I was doing some research because

I'm like, oh, we don't use that word.

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And I realized that the

modern Jewish person.

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Kind of still uses this.

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They'll still say oil.

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And whoa, here.

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Hawaii.

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Is still, it's still connected.

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They typically.

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It is meant to mean what was

me or, uh, like, oh, oh, whoa.

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Oh, oh, H comma, w O E.

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So it's still in Vogue.

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At least in their culture,

which is interesting to me,

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but not so much in ours.

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Yeah.

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We gotta bring that back now.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, but not flippantly.

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Right?

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Cause this there's weightiness

to these things for sure.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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Verse 21.

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Then the fifth, whoa, the Wolf loving

human wisdom over divine wisdom,

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loving their own knowledge, kind

of being puffed up in that regard.

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And then finally verses 22 through

23, the woah loving alcohol.

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And then along with that

injustice in general.

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Uh, the then 24 through 30, some more.

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Therefores just like in

verses 13 through 17.

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And therefore then what's going to

happen as a result of these woes.

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Therefore they who have rejected.

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The Lord are going to suffer under

the judgment and anger of the Lord.

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Through exile under the, uh, the dominion

and the authority of this foreign

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nation that God is going to call for.

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Uh, and so this is, uh, this is the

indictment, and then we go to chapter six

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where God calls the prophet into action.

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Now, before you get there, pastor.

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Let me just point out something

that I think is interesting.

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If not super cool.

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There are six woes in chapter five.

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There's another well in chapter six.

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But instead of pointing it elsewhere,

we're going to find out that this

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was actually pointed somewhere.

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Very interesting, given that

all these words beforehand were

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against all the people of Israel.

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To take us away to chapter six.

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Right?

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Well, chapter six, one opens up

with the context again in the

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year that king used Zaja died.

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We've been reading about king XY.

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Second Kings 15 second Chronicles, 26.

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Uh, also known as Amazon.

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And so, uh, here is his death here.

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And so we, we read about this and

it's in that year that Isaiah is

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formerly called or commissioned by

the Lord to be the prophet that God

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is going to use to send the people.

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Uh, the message that he wants to

send them, but beforehand, Isaiah

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has to have this encounter with God.

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And it's interesting because he,

he sees a, uh, sees a person.

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He sees the Lord sitting upon a throne.

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So the idea there is that

this is a, in an embodied.

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Individual, which would imply.

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That this would be Christ.

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This would be Jesus that the prophet

sees here rather than the father,

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because John four God is spirit.

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Right?

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And so since Isaiah's sitting, seeing

someone sitting on the throne, wearing

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a robe and the robe is filling the

trainee of the temple or the trainee,

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the rope is filling the temple.

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I would believe that this is Isaiah

seeing the Lord in his full glory,

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seeing Jesus in his unveiled glory,

such that he's only able to get to the.

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The fringes of his rope

before he can't go any higher.

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He can't describe anything else and

he's overwhelmed, but he sees the vision

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of the angels and they're crying out.

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Holy holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.

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The whole earth is full of his glory and.

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And even the voice of just the angelic

creatures, the Lord has not spoken yet.

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Just the voice of the angelic

creatures, because the thresholds of

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the temple to tremble and shake under

their declaration, that God is holy.

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It's an amazing scene that we see

here, which leads to like you were

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just saying that this next, whoa,

the seventh Wolf, if you will, when

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Isaiah says, woe is me, what was me?

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And he says, the reason why I'm

pronouncing judgment upon myself,

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because I realized my lossless.

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This encounter with a perfect glorify.

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Jesus had revealed to Isaiah

the prophet, just how to pray.

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He truly was.

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And he declared that, that

judgment upon himself.

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And he says, I'm, I'm undone.

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I'm hopeless in, unless God acted on

behalf of his prophet, he wasn't done.

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But that's exactly what God

does by dispatching an angel

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with this coal, from the.

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The altar.

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He touches the lips, the mouth

of Isaiah, the prophet, and says

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behold, your sin has been atoned for.

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So we really see the gospel

in so many ways here in

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Isaiah six, one through seven.

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Really interesting that the angel

stops a worshiping to survive Zia.

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Did you catch that?

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It's one of the angels who takes a call

from the altar to fly it over to Isaiah.

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And he's been doing this for who

knows how many zillions of years at

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this point he sees, this is activity.

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No doubt at the dispatching

of the Lord of glory.

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Saying, take this coal

and go purify my servant.

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I've worked for him to do.

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But this is amazing.

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God allows.

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I don't want to call it even a lessening

of the worship, but a ceasing of some

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elements of a creature's obligation

responsibility to worship him.

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In order to serve a man, I found that

to be pretty heavy and something.

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That fills my heart with

gratitude because obviously.

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Uh, obviously what's happening here.

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Is that there, there isn't, there

is a sacrifice that's implied at the

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very least, because it's the altar.

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And this, this sacrifice is what allows

Isaiah now to be commissioned for the

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good, for the glory of God, for the good

of his people, which it's interesting.

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You bring that up because isn't, isn't

that a perfect foreshadowing then of

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another act where we would be a tone for

right Christ who Jesus, who had enjoyed

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the very presence of God, the father, for

as long as this angel has been even longer

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because this angels are created beings.

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So Jesus had been in the very

presence of God, the father from

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eternity past it, which is a.

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Faulty wave of putting it because

there's no pastor maternity, but

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he'd always been with father.

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And yet in order to atone for

our sins, humble himself left

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the father's side, came to earth.

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Put pause on that degree of intimacy

between him and the father, that

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proximity to die on the cross,

that our sins could be a tone for.

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As layers here.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Deep layers.

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Why is this commission is not one that

any of us would want, even though he's

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super eager at the beginning, he says,

here I am, Lord send me after his lips

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have been a tone for his sin has been

a tone for your, I am sent me and God

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says, okay, I'm going to send you.

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And yet I'm going to send you to a

people who aren't going to listen to you.

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You're going to say here, they're

not going to hear, you're going to

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say, see, they're not going to see.

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And I'm doing that out of judgment.

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And so it's a little bit confusing.

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You're going to read this and say,

why is God keeping them from hearing

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and keeping them from seeing?

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And the answer is because this

is judgment upon the people they

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had had their opportunities.

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They'd have plenty of chances to

listen to the prophets, to listen to

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the call back to what the Lord had.

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Desired for them to go back to the lawn.

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Remember what it looked like

to fear the Lord they're gone.

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And yet they had had, had resisted for

so long that finally God was going to

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harden their hearts so that they would

not hear we're going to talk later in

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Amos about a famine of the word of God.

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That's going to come upon the people.

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Well, here, it's interesting because

the word of God is going to be there.

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They're going to be hearing from it.

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And yet there's still gonna

be fame and conditions.

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Cause they're not gonna listen.

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They're not gonna respond to it.

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This idea of people hearing, but

not responding, seeing, but not

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being able to comprehend has a new

Testament parallel in what Jesus says.

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He says one of the reasons

for the para for the parables.

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Is that they may indeed see,

but not perceive and indeed

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hear, but understand less.

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They should turn and be forgiven.

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Of course, Jesus here is quoting

Isaiah in this very section.

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In order to say, this is what's

happening in his ministry as well.

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Just like they rejected the prophet.

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Isaiah, they're going to reject to me.

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And that's why Jesus uses parables.

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At least one of the reasons that he uses

parable so that they have less judgment

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incurred because they won't understand.

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And this is part of God's cosmic purposes.

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So hard for us to wrap our minds

around this because we would think,

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well, why, why wouldn't you want

everybody to respond this way?

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God has his reasons.

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And those reasons are often veil

to us, at least in the, uh, in the

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immediate details of the thing.

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But we know the ultimate purpose.

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Is to bring himself glory.

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Yup.

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Yeah, well, Isaiah chapter seven, we've

got, again, just a lot of ground to cover.

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I know we're, we're leaving some things

behind leaving some, some fruit on the

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tree, but we'll be back at this again

next year, Lord, willing at this time.

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And free to pluck it yourself.

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Exactly.

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Go get that fruit.

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Yep.

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Why is that chapter seven opens

up in the days of AI has the son

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of Jonathan son of whose Aja.

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So here's what we need to

understand between Isaiah 6, 9, 8,

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7 we're at least 16 years later.

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'cause Uzziah dies then comes

Jotham then comes a house.

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So we're fast forwarding by at

least 16 years at a time, uh, to now

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what's going on in the reign of USI,

his grandson who was a has here.

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So.

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Uh, that's the context, just

to understand the timeline.

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Isaiah seven one through nine.

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The Lord sends Isaiah here to

address the fearful response of

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the people, to the invasion of two

individuals, Pekka and REM Elias.

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So second Chronicles,

28 is the context here.

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You have, you have fam you have

Israel and you have the Syrians that

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are coming against Judah and they're

they're causing problems for them.

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And so the prophet is responding to

their fearful response, encouraging them

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here, at least at the beginning, not to

fear them, but to trust in y'all way.

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And so in this passage, the load

reveals that Efraim is going to come

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to an end within the next 65 years.

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Hey.

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The your brothers to the north Israel.

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They're there.

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They're signed, sealed and delivered.

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Their judgment is, is done.

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They're going to come to an

end there in the next 65 years.

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He says there in, uh,

in this text, Verse 12.

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Uh, a has misapplies this principle,

uh, it's, it's wrong to refuse to trust

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in the Lord until he proves himself.

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And so Ahab says, you know what, I'm,

I'm not gonna, I'm not going to test

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the Lord, but this is not like the, the

sinful testing of the Lord, because when.

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The Lord invites us to put him to the

test and he doesn't do that with us.

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But when he invites a has to put

them to the test, It has needed to

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obey the Lord and say, okay, Lord.

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Uh, yes.

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Please confirm your word, please.

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Let me see this.

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Instead.

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It has things this humility and

says, I will not ask if we'll

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not put the Lord to the test, but

really that's disobedient, huh?

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Because God wanted him to grow his faith.

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You know, it has.

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It has was not one of the good Kings.

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Judah had some good Kings.

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He was not one of the good king.

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So I suspect this, this

posture, whatever it is.

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Even though he is posturing humility.

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It's this resistance it's rebellion

in this case because he should have.

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Uh, instead of sacrificing his own

son and allowing the evil to be

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ramping in his kingdom, he should

have done what the Lord said.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, well, verse 14, you know this

one, because we talk about around

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Christmas time, Isaiah seven, 14.

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Uh, Messiah is going

to come as, as Israel.

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Remember, as Judah at this time is

feeling the threat of their enemies.

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They're looking for a deliver and here

Isaiah is going, Hey, you know what?

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The.

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Uh, Messiah is going to come.

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The Virgin shall conceive and bear

a son and you shall call his name

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Emmanuel, which means God with us.

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This is one of the reasons why y'all.

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The new Testament.

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The Pharisees, the religious leaders

of the Jews should not have been

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surprised that the concept of a

divine Messiah it's there in the old

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Testament verses like this Emmanuel

God with us, that their deliver is

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going to be God in the flesh God, with.

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With his people.

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And so this concept is, is present,

but so this is introduced here.

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And then in verses 15 through 17,

from the time of Ahab's until the

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exile of Jerusalem, Judas Kings

would be little more than just

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puppet Kings from here on out.

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So that the king of seven 14 is

going to be the next true king.

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That's going to show up on the

scene for Israel and that's going to

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ultimately be the Messiah because from

here on out that the Kings of Judah

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are just puppet Kings they're weak.

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And so this one.

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It's not going to be chronologically.

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The next king that's going to come, but

this is the king that's going to deliver

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Israel or Judah rather in all of Israel.

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And yet it's going to come

much later on down the road

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with the advent of, of Jesus.

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Is it your understanding pastor PJ, that

the person in seven 14 actually never

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showed up on the scene at this time.

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And that only Jesus is the

one who fulfilled this.

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That's that's my take on it.

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Okay.

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So I think, I think there was

a near and far fulfillment.

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I can't point to you and say for sure

who the near fulfillment is, but I have

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to thank because God did deliver them.

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Right.

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It has, and his kingdom did continue.

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I have to think that there was

a deliver cause otherwise the

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sign, would it make sense for him?

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He would say, thanks for that sign Lord.

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But.

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Where, where did this person come from?

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Who is this person?

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And he would have said, the Lord didn't

complete, didn't fulfill his sight.

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He delivered us.

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They didn't give us a sign

that we were looking for.

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So I have to imagine that there was a

near fulfillment where someone liked this.

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And I don't think it was my Harris.

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Chalan.

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I think it was somebody else

because I don't think my hair

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shall hashtags fits the bill.

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But somebody fulfilled the

lowercase S savior lowercase, M

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mess, Messiah, messianic role.

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Uh, until Jesus came and

fulfilled it completely.

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Agree disagree.

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Yeah, it's it's it's possible.

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I also know that I think there are some

things in prophecy that don't have the,

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the near fulfillment that are just future.

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I agree.

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I wouldn't say that that's not

unheard of or unprecedented.

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Yeah.

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Just seems like this one would make a

lot of, wouldn't make a lot of sense out.

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Outside of saying, well, that.

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It wasn't the sign to show that you're

going to deliver us from Syria and Israel.

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And if the sign isn't there, then it seems

like, okay, well I guess, I guess not.

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Right, right.

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Yeah, well, So I would commend to you.

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Uh, Alec Martir.

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M O T Y E R um, in the Tyndale

old Testament commentary

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series does a great job just in

general with Isaiah as a whole.

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Um, but he explains it a little

bit better than, than I think

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I, I explained it earlier.

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Really focused on that idea that, that.

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Th th the Regency of Israel was,

was essentially over at this

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point of Judah because these Kings

were just, they were a shell.

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They weren't real, really true king.

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So he's saying this is.

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Looking forward, which I know

you agree to, to ultimately the

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fulfillment of Christ, but could

there have been a shorter-term sure.

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It could have been the hard

thing we're handcuffed and not

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knowing what that looked like.

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Right.

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And.

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And who that was agree completely.

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Yeah.

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Verses 18 through 25.

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Then in the rest of the chapter judgment,

judgment's coming, Judah is going to

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be oppressed by Egypt, eventually in

a Syria and humiliated in the process

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and through Egypt and, uh, Syria.

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Uh, they don't prove ultimately to

be God's final judgment upon Judah.

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That's going to be Babylon down the road.

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They're going to play a

significant role here.

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And the prophet is letting

the people know that as well.

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During a hazardous rain here.

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Chapter eight then.

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Uh, we get the timeline of judgment

in eight, one through eight.

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Uh, and so in verse four, Israel

and Syria, they're going to

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fall eventually to us, Syria.

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Verses seven through eight, uh,

Syria is going to come against

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Judah, but, uh, not destroy it,

but, but certainly overpower her.

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She's she's gonna threaten Judah

and we're gonna see in, in, unless

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the Lord intervenes and sends.

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These 185,000 to their end.

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Uh, this is a bad situation and yet, uh,

Sierra will ultimately be overthrown.

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Uh, they're not going to

be the one to conquer.

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Judah there.

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And then in the second half

of verse eight, the land.

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Uh, Emmanuelle would inherit this

future coming one would not be as

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glorious as it once was because of

just the degradation and the sinfulness

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of, uh, of Israel at this time.

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Verses nine through 22.

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Then we get this idea

of, of the fall of Judah.

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You may fall, but there's going to

be a faithful remnant who will be

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defined by their trust in Yahweh.

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And in verses nine

through 10, the nations.

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I can bow up and take counsel

together against the Lord, but

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Emmanuel will bring it all to nothing.

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Uh, versus 12 to 13 in

the midst of uncertainty.

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He, his message here

is, Hey, you know what?

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You faithful ones.

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Keep trusting the Lord,

honoring him as holy fear.

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God not man.

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Uh, verses 17 through 18, then Isaiah.

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Declares his own trust in God.

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In his plans that he is still chosen

Mount Zion as his ultimate dwelling place.

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And so there's a confidence here even

as he's pronouncing judgment and Hey.

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Judah is going down the prophet

saying, but there's still a future

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and there's still hope here.

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And we can still trust in

God in the midst of all this.

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Do you happen to have an opinion

about who this unnamed prophetess

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is in verse three, the one that

says all verse start, just read it.

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And I went to the prophetess and

she conceived and bore a son.

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Uh, initially some would say, oh look,

chapter seven is being fulfilled here.

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The Virgin shall conceive.

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Um, the Lord called the Lord said to me,

call his name, my hair shall hashed Baz.

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I say that 10 times fast.

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Four before the boys.

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No boy knows how to cry my

father or my mother, the wealth

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of Damascus and the spoil us.

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And Mary will be carried away

before the king of a series.

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So Syria and Israel are going

to be ransacked before this kid

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can grow up and know how to even

say the words my mom and my dad.

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So who is the prophetess?

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That was my question.

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Verse three.

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I think it's Isaiah's wife.

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I think Isaiah is married.

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I think this is Isaiah's son.

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Does someone become a prophetess

by being married to a prophet?

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As Amanda pastor by being married with no.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

753

But I, I, I do think some of the support

there is the fact that Isaiah has a

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naming responsibility for, for this child.

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He is the one that's that's told to

name the son that I think when we see

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those commands elsewhere in scripture,

it's given to the father to do that,

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whether it's Zechariah, which on the

Baptist or Hosea with some of his

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children that he has with GeMar right.

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Um, And so it.

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She, it may be that Isaiah

married a prophetess that crazy.

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This is their child, the times monitoring.

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I really appreciate verse 22,

the teaching into the testimony.

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There are some things that

are never going to change.

764

And if you want to avoid the discipline

of God's judgment, if you want to avoid

765

some of the pain that comes with living,

sinfully Hey to the teaching, into the

766

testimony, man, that's the way to figure

that's the way to seek God's protection.

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It's always going to be.

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Through his word by.

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Trusting and obeying that and just like

it was for chapter eight in Isaiah's time.

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So it is for us in 2024 or 2023, depending

on what year it says on our bulletin.

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2024.

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Did the teaching and do the testimony.

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That's always going to be

our call a hundred percent.

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Yep.

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I agree.

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Why.

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Keep her in your Bibles, speaking up

to the teaching and the testimony.

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Can you bring your Bibles and

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