00:00 Introduction

01:14 Christian Perspective on World Events

03:06 Reflecting on Recent Deaths

04:28 The Legacy of Ozzy Osborne

05:52 Hulk Hogan's Passing

07:20 Daily Bible Reading: Isaiah 40-43

13:20 The Exalted Language of God

14:05 Understanding 'Fear Not' in Isaiah

14:54 The Servant Songs of Isaiah

17:25 The Coming Messiah and His Deliverance

18:28 Singing and Worship in Difficult Times

21:57 God's Glory and Our Response

25:43 Worshiping God with Reverence

26:54 Closing Prayer and Reflections

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Hey folks.

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Welcome back to another edition of the

Daily Bible Podcast, conspiracy Edition.

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Conspiracy Edition.

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So I saw this clip from

the White House, okay.

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Where some lady, I dunno who

it was, Tulsi Gabbard, maybe.

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Okay.

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Was saying that the Obama administration

was doing these nefarious things in order

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to disqualify and injure Trump's campaign

and sow seeds of discord and of suspicion.

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My question is, how do I know that?

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I, and I guess they're reporting it

and it's coming from the White House,

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so you would have reason to believe

that it's reliable and trustworthy.

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Are they presenting the facts fairly?

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Is that truly what took place?

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What do we do when we get these really

credible sources like the White House

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saying things like this where it's like,

Hey, this prior administration, the

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Obama administration, they were not.

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Slow to, to drop his name did all

these evil things and now we're

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gonna find some way to pursue.

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I don't know what they're gonna do next.

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I just know that they dropped it

and they said, wow, this is amazing.

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CNN took it off the air and

all these Click Beatty titles.

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What do we do with that?

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I'll one up.

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You.

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No I want you to answer the question.

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I'm not gonna answer you.

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Maybe yours.

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Maybe the, they released all of that to

take the attention off the Epstein files.

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'cause they don't want those

actually released because of all

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the dude I, because of the aliens.

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Yeah.

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That's what they're really hiding, man.

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It gives me tired head.

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And as Christians, we do have a

responsibility to know what's going

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on in the world, and we should and yet

there's a danger of caring too much

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about what's going on in the world.

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I file this under the, I'm gonna let

the people and the powers that be, that

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have clout to sort these things out.

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Sort these things out.

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Okay.

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And if justice needs to be done then I'm

gonna say, yeah, justice should be done.

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I don't lose sleep.

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Wondering whether or not I

can trust them about did this

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happen, did this not happen?

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I lost trust in a lot of the overall.

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Political talking heads a long time

ago, I'm gonna do my civic duty.

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I'm gonna cast my vote according

to my biblical principles that I

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have, when it comes time to vote.

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But outside of that, I'm, my

ultimate confidence and trust in

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the administration of the affairs

of this world and everything else

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is that I trust the Lord in that.

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I trust God in that, and I'm.

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Saying that if you're really overly

interested in what's going on with

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this, that you don't trust God.

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I'm just saying I think

that's where my comfort is.

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That's why I'm not losing sleep at night

going, oh no what did Tulsi Gabbard say?

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What did this person say over here?

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God's gonna work those details

out and I'm fully confident in the

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the administration of his justice.

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If you're intrigued by it because it

interests you, again, I think there's

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a good reason for us, like we talked

about with the Epstein files to.

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Push back and say, why

am I intrigued by this?

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Why?

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Is it because I want the salacious

juicy details and I've got a little

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bit of a voyeurism about all this?

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Or am I really concerned for justice

because I care about God's character and

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maybe there's some connection there to it,

I don't know, man that's my 2 cents on it.

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What your thoughts?

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I have lots of thoughts.

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I guess I watched it and I

thought, man I'm angry about this.

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If this is true, I'm not

happy about what I'm seeing.

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How do I know it's true

was my second thought.

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And third, what can I do about this?

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And the answer to all those I don't

really know what to do about, I'm

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upset, I know that much, but I

don't know what I can do about it.

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And I don't know what I should do

about it, if anything at all, except

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to vote prayerfully and faithfully.

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But let me just slightly turn the

conversation just a tad bit here.

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Dr.

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MacArthur died recently, but

we had another person die,

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another one of the greats, Dr.

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Ozzy Osborne.

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How are you processing this, bro?

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I, it did not move the needle for me one

bit, and I know a lot of people it did.

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And I'll say this.

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There was a prominent pastor

who's a public figure, and

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I'll just, I'll name him.

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Two Inch Vision, who called out

MacArthur and basically just

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stopped short of calling MacArthur

a false teacher and a heretic.

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In after MacArthur's death, and yet

when Ozzy Osborne died, he lamented

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the death of Ozzy Osborne who called

himself the Prince of Darkness.

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So I think there's a

massive disconnect there.

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Ian if you're listening to this podcast,

he probably does, if you wanna call me

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and talk about that, like I, I'd love

nine four I'd to have that conversation.

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Yeah.

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I, yeah I, okay.

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I care because it's a soul

that's lost and I, who knows it.

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I think the best take is his eternal fate

is between him and God at this point.

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But I didn't shed tears over

the death of Ozzy Osborne.

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It looks like you're getting

pretty emotional right now.

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I, man, I like, yeah.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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I'm the wrong guy to ask about that.

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I'm sure we've got some

Ozzy Osborne fans out there.

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I'm surprised the dude

lasted as long as he did.

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He bit the head off of a bat on

stage, like that's, talk about COVID

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concerns, like what is going on?

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Yeah.

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I thought it was a chicken.

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Was it a bat?

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I think it was a bat man.

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It was some bird.

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I don't know what kind of bird it was.

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Yeah, I know.

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I know the story is true.

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I don't know what it was though.

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It's interesting, man, because there

there's a glorification of the evil in

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so much of the of pop culture out there.

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And there has been for a long time.

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I remember Prince prince was maybe not

as dark, but he had his dark moments.

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And then you've got, these other

bands that were very much dark and

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evil and glorifying the Satanic and

the occult and those things matter.

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And I think for a lot of people in that.

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Area.

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They spent their careers and they made a

lot of money glorifying things that were

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a direct affront to the holiness of God.

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And I think they probably thought this

is no big deal because, it's just,

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it's a line in my pockets and God's

not doing anything about it right now.

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And maybe God doesn't even exist.

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Yeah, I'm gonna be a satanist and

I'm gonna celebrate darkness and the

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evil one and everything else like

that, it does matter and they're

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being held accountable to that.

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In the end, and they're standing before

holy God in the end, and they're gonna

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have to give an account for every careless

word that they spoke including the words

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on stage the masses and the words of the

songs that they penned and that are now

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earworms in people's minds and hearts.

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Yeah it's God is not

God to bet trifled with.

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We're gonna talk about that tomorrow.

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We're the message tomorrow

is how to make God mad.

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And that is something that

I think that's enticing.

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Yeah.

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That, that they're having to answer for

that now and that's a terrifying reality.

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Alright.

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You ready to hear something

for the first time?

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Yes.

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We had Dr.

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MacArthur die.

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We had, who were we just talking about?

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Ozzy Osborne die.

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Yep.

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Him and now just a few hours ago.

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Hulk Hogan died.

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Hulk Hogan died.

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Yep.

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The triumvirate seven, SIA.

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I know, man.

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This is the end times.

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If that doesn't tell you, I

don't know what else does.

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Yeah.

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How do you feel about Hulk Hogan?

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I, growing up, tell me brother.

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I remember yeah.

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Speak of, do you remember

Men's retreat and no.

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Which one?

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The yeah, we, men's

retreat there was, yeah.

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The brother.

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Moment.

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That was pretty great.

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That was good.

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That was Greg Larson.

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Yeah, you should, if you're, I should

ask Greg Larson how he's doing.

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He's probably heartbroken right now.

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He probably is.

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But if you see Greg at church

tomorrow, maybe ask him for

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his whole Hogan impression.

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'cause he does it pretty spot on.

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I'm not gonna lie.

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It's too soon, bro.

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He just passed.

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Yeah, he did.

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It's too soon.

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I don't know him.

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But it seems like Greg has

a pretty fond care for him.

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My memory of Hulk Hogan is

this, a friend of mine grown up.

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Back in the early nineties, he had the

WWE e plastic ring and he had the action

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figure wrestlers and I remember that.

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Oh yeah.

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And Hulk Hogan was one of

those action figure wrestlers.

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Oh yeah.

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But he was the one that everybody wanted.

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Yeah.

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Hulk Hogan became a Christian.

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I heard that.

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At least that's what's

being reported at time.

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He and his wife were baptized

like a, a couple years ago.

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That's exciting and potentially

you might see Hulk Hogan in heaven.

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You could.

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I wonderful.

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Have this same shtick going on.

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Welcome brother.

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You waited, ripping his robe open.

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Jesus is will you stop?

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Dude, you don't have an infinite.

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Oh nevermind.

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We actually do.

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We do.

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It's fine.

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Go ahead.

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Here you go.

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Oh man.

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That's crazy.

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It is the end times.

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Because Hulk Hogan died.

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Hulk Ozzy, Dr.

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MacArthur.

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Okay.

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What's next?

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Did you ever think you would

put those three names together?

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Never.

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Never.

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And here we are multiple

times in the podcast so far.

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Yeah.

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Hey, let's jump into God's word, daily

Bible podcast, daily Bible reading.

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We're in Isaiah 40 through 43.

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It's a lot of ground to cover.

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Important shift here though, because

if you don't realize what's going

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on, you're gonna get confused

real fast here in from 39 to 40.

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In 39, we're dealing with Assyria.

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We're dealing with Hezekiah,

we're dealing with snacker.

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We're dealing with all

this chapter 40 hits.

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And the focus of Isaiah

shifts away from all that.

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And now what we're talking about is we're

talking about Babylon and even chapter

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40, 41, 42 it's focusing on the coming.

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Exile and it's as though

Isaiah is prophesying as though

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that exile is already here.

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And so he's prophesying comfort, and

that's why Chapter 40 opens the way that

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it does comfort, my people who are in

exile in, in the view, in the prophecy

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of what Isaiah's talking about here.

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This is a message of comfort because

it's a reminder that God is going

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to be faithful to his promises.

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Even in verse eight, the grass

withers, the flower fades.

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The word of the of our

God will stand forever.

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Peter's gonna quote this in one Peter

one, but here for the exiles, this

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is a reminder to them of saying,

Hey, God is gonna be faithful to

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you even when you're in exile.

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Don't forget that God is, has a future.

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God is going to bring his recompense.

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Even Isaiah.

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40 verse 10 there, he's

gonna bring his reward.

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He's gonna come, he's gonna tend to his

flock like a shepherd and gather his lamb.

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So there's a future still for Israel.

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And then there's the great depiction

in the rest of chapter 40 of the power

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and the might of God, the magnitude of.

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God, things like measuring the

waters in the hollow of his hand.

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Picture the oceans being held in the

palm of the hand of God, in other words.

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And it's just a reminder of how big

God is, which, which would again

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be a massive comfort to a group of

people, Israelites, who were in exile.

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So this is preparing them

ahead of time for some of the

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questions they're gonna have.

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One day have been carried

off by Nebuchadnezzar in

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Babylon and taken into exile.

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Yeah, the timing of this

is really fascinating.

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Really what you should know is that

chapter 40, really some would say at 40

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through 55, others would say 40 through

66 is the next section of Isaiah.

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And sometimes, depending on who

you read, you're gonna see a

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good case made for both of those.

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But either way, 40 in onward and the

rest of the book of Isaiah is a shift.

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It's a whole different way of

looking at the book up to this point.

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Isaiah largely is talking about

God's judgment and what God is going

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to do interspersed by periods of

there's gonna be restoration, but

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40 onward, you're gonna see God.

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You're still gonna talk about

judgment, but there's a lot of comfort,

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a lot of restoration to be had.

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And remember, he's writing years

before they're ever exiled.

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This is happening well before

this over a hundred years, right?

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And so now you're reading something

that they would've understood.

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And I don't know how they

would've understood except wow,

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this is a, this is interesting.

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I'm not sure what to do with this.

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I suppose what this should

encourage 'em to do now is live

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in preparation of those days.

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But for whatever reason that

God does this, what you do see

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is an interesting contrast.

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You pointed it out, but I wanna show you

this in verses six, seven, and eight.

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When God says, cry to the people, Isaiah

says, what am I gonna say to them?

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What do you want me to shout

out in the marketplace?

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And he says, this all fleshes grass.

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That's so fascinating because

God's contrast, the enduring

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nature of his word to people.

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You're gonna live, you're gonna die.

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Your generation's gonna pass away.

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It's not gonna pass away my word.

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My word will accomplish all

that I intend for it to do.

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The grass whether's, the flower fades,

but the word of our God stands forever.

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We quote this, and I don't know if we

often remember, it's talking about us.

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Our glory will come and go.

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Our lives will sprout up in the

morning and they'll die by the evening.

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All of us have an appointed time to

die and we'll be judged by the Lord.

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But here he contrasts his word,

which tells us about how important

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his word is for our lives.

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He says it here, I think in part to

say, look, I'm telling you what's

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gonna happen before it happens, so

that you can know that I'm the one

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who said it, and you can basically

count on it that it's gonna happen.

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And that's what he does at the rest

of Chapter 40 who can compare to me?

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I've got all the power, I've

got all the cards I've got.

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Everything necessary to accomplish

exactly what I'm telling you Israel.

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So trust my word.

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Your lives are fickle,

fleeting, and fading.

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My word is not.

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My person is not.

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I'm here.

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I'm not going anywhere.

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I will accomplish my purposes.

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Take that to the bank.

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I think that's encouraging.

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Yeah, and you wonder also if some of this

is because going back to Isaiah six, God

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is prophesying this through Isaiah about.

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Future generation because the generation

immediately listening to the words of

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Isaiah, God had already told Isaiah,

they're not gonna listen to you.

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And so it's almost as though God was

telling Isaiah, your message is going to

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be for other people to begin with, right?

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I'm having you write this down.

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Not for this present generation,

because they're gonna, under

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my judgment, not listen to you.

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But the future generation is

gonna read this and understand

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these things and listen and.

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Repent.

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At least a portion of them, a remnant

of them will, and they will be

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comforted by the words that you're

gonna prophesy in this moment.

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Yeah.

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You mentioned chapter, the rest of

Chapter 40 being about God saying, no

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one's gonna be able to stop this in that.

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His sovereignty there.

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And then turning the page to chapter

41, we begin to get into some of

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the details of what this is gonna

look like, including even the.

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The people that are gonna come and be

God's instrument against the Babylonians.

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And so this is, we were talking

about inception the other day.

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It's like where something's

within another thing there.

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And so now we're like two layers deep

on this future because the now it's

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not only looking beyond the future

of Babylon, and remember Assyria

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is the main empire at this time.

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So now we're looking at the next empire

up being Babylon, but then we're looking

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at the Empire to come after that.

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Which is gonna be Persia and the Meads

that are gonna come against Babylon.

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And that's verse two who

stirred up one from the east.

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This is gonna be Cyrus of Persia that's

gonna come and deliver the people and send

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the exiles back to Jerusalem to rebuild,

which is what we're, we've been talking

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about in the minor prophets, Haggai.

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And even in, in Malachi this week

the post exilic exiles coming back

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per Cyrus of Persia is gonna be the

one that sets up that return there.

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And Chapter 41 is gonna be a lot

about that, that deliverance from

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the Babylonian captivity there.

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Yeah, I love some of these verses

and it's hard to remember the context

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sometimes, but their verses are so rich.

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I love he's gonna do this

many times between now and the

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coming chapters that we read.

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Look at verse four.

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Who has performed and done this calling?

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This calling the generation

from the beginning.

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I the Lord the first and with the last

I am He God's gonna flex his God muscles

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and say if there is any other God.

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I don't know who he is and

God's not saying I'm ignorant.

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I don't know if there is

another God who exists.

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He's saying, I am it.

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You wanna worship somebody?

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Worship me.

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'cause I the Lord, I'm the first.

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I'm the last.

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I am He.

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I'm everything and

everything else in between.

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I love this exalted language about God.

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It's exalted, not inappropriately.

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Sometimes you talk about people

being, oh, he's the goat.

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The greatest of all time.

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Michael Jordan's the goat.

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LeBron James is the goat.

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Kobe Bryant's a goat Derek Jeters.

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All these guys, the goat, and that's fine.

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We understand what we mean by that.

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We mean, comparatively

speaking, they're really good.

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When we talk about God being

the goat, we're not saying,

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comparatively speaking, he's better

than the rest of us we're saying.

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Objectionally objectively,

absolutely without flaw or fail.

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He is all that there ever will be.

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He's the God of creation.

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He's the God of non creation.

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What doesn't exist.

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He's the God of everything.

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He's the first and the last.

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He's everything else in between.

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I love this language.

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Isaiah has a lot of it sprinkled out

as we read through the next chapters

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here in Good Theology is comforting.

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To the people that are his people.

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When we understand these pictures of

God and his power and his might and

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everything else it is comforting to us.

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And that's one of the reasons why

another repeated phrase that you're

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gonna find in these chapters we see in

verse 10, fear not verse 14, fear not.

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Verse 13, fear not.

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And you're gonna find that

phrase throughout the next.

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Prolonged section of Isaiah.

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Fear not is gonna show

up over and over again.

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When you see it, circle it,

underline it, do something.

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Note that, because again, this is what

God is trying to convey to these people.

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You're gonna be in a tough spot.

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Don't fear, don't be afraid.

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And so you think about people like Daniel

reading through this book when he's in

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captivity and realizing, okay, I can trust

the Lord, I can have confidence in God.

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I'm not gonna fear because of what

he prophesied from Isaiah about what

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he was gonna do during this time.

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He does I think it's important

to note in verse eight, he.

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Calls Israel, my servant.

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These are, we're getting into what are

known as the servant songs of Isaiah.

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And it's going to be in imperative

for us to ask ourselves the

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question, when we see the word

servant, is he talking about Israel?

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'cause sometimes he is, or is

he talking about his servant?

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The future?

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Messiah, capital S.

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Although it's not always that in the.

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The conceptually.

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Yeah, conceptually you're not gonna

see it capitalized necessarily

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by the editors of the ESV.

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And that's important because we're gonna

get to Isaiah 53, which is gonna talk

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about his servant, the suffering servant.

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Right?

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And that's gonna be the Messiah.

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But even in chapter 42, we're gonna

get to the servant, the Messiah.

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So sometimes it's servant

Israel, servant Jacob.

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Sometimes it's servant Messiah.

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And you say how can we tell?

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And the way that you can tell is when it's

talking about the servant, the Messiah.

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The language is of an individual when

it's talking about the servant Israel.

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Either he will call it my servant

Jacob, my servant Israel, or he

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will say of the servant that he will

use plural references to refer to

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the people as the servant there.

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And so it's, it is distinguishable

enough for us to be able to say, this is

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about the Messiah, this is about Israel.

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Rule number one in Bible.

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Context is king.

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Context.

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Just like real estate, right?

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Location, locations.

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Whenever you're reading the answer

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of the time, it's gonna be

what does the context say?

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And that usually is sufficient enough

to help you answer the question.

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Occasionally you have to reference

other parts of the Bible to build the

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picture, but most of the time we're gonna

look at the immediate context and that

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usually is enough to resolve the issue.

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You were talking about not being

afraid, and I thought, what a, what

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an interesting way to look at it.

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If you have someone who's all powerful.

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Who's saying this is what

I'm gonna do, then what?

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What do you have to fear?

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You're invincible until God

decides to take you home.

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It's like getting the

star field in Super Mario.

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When you have the star you do.

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You could go anywhere

in that you can't die.

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If you die.

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But if you go and you hit all the

bad guys, they just jump outta

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the way because you got the star.

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If you got the Lord, if the Lord

is who he says he is, and he says,

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these are my plans, you have nothing

to fear because your lives are

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invincible until he says otherwise.

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Yeah.

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George Whitfield had that famous quote.

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He said, I'm immortal until

my work on earth is done.

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I just said that.

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So I'm going to say Whitfield

could take it back to you.

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There you go.

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There you go.

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Just kidding.

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George, one exegetical note here.

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He continues to talk

about this deliverance.

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Verse 25 at chapter 41.

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He says, I stirred up one from

the north and he has come.

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So 41 earlier, one from the

east, now one from the North.

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Cyrus did come from the east.

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That's where Persia was located, but

he did attack Babylon from the north.

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And so we're still talking about Cyrus as.

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The one that is going to come against

the Babylonians there in chapter 41.

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Even though directionally things have

changed, he's from the east, but he

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attacks from the north, and that's

why that is, is referred to that way.

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Chapter 42 does introduce the messiah,

behold, my servant, whom I uphold,

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my chosen, and whom my soul delights.

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I have put my spirit upon.

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Notice the language here, him.

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It's singular.

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It's not upon them, but him.

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He will bring forth

justice to the nations.

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This is quoted in Matthew chapter

three at the baptism of Jesus.

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This is pointing towards

the coming Messiah.

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Verse two.

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He will not cry aloud or lift up his

voice or make it heard in the street.

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It bruised Reed.

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He will not break.

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This is his first coming.

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This is the first advent, but then it's

going to shift quickly to the later

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coming where he's going to bring justice.

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On behalf of the Lord and

there's gonna be deliverance

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there from this coming Messiah.

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Verses six and seven.

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Talk about the contrast

between light and darkness.

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He's gonna be a light for the nations

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring

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the prisoners from the dungeon, from

the prisons, those who sit in darkness.

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And so the deliverance that's going

to come from the servant is a promise

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to the people is Israel as well.

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So on the one hand, Cyrus is

gonna be the Lord's servant.

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But there's a greater servant that's

gonna come, that's gonna pro provide an

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even greater deliverance for the people,

and that is the servant of the Messiah.

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Rest of chapter 42, there's a call

to sing, which pastor Rod likes

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because as our worship guy, he's

always calling us to sing as well.

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And it's here.

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Isaiah the prophet, is sing

in the midst of your exile.

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It there's reason to sing because

of our trust in the Lord and the

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trust of the salvation that this

future Messiah is going to bring.

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I think that shows how.

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The God designs people to be singers.

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And I know for some of us, we

don't sing particularly well.

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And in fact, I don't even know

if you guys know this I don't

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choose to do worship ministry.

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'cause I'm like, I love doing this.

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I do it because if there's a need and I

know I have some skills where I can do it.

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It's not my first choice.

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But even still I think it's ironic and

also funny and delightful that God wants

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me to do this in this particular season.

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And I struggle to sing.

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I'll just, I'll be honest

with you about that.

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Singing in worship is.

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It's just not something that I naturally

gravitate to, but it is something that

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God has me do and I enjoy doing it to the

extent that I recognize it's good for me

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and it's something that God is pleased

by when I do it with a joyful heart.

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One time I was talking during worship

saying You can sing Happy Birthday to

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someone that you love out of compulsion.

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Or it's like happy birthday

to you, or you could sing it.

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With a joyful smile because you love

the person that you're singing to,

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even if you're not particularly fond

of the song, which I think could

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be the case for a lot of people,

regardless, God likes when we sing.

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And he delights in the fact that we

give him our songs, he sings over us.

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We're gonna find out in one of the

minor prophets that we'll get through.

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At some point, God sings over his people,

he sings over us, we sing back to him.

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It's what people do when they care

about each other, and so it's totally

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expected that God would say, here's

a song to sing, even though you're

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going through a DA difficult time.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 42 ends with another

reference to his servant.

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And yet this is not the servant of

the Messiah, but this is the servant

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of Israel again there in verse 19.

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And the way we know that who's

blind is my dedicated one.

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Number one, because this is negative

language, so the Messiah is not gonna

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be described in negative language,

but you've jumped down to verse 22.

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This is a people plundered and looted.

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So the servant there is referred

to in the plural as a people,

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in not just the individual.

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And chapter 42.

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Again, more about the deliverance, but

also about the deliverer who's gonna come.

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But again this chapter ends by reminding

them of the problem in the interim,

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which is the blindness of Israel, the

refusal to see in God's sovereign wrath.

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Verse 24, who gave Jacob up to the

looter in Israel to the plunger?

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Was it not the Lord against whom we have

sinned, in whose ways they would not

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walk and whose law they would not obey?

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And God is confronting

them in his wrath There.

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Chapter 43.

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We move on now, and this

is again, you'll see in 43.

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One fear not this is God reminding

Israel of his love for them

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and his affection for them.

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Again he's coming back to this is

a largely a section of comfort.

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He created them.

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He formed them.

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Fear not for I've redeemed you.

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Verse three, for I, the Lord, your

God, and the holy one of Israel, your.

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Savior, he's gonna call himself there now.

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And so he continues on here, he says in

verse four, because you are precious in

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my eyes and honored I love you again.

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Verse five, fear not.

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And so this is more hope for Israel

more hope for them that they should not

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despair even despite the circumstances

and what it was gonna look like, but.

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This is a situation where

he's encouraging them to hope.

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Notice down in verse 14, he's going to

introduce the concept of Babylon here.

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And this is one of the reasons we

know that this whole section is about

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Babylonian exile, thus says the Lord, your

redeemer, the holy one of Israel, for your

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sake, I sent to Babylon and bring them

all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans.

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And so that's one of the reasons

why we know that this section

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pertains to Babylon because of the

contextual clue here in chapter 43.

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And what's also comforting too in

chapter 43 is the reason that God acts.

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A lot of times we can look at ourselves

and say maybe God will act on my behalf

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because I'm doing A, B, C, and D.

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But what we see here is that

God acts for his own sake.

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43 40 43 7.

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Everyone who is called by

my name, whom I created for.

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My glory whom I formed and made.

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And so we first of all see that God

creates a people for his honor, for

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his distinction, for his magnification,

for people to see that God is good.

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God designed and made a people

for himself to showcase the

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brilliance of his kindness.

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His goodness, his justice, his love, the

panoply of his character is displayed

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in the people that he's created.

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And furthermore, he for

not only creates it, but he

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forgives them for his own glory.

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Verse 25, I am He who blots out your

transgression for my own sake, he does

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it so that he can be glorified When

we talk about the language of being.

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Of glorifying, God, let's try to, I don't

wanna say dumb it down, but let's try to

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explain it using some regular language.

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If we were to say, God creates for

his glory and he saves for his glory,

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what's another way that we could

utilize that lang or talk about that

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without utilizing that particular word?

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Yeah.

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In fact we're gonna talk about

this on tomorrow, sermon as well.

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I the word that I'm really zeroing

in there is the word honor.

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He does it for his honor and we can

understand that what you give honor

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to and that the contrast is gonna

be when we treat something lightly.

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If you think about the word glory as

weightiness and you think about the

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opposite then is something that is light.

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There's not a lot of substance to it.

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And so it may be helpful to, to think

about it in the, in terms of when you

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address something or treat something

or approach something flippantly.

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You don't think much of it.

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You walk in, like you go to get a

haircut, you're not gonna walk in to get

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a haircut and treat that as sacred ground.

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You're gonna treat it flippantly.

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You're gonna plop down in the seat,

wait for your name to be called.

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You're gonna go back there, you're

gonna hop in the barber chair and tune

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out while they, cut your hair and hope

they don't mess it up too bad, right?

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And then you're gonna leave and

it doesn't really move the needle.

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There's nothing sacred about

that or emphatic about that.

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There should be a difference when we

approach God when we come before him,

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there's a weightiness of what we're

doing that we should be cognitive of.

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Everything should be intentional.

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It should be thoughtful.

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We're not doing this casually, flippantly,

that was the problem in Malachi.

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They were just like, can you just

be happy that we're showing up?

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God, can you just be pleased with that and

let us move on with the rest of our lives?

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Instead of honoring him by

that intentionality and that

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weightiness that comes with that.

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Yeah.

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That's a really good example,

the barber chair versus.

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Even going to a chair in a

stadium, you go to the Ranger

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Stadium or the Cowboy Stadium.

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There is a sense of transcendence there.

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Yeah.

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A sense of weightiness that

comes with that environment.

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And they want that.

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They're designing it for that.

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They want you to feel small in a large

arena so that there's honor for the team.

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They put big signs up on the screen,

on the screens, and on the walls.

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They showcase their trophies and

their championships because they're

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testifying to the greatness of that team.

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And I think that does helpfully

encapsulate the idea of glory.

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You're bringing glory to the

team by saying, this is what.

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This is all about, this is what

we're about, this is what we're for.

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Christians do the same thing.

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We just don't create stadiums for that.

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We create the stadium of our lives

to say, God is what this is all for.

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We are for him.

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We exist for His glory.

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We are here to show how good he is.

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In the same way that a gentleman

might wear a jersey with his

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favorite player or you wear team

spirit things on your person.

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You go to your school, you wear a school

jersey or a school shirt that says

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Bobcat Pride or something like that.

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You're testifying to

the glory of that thing.

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Christians don't do that in a microcosm.

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We do that through the

entirety of our lives.

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And we're trying to say, God

is best glorified in my life.

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He's the most worthy of glory.

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And the way that we do

that is we talk about him.

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We speak good and write things about him.

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We point to him when

good things happen to us.

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We recognize he's the giver of good gifts.

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We're trying to help people

see life is about him.

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And when we do that, we're

bringing glory to him.

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We're giving him the.

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Honor and the distinction and the

reverence that's due because of who he is.

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Yeah I think we're also at a little bit

of a disadvantage in our culture, in

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our time as the church large capital C.

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We talked about this recently as pastors,

and I know we're running long on this,

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but I think this is worth bringing up.

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We.

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We go to, to worship God in a cafeteria.

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And that's hard for us.

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It's a sacred cafeteria to

capture the weightiness.

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When you went into the cathedrals

of whole, there was a reason why

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they built them the way they did.

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It was to convey what we're

talking about right now.

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The glory of God, the majesty

of God, the grandeur of God, the

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austerity of the whole experience.

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We have to be.

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More thoughtful I think, than did

Christians in past generations

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because we do, we walk into

a cafeteria to worship God.

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It's not that has to impede our

worship of God, but we do have

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to be careful to not let that.

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Make God tame and domesticated

when we approach there as though,

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oh, it's not that big of a deal,

because kids are gonna be eating

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sloppy joes here on Monday morning.

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We need to be thoughtful and go, man,

I'm still here to come before a holy God.

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The God of Isaiah six is still

the God that I'm coming to

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worship on Sunday morning.

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And there's a reverence and an honor

and austerity that, that we need to.

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Not manufactured, that's the wrong word.

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'cause it makes it sound fake.

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But that we need to be careful

to cultivate as we come to

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worship him on a weekly basis.

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That's a good word, bro.

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Let's pray and then we will

be done with another episode.

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God, we thank you for your word and

for the ability to approach you.

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And we confess that we don't.

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Often approach you with the right

degree of reverence and holiness and

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honor that you're due, and yet your

mercy extends to even make up for that.

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We still wanna be thoughtful

and careful as we approach you.

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And even when we think about the

cafeteria we're thankful for that space

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that we get to gather to worship you.

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And yet we also know that that if

we could, if we had a rathers, we

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would build you the most massive

and grand cathedral that we possibly

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could imagine to reflect your goal.

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Your glory and who you are.

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And so again we just pray that you

would help us to worship you well.

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That it wouldn't be an impediment or an

excuse for us not to render you the honor

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and glory that you due, but that we would

gather intentionally and thoughtfully

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every single time that we do to render

you that, that praise and that honor,

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that austerity that we should have as

we come before you, as your people.

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And so we thank you for these things.

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We pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep it in your bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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