00:00 Introduction and Anonymous Listener (Megan Clancy) Question

01:09 Understanding Capitalization in Biblical Texts

05:19 Respecting the Bible in Daily Life

07:09 Isaiah 59: Sin and Separation from God

10:33 Isaiah 60: The Future Glory of Israel

15:14 Isaiah 61: The Year of the Lord's Favor

17:02 Isaiah 62: Future Deliverance and Rejoicing

19:00 Isaiah 63: God's Judgment and Wrath

21:14 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello and hi, Megan.

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We have your question.

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We're looking right at it.

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We are looking directly at it,

and now we're gonna attempt to

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answer it, so I'm gonna ask it.

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Okay.

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And then you are going to do

the privilege of answering.

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Okay.

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You ready?

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I'll give you my best shot.

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Hi pastors, this is Megan.

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Hi pastors.

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Can you do a higher pitched Hi pastors.

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A question related to the sermon today.

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How do we go about holding

Jesus' name with reverence?

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When even in the Bible it

lowercases the personal pronoun?

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He as a person in the Trinity,

do we need to capitalize?

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He, I see a lot of inconsistency on

this, specifically related to Jesus,

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but also in also God in Genesis chapter

one, Hebrew chapter four, for example.

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I don't wanna be legalistic

about this, but I do.

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I also don't want to be flippant or lack

of reverence when writing Jesus' name.

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Please help me.

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I'm emotionally and

spiritually conflicted.

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I don't know what to do

with my life anymore.

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What's even true at this point?

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Sincerely, Megan Clancy.

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I think you embellished the

signature there at the end.

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I think, I don't know if

the emotional distraughtness

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and I don't know what to do.

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I'm just reading the between the lines.

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I feel you like.

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That's fair.

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Okay.

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I'm just trying to defend Megan A.

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Little bit here.

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I don't think she's like an

existential crisis about this, but

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No, it's, it is a great question.

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So one thing to that.

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I remember when I first learned

it blew my mind is in the original

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documents as they were written,

especially in the New Testament.

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They're written in what's called

unseals, which are Capital Greek

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letters, and those documents, those

manuscripts that we have, there's no

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spacing or punctuation in any of them.

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That's frustrating.

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So all caps smushed together.

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No spacing.

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No punctuation.

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And you say then how do

we know what it said?

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If you took a paragraph and you made

it all caps and put it together, you'd

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still be able to tell what it said.

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It's a little bit more difficult,

but that was their way that they

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wrote, part of which was the

scarcity of resources at the time.

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They could fit more words on a line

and so it wasn't wasting as much

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materials, as much resources as Inc.

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Papyrus, things like that.

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But, all that to say that means that

when we're looking at the manuscripts

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that we have, we don't know whether or

not they were intending to capitalize

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their personal pronouns or not.

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So when you read, for example, in the

New American Standard Bible and you

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come across the he's that refer to Jesus

or God, and you'll see that they're

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capitalized, and you look at your ESV

and that they're in lowercase, that

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comes down to a human editorial decision.

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Along the lines of your question,

the editorial boards of the NASB and

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the LSB and some others, probably

the KJ V two, I can't remember.

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They will, they've chosen to capitalize

those pronouns because they want to

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make sure that they are honoring,

but it's also helps you to know who

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the pronoun is talking about when

you come across it in the Bible.

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So the editor said, this is gonna help the

reader know that this is referring to God.

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If we capitalize, kinda like

the red letters for sure.

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And there's sometimes that you're

gonna have to make a decision, and

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those editors are gonna have to make

a decision that it's not always clear

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who the pronoun is referring to.

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And so they're gonna have to, for example,

some of the times we're reading in Isaiah

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and it's referencing the Messiah, the

suffering servant, there's times where

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it's okay, is that who this is about?

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Or is it about the, they're

gonna make an editorial decision.

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It's a human decision.

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So when it comes to you,

Megan as you're writing and.

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You're texting somebody about God and

if you come across and you're gonna

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refer to him or he or whatever and

you wanna capitalize it, that's fine.

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You've got the freedom

in Christ to do that.

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And if you've got on your conscience,

that man that helps me honor him by

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capitalizing his pronoun here, or

it helps me be clear about who I'm

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referring to, then by all means do that.

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And you've got the freedom to do that.

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I.

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I just, honestly, I'll go back and forth

there, there's times that I've just gone

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with the lowercase because it's the ESV

and it's easy to just track with that.

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There's other times as I'm writing

my messages and my outlines that

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I'll capitalize it because again,

I think it's something that helps

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me know who I'm talking about.

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Number one, it helps give honor to him as

well it's not a, you're not robbing God of

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honorees due by using a lowercase letter.

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But if your heart says, Hey, I want to do

the capitalization, that's fine as well.

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Your thoughts pr Yeah.

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I appreciate the heart behind the desire

to capitalize pronouns referring to God.

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And for the longest time I did

that as a matter of practice,

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though I no longer do that.

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Mostly because I got into the

habit of not doing that when I

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was writing papers for seminary.

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Interestingly enough it's not, style

guides would not, they don't discourage

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it, but neither do they encourage it.

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So I just got in the habit of making

sure that my pronoun usage was consistent

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across the board, which meant that

I'm often just using lowercase, but

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in my conscience, I don't have any

sense of I'm lowering God, my status.

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And so I I can appreciate when

someone does it, but also I do

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appreciate clear and clean grammar.

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And there's something about it that just

makes me feel like, man, I just wanna

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be consistent in how I refer to God.

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And so it helps me to just be

consistent across the board.

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But I do appreciate when I

see it, I'm not against it.

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I love it.

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I love when people try to show away.

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It's ah here's what it's like.

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Tell us what it's like.

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It is thank you for bringing that up.

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It is like when we stand

for a Bible reading.

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Yep.

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I never stand when I read my Bible.

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I just want you to know that whenever I'm

reading my Bible, I am that's not true.

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Sometimes I am standing and sometimes I'm

actually walking while I read my Bible.

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Most of the time though, I'm

sitting down as I read my Bible.

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The only time that I stand as a matter

of intentional practice is at church.

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But that's just one way that we say

we're honoring the reading of the word.

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We're demonstrating that we're listening.

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We're attentive.

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We're trying to show that

we respect it, although.

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As a matter of practice,

we never do it otherwise.

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It's similar with the

capitalization of the pronouns.

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We're just trying to show

that we esteem this person.

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In this case, God, nothing wrong with it.

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Nothing wrong with not doing it.

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Yeah.

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How about this, do you think

there's any significance to not

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putting the Bible on the floor or to

stacking other books on top of the

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Bible if you have it on your desk?

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I think it's in the same category.

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Yeah, I think it's

exactly the same category.

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Although I am more conscious of that.

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I'm not frivolous with my Bible.

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I'm very, I have a Bible cover

and I used to transport my Bible

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to and from the office to home.

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So I am conscious.

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I want to keep my Bible in good

condition, and when I come time to

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let a Bible go, it's really hard for

me to think about what to do with it.

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It's actually that talk

about existential crisis.

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I like, what do I do with my old Bible?

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There are organizations that

will accept donated Bibles if

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they're still in good order.

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Other organizations will tell you if it's

in such bad condition, you've used it

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for years, you should just get rid of it.

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And if it makes you feel better cover

it up and wrap it up with some paper

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and dedicated to the Lord, bury it.

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Something like that.

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Anyway, all that to say, I don't

think there's any difference in that.

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I think it's one of those ara things

that are neither forbidden, nor.

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Forbidden what's or allowed, it's one of

those gray areas where you get to make

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a decision according to your conscience.

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So I'm, I don't put stuff on top

of my Bible 'cause it feels weird,

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but I don't have any principled

stance against it except it's God's

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words, but wanna get technical.

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The words are.

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Arabic and Greek, and do

we have God's words, right?

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Yes, we do if we know them, but

we don't have the originals.

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So it's a strange argument.

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I know I'm getting too much

out in the weeds now, but what

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do you think about all that?

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Yeah.

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I agree with you.

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I think it's Ara, I think it's third

tier, fourth tier issue as far as.

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Brothers in, in Christ can be concerned.

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So yeah.

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Alright.

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You're not sinning if you like

using those, we just wanna be clear.

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Totally.

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You're not sending, it's not at all.

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It's fine.

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It's a great instinct.

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Yeah.

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Shows your heart behind

the desire to love God.

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But there, just to be clear, there's

nothing wrong with not doing that either.

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And I feel like we need to say both.

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And it's not legalistic.

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As long as you're not looking at somebody

going, Hey, you have to do it my way.

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Otherwise, you're doing it wrong.

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Yeah.

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Hey, Isaiah 59 through 63 is our text

for this day, today, this morning.

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Whenever you happen to be reading this.

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Isaiah 59, 1 answers the

question of Isaiah 52 not 52,

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the chapter 50, verse two.

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There God says, is my hand

shortened that it cannot redeem

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or have I no power to deliver?

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Isaiah 59, 1 says.

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Behold, the Lord's hand is not

shortened, that it cannot save, or

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his ear dull, that it cannot hear,

but then he introduces the problem.

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But your iniquities, verse two, have

made a separation between you and God.

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This is a key and core doctrine

to our understanding of our need

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for Jesus is this right here

that sins separates us from God.

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It was true in the Old Testament was.

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With Israel.

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It's true today of us, and

there's consequences for that.

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And those consequences for

Israel were found in verse nine.

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Therefore, justice is far from us and

righteousness does not overtake us.

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We hope for light, but behold darkness

and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

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We grope for the wall like the blind.

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We grope like those who have no eyes.

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And so God is going to come in judgment

because that's what God does with sin.

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If you look at verse 11 and 12, he says,

we hope for justice but there's none

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for salvation, but it's far from us.

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For our transgressions are

multiplied before you and

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our sins testify against us.

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This points to the reality and the

truth that God has to punish sin.

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And so though 59 1 says that his.

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Arm is not short, that it cannot save.

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The problem Israel was facing is that

they were unrepentant, that there

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was evil, there was injustice going

there, and God had to punish that.

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And that's where he goes

in the rest of chapter 59.

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Verse 16, he saw there was no

man and wondered that there was

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no one to intercede then his.

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Own arm brought him salvation.

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His righteousness upheld him.

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He put on righteousness as a

breastplate and the helmet of

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salvation on his head and garments

of vengeance for his clothing.

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So God is acting now and God is coming

to judge the sin that he has to judge.

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So his hand is not too short, his arm

is not too short, that it cannot save.

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But the problem is Israel had to deal

with their sins and they weren't.

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They were multiplying their sins

instead, and they could expect

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God's judgment in response.

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Yeah, it's interesting here.

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If you look at the beginning where

you just quoted in chapter 59 verse

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two, notice that the thing that

causes God not to act in the way that

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they desired is their iniquities.

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Your iniquities have made a

separation between you and your God.

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Your sins have hidden his face from you

so that he does not hear, which tells us

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that God cannot, based on his righteous

standard, he cannot indulge us in our sin.

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And even though it's true, this

is Israel and we are the church,

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and there is a difference there.

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It is true that God.

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His relationship with us can

be interrupted and successfully

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withheld because of your ongoing sin.

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It's like when God says to the husband

through Peter, if you don't live with

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your wife in an understanding way.

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That your prayers will be hindered.

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There's questions about what

exactly we he means by that.

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And I guess you're probably gonna get

into that in your series, your upcoming

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series in the book of one Peter.

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But at the very minimum it means

that there's some kind of static

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or there's some kind of there's

some kind of interruption between

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you and God when there's sin.

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And that's an obvious thing to say.

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It's the same thing between

you and your husband, you and

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your wife, you and your kids.

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When there's some kind of sin between

you guys, it hinders the relationship

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and so it is with you and God, if

you want God to answer favorably.

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And even then, of course,

God has the God card.

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There has to be a sense in which

your conscience is clean before God.

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So if your conscience is not clean and

you're wondering by God's not answering,

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maybe take a look at Isaiah 59 verse two.

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Chapter 60, everything

shifts again forward to the

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millennial kingdom, the future.

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And again, Isaiah's, I think trying to

motivate a sinful nation to think about

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this future and to be to develop the

right posture, the right mentality, the

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repentance, the contrition of heart.

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In the present.

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So he is flashing forward again

and saying of God, a rise and

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shine for your light has come.

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The glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

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So he's anticipating this future

for the new Jerusalem, for the

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millennial kingdom, though before

that nations shall come to your light.

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Verse three kings to the

brightness of your rising.

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And this is what I found particularly

interesting is down in verse six, he

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says, A multitude of camels shall cover

you young camels of Midian and pha, and

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those from the Sheba shall come and.

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Here it is.

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They shall bring gold and

frankincense and shall bring good

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news, the praises of the Lord.

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That the millennial kingdom is gonna be a

time when people are coming into Jerusalem

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to testify to the goodness of God.

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They're bringing good news, and I

think the only good news that we can

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understand them bringing at that point

is how God has been faithful to them.

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And so that just is another reminder

that we have an opportunity to do

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that now as we come to worship.

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And that part of our worship of

the Lord is bringing the praise

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reports of the good things that

he's done in our lives bringing.

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Good news as we come to worship,

whether that's your community group

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that you're gathering together or you're

meeting with men's bible study, women's

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bible study you're meeting together

as as the church on Sunday mornings.

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Part of our praise can be to come in and

to bring good news, the praises of God.

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God has done good things.

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These are the things

that he's done for us.

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And chapter 60, anticipating the

millennial kingdom here for Israel,

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which is gonna be good news for them.

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Yeah.

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Can you identify something good that

God has done for you in this last week?

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I'm not, I'm putting you on the

spot here, but you're putting me

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on the spot here this last week.

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Yeah.

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I mentioned it already, but even

just my son getting a job, that

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was something we were praying for.

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Wow.

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And we were praying about that.

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And we were praying even

just about something simple.

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And sometimes I think

we make it too hard, we.

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Before he left for his first shift

we prayed together as a family.

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We prayed for him and that he would

have, 'cause he was a little nervous,

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starting a brand new job and not

knowing I remember what it was like.

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Yeah.

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And we just prayed for him and

he came back and it was great.

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He had a great report.

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Wow.

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And that's an answer to prayer.

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And we could just shrug that off or

we could use that as an opportunity

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to praise God and say, God thank you.

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You're kind even in the small areas

for us to be kind to us towards that.

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So that's one way.

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How about you?

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Yeah, I just got done celebrating my

wife and my daughter, so That's right.

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We thanked God for their lives.

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And we don't take those lives for granted.

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There are so many people that I don't

wanna get morbid, but they die every day.

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Yeah.

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We don't take it for granted that

we're gonna live until we're 85

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or 90 or whatever age that you

think you're supposed to live.

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Yeah.

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Someone said the other day on a

podcast, if you made it to 38 and a

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half, you are technically middle aged.

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And I thought, wow.

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Yeah, I missed my midlife crisis.

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I know.

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Shoot, I need to schedule it next time,

so if you're under 38 and a half, be

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sure to schedule it for yourself anyway.

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I'm just thankful for the people that

are in our lives, and particularly

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for those who are I'm closest

to, obviously my wife, my kids.

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I'm thankful for that and I thank

God that I have a healthy family.

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No one's got any major issues.

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That's a huge thing, and I.

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Yeah, that's not a small thing.

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Yeah.

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The chapter ends, but with

something to build on that.

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But real quick, I think there is a

mashup in this chapter between the

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millennial kingdom and the eternal state.

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Oh, for sure.

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Because if you look at verse

19, the sun shall be no more.

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Your light by day, nor your brightness

shall the moon give you light, but the

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Lord will be your everlasting light.

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That's Revelation 21, specifically.

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Revelation 21, 23 says There will be

no more sun in the millennial kingdom.

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There's still gonna be the sun.

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But in the eternal state, the new

Jerusalem, the new Earth, there's

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not gonna be sun anymore there.

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So it's a mashup of both there.

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I think Isaiah does this more than once.

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Yeah.

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Because there's a few times where

I'm like, wait a minute, right?

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This is a little different.

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This is not quite fitting right.

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And I, here's some something.

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As you're reading it is

easy to get confused.

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And I think one of the things that

you're gonna have to do as a Bible reader

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to read carefully and read a little

more slowly than what you might be.

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Tempted to do otherwise because

Isaiah does compressed timeframes, and

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that's typical with prophetic words.

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God will often allow the prophets

to put what looks like one singular

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mountain together, mountain of

prophetic material, when in reality

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we're only seeing it from one angle.

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But if you look at it from the sideways

glance, you'll see, oh, there's

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multiple mountains and peaks there.

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So you have to just be careful and

recognize that sometimes that there's a

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compression when you're reading the I, the

major profits or the minor profits and.

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What you'll notice is that you just have

to be patient and read your New Testament

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as well as your Old Testament to put

the pieces together more accurately.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 60 ends though, and this is

what I was thinking about, how it

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connects back to giving him thanks.

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In verse 21, he says, your

people shall all be righteous.

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They shall possess the lamb forever.

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The branch of the, of my

planting, the work of my hands,

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that I might be glorified.

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And that's the thing.

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That's, God is gonna be glorified.

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That's what it's about.

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The eternal state is fun

for us to think about.

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No more sin, no more glorified

bodies and all that we're gonna get

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to experience in the eternal state.

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And yet we can't forget that

it's all gonna be ultimately for

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the glory of God, chapter 61.

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Then we get into some familiar

territory for New Testament readers

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because the opening here, at least

the spirit of the Lord is upon me

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because the Lord has anointed me

to bring good news to the poor.

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He has sent me to bind up the

broken hearted to proclaim.

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Liberty to the captives and the opening

of the prison to those who are bound.

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This is when Jesus reads this portion

in the temple and says, this has

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been fulfilled in your hearing.

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And even I think there's some

elements here of when you know, John

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the Baptist sends his disciples to

Jesus and says, Hey are you the one?

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And there's some overlap.

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There's other passages more directly.

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Quotable here, but Jesus says, Hey,

go tell John what and what you hear

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that Jesus is fulfilling, that Jesus

is the Messiah, but Jesus himself

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says, this is fulfilled in me.

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And that's significant.

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That's massive.

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Anyone who might have argued that

Jesus didn't see himself as the

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fulfillment of the Old Testament

or see himself as the Messiah.

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You've got major problems, right?

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Be gone.

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It's interesting speaking

of compression and prophecy.

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He reads all the way through verse two,

actually two A Jesus stops at 61 2 A to

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proclaim the year of our Lord's favor.

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Jesus stops there, but the rest of it

says, and the day of vengeance of our God.

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And to comfort all who mourn, to grant

those who mourn in Zion to give them a

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beautiful headdress instead of ashes.

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Or as Shannon Shane say, beauty

instead of ashes or beauty for ashes.

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So this is interesting because you see.

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Elements of Jesus ministry here,

but not all of it, not all the time.

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There is a separation, a start and an

end date, and there's a big chasm of time

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between that you have to be patient for.

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So that's a cool indication of

what we're just talking about.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Advent one, advent two.

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Great point.

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Yeah.

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Verse five, by the way,

here's the Gentiles again.

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Strangers.

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She'll stand in tender flocks and

foreigners shall be your plowing.

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In your vine dressers, but

you, pastor Rod, you will be

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called priests of the Lord.

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That's right.

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So that's right.

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As gentiles will be tending your sheep

and you're gonna be priests of the Lord.

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If you work for it may be.

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Yeah.

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I'll think about you.

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Okay.

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Taking applications, smile promise.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 62.

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Then we get again the future deliverance.

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This is, again, so much focus

on the eternal state slash

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the millennial kingdom here.

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Verse five, as a young man,

marries a young woman, she'll

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show your sons marry you, and the

bridegroom rejoices over the bride.

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So shall your God rejoice over you.

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Revelation 21 is gonna talk about

the new Jerusalem coming down as

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a bride adorned for her husband.

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And this is again looking forward

to the ultimate fulfillment there.

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And there's not gonna be

any more exile or defeat.

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He says, I will give you grain

to be your food for your enemies,

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or I will never do that again.

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Rather, and foreigners shall not drink

your wine for which you've labored.

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And so exile, though it was coming

in Israel's short-term future,

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there was a time in the future where

it was gonna be gone and no more.

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Why verse 11?

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Because the Lord has proclaimed to the

end of the earth, say to the daughter,

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Zion, behold your salvation comes.

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Behold the reward is with him

and is recompense before him.

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This is fulfilled in part

again at the triumphal entry.

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Your king comes mounted on a donkey.

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That's Zechariah, which

is, you wouldn't know that.

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'cause we didn't actually

preach that, that passage.

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I will not say a word about it.

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Did you not?

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Were you not gonna say anything?

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I am.

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Let it drop.

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I'm gonna stick here and let it happen.

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But there's also this one, and

that's partially fulfilled at

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the first coming, but ultimately

fulfilled at his second return.

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The revelation 19.

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Jesus is quite a different

Jesus than you get.

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Or Revelation 20, Jesus Rather, is quite a

different Jesus than you get at the first

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coming with a tattoo on his side of his

leg, king of Kings and Lord of Lloyds.

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That's the one that's coming

with his recompense before him.

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I just wanna shout out

verse five one more time.

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God rejoices over his people.

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Yeah, I love that.

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Yeah.

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God is rejoicing over his people.

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I know you talked about it briefly

and last week's sermon about

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the way that God emotes, it's

not the same way as humans do.

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There is something about.

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God rejoicing over us, though

that is so moving and so touching.

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Now, one of the minor prophets

says that God sings over us too.

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There's a, there's an interesting

thought that I don't think a

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lot of us give attention to.

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God loves us and it's not

just a static passive love

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where he says, I tolerate you.

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You may come into my presence, but

I'm not particularly excited about it.

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No, God rejoices over us

and he sings over us too.

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What a cool idea.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 63 is a sharp turn though,

because this is God's judgment.

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And he's notice in verse one,

he's coming from Edem in Crimson

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garments from Basra, and he's coming

from his wrath being poured out.

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And so that's the question.

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Who is this?

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Who comes?

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And why is he, why is the garment red?

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His garments, it says it's red

with the blood of the people.

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So this is slaughter.

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Yeah.

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This is the judgment.

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And 63 is sobering on the heels

of all of this anticipation

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of the millennial kingdom.

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It's gonna be great, it's

gonna be awesome, but there is

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judgment that is, is coming and.

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This is something that Isaiah even

begins to pray in verse seven and

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recount the Lord's steadfast love

in his past deliverance of Israel

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as though he's, the uncomfort level

with this and just asking God to be

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merciful in the midst of all of this.

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But this is this is the judge

that's coming back to deal with.

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Sin and to deal with those

that are opposed to him.

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Edam.

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Basra is typified as the

nation, they represent the

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nations that are surrounding.

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So there's nothing inherently

special about Edam Basra being

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one of the capital cities of Edem.

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So in case you're confused about why

is Edem get special treatment here

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or a singular treatment, it's, they

were chosen to, to be a reference or

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a representation of the surrounding

nations that God would eventually judge.

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But.

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It's interesting.

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He does that oftentimes

multiple times with the Edem.

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He does.

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And I, I think that does go back to the

Jacob and Esau, the brothers, and the fact

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that betrayal was perhaps even greater

than the betrayal of the Philistines or

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the, the Assyrians or the Babylonians,

because this was part of God's family.

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You could put it that way.

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He also got those peculiar

words in Romans chapter nine.

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Jacob, I have loved, I think

you quoted it this weekend.

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Yep.

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Esau, I hated Es.

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Yeah.

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So there's more to it

than what meets the eye.

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But my only point is that he's

using them as an indicator

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for the rest of the nations.

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Although what you're

saying is true, right?

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There's more there than

what meets the eye.

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Yeah.

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Malachi, yeah, that Malachi is where

Paul gets that from is 'cause God

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says that first through Malachi says

Jacob, I loved it, but Isai hated.

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But yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey, did you hear that joke?

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About the only Italian prophet.

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Ah yeah.

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And the minor prophets.

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Did you hear about that one?

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I didn't.

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I didn't say.

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You didn't say it?

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I didn't say it.

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I didn't say it on Sunday intentionally.

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I didn't say it.

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People were thinking about it though.

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They were wondering why he didn't

talk about the Italian prophet.

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Everybody was asking.

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Everybody was asking.

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Everybody was asking.

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I had 15 people in my head

asking me why he wasn't talking

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about the Italian prophet.

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Did you?

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Hey, let's be done with this episode after

I pray, and then we'll we'll move on.

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Yeah.

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We thank you so much for your

word and for these passages.

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We thank you that if we're in Christ, we

don't have to fear you coming from Edem

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and Basra to tread the wine, press with

us as victims of your wrath or objects of

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your wrath, rather not victims, because

our sin is what deserves your wrath.

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And for those of us in

Christ, that wrath was.

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Trotting out upon him on the cross.

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And we are so utterly thankful for

that in ways that we can't even fathom.

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And I'm sure once we stand in your

presence and eternity our gratitude

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and our thanksgiving for that

will only increase all the more.

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And so we thank you for your grace, your

mercy in our lives, and we thank you for

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Jesus, and we pray this all in his name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We'll see you then.

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Folks.

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