00:00 Seasons Greetings

00:12 Back to School Season

01:04 Parenting Reflections

01:48 Random Conversations

03:56 Food Preferences and Culinary Adventures

06:11 Biblical Teachings: Isaiah's Prayer for Mercy

08:03 Understanding Righteous Deeds in Christianity

10:59 Isaiah's Plea for Mercy

11:29 God's Judgment and Justice

12:37 Understanding God's Immutable Nature

15:21 The Remnant and God's Mercy

16:15 The Millennial Reign of Christ

19:31 The New Heavens and New Earth

20:34 Final Reflections 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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Good morning, and hello, good

morning and hello, or whenever you

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happen to be listening to this one.

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Nope, good morning and hello.

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Okay, just good morning.

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Just good morning.

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Hey, August 1st is upon us and so

we're in the month that school begins,

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and so I know a lot of our families

are getting ready to ramp up there.

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Some of our homeschool families, I

think we're even starting back in July.

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End of July.

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I'm looking at you Crew's family.

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I heard something about you guys

already starting school, which seems

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borderline criminal and maybe the

Kims were jumping on that board too.

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I don't know.

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But my kids, they start

in a couple weeks here.

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We ordered all their school supplies,

which I was out at Target the other

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night with my wife after a date.

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And we were walking through and

all the signs were back to school.

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And I just, I told her, I said,

when I was growing up, I hated that.

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I hated seeing the commercials

come on TV that were talking

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about going back to school.

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I hated going into Walmart and

places like that and seeing the

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signs for, back to school supplies.

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And now as a parent I'm like,

okay, school's coming again.

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Let's let's get back into the routine.

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Yeah.

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I do miss the routine.

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I don't miss the school necessarily,

but I do miss the routine.

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Yeah.

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In fact Tabby's going to

kindergarten this year.

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That's, she's one of my younger daughters.

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And one of the cool things that

Lichens Elementary did is they sent

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some teachers over for a porch visit.

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Oh, that's really cool.

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That was really cool.

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I was surprised.

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I knew it was coming, but I still

delighted when I saw them show up to

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the door, there were two of their lady

teachers not one of Tabby's teachers,

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but one of the lady teachers, two

of them rather, and they came with

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a little gift bag and a few small

knickknacks and things like that.

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So that was pretty cool.

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I enjoyed that, but I'm

gonna miss my kids man.

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Yeah.

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I like having them home all the time

and being able to say, let's go do

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something and everyone can do it

because no one's going off to this

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or that, but things are changing.

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Life continues to get life continues to

get to go on and I continue to get older.

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So are my kids.

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So enjoy the season the way you

have it, is what I'm saying.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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There's that country song, you

only get so many summers and

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that one, how does that go?

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That one gets me sing it a

little bit in the fields.

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How's it go?

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You can look it up on Spotify.

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It makes more sense to just check

there but if they were gonna hum

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it to their phone to identify

the song, how would it go?

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They could do that by looking it up

on Spotify, by just typing it in.

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But if they were gonna do

that, dude, don't act like you

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don't do singing and playing.

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The guitar word on the street is that

you do this at all of your small groups.

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That is a false world.

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On the street.

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You demand that they sing along with,

you're like, this is, I'm leading

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and worship guys, this is a lie.

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Stand up and lift your hands.

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I think twice we've done this.

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I hide behind an instrument though

I don't, I'm not an acapella guy.

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I've always hidden behind an instrument.

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I have a guitar in my hands.

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That's what, if I've got that, okay, fine.

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I will add guitar in post.

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Go for it.

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Let's not though, that's a different

podcast's, not this podcast.

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If I need to, I can strip

the audio from your talking.

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You can.

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And make it a song.

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Totally.

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You can.

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And you can say, and you know what?

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That's not actually me.

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So here's your voice.

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By the way, listen, man, with all

your mannerisms, stay listening

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to the end of the podcast today.

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You might be greeted with

somebody else who knows.

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Oh, okay.

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I'm just saying saw somebody was playing

around with some settings on the podcast.

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I do want to make our podcast

better, so that's great.

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So I'm always looking for ways and I

think I have a couple ideas that we'll

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be able to implement sooner or later.

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We'll see.

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I'm figuring out, it's one

of those things where it's if

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it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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Yeah.

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But if I can make it better, maybe

I do wanna break it a little bit.

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Yeah.

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And see if I can fix it even

better than it was before.

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Yeah.

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Around with it.

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You can't.

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It's, it conflicts with

the, what's that saying?

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You can't make an omelet

without cracking a few chickens.

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I think it's eggs, but chickens too.

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Yeah.

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Same difference.

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Yeah, same difference.

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They're pre chickens, yeah.

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So you are cracking the chicken.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Even though the chicken's not there.

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Eggs are weird, man.

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I love eggs.

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They're great, but it's also really weird.

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Like it's a weird concept.

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Someone had to do it first and

I'm grateful they did milk.

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Same thing.

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Milk coming out of a cow.

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It's yeah, let's try that.

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Let's try that.

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Milk.

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Yeah.

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Let's that fluid that just

came outta that animal.

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Yeah, let's eat that.

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Let's try let's make that a cheese.

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Yeah, let's, look.

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That oval that popped

outta, that chickens behind.

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Let's crack that open.

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See if it tastes good.

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Someone had to do it.

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Yeah.

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And I'm grateful they did.

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I'm glad we weren't the

first people to do it.

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I don't know that I'd be bold enough.

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Follow in other people's

footsteps on that.

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Culinary speaking, what what's one

food that you just do not like?

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You can't stand it.

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You're like, no way.

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I'm not gonna eat that.

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In my younger years I probably

would've said something like

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sushi or some kind of vegetable.

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Yeah.

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But I think as I'm getting older,

I'm trying to be much more open

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to different kinds of foods.

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Yeah.

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So I don't know that there's

anything that I'd be So more, you

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know what, balut maybe that, yes.

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Balu that one for sure.

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It's extreme, but yeah, I couldn't do it.

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In describe Balut to those

that don't know what Balut is.

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It's a fertilized duck egg.

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So the duck is not alive

anymore, but it's fertilized.

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So it's not just the yoke and the.

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And the there's feathers.

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Yeah.

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It's basically a formed duck Yes.

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That you eat.

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Raw as I understand it.

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Yes.

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And that's a delicacy in the Philippines.

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Yes.

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And I think they can keep that.

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I'm good a hundred percent.

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Nope.

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Don't want it.

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So there are a few foods though.

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I'm not Andrew Zimmer and I'm

not trying to do Bizarre foods

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or anything, but I'm more open.

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I did sushi for the first time at Compass.

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Aliso Viejo.

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Yep.

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Because someone wanted

to eat sushi for lunch.

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And I'm like okay, I guess here we go.

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And I did okay.

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I didn't die.

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There's other foods too that I've

eaten because people wanted to eat it.

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And I'm grateful for the experience.

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I just, I prefer certain foods.

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I know that I do.

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But I'm open to it.

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What about you?

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Yeah I've was braver in my younger

years than I am probably now.

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Is that right?

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Yeah.

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You're going the opposite direction.

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Yeah.

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'cause in high school, like my buddies

and I would go to, to sushi and I

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had one guy that flexed on everybody.

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He was like, let's do coil eggs.

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And so they brought out raw coil eggs and

we took those, which that was not tasty.

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Yikes.

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But we did it.

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Yeah.

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I don't know, man.

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I'm not a huge fan of adventure,

fat, back fuck oh, fat back.

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Yeah.

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Like I'm I don't love fat on my meat,

and I know that puts me in a minority.

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I'd rather have just the meat.

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I don't really need the gristle.

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And everybody's like the flavors of the

gr I'm like, yeah, but I don't wanna

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chew the animals fat and squeeze the fla.

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It just, so when you get brisket,

do you get lean or moist?

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I had 10 tours in lean.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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And I appreciate the bark.

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Wow.

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I appreciate that.

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I appreciate the flavor of the

meat, the smoke and the meat.

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Wow.

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But I just am not a big fat guy.

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I don't love You're not a big fat guy.

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You can clip that one.

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You can clip that one.

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Pastor.

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I'm not a big fat guy.

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I would agree.

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You're not a big fat guy.

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Thanks, man.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate that.

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But fat in my meats guy.

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Yeah.

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Leviticus three 16.

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All fat belongs to God, so he can keep it.

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Alright.

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I don't need it.

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All right.

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I don't need it.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, just some random conversation.

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Hey, let's finish Isaiah today.

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How about that?

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Isaiah 64, 65 and 66, we're

gonna get all three of them.

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Chapter 64 continues Isaiah's

prayer for God's mercy in light

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of God's impending judgment.

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And so in verses one through four, the

prophet is gonna ask the Lord to come and

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make himself known among the nations in

the fury of his great wrath and power.

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And so he opens up and says Lord,

that you would come down and that the

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mountains might quake in your presence,

that you would render that word re means

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to tear open the heavens as when fire.

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Kindles Brushwood, and the

fire causes water to boil.

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It's a very intense picture of God's

wrath and judgment, and the prophet

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is both inviting it and terrified of

it at the same time in chapter 64.

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In fact, in verses six through seven,

the prophet Isaiah, he confesses Israel's

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sinfulness the sinfulness of the nations

even so much so that their righteous

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deeds were repulsive to the father.

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And that's that famous line

that's so often quoted.

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That our righteous deeds are as

filthy garments before the Lord.

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And that means that when we take

our righteous deeds before him

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and say, are you pleased with us?

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Look at these righteous deeds.

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Is, are we good with you?

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Now, it doesn't matter what I used to

do or what I am still doing over here.

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Look I've done this.

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And so can this be acceptable to you?

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It's not that God doesn't desire people

to do acts of righteousness, he does.

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But when we take those acts of

righteousness and we make those

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the foundation of a relationship

with him when we're living a.

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A life totally aberrant to those

things on the side over here.

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Then that's when it becomes disgusting

and repulsive to him because it's as

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though we can somehow make ourselves holy.

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Because remember, that's the standard.

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Even the Old Testament, you

shall be holy for I'm holy.

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It's as though we can make ourselves

holy by stacking up a few Jenga blocks

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of good deeds over here while we're, over

here living a life of total debauchery.

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And that's why in God's eyes, these

righteous deeds are disgusting to him.

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They're a polluted garment for him,

and Isaiah is calling the nations

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out on that as he's calling God

to come and judge the nations.

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So as a Christian then are.

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All of our righteous deeds, like

polluted garments in front of the Lord.

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No.

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And the key difference there is we

have been sanctified by the spirit.

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We, we have been washed, we've been

cleansed, as Paul even says and now

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the deeds that we do, even as my

wife just preached to the ladies.

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Last week, and I believe from

Ephesians are the good works that

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God prepared beforehand for us to

walk in them so we can fall prey to

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the same mentality as Christians.

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We can come before the Lord

and say, man, Lord, I, it was

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a bad week and I sin this week.

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And instead of repenting the way

that we should repent, we can

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come be before him with a track

record of, but hey, you know what?

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The last few days I did my daily

bob reading every single day and I.

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I, I didn't listen to bad things

on the radio and I didn't cuss,

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and God, are you okay with me?

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Now, that's the same mentality

that, that Israel possessed back

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there, so we can fall prey to that.

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But as Christians, we now have the

ability in and by the spirit to

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walk in obedience to him in a way

that pleases him and actually is not

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repulsive, but attractive to him.

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Yes and amen to that.

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I think a lot of people possess some

of the framework about their works that

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came from a lot of the Puritan writings.

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I love the Puritans as

much as the next guy.

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I've read lots of the Puritans.

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I enjoy it.

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I love the Valley of Vision,

that little prayer book.

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Oh yeah, those are fantastic.

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But perhaps one of the biggest dangers

that Puritans spoke about was the way

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that God viewed our works post-conversion.

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That is after becoming a

Christian, how God sees our works.

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And as much as I appreciate Isaiah

64, 6 identifying the kind of works

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that we produce outside of Christ.

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In Christ.

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It's a whole different ball

game, as others would say,

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it's a whole nother level.

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So who would that be?

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I don't know.

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Yeah.

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All I'm saying is that you need to look

at your works as something that do please.

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Christ Good Works are not aberrant.

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In the new covenant.

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In fact, they are encouraged.

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They are meant to manifest

your godliness on the inside.

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They're the external verification

of the spirit's work inside of you.

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So when you see a verse like this,

it's important to understand it

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not as a Christian in the spirit

post-conversion post across.

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This is very much true for those who

try to come to God and say, look at God.

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Look.

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Look at all the good works I'm doing.

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God, aren't you pleased with me?

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And of course the answer is no.

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You have to understand God wants

your good works God, you can

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please God with your good works.

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You can grieve the spirit

by not doing good works.

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And therefore when you see a verse

like this please don't misunderstand.

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We're not talking about

your works in Christ.

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In Christ.

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Your works are valuable

and God loves them.

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In fact, one of my favorite verses in one

Peter, which we're gonna be covering soon.

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He says this in verse five of chapter two.

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He says, you yourselves, like living

stones are being built up as a

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spiritual house to be a holy priesthood.

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Get this to offer spiritual sacrifices

acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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The sacrifices of your good works,

your worship, your service to the Lord

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is acceptable through Jesus Christ.

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And that adds a whole lot more color to

this verse as we're understanding it.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 64 continues as the chapter.

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Comes to a conclusion, Isaiah

is left to simply ask for God's

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mercy in the midst of this.

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And that's verse eight.

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But now, oh Lord, you are our father.

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We are the clay, you are the potter.

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We are all the work of your hand.

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Be not so terribly angry, oh Lord.

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And remember, not iniquity forever.

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So Isaiah is doing the only thing that

he can do with the nation at this point

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in casting himself on the mercy of God

and asking that God would show that

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mercy to them rather than consuming

them and completely destroying them.

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Um.

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Chapter 65, though God is

clear in the first seven verses

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that the judgment has to come.

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So Isaiah is asking for mercy and

God is gonna begin here in the

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first opening seven verses of this

and say but judgment has to come.

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Verse three A, people who provoke

me to my face continually.

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And then he says, sacrificing in gardens

and making offerings on bricks who sit.

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In tombs, which would've been very

defiling and spend the night in

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secret places, eating pigs, flesh an

animal that was unclean by the law.

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So God is just giving a laundry

list here of some of the things

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that the Israel had been guilty of.

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Not even all of them, but just

some of them, and saying, they

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must be punished for these things.

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And so judgment has to come in

order for God to remain just.

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Paul's gonna say in the New Testament that

God is able to be both the both just and

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the justifier, but he qualifies this of

the one who has faith in Jesus Christ.

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And that's the only way that God can show

mercy to us and not completely destroy us

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for our sins today is because they were

punished by him on the cross of Jesus.

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Prior to this, at this point in time with

this rebellious nation, God has to punish

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sin because it's part of his character.

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He's just, and he has to be a God that is

going to not let sin stand as unpunished.

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Yeah, some of these passages

are challenging because we often

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see these and we put them in

contrast of the New Testament.

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Lots of people will say, isn't the God of

the Old Testament angry in the God of the

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New Testament, gentle, meek, and mild?

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So help us frame that.

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How do we read passages like this and.

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Put it together with what we see in

the New Testament, which is primarily,

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although not only an image of a gentle and

lowly God come in the flesh to save us.

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Yeah.

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We have to remember, even as I was

preaching this past Sunday, that

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God is immutable, so God is not

sometimes angry, sometimes joyful.

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He's all of these things in what's

known as a steady state because his

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character doesn't change, nor do

his emotions and infections change.

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It's the doctrine of impass.

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What we see in scripture is

that there are times that.

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That the things that we do

cause us to understand or see a

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certain facet of his character.

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And sin will reveal the wrath of God.

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Whereas obedience and faithfulness will

reveal his joyfulness, his love, his

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compassion, kindness, his tenderness.

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That doesn't mean that he stops being a

God of wrath against sin when he's showing

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us kindness and compassion and tenderness.

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The other thing that you have

to look at in the Old Testament

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is say God did not leave them

without opportunities to repent.

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God had sent the prophets,

God had given them the law.

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God had given them his.

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His word, and even at times for

some the spirit and the presence

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of the spirit, that what was

different in the Old Testament

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was still active, was still there.

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And so God had given them plenty of

opportunities to repent and to, as

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Abraham, Abraham had done, believe in

him and in his promises, and have that

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faith credited to them as righteousness.

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In fact, we're reading a book from

somebody who during this time.

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Understood and got it.

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Isaiah was following the Lord.

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He was a man who was not perfect by any

stretch, but he was a man who trusted in

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the Lord and was faithful to the Lord.

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We're reading about Hezekiah.

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Hezekiah was gonna be a good king.

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Later on.

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We're gonna see about

Josiah in a couple weeks.

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So there were men that were doing it, so

it wasn't as though it was impossible.

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But for the people still

rebelling against God, man, God

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was gonna be just in his wrath.

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Now, in this dispensation of the church,

it's not as though God is not wrathful.

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Rowans two five Paul says, God, that

mankind, the rebellious mankind,

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is storing up wrath for themselves

currently for the day of judgment.

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God, first Peter or second Peter is

gonna say is not, pa is not slow to, to

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return, but is being patient right now.

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He's actually showing us a kindness

right now to say, I'm not gonna

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wipe you off the face of the earth.

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And yet that doesn't mean that

he's not gonna punish sin.

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So we see the same God in the

Old Testament as we do in the New

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Testament, and you even see glimpses

of it, which Jesus, when Jesus walks

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into the temple courts and sees the

money changers there in the court of

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the Gentiles, like we talked about

a couple days ago, he gets angry.

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He, there's wrath there and he flips the

tables over and he drives the animals and

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the changers out with a cord of whips.

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That, that's a wrathful

God that we see there.

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So I think it's the

distinction is overblown.

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But I do understand why

people see the distinction.

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Verses eight through 10.

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There, there is a remnant.

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And that's again, evidence of the

fact that this is not impossible here.

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And so in, in eight through 10, God

is saying I will be merciful and I'm

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gonna be merciful to this, remnant

to the few who would seek him.

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And if he was.

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Being sought by them, they

would be able to find him.

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And I love verse 10 because it says,

Sharon shall become a pasture for

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the flocks in the Valley of Acre,

A place for herds to lie down.

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Now Acre is hearkening back

to Aiken, the sin of Aiken.

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And it was called that after Aiken's

death and his family's death after

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he stole some of the booty, some of

the loot from you like that, from ai.

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And.

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He came back and God

revealed the punishment.

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The valley of acre means valley of

trouble, but here it says the valley

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of acre is gonna become a place of

peace, a place for herds to lie down

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for my people who have sought me.

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So God is still gonna be

merciful to his people There.

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And so there's a distinction.

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And that's really what we see here

between the faithful and the faithless

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and God's actions towards both.

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And that's really what

we're seeing in Chapter 65.

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Okay, let's get to the new

Heavens, the New Earth, though.

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Yes, everybody wants to know.

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Yes.

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I've been getting so many questions.

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Thousands of emails, probably

what's going on in verse 20.

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No more shall there be in it.

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An infant who lives, but a few days,

or an old man who does not fill out

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his days for the young man shall die

a hundred years old and the sinner a

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hundred years old shall be a curse.

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So what's happening here?

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This is the millennial reign

of Christ it looks like.

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Yes.

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And yet there's also death taking place.

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How do we put these two pieces together?

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Yeah, for sure.

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I think we, we mentioned this a

couple days ago, but sin is still

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gonna be present on earth during

the millennial reign of Christ.

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His presence on earth is

gonna curb a lot of that.

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Satan is gonna be bound

for a thousand years, but.

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The people that are born during this

time are not born in glorified bodies.

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The inhabitants of the millennial

kingdom are not those that have

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their glorified bodies, and so

they still have the natural bodies.

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They're still descendants and offspring

of Adam, and so they're still dealing

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with the natural corruption of what we

know as total depravity, and they're still

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gonna need to turn to Jesus in faith.

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In fact, we didn't get there in,

just to bring this up for you again,

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pastor Rod, but Zacharia talks about.

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This future when the Nation of

Israel will actually look on him,

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whom they have pierced, and they're

gonna mourn, they're gonna repent

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and they're gonna trust in him.

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And it says there that a fountain of

forgiveness, a fountain of blessing,

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is gonna be open for the, that people.

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So the millennial kingdom inhabitants,

the Israelites, are gonna need to

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believe the gospel in order to be made

right with God, even during that time.

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And those that don't are gonna

be alienated from him during that

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time and that sin, this is why we

can't say the devil made me do it.

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Just because the devil's gonna be

bound for a thousand years doesn't

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mean that sin is not gonna be here.

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But it's gonna be curbed.

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There's gonna be a difference there

because the presence of Jesus,

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I think is going to counteract a

lot of the results of the fall, a

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lot of the presence of the fall.

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But there are still gonna people

that be people that died during

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the millennial reign of Christ.

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So who's present at the

millennial reign of Christ?

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Let's answer that at,

there's at least a couple.

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Different groups of people

that we can expect there.

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Yeah.

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And there are gonna be people

that are made Christians

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during the tribulation period.

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Yep.

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Who are now part of the

millennial reign of Christ.

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Yep.

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They're there.

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So they're gonna have kids presumably.

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And those kids are not saved by default.

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It's still the same idea here.

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You're not a Christian simply because

you're born into a Christian home.

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And that's also gonna be the case when

you have believers who come out of the

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tribulation and into the millennial

reign of Christ, they're gonna have kids.

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And remember, this is a thousand years,

we believe it's an actual thousand years.

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And so there's plenty of time for

there to be several generations

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of people that are not Christians.

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And believe it or not, even though

they're gonna have a perfect ruler

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in Christ, they're still going to.

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Disregard his rulership and

they're gonna wanna rebel.

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And so those people are permitted to

live and to thrive and to continue

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to have kids and to build, who

knows, schools and factions that

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are disassociated from Christ.

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And at the same time,

this is also interesting.

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There's gonna be a crowd of people.

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We believe believers are gonna be there.

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We're glorified believers, those

who come back to reign with

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Christ for those thousand years.

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So you're gonna have a really

odd mixture of people, and you're

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gonna have the literal Jesus

reigning in the literal Jerusalem.

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For a literal thousand years, you're

gonna have glorified believers

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ruling and reigning with him.

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But you're also gonna have a

large faction of unbelievers.

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Presumably those who are born

two, believing families after the.

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The Tribulational period.

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Is there anyone else, any class

of people that were missing here

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or is that just about cover it?

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I think that covers it, that the

offspring of the believers saved on the

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tribulation will populate the nations,

'cause the nations are described as

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coming to Jerusalem during that time.

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So everything is not taking

place right there in Jerusalem.

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There is.

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Some of a population of

the globe at that time.

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Now it's not the new Earth yet, even

though the title in your ESV says New

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Heavens and New Earth, that's distinct.

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The New Earth is instituted

after the millennial reign

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of Christ comes to an end.

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But I don't know if it's just the Middle

East there, if it's gonna be people are

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living in Dallas, Texas during this time.

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Who knows, but there, there is a

population that does spread out.

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And again, that thousand years

gives that opportunity for

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a lot of that to take place.

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Yeah.

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So to be clear here, verse 17

does say, for behold, I create

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a new heavens and a new Earth.

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Yes.

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But there is a technical

way that we understand that.

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Yes.

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I guess in this sense, we're talking about

a non-technical usage, but there is in

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the book of Revelation, a new heavens and

a new earth that ushers in the, not the

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millennial state, but the eternal state.

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This is when Jerusalem comes down.

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She's a 1300 mile.

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Cube, and this is when God

restores and renews all things.

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So this, that is what it says, but we're

trying to say there's a more technical

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usage in, in Revelation chapter 2021.

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21, yeah.

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21.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Good question.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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Because you were asking

it is what I'm saying.

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All of you guys listening.

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Yes.

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I knew you were thinking it.

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I just asked on your behalf.

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Good question.

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Good question, guys.

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Yeah.

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Isaiah 66.

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This is the last chapter and it

opens by just a reminder that God's

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not impressed with a building of

facade or anything else like that.

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The sacrifices of a people

whose hearts were far from him.

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But what does God want?

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He wants a person who's gonna draw me

to him with a broken and contrite heart.

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This is similar to David in

Psalm 51 when he's confessing.

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His sin with Bathsheba.

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He says, God, the sacrifices you to light

in our broken and contrary heart, he

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says, you will not despise those things.

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And that's similar to what

he's talking about here.

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Verses seven through 13 expressed

this confidence that God is going to

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deliver his people, albeit through

the pains of labor that they're

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gonna feel through God's judgment.

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But they would be brought through

and God was gonna comfort Jerusalem

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even as a mother comforts her child.

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And so just a tender and

compassionate picture of God here.

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And then the.

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Book really comes to its head and

its conclusion here with a, another

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zoom in on the the millennial

kingdom judgment is gonna be there.

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But then the donning of the millennial

kingdom, and in the millennial

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kingdom, he's gonna use his faithful

remnant again as a light to the

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nations we've been talking about.

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We just talked about that, that they're

going to be there even as a witness

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to the nations and the god bless

the priesthood is gonna be restored.

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We talked about that.

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That's interesting.

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I think we'll have occasion to talk

about that in more detail later on, but

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why is the temple there with sacrifices?

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In the millennial kingdom.

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Yep.

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That's a unique one.

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We'll deal with that another day.

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Yeah, but this is the millennial

kingdom here in, in chapter 66.

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And just God's glory being displayed

in judgment is another theme here,

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which is another difficult one.

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But verse 24, they shall go out

and look on the dead bodies.

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And the men who have rebelled against

me for their worms shall not die.

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And their flesh, their fire shall

not be quenched, and they shall

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become an adherent to all flesh.

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They're going out to look at these

as a testimony to God's greatness and

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his justice, his holiness, his power.

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And so the millennial

kingdom is gonna be a, it's.

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It's gonna be an amazing place, but

also it's gonna be an odd place.

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It's not gonna look anything

like what it looks like today.

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Yeah.

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Which goes to show that God is

always up to things that we may

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not fully understand and that's why

it's important that Isaiah starts.

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This whole section with the one

that God looks to is the one

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who's humble and contract, the

one who trembles at his word.

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And I think that's critical because

so often we can stand over God's word

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and say does that make sense to me?

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Would I do it that way?

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Why would God say such a thing?

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Or why would he do such a thing?

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The humble and contract person

trembles at God's word as if to say,

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I believe everything that you're

saying, and I may not be able to

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understand it and comprehend it.

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I may not be able to logic it to my

mind, but I trust that you're such

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a large, wise mind that you could.

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Put this stuff together

and make it make sense.

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So this is the posture that God

wants us to have with his word.

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Even today.

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Trembling at his word doesn't

necessarily mean I'm afraid of it,

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but there is an awestruck love and

adoration that happens when you're

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reading what The Eyes of Faith.

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You recognize that if God is who he

says he is, if he is all powerful, if

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he's all righteous and all knowing,

and all everything, all the omnis.

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And then there is reason to behold

his glory with a bit of trepidation.

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This is why we continually come

back to the refraining that

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we hold a high view of God.

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Not because we say, Hey we

think this is a good idea.

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We should say that we hold God

in high regard, or because God's

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word tells us to think about him.

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In that way, the opposite of the

person who trembles at his word is

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the one that you just mentioned,

pastor pge, the one that God judges.

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The one who've.

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The one who has rebelled against me.

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And those are the people

that the worm doesn't die.

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The fire shall not be quenched.

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Of course, if you're paying attention,

you know that this is language

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that is utilized to refer to hell.

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Yep.

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This is the earliest reference,

and it comes from Isaiah.

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Isaiah saying God's enemies are

judged in this particular way.

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And what does it mean then

that the worm does not die?

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Do you have any idea about

what that refers to Pastor pj?

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In, in the context of hell, it deals with

the fact that there's eternal torment.

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And I think this is probably just a

reminder that though God's judgment

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is exercised against his foes and

their bodies are gonna lay there,

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and from an earthly perspective and

even in the millennial kingdom, from

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their eyes, they're gonna look at

that and say their life is done.

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It's a reminder, I think

that the life is not done.

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That there's an eternal life and that

soul is gonna be in torment until

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it receives its resurrected body.

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Because the souls in hell have their

own resurrected bodies coming as

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well, but they are only different

in that they're prepared for eternal

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judgment rather than eternal bliss in

the presence of God, the way that the

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bodies of resurrected believers will be.

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I think it's just a reminder to us that

God's judgment is gonna be, yes, it's

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gonna involve physical death, but there's

more to it than that and it's permanent.

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I always understood the analogy

or the imagery better said about

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the worm as being like a maggots

that's consuming the flesh.

688

Yeah.

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Maggots will lay eggs in there

and they'll produce more maggots.

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On and on goes.

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It's super appealing and appetizing.

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This is what God utilizes

is to describe the.

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Experience of hell.

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So a worm shall not die,

fire shall not be quenched.

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Both elements speak to this suffering.

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The ongoing suffering of the recipient,

the worm not dying, suggests that there's

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some kind of fleshly component and

there's some kind of eating or wasting

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away without actually ever ceasing.

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That's terrifying.

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And if that weren't terrifying

enough, the fire not being quenched

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tells it that there's an ongoing.

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Conscious awareness of suffering

there, which is why we refer to

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hell as eternal conscious torment.

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Some refer to it as ECT, eternal Conscious

Torment, and that's where we see some

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of the earliest hints here in Isaiah.

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Now, God continues to develop this

idea throughout the rest of scripture.

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My point in bringing this up though is

that this is what the end point is for

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the proud, and this is not something

that's pretty, we should therefore.

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Tremble at his word appropriately.

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So not fear, not.

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Fear of condemnation, not

trepidation in the ungodly.

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Survival sense, but a fear of love.

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A fear of respect.

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A fear of deference and honor.

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That's what Isaiah's calling us

to, among many of the themes.

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Humility before God's

word is one of those.

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Yeah.

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Which is something that the

spirit is gonna produce within us.

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We can't work that up.

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We can't conjure that up ourselves.

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That's a, an attitude that

comes once you're saved.

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Is to understand that fear in a

way that, that God desires us to.

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So well, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode.

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God, thanks for your word and

thanks for allowing us to,

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to spend that time in Isaiah.

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We are grateful for this book.

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It's, there's a lot here, things

that we weren't able to touch on.

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But again, we are so grateful for your

truth, and so we pray that we would

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be faithful to live it out as well.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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