00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:14 Discussion on President Biden's Resignation

01:04 Trusting in God Amidst Political Uncertainty

01:50 The Role of Christians in Politics

04:50 Engaging with Politics on Social Media

10:10 Daily Pour Over Podcast Recommendation

10:50 Isaiah 37: Hezekiah's Prayer and God's Response

14:51 Frisco's Disappearance and God's Power

15:21 Hezekiah's Illness and Prayer

17:23 Hezekiah's Extended Life and Praise

18:00 The Mystery of the Fig Cake

20:14 Hezekiah's Folly with the Babylonian Envoy

22:18 Psalm 76: Praise and Fear of God

25:21 A Call to Thanksgiving and Prayer

The Pour Over: https://www.thepourover.org/

Thursday.

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Is the day today and you're back

and you're listening to another

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episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Good job.

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Thank you for doing that.

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And we all have a question

that we want you to answer.

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Who wants who to answer?

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Everyone's been asking me.

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About why you haven't commented

about president Biden, stepping down

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from the oval office, or at least

stepping out of the candidacy for

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the democratic national convention.

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Uh, the presidency as well, honestly.

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Honestly, yesterday was

the first day that a.

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That happened.

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And we could talk about it.

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I don't, I don't know, man.

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I, it's not a secret service

director, steps down.

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What do you do with that?

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All of those things.

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There's a lot of things here.

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Dr.

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Mueller has had to take two days

off of his days off to do briefings

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to talk about these things.

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So.

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We want you to, what does.

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The heavyweight.

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So we want to bring in

all the heavyweights.

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Ask questions.

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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About their answers.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, well, here you go.

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I guess it's just not

shaking me that much.

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I, I, I kind of expected it at this point.

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I think there was enough

smoke around that.

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That there was fire that

this was going to happen.

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Okay.

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So it doesn't shock me.

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I don't, I don't trust any of our

politicians further than I can throw them.

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I just really don't.

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I pray that God has mercy on our country

because I have no idea what's going to

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happen in the next six months to a year.

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I, I.

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I have zero confidence one way or

the other, and I'm just going to

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trust in the Lord in the meantime

and do my part come election day.

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But, um, I'm kind of.

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I'm kind of beat down by the whole

thing, to be honest with you, I'm kind

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of like, okay, let's, let's get back

to what what's right in front of us.

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And somebody perceptively

said how amazing it is.

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Is it though that.

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We don't even know.

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If our president, as we record this is,

is cognizant and aware and conscious

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or, or even breathing anymore.

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And the nation is, is okay.

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Like everything's working the way it's

supposed to be working that's stability.

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Yeah.

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And I'm thankful for that.

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So, It doesn't, I'm not panicked.

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I'm not anxious about it.

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I'm not worried about it.

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Okay.

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I think we've got a task at hand

in the mission at hand that we, as

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Christians need to be concerned with.

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And, uh, and let's do that.

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Yeah.

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And, you know, Uh, politics

have a place they're important.

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It controls a lot of things.

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It has an impact on our

day-to-day existence by and

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large may, maybe not immediately.

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But there's a place for it.

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So we should be praying for our leaders.

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Yes.

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Even those in, especially those

that we probably disagree with, we

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should be praying for them as well.

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We want to be able to live at peace.

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Paul says we should pray for

everyone in high positions of

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authority Kings, and those people.

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Um, and that includes.

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Former pro I don't know

if he's going to be.

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He might not be president by the

time we're done with this podcast.

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Yeah.

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President Biden, vice president

Harris, Kamala Harris.

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Uh, or now, uh, I guess, uh,

whatever she is now, uh, anyway,

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I guess my encouragement.

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Even as we hear these things, just

to be praying for your leaders,

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you should have in your pearls,

you talked about buckets on Sunday.

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Yep.

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In your buckets, there should be a place

for your civic leaders at the very least,

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those who are local to you and those who

extend beyond and to your state level.

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And then of course, national

level leadership positions.

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Uh, you, if you care, care about

your future and the future for

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your kids, You should pray, um,

show your caring by prayering.

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And, and those are kingdom minded prayers.

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If you're kind of saying,

where does that fit?

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I mean, there's some needs based

prayers there, but those are

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also kingdom minded prayers.

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I mean, you can pray for your, your

leaders in the sense that, Hey, we

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want the best environment possible

to be able to share the gospel.

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And see people come to faith in Christ.

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I wonder if, I mean, maybe, maybe

the knees based prayers and the

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kingdom minded prayers are, are

just they're they're fluid that

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the there's crossover there touch.

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Yeah, the cross-pollination.

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It's not a hard and fast line.

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No.

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It's not.

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Yeah, you can.

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Have one foot in each bucket.

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I did the hard way to walk.

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It would be hard.

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Yeah, it'd be clunky.

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Anyways.

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Yeah, so who knows what's going to happen?

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I mean, God does.

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And praise God for that.

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Yeah.

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I ever since 2020, I have found

myself multiple times pondering.

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I mean how miserable life

must be for those that don't

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have faith in a sovereign God.

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Hmm.

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Because.

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How do you, how do you go to work?

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Why.

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Not knowing what's going

to happen in November.

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Not, not knowing what's going to

happen to after the election, not

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knowing who's going to be an office.

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How do you wake up?

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When there's a global pandemic and

you people are saying, oh, Life is

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never going to go back to normal.

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And this is it.

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And like, how do you keep going?

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And unfortunately, so

many people choose not to.

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Um, and that's why there is so

much urgency with what we have.

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We should live different.

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That's what Peter is talking about.

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When he says always be prepared to give it

a reason for the hope that's within you.

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That's not a hope that comes just because,

you know, Oh, look, you're a nice person.

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I want to ask you about the gospel.

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It's a hope that comes because people

look at you and go, why are you.

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Why are you hopeful in the midst

of circumstances that would

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make you anything but a hopeful.

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And as Christians, we have an opportunity.

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I think now in the midst of the chaos,

that's going on all around us, not

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to fall prey, to all of that and

get angry and post angry things on

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Facebook or to jump into political

debates and confrontations with people

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that we love instead of we can just.

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Express a confidence and trust in God.

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That's, that's going to

produce a peace within us that.

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The world's going to want.

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And they don't have right now.

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And we've got an opportunity

to point to Jesus with that.

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When you think about interacting

with people online, and I know you

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and I are not super active on the

various platforms, but there are

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people out there who would say.

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In response to that?

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Yes, that's true.

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But.

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If Christians don't call

out evil for what it is.

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And even perhaps in a mocking tone.

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You know, they're sitting just outside

the Overton window, as some have said,

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You know, if we don't do that, then.

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How are we going to affect

any change whatsoever?

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And in other words, The Christians have

to be willing to be salt and light.

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Not only in a physical like

the gym or the, you know, the

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grocery store, Christians have

to be salt and light online too.

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Which means that you're going to

have to call things what they are to

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call evil, evil, and to call good.

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Good.

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Which is going to get people upset.

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You know, rattle some feathers

and it's going to be perceived as.

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I don't know it's going to

be perceived as conflict.

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They're going to, they're going

to see it as, oh, you're trying to

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spark controversy and create issues.

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So, how would you, how would you

advise or counsel a Christian who's

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mature in their faith wants to do good.

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Wants to be a blessing.

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And perhaps also really has a

desire to say, yeah, it's, it's

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wrong to call a boy, a girl, or to

call a girl a boy, it's wrong to

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do this, that, and the other thing.

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How do you do that and maintain a peaceful

disposition with people around you?

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And I.

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I have yet to hear a testimony

from the baptismal of

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somebody who says, man, I was.

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Walking away from the Lord.

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And I was walking in sin and then

I read somebody's Facebook post.

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And all of a sudden I realized,

man, I'm wrong and Jesus is right.

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And I bowed the knee, faith and

repentance and came to faith in Jesus.

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I'm sure the testimony

exists somewhere out there.

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I've yet to hear it.

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Uh, as, as the shepherd of, of our

church here, I'd much rather our people.

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Devote their efforts and attention to the,

the lost that are in their lives that I

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think we ignore and we, and we overlook

and it's much easier for us to jump on it.

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Put up a Facebook post about how, you

know, this is wrong or that's wrong

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or anything else than it is for us to

get to know our neighbors or coworkers

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enough to say, Hey, I care about

where you're going to spend eternity.

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So I I'm, I'm the wrong guy to ask that

question because I'm really not in favor

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of the keyboard warriors out there.

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I, I don't, I, I don't like him.

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I don't.

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I I D I get what you're saying.

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We have to call evil, evil, but

again, I, I don't think Facebook

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is an effective means of that or

Twitter or X or Instagram or anything.

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I just.

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I think it's a massive distraction from

what the church really needs to be doing.

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I know.

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So that's, that's a helpful response.

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Would you say then?

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By and large and getting your counseling.

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It's is your, this is your wisdom

on the matter would you say then?

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Oh, Christian should by and large,

not kind of engage with that stuff.

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I,

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I can't say sinful to engage with it,

although it does open the door to sin

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because it opens the door to anger.

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It, it opens the door to,

you know, biting words.

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And in it.

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Opens the door, even to, I

think potentially sinful uses of

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sarcasm in, in some instances.

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So I can't say it's a hundred

percent seen across the board.

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I can tell you this.

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I don't engage with it.

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When I see a political post or

something like that on social

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media, it skip right away.

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I mean, it just, I don't care

who you are or what your post is.

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I just.

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I'm not, I'm not about it.

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I think when somebody like molar is

addressing it on the briefing and

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it's more of like a, a news or, or

a, here's a, an approach to this.

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And it's somebody that, that is

speaking from a position of authority.

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Okay.

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But what my cousin thinks about

the latest election results.

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I don't care.

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At the end of the day, I care

where they're at spiritually.

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And some of that can be revealing of that.

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Sure.

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But.

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I mean, I, I just, I think we waste so

much effort on an energy and concern.

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And vitriol and all of these

things on our Facebook and social

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media posts instead of going in.

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And you, and you've got neighbors next

door to you that are going to hell.

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Like you care more about proving

your social media critic wrong

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than you do about your neighbor.

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Who's damned to hell.

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You're not going to win

the battle on Facebook.

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You might win the soul next door.

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Um, So I just, I think we, we

care about the wrong things.

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Okay, one final pushback

from this invisible.

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You know, as a person.

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Uh, I need this to stay informed.

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I want to be on top of this.

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I want to read it.

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My cousin says, or my uncle or

my, you know, So-and-so because it

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helps you to know where they're at.

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I could pray for them more effectively.

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I need to see this stuff.

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I need to be inviting it so

that I can interact with them.

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Great.

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Read their posts then,

and then go to them.

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Pick up the phone, text them.

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And say let's get together, meet

with them in person, but why

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we don't win souls on Facebook?

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It's not the place.

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Um, You can't hear tone.

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You can't see facial expressions.

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You can't read body language.

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And it's just, it's not

the, it's not the place.

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So.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I guess there's

my cards on the table.

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As far as social media and politics

goes, um, I know we've got people.

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They're there on my Instagram feed.

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And it's one of those when their

story comes up, it's just swipe right.

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And get past that entire chain of 50

posts because it's going to be just

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all ranting and raving about politics.

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And it's just.

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I can go share the gospel with somebody.

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Um, that's where I'm at on.

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Well, I, I think your cards are

probably helpful to a lot of people

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that are just thinking through things.

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Like this, because it's, it's,

it's something that all of us are

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wrestling, but even if we never

vocalize it, we're all thinking,

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what am I supposed to do with this?

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Right.

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What's the best response

to this, this or that?

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I guess I do have one recommendation

for you guys who are listening.

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Uh, I do listen, have listened

to the daily pour over podcast.

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Yeah.

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And so with that one, yeah,

it's, it's a short one.

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It's a really even handed or at

least an attempt to be super,

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even handed with the news.

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And what they'll do is they'll sprinkle

in scripture between the segments.

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And they'll say, okay, as you just heard

about this, this news about so-and-so.

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The scripture says this thing

about life, you know, it's

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appointed unto man to die once.

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And then after that comes judgment.

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So let us all be ready to face

our maker, something like that.

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And I find it helpful.

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So it's called the daily pour over.

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If we remember, we'll put the link in the

show notes, because I found that helpful.

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You might too, if you're,

if you're saying, oh, I need

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to do this for new sake.

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This is a way to be informed

and keep your mind on Christ.

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Yeah, you can also get it as an

email newsletter in your inbox.

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You know that.

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Okay, there you go.

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So.

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Alright, Isaiah 37 38 39.

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And then Psalms 76, 70 76.

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All right, Isaiah 37.

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Uh, has it been 37?

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We still got the rap Shakka

and, uh, and yet he's removed.

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He's taken out of the scene by God.

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Uh, which is helpful, but the mockery

and taunting continues from a Syria

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this time in the form of a letter.

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So a letter is sent first 13 verses

that's kind of what's going on.

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The Rob check is not there, but

here comes this letter and the

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letter is basically saying the

same thing to the people of Israel.

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So.

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Again, same song, different verse

here verses 14 through 20 Isaiah.

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Uh, prays and asks God to save the

people from this Assyrian threat.

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And this is the right response from

God's children when facing trials.

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When we face situations, when we're

in a difficult situation, when we have

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trials going on, even nationally, it's,

it's appropriate for us to turn to the

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Lord and ask him to act on our behalf

rather than for us to kind of use the.

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The old American mindset of I'm going to

pull myself up by my own bootstraps and

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work my way out of this trial myself.

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Right.

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It's good for us to turn to

the Lord and say, what do we

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need you in this situation?

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Well, in response through Isaiah God

prophesies, the defeat of a Syria

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and the end of sinokrot pieces,

this is what's going to happen.

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And you kind of lays it out here.

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This is 21 through 38 and he challenged

a serious pride and declared that they

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had only accomplished what they had

because he had a drink ordained it.

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Now, remember.

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The wrap Shaq is taught in boast

was what God is going to stop.

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You look at all these

victories, we've won it.

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Now God, through the prophet,

Isaiah saying they've only won those

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victories because I allowed them to.

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And now that they're boasting as

though it was their own, God is going

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to turn them around, but the same

way they came and there's, there's

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that language of turning the animal

around the hook in the fish's mouth.

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The bit in the horse's mouth.

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Uh, and Judah would be spared and

they would eventually leave the

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city and return to their homes and

their vineyards vineyards once more.

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One of the things I love about

king has a Kaiser response.

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Is that he, so going back to the

kingdom minded and needs base prayers.

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Uh, he responds with a very

kingdom minded approach.

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He says, Lord, uh, and verse 20.

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So now all Lord, our God

save us from his hand.

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That for the purpose of all of

the kingdoms of the earth may

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know that you alone are the Lord.

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Now I was thinking about that and

I think when we're praying kingdom

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minded prayers, and again, the fluidity

between that and our needs based

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present, I think the best prayers.

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Have their grounds in God's glory, the

kingdom, and it's for those reasons

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that we say, and that's why I'm asking

for this particular deliverance Lord.

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No.

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I'm asking God for you to provide

for, you know, aunt Susie,

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because she's in the hospital.

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But Lord, I want you to give

aunt Susie strength so that

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she can testify to your glory.

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And your honor.

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So I think the best prayers

are prayers like king.

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Hezekiah's this isn't about me, Lord.

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This isn't about even us.

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This is about you.

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Your reputation's on the line, it's

your glory and honor that we want.

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And I think that kind of prayer allows

us to be open-handed with the results.

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God, if you want to destroy us for glory.

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Okay.

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That's what you're doing.

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You want to kill me in a car accident?

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Okay.

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That's what you're doing.

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I trust that.

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And I think the best pairs are that

king has a kind of shows, a willingness

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to say, Lawrence, this is about you.

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And I think we ought to have that

same mentality when it comes to our

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kingdom minded end needs based prayers.

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It's about the glory of God.

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All of this.

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Are our needs, our wants

everything else in between.

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It's about his glory.

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That's the heart of a true

Christian right there.

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Yup.

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The narrative.

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Uh, tells us what happened here in

verse 36, the angel of the Lord.

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Remember, this is typically

the pre-incarnate Christ.

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When we see this.

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He goes out and he strikes down

185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians.

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And when the people, a huge number rose

early in the morning, just so many huge.

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And you remember from first Kings 18,

the story, right, the lepers are hanging

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out, outside the gate and they're

like, look, the Assyrians are here.

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We might as well go die with

those guys because they're

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going to kill us anyways here.

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Or we can go try to get

some bread and die there.

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Right.

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And they go out there and the Army's gone.

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And they can't find them.

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And they're like, oh, look at

this, there's a bunch of food here.

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Oh, we should go tell the

people back in the city.

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Crazy.

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And so if you're looking for the parallel

first Kings 18 helpful or second Kings

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18, rather helpful background to what's

going on here in Isaiah chapter 37,

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but the angel, the Lord goes out and

strikes on almost 200,000 people.

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That is an amazing number of people.

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So that just, just for reference

here, that would be all of prosper.

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All of Selena.

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All of Ana.

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I mean, so for you, if you guys are

local, so prosper, just to give you a

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rough and dirty prospers, 37,000 people.

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Yeah.

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Selena is about 35 to 30.

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Yeah.

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34.

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Two.

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Now Frisco is 220,000 people as of 2022.

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So I mean, just think all

the first go disappeared.

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Yup.

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All the Frisco's gone overnight.

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Yep.

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Credible.

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That's what God does.

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Yeah.

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It's essentially to sold out

Dallas Cowboys football stadiums.

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Oh, okay.

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That's an interesting way to put it.

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I've never been, but I think

that's a lot of people.

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Yeah.

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I mean, if you imagine, what would

the headlines that it would make?

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If one stadium was attacked and

everybody in the stadium died crazy.

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It would be all over the

news for, for days, years.

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And that's what God did.

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And here's two full stadiums.

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Crazy.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Chapter 38 Hezekiah gets sick.

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So king HESI, uh, here's some Isaiah

that he's going to die from this illness.

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So things go from oh, right.

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Victory to not so good for, for king.

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Has he really quick here?

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He gets sick.

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He finds out that he's on his

death bed and he literally

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turns to the Lord in prayer.

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He turns his back to the wall.

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And he prays and he prays and asks

that God would deliver him from this

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sickness instead of ending his life.

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Um, which has always been an interesting.

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Concept to me and I get it.

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Don't get me wrong.

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I understand the desire to

have your life prolonged.

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But I wonder.

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What his main motivation was in that.

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I w I wonder what his main desire wasn't

that because when you find, uh, A Saint.

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Who approaches the end of their

life, who is walking with the

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Lord in close with the Lord.

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Th they're ready.

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There's almost like a.

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Okay.

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Yes, let's go right.

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When, when they're at

the end of their life.

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But here you've got, has a Chi

who's like, I don't want to die.

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And so I wonder what was

going through his mind.

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I wonder if there's a fear

of what lay after death.

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I wonder if he just wasn't confident.

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But he, he wants to keep living.

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Um, do we know how old

he was at this point?

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I don't know.

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I think I could imagine.

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A younger man.

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You know, a mature man, but a

younger man still let's say, well,

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I got this thing I need to do.

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And I've got this family.

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I've got came to you tonight and

said, pastor PG, you're going.

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My wife and my kids do I

want to see the grow up?

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I want to see grandkids, yada, yada, yada.

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So I think maybe, maybe the timing

has something to do with it.

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It could, yeah, I'm trying to think here.

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Uh, okay.

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So second Kings 18 in

the third year of OSHA.

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Uh, has the kind of the son of

Ahab king of Judah began to rain.

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He was 25 when he began to reign and

he reigned 29 years in Jerusalem.

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So the last.

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At 54 years.

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15?

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Yeah.

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So he was to your point,

who's a young man.

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It really happened because he

gets 15 more years beyond this.

492

Right.

493

So he would have died in his forties.

494

Yeah.

495

Right.

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Uh, 39 30.

497

Yeah.

498

He would have done yet.

499

Yeah, there you go.

500

That makes more sense.

501

He's a young dude.

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He's our age.

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Yep.

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Give or take.

505

So there it is.

506

So he's.

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Yeah.

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He's.

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About 40 years old.

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He's praying.

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Hey Lord, please spare me the Lord.

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Uh, grease and gives him

15 more years of life.

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And after this has a higher

appropriately responds and, and

514

praises the Lord for the mercy, he

had shown him by extending his life.

515

So he goes into this, this praise.

516

Uh, section here, advisee at 38.

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Worshiping the Lord for,

for hearing him and for, uh,

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responding in such a great way.

519

Some amazing lines.

520

They're like verse 17.

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It was my welfare that I had great

bitterness, but in love you delivered

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my life from the pit of destruction.

523

Here it is.

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You've cast all my sins behind your back.

525

How awesome is that, that concept

of atonement there, that picture

526

there, we get so much, so many cool

pictures of a Toma in the profits.

527

Yeah, I just have a question then.

528

Yeah, because clearly God

miraculously heals him.

529

Why then does.

530

Isaiah's like, Hey, make a

cake of figs and apply it to

531

the boil that he may recover.

532

D is there.

533

Was there something in.

534

Okay.

535

So clearly God is saying use, this means

this method of healing and apply it.

536

And it's going to bring about the healing.

537

Was that a miraculous healing or was that

a, was that the medicine of the time?

538

Why the cake of figs?

539

I don't know.

540

I mean in 20 clearly he's not

healed right away because it

541

says the Lord will save me.

542

Uh, there in verse 20.

543

And so it's this promise that, okay, you

will live, you will recover from this.

544

So it seems like this

is the meal or the meal.

545

The means.

546

I don't think anybody wants that meal

after it's been on top of the boil.

547

Um, The mean, is it the okay

through which it takes place?

548

It's interesting.

549

I guess, as I read them,

like, oh, that's fascinating.

550

I wonder why he chose the guy.

551

Why not just speak it?

552

And he's, he's healed it clearly.

553

This was a.

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Like a name in from Syria kind of thing.

555

I can't go dip in the water seven

times and be healed of your leprosy.

556

Right?

557

It feels something like that.

558

It's not quite the same, but I wondered

why God chose to go this route.

559

Right.

560

Who knows?

561

Yeah.

562

And yeah.

563

Poultice figs.

564

I'm looking at a commentary right

now, um, where there has a cat,

565

his health problem was a septic

ulcer or some internal poisoning.

566

We're not told.

567

Oh, okay.

568

That sounds fun.

569

Neither.

570

Do we know whether figs were in current

medical use or if I say it was simply

571

using the lump of figs as a visible

symbol of the healing power of God.

572

And acted Oracle in other

words, which is similar.

573

Yeah, he does at other times.

574

Uh, his actual come in

was to rub it on the boil.

575

Um, okay.

576

Yeah.

577

So there you go.

578

Interesting.

579

Yeah.

580

Uh, but then the questions you had

were we're here to answer for it folks.

581

Yeah.

582

This commentator does go on and

talk though about the fact that,

583

uh, there is, he says this, there is

of course no contradiction between

584

the healing and answer to prayer

and healing by means of medicine.

585

There's no healing apart from the

Lord, he says, and that's true.

586

And so whether it's you take the aspirin

in, it makes your headache go away.

587

I mean, that's God.

588

He designed the body to, uh, to work.

589

But yeah.

590

And the question for us for all of us.

591

So when we go to the doctor, It's not

whether or not you make use of the

592

means that God has allowed, but whether

or not you're trusting in that, right.

593

We go to the doctor, but

we trust in the Lord.

594

We get the medication, we use the

medication, but we trust in the Lord.

595

We take advantage of all the things

that God has given us and what a great

596

blessing it is to have Western medicine.

597

But we trust in the Lord.

598

That's the point, right?

599

Right.

600

Chapter 39 then, uh, has a CA.

601

Man.

602

I guess he's still relatively

young man at this point.

603

He's only 39.

604

He's only 39.

605

So those.

606

Those of us

607

anyways.

608

Foolishly invites a Babylonian Envoy

that was sent to see if he was okay.

609

And he invites them in to

see everything in Jerusalem.

610

Hey, let me show off all the

riches and the treasures and

611

that the wealth that I've got.

612

And just garage.

613

So as it shows in the brand new camel.

614

We're spinning hubcaps on the camel.

615

Yeah, exactly.

616

And, uh, and so after this, Isaiah

comes to him and prophesies that

617

everything that he had shown them is

going to be taken away to Babylon.

618

Um, and even has a Kaiser and sons

would be taken captive as well.

619

I'm so mad at his response.

620

Go ahead.

621

Go ahead.

622

I'm mad.

623

Cause Hezekiah goes ma.

624

It's not going to be during my lifetime.

625

Right.

626

I am outraged.

627

Right.

628

Has a Kaia, how dare you?

629

Right.

630

Right.

631

Yeah.

632

It's it's, it's the most.

633

It's it's just a departure from everything

else that we know about the guy.

634

I don't was this a moment of

weakness was clearly, this was a,

635

this was a thoughtful response.

636

The word of the Lord you've

spoken is good for he thought,

637

and this is the Lord speaking.

638

He's revealing the heart

of his, a guy here.

639

Right?

640

There will be peace and

security in my days.

641

Ah, It repulsive.

642

I don't get it.

643

Oh, I'll talk to him

later when we get there.

644

Right.

645

And forget the exile of the

people in that, that the, the.

646

It didn't matter.

647

He's told his sons are going to go.

648

It's like, oh, well, Like, thanks, dad.

649

Appreciate that.

650

Well here, here's another thing too.

651

We wouldn't talk about this.

652

Cause he's not in the, in this.

653

And the techs right now, but

Hezekiah is extension of life.

654

Results and perhaps the worst king

at the Southern kingdom ever sees.

655

But NASA comes from Hezekiah's

loins during this 15 year

656

period of extension of life.

657

Whereas it has accepted his fate.

658

He wouldn't have been on the scene.

659

They would have been a different situation

entirely, but because as a guy asks for

660

longer life, he ends up responding this

way in this terrible way, chapter 39,

661

but then he ends up having Manasseh.

662

Who was one of the worst Kings ever.

663

Yep.

664

Yeah.

665

Anyway.

666

Yeah.

667

Thanks as you're initiate that.

668

You're welcome guys.

669

Yeah.

670

All right, so I'm 76.

671

Psalm 76, uh, like with the

other song that we were in

672

recently, I think it was 48.

673

Uh, there's no specific attribution

here other than a Psalm of ASAP.

674

It's.

675

It's not known when this was composed.

676

It's not known the context in

which this was composed and

677

yet it, it does fit again.

678

The situation that we have been

reading about in the book of Isaiah.

679

Second Kings 18.

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And so this is a Psalm that

expresses praise and fear of God.

681

It praises God for defending Jerusalem.

682

That's why it really does seem

to fit this context with the

683

Assyrians coming against Jerusalem.

684

So it's praising him for

defending Jerusalem and.

685

Uh, following that it calls on the

people to fear him and his wrath and

686

have the appropriate response to that.

687

So there's, there's encouragement.

688

There's excitement.

689

There's yes.

690

The Lord is our deliver.

691

He is our Cocker.

692

He is the one that,

that, that protects us.

693

And yet there's also, Hey, we should

be afraid and we should fear him

694

with that appropriate fear because.

695

Like for seven says who can stand

before you, once your anger is roused.

696

We never want to be the

object of that anger.

697

And so that's Psalm 76.

698

Thanks.

699

I'm 76 shows us a good way to

think about how we should respond

700

to God when he delivers us.

701

Yep.

702

When God does something good for us.

703

It's appropriate is good.

704

Jesus expects us to offer Thanksgiving.

705

Do you remember when Jesus

healed the 10 lepers?

706

Of course you do.

707

Pastor PJ.

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Uh, nine of them departed and went

their Merry way with their new life.

709

Thinking that thinking whatever

they thought one came back.

710

And when the wind came back,

Jesus is like, Hey man, good job.

711

You gave.

712

Thanks.

713

Well done.

714

Here's your gold star now?

715

Carry on false.

716

He did no such thing.

717

Jesus said, where are the other nine?

718

Right.

719

So his expectation Jesus' expectation

is that when he blesses you, when

720

he, when he forgives your sin, when

he does something good in your life,

721

makes your kids obedience gives you

a, you know, a positive review from

722

the doctor or a positive, uh, you

know, promotion at the, at the job.

723

Jesus expects or Thanksgiving and Psalm

76 shows us that he deserves that.

724

We should be saying things to God,

like your glorious and majestic.

725

You're more, you're more

beautiful than this and that.

726

You're more valuable to me

than anything in the life that

727

anything that life has to offer.

728

And in fact, interestingly, pastor

Peter, talk to us about this in verse

729

seven, he says you are to be feared.

730

Who can stand before you,

once your anger is Rouse.

731

If this is composed during this time,

when God delivers Hezekiah and Israel.

732

What does fearing God have

to do with his deliverance?

733

How do those two ideas connect?

734

Uh, it's, it's the, the respect, even

that you have of your dad, right?

735

When you see your dad step in and,

and protect your family, or when you

736

see your, the, the wrath from your

dad and in disciplining a sibling.

737

You look at that, the power exercise.

738

Yeah.

739

And you think that's a, that's

a terrifying thing to see that.

740

And there's a gratitude that

is not directed at you, but

741

there's also an awareness that

it could be directed at you.

742

If you.

743

If you transgress, you find

yourself on the wrong side of God.

744

Right?

745

And so I think that's,

what's going on here.

746

It's it's the joy that comes and going.

747

Wow.

748

Look at the power of God's

wrath poured out on our enemies.

749

There's also the cognizant awareness

that, but for the grace of God

750

go, I, and I need to fear that.

751

Less.

752

I, I drift in there.

753

My myself.

754

Oh, the helpful insight there, but

yeah, I mean, it's, we should be

755

thanking God when he delivers us.

756

And I think Psalm 76 teaches

us that if nothing else.

757

I just like saw like has

a guy he gave thanks.

758

We ought to give.

759

Thanks.

760

Well, what's happened to you today

that you have not yet give given.

761

Thanks for maybe take a few

moments right now to do that.

762

Very thing.

763

Yeah.

764

Let's pray.

765

Can we do thank you for the

good things in our life.

766

We thank you for our church.

767

Even as a special run, I've just

been talking about, it seems like

768

there's just a lot of good things

happening right now with our church.

769

And we are grateful for that.

770

Thankful for the people thankful for

a great week of VBS, just continuing

771

to reverberate in our staff meeting.

772

Even as we re we were meeting earlier

this week and talking about the good

773

things, celebrating that the victory

has got, we want to give you thanks

774

for the good things that you're doing

with our church, and also have a.

775

An awareness that you've given us

a mission to, uh, to accomplish,

776

like we talked about on Sunday.

777

And if we're not faithful to that

mission, you could shut our doors.

778

And that's something that we want to fear.

779

And so there's a.

780

Uh, fear of God that should seize us

as a church body to say, we want to

781

be faithful and we want to continue

to press on and accomplish the good

782

work that you have for us and not just

sit back and say, well, this is good.

783

We've done enough.

784

Let's just celebrate

what we've done so far.

785

There's work to be done.

786

And so Lord, give us a mindset ready to

do that work and help us or not to be

787

a church of Hezekiah is at least not.

788

Has.

789

At the end here.

790

Help us to be a church of men and

women who finished strong and who

791

continually are mindful not only of

our own comforts, but also thinking

792

about the future generations and

wanting to see more and more people

793

come to faith in Christ and in not.

794

Uh, not rejoicing in the fact.

795

Well, God's wrath may come, but at

least I won't be here when it, when

796

it comes, what do we want to be?

797

We want to have a heart for people and for

those around us as well, that that drives

798

us to them to share the gospel with them.

799

So.

800

Uh, we pray towards that end and we

ask these things in Christ's name.

801

Amen.

802

Amen.

803

Keep it in your Bibles and tune in again

tomorrow for another episode of the

804

daily Bible podcast, please come back.

805

Bye.

806

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