00:00 Introduction and Anniversary Celebration

01:34 Alligators in North Texas

07:03 Bible Reading: Second Chronicles 27

08:14 Bible Reading: Isaiah 9-12

11:54 Messianic Expectations and Prophecy

12:38 Judgment on Israel and the Northern Kingdom

14:01 Applying Ancient Prophecies to Modern Times

14:30 God's Immutable Nature and Human Sin

16:12 The Wrath of God in the New Testament

19:04 The Sovereignty of God Over Nations

21:10 The Millennial Kingdom and Ultimate Deliverance

22:34 The Importance of Worship and Singing

23:39 Encouragement for Church Attendance and Worship

25:11 Concluding Prayer and Reflections

Hey, happy Saturday.

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It's a, it's a great

day to be in God's word.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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And because I didn't say it yesterday

and because we weren't thinking about

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it, but I'm just gonna say it because

I want to be happy anniversary.

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My love.

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16 awesome years.

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I'm not even here today.

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You're not I'm with her and we're

doing something fun this morning.

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Good.

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I'm glad because you you've begun your

payback of me for going on vacation.

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That's right.

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Because now I'm today

in the office by myself.

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So your next three episodes are just me.

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That's right, because I'm here.

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Because pastor rod is with his

wife and they're having a good

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in well-deserved time away.

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Take your wife to

celebrate the anniversary.

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I'm not, I'm not bitter.

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I'm just saying I offered to record

additional episodes with you.

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You did not.

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You said, I don't know what I'm doing.

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I was going to let you figure that out.

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Is that exactly the.

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Verbatim.

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I don't think that's what I said.

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I think I said, look, do you want to

spend more time recording together?

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Cause I didn't, I wasn't

even thinking about it.

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And I was thinking about

planning the thing.

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The things.

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Yeah.

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So.

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Um, you know, we're

still, today is for us.

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It's still Thursday.

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I can record a few more.

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No, no, no, no.

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Cause you said it was

like, ah, I mean, if you.

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To record more.

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I guess I can cram it into my schedule.

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I'm already doing so much.

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I mean, that's not cancer.

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Right.

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I could do it.

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Network.

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It always happy to jump in.

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You know, we cause we do this

because we love you guys.

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And this isn't, this is a service,

a pastor's job is to serve.

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It's a labor of love.

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So we did this because we love you guys.

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No, it sounds like we love hanging

out together and we do, we do, but

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it's not in this particular medium.

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Right.

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We could hang out otherwise we could.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Uh, speaking of, of hanging out there,

there's been some new creatures,

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new animals hanging out in the

waterways here in north Texas.

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What kind of animals are natural

to this part of the country?

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Well, They're not natural

to this part of the country.

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And, uh, they're the type of

animals that you see later.

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There there's some Gators.

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Uh, that have been hanging out Gators.

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Of Capell, which is okay.

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So think DFW airport.

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All right.

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Okay.

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Thinking about it, just come

this way just a little bit.

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This airport, you know,

this is an audio media com.

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Remind me.

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Just a little bit from the airport.

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Okay.

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Five minutes, maybe.

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Not even that perhaps,

and you're in Capelle.

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So, yeah.

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In Capell.

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I mean, not right now, there have

been alligators spotted in the

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ponds surrounding dent and Creek.

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What, so how does that happen?

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I, you know, they pond, I blame Houston.

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How does okay.

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It was Houston mailing us.

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I wouldn't put it past them.

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I think, yeah, I know Houston.

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Right.

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So you might think,

man, what in the world?

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We're not in Louisiana.

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We're not in Florida where

these Gators coming from.

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Yeah, where are they coming from?

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I think the hurricanes bring them to us.

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So they're, so they're moving up

north to avoid the hurricanes.

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Is that what you're saying?

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That's what I'm thinking.

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I mean, everybody's kind of moving

to this area and the Gators.

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You know, there's some cheap real estate.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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I see.

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Interesting.

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And there's no predators

for them around here.

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What's what's a predator to a Gator,

like the great white shark, I think.

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And we don't have it.

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No, maybe not.

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I don't even know.

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This is a serious question.

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I don't know what.

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Besides people.

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I mean, it kind of goes

both ways about it.

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They'll come in.

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We might get a new pair of boots

out of them, something more.

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So you're saying we should call Jeff.

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I mean, I don't think he'd be opposed.

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Yeah.

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He's got that by you upbringing.

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He could come and could

talk it out of the water.

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Yeah.

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Say your best impression of Jeff?

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Okay.

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No, not a Jeff.

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There was this show.

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Uh, called swamp people.

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My wife and I used to watch.

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In our earlier days and they would

go out on the buyer and they would

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shoot Gators and there was the one

character it'd be like two of them, two.

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Um, never solid show anyway.

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What's the difference between a Gator.

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And a crocodile.

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I don't know.

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I think their snow is different.

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Like the crocodile, I think,

has a narrower snout in the

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Gator has a broader snout.

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All right.

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Well, I don't want to get them confused.

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I know people get offended

pretty easily around here.

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Well, and I think if you're in the

water and you see either one, you

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probably want to get out of that water.

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Reptilian animal coming our way.

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Right.

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Does that work?

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Uh, sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But I, I just, I can't get out.

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Okay.

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The water.

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Yeah.

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So, uh, there you go often,

do they attack people?

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Let's just, what are the,

what are the numbers?

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I don't know.

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I'm sure the Googles could tell us how.

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Because I'm thinking,

you know, We're Texans.

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Right?

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You.

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You don't, you don't you care, but you're

just going to get in the water anyway.

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And if that thing wants

to step up with you.

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Well, this is an open carry state.

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So Hey, if you wants to start, start

something, we're going to finish it.

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That's true.

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So here we go on the fly.

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How many people die from

alligators each year, each year?

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Ah, here we go.

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Okay.

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According to the Florida fish and

wildlife conservation commission.

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Reliable.

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I'd like to Santas 26.

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People died from alligator

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I see, there you go.

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Basically, non-existent out of 442.

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by incidents.

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Okay.

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So, yeah, that's still averages out

to basically nothing per year, right?

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The average number of alligator attacks

in the United States attacks, not

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deaths attacks in the United States.

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It's about one per year C while

venomous injuries are responsible

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for more than 56 fatalities per year.

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So like venomous snakes.

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It was a venomous alligator.

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That would be the that's it.

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And hopefully they never get together.

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Yeah, I know stuff, weird stuff

has happened, but that's one

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that we don't want to pray for.

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Yeah.

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That's so again, my point is.

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I don't like it.

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I don't, I don't want them traveling

to our part of the country.

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Right.

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If they're going to, we're

probably going to be okay.

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Yeah, I think we're going to be okay.

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I just, you know, if you've got a dog

and you take him to the dog park and

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you throw the thing out into the water

for the dog and Fido doesn't come back.

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I mean, Hey.

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According to pastor rod, you'll

see Fido again in heaven.

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I did not.

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Well.

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I didn't say exactly that,

but maybe yes, but maybe.

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I wouldn't put it pass a

good gun to generously.

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Give his kids good gifts.

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Yeah.

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And one of those gifts could be some kind

of reanimation of your old puppy, perhaps.

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Your cat for sure.

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No.

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Nope.

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Gone.

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Cat has gone gone.

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In fact, maybe we should

feed the cast to the Gators.

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You know, if they were well fed with

cats that would solve two problems,

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it would avoid human attacks and it

would, you know, tamper down or cat

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problem here in the, in the north Texas.

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We have we have single-handedly we're

going to get an angry email about that.

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That would be like, that's not funny.

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God's creation.

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You shouldn't joke about the deaths

of God's creation with alligators.

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Wow.

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But so far it's okay.

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It's okay.

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Director, mark Cogan.

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Yeah.

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We love your cat.

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No, we don't, but we love you.

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We love you.

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And by extension, we will love your cast.

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No.

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If Marquez, yes, cats now.

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Well, what happens if mark

dies and he buckwheat's to you?

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His cats, alligator food.

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Oh, Or.

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Can I keep giving to somebody else?

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Who wants cat?

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Well, if it's in his will though,

and he says, I specifically want

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all of my cats to go to pastor PJ,

what are you going to do with that?

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I'm going to trust that the spirit

of that will would say, I want

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my cats to be well cared for.

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And I know that I wouldn't

care well for those cats.

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So I would be quit them to somebody

else who would care well for them.

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No, but.

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I would carry forth his desires.

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Mark what specifically say.

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Something along the lines of, I

demand pastor PJ to care for my cats

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and only him until the day he dies.

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Did they die of a natural cause

then he wants them dead because

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he knows that would be the result.

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I'll see.

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Yeah.

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Well, Hey, let's jump into

our Bible reading for the day.

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This is ridiculous.

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Second Chronicles, chapter 27.

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You know what yesterday was a little

bit more heavy, a little more.

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Sirius today's a little

bit more, a little.

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Yeah.

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That's a good point.

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That's why people listen to us.

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That's the only reason.

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That's the only reason.

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Second Chronicles 27.

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We're just here for just a minute.

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We're going to skip off

the surface of this.

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And then we're going to jump

into Isaiah nine through 12.

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Second Chronicles chapter 27, we have

Jotham king Jotham ticks thrown in Judah.

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And he, it says does what is

right in the eyes of the Lord.

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He was courageous with his father

use Ayah until you use I's death.

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So there's some overlap

in their accomplishments.

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Remember you use, I had leprosy and

couldn't continue on the throne.

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So Jonathan was raining

around the same time though.

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He had others, the main military

accomplishment noted here, at least.

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Was Judas continued subjugation of

the Ammonites while Jonathan was king.

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So we get this interesting

little note here.

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On the relationship there with, with

AMA, but that's, what's going on in

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second Chronicles, chapter 27, Jonathan

reins in Judah, you probably have

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an underlined, but notice in verse

six, Jonathan became mighty because

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scripture gave a reason why he ordered

his ways before the Lord has got.

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So whenever you see a good king, this is

always going to be the common denominator.

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He loves the Lord.

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He trusted Lord.

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He follows the Lord.

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And what do you know?

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That's pretty consistent with what it

means to be a good Christian as well.

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Yup.

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Well, let's turn over to Isaiah.

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We're going to spend the majority of our

time and Isaiah Isaiah 9, 10, 11, and 12.

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Is it nine is going to

sound familiar to you.

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Uh, it's got a lot of verses in here

that you're gonna say, wait a minute.

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I remember that.

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In fact, you may even start singing

along with Handel's Messiah.

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Uh, to a portion of this passage.

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Uh, but in Isaiah nine one through

seven, here, we get this promise from

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Yahweh that he's not going to leave

his people in the spiritual darkness

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that they find themselves in presently.

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Eventually he's going

to send his great light.

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We've been talking a lot about light.

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Uh, we've talked about

it in John's gospel.

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I appreciate about it not long ago

from Matthew chapter five and the fact

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that we are the light of the world.

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In a lot of those concepts

they're in, in the gospels.

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Come back to this, this prophetic passage

about in verse two, the people who walked

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in darkness have seen a great light.

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Those who dwell in the land

of deep darkness on them.

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A light has shown that that

Jesus is the fulfillment of that.

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So this is anticipating

the coming of the Messiah.

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Uh, verse three, there's no longer

just a remnant for the Lord.

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He's going to have multiplied the people.

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So this is looking forward to

the millennial kingdom here.

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Uh, and there's, there's some overlap,

so there's going to be some, both,

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and there's going to be some near.

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And kind of medium and also for future

fulfillment here, as we get into this,

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some of this is going to be dealing

with the first advent of Christ.

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Some of it's dealing with both of them,

uh, but here the millennial kingdom is in

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view in verse three, verse four, God is

going to deliver his people from slavery.

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Th that's the yolk image.

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Then he's also going to deliver them from

enduring suffering, which is the staff.

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And from the affliction of

suffering, which is, uh, the rod.

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Verses six through seven, this deliverance

is going to come, how it's going to

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come through the birth of a king.

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And here's the passage that we talk about

and, and read about each Christmas time.

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And this is the one a child is born.

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A son is given the government's

going to be on a shoulder.

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And then it goes through

his different names.

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Uh, these names that this child is

going to have wonderful counselor

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appeals to his supernatural

wisdom that he's going to possess.

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He's going to be the mighty God.

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He's going to be divine

in nature in Isaiah 10 21.

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God is referred to there as the mighty

God everlasting, his rule is going to.

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Go forever.

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Without end.

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He's going to be the fulfillment

of second Samuel chapter seven.

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Davidic king whose kingdom

will never come to an end.

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He's going to be the father and

this gets a little confusing,

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cause we are talking about Jesus.

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But this is father in the sense of

the way that he relates to his people,

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the care for the discipline, the

concern for the love for his people.

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He's going to be the prince of peace,

peace, the Shalom, which is not just

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a piece from conflict, but just an

overall wellbeing, a holistic wellbeing.

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And that piece is going to be

both with God and with men.

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And he is going to be the prince in

the sense that he's going to be the.

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Administrator of this piece.

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And so this is the one that is

going to bring the deliverance.

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That Isaiah nine is talking about here

and his kingdom is going to expand

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without opposition or end, and the

government would justice in righteousness.

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Is going to be his forevermore.

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So how would a.

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A Jewish person, an Israelite would

have, how would they have read this?

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What were they expecting?

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An actual king to fulfill this?

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That was somewhere down the line of the

Davidic the Davidic line or was there.

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Was it.

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I mean two of the best

of our knowledge and.

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Uh, grant, we don't really have a

whole lot of information on this

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because we don't know what they

were thinking, but we can speculate.

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Now speculate for us, help us

think where they saying, oh,

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this must be someone future.

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Maybe this isn't even a human

because they're called mighty God.

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What do you think they do with this?

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Yeah, I, again, I think this is this fed

into some of the messianic expectations.

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I think this is why you have passages

like Luke 24, which he uses on the

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road to amaze with the two disciples.

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I think this is why the Pharisees and

the Sadducees rejected Christ outright

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from the very beginning, because they

were looking for a Messiah like this.

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They were looking for one who's.

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I was going to bear the

government on his shoulders.

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He was going to be the mighty God.

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So I think they were

looking for this king.

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I think they did understand

this to be messianic.

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I think they even understood

this to be the messianic.

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Expectation having the idea that he

was going to be divine, even because

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of the language that's contained here,

but they weren't expecting, expecting

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the suffering servant to proceed this

one, because this one is ultimately

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the millennial kingdom Messiah.

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This is not the first advent Messiah.

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God, it just kind of goes back

to something we talked about

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before the idea of a prophecy

functioning, like not Rangers.

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Now here, it's all compressed into

one picture where you see Jesus, the

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Messiah, the conqueror, the king.

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Yeah, but there's also valleys

between the mountain peaks where you

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see the suffering servant and other,

other elements and other timeframes

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rather taking, taking place here.

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So that's helpful input.

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Yeah.

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Uh, verse eight then.

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Uh, down through chapter 10, verse four.

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Uh, we get into the, the,

the judgment on Israel now.

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It's going to be important

for you to keep in mind here.

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Here we are dealing with the Northern

kingdom, but eventually the prophecies

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are going to stop dealing with the

Northern kingdom, but you're still going

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to be reading about Jacob and Israel.

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And at that point, it's going to go

back to the pre divided kingdom concept

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of Jacob in Israel as holistically

representing the nation as a whole

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and not the divided monarchy.

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Here, we know it's the divided monarchy.

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And the reason we know that is because

verse nine talks about Ethereum, which

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is another name for the Northern kingdom.

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And there are the inhabitants of

Samarria, which is the capital city there.

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So the profit of here turns to

the Northern kingdom, turns to

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Israel and prophesies against their

pride and the refusal to repent.

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He indicts their hardheartedness,

which had led the Lord to abandon

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them and to turn them over to

corrupt elders and false prophets.

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That's verses 13 through 16.

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There.

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Then they were consumed with

their wickedness and their

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simple luster, never satisfied.

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Uh, there, we see that in verses 18

through 21, and there's no justice or care

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for the needy, but instead societaly they

had made them the object of their greed.

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That's chapter 10 verses one through four.

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And so in the section of.

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Repeated refrain that takes place

in verse 12, 17 21 and chapter 10,

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verse four, is this for all this?

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His anger has not turned away.

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His hand is stretched out still.

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So this is Isaiah saying.

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Here's the charges.

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You want to know what your charges are?

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Israel here they are.

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And this is a bad thing, obviously,

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We read sections like this, and this

is going to a lot of Isaiah's stuff.

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I mean, for the first 39 chapters,

there's a lot of this, even though

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some of it is focused toward his

people, others, it's going to be Moab.

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And he's going to talk about a Syria.

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He's going to.

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He's gonna have his gun pointed

to a lot of different targets.

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When we read stuff like this, and we're

kind of just plowing through our Bible.

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How do we take something like

this and apply it to ourselves?

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Give us a couple of hints

on this are tips and tricks.

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If.

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He will.

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Yeah.

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I think it's important to know that

that sin is a sin is an offense

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against the character of a holy God.

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In the holy God, which we're

referring to, there is immutable.

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In other words, he's unchangeable.

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So as we read about Israel's sins, we need

to understand that if, if we're following

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in the footsteps, not literally because

our sins are going to look different

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today than they did then, but if we have

a har hardheartedness, if we're consumed

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with wickedness and sinful lust, if.

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If we are not caring for people,

like we should be caring for people.

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I mean, that's going to be an

offense against God and we need

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to be mindful of that as well.

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That, that in no way, is God looking at

what our sins are, or even nationally our

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sins as a nation in turning a blind eye to

that and saying, well, it's no big deal.

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It doesn't matter.

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So don't worry about it.

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And so I think that's one reason why.

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Uh, we should.

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Look at this and see how it

can still apply to us today.

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God's immutable the things that he

hated, then he still hates today.

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I really appreciate that because I

think one of the things I see when

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I read a text like this is I think,

okay, feed your fear of the Lord.

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I want to feed my reverence of God

because in the new Testament, While you

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do have judgment and you do have a lot

of that spoken by the lips of Christ.

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You miss some of this stuff, which

is why it's so good that we're

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spending time in our old Testament

because you see the totality of God.

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You'll be, you'll be skewed in your image.

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If you only have a new Testament or only

have an old Testament, but when you put

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them together, You have a much, fully,

more fully orbed view of who God is.

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And I want to feed my reverence

because that's the one thing

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that will tend to stray.

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I'll think of God more casually and more

like a human being, as opposed to this.

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Uh, sovereign divine high and

exalted being who deserves my fear.

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Not, not a survival fear,

but a feel you'll fear.

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Uh, he deserves my attention.

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He deserves my obedience.

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So if at minimum, when you

read a text like this, Let it

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feed your fear of the Lord.

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Yeah.

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And you brought this up, then we lose

sight of this in the new Testament.

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Sometimes you'll hear people read

passages like this or some of the

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other prophets and things, and

think that the new Testament God's

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different from the old Testament.

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God, maybe you've heard that.

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Or maybe you've thought that yourself.

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I think that undersells what

took place at the cross?

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Another verse free to

consider in light of that.

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Romans two five says this because

of your hard and impenitent heart.

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You are storing up wrath for

yourself on the day of wrath.

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When God's righteous

judgment will be revealed.

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And so when we think, well, the God

of the new Testament is merciful and

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gracious and compassionate and kind.

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Okay.

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Paul just said in Romans two, five,

that that same God is storing up wrath

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that he's going to pour out on people

who have a hard and impenitent heart.

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At an unrepentant heart.

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So he is, is just like he

did in the old Testament.

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He is boiling and seething over the sin.

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That is being a mass by the people.

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And here's why I think that statement

under sells the cross because that

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wrath is going to be poured out either

in one of two places that Roth was

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either a poured out on the cross.

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And we have to look at that.

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And, and as much as you might feel.

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Appalled at what?

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Some of the Babylonians date of

the Persians or the, uh, Syrians

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or, or anybody else, the Egyptians

when they conquered nations and

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you go, oh, this was so atrocious.

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And I can't believe God

used people like that.

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If you're more offended at that than you

aren't what took place at the cross, then

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you don't realize what took place at the

cross, the full wrath and indignation of

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God being poured out upon a son is, is

more than anything you read about in the

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old Testament, as far as what took place.

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At God's bequest sovereign

bequest at that point.

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So we can't say the God of the

new Testament is different from

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the God of the old Testament.

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It's that, there's the message

of hope that that wrath that

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you see in the old Testament.

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Man that Jesus has, has stepped forward

and said, I'll take that for you.

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And that's the message is now

available that we go forth with it.

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God is so concerned about in the new

Testament, because he does desire

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that as many people as possible.

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Should come to faith in Christ.

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But those that don't,

his wrath is still there.

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It's just passively being stored up

right now for the day of judgment.

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That's coming in the future.

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Your doctoral thesis

was on this wasn't it?

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It was maybe we could put a

link to it so that people can

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read it if they want to do.

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If you can, if you need some stuff to put

yourself to sleep at night, I can get you.

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I some people want some theological

depth that sounds engaging, intriguing.

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Um, I'm not opposed to it.

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And so, yeah.

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Let's put a link in the show notes.

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We can get it out there.

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How long is it?

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It's how many hours.

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200, some odd pages.

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That's a lot of reading.

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Yeah.

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Is there a cliff notes version?

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No.

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It's not.

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That's the thing nobody has ever has.

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It's not big enough that anybody

would be like, yeah, I'm going

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to give time to summarize that.

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So, put it in chat.

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GPT does have a summary

in the introduction of it.

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You can just read that.

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The abstract or, okay.

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Yeah.

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Well, we'll put the link in the

show notes, then we can do that.

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We can do it for free.

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There you go.

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This time, you can have it.

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Uh, yeah.

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So w where are we?

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Okay.

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Chapter 10 then.

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So that's what we're talking about.

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We're talking about this idea that, that

the judgment is coming and here's all

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the reasons why, and that's chapter nine.

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So chapter 10, then starting

at verse five, this section

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in verses five through 19.

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Uh, depicts the sovereignty

of God over the nations.

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Uh, Syria is his rod and his fury.

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And so you see again, God's sovereignty.

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He's the one that's going to

pick up the rod of a Syria,

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the rod of this godless nation.

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And he's going to use that to

vent his fury against Israel.

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He's going to utilize them

to execute his judgment.

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He's going to judge them

then on the backend for their

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prideful, arrogance themselves.

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And so their belief that their power and

their victories, this is the Assyrians

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he's speaking of come from themselves.

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It's going to be their ultimate undoing.

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God's going to turn the

fury of his wrath on them.

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And that specifically verses

17 through 19, he's going to do

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something similar with Babylon

and that's the book of Habakkuk.

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So much show that we

referenced even earlier.

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Right.

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I just want to offer a quick note here,

highlight or underline in your Bible.

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Verse seven.

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Um, God uses the Assyrians.

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And their intention is not to be

his instrument of judgment, but

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that's exactly how he intends it.

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But in verse seven, he does not.

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So intent notice two intentions,

God's purposes being accomplished,

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sovereignty and responsibility, taking

place in the same, in the same verse.

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And I want you to see that because this

is how God operates in the world today.

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Yeah.

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Just like not long ago when

we saw that in the Sanhedrin.

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When I think it was Kaifas who

stood up and said, Hey, it's better.

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That one man should die.

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Then the whole nation should perish.

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He had one intention.

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God had a different attention.

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Good point.

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Pointing that out again.

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Great.

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Verses 2334, then in chapter 10.

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Though there would be a remnant preserved.

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The judgment must come upon Israel.

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They, they shouldn't fear the

Assyrians for, as we saw the

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Lord's going to judge them as well.

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Uh, but even as they arrogantly March

towards Jerusalem, they're going to be

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stalled and they're gonna be humbled.

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And, and this was recorded

for us in second Kings 19.

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So the Syrians are going to take

out Israel, that's going to happen.

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Then they're going to look at Jerusalem

and Jerusalem is the ultimate prize there.

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Jerusalem is really what they're after and

what they want because that's the city.

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Of the Lord.

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That is Zion.

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That is, that is where Israel's

God is known to have made his name.

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That's where the temple is.

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So Syria is going to come against

them, but God's going to deliver the

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nation from the Assyrians in that.

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And again, that's recorded for

us in second Kings chapter 19.

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Uh, which we will discuss, I

think a little bit later on.

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I don't think we've covered that one yet.

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Um, but we will.

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Yeah.

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Isaiah 11.

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The ultimate deliverance that is

real low longs for and looks for, is

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going to come from the future king.

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And that's the king of Isaiah 9 67.

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That's the one that we talked about a

minute ago, the child of Isaiah seven, 14,

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that we talked about a few days ago and

his reign is described in this chapter.

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This chapter is all about

the millennial kingdom.

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Peace will prevail.

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The exiles will return.

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The kingdoms will be reunited in the Lord

will rule over all people from Jerusalem.

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So if you wonder, what is Isaiah 11 about?

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Isaiah 11 is about the millennial kingdom.

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That's what's going on here.

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Uh, in, uh, in chapter 11.

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Chapter 12.

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Basically boils down to this in that day.

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Uh, Israel is going to party.

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They're going to rejoice.

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Uh, verse two behold, God is my salvation.

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I will trust and I will

not be afraid for the Lord.

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God is my strength and my song.

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He has become my salvation.

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So Israel is going to

be partying on that day.

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Uh, what an awesome time.

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I often find myself reading passages

like this sing Lord, I long for that day.

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I can't wait to be there.

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We're going to be in a different

capacity as the church.

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We're going to be reigning with Christ.

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And the millennial kingdom,

what does that mean?

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I don't know, we'll find

out when we get there.

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But, uh, but we're going to have some

sort of vice Regency with him helping in

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the governance of the lands, the regions,

there's going to be other nations on

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earth during the millennial kingdom.

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And so it's possible that we will have

a role with those other nations as well,

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but that's where the church will be.

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The church will be present, but not

the same way that Israel will be

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in the kingdom as its inhabitants.

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What I find compelling is that

there are some things that are

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so rich, so deep and so profound.

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That language alone.

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Doesn't suffice.

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What has to happen is language

married to melody that there has to

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be some response from the human to

God to say, this is so marvelous.

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So beyond my comprehension that I

have to give you more than words, I'm

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going to give you words and music.

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And I want this to be an offering.

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I mean, this is interesting in

the way that God has designed us.

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God himself sings over us.

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We read that.

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I believe in Zachariah.

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Now, but now we're responding to his work

to saying, we're going to sing to you.

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We're going to sing a bout you.

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And I find that so cool,

because this is part of how we

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weren't run our church service.

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We sing because there are some things,

some truths that are so profound.

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I sang it alone.

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Just doesn't do it.

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Justice.

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We have to give, uh, another

level of our expression of God.

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And this is one of the ways

that we it's appropriate.

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It's wise.

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It's good.

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And so even if you're not a singer,

I know a lot of people would say,

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oh, I can't carry a tune in a bucket.

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It's not my thing.

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I don't, I don't saying I

don't even sing by myself.

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Um, I get that.

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And I might've said that a

long time ago, long time ago,

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but now I realize it's good.

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I should aspire to sing, even if

I'm not a singer, because this is

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how God's people respond to him.

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Which on that note.

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And by the way, the Bible says, make

a joyful noise to the Lord, right?

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So there you go.

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Your excuse if you can't make any much

more than noise, but on that note, y'all

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I often notice as I walk into our church

service on Sunday morning, and I see

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this countdown clock going, and it's like

five minutes till the service starts.

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Um, The church is not

nearly as full as it is.

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About the time that I get up to do

announcements, or even certainly

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by the time I get up to preach.

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Can I just encourage you to try

and make it a point to be in and

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in your seat and ready to go?

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When we start our service

there at nine o'clock.

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Um, I know that that's still early

for some people to get their own

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time in or 10 o'clock rather.

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Uh, and, and I recognize that, but

it would be for this reason that

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the worship, the songs that we

bring before the Lord is part of

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our worship is part of the service.

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It's, it's not.

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And entertainment.

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It's not this thing that we're

like, Hey, if you want to opt

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into this, that'd be great.

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This is something that, that we do

because this is something that's

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good and right for us to do.

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So let me encourage you to be there.

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And to get your coffee.

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We have it out a little bit ahead of

time to, to come in, to take your seats,

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to be ready for worship, to start.

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Our kids made it opens up or earlier so

that you can get your kids checked in.

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I know that that can sometimes be a little

bit of a log jam, but you can do that

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ahead of time and get them checked in.

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Get them dropped off in your classrooms.

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And come on over to join us for

worship because it's, it's so good

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to sing with the people of God.

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And that's such an important

part of our service.

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It's commanded.

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It is God calls us to do it.

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Yep.

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It's not only just an expert.

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I mean, we, we sing, we sing

for people that we love.

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Right.

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We S we sing happy birthday

to people that we love.

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We.

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I mean, I don't know.

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Did you ever sing to Amanda

when you guys were dating?

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I did see.

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Because you're saying

to people that you love.

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And that's true, even for, especially

for the Lord whom we love most.

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Yep.

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I agree.

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Well, Hey, let me pray for us.

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And then we will wrap up

this, this, uh, episode.

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God, we thank you for again, these

texts that we just read through and

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like pastor rod was pointing out.

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Sometimes it's difficult

for us to understand.

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Okay.

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What do I do with Isaiah chapter nine?

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Uh, in 2024, and yet it is true that

you are a God who is unchanging and

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immutable, and we should have a reference

in a fear before you that keeps us.

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Uh, from drifting off the street

narrow that keeps us from venturing

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after our fleshly, lusts, and

desiring things that you don't love,

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things that you, your soul hates.

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Uh, and so God allow us to be faithful

in that regard and to take those things

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away, even as we are sales, look forward

to what we were talking about towards

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the end here, the millennial kingdom,

that there's a day coming when, when

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there's a lot to take place in between

now and then, but after you call us home,

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it's not going to feel like a long time.

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It's going to be a blink of an eye.

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And all of a sudden we're

going to be back with Christ.

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We're going to be here.

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We're going to be on this earth.

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Earth.

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Uh, it's going to be an amazing time

where we see a restoration of Israel,

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they're going to be celebrating.

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They're going to be joyful and

we're going to get to witness

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all that what a day that will be.

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And so we are in the in-between right

now of our salvation and that time.

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And.

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And we've got work to do here.

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We were mindful of that as well.

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Even as we're getting ready, starting

this weekend to kick off a brand new

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series on how you're building the

church, we want to be mindful of that.

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And we want to be mindful that we have

work to do here, to see other people

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come to faith in Christ as well.

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So help us to be.

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Uh, faithful to live in fear before you,

as we anticipate being in your presence.

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And what an amazing thing that

will be, uh, when that is realized.

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And so we thank you for this.

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Thank you for this word.

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And we pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Man.

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Hey, keeping your Bibles and tune

in again tomorrow for a DJ PJ

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and the, uh, daily Bible podcast.

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Can't wait.

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I'll catch you guys then.

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Or I will at least pass her out will be.

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Eventually.

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Bye.