00:00 Intro

00:10 Texas Weather...Isn't Hot

02:02 Daily Bible Reading: Isaiah 31

04:45 Daily Bible Reading: Isaiah 32

12:38 Daily Bible Reading: Isaiah 33

17:10 Daily Bible Reading: Isaiah 34

21:44 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

22:51 Outro and Podcast Information

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everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hey, it's what day's Wednesday

as you're listening to this.

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Happy midweek.

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You've made it halfway through your

week, and that's a win in and of itself.

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Hot this week in Texas.

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First a hundred degree days

that we've seen all year

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coming at US, a hundred, 403.

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I've seen a couple of those on the radar.

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I think we've hit it already.

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I just think this is the first

time it's been predicted.

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I think we just hit those temperatures

regularly or at, I take that back.

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Some of it is, it feels like.

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100 something outside

feels like temperature.

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The actual temperature is 95 or whatever.

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Which I'm never quite sure

what accounts for that.

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I'm guessing maybe it's the humidity.

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I think it's the humidity and combination.

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Yeah.

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It's like wind chill.

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It can feel like 30 degrees,

but the windchill makes it feel

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like 15 degrees because, yeah.

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Okay.

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That makes sense.

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Yeah, hot days ahead anyways.

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Hot.

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Hot either way here, but

it's been such a mild summer.

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It's been super mild.

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I almost welcome it.

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It's like where you been

Texas this whole time?

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I've been waiting for those 110 days.

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Yeah.

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And I've been a little disappointed.

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Yeah.

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It has been mild.

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Back when I lived here the first

time around, we had one summer

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where we had over 30, 35 days in a

row of triple degree temperatures.

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Bring it on man.

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Really?

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I dare you.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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Pass hard.

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Pass on that one.

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I'm good.

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Without that.

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I don't need the 30

days of a hundred plus.

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I don't need it, but there's a little bit

of Texas pride when I say, yeah we get

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hot temperature and this is how we live.

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Sure.

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We like it this way, but

my AC bill being less.

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I'd rather have that than

my AC bill being high.

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What do you keep your AC at?

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Maybe that's the issue.

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Typically like 76.

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Okay.

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Maybe you need to put it at 78 or 82 90.

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Not a lot of money that way.

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Just put it at 90, 95 will be good.

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Yeah, because really what you wanna

do is just cut off the humidity.

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Yeah.

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So keeping it at 95, you'll be okay.

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I don't think so.

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Yeah, I think we'll pass on that.

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Air conditioning is a common grace.

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We talked about Common Grace in one

of the last few episodes we did.

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Yeah.

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So I'm thankful for that.

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Keep our students in mind.

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They're down at Laham Springs.

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Latham Springs, and they

are enjoying revival.

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We, we trust.

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And so they left

yesterday, that's Tuesday.

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So as we recorded they left a few

hours ago as we sit here right now.

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And so pray for them.

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They arrive safely.

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We do know that.

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So that's good news.

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But just be praying for

the week in general.

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It should be a good week for them.

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Let's jump into our daily Bible

reading, 'cause we got a lot of

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ground to cover in this episode,

at least Isaiah 31 through 34.

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It's four chapters in case

you're not great with math.

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But yeah, Isaiah 31 is is

warning those that are gonna

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be tempted to go down to Egypt.

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And the backdrop of all of this, and

again, I think we've mentioned this

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before, but for me this has been

enlightening and helped me understand

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Isaiah so much more to understand that

the backdrop and the main threat in

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the book of Isaiah is not Babylon.

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But Assyria, and that's

what's happening here as well.

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The backdrop of this and the temptation

that they would have to go down to

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Egypt is because of the Assyrians,

because of the threat of the Assyrians.

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And so God is telling them,

don't go down to Egypt.

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In fact, he's gonna tell them in

verse three, if you do the helper,

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meaning Egypt will stumble, and he

who is helped, meaning Judah will fall

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and they will all perish together.

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So he's saying you should not trust them.

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Instead, verses four and five.

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And there can be some confusion here.

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Some people wonder.

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Is the lion a negative omen and

then the bird a positive one?

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Or are they both negative?

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Are they both positive?

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I think they're both positive

because I think what God is

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saying is you can trust him.

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You can trust in the Lord to protect

Jerusalem, that God is going to,

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rather than them needing to go down

to Egypt to be protected, God is

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gonna be protect, protecting them.

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He is not terrified by their shouting

that of the Assyrians or daunted by D.

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D, what's the word, daunted.

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Thank you.

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Daunted by their noise.

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So he's gonna protect them like

a bird hovering over its nest.

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So the Lord will protect Jerusalem.

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And so God is telling

them, turn to me instead.

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That's verse six.

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Turn to him because Yahweh is the

only one that can actually deliver.

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Verse eight, the Assyrian shall

fall by the sword, not of man.

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We're gonna read about this.

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In the next couple of days here, when

we get into the narrative of what

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actually happens with Sin Ara coming

against Judah, but that's really

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what's going on here in the first part

of Chapter 31 at least, is I guess

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all of chapter 31 is God is warning

the people when the Assyrians come.

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Don't go down to Egypt,

don't look to anyone else.

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Trust in the Lord.

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Yeah.

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Verse five tells us that.

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God's going to initiate

protection over his people.

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And then notice after verse five,

and it's important to notice this

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five, five comes to four six.

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That's obvious, but I want you to

see the progression in how it works.

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Verse five is God taking

care of his people.

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And then verse six is,

and so turn, so repent.

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It's almost like God is saying, respond

to the grace that you're being shown.

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And that's not different

to us or toward us today.

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It is God's kindness.

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Paul says.

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That leads us to repentance.

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And here you see it in action in

God's interactions with Judah saying,

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please look at what I'm doing for you.

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And as a result of that turn, and I could

encourage you all to do the same, as you

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see God's kindness in action towards you

and giving you all the good things that

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you enjoy, the air conditioning, the

paycheck, the food that you enjoy, the

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relative peace and security that you have.

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God is using that as a way to say.

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Notice who I am.

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Notice how good I've been to you,

and as a consequence of that, turn

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from your sin and put your trust

fully in me and not in the things.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 32, the focus shifts,

as it so often does in the book

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of Isaiah, away from the present

to the future and a future king.

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And this is gonna be the Messiah.

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And that's in 32.

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One behold, a king will

reign in righteousness and

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princes will rule injustice.

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And he goes on here to describe what

the millennial kingdom is gonna be like.

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And the millennial kingdom is

gonna be a time when the undoing

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of Isaiah six is gonna be realized.

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Verse three, the eyes of those

who see will not be closed.

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The ears of those who

hear will give attention.

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Remember, Isaiah's commission

was to go to those who would

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not hear and would not see.

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I.

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And so this time in the millennial

kingdom, it's gonna be reversed.

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There's still gonna be sin there.

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The fool will be no more called noble

nor the scoundrel said to be honorable.

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That means there still will be fools

and scoundrels both in the millennial

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kingdom, those verse six who have

a heart that is busy with iniquity.

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That jumped out to me this time around

as the definition of a fool being one

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whose heart is busy with iniquity.

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And we would say we don't wanna be fools.

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We wanna be the opposite of that.

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So our heart should be busy with.

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Righteousness, busy with thinking about

and pondering, how can I fear God?

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What does that look like

for me to obey the Lord?

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But the millennial kingdom is

gonna be marked by a reign of

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righteousness and foolishness.

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And the sins of these people, they

are not going to be celebrated.

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They're not going to be honored

the way that our world does today.

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You look around the world today and

plenty of fools that are elevated, that

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are put up on pedestals and say, this

is honorable during the reign of Christ.

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It's gonna be the opposite of that.

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Verses nine.

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In, in following, then we get

into the the complacent women.

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But just complacency in general

here, at least through verse 14.

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Those that are at ease are gonna

find that, that they're gonna face

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judgment, that they're gonna be up

against the judgment of the Lord.

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Now, this is long term.

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Verse 14, the palace being forsaken.

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The populous city deserted the hill and

the watchtower will become dense forever.

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A joy of wild donkeys

and a pasture of flocks.

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This could be looking

forward to either the.

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The destruction by Nebuchadnezzar or the

long-term destruction that's gonna come

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during the tribulation period, because

what comes next is another return to

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the vision of the millennial kingdom.

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And verse 15, until the spirit is poured

upon us from on high again, that's gonna

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be during the time of the millennial

kingdom, where verse 18, the people will

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abide in peaceful habitation and secured

dwellings and in quiet resting places.

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Yeah, this is a really

interesting part here.

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I don't know why he identifies the

women in particular, but maybe it's

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better just to see this as a call to

all the people, as I think you just

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alluded to, to avoid a complacency

with your relationship with God.

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And you talked about this a little bit

on Sunday talking about sacrificially

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investing in our relationship with God,

lest we, like Judah, find ourselves on

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the business end of God's discipline.

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Can you talk a little bit about that?

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Remind us what you preached and

maybe if you see any connections

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between that and what you see

here with these complacent gals.

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Y Yeah, just that, that idea.

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Remember in Haggai that the Temple Land

ruins, and we made the point that temple

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represented our relationship with God.

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And so part of the call was, Hey, you

know you, I'm calling you away from what

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you may want to do with your funds, your

money, everything else, your paneled

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houses, and I'm calling you to turn

your attention to making sure that your

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relationship with God, the temple IE.

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Is intact.

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And for them it was gonna be materialistic

sacrifice 'cause they were gonna

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have to literally rebuild the temple.

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For us, it's thinking about,

man, we, we live in an area.

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I made the comment on Sunday that our

biggest concern is what's going in

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the shopping center over by target.

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Which by the way, if it's not wrong

to care about that, like that's fine.

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I'm curious what's going

in over there too, but.

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We need to also remember that we can

be lulled into a state of spiritual

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complacency or spiritual stagnancy,

e even, and be comfortable when

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God is calling us to realize that

man following him is gonna cost us.

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We're not meant to be

at home in this world.

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There was that worship song

back in the early two thousands.

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All I know is I'm not home yet.

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This is not where I belong.

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And that's true.

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And we need to remember those things and.

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Look for our eternal rest in the future,

and in the meantime, realize that to be

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a Christian here is swimming upstream.

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Jesus said, that the way is narrow and

difficult, that leads to eternal life.

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And few there are who find

it, but the way is broad that

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leads to eternal destruction.

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So sacrificing caring about these things,

making sure that we're not too comfortable

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here, such that becomes our idol.

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I'm always reminded that the quote,

I don't remember the first person

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to say it, but somebody said that

for the unbeliever, this is as

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close to heaven as they'll ever get.

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And for the believer, this is as

close to hell as we'll ever get.

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And so we can't.

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As believers think that this is as close

to heaven as we'll ever get, because

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heaven's gonna be way better than this is.

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And speaking of heaven here,

verse 15 excuse me, verse 18.

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Nope, I was wrong on both accounts.

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Verse 17.

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In the middle.

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In the middle, the effect of

righteousness will be peace.

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And I think that's important because the

peace that we all long for that kind of

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serenity and security that we desire, it

says here is the result of righteousness.

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And so that tells me the greater

the righteousness, the greater our

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experience of peace, the greater the

wickedness, the greater our experience of.

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Tumult and turmoil and bad things.

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So the thing that you and I most

deeply want, we will get in the

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millennial kingdom and beyond.

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When Christ is ruling and reigning

over the creation, it's at this

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point when perfect righteousness

is ruling that peace is experience.

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He says here, the result of

righteousness is quietness.

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Trust forever.

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I love that imagery, quietness, and trust.

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I think about sitting on our chairs

in our front porch with a good cup

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of coffee, enjoying a quiet, peaceful

morning as the sun is rising.

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This is the mentality that

at least I have about this.

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We all want something like that, and

whether yours includes a cup of coffee

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or something else, the piece that we long

for will only be known fully in Christ.

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But in the meantime, I think there's

something important about saying the

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greater the righteousness of the people.

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The greater the experience of relative

peace, relative righteousness,

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relative peace, I think we can

experience some of that today.

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Although the ultimate

only comes in Christ.

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So let's talk about what you

just pictured for a second there.

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'cause it got me thinking, okay

what is everybody's individual

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conception of that, right?

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Is it okay for us to think that's yes.

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What eternity is gonna be like

the eternal state, the new earth.

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We talked about recently some of

that, that the new Jerusalem's gonna

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be there, but there's also gonna be

nations and there's going to be people

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living in different parts of the globe.

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At that point, whatever the new earth

is gonna look like, is it gonna be the

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the reality that we're gonna be able

to say like designer situation, be like

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this is the reality that I want, so this

is what my eternity's gonna be like.

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How much of that is really

gonna be in our control?

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I wonder.

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I could tell by the way that you

asked that question that you probably

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have different ideas and that's okay.

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I think part of what I was

getting at, no, not necessarily.

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I wasn't trying to disagree with you.

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I'm just, you were disagreeing

underneath your breath.

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I can tell.

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No.

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I'm really curious.

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The way you're looking at me right now

tells me everything I need to know.

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Just kidding.

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Go ahead.

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No I'm not disagreeing with you because

when I think of eternity, I think of, the

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fact of the new earth being able to go

out and, play golf on a golf course on the

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new earth and enjoy that to the glory of

God because we'll have glorified bodies

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and it's but then you'll have the camp

that's yeah, but it's all about Jesus.

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Don't forget, it's all about

Jesus and they're right, but

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it's, it can be both and.

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And I think that's the

beauty of the eternal state.

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Yeah.

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Is that you're gonna know what it

is to pursue the things that maybe

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you love doing as an expression

of your worship to Jesus, rather

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than just as a self-satisfying

thing that you want to go do.

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They're not mutually exclusive.

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You would do all you do according to one

Corinthians 10 31, to the glory of God,

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you would be able to do that imperfection,

which means there would never be a

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competition between your favorite.

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Fill in the blank cup of coffee, your

favorite person, and Jesus, because

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you would enjoy that person and that

cup of coffee to the glory of Christ.

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You would recognize them as

a gift from your good savior.

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You would see all the good in

them as an expression and a

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reflection of Jesus, your savior.

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So yeah, absolutely.

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I agree with that entirely.

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And what I was getting at is

not so much the exact image of

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sitting on my front porch with a

sunrise, but more that, that sense.

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And that experience of serenity.

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Peace.

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You hear birds, you feel a gentle breeze.

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That concept of peacefulness is one

flavor and one, I think experience

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that we can expect in the new

heavens and the new earth, although

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perfected without sin at all.

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And that's an exciting

thing to think about.

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I'm just trying to paint a

picture of one aspect of it.

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Yeah.

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In fact, there was a quote that

our friend Eric Zeller sent out

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from John MacArthur on Twitter.

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This week in the wake of MacArthur's

passing where he, MacArthur was

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saying that because of that reality

man, that this future that is gonna

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be there in the presence of God and

without sin and everything else.

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He said, death for the Christian really

is a friend because it, it ushers us

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into the presence of God, which is a

different way to look at death for sure.

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That's right.

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Chapter 33 the focus returns here at

the outset to Assyria, chapter 33,

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verse one, ah, you destroyer, who

yourself have not yet been destroyed,

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you traitor, whom none has betrayed.

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This is talking about the

Assyrians at this point.

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And yet God is going to look at his

people and you'll, if you look at verse

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two, there's a different approach.

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Now they're willing to be patient.

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At least a remnant of them are,

oh, Lord, be gracious to us.

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We wait for you be our arm every morning.

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And so their mindset

now is God, we're gonna.

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We're gonna wait for you.

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We're gonna trust you.

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Even verse five, recognizing God's

authority, God's power, God's sovereignty.

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The Lord is exalted for He dwells on high.

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He will fill Zion with justice

and righteousness, and he will

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be the stability of your time.

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So they're confident.

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Even as Assyria is amassing,

the threat is growing.

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Hey, we can trust in the Lord.

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In verse 10, we see this God's sovereignty

expressed from his own perspective.

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When he says, now I will

arise, says the Lord.

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Now I will lift myself up

and now I will be exalted.

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And so God's timing is his perfect

unfolding of his sovereign plan.

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And here he's saying this is

now when it's gonna happen.

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He does look forward to this.

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Remnant though, he says, who among us,

verse 14 is gonna be able to dwell with

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the consuming fires as the judgment comes.

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Who can dwell there?

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It reminds us of Psalm 15 and in some of

the other Psalms of who can dwell on God's

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holy hill and it's similar language here.

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He who walks uprightly or righteously.

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And speaks uprightly, who

despises the gain of oppression.

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So the righteous ones, those are the

ones that are gonna be okay during the

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judgment of God that is coming here.

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But God is going to bring the judgment

and the people can wait and the

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people can trust in that the language.

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Notice of verse 16 when he

says his bread will be given

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him in his water will be Sure.

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That would've.

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Particularly in poignantly for them,

because this is something that was

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felt greatly during a siege like

they were gonna experience when the

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Assyrians came against the city.

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That bread was gonna be a, an

immensely costly commodity.

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Water was gonna be necessary, has

Akira, was gonna have to build the

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tunnel to, to bring water into the city.

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And so God is promising those that

are righteous, you're gonna be

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fed and you're gonna be watered.

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And that's more than

just spiritual realities.

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I think it's even pointing to the

fact that he's gonna take care

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of them physically too, there.

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I wanna point out to you too, that

faith must a, as a necessity of

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its reality, produce works, which

is why God can say through Isaiah

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who are there gonna be those who

don't experience his consuming fire.

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It is those who walk

righteously and speak uprightly.

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In other words, the one that

possesses faith in Yahweh will.

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Of necessity.

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Display works that

demonstrate faith is active.

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We're gonna see this again in the New

Testament, so this is not brand new.

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I just wanna show you though the

way that the scriptures pointed out,

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everyone's faith who is real and active

will produce real and active works.

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In this case, it looks like

someone who walks righteously.

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That is, they have a life

that is not perfect, but one

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that is blameless before God.

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They speak not with perfection, but

they are upright with their words.

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And Jesus says later,

under the new covenant.

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Now, well under the New Testament,

that is out of the overflow of the

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heart, the mouth speaks, and so a

heart that is right before God walks

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righteously and speaks uprightly.

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So don't get confused

about this is not works.

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Righteousness.

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This is evidence of faith displayed

in the works of righteousness.

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And ladies listening to this, you may

want to show up at Women's Bible Study

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on Saturday and actually hear more of

that exact same concept expressed during

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the the message there from Ephesians.

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Oh, cool.

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So what is it a man?

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Is it a Amanda preaching?

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She's, yeah.

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What what chapter?

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Ephesians two, eight through 10.

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All right.

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So yeah, the works that

have been prepared for us.

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Right on.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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That's exciting.

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Yeah, it will be From here,

the rest of chapter 33.

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He does talk more about

the millennial kingdom.

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Your eyes will behold

the king in his beauty.

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The king is gonna be the Messiah there.

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Verse 20.

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Behold Zion, the city

of our appointed feast.

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Your eyes will see Jerusalem.

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Untroubled habitation, immovable

tent, whose stakes shall

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never be plucked up again.

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This this picture of this future

Jerusalem's reality is looking forward

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to the millennial kingdom when the

Lord is verse 22, our judge, our law

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giver, and our king who will save us.

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That's the Israelites speaking

of him in that capacity there.

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So those days are coming again, the

messages of judgment and hope that

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are interwoven throughout Isaiah.

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Isaiah I know I keep saying this.

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I find Isaiah is.

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It's a dense book.

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It's, there's so much there.

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And it's, I, you wonder how, what

would've been received, I guess we

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know Isaiah six, but you wonder how,

from the faithful remnant, how they

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would've received all of this as it's

being delivered from the prophet there.

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It looks like it's one of those books

that provides a lot of foundation

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for the New Testament concepts.

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Yeah.

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And even if he's, even if he's

not being deliberately quoted,

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there are, they're drawing.

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A ton on Isaiah's resources to

speak about the new Covenant.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 34 really sets up chapter 35

but chapter 34 is talking about the

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judgment the tribulation, the judgment

that's gonna come against all nations.

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Again, we have to ask ourselves,

has this happened yet?

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And if the answer is

no, then we must assume.

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Because God is faithful to

his word and faithful to his

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promises that it's yet future.

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And I think here we're looking forward to

a future time when God is going to judge.

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He's going to be enraged

against verse two.

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All the nations furious

against all their hosts.

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The host of heaven, verse four shall rot

away and the skies roll up like a scroll.

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That's language indicative of what we.

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John sees in Revelation chapter six.

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So this is eschatological

judgment that's taking place here.

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This is the tribulation.

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This is the ultimate judgment of God.

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And in verses eight and following, the

Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of

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recompense for the cause of Zion, for

his people Jerusalem, the streams of.

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Edem.

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So Edem is singled out here as

a representation of all of the

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nations that are gonna suffer.

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So this isn't just about edem per

se, but it's really about what

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God is gonna do to all of the

nations that are gonna come there.

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And what you see here in the rest of

this chapter is absolute desolation.

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All that once was inhabited by

edem is now gonna be made desolate.

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The wild animals are gonna be there,

the owl is gonna nest there, verse 15,

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and lay her eggs and hatch and gather

their young and the shadows there.

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And so this is God's saying to the people

judgment is going to come and when it

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comes is going to be all encompassing

and he's going to act for the sake

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of Zion, for the sake of Judah, for

the sake of his covenant with David.

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You can even think that, but

ultimately for the cause of his

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own name and the glory of his name.

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We see some evidence too, of an early,

or at least language that speaks

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later of the developments of the

idea of hell verse 10, night and day.

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It shall not be quenched.

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Its smoke shall go up forever.

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And this in part, remember this is the

beginning of the section starting in verse

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eight, that Lord has a day of vengeance.

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So you see hints of.

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Exer exercise of just judgment in the

creation of and the sustaining of hell.

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And here it's just ever

so slightly foreshadowed.

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You don't see a full expression of it.

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But I think that's what's happening here.

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Verse 10, night and day.

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It shall not be quenched it smoke shall

go up forever, generation to generation.

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It shall lie.

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Waste none shall pass through it forever.

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This is the desolation

that God effects on his.

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Enemies.

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And by the way, notice here, it's

a de creation event where God

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spoke all things into existence.

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Now he is speaking judgment

upon it and leaving it desolate,

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broken without anything.

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He stretches the line of confusion over

it and the plumb line of emptiness.

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He's destroying what he once created.

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And this is an act of his just judgment.

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This is something to be afraid of, and

yet not afraid in the sense of saying,

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as a Christian, we should fear his

judgment, but we should be afraid for our.

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Friends and our neighbors who, who don't

know this, if we really believe this,

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and I ask this sincerely, if you really

believe this, what is it doing for you?

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If you only feel self satisfied that

there's salvation for you in Christ?

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I guess that's a good thing

to have security in that.

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But don't forget, there's a lot of

people that this will be affected

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against, and this is not a good end

for anybody who's involved in it.

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For sure.

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You mentioned the de creation.

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I'm curious to get your thoughts on the.

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What takes place to this current earth

in the end, because Peter talks about

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the heavens are gonna dissolve like fire

and the earth is gonna be burned as well.

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There's two camps out there.

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There's the kind of.

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The rehab camp, remodel camp, and

then there's the recreation camp.

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Do you have a particular dog

in the fight on, on which one

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of those you would side on?

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It's actually because of Peter that I

believe it's a, I don't like the term

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refurbish because it does conjure up

ideas of, oh it's almost brand new,

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but it's not, it looks brand new.

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I think that's probably one of the closest

parallels is that God so destroys it, that

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he takes what's left over and creates.

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Something that is consistent.

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Yeah, there's a continuity with it.

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Yeah, but entirely other and different

because it's creation without sin.

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So although there is a.

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There is a sense in which it's a

refurbished creation because he destroys

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all of it by fire, but it's still

the same stuff that he's gonna use.

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In other words, God's not going

to ex nihilo create new earth.

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New people.

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Yeah.

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It's the same earth,

it's the same material.

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He's gonna repurpose it and perfect it.

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That's my thought about that.

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What would you say?

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Yeah.

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And I think that fits

with Romans eight too.

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When it, when Paul says that creation

groans under the way of the curse.

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Longing for the appearance of Christ.

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If creation's gonna be blown

to smither means, and there's

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a new creation coming, that's.

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Totally brand new, not like

anything of the old then.

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Then it's not gonna be groaning

and longing for that day.

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Be like, let's just wait.

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Let's just pause on that.

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I'm good guy.

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Yeah, we're good?

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Yeah, this is fine.

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Yeah.

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It's fascinating though, because

you wonder what similarities will

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be there because you go to the Grand

Canyon today and it's awe inspiring.

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It causes you to glorify God.

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'cause you see it, you go to the

oceans, you go to the rocky mountains.

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Although we've talked about whether or not

there'll be oceans in the eternal state.

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Oh, anyways.

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Let's pray and then we'll be

done with with this episode.

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God we confess the

mysterious is beyond us.

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And ultimately, as the word says,

the secret things belong to you.

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And yet those are secret things that

one day we'll know when we are with you

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and when we're in the new creation and

when we get to experience these things.

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And we are excited about that though.

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Even as Pastor Rod was saying, this

reality of the uncreation, of the

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judgment, of the wrath that's gonna

be poured out is a reality that.

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Real people are going to experience.

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And even if they're not there during

the tribulation period, they ha will

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have perhaps perished beforehand.

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They're gonna still experience

your wrath and its fullness

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in eternity apart from you.

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And so we wanna be faithful

as believers to be reaching

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those that need to hear Christ.

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And as we think about our existence as a

church, we wanna be a church that lives

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on mission to reach, teach and train.

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And the first part of

that is reaching the lost.

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And so we wanna be mindful of those

that you've brought into our path,

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across our path in our neighborhoods

and our workplaces to share the

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good news of faith in Jesus Christ.

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With them so that they will

come to faith and repentance

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and turn to him for salvation.

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And so help us to be ambassadors that

are passionate about reaching those

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people so that less and less we'll

face your wrath on Judgment day.

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And so we thank you so much for today

for your word, and we pray that we

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will continue to be faithful to you.

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We pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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