00:00 Introduction and Welcome Back

00:25 Pastor Rod's Recent Adventures

00:53 Vacation Highlights and Reflections

01:36 Back to Church Activities

01:58 Appreciation for Church Volunteers

03:31 Encouragement to Grow the Church

04:06 Favorite Meal and Movie Reviews

05:55 Diving into Isaiah 13

06:36 Judgment on Babylon and Other Nations

08:15 God's Sovereignty and Justice

15:37 Compassion for the Lost

19:27 Prayer and Conclusion

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition.

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And you're hearing there's another

voice in the room right now.

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What's happening, folks?

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It's Pastor Rod.

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He's back.

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Long time no see.

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Yeah.

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Or here for most people on this thing.

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Yeah, I see you in my heart.

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I don't even know what that means.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast, and

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yes, pastor Rod is back after.

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A two week hiatus.

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Not all of it on vacation, some of

it doing some academic pursuits.

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Oh, it was so much fun too.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So catch us up, man.

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How's life been in the last two weeks?

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We had a great time and part of our

time off, we were in New Braunfels

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for, I dunno, four days, five days.

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And the day that we were

departing was the same day that

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you heard about all the flood.

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Tragic, terrible.

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We're grateful to have left without any

injury to ourselves, but we are well aware

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that we're alone in that in many respects.

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There's lots of people down there

that have suffered and continue to

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suffer, and our hearts and prayers

are with them so tragic, terrible.

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But we did have a good

time while we were there.

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We were staying in well

near this town called Green.

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Yep.

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It's spelled G-R-U-E-N-E,

but pronounced green.

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We were there.

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I got to go to San Antonio.

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We saw the Alamo.

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Yeah, we did the San Antonio River.

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The river cruise.

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We did the walk and then we thought,

you know what wanted to a cruise and

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so we did one of their little boats.

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We had a great time doing that.

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We came back last week and

I went to school for a week.

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I was in this seminar class with Dr.

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Jeremy Pierre at Southern

Baptist Theological Seminary.

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I am actively now pursuing my doctor

of ministry and biblical counseling.

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God willing, that continues

for the next three years, and

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then I'll be done with it.

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God willing, I say hopefully the end

that happens, but now we're back and

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we're back in the full swing of things.

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We're now doing our VBS.

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Yep.

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So that's taking all of our attention

and time and man, we're so stoked to

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be back into the swing of things and

my kids could not be more excited.

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Especially my girls for VBS.

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They've loved it.

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Yeah.

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And it's been been great so far.

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Had a great opening night back on Monday

night, and we are continuing on, it's now

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Wednesday as you're listening to this.

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And so we had night two, I believe last

night was water night on Tuesday night.

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And just it's great.

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And we were talking about it as a

staff on our staff meeting on Tuesday.

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Just how thankful we

are for our church body.

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You guys are just so great.

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When we talk about, and you've

heard us talk about apa, anything,

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any place, anytime and you're

embodying that this week.

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As we're walking around the campus

down there at, in Frisco, as we're

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doing this VBS, we're just seeing you

guys step up and serve in ways that

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maybe you didn't never anticipate.

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Your ser yourself serving and you're

just doing whatever needs to be done.

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And that's such a good thing.

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And we love that.

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And we are so blessed by

this team overwhelmed by the

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vision that went into this.

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We've had so, so many key people that.

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Took the lead and their teams were a

huge part of it, but saw somebody putting

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tape down on the floor and wanting, make

sure that it was exactly parallel because

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he cared that the kids didn't walk in

and be like, oh, this isn't parallel.

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These lines aren't right.

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And I'm outta here.

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Yeah, I'm outta here.

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I'm gonna be gone.

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But man, that the itch, the vision of

it and then seeing it come together

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and recognizing 90% of this is on the

backs of lay volunteers that have been

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working so hard to get this stuff done.

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Has been awesome.

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Yeah.

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You ought know if you're part of

our church Compass Bible Church in

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North Texas that the staff talks

about you, and it was awesome words.

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I hope your ears were tingling

and tickled, not in a, in negative

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sense, not second Timothy four.

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I hope your ears were tickled

in the sense that we were

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talking good things about you.

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We were just thanking

God for your service.

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Your heart and your continued effort

for being a small church as we are, and

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I think we qualify as a smaller church.

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We have a mighty service arm in all

of you, and we're pr tremendously

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proud and thankful that we get

to serve among you and for you.

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And we're thrilled that Pastor pj, myself

and Pastor Mark have the privilege of

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leading you What incredible thing that is.

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Yeah, it is for sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We are a smaller church, but

we don't wanna stay that way.

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And I hope.

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We, you all are out there.

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Share that, that vision with us.

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We wanna be growing, we

want to be reaching people.

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And in fact, this past Sunday in

your bulletin, you had an invite card

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and I challenged you to take that

and hand it to somebody, give it to

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somebody, invite 'em to our church.

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And hopefully you've done that.

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And again, I told you, you can't do

that with one of your family members.

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That doesn't count.

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You can't, unless they

don't go to our church.

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But you can't give it to like your

spouse and be like, Hey, you wanna

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come to church with me again next week,

like you've done for the last 20 years.

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Hopefully you're doing that, you're

taking that you're you're inviting people

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because we want to be reaching people.

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It's part of our mission,

reaching teaching and training.

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And we wanna be on the the

prowl on the lookout for that.

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Pastor Rod, your favorite

meal that you had on vacation.

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He's coughing guys.

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It's okay.

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He's back.

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I think.

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Favorite meal we had a

couple really good meals.

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I guess the most recent one

that we had was yesterday.

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Okay.

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And this is unfair.

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'cause this is unusual thing.

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We don't ever do anything like this.

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But we went to Jen Korean Barbecue.

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Okay.

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Or again, I'm not sure

if it's again, or Jen.

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Anyway, we went there.

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It was a whole ordeal and we

were there for lunch, so it was

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slightly cheaper, but it was great.

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Had a lot of fun making our own food

and doing the Korean barbecue thing.

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Yeah.

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We didn't do anything too exciting or

outside the realm of what we thought

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was a good Western palate kind of food.

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And that was really cool.

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Oh, we also saw this, the new Superman.

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Okay.

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Have you heard or seen that yet?

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No.

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Somebody asked me about it at

VBS and I have not seen it.

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A lot of profanity.

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Okay.

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There were some scary parts for my

girls particularly my oldest girl.

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But otherwise it was pretty good.

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I enjoyed it.

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Again the profanity and a little

too much kissing from my taste.

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Honestly, that's the

weirdest part about movies.

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I don't understand.

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I get it.

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Oh they're in love.

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They kiss right.

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But when it's extended, yeah.

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I'm like, what am I supposed

to be doing right now?

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Am I supposed to be feeling

like, oh, this is a good thing.

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I, I just don't wanna see that.

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Yeah.

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I think it's kinda weird when people

are kissing during their weddings

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and they're, and it's just like

they're, Hey, you may kiss the bride.

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That's great.

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But if the kiss is long, it starts

getting awkward for me really quick.

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Yeah.

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When you're up there doing the wedding,

you're like, okay, guess that's enough?

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Yeah.

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That's turn around.

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Just I now pronounce you husband and wife.

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Yeah.

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It just, anyway, a little too

much kissing from my taste and

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a little too much profanity.

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More than one is too much for me.

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But otherwise, it was a great movie.

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Enjoyed it.

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The f effects were fun.

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We watched one of those cool

theaters with the big plush

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seats, that little brick Kline.

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It was a lot of fun.

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I heard the new F1 movie

is pretty good too.

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I heard good things, but I've not seen it.

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Haven't seen, and we don't go to movies.

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That's what made it so interesting for us.

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Yeah, we don't either, but,

hey, let's let's get to it.

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Let's get into Isaiah 13.

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I just told Pastor Rob before we

hit record, I'm glad he is back

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because going through Isaiah

even the two of us is a lot.

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But going through Isaiah solo is

just not, it's not it's not fun.

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I got several emails and text

messages from everyone who was saying,

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look, this is a better podcast.

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We vote for you to not

have to come back to this.

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I know that's not true.

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Because those people that listen to

us, they told me, Hey we, it's okay

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when it's just one of you, but we

really like it when it's both of you.

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They said, we know that scripture says two

are better than one, but not in this case.

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We'd like to say the opposite.

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Okay, then I'm gonna leave

and let you take it then.

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That's not what they told me.

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That's not what the people told me.

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Alright, let's get into it.

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The scene kinda shifts now away from

some of the hope of the millennial

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kingdom, although it's gonna

come back to that in chapter 14.

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But chapter 13 is gonna turn to the

impending judgment that's going to come

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and specifically against Babylon here.

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And we get some of the similar

language that we've seen in

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some of the other prophets.

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The minor prophets, if you've been

tracking with that series that we've been

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preaching through of the day of the Lord.

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Because the judgment

Isaiah's interesting because.

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You have to always ask yourself, which

judgment are we talking about right now?

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Are we talking about the judgment

historically or are we talking

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about judgment that's yet future?

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Because Isaiah will flash back and

forth between them and sometimes he'll

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use these nations as stand-ins for

the nations that are gonna be there

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in the end when God is judging, before

the millennial kingdom is set up.

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And so here you've got the Prophe

prophecy against the Babylon

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that they're gonna suffer in the.

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Interim, but then there's also

looking forward to the day of the

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Lord on verse six, whale for the

day of the Lord is near again.

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There's short term fulfillment with

Babylon in the immediate future, but then

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also there's gonna be another day of the

Lord, which is the big day of the Lord.

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And that's coming in the end.

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And so chapter 13 is going back

and forth, bouncing back and forth.

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These, he's talking about

the judgment about Babylon.

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Yeah, I guess it's important for you to

understand as you're reading through this

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section, if you're gonna really read it

for, what it's purposed here for is to

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understand that section 13 through 23,

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about God's judgment on these nations.

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So it's gonna seem like it's

shifting away from Israel.

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In Toto, but it's not happening.

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You're seeing God extend the microscope

as it were further back so you

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can get a bigger landscape of his

sovereign rulership over these nations.

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And what you're gonna find out is God is

about to declare judgment on a nation that

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really hasn't done anything to Israel yet.

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The judgment on Babylon, his consecrated

ones in verse three is a big shift.

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This is gonna be surprising

to anyone who's reading this

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saying, oh, Babylon okay, God's

pronouncing judgment before the act.

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That warrant's judgment has occurred.

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Isn't that crazy?

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This is God's sovereignty on display.

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God knows the end from the beginning

and for the Israelite, even though this

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is terrifying, this is also comforting.

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God is a just God who will enact his

good and sovereign purposes without

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committing sin, without committing

error on his part, but certainly

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bringing about justice for his glory.

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Yeah.

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And even looking verse 17, he

talks about the meads here.

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He's talking about an event at this point

that's gonna take place in 5 39 BC when

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the Meads take Babylon off the scene, the

Mead, Meads and Persians together there.

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And so yeah, this is definitely the

foretelling, which is why it causes

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so many of the the secular skeptics.

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Yeah.

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And skeptics to say this

couldn't have been written

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when people say it was written.

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This couldn't written 700,

which is about seven hundreds.

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Yeah.

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Because of things like that.

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But when we're talking about God being

involved in the spirit, being the one

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that's carrying along the writers as the

writing these things, it can for sure.

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Alright, chapter 14, then we get this

kind of flashback away from the judgment

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or flash forward to the millennial

kingdom and the restoration of Jacob.

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And this is, again, indicative

of something that Isaiah does.

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He'll talk a lot about the

compassion that God is going to have.

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And so as he's writing to a group of

people or as Isaiah is, who are gonna face

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the judgment of God, there's also this.

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Looking forward to where verse three,

they're going to end up in four.

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They're gonna end up

taunting the king of Babylon.

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And this is near term, but also long term.

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And that's why it's important to have

an understanding of the whole scripture.

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The whole Bible, when you get into

the book of Revelation, Babylon shows

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up again in the Book of Revelation.

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And I think there's a, an

anticipation here that as

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Isaiah has, that John sees and.

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Jesus and the angels convey

is the future Babylon.

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And so here's the millennial kingdom.

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We see this because verse seven, the

whole earth is at rest and quiet,

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and they break forth into singing.

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You notice there's gonna be things that.

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Our show up here in chapter

14 that we haven't yet seen.

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And so that's why we say this

has to a appeal to the future.

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Now, I do think there's still some

historical Babylon elements here too.

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He does talk in verse 12, how you are

fallen from a heaven o day star of Don.

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I think we talked about this last year.

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My take on this PR is I

don't think this is Satan.

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I, although a lot of

people have said this.

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Seems to be Satan.

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I think when you look at the context,

if anything, it's, maybe it's the

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king of Babylon representing Satan or

indicating the fall of Satan as well.

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But I do think we're still dealing with

the, a human king, a human ruler at this

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point, who's being described in this

fall here in the rest of chapter 14.

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Yeah, and I guess I would agree with that.

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Now my hesitation, of course, is that so

many people in our historical vein of,

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in our Christian thinking here, would've

read that and said that's clearly Satan.

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We read today.

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And we say it doesn't seem like that.

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It looks like he's talking about the

human ruler with exalted language.

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And that really is the critical

key in understanding this.

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A lot of people that would read

this would say, this exalted

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language does not fit a human ruler.

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And to that we would say, amen.

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It's for that very reason that

God is saying, I'm going to

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humble you because of your Yeah.

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Self exalting nature.

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You are putting yourself above the

stars of God, setting your throne on

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high, sitting on the Mount of Assembly

in the far reaches of the north.

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And so he's calling out this ruler

to say, you think that you're so big,

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but you're too big for your britches.

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And I'm gonna humble you.

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It's possible.

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It's very possible because I don't.

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We don't want to commit chronological

snobbery as CS Lewis warned

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against and say that everyone

before us doesn't know any better.

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It's possible that this could

be a reference to the enemy, to

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Satan, the Satan, the accuser.

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But it, to us it seems more like

the human rulers in view here.

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Yeah.

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And in one commentary that I've found

helpful going through this is the one

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that's written by a guy named Paul House.

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I believe it's the

Mentor Commentary series.

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And house is one that, that.

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Takes that.

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This is more of a human king.

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And it could be that this is

focused on Nebuchadnezzar and

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anticipating the antichrist.

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There's possibilities of this

being the short term and long term

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fulfillment that's in view here.

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But this is, it.

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It seems the opposition in God's

message is, I'm gonna win in the end.

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That, that this is not gonna be

somebody that's gonna stand, be

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able to stand up against him.

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Verse 24 the focus shifts to Assyria.

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Now that makes sense for Isaiah's

audience because Assyria was the

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dominant empire at this time.

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And so he addresses now that

he's gonna break the Assyrians.

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And so this is the part that they

would've been nodding their heads

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along with going, yes, this is good.

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This is right because.

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Don't forget the Assyrians.

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Were not just a thorn in Israel

side, the Northern Kingdom,

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but also the Southern Kingdom.

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In fact, they do quite a bit of

damage to the Southern Kingdom.

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That I think, as I've been reading through

the chronological plan again, has just

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been a reminder to me of just how bad

the Assyrians were towards God's people.

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I always associated them with the Northern

Kingdom, but you think Northern Kingdom

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and you're like, yeah, but they deserve

it because they're all the evil ones.

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But they also came against Judah.

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And basically right up to the neck of

the city in late siege, do it in 7 0

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1 and God had to send the angel of the

Lord out to wipe out 185,000 of them.

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Otherwise, Judah's gonna

fall at that point.

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Yeah.

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They were so close.

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I agree.

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This year as I've been reading it,

I felt some of the same things.

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I can't believe how close it was for them.

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Yeah.

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If it weren't for the fact that Hezekiah

to turned to the Lord and we'll get to.

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To that chapter soon.

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Yeah.

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But God used Hezekiah to spare Judah

and give them a hundred and some odd

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more years of peace, relative peace

and prosperity, relative prosperity,

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before they were actually judged.

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But I agree, man.

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That was I didn't, in my

prayer, Bible reading, I didn't

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realize just how close it came.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 15, we turn to Moab.

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The Moabites, remember connected to

Israel, we've got David's grandmother.

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Ruth was a MOIs, and but yet they were

not the people of God and they had set

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themselves against the people of God.

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And so there's going to be judgment here.

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It, pR help us frame this.

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It seems like he's really concerned

with the other nations in this whole

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section that we're reading today.

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Yeah.

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Chapters 13 through 17.

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Yep.

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It's really not about Israel as much

as it is about the enemies of God.

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And he's talking about Moab, he's talking

about Damascus later in chapter 17.

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He's really saying, God's

gonna deal with the nations.

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He's got a holistic plan for

what he's doing right now.

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Yeah, that's right.

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And it's important to realize that God

is not just the God of Israel and Judah.

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God is not just the God of Christians

God is the God of everybody.

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And this is what's so important

and what's so critical about these

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chapters here, because to you,

you'll read them and I'll read them.

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This is not me, this is, I don't have

any problem with the Philistines or

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the Moabites, but God is intimately

and intricately involved in the

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governing of every single human nation.

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There is no nation

outside of God's purview.

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All of them are.

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They would, they matter today.

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In fact if God were writing letters

today through his prophets, Russia

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would get a letter, I would imagine.

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Iraq, Iran.

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Sure.

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All those nations in the Middle East that

you would expect, but so would America.

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America be getting letters.

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Mexico, Canada, we'd

all be getting letters.

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We'd all be getting prophetic

utterances because God is not

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just the God of his people.

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That's true.

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And it's doubly true

because they're redeemed.

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But it's also true that God is

orchestrating all of human affairs

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toward his ends and his purposes,

which includes the judgment of sin.

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And when God writes to the Philistines.

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Who were always a thorn in

the side of the Israelites.

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He's letting them know, look

I'm, I see what you're doing.

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You're not escaping my notice.

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And the Lord, he says in verse

32 of chapter 14, the Lord has

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founded Zion and in her, the

afflicted of his people find refuge.

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In other words, you're either

on my side or you're my enemy.

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And God still draws these lines.

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Today.

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God is not done drawing lines.

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He still draws lines.

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The line is you will bow the

need of Christ bended or broken,

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and that's where we need to see.

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Hints and glimmers of this in the

prophetic Oracles to these surrounding

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nations, these nations need to

know they're on God's timetable.

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They're doing God's bidding ultimately.

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And God will judge them unless they

bow the need of Christ and repent.

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And certainly there are

Moabites who did bow the knee.

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That's why you have Ruth.

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Yeah.

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And that's why you have this redemption.

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So these nations play an important

role in helping us understand God's

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purview is not just his people.

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He's not just the people.

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He's not just the God

of the people of Israel.

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He's the God of everybody on

the world, in the world stage.

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And he's constantly observing.

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He's constantly judging and his ultimate

judgment will be enacted in the future.

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Yeah, and it's interesting as he's

talking about Moab here in, in verse

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nine, I think this is Isaiah talking

where he says, therefore I weep with the

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weeping of Jair for the vine of Sigma.

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I drench you with my tears.

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Oh, Heshbon.

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He's weeping for the Moabites and.

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Stop to think why is he so

concerned with the Moabites?

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And to your point, he's concerned

I think because God is concerned.

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But I think also it just shows

that he had a clear picture of

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what the wrath of God was gonna do.

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Such that even these people that aren't

his people, that aren't the people of

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Judah, the these other people that even

had made life difficult for the people

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of Judah, when he considers how they're

gonna suffer under the wrath of God,

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it moves the prophet to weep for them.

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And that's something that, I was just

thinking about it this morning, just.

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Wanting a greater heart for the lost

here to say, man do I weep when I

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consider the future eternity of my

neighbors who don't know Christ am I

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moved to, to reach them with the gospel.

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I talked about invite cards in your

bullet and that's a low hanging fruit.

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We gotta get down to having

conversations with people about,

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Hey, are you right with God?

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Are you right with Jesus?

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Do you know who Jesus is?

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Because if we don't, I think we're

going to look at their eternal fate at

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someday and weep over the fact that.

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They're not here.

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They're not with the Lord.

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They're not in eternity with them.

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Man, I'm so glad you brought

this up because this is so

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near and dear to my heart.

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When I read this I thought the same thing.

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Who among us has this kind of heart and

compassion right before the lost, right?

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And honestly, we can read this

and say, yeah, that's right.

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I should have this, but man, if we

don't, we ought to be praying for this.

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We ought to beg God for this kind

of response because he does say

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in verse 11, therefore, my inner

parts moan like a liar for moap.

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You're right, it's for Moap.

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He's concerned My inmost self for cure.

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Hara, Seth.

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This is a concern for the people

that God is about to judge.

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And sure, Moabite, the Moabites

had a loose connection.

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Moab and Amon had a connection

to the Israelite people.

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There is a familial line connection there,

but regardless, I think it's people.

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When you see people at the Costco,

when you see people at the gas station,

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you go to the Kroger or wherever

else you go shopping, you ought to

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see people as people that are either

on the Lord's side, who will bow the

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knee, bend it, or broken to Jesus.

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And we ought to feel that sense

of, Lord, do I care enough?

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And the answer for all of us

is obviously, no, we don't.

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We don't care enough.

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And if we're honest with ourselves,

that ought to bring us to a place

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of repentance to say, Lord, I

want the heart that Isaiah has.

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And even more precisely, I want

the heart of Jesus who when he

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saw the crowds, he had compassion.

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And he said, pray for laborers

to go out to the harvest.

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Matthew chapter nine.

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And that's what we're

trying to say right now.

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The invite cards are just an expression

of a desire to say, I care about

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people, Lord help me to care more.

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And I wanna start with just

handing out an invite card.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 17, he hits the Syrians.

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That's Damascus.

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And again it's about the judgment

that is coming upon those that are

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part of the, these other nations

here as we've been talking about.

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Anything specifically in chapter

17 that you wanna highlight?

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No.

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Syria is an ongoing threat

to the Israelites as well.

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Syria and Judah, they had, they,

you read through it in some of

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second Kings and Chronicles.

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Syria was always an issue for them.

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And so Damascus being the capital of

Syria, is gonna receive God's anger.

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And he says his, again, keep

in mind what God is doing here.

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If you think about what he's

doing in your mind as you think

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about Syria, which is to the north

Philistia, which is to, what's that?

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East, west?

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East?

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No, west.

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West.

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Never eat soggy waffles.

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It's to the west.

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So Syria to the north, Philistia to the

west, Moab to the east, Southeast, yep.

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And then who else did we cover so far?

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Babylon would be south.

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I guess it'd be the reaching

the Southern kingdom.

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They're actually north.

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Yeah, but you get the idea here.

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God is enc.

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Yeah, Judah God is creating a bullseye

target, if you will, by saying to these

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other nations, I'm gonna judge you.

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I'm gonna judge you, I'm gonna judge you.

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I'm gonna judge you.

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And by the way, don't forget

Judah, I'm coming after you.

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So all that to say, these nations,

which always pose a threat

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to them, are not just random.

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They're nations that God cares about.

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Even though he's gonna judge

them, they're nations that God

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is saying, look, pay attention.

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Bended or broken, you're

gonna bow the knee.

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So I'll make a decision now.

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Yeah.

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And that circle's gonna continue

tomorrow as we pick up with Kush

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and Egypt and Yeah, you're right.

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Hey, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, as we were just talking about, I

pray that you would make us a church

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that is is soft towards the loss that

has a heart to reach them with the

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gospel that does care about them.

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I pray that you create a heart in

us, like Isaiah, the prophet's heart,

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that we would not just simply think

to ourselves we're okay, so what does

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it matter about these other people

Lord, but that we would stop and.

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Long for them to be made

right with you as well.

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And not just have the desire,

but also be moved to action.

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To have the conversations, to

get to know them, to talk to them

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to risk rejection, to risk the

uncomfortable, awkward silence.

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But to have the conversation, to

get the gospel out there to say, you

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need to repent and believe in Jesus.

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And God, we want to be a church.

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That's fruitful, evangelistically

and I, that's been on my heart a

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lot recently, and I just pray that

you would give us people that care

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about that and that you'd give us the

fruit of going out and being faithful

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to, to proclaim the gospel message.

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We know you do the heavy lifting

of causing people to come to faith.

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But Lord, we wanna be the mouthpiece

that gets the message out there.

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We pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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