00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:22 AI and Podcast Editing

01:14 Personal Stories and Anecdotes

02:10 Concerns About Local Businesses

03:08 Transition to Bible Reading

03:13 Isaiah 54: The Eternal Covenant of Peace

07:13 Isaiah 55: Invitation to Repentance

10:09 Isaiah 56: Good News for Gentiles

12:36 Isaiah 57: Righteousness and Idolatry

17:18 Isaiah 58: True and False Religion

22:16 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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Very thoughtful, very intentional.

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Hello there from Pastor Rod.

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You haven't done the hey.

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The bit the Fat Albert bit.

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You haven't done that one in a while.

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It's because I accidentally cut them out

every time I do the descrip pass through.

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Yeah.

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It cuts out repeated words, so it

ends up like I'm just saying, Hey.

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Oh, so what I just said just

came through as just hey.

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Oh, okay.

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Yep.

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There it is because AI.

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Is is smarter than we are.

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AI is helping us to edit our podcast,

which means every time we talk the

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things that we don't intend to say,

like the ums, the ahs, and the ahs

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that probably just got cut out from

my explanation are usually not there.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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I.

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Sometimes I think they're okay.

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It can be distracting for sure, but

I think just regular conversation

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you expect 'em to be there.

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And that's true.

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I do leave them on the sermons.

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So when you preach, I leave all the

ums, ahs, and ahs on the sermon.

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'cause that feels more like the

environment is conducive to that.

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But what the published podcast, it assumes

that there's a kind of polish to it.

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So I typically am pretty free

about removing all of those.

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Extra words that don't need to be there.

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And part of the reason why is because

I'm trying to make sure that our

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podcast is as concise as possible for

people that are listening in, which is

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not always easy for us to be concise.

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No.

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No it's not.

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Hey, my son started his

job, Domino's Pizza.

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Does he smell like pizza all the time?

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He's only been there for a

couple days and so far no.

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It's a, but he is, he's making the pizzas.

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So if you guys are in the market for a

pizza, Domino's off Coleman and Prosper.

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Give him a call.

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Josh is there.

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He'll make your pizza for you if

you're calling on a weeknight.

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Most weeknights is there a

Compass Bible Church discount?

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He would love to be

able to do that for you.

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But unfortunately, is there a family and

friends discount doesn't have that clout.

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He gets a sweet discount.

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So if you call him and say, Hey

Josh, can you get me a pizza

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and bring it, bring one to me.

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He might be able to hook you up on that.

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Wow.

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But yeah, so that's fun.

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We we went out to handles the other

night to celebrate, by the way,

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how do you say, handles ice cream?

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How do you say it?

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Dels.

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Okay.

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Is that how you say it?

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No.

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I know some people that dupe put the

emphasis on the back end, though.

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It's handels for them.

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I've never heard it pronounced like that.

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Yeah.

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Ever.

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There's some people in our

church not gonna call 'em out,

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but if you talk to 'em, they'll

say, Handels, we call handles.

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That's what we've always

called it, but yeah.

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Yeah, California establishment too.

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They're here.

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By the way, Shipley Donuts, one of the

best donuts locally here was bought by a

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California company in that concerns me.

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I'm worried that they're

gonna California my donuts.

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Which California company

were they bought by?

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Some nameless, faceless organization.

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I don't know.

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But they're the ones with the

collages that I really like

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and their donuts are good.

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And I usually go there on Friday

mornings to get my kids donuts.

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And I'm just concerned that they're gonna

California my donuts and I'm not happy.

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What does about that does what

does that exactly look like?

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Just, I feel like they may just

turn them into Dunking Donuts,

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which is, dunking Donuts.

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Is Dunkin a California

organization know they're from

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the Northeast, I think, but Okay.

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Yeah, but I still, I don't trust just

trying to figure out, I don't trust them.

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Are they gonna taste like

ocean and meaning they're just

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gonna take away the uniqueness?

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Like they're good.

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They're fresh.

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They're not, yeah.

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I don't know.

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Yeah.

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So I'm concerned.

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That's weighing heavily on my heart.

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I could tell, bro.

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Do you wanna stop and pray about that?

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I would love, let's take a pause.

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Yeah, let's pause the podcast.

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Let's everybody just praying

for Shipley to not compromise.

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We're gonna take a 15 minute pause

guys, for him to pray about this.

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Yeah.

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Give us a few minutes.

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We'll be back.

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Go ahead and speak in tongues

and we'll be right back.

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Hey, we're back.

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Let's jump into our reading today.

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That was exhausting Isaiah 54 through 58.

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We're dealing with at least in chapters

54 through 57, the outcome of what

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we just read about in chapter 53.

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This is gonna be what the suffering

servant is going to secure.

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Even as 53 ends outta the anguish of his

soul, he is gonna see and be satisfied.

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This is part of what he's gonna be

satisfied by, is what he's going

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to bring about in chapter two.

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54.

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The ESV heading there, the

eternal covenant of peace.

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He's talking here to Zion, to Israel,

break forth into singing and cry aloud.

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He's gonna talk about the

land and the seed there.

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In verse three.

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You're gonna spread abroad

to the right and the left.

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Your offspring will possess the nations.

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That's a hearkening back

to the Abrahamic covenant.

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When God promises Abraham, that

he will possess the land and he

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will have offspring as numerous

as the stars in the heaven.

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This is looking forward

to the millennial kingdom.

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Verse five.

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God has described as Israel's

husband in this verse.

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He's gonna betroth Israel to himself.

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He's the redeemer.

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Verse seven.

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Israel's future is gonna be described

here for us, A brief moment.

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I deserted you.

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This is looking well from Isaiah's

perspective forward to the exile,

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but from our perspective backwards,

but with great compassion, I will

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gather you in an overflowing anger.

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For a moment, I hid my face from

you, but with everlasting love,

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I will have compassion on you,

says the Lord your redeemer.

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The suffering servant is securing

this future for Israel, which

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is gonna be ultimately realized

in the millennial kingdom.

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Verse 13, all your children will

be taught by the Lord and great

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shall be the peace of your children.

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This is when Jesus is gonna be

reigning on the throne from Jerusalem

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for that a thousand year reign.

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How should I feel about all this

as a Christian Bible reader in

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2025 in the year of our Lord?

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When I read these things,

part of me is oh, that's cool.

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It sounds great for them.

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What else should I feel about this?

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If anything, yeah, a and I think

there's parallels for us to realize

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that number one, we're gonna be there.

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If you're in Christ,

you're gonna be there.

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You're gonna be in the millennial

kingdom reigning with Christ.

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And there's a lot of mystery there

that, what does that look like?

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Yeah.

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Do we get our own Dunkin?

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Our own Shipleys for sure.

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Yeah.

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Endless Donuts.

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That's amazing.

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No but we will be.

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In our glorified bodies

at that point in time.

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And that sounds fun.

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That is gonna be fun.

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And so we are not gonna die.

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We are not going to have any of those

concerns or anything else like that.

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We'll be with Christ.

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And so we'll be present

for the millennial kingdom.

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But the millennial kingdom, these

things that he's talking about here

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and I can't remember next couple of

days here, we're gonna read about how

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during the millennial kingdom, somebody

who dies at a hundred years old is

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gonna be considered a babe who's.

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Dying in the millennial kingdom.

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And that's the thing.

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There's still going to be

death because there's still

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sin in the millennial kingdom.

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Will there be bats?

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Bats, winged creatures, wing?

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I that, I don't know, birds.

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Ah, you know what?

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Someone texted me really angry

that you called bats, birds.

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What?

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I don't know if I called them

bats or you called them birds.

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I'm not sure who called them.

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What?

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I don't remember us talking about

bats, but Yeah, I didn't know either.

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But apparently on July 26th, 2025, in the

year of our Lord and Isaiah 40 through

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43, she asked, and I'm not gonna call

her out, but she said, catching up on

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my DBR from what I missed while at camp.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So she served at Revival.

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Okay.

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That narrows down the field and you said,

and I think this is the plural, you okay.

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Plural.

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You said something I feel

like I need clarification on.

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She asks and I quote, do

you think bats or birds?

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And I said, what?

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Several exclamations,

several question marks.

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I'm not even sure what

you're referring to.

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And of course you references

the podcast when you guys were

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talking about Ozzy Osborne.

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Do you remember this?

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Oh, vaguely.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, she was really upset about that.

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Yeah.

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Like visibly moved.

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We had another question written

in that we didn't get to at

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the beginning of this episode.

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We have to hit it tomorrow, so we will.

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Hey Megan.

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Crazy.

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Megan, we're gonna hit

your question tomorrow.

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We got you on the episode.

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Sorry we didn't get to it yet.

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Yeah, and Hailey, sorry

about the bat thing.

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Anyways, there it is.

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Mystery resolved.

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We should feel excited about this.

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It's a different kind of excitement

and yes, there is gonna be syndrome

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during the millennial kingdom.

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This is not the eternal state.

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There is still gonna be

rebellion against God.

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I have so many questions.

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So many questions.

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We don't have time to answer

all of your questions on this.

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Okay.

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So Isaiah 54 is supposed to help

me think about the millennial

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kingdom in its future, right?

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For Israel, but we're

gonna be there as well.

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Okay?

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Yeah.

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Asked and answered.

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Is it what I feel like asked and muddied?

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Maybe?

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I don't know.

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No, I just have more questions now.

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Okay.

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Chapter 55, we get from the Lord now a,

an invitation to stubborn Israel to repent

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and to return to him, to seek him as it's

gonna say while he still may be found.

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And so this is a.

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Confrontation on the idolatry of

Israel, but he's gonna invite them

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to come to him now to return to him.

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So again, this is flashing

back to Isaiah's day now

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saying, this is what's future.

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Now let's come back here.

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And what you need to do now

is you need to come back.

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And I love verses six through nine, some

of my favorite verses in all of Isaiah

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and Isaiah 55, where the Lord invites.

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The rebellious people to seek him while he

may be found to call upon him while he is

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near, to let the wicked forsake his way to

repent the unrighteous man, his thoughts

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and let him return to the Lord that

he may have compassion on him and into

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our God for he will abundantly pardon?

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And that's the context in which God

says, my thoughts are not your thoughts.

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And that's so incredible because

he's saying, the reason I'm gonna be

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merciful to you is something that.

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It is not fathomable for you to

comprehend from an earthly perspective.

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It makes no sense.

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And yet my thoughts are not your thoughts.

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My ways are not your ways

declares the Lord, and so he's

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beckoning Israel to come back.

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How should we feel about Isaiah

55 is really good because this

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is a foreshadowing of the gospel.

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This is the call that.

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Is on every unrepentant sinner today.

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This is the message that we take to

the lost all around us to say, Hey,

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seek the Lord while he may be found.

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'cause he can still be found

today by the repentant sinner

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that comes to him in faith.

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And God will still today

abundantly, pardon?

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This was the message for Israel.

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It's still the message that

we take is the church today.

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Yeah, I guess I love the verses that

are there, but also the ones immediately

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following verses 10 and 11, specifically

verse 11, he's talking about the fact

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that what he's saying to Isaiah or

through Isaiah better said, those

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things are going to come to pass, and

he says, I can guarantee it as the rain

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and the snow come down from heaven.

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So and so do not return there,

but water the earth making it.

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Bring forth and sprout giving seed

to the sower and bread to the eater.

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So shall my word be that

goes out from my mouth.

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It shall not return to me empty,

but it shall accomplish that which

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I purpose and shall succeed in.

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The thing for which I sent it, this

is amazing for at least two reasons.

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Number one, the God speaks

and it has to be fruitful.

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That's an amazing he's saying, there's no

way I can speak and it not do what I say.

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That's a really cool thought.

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But also number two, God's

word is more than just.

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Sounds that hit our ears.

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And in fact, it's not even the case here.

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We're reading the words so they're

not sounds hitting our ears unless you

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just heard me read it off a second ago.

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But God's word is an action.

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When God speaks.

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It's not just God speaking

like you and I speak.

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He actually does things with

his words, which all by itself

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is a really cool thought.

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This is the very.

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A foundation of how we

believe God created the earth.

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He didn't lift his hands.

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He wasn't flexing his muscles.

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He didn't break his sweat.

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He spoke everything into

existence, and he does.

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He did that through Jesus Christ, who

himself was the agent of God's creation.

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And that's a really cool thought.

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God does things through

the power of his word.

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When we talk about God's powerful word,

we're not just saying that in theory.

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Or as some grand gesture of

of highlighting God's word.

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We're saying that God actually does

things through his spoken word.

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Yeah.

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Which is why we're all

saved to begin with.

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Chapter 56 is good news for

the Gentiles in the room.

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So for me, not so much for Pastor Rod.

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That's right.

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Thank you.

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But it is good news for those of you

listening that are gentiles, because

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this is where this invitation to come

to the Lord, to seek him while he

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may be found, is extended to those

even outside the nation of Israel.

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Verse six, in the foreigners who join

themselves to the Lord, to minister to

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him, to love the name of the Lord and

to be his servants, everyone who keeps

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the Sabbath and does not profane it

these he says in verse seven, I will

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bring to my holy mountain and make

them joyful in my house of prayer.

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And then this factors into the New

Testament because he says that his

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house of prayer is gonna be called

a house of prayer for all peoples.

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This is one of the reasons why Jesus,

when he comes into the temple and finds

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the court of the Gentiles there turned

into this money changing operation.

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This is why he gets so angry

and turns over the tables, and

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it goes back to this verse.

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Even says, shall not my house be called

a house of prayer for all nations?

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The money changers had set up

camp in the court of the Gentiles.

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And so you had all of this noise, and you

had the money being exchanged, and you

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had the animals there and the smells and

everything else, which would've prohibited

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the nations from coming into the temple

as far as they could get, as close as they

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could get to the temple to worship God.

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And so that was being impeded there.

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And it comes back here because God's

plan has always been for the gospel to be

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not only just for the Israelites and the

Jewish people, but also for the nations.

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And just think about how

amazing that thought is.

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This is a pretty critical

chapter and we gloss over it.

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We, it's a big deal though, because to

this point, really throughout all of

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Israel's history, God had been hinting

at Gentile inclusion, but here it's.

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Pretty explicit.

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It is.

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Yeah.

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I find that to be pretty fascinating

that God would make it so clear to

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Isaiah and through Isaiah that God's

desire is to have his salvation be

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extended to the top of my ESB says

foreigners, salvation for foreigners.

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Yeah.

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I don't think you're supposed to say

that anymore, but that's really cool

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and I love that because God is not

just hinting at his future inclusion,

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but he's saying it explicitly.

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My, my goal is not just for you

Israel, my goal is to use you

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to be a blessing to all people.

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That goes back to Genesis chapter 12.

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15.

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The Abrahamic covenant wants to be

a blessing for everybody, and here

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you have it more explicitly stated

that God's blessing extends beyond

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Israel to the Gentiles, which at this

time, remember you had the Assyrians

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threatening Israel, still you had the

Babylonians that were gonna be coming up.

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So this is not a time when everybody in

the world was living at peace with each

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other, where it's oh yeah the, yeah, sure.

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It'd be great to have them

come to faith as well.

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This would've been radical for the

Israelites to hear this and think

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about the Gentiles, those that were

threatening their very existence as being

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some of the people that God wanted to.

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Bring into the covenant community.

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Yeah.

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No, thanks, God.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 57, the opening part here again,

confronts Israel, stubbornness their

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idolatry, and yet at the same time it

opens with an interesting concept here.

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He says in the second part of verse one,

he says, for the righteous man is taken

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away from calamity, he enters into peace.

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They rest in their beds, who

walk in their uprightness.

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We've talked quite a bit last year,

and we've alluded to it a couple times

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this year about their concept of the

afterlife, and I think this is talking

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about the confidence that the righteous

person has in the peace that accompanies

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death in passing on and leaving this

world and being taken away from calamity.

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That's removed from the

danger, removed from the chaos,

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removed from God's judgment.

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And entering into peace instead,

those who walk in their uprightness.

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And here's a glimpse it's still not

as well developed as progressive

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revelation will continue to reveal

as the Bible can progresses here.

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That was redundant, but

anyways it's there nonetheless.

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I think there's a confidence there.

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And then the rest of this is

contrasting that with those that

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are wicked, those that are stubborn,

those that are self-righteous.

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He says in verse 11, have I not

held my peace even for a long time?

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And do you not yet.

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Fear me.

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I will declare your righteousness and

your deeds, but they will not profit you.

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We're gonna see again in a couple

days here what he thinks about

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those righteous deeds and what

they amount to in his sight.

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But the similar concept shows up here.

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He says, look, okay, fine.

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You wanna list your righteousness

and your good deeds.

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Let's go there.

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Let's take into account of them and

I'll tell you what they amount to

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they're not gonna profit you at all.

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Because in the end, it's not about that.

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It's about whether or not you worship me.

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And right now you're

worshiping the faults gods.

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And so he's confronting the people

there at the beginning of chapter 57.

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Yeah, I really like how verse 13 puts it.

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He says, when you cry out, let your

collection of idols deliver you.

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Yeah.

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Go cry out to your idols.

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And he says here, the wind

will carry them all off.

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A breath will take them away.

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They're effectively weightless.

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They have no ability to help or to do

anything valuable for them except enslave

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them and ensnare them in further sin.

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This is not new for Isaiah.

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This is what he's been saying

the whole time, and he constantly

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highlights the uniqueness, the

gravitas, and the power of Yahweh.

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And again, I really, I know I've said

this before, but I just want you to

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see, even though they actually refer

to real idols, that is the wood,

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the stones, and all those things

we have different kinds of idols.

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Ours don't look the same, but we still

can be idolaters in a different way.

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John Calvin is famous for having said

that, the heart is an idol factory, and

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I think that is true even for Christians.

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The difference between us and an

unbeliever however, is not that we.

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Don't have our idols is that

we're willing to forsake them.

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So let me encourage you today,

examine your heart as you read through

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this, and make sure that you are

not putting your trust in something

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that's going to be carried off, where

a breath will take those idols away.

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As some people will say money,

sprouts, wings and flies away.

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So don't put your trust there either.

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Yeah.

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A good book, by the way, ladies,

if you're looking for one on the,

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that subject is the book Idols

of the Heart by Carolyn Mahaney.

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That's one that not for fellas.

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Do what?

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Not for fellas.

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I think it's more geared

towards the lady folk, okay.

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I don't think that she's pressing

in on the same idols that men

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might have in that context.

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Oh, I see.

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Okay.

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Rest of chapter 57.

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Then he does offer, again some hope here.

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And that's the thing with Isaiah,

it's Isaiah's not, Hey, this is

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the final nail in the coffin.

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God's done with you.

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He's saying there is hope here.

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And so he's gonna exalt God, he's

gonna, God is gonna exalt himself,

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I guess rather in verse 15.

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Thus says the one who is

high, who inhabits eternity.

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I love that phrase.

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He inhabits eternity.

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He says, I dwell with a

high in the holy place.

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And also with him who is contrite in lowly

in spirit to be contrite over something.

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If you think about when somebody

talks about feeling contrition, it's

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sorrow, it's repentant, it's to be.

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Grieved over one's sinfulness.

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And so he says of those people,

verse 16, I will not contend

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forever, nor will I always be angry.

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That's the hope of mercy and God's

patience and God's steadfast love and

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his faithfulness to the covenant too.

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He's reminding the people of Judah,

Hey, I'm not gonna abandon you forever.

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Judgment's coming, but

if you are contrite.

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It's gonna go well for you in this,

and there's a future and there's

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a hope for you in that as well.

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This is beautiful because he says in

verse 15 that the God who inhabits

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eternity, the high, holy, lofty,

perfect God is the same God who dwells

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with him, who is contrite and lowly in

spirit, who you were just talking about.

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God lives with those who

are humble and repentant.

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God spends time with those people.

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Those are the people

that God is attracted to.

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In verse 19, it says, those are

the same people that he speaks.

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Peace.

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Peace to.

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In verse 21, it says, there

is no peace for the wicked.

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And so now we're beginning to see,

at least in Isaiah's conception

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of who a righteous person is.

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A righteous person is humble, repentant,

and looks to the Lord for salvation.

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And God says to that person, peace.

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Peace.

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You are the one who gets peace.

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That's not different

from the New Testament.

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And I love this analogy because in the Old

Testament, you might think the gospel was.

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Was not the same.

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And I guess it's true, it's not

explicitly expressed in the Old

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Testament, but here you have a really

good synopsis, a really good summary.

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The humble and contrary.

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See God, they're the ones

who experience peace.

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The Wicked no peace.

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Chapter 58 is a is a sobering chapter as

he talks about the pseudo righteous and

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the false religion that is out there.

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And he describes the people

in a way that is, is.

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Fear inducing in, in verse two, he says

yet they seek me daily and delight to

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know my ways as if they were a nation

that did righteousness and did not

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forsake the judgment of their God.

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They ask of me righteous judgments.

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They delight to draw near to God.

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You talked about idols and the

fact that we don't have wood idols

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in our houses that we're bowing

down to, and yet this man just.

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Again it's fear inducing how we can be

prone to go throughout our whole weeks,

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forgetting our relationship with God.

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We can go through the motions of of

just giving him lip service on Sunday

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mornings, and then go live for ourselves

the rest of the week, and then show up

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on Sunday and offer our praise and song.

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Or we can have the diagnosis come back

from the doctrine and all of a sudden

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we feel like, oh, now I need God and

I've been living for myself for so

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long, and now I'm gonna turn to him

and I'm gonna say, God, please help me.

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Please deliver me from this or.

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Something unjust happens to you

or unjust happens in your life.

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You get fired from a job that you

shouldn't have been or you get

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passed over from a promotion you

should have gotten and you ask God

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to correct the injustice done to you.

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All the while you haven't had a

relationship with him, and that's what

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he's confronting the Israelites on here.

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He says, you're delighting to draw

near to me as though you think I should

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do anything for you when you haven't

lived for me at all, and yet you.

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Delight to play church on Sundays.

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And so chapter 58 Or play temple.

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Or play temple, yeah.

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I guess for them.

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And so chapter 58 is very sobering

in this and yet he's still telling

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them, Hey, there's time to repent.

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Verse 13, if you turn back your foot

from the Sabbath, from doing your

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pleasure on my holy day and call the

Sabbath a delight in the holy day of

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the Lord, honorable, if you honor it,

then you shall take delight in the Lord.

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Then I'll make you ride on

the heights of the earth.

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And so God is still calling

his people back to repentance.

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But chapter 58 is just one

of those that's okay, let's.

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Let's examine our hearts and make

sure that we're not going through

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the motions and just playing church

by showing up on Sunday, expecting

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God's gonna be happy with us.

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And how do you know if you're doing that?

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He gives a few clues here.

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Verse five says is such the

fast that I choose a day for

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a person to humble himself.

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And so again, just like in chapter

57, you see a common thread about

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the kind of person God pleases or

the kind of person that pleases God.

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And that person is the contr, the lowly.

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And here he says specifically

the humble person.

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A fast is not meant to.

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To conduct your own business, as he says

earlier, but it really is about humbling

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yourself and seeking the Lord well.

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What is the seeking of the Lord look like?

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In verses six and following,

really through verse 12, that God

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says a lot of things like this.

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Is this, the face that I choose is

it not this kind of fast that is to

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loose the bonds of wickedness, to

undo the straps of the yolk, to let

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the oppress go free and to break.

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Every yoke is it not to share your

bread with the hungry and to bring

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the homeless poor into your house when

you see the naked to cover him and not

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to hide yourself from your own flesh.

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That is your family.

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He's saying essentially, the humble

person demonstrates a fast of repentance

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by acts of love for his people.

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I don't think that's any.

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I don't think that's any different for us.

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Our repentance has to

be connected to works.

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Now, don't hear me say anything that

I'm not, works are not repentance in

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and of themselves, but a repentant heart

demonstrates works of love for people.

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I don't think there's any

way that you can escape that.

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God is saying a humble person seeks the

Lord's will, seeks the Lord's direction.

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And what that's going to

manifest itself in is to do all

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of these acts of repentance.

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Really, which are acts of love for people.

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Verse 10, if you pour out yourself out

for the hungry, satisfy the desire of

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the afflicted light shall rise in the

darkness and your gloom as a noon day.

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In other words, your love for people

will result in my blessing of your

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life and in your and of your work.

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Yeah, John the Baptist.

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Confronts the Pharisees and

says, Hey, you need to bear

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fruit in keeping with repentance.

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So to your point, repentance is not,

and that's the problem some in the

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church today will say repentance

is simply a change of mind, but

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it's gotta be more than that.

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It's not just a change of mind to

think that something that once.

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Didn't think was a sin, now is a sin.

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It's a matter of changing.

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Yes, your mind, but also your posture,

your attitude, your approach, your

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behavior, your actions towards that.

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And you hate it.

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And you change and now you're

turning towards obedience in Christ.

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And that obedience in Christ is

gonna show up in our actions.

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It's gonna show up in, in more than just

our words, more than just our mindset.

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And so that's why John says bear

fruit in keeping with repentance.

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And that's why yeah, we've

gotta see the love for others.

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I think that's a great example of when

you're loving someone else, especially.

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With that sacrificial love that we're

called to love one another with, and it's

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not because of what they can do for us.

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I think that's a great evidence

of the fact that God's at

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work within a person's life.

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That's right.

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You can't change your mind about something

and not change your actions about it.

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Yeah.

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There has to necessarily

be, because you're not a

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compartmentalized human being.

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Your thoughts, your feelings and

your actions all work together to

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harmonize with your whole person.

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We call it cognitive dissonance.

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When someone thinks in a way different

than how they act, there's a cognitive

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dissonance because we don't like that.

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Human beings like being integrated,

and that's what God wants for us.

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And part of that just looks like

saying, man, if I really do truly love

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the Lord, I'm going to love people.

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And here's what that

looks like in Isaiah 58.

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Yeah.

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Let's pray and then we'll be done with.

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This episode of the Daily Bible

Podcast, God we want to be those that

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are wholeheartedly following you.

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We want to be fully devoted to you.

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We want to be men and women of integrity.

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A wholeness before you not thinking

one way and acting another way.

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And God, we certainly don't wanna

be those that draw near to you

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with a false sense of religiosity.

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We don't wanna be those that,

that just go through the motions

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or render you lip service or only

turn to you when we need you.

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We want to have a genuine.

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Intimate relationship with you that causes

us to walk daily with you step by step as

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we walk in faith in your promises to us.

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And so we thank you for texts like this

and the rich text that we've just read

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about how you will abundantly pardon us.

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And you are available to us and you

delight to forgive us our, even of our

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trespasses and sins because of your

mercy and your ways are above our ways.

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God we thank you for all of these

wonderful things that we get to

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mind from the book of Isaiah.

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Help us as we continue to

study it in the coming days.

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We're praying Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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