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Episode 50: Luke and Isaiah · North Bible Recap

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SPEAKER_00: Okay, hey, so today we're gonna dive into Isaiah.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, matter of fact, you've got it's like setting somebody up on a T and go for it.
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SPEAKER_00: This is you got Isaiah 53 through 66.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
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SPEAKER_00: Some great material there.
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SPEAKER_00: We won't have we won't be able to cover everything.
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SPEAKER_00: It's one thing we but we're gonna do some highlights, we're gonna do some main points that maybe stick out to you.
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SPEAKER_00: It might not be the main points for you, uh, but feel free to ask the questions and maybe we can address them for future.
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SPEAKER_00: And then also a book of Luke, uh, chapters 17 through 21, and then we'll look at Psalms 105 and 106, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: Sir.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, let's dive into it.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's go go Isaiah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so the last two weeks we have been in the uh beginning and middle part of Isaiah, and today we are covering the conclusion of the book.
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SPEAKER_01: And so I think it's important that we just uh highlight the theme one more time so that we bring some cohesion and consistency to the reading.
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SPEAKER_01: And the theme uh is that God saves.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, Isaiah has been developing this throughout the entire book.
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SPEAKER_01: He describes the phrase the salvation of God or uses the phrase God saves three times more than all the other books of the Old Testament put together.
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SPEAKER_01: So, because of that, this isn't just like a minor theme, no, this is like this is the theme for the book of Isaiah, so much so that a lot of theologians uh say that his nickname should be the prophet of salvation.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, his name even means God saves.
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SPEAKER_01: So throughout this book, you know, salvation is the critical factor to pay attention to.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, just by way of example, Isaiah 59, 16, and he saw that there was no one, and he was appalled that there was no one to intervene.
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SPEAKER_01: So his own arm achieved salvation for him.
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SPEAKER_01: Or Isaiah 45, 22, the Lord says, Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth.
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SPEAKER_01: So throughout the book, we get this idea of salvation.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, two divisions in Isaiah.
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SPEAKER_01: The first uh half of the book is chapters one through 39.
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SPEAKER_01: A lot of judgment, very heavy on the judgment part, which is why what you said about setting it up for the latter half of the book is exactly right.
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SPEAKER_01: It is beautiful, it's poetic, it's prophetic, it's hope, it's uh beautiful promises of what God has in store for his people.
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SPEAKER_01: This second division starts in chapter 40, which is where we are today.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and it's interesting that many Bible scholars actually struggle to accept Isaiah's authorship of the second part of the book because the theme seems so different.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, salvation's connecting it, but there's so much of an emphasis on the judgment, and then it flips so radically to restoration that they say, well, this can't be the same author.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, but what we're saying, and when we read it, we discover that there's clear prophetic revelation of future events.
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SPEAKER_01: And so there's not really an issue with that, provided that we believe that God is a supernatural God who can bring forth or show forth the future through his uh messengers, through his uh prophets.
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SPEAKER_01: And we can also see uh supporting evidence that would indicate that the first half of the book is authored by the second same person in the second half of the book.
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SPEAKER_01: We have internal indications like the phrase or the name that Isaiah uses for God, the Holy One of Israel.
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SPEAKER_01: Twelve times in the first half of the book, 14 times in the second half of the book.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, it's only used six other times in the entire Old Testament.
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SPEAKER_01: Beyond that, you have external factors.
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SPEAKER_01: You have the Jewish Talmud, some of the rabbinic teachings, all attributed the authorship of Isaiah exclusively to Isaiah.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, and then we have uh Jesus himself and multiple authors in the New Testament who will quote from Isaiah.
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SPEAKER_01: In fact, Isaiah is one of the uh top three most quoted uh books in the uh New Testament.
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SPEAKER_01: So at play here we just see this idea that God knows the future, therefore he can reveal it through his people, his messengers, hundreds of years, some maybe even thousands of years before it happens, and that resolves uh the entire issue.
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SPEAKER_01: So uh division two, uh we are entirely for.
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SPEAKER_00: If you dive into vision division two, let me just say you you mentioned that um the book of Isaiah speaks to salvation um three times more than any other book of the Old Testament.
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SPEAKER_00: It's interesting that you know we're also gonna be wrapping up uh the book of Luke today, which Luke's whole message is about salvation, his whole work, and of course I hope I'm not introducing, but I'm speaking to save that which was who was lost.
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SPEAKER_00: You're gonna be diving into that.
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SPEAKER_00: It the lost chapter in the Bible.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, actually, the people call Isaiah the lost gospel because they say that it's actually the gospel of the Old Testament because it is so laser focused on this idea of salvation from a you know 40,000-foot vantage point.
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SPEAKER_01: Then we get to the gospels and we're getting up close and personal through the person of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: And of course, the law, the lost chapter, uh, the emphasis of lost, not one of those pad chapters that could not be found, is the book of Luke, chapter 15.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Lost son, lost prodigal, and the lost sheep, lost sheep, and a lost coin, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Lost lost sheep, lost coin, uh, lost sons.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't even like how they've for the years I've just it's always the lost sons.
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SPEAKER_01: It's true, because there's two of them.
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SPEAKER_00: There's two of them.
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SPEAKER_00: One is in in I think uh one of them was lost.
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SPEAKER_00: One of them references like the wandering sheep that went away.
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SPEAKER_00: And then the other one was a lost coin in the house, lost.
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SPEAKER_00: Sure.
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SPEAKER_01: So yeah, wow, great insight.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, we'll get to Luke here uh in a moment, but uh back to the uh second division of Isaiah where we are.
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SPEAKER_01: Um we are looking at this idea of full restoration for God's people, and it's interesting that it's going to be centered around the person of the Messiah.
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SPEAKER_01: In fact, Isaiah offers the clearest prophetic indications and um prophetic uh functions of who the Messiah will be and what he will look like.
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SPEAKER_01: And what's in the reason this is important is because the Jewish people were anticipating a Messiah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, the Hebrew is anointed, one who is anointed to bring salvation, right?
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SPEAKER_01: And so how does God accomplish his salvation purposes in the book of Isaiah?
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SPEAKER_01: Well, he's going to accomplish it through the person of a Messiah, through who we know because of what we're talking about with the uh gospel of Luke and other gospels.
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SPEAKER_01: It's Jesus Himself.
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SPEAKER_01: And the really cool thing is it's not just a Jewish Messiah, and this is going to come out really, really clearly.
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SPEAKER_01: Like this Messiah is going to be a Messiah and means of salvation for the Gentiles, for all of God's people, for all people in the world, which again alludes to a lot of the theme that we'll discover uh in the book of uh Luke, right?
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SPEAKER_01: So one key uh feature to point out um when you're reading through uh chapters 53 uh through the end of Isaiah is you're gonna see reference to this idea of the suffering servant.
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SPEAKER_01: And the servant will come out multiple times, Isaiah 42, Isaiah 49, Isaiah 50, Isaiah 52, Isaiah 53.
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SPEAKER_01: He just keeps talking about the servant, the servant, the servant.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh servant of what?
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SPEAKER_01: Well, he's the servant to do God's will.
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SPEAKER_01: And what is God's will?
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SPEAKER_01: To bring salvation to the people of God.
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SPEAKER_01: The thing up to that point, the audience would have been tracking, but the part that I think is throwing a curveball for a lot of uh the readers would be that Isaiah is going to describe him as a suffering servant.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's where people would be scratching their heads, going, wait a minute, the Messiah, the anointed one, the one who commands God's armies and God's purpose, a suffering servant?
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SPEAKER_01: Why would he suffer?
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SPEAKER_01: What would be the purpose of that, right?
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SPEAKER_01: And so you have to kind of uh pay attention to this idea of um the suffering servant and that he will bring atonement.
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SPEAKER_01: And by atonement, it's a big theological word.
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SPEAKER_01: I like how someone just broke it up and put at one meant, right?
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SPEAKER_01: You have now been made, or now you can have oneness in your relationship with God because someone paid the price for sin, right?
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SPEAKER_01: And I think this is ultimately why so many people reject the gospel, because humanism says, I pay my own way, I do it my own way, I'm going alone, I don't need help, I don't need God, I don't need a savior.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and what Isaiah is going to point to is actually we all need a savior.
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SPEAKER_01: Sin has rectimenity, but God has a plan, a purpose, and a will for salvation that will be accomplished through the person of the suffering servant.
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SPEAKER_01: So that's kind of the context.
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SPEAKER_01: I think it's important to set that up.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, like you said in the introduction, like this is truly this segment of scripture is truly gold.
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SPEAKER_01: Like I've been reading through it every morning for like the past two weeks, and you it's almost inexhaustible.
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SPEAKER_01: I wouldn't even know how in multiple podcasts you could cover all of it.
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SPEAKER_01: It's so brilliant, it's so deep, it's so beautiful, it's so um prophetic, it's so um hopeful of hope, but I think it's important we just focus on three chapters, and the reason for doing this is these three chapters will illustrate the same themes that we're going to pick up uh in uh the book of Luke.
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SPEAKER_01: So the first one, um, Isaiah 53.
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SPEAKER_01: And I don't know if you would like to read uh verses one through five just to set the uh context for what this passage is uh saying to us.
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SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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SPEAKER_00: You have verse one through five in here in the end.
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SPEAKER_00: The suffering okay, make sure where you're at.
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SPEAKER_01: Chapter 53.
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SPEAKER_00: Chapter 53.
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SPEAKER_00: Verses one through five.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: We'll look it up here.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is a passage indicating uh the contours or the functions of um the suffering servant.
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SPEAKER_01: And the chapter is going to show us kind of a summary of some of the most distinguishing characteristics of who this Messiah is.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, verse one.
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SPEAKER_00: Who has believed our message?
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SPEAKER_00: To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
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SPEAKER_00: My servant grew up in the Lord's presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground.
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SPEAKER_00: There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.
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SPEAKER_00: He was despised and rejected, a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
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SPEAKER_00: We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
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SPEAKER_00: He was despised and we did not care.
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SPEAKER_00: Yet it was our weakness he carried, it was our sorrows that weighed him down, and we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins.
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SPEAKER_00: But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins, he was beaten so we could be made whole, he was whipped so we could be healed.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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SPEAKER_01: You can just kind of already begin to see the allusions to what happens to uh Christ on the cross.
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SPEAKER_01: But I love that first verse you read.
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SPEAKER_01: Who would believe our report?
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SPEAKER_01: Like in from the get-go, Isaiah is anticipating this message and the way that God's going to work salvation is so out of the box and so uh contradictory to human wisdom that people are going to reject it outright and say, God suffering, die?
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SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no, no, no.
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SPEAKER_01: That's not that's not a strong God, that's a weak God, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Which would be a lot of the major world religions uh in our uh in our planet today.
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SPEAKER_01: They reject this idea of the cross of Christ and the suffering of Christ outright, immediately, without even, you know, and Isaiah recognizes that, hey, this is an apparent uh paradox.
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SPEAKER_01: Like here, here's a suffering Messiah.
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SPEAKER_01: He says his face was so beaten that he can't be recognized.
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SPEAKER_01: And yet to those that do recognize him, he becomes the very means of salvation uh that would release God's hope and restoration over their lives.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
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SPEAKER_01: Again, he's he's wrestling with this idea of it's kind of hidden, it's kind of mysterious.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh why, why, why, why, you know, is this uh gospel, the good news that we talk about, um so heavily emphasized with a suffering servant?
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SPEAKER_01: And I think that the answer is we have to do justice to this idea of sin.
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SPEAKER_01: And I think that until we as humans understand just how bad sin really is.
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SPEAKER_01: Like sin isn't just like, oh, it's a social thing, and maybe it's like a philosophical.
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SPEAKER_01: No, it's like outright rebellion against the holy God, and that's our fundamental problem.
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SPEAKER_01: And a lot of people are just like, I'm you know, I'm not that bad.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, come on, you're not that bad.
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SPEAKER_01: No, no one's really that bad.
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SPEAKER_01: And this message in Isaiah is like, no, he he, the Messiah had to come and be um suffer intensely, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Um, in order for um this salvation message uh to be revealed and released.
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SPEAKER_01: And so uh we just see God's strength and power displayed, but it's in meekness, it's in humility.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like flipping the script upside down, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Instead of coming in with you know guns blazing, he comes in as a little baby and then he's gonna go to a cross and um wow, and then uh I don't know, you have thoughts on that?
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SPEAKER_00: No, it's so good because you you're right.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, just the whole concepts throughout the scripture, you know, the idea the first would be last, the last would be first, and how God works is different.
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SPEAKER_00: Then and it's interesting, you know, Jesus would ask quite often to the Pharisees and the Sadducees, he says, Well, you know the scripture.
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SPEAKER_00: How do you know what does it say?
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SPEAKER_00: Then he would ask another question, and how do you read it?
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SPEAKER_00: So it's interesting when they were looking for the Messiah, they missed all of this that was clearly about a Messiah that was coming.
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SPEAKER_00: But yet they could not wrap their minds around a Messiah that would suffer, as you have already played out.
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SPEAKER_00: But yet sins and the cost of humanity's choices had to be paid for.
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SPEAKER_00: And I, you know, I look back, I mentioned a few weeks ago as we were taking communion, we were singing about the blood, and I come up on stage and I I just asked the question when was the first time in the Bible that there was shedding of blood?
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SPEAKER_00: And people looked at me because most people haven't considered it.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, the first time that there was shedding of blood was in the garden.
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SPEAKER_00: Adam and Eve had sinned and disobeyed, and the Bible says the day you do this you will surely die.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, did they die?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes?
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SPEAKER_00: No.
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SPEAKER_00: No, they didn't immediately die, but they s the clock began ticking.
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SPEAKER_00: They began to die.
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SPEAKER_00: But when they hid themselves and covered themselves with leaves because they felt their shame from their sinfulness and their disobedience against God.
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SPEAKER_00: God shows up and says, Where are you?
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SPEAKER_00: Not because he needs to know the answer.
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SPEAKER_00: He knew where they were, he wouldn't need for them to acknowledge that.
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SPEAKER_00: They say that they were hiding from God because they but but then what does God do?
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SPEAKER_00: He removes the leaves because that was not going to be good enough.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's interesting to me that it says that he clothed them with what?
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SPEAKER_00: Skins.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so here's what I believe happened.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, obviously something died.
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SPEAKER_00: Obviously, skins are being put placed on them, but I believe that God was showing them the cost of their that an innocent animal, his creation had to pay a price.
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SPEAKER_00: Had to pay a price.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: That's good.
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SPEAKER_00: The death of that animal and then God literally taking the skins off of that animal and then watching the price of their sin.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Something that died that didn't deserve to die.
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SPEAKER_00: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: It was innocent.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: And I'm glad you brought this up because that you read you read five verses from this chapter.
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SPEAKER_01: If you keep going, um, Isaiah is going to refer to the Messiah as a lamb before the shears is silent.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's actually the theme that will be developed for the person of the Messiah throughout the rest of the Bible.
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SPEAKER_01: An innocent lamb had to pay the price.
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SPEAKER_01: Who's that innocent lamb?
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: And then and then from there, that was the first.
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SPEAKER_00: But then what you have is ongoing sacrifices from then on.
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SPEAKER_00: Obviously, there was some sacrifice with Cain and Abel there that was going on, and then throughout, and then it became very much a part of the um the Jewish people's practice of bringing sacrifices and the ritual of offering these, the constant shedding of blood that would never take away sin, but would point to the Lamb of God.
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SPEAKER_00: It would once and for all take away sin.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: One sacrifice, once and for all.
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SPEAKER_00: A body, a physical body.
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SPEAKER_00: The first Adam felled the second Adam because there's only two atoms that was born that way.
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SPEAKER_00: Not of the will of woman or man, but the will of God.
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SPEAKER_00: As God breathed into dirt, Adam, the first Adam, God breathed into dirt, Mary, the breath of God, Ruach, Spirit of God, Mary gave birth to Jesus, who would be the second Adam.
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SPEAKER_01: A lot of theologians say the the last Adam because there's the first and there's last.
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SPEAKER_01: So like we're we're only six verses into Isaiah 53.
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SPEAKER_01: Honestly, you could do an entire podcast just on this one chapter.
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SPEAKER_01: It's remarkable.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, but the end of the chapter, I think, is also important to highlight, uh, only because it's not just that Jesus is this masochist, that the suffering servant just enjoys pain and pleasure and the cross, and we all we do is celebrate the crucifixion.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, we're grateful for that.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, it atones for our sin.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, it makes us one with God again.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, our sins are now forgiven.
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SPEAKER_01: But what comes out of that, the result of it, Isaiah begins to prophesy, and he's beginning to see um the harvest that will take place as the gospel is released throughout uh the nations of the world.
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SPEAKER_01: Um it says, He will see his seed and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
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SPEAKER_01: By his knowledge, my righteous servant will justify many.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's like he's envisioning the resurrection, and from the resurrection, he's seeing this beautiful um idea of so many experiencing the salvation of God through the person of the suffering servant.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, Charles Spurgeon uh said it this way.
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SPEAKER_01: He said, In the end, the sufferings and humiliation of Jesus only bring him more glory and majesty.
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SPEAKER_01: I do see that out of this dung hill of sin, Christ has brought this diamond of his glory by our salvation.
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SPEAKER_01: If there had been no sinners, there could have been no savior.
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SPEAKER_01: If no sin, no pouring out of the soul unto death.
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SPEAKER_01: If no pouring out of the soul to death, no dividing a portion with the great.
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SPEAKER_01: If there had been no guilt, there would be no act of atonement.
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SPEAKER_01: In the wondrous act of sacrifice by our great substitute, the Godhead is more gloriously revealed than in all the creations and providences of the divine power and wisdom.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just this beautiful idea that um what was set into motion through Jesus' death and crucifixion um will ultimately culminate in a glorious um throng of people gathered around the throne, worshiping the Lamb of God in Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_01: So that's Isaiah 53.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, I think it's we can also look at Isaiah 61.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, Isaiah 61 is a really beautiful passage, and it basically is going to describe uh the Messiah's mission, and it's going to set up the uh basically uh function of what the Messiah would accomplish when he comes uh on the earth, when he's revealed.
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SPEAKER_01: And so I don't know, can you read uh verses one through three for us just to give us an idea?
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SPEAKER_00: I can.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm I'm much quicker to the draw this time.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: You didn't have you didn't have to delay.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, uh Isaiah 61, start with verse one.
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SPEAKER_00: The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.
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SPEAKER_00: He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted, and to proclaim that captives will be released, and prisoners will be freed.
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SPEAKER_00: He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of the Lord's favor has come, and with it the day of God's anger against their enemies.
21:38
SPEAKER_00: To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair.
21:51
SPEAKER_00: In their righteousness, they will be like great oaks that the Lord has planted for his own.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: Glory.
22:01
SPEAKER_01: Such a beautiful passage.
22:03
SPEAKER_00: So good.
22:04
SPEAKER_01: What it's what Isaiah is seeing here and declaring prophetically is the Messiah's mission and the Messiah's ministry.
22:13
SPEAKER_01: And he's setting it up for us based on the contours of the person of the Holy Spirit.
22:18
SPEAKER_01: I love this idea that the Godhead is intricately involved working together in community for this purpose of salvation.
22:26
SPEAKER_01: And so it's talking about the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, or some translations, the Spirit of the Lord has anointed me.
22:32
SPEAKER_01: For what purpose?
22:34
SPEAKER_01: To go and move to the suburbs, to find another better job, or but no, it's like the specific function of the Messiah was to announce God's kingdom to the poor, to articulate the gospel, to release good news for those who are oppressed, right?
22:52
SPEAKER_01: And I think that this is so crucial and critical for a generation that is rediscovering the presence and power of the Holy Spirit again.
22:59
SPEAKER_01: I'm all about the manifestations, provided that when the manifestations cease, the person is empowered to be on mission to articulate and communicate what Jesus has done in and through their lives, right?
23:13
SPEAKER_01: So we I think until we keep that vantage point, that perspective uh in place, uh, if we're gonna be like Jesus and walk in his footsteps, then we have to understand that that anointing that's on his life has now come upon our lives in the person of the Holy Spirit, and that that same mission that was on Jesus has now been um placed upon us, and it's nowhere rescinded.
23:34
SPEAKER_01: In fact, if anything, it only gains um amplification throughout the New Testament.
23:38
SPEAKER_01: We see um the apostles, we see the early church on mission, the gospel's going everywhere in their own strength and their own ability?
23:46
SPEAKER_01: No, how through the anointing and power of the Holy Spirit, and then I think the other thing question that just keeps coming to me as I read this like if Jesus needed the anointing of the Holy Spirit to accomplish his mission and the ministry that the Father had given him, how much more do you and I need the anointing and power of the Holy Spirit in our lives?
24:07
SPEAKER_01: And I think it's so easy at times to get pulled away by all of the other things, whatever that looks like with ministry, with church, and we forget that at the um base foundational level, like what we if we're going to be successful, it has to be based upon um the Holy Spirit in our lives.
24:28
SPEAKER_00: Very well done, very well done.
24:30
SPEAKER_00: So let's let's let's move on into Luke.
24:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because you just kind of teed that up a little bit with Jesus, and because 61 kind of ties into, I know it's a chapter that we've already covered, but it's very important to go revisit that and to lay the foundation for the chapters that we're going to be covering today.
24:49
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you're exactly right.
24:50
SPEAKER_01: And it's so curious to me that when Luke is going to introduce the person of the Holy, uh, of Jesus as the Messiah, he could have done that anyway.
24:58
SPEAKER_01: Like he could have talked about it from a multiple, uh, multiple different vantage points, but instead he comes right back to this passage that we just looked at in Isaiah chapter 61.
25:07
SPEAKER_01: And so in Luke 4 uh Luke 4, 16 through 21, he's going to have Jesus go into the synagogue.
25:15
SPEAKER_01: Jesus is handed the scroll of the book of Isaiah.
25:18
SPEAKER_01: He opens the scroll, he begins to read, and he uh picks it up right there in verse 1.
25:24
SPEAKER_01: The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news uh to the poor, right?
25:30
SPEAKER_01: And then the Luke tells us uh everyone in the in the synagogue are kind of like stunned because they know him.
25:36
SPEAKER_01: This is his hometown, Capernaum.
25:38
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, hey, what's what's happening?
25:40
SPEAKER_01: He sits down and he says, uh, today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing, right?
25:46
SPEAKER_01: And so Jesus is announcing from Isaiah, hey, I'm not only that suffering servant and that messiah, but that anointing that the Holy Spirit uh that is talked about in Isaiah 61 is now upon me, and I'm launching my ministry um with this passage of scripture, right?
26:02
SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, I think it's just it actually two weeks ago I preached in Tulsa on this uh idea.
26:10
SPEAKER_01: And what's interesting here, um if you look at the differences between Luke 4 and Isaiah 61, Jesus talks about the year of the Lord's favor, which you read, but he doesn't continue with that verse, which is verse 2 of Isaiah 61, and to talk about the year of the Lord's favor or sorry, the the year of the Lord's vengeance.
26:27
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't talk about that.
26:28
SPEAKER_01: Why?
26:29
SPEAKER_01: Because there's this gap of almost 2,000 years of the Messiah coming and saying, Hey, my first coming, I'm coming to bring grace.
26:36
SPEAKER_01: My second coming will be with vengeance.
26:38
SPEAKER_01: My first coming is mercy, my second coming will be judgment, but we're not there yet.
26:43
SPEAKER_01: And this gap is the church era, this gap is the period of time in between the Messiah's first coming and second coming, where salvation, there's that word, there's that theme, can be released through the people of God to the nations of the world.
26:56
SPEAKER_00: And it's interesting how that you um, when Jesus comes to the synagogue, it's at a focal point where you're reading the text, it rolls it out, he reads that passage, and then it says he rolled it back up, handed it to attendant, went and sat down, and that was very important because as you mentioned, they were staring at him, and then Jesus proclaims to them today the scripture has been fulfilled.
27:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and then it was like, uh oh.
27:23
SPEAKER_00: Now you're in trouble, Jesus.
27:24
SPEAKER_00: Uh-oh, now you're in trouble.
27:26
SPEAKER_00: Um, because the religious um Pharisees and Sadducees are like, Um, no, we can't have that.
27:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you just claim to be God.
27:35
SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, you did.
27:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
27:38
SPEAKER_01: So that, like Pastor said, we that's Luke chapter four, and we've already covered that.
27:42
SPEAKER_01: We are in chapters uh 17 and onwards.
27:45
SPEAKER_01: So we're in the last part of the book, and it's gonna encompass two important events.
27:49
SPEAKER_01: The first event is Jesus' ministry during his final journey towards Jerusalem.
27:54
SPEAKER_01: So he's um slowly making his way towards Jerusalem, and we know that it will culminate uh with um a mockery of a trial, with him being falsely accused, and ultimately him being crucified.
28:06
SPEAKER_01: And that is um described in this idea of the Passion Week.
28:10
SPEAKER_01: So that's that's where the trajectory, the momentum of the book of Luke uh is leading us.
28:15
SPEAKER_01: And our section includes the key verse for the whole book, and you already mentioned it earlier.
28:21
SPEAKER_01: It is Luke chapter 19, verse 10.
28:25
SPEAKER_01: Even if people have never heard or don't know much about the book of Luke, they've probably heard this one.
28:30
SPEAKER_01: The Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.
28:35
SPEAKER_01: Yes, and that's it, and that's the um description of what Luke is going to try to uh paint as he walks us through this uh narrative.
28:43
SPEAKER_01: And just to reiterate this idea, this is a parallel theme that we saw in the book of Isaiah uh prophesied, and now it's being realized or accomplished uh in the book of Luke.
28:55
SPEAKER_01: Um, this these five chapters, six chapters, they're so so good.
29:00
SPEAKER_01: Um, but let's just maybe take um a few um of them.
29:04
SPEAKER_01: Let's look at Luke 17, uh, 11 through 19.
29:07
SPEAKER_01: It's the ten uh lepers healed of leprosy.
29:11
SPEAKER_01: Uh, maybe you want to read verses uh 15 through 19.
29:14
SPEAKER_00: You got it 15 through 19.
29:16
SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
29:17
SPEAKER_00: One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus shouting, Praise God! He fell to the ground at Jesus' feet, thanking him for what he had done.
29:31
SPEAKER_00: This man was a Samaritan, non-Jew, a Gentile.
29:38
SPEAKER_00: Jesus asked, Didn't I heal ten men?
29:42
SPEAKER_00: Where are the other nine?
29:44
SPEAKER_00: Has no one returned to give glory to God except this foreigner, again, a gentile?
29:51
SPEAKER_00: This is very important.
29:52
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus said to the man, stand up and go.
29:56
SPEAKER_00: Your faith has healed you.
29:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's good.
29:59
SPEAKER_01: One of Luke's themes, I think uh Kayla brought this out um two weeks ago, uh, it's just this idea of Luke's gospel is written to demonstrate who Jesus was to the Gentile world, to the foreigners.
30:11
SPEAKER_01: And so Luke is going to go out of his way to paint pictures of foreigners having encounters with Jesus.
30:17
SPEAKER_01: So that's definitely one uh element of what's happening in this passage.
30:22
SPEAKER_01: But I love all of the passages where Luke talks about physical ailments.
30:25
SPEAKER_01: We know that Luke was a medical doctor.
30:28
SPEAKER_01: And if anyone understood physiology uh in his day, if anyone understood um disease and how that affected the human, it was Luke.
30:37
SPEAKER_01: And so it's always curious to me uh to see the medical details uh that he's going to bring out in the different passages.
30:44
SPEAKER_01: We know leprosy was socially um uh you were you were you're disgraced, but more than that, medically, uh you were just left to basically your your flesh was gonna rotten, uh, you're gonna die slowly as pieces of your body fell off.
30:58
SPEAKER_01: And to see Jesus intervene uh here in this passage to heal these 10 lepers, uh, it's indicates his um supernatural healing power.
31:08
SPEAKER_01: But like you said, this guy's a Samaritan, uh, this guy's an outsider, and he's the only one who comes back and says thank you.
31:15
SPEAKER_01: And I've been wrestling with that.
31:17
SPEAKER_01: Like, if anyone should have recognized their Messiah, if anyone should have recognized the suffering servant, it would have been the Jews because we just read Isaiah 61.
31:26
SPEAKER_01: This was prophesied, he was going to heal, restore, and he just did it for these 10 lepers, and they're just like taking it for granted.
31:34
SPEAKER_01: And I think it's so easy to take salvation for granted and assume that we are deserving.
31:40
SPEAKER_01: Someone put it this way the other day.
31:42
SPEAKER_01: Um, the role of the Holy Spirit is to ensure that we never get over our salvation, but multiple people in the West have already gotten over their salvation, and that's why we have so many challenges in following Jesus and taking up our cross, because we are convinced that we somehow deserved it.
32:04
SPEAKER_01: We see the Samaritan running back and being like, I recognize I was on the outside, I'm a foreigner, the the covenant's not for me, the gospel's not for me, the suffering servant's not for me, but somehow I was included, and I want to say thank you.
32:17
SPEAKER_00: Yes, that's that's really good.
32:23
SPEAKER_00: Okay, chapter 18.
32:24
SPEAKER_01: Chapter 18, the parable of the persistent widow.
32:27
SPEAKER_01: Uh maybe just read uh six verses six through eight here.
32:30
SPEAKER_00: Ah, love this lady.
32:33
SPEAKER_00: Then the Lord said, Learn a lesson from this unjust judge.
32:40
SPEAKER_00: Even he rendered a just decision in the end.
32:44
SPEAKER_00: So don't you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night?
32:54
SPEAKER_00: Will he keep putting them off?
32:55
SPEAKER_00: I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly.
33:00
SPEAKER_00: But when the Son of Man returns, how many will he find on earth who have faith?
33:06
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
33:07
SPEAKER_01: Wow, I love the uh themes here of uh perseverance in prayer and faith, and how the Lord promises that he will ultimately uh bring about justice uh in response to that.
33:21
SPEAKER_01: And verse one uh kind of gives us the point of the whole passage, and the point is always pray and don't give up.
33:28
SPEAKER_01: Uh this tells me um so often when we talk about prayer, you know, we all often hit the highlights, right?
33:34
SPEAKER_01: And we're like, okay, I this guy prayed, and wow, the Lord did this, and this guy prayed, and the Lord, wow.
33:39
SPEAKER_01: But what I think this passage is telling me is that most of the time uh prayer is not sensational, prayer is not the highlight reel, prayer is not the immediate breakthrough, prayer is the trenches, prayer is day after day, month after month, year after year, contending, interceding.
33:55
SPEAKER_01: Uh, there's things I know in my life I've been praying about for more than 10 years, and you so far hasn't come about yet, right?
34:03
SPEAKER_01: And the tendency in those kind of situations is you just want to give up.
34:06
SPEAKER_01: It's like, well, God doesn't answer, God doesn't hear.
34:09
SPEAKER_01: And I love how, like you're saying, this lady is brought to the fore, this persistent widow, and Jesus is like, she's tenacious, she's persevering.
34:18
SPEAKER_01: This is who you need to be in the place of prayer, right?
34:21
SPEAKER_01: And it's interesting, she has zero social standing, zero rights, zero access to the courts.
34:27
SPEAKER_01: Um, in fact, in Jewish uh culture at this time, the men would wake up in the morning and pray a prayer, God, I thank you that I'm not a Gentile, a slave, or a woman, right?
34:35
SPEAKER_01: So this she has zero, zero right or standing to uh the covenant.
34:41
SPEAKER_01: Um, the only thing worse than the category of a woman would be a woman with no one to defend her, a widow.
34:46
SPEAKER_01: So she's at the absolute bottom of the uh power spectrum in the first century, and yet she refuses to take no for an answer.
34:54
SPEAKER_01: And I love what Jesus says in verse six listen to what the unjust judge says.
34:59
SPEAKER_01: Will not God, who by the way, is the just judge, so you have this um comparison between an unjust judge and a just judge.
35:06
SPEAKER_01: So, and will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night.
35:11
SPEAKER_01: So I think this is a reminder that we have to be tenacious in the place of prayer.
35:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
35:18
SPEAKER_00: Love it.
35:18
SPEAKER_00: What a wonderful story.
35:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, beautiful.
35:20
SPEAKER_01: Uh, we continue.
35:22
SPEAKER_01: Just the the little children in Jesus, we won't read this.
35:25
SPEAKER_01: You know, Jesus rebukes his disciples, let the little children uh come to him.
35:29
SPEAKER_01: And it just hit me like never before.
35:31
SPEAKER_01: We just had our first uh kid three months ago, and I mean it's never been more relevant to me.
35:38
SPEAKER_01: And Jesus says, if you're gonna receive the kingdom of God, you have to do it like a little kid.
35:43
SPEAKER_01: And you're just like, wow, like it's not based upon your academic standing or your spirituality, it's based upon the simplicity of uh faith as a little kid.
35:54
SPEAKER_01: So that's Luke uh uh 18, 15 through 17.
35:58
SPEAKER_01: Um, and then I think let's jump to uh Zacchaeus, um, the story of Zacchaeus, uh chapter 19, uh verses 1 through 9.
36:06
SPEAKER_01: And this is uh actually where that um uh we've already talked about the key verse in the uh book of Luke.
36:13
SPEAKER_01: The Son of Man came uh to seek and save that which was lost, but we didn't look at the context.
36:18
SPEAKER_01: I think the context is really important uh because Jesus isn't making this statement in the company of Jerusalem's elite and socially successful, right?
36:26
SPEAKER_01: The son of man came to seek and save the lost, and there's no mess, and it's all beautiful and sanitized, and there he says that in a situation in the context where Zacchaeus is a Jew who now works for the Roman government as a tax collector.
36:42
SPEAKER_01: So tax collector was bad enough, like they were the people who uh imposed Rome's law and oppressed people, but he's a Jew oppressing his fellow Jews, right?
36:51
SPEAKER_01: And so immediately when people heard the name Zacchaeus, like they would want to spit and be like, that he's he's a useless, worthless and scum refuse, right?
37:01
SPEAKER_01: And so when he climbs up on the tree, as Jesus is walking through Jericho, remember, he's on his way up to Jerusalem towards the Passion Week, and he sees him up in the tree.
37:09
SPEAKER_01: Hey, Zacchaeus, come down, I'm going to your house.
37:12
SPEAKER_01: And we look at that and we're like, ah, you know, Jesus liked to hang out at people's houses.
37:16
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no.
37:17
SPEAKER_01: He just flipped the entire social structure upside down, and everyone in the crowd that day would be like, This man, this man is hanging out with infidels, this man is hanging out with rebels, this man is hanging out with, and you say, Well, what?
37:32
SPEAKER_01: Why, why, why would Jesus demonstrate such scandalous grace, such scandalous love?
37:37
SPEAKER_01: Well, it's the theme of salvation.
37:39
SPEAKER_01: Yes, and it says it once again, he came to seek and to save the lost.
37:43
SPEAKER_01: And by the Jewish understanding of the day, the person who would have been the most lost that you could appointed at would be Mr.
37:50
SPEAKER_01: Zach.
37:52
SPEAKER_01: The guy was he was he was bad news.
37:55
SPEAKER_01: And so I mean, I don't know.
37:57
SPEAKER_01: This also just really encouraged me.
37:58
SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of people I'm praying for to come to know Jesus, and some of them they're a little bit challenging, they're a little bit hard-headed, and it seems like we're not getting very far.
38:07
SPEAKER_01: And yet, at the same time, if Jesus can reveal himself to Zacchaeus, and then by the close of the story, he's like, if I've wronged anyone, I'll repay it, I'll restore it, not just make it even, I'll go above and beyond four times.
38:20
SPEAKER_01: There you go.
38:21
SPEAKER_00: Four times.
38:22
SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's that's like extravagant repentance, extravagant.
38:27
SPEAKER_01: And yeah, just a beautiful reminder to us that when Jesus uh saves someone, he knows how to save from the uttermost to the from the guttermost to the uttermost, is what one preacher used to say, right?
38:39
SPEAKER_00: And so I think that's where you end up with the last the verse we gave earlier.
38:43
SPEAKER_00: It's kind of the theme verse for the book of Luke is that for the Son of Man came to seek and to save those who were lost.
38:52
SPEAKER_00: At the end of the Zacchaeus story, he says that Jesus says that.
38:56
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
38:57
SPEAKER_00: Just to let everybody know.
39:01
SPEAKER_00: I've come for the worst of these.
39:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
39:05
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
39:07
SPEAKER_00: Which the Apostle Paul would later on say that I was the chief of sinners.
39:10
SPEAKER_00: And I think it's what we have to all acknowledge that is that I'm the worst of these.
39:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I think this goes back to what we were just talking about with the ten lepers.
39:19
SPEAKER_01: Like we have to recognize that sin is spiritual leprosy.
39:22
SPEAKER_01: And we don't look at it like that.
39:23
SPEAKER_01: We look at it like, well, I'm a product of my um behavior of my, you know, somebody else's fault or my environment or sin is anathema to a holy God, right?
39:34
SPEAKER_01: And until we understand that and we understand the price that Jesus had to pay, the gospel doesn't make a whole lot of sense to people.
39:42
SPEAKER_01: It really does.
39:43
SPEAKER_01: Why did Jesus suffer and die?
39:46
SPEAKER_01: Again, I'm not that bad.
39:47
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's just a little whatever, fill in the blank.
39:50
SPEAKER_01: And we recognize in a the condition of the human heart.
39:54
SPEAKER_01: It's not just specific sins that you can point at, it's that our heart in and of itself is sinful and it needs a cure.
40:00
SPEAKER_01: And the only person that can cure it and heal it is Jesus.
40:05
SPEAKER_00: Boom.
40:06
SPEAKER_00: Love it.
40:07
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
40:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
40:09
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I we could keep going.
40:11
SPEAKER_00: There's multiple chapters here, but I mean, I I think we're let's let's dive into uh Psalms 105 and um and uh no no no excuse me.
40:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, 105 and 106.
40:23
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so Psalms 105, 106.
40:25
SPEAKER_00: Uh we revisit this quite often, but Psalms 105 and 106 are anonymous.
40:30
SPEAKER_00: Uh, there's 51 of the chapters of the 150 in the book of Psalms that are unanimous, and um 71 for sure, up to 73, or David.
40:41
SPEAKER_00: The rest of them are sons of Korah, various other uh individuals, uh, even Moses made his way into it.
40:49
SPEAKER_00: One chapter.
40:50
SPEAKER_00: One chapter there.
40:51
SPEAKER_00: And so um Psalms 105 is about remembering.
40:57
SPEAKER_00: Psalms 106 is about learning.
41:02
SPEAKER_00: So uh it's interesting these themes as you dive drive through, but again, Psalms 105 is about remembering, Psalms 106 is about learning, and so 105 is about remembering what God has done in our life, and in this, Psalms 105 is a history lesson to set up the worship that's gonna come.
41:25
SPEAKER_00: It walks us through God's faithfulness to to Israel, uh, through Abraham, to Joseph, to Moses, and then throughout the Exodus experience.
41:39
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so it's really beautiful.
41:41
SPEAKER_00: And um the emphasis, just verse number one, go ahead and read verse number one of Psalms 105.
41:47
SPEAKER_01: Psalm 105, verse one.
41:49
SPEAKER_01: Oh, give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples.
41:53
SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's it.
41:54
SPEAKER_00: And so it opens up just to recall them to remember.
41:57
SPEAKER_00: You know, I was thinking about even when we uh we at North Church take communion weekly.
42:04
SPEAKER_00: Very few weekends that we do not receive of the body and the blood of Jesus.
42:09
SPEAKER_00: And when I grew up, um the small country church that I grew up in had a little table up the front that sometimes the communion elements would set on when you know we didn't take it as often, it would be once a quarter, usually, or once every few months.
42:24
SPEAKER_00: And the communion, but on that table up there, it would say, what would it say on the table?
42:28
SPEAKER_00: Can you think of it?
42:29
SPEAKER_01: Usually it says in remembrance.
42:33
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
42:34
SPEAKER_00: And so uh communion each week is a time to give thanks, it's a time to remember, it's a time to tell others.
42:41
SPEAKER_00: And so what that's what chapter 105 is talking about.
42:45
SPEAKER_00: It's just all about remembering the faithfulness of God and singing of his praise.
42:50
SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm gonna dive into 106, and we're gonna spend our time at 106, and we will uh look at it.
42:56
SPEAKER_00: So 106 is about learning from failures.
43:00
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
43:01
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
43:02
SPEAKER_00: And in fact, go ahead and read.
43:05
SPEAKER_00: Um just go ahead and start with verse number one.
43:07
SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you when to start.
43:08
SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord, O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.
43:11
SPEAKER_01: His steadfast love endures forever.
43:13
SPEAKER_01: Who can utter the mighty deeds of the Lord or declare all his praise?
43:17
SPEAKER_01: Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times.
43:21
SPEAKER_01: Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people.
43:24
SPEAKER_01: Help me when you save them, that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
43:33
SPEAKER_01: Both we and our fathers have sinned.
43:35
SPEAKER_01: We have committed iniquity, we have done wickedness.
43:37
SPEAKER_01: Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works.
43:41
SPEAKER_01: They did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea at the Red Sea.
43:46
SPEAKER_01: Yet he saved them for his name's sake that he might make known his mighty power.
43:50
SPEAKER_01: He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry.
43:53
SPEAKER_01: He led them through the deep as through a desert.
43:55
SPEAKER_01: So he saved them from the hand of the foe and redeemed them from the power of the enemy.
44:00
SPEAKER_01: And the waters covered their adversaries, not one of them was left.
44:03
SPEAKER_01: Then they believed his words and they sang his prayer.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, stop for a second right there.
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SPEAKER_00: It's interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: What verse did you end on right there?
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SPEAKER_01: I ended on verse 12.
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SPEAKER_00: Verse 12.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm gonna stop right there.
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SPEAKER_00: Because what you have here is he's calling back to remembrance of God's faithfulness again and again and again.
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SPEAKER_00: What's happening is that um he's called him 105 to remember God's glorious work.
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SPEAKER_00: He's again calling, but he's he's trying to get them to learn from your experiences.
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SPEAKER_00: Because that's what remembering is about.
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SPEAKER_00: Remembering is not just recalling something on a it's it's about learning from that experience.
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SPEAKER_01: It's really good.
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SPEAKER_00: And so one of the things I drive home often with my life and then also with our team at of leaders in no church is that I want to learn from our experiences.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't want to get on the same merry-go-round and repeat it again and again.
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SPEAKER_00: And what you have with the children of Israel is they keep getting on the same merry-go-round and repeating the same issues because they really did not remember.
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SPEAKER_00: They were actually recalling things, but to remember is to learn.
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SPEAKER_00: Are we learning from our failures?
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SPEAKER_00: Are we learning from our mistakes?
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SPEAKER_00: Are we learning to trust God?
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SPEAKER_00: Are we learning to lean on Him and depend on Him, not on our own understanding?
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SPEAKER_00: Are we really giving ourselves to God's faithfulness?
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SPEAKER_00: Because verse number 12, I'm gonna just point it out here.
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SPEAKER_00: Um He says, You know what?
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SPEAKER_00: No wonder I'd hard find you, I was in the wrong chapter.
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SPEAKER_00: Verse number 12.
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SPEAKER_00: Verse number 12, just read that one verse.
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SPEAKER_01: Then they believed his words, they sang his praise.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, then they believed.
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SPEAKER_00: When did they believe?
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SPEAKER_01: After all these things that happened.
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SPEAKER_00: After the miracle.
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SPEAKER_00: So, in other words, he's teaching them like, no, you gotta trust me.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm the same God of yesterday.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's so easy for us today to quickly forget his faithfulness and his goodness and all the benefits of what it means to be a follower of Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: And so he's saying, don't wait to praise me till after the miracle.
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SPEAKER_00: Because if you choose to live that your life that way, then what's gonna happen is that you're gonna repeat the same failures.
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SPEAKER_00: But if you can praise me when it seems impossible, when it seems it's not gonna, if you can be the apostle Paul, then to be able to end the jail when you are chained to the wall and it's midnight, which speaks to the darkness of the moment, yeah, but you can still sing and praise my name, yeah, that's real victory.
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SPEAKER_00: That's real victory, and that's really what it means to learn of his faithfulness.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: And then uh, because this is a this chapter is is one of my early messages I preached whenever I was uh like about 18 years of age.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, really?
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SPEAKER_00: And I remember in a I remember in a little church in Salis, Oklahoma, um, Oak Ridge, Assemblies of God Church, preaching this message, and really revival broke out that night.
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SPEAKER_05: Wow.
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SPEAKER_00: And we were having a series of services called Revival, but man, people began to weep, began to cry out to God.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was I took verses 12 and then verse number 13, and yet how quickly they forgot what he had done.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they wouldn't wait for his counsel.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, wait for his counsel, yeah, wait for his counsel.
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SPEAKER_00: Who is the Holy Spirit?
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the counselor, the counselor, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: They wouldn't wait on the spirit, you know, and we must wait.
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SPEAKER_00: How quickly we forget what he has done, how quickly we get up from the altar and go on, and we don't wait on the counselor.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we don't wait on the Holy Spirit to empower us, to fill us, to give us what we need.
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SPEAKER_00: And so in verse number 14, in the wilderness their desires ran wild.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, testing God's patience in that driveway.
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SPEAKER_00: Because if you don't set at God's presence in presence, if you do not wait on his counsel, your your desires and your flesh will begin to and then where does that take you?
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SPEAKER_00: Never anything good.
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SPEAKER_00: Never anything good.
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SPEAKER_00: It takes you down trails that are going to lead to waste, yeah, to pain, to suffering.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and that next verse it says he gave them what they asked.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is very important.
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SPEAKER_00: So he gave them what they asked for.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh my goodness.
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SPEAKER_00: Man, be careful because all of us at some point have done this, but boy, we better remember and learn from that and not repeat that.
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SPEAKER_00: And I mentioned this a few weeks ago that um that I I you used to pray, God, because I take the prayer of Jabaz, God increase my increase my territory and enlarge my tents, grow me and grow things, and that's good.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think that's a very scriptural thing to pray, but also you submit that to the Lord's will and way.
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SPEAKER_00: Because God showed me one time and said, Rodney, you're not ready for that.
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SPEAKER_00: I need to do some formation still before I enlarge your tent, yeah, before I expand your influence, before I give you those things that you're asking.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I've learned to say it's okay to ask for God to make us fruitful and to grow something, your business or whatever it may be.
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SPEAKER_00: But it always goes back to then I submit that to God and say, God, but you know if I'm ready.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, because if you keep asking, it's kind of like a kid.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you keep asking, God, they may, the parent may give that to you, but it was not gonna be healthy for you.
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SPEAKER_00: And you keep asking God, God sometimes will prove a point by simply giving it to you and see how that works out for you.
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SPEAKER_05: Not very well.
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SPEAKER_00: You keep asking for that person that you want to marry.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to marry that person, I'm gonna marry that person, I'll marry that person, I'm married person.
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SPEAKER_00: God's like, I'm trying my best to keep you out of that marriage.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm trying my best to keep you out of that marriage, and then eventually says, Okay, I still love you, but you're gonna go through some very difficult times, hard times.
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SPEAKER_01: Have it your way, and it's not gonna be pleasant.
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SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you want you want that job, you want that job, you want that job.
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SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be more money, more money, more money, more money.
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SPEAKER_00: And your focus is so much upon that that God, okay, you got that.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, what's that doing for your spiritual soul?
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SPEAKER_00: Because it says God sent their desires run wild.
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SPEAKER_00: In verse number 15, um, so he gave them what they asked for, but sent a plague along with it.
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SPEAKER_00: Other translations say send a wasting disease in your soul.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what mine says.
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SPEAKER_01: A wasting disease among them.
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SPEAKER_00: A wasting disease among them.
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SPEAKER_00: In other words, not everything we ask for is gonna benefit us, God.
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SPEAKER_00: And so God's gonna hold back things, but if we keep asking, he may give it, and we're gonna see the effects of that in our own life.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: And even that got is God's mercy, trying to get our attention and just pull us back to Him.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_05: Wow.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's a really important reminder.
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SPEAKER_01: Wait on the Lord, get His counsel.
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SPEAKER_00: Wait on the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey, there's so much more to chapter number um 16, but kind of the main idea is whatever your situation, God is able to rescue, and that we got to learn to look to him as our source answer for all things.
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SPEAKER_00: Stephen, thank you very much for joining me today.
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