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August 21 - Isaiah 25 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends. It is Sean.
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  Here it is Monday. It is the 21st of August.
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  And I'm so glad that you have taken this time to invite me
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  into your day, me and Isaiah and thereby God's Word, so that that
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  can flow through your day. And I know you're thinking
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  Isaiah, God's word flowing through my day.
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  Oh, that sounds a little bit ominous.
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  But today is a good day to be reading Isaiah.
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  Today we're going to read the next chapter in this part of
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  Isaiah that's talking about the big stretch of space and time
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  and God's ultimate restoration. And Chapter 24, if you remember
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  last week, was all sorts of judgment and doom and gloom.
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  The chapter 25 is God's restoration.
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  This is Isaiah praising God for how good and faithful he is.
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  And this is going to continue through the next couple of days.
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  And then before the end of the week, we're going to move into
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  some very specific territory where Isaiah is speaking about
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  what's happening to to do that in that time.
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  But we'll get to that. I think that is Thursday.
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  But today, today, we celebrate God and who God is and how
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  faithful and wonderful is. So let's you and me come before
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  God as we hear His words in Isaiah, chapter 25.
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  Oh Lord, I will honor and praise your name, for you are my God.
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  You do such wonderful things. You planned them long ago, and
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  now you have accomplished them. You turn mighty cities into
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  heaps of ruins. Cities with strong walls are
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  turned to rubble. Beautiful palaces in distant
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  lands disappear and will never be rebuilt.
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  Therefore strong nations will declare your glory.
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  Ruthless nations will fear you. But you are a tower of refuge to
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  the poor, oh Lord, a tower of refuge to the needy in distress.
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  You are a refuge from the storm and a shelter from the heat, for
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  the oppressive acts of ruthless people are like a storm beating
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  against a wall or like the relentless heat of the desert.
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  But you silence the roar of foreign nations as the shade of
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  a cloud cools. Relentless heat, so the boastful
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  songs of ruthless people are stilled in Jerusalem.
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  The Lord of Heaven's armies will spread a wonderful feast for all
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  the peoples of the world. It will be a delicious banquet
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  with clear well aged wine and choice meat.
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  There he will remove the cloud of gloom, the shadow of death
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  that hangs over the earth. He will swallow up death
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  forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe
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  away all tears. He will remove forever all
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  insults and mockery against His land and people the Lord has
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  spoken in that day. The people will proclaim This is
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  our God. We trusted in Him and He saved
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  us. This is the Lord in whom we
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  trusted. Let us rejoice in the salvation
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  he brings. For the Lord's hand of blessing
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  will rest on Jerusalem, but Moab will be crushed.
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  It will be like straw trample down and left to rot.
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  God will push down Moab's people as a swimmer pushes down water
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  with his hands. He will end their pride and all
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  their evil works. The high walls of Moab will be
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  demolished. They will be brought down to the
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  ground, down into the dust. What a future you prepare for
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  us, Lord. Here we see this picture painted
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  of your ultimate victory over everything that stands in your
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  way and everything that would oppress us.
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  Your people thank you that you prepare this incredible banquet,
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  this excess, this festivity, this glorious space and time
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  when you will just revel with us in our presence and in your
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  presence. We are so grateful that we do
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  not just live this meager existence to Peter out into
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  nothingness, but that we live as part of your overarching
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  narrative of victory and promise.
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  So we place ourselves in your hands, and we trust that you
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  have our future firmly clasped in your hands.
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  And we celebrate you, our wonderful saving God.
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  And it's in your name, Jesus, that we pray.
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  Amen.