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Isaiah 3:5-9 - Leadership? Never Heard of Her! - 298 · Marriage Life and More and Bible Study

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  Daniel Moore: So when society started falling apart and everyone was doing whatever they wanted, did anyone in Judah ever pause and ask, hey, could this be connected to ignoring God?
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  Daniel Moore: Or was that too obvious?
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  Daniel Moore: Well in this week's episode, we're gonna take a look at Isaiah chapter 3, verses 5 through 8.
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  Daniel Moore: And I'll be honest, if you read this and don't at least squint and say, well, that feels familiar, well you might not be paying attention.
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  Daniel Moore: Isaiah describes a society where people oppress one another, respect disappears, the arrogant rise-up, leadership collapses, and everything feels upside down.
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  Daniel Moore: In other words, welcome to a culture that has decided it no longer needs God, but is still confused about why everything's falling apart.
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  Daniel Moore: It's the biblical version of unplugging your phone, watching the battery die, and then blaming the phone.
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  Daniel Moore: What's fascinating and a little terrifying is that Isaiah doesn't describe sudden destruction.
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  Daniel Moore: He describes social decay.
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  Daniel Moore: Things unravel slowly, respect erodes, wisdom is ignored, and eventually God says, fine, have it your way.
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  Daniel Moore: Well, spoiler alert, that way doesn't go very well.
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  Daniel Moore: Now before we start pointing fingers at the Israelites, like we'd never do something like that, Isaiah 3 has a way of holding up a mirror instead of a telescope.
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  Daniel Moore: This passage forces us to ask hard questions about leadership, humility, obedience, and what happens when a culture drifts from God and calls it progress.
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  Daniel Moore: So this week, we're gonna dig into Isaiah chapter 3, verses 5 through 8, not just to understand what went wrong back then, but to recognize the warning signs now.
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  Daniel Moore: Because scripture isn't just history, it's a warning label.
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  Daniel Moore: And Isaiah, he's not whispering, he's flashing hazard light.
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  Daniel Moore: Let's get to it.
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  Daniel Moore: Well, this week, as I stated here in the intro, we're continuing our verse-by-verse study in Isaiah as we've reached chapter 3 at this point.
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  Daniel Moore: And this week, we're going to be talking through verses five through eight.
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  Daniel Moore: So as we get started this week in this week's Bible study, we're going to go ahead and read verses five through eight in Isaiah chapter 3.
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  Daniel Moore: And once again, this is coming from the ESV version of the Bible.
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  Daniel Moore: It says, And the people will oppress one another, everyone his fellow, and everyone his neighbor.
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  Daniel Moore: The youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable.
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  Daniel Moore: For a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, You have a cloak, you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule.
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  Daniel Moore: In that day he will speak out, saying, I will not be a healer.
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  Daniel Moore: In my house there is neither bread nor cloak.
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  Daniel Moore: You shall not make me leader of the people.
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  Daniel Moore: For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.
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  Daniel Moore: So as we get started here with the first verse of that sequence of verses there in Isaiah chapter 3, we're going to start with verse 5 in that reference there of scriptures.
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  Daniel Moore: It says, And the people will oppress one another, everyone his fellow, and everyone his neighbor, the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable.
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  Daniel Moore: Well, this verse here describes the social breakdown and collapse of order within society.
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  Daniel Moore: As God's judgment comes upon Judah and Jerusalem for their sins, civil decorum erodes.
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  Daniel Moore: The fabric of the community disintegrates.
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  Daniel Moore: Now, if you remember last week, as we finished up last week's study, we were talking about the people who are going to be put into leadership that basically referenced infants.
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  Daniel Moore: Basically, they were very immature in the way that they lived.
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  Daniel Moore: So whether if they were young rulers or if they were just going to be rulers that had no clue what they were doing, might as well had the diaper section in charge.
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  Daniel Moore: That's what was going to happen in Judah, because all of their good leadership and their wisdom was going to be taken away from them.
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  Daniel Moore: So here, as we start off this week in verse five, it talks about the dishonoring of the elderly.
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  Daniel Moore: If we look at Leviticus chapter 19, verse 32, it says, You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God, I am the Lord.
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  Daniel Moore: Well, the purpose of this law, God gives the law to emphasize the importance of honoring elders as a reflection of respect for wisdom, experience, and authority.
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  Daniel Moore: In ancient Israelite culture, the elderly were seen as bears of tradition and instruction.
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  Daniel Moore: They had a lot of honor for their integrity.
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  Daniel Moore: But by instructing the people to stand up before gray haired individuals, God was highlighting the value of their life experience and the respect that they deserved.
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  Daniel Moore: This command serves to cultivate a community that prioritizes reverence for those who have lived longer and accumulated knowledge.
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  Daniel Moore: In doing this, there were some expected actions that would take place.
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  Daniel Moore: The first action here that was represented was demonstrating respect.
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  Daniel Moore: The specific action of standing up was a physical expression of respect and honor.
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  Daniel Moore: This act symbolized the recognition of the elder's status and contributions to society.
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  Daniel Moore: Secondly, it showed that they were fearing God.
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  Daniel Moore: The connection between honoring the elderly and fearing God underscores that respect for human authority, reflects a broader respect for divine authority.
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  Daniel Moore: It reminds the Israelites that God values community ties and the roles individuals play within society.
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  Daniel Moore: Then there was community ethical behavior.
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  Daniel Moore: The law is part of a larger set of ethical directives intended to shape the social fabric of Israelite life.
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  Daniel Moore: Obeying this law encourages actions that foster community cohesion and respect, creating an environment where the wisdom of elders is sought and valued.
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  Daniel Moore: And then there was cultural and historical context.
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  Daniel Moore: Back then in the ancient Near East, elders often played key roles in decision making.
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  Daniel Moore: It was just a normal thing for that day.
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  Daniel Moore: They also were involved in conflict resolution, and then of course, teaching the younger generations.
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  Daniel Moore: By instituting this command, God was not only shaping religious life, but also social norms, helping to ensure stability and continuity in the community.
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  Daniel Moore: So just like today, we are encouraged to honor and embrace the wisdom of older generations.
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  Daniel Moore: It invites believers to cultivate intergenerational relationships that respect and learn from the past, emphasizing the importance of community and shared knowledge in God's design.
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  Daniel Moore: So in this scripture here, as it first starts out and starts talking about the elderly being oppressed and disrespected, Matthew Henry's concise commentary notes that when God removes wise and righteous leaders, as was described in the earlier part of this chapter in verses one through four, society is always going to suffer.
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  Daniel Moore: The people, lacking clear moral guidance and leadership, turn on each other, resulting in oppression within the community.
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  Daniel Moore: As you continue that verse there in verse 5, it says the youth will be insolent to the elder.
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  Daniel Moore: This references a complete inversion of social respect and hierarchy.
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  Daniel Moore: In traditional Jewish culture, respect for elders was a fundamental value.
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  Daniel Moore: The loss of this structure indicates deep moral decay.
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  Daniel Moore: When you go from one extreme of lifting your elders up and really acknowledging what they have to say and respecting them for the wisdom that they carry into the very society that you live in, you can automatically see where that's headed.
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  Daniel Moore: It's running right downhill.
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  Daniel Moore: And that deep moral thing that you used to follow, all of those things that were you know embedded inside of you on how to be a good uh reflection of your society that you lived in in that day, a lot of that came from the elderly people in your life.
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  Daniel Moore: And because they were throwing this all out and disrespecting the elders in this case, then there was a huge moral decay that was taking place.
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  Daniel Moore: John Calvin remarks that the youth, typically expected to be disciplined and submissive, now act with arrogance, which signals the decadence and rebellious nature of the people.
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  Daniel Moore: The term despise to the honorable suggests that those once considered lowly or base rise up to disrespect and exploit those previously esteemed, which, in that case, that would reverse the societal norms.
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  Daniel Moore: As we move on to verse six here in chapter three, it says, For a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, You have a cloak, you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule.
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  Daniel Moore: This scripture here it depicts actual desperation.
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  Daniel Moore: Leadership becomes so scarce, and the nation is in such disarray, as it's stated there as calling it heap of ruins, that even minor signs of stability, like owning a cloak, cause others to plead for someone to become a ruler.
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  Daniel Moore: Why was the cloak significant?
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  Daniel Moore: Well, Albert Barnes notes on the Bible explains that a cloak was a necessity and even a sign of some wealth or status.
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  Daniel Moore: In times of collapse, standards for leadership diminish to the point where such a trivial item becomes a qualification.
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  Daniel Moore: Kill and DeLeach highlights that this is a satirical way of depicting a society in collapse, where the bar of leadership is reduced to something as superficial as having a coat.
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  Daniel Moore: It shows the emptiness of political authority as God's punishment strikes the land.
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  Daniel Moore: When I read this scripture and I look into the context of it and the things that it makes me think of, it makes me think of Toy Story.
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  Daniel Moore: And the the little character that was the cowboy had the little sheriff star on his vest there.
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  Daniel Moore: It's like taking that sheriff star, that little toy star, and because I have one of those, then I can become the sheriff.
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  Daniel Moore: Because everybody's so desperate to have law and order, there's none there, that no one that's going to take the place of that at that point in time, then that one little thing would qualify me at that point to becoming a sheriff.
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  Daniel Moore: So that's what we're looking at here as we read the scripture.
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  Daniel Moore: And they're saying because, you know, this person has a cloak, and of course, as we were saying, you know, people that had money and were higher up in society back then had the cloaks and uh the extra layers that they would wear because they could afford those kinds of things, then that would automatically qualify them to be the next leader.
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  Daniel Moore: And we know that that's not always the case, for sure.
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  Daniel Moore: This also implies a vacuum in governance.
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  Daniel Moore: You know, earlier in Isaiah 3, God removes strong leadership.
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  Daniel Moore: We talked about that last week, and this verse illustrates the consequence.
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  Daniel Moore: Anarchy, with absorb attempts to find anyone to rule, regardless of their qualification.
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  Daniel Moore: As we move on to verse 7 here in chapter 3, it says, In that day he will speak out, saying, I will not be a healer.
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  Daniel Moore: In my house there is neither bread nor cloak.
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  Daniel Moore: You shall not make me the leader of the people.
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  Daniel Moore: So the would-be leader that has the cloak that they are wanting to put into leadership, rejects the offer.
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  Daniel Moore: It says, In that day signals the period of judgment.
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  Daniel Moore: A man will refuse leadership, saying that he's not a healer, he's not a person that can bring order back to the chaos.
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  Daniel Moore: That's a metaphor for someone able to restore or govern the deteriorating state.
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  Daniel Moore: If you look at Jeremiah chapter six, verse fourteen, there's a similarity mentioned there where healing is linked with restoring a nation.
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  Daniel Moore: Let's take a look at that.
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  Daniel Moore: It says, They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.
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  Daniel Moore: When we look at these passages, comparing Isaiah 3, verse 7, and Jeremiah 6, 14, this verse here in Jeremiah highlights the false reassurances given to the people of God.
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  Daniel Moore: Prophets and leaders were proclaiming peace when in reality there was no peace due to the people's sins and rebellion against God.
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  Daniel Moore: The wounds of the people, their spiritual and moral failures, were not addressed properly, leading to a false sense of security.
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  Daniel Moore: Now here in Isaiah chapter 3, verse 7, Isaiah communicates a similar sense of urgency and critique.
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  Daniel Moore: The context here involves a leader who claims he is not able to lead effectively due to the overall moral breakdown and the chaos surrounding him.
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  Daniel Moore: Says in that day he will cry out, I will not be a healer.
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  Daniel Moore: In my house there is neither bread nor clothing.
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  Daniel Moore: You shall not make me the chief of the people.
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  Daniel Moore: This reflects a recognition of the spiritual and the societal decay that prevents true leadership and healing.
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  Daniel Moore: So both of these passages here, they critique the failure of leaders to acknowledge the true state of the people's relationship with God.
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  Daniel Moore: Jeremiah, he speaks of leaders who offer empty peace, an assurance that hides the truth of the people's spiritual wounds.
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  Daniel Moore: Similarly, in Isaiah, the leaders are unable to fulfill their roles because they understand the gravity of the situation.
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  Daniel Moore: There is an underlying call to accountability in both of these scriptures.
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  Daniel Moore: Leaders must recognize and address the real sufferings and needs of their people rather than simply offering empty comforts.
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  Daniel Moore: The linkage of these passages, they serve as a powerful reminder to us today as believers and leaders to prioritize genuine spiritual restoration.
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  Daniel Moore: Just as God condemned both sets of leaders for their failures there in Jeremiah and here in Isaiah, today's leaders in the church and society are called to preach truth and seek authentic healing rather than superficial fixes.
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  Daniel Moore: There is a call to confront sin honestly and seek true peace, which can only come from a right relationship with God.
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  Daniel Moore: So none of that has ever changed.
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  Daniel Moore: Our expectations and God's expectations need to align.
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  Daniel Moore: Whatever God wants us to do in leadership positions, as we lead believers and lead people in furthering them in the kingdom and understanding his word, then he expects us to be able to carry that role and to be the leaders that he's called us to be.
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  Daniel Moore: Matthew Poole's commentary points out that leadership comes with an expectation to care for others.
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  Daniel Moore: Here, the man is unwilling or unable.
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  Daniel Moore: His house has nothing, implying both personal poverty and a larger economic collapse.
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  Daniel Moore: The scene is one of complete societal dysfunction, no leaders, no order, and no resources.
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  Daniel Moore: So as we move on here to verse 8 in chapter 3, it says, For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.
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  Daniel Moore: So this verse here provides a theological explanation for the preceding societal decay.
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  Daniel Moore: Jerusalem's and Judah's fall is directly attributed to rebellion against the Lord.
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  Daniel Moore: The pairing of speech and deeds implies comprehensive guilt.
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  Daniel Moore: Not only are their actions sinful, but their words also refill defiance.
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  Daniel Moore: Charles Simeon in his Horae Homiletica notes that this indictment shows deliberate determination to oppose God.
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  Daniel Moore: The phrase defying his glorious presence, which literally in Hebrew means the eyes of his glory, suggests that their sin is done openly and boldly, completely, in God's view, indicating arrogance rather than ignorance.
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  Daniel Moore: They are in essence challenging God.
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  Daniel Moore: They're like, We're doing all of this and we're gonna do it whether you like it or not.
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  Daniel Moore: What are you gonna do about it?
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  Daniel Moore: John Gill's exposition emphasizes the boldness of their rebellion.
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  Daniel Moore: The people sin openly, unashamedly, like those in Genesis 6 5, whose every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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  Daniel Moore: This verse summarizes the cause of the complete societal collapse described in the previous verses.
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  Daniel Moore: It's not merely political or economic, it is fundamentally spiritual rebellion.
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  Daniel Moore: The rejection of God brings judgment, and that judgment manifests as disordered and chaotic civil life.
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  Daniel Moore: We're going to go ahead and move on to chapter three, verse nine, as we got a little extra time this week.
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  Daniel Moore: It says, For the look on their faces bears witness against them.
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  Daniel Moore: They proclaim their sin like Sodom.
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  Daniel Moore: They do not hide it.
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  Daniel Moore: Woe to them, for they have brought evil on themselves.
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  Daniel Moore: So this verse indicts the people of Judah and Jerusalem not only for their sinful actions, but for their shameless openness about their sin.
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  Daniel Moore: There in the Scripture, the look on their faces is a Hebrew idiom referring to boldness and arrogance.
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  Daniel Moore: It conveys the idea that their facial expressions testify to their guilt.
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  Daniel Moore: There is no shame or remorse.
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  Daniel Moore: The comparison to Sodom is a powerful and terrifying one.
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  Daniel Moore: Genesis 13 13 tells us that the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.
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  Daniel Moore: Here Judah is not merely sinning, but doing so in a way that is unashamed and defiant, just like the people of Sodom before their destruction.
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  Daniel Moore: If we flip over to Genesis chapter 19, and we look at Sodom and Gomorrah, the destruction of Sodom is a result of persistent unrepentant sin, not a single isolated act.
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  Daniel Moore: Scripture, both in Genesis and elsewhere, gives a fuller picture of what Sodom was doing that led to God's judgment.
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  Daniel Moore: So we're going to look here at some key sins that were identified there in the Bible.
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  Daniel Moore: Number one was sexual perversion and violence.
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  Daniel Moore: Here in Genesis chapter 19, verses 4 and 5, it says, Bring them out to us that we may know them.
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  Daniel Moore: So here the men of Sodom sought to gang rape the angelic visitors.
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  Daniel Moore: This was not a consensual sexuality, but sexual violence, domination and degradation.
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  Daniel Moore: Jude later describes this as sexual immorality and pursuing unnatural desire in Jude chapter 1, verse 7.
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  Daniel Moore: This reveals a society where lust had overtaken moral restraint.
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  Daniel Moore: Secondly, it shows pride and arrogance.
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  Daniel Moore: In Ezekiel chapter 16, verse 49, it says, Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom.
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  Daniel Moore: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and unconcerned.
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  Daniel Moore: They did not help the poor and the needy.
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  Daniel Moore: So here pride made them self-sufficient and dismissive of God.
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  Daniel Moore: Their arrogance produced moral blindness and hardness of heart.
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  Daniel Moore: And as you notice here in this verse, pride is listed first.
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  Daniel Moore: Pride actually fueled everything else that took place there in Sodom.
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  Daniel Moore: Thirdly was lack of hospitality and hatred of the stranger.
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  Daniel Moore: In Genesis chapter 19, verse 1 through 9, it says, In the ancient Near East.
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  Daniel Moore: Hospitality was a sacred moral duty.
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  Daniel Moore: Sodom responded to strangers with hostility, exploitation, and violence instead of protection.
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  Daniel Moore: Lot's righteous actions stand in sharp contrast that made him the only godly person there in Sodom.
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  Daniel Moore: This reflects a culture that preyed on the vulnerable.
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  Daniel Moore: It also here in Sodom showed oppression and neglect of the poor.
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  Daniel Moore: In Ezekiel 16 49, again we look back at they did not help the poor and needy.
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  Daniel Moore: Sodom had abundance but refused compassion.
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  Daniel Moore: Their sin was not scarcity, it was self-indulgence without mercy.
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  Daniel Moore: That leads us to know that prosperity without righteousness at that point had hardened their hearts.
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  Daniel Moore: Then there was rejection of correction and God's warnings.
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  Daniel Moore: In Genesis chapter 19, verse 9, it talks about this fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge.
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  Daniel Moore: You know, they rejected Lot's warning.
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  Daniel Moore: They mocked moral accountability.
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  Daniel Moore: The response showed defiant rebellion, not ignorance.
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  Daniel Moore: So judgment came after persistent refusal to repent.
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  Daniel Moore: And sixth, there was widespread normalized wickedness.
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  Daniel Moore: In Genesis chapter 18, verse 20, the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is very grave.
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  Daniel Moore: Their sin was systematic, not limited to a few individuals.
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  Daniel Moore: It says both young and old participated in Genesis 19, verse 4.
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  Daniel Moore: Evil had become culturally accepted and celebrated.
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  Daniel Moore: So Sodom's destruction came because of sexual violence and perversion, pride and arrogance, abuse of the vulnerable, lack of compassion, rejection of God's correction, persistent collective wickedness.
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  Daniel Moore: When we look at that list, and then we come back here to Isaiah chapter 3, verse 9, and we see that the comparison is there, as bad as what was going on in Sodom.
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  Daniel Moore: And we see also in the scripture that Judah was not even trying to hide it.
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  Daniel Moore: So it almost makes you think, as you look into the context of this verse, that there is a very similar uh society going on here, uh where they're really repeating sins from what had happened before there in Sodom.
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  Daniel Moore: So as Matthew Henry notes, they proclaimed their sin as Sodom did, throwing off even the pretense of godliness or repentance.
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  Daniel Moore: Kill and DeLeach explained that this reflects a condition worse than hidden sin, open, proud transgression.
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  Daniel Moore: Their arrogance is so pervasive that conscious and moral restraint are lost, and they no longer even attempt to mask their rebellion.
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  Daniel Moore: Acts of public sin often reflect a broader systematic collapse of national morality.
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  Daniel Moore: According to Albert Barnes, this passage highlights a clear move from inward corruption to outward public declaration of sin.
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  Daniel Moore: If you think about it, if we have sins in our life and we are keeping them hidden, we are probably doing that because of conviction.
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  Daniel Moore: We don't want people finding out, and the Holy Spirit's probably trying to convict us to change our lives and to go back living for God like we're supposed to be, and put those sins behind us and reject that lifestyle, reject those things that we continue to do.
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  Daniel Moore: In my opinion, as you move out of that phase of keeping those sins hidden, and you go ahead and let those be completely exposed, and you don't care, you throw them out there and everybody sees what's going on, and you could care less.
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  Daniel Moore: That's a very dangerous place to be.
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  Daniel Moore: Because that conviction at that point seems to not be on your life at all, and that puts you in a place where it's almost impossible for you to be drawn back by the Holy Spirit.
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  Daniel Moore: So we see here why God is so angry with them and why he's wanting to put judgment upon them and take everything away to make them realize that when they rely on God, things are much, much better.
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  Daniel Moore: So the result of all of this that's going on here in this verse, woe to them.
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  Daniel Moore: The prophetic woe formula is a lament and curse, expressing grief over impending judgment.
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  Daniel Moore: The line that they have brought evil on themselves emphasizes human responsibility.
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  Daniel Moore: Their punishment is self-inflicted, not arbitrary.
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  Daniel Moore: The rebellion brings inevitable consequences.
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  Daniel Moore: Not because of outside enemies first, but because of internal collapse.
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  Daniel Moore: The breakdown begins with how people treat one another.
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  Daniel Moore: Isaiah says people will oppress each other, man against man, neighbor against neighbor.
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  Daniel Moore: What once held the community together, which was mutual respect, shared values, and reverence for God, has eroded.
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  Daniel Moore: When God's order is removed, people don't become more free, they become more hostile.
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  Daniel Moore: Respect for authority and wisdom disappears next.
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  Daniel Moore: Isaiah describes a world where the young rise against the old and the dishonorable against the honorable.
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  Daniel Moore: This isn't simply about age, it's about experience, character, and godly wisdom completely being dismissed.
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  Daniel Moore: Leadership is no longer based on maturity or righteousness, but on noise, confidence, or convenience.
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  Daniel Moore: The result is confusion, not progress.
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  Daniel Moore: As this passage continued, we sit there and watch leadership itself collapse.
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  Daniel Moore: People are so desperate that they grab anyone who looks remotely capable and says, You have a cloak, be our leader.
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  Daniel Moore: But leadership is no longer about calling or competence.
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  Daniel Moore: It's about survival.
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  Daniel Moore: Yet even then, no one wants that responsibility either.
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  Daniel Moore: The would-be leader refuses, saying he cannot heal the nation.
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  Daniel Moore: This shows a society that has burned through its leaders and now distrust authority altogether.
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  Daniel Moore: In verse 8, it delivers the root cause.
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  Daniel Moore: It says, Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling.
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  Daniel Moore: Their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.
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  Daniel Moore: This isn't just social dysfunction, it's spiritual rebellion.
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  Daniel Moore: The people are living and speaking in ways that openly contradict God with no shame and no repentance.
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  Daniel Moore: Their collapse isn't accidental, it's the natural consequence of rejecting God's authority while expecting his protection.
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  Daniel Moore: So as we look at these scriptures, how can they apply to us today as we wrap up this week's episode?
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  Daniel Moore: Well, these verses they read less like ancient history and more like a cultural diagnosis.
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  Daniel Moore: When a society abandons God's truth, it doesn't become neutral, it becomes unstable.
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  Daniel Moore: We see the same warning signs today increasing division, loss of respect, confusion about leadership, and a growing reluctance to take responsibility.
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  Daniel Moore: When everyone wants influence but no one wants accountability, chaos fills that gap.
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  Daniel Moore: This passage here that we've gone through this week challenges us to examine how we view authority, humility, and responsibility.
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  Daniel Moore: Do we value wisdom or do we celebrate arrogance?
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  Daniel Moore: Do we honor character or just charisma?
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  Daniel Moore: Well, Isaiah reminds us that when godly leadership is rejected, the vacuum doesn't stay empty, something always rushes in, and it's rarely better.
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  Daniel Moore: On a personal level, these verses here confront our hearts.
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  Daniel Moore: God's judgment in this passage didn't start with fire, it started with withdrawal.
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  Daniel Moore: He allowed people to experience the fruit of their choices, and that same principle applies today.
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  Daniel Moore: When we push God to the margins of our lives, our marriages, churches, or communities, disorder follows, not as cruelty, but as consequence.
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  Daniel Moore: Yet the warning is also an invitation.
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  Daniel Moore: God exposes collapse so that repentance can begin.
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  Daniel Moore: Isaiah isn't written to make us smug or fearful, it's meant to wake us up.
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  Daniel Moore: Stability, unity, and healthy leadership flow from reverence for God.
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  Daniel Moore: When He is honored, people flourish.
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  Daniel Moore: When He is defied, even the strongest structures begin to crack.
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  Daniel Moore: So Isaiah and these verses we studied this week ultimately ask us a hard but necessary question.
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  Daniel Moore: Are we building our lives and culture on God's wisdom?
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  Daniel Moore: Or are we trying to survive on our own terms and wonder why it's not working?
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  Daniel Moore: Well, the question was true then, and it's just as true now.
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  Daniel Moore: Well, that's going to do it for this week's episode of Connecting the Gap.
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  Daniel Moore: And we can all learn as we go through this book of Isaiah in our verse-by-verse study.
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  Daniel Moore: Well, that's going to be all for this week.
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  Daniel Moore: And as we go, we believe that God's word never fails us.
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  Daniel Moore: God's word has stood the test of time, and through Jesus' death on the cross, he has connected the gap.
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  Daniel Moore: This is an extension of Connecting the Gap Ministries, and we pray that you have a blessed week.