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July 19 - Isaiah 7 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends it is shown here. It is a Wednesday.
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  It is the 19th of July. And I'm so glad that you have
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  pressed play, clicked play, rolled over, and your fully
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  automated system has started playing this for you.
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  If that's very If you actually have done that, I would love to
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  know how you did that, because I'd like to do that too.
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  But you probably clicked play, and I'm so glad you did, because
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  we are continuing in our journey in God's word day by day, to
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  read a chapter and to see what God has to say to us.
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  And at the moment, as you know, we are reading through the book
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  of Isaiah and we are about to enter into a very rooted in time
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  and place section of the book where Isaiah is going to be
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  speaking to King Ahaz and King Ahaz is the King of Judah at a
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  time when the Assyrian Empire is tap, tap tapping on their door.
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  And God does not want him going into cahoots with this evil
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  empire from the north that is doing all sorts of awful things
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  as they come through the Middle East, dominating everything
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  before them. God wants his king of Judah to
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  trust in him and not trust in alliances with empires like
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  this. And so you're going to hear lots
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  of judgment on the king for going into this kind of
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  alliance. But you're also going to hear
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  hints of this hope that even though King Ahaz is going to do
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  the wrong thing, God is not going to give up on his people,
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  and he will still find a way to fulfill his promise to them.
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  But I'm not going to give away anymore, Although I may have
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  given away a bunch. But that's Okay.
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  This can't be a spoiler when this was written that many
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  thousands of years ago, right? Okay, Let's do it.
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  Let us read together, friends. Isaiah, Chapter 7.
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  When Ahaz, son of Jotham and grandson of Oziah, was king of
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  Judah, king Resin of Syria, and Pika, son of Remilaya, the king
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  of Israel, sent out to attack Jerusalem, however, they were
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  unable to carry out their plan. The news had come to the Royal
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  Court of Judah. Syria is allied with Israel
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  against us, so the hearts of the king and his people trembled
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  with fear. Like trees shaking in a storm.
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  Then the Lord said to Isaiah, take your son share Jashob, and
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  go out to meet King Ahaz. You will find him at the end of
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  the aqueduct that feeds the water into the upper pool near
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  the road leading to the field where cloth is washed.
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  Tell him to stop worrying. Tell him he doesn't need to fear
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  the fierce anger of those two burned out embers.
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  King resin of Syria and Pika. Son of Remalaya.
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  Yes, the kings of Syria and Israel are plotting against him,
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  saying we will attack Judah and capture it for ourselves.
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  Then we will install the son of Tabiel as Judah's king.
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  But this is what the sovereign Lord says.
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  This invasion will never happen. It will never take place.
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  For Syria is no stronger than its capital Damascus, and
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  Damascus is no stronger than its king resin.
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  As for Israel, within 65 years it will be crushed and
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  completely destroyed. Israel is no stronger than its
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  capital, Samaria, and Samaria is no stronger than its king Pica,
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  son of Remelaya. Unless your faith is firm, I
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  cannot make you stand firm. Later, the Lord sent this
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  message to King Ahaz. Ask the Lord your God for a sign
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  of confirmation. A has make it as difficult as
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  you want, as high as heaven or as deep as the place of the
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  dead. But the king refused.
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  No, he said. I will not test the Lord like
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  that. Then Isaiah said, Listen well,
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  you royal family of David. Isn't it enough to exhaust human
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  patients? Must you exhaust the patience of
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  my God as well? All right, then.
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  The Lord himself will give you a sign.
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  Look, the virgin will conceive a child.
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  She will give birth to a son, and will call him Emmanuel,
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  which means God is with us. By the time the child is old
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  enough to choose what is right and reject what is wrong, he
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  will be eating yogurt and honey. For before the child is that
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  old, the lands of the two kings you fear so much will both be
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  deserted. Then the Lord will bring things
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  on you, your nation and your family unlike anything since
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  Israel broke away from Judah. He will bring the king of
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  Assyria upon you. In that day the Lord will
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  whistle for the army of southern Egypt and for the army of
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  Assyria. They will swarm around you like
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  flies and bees. They will come in vast hordes
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  and settle in the fertile areas and also in the desolate
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  valleys, caves, and thorny places.
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  In that day, the Lord will hire a razor from beyond the
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  Euphrates River, the King of Assyria, and use it to shave off
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  everything your land, your crops and your people.
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  In that day, a farmer will be fortunate to have a cow and two
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  sheep or goats left. Nevertheless, there will be
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  enough milk for everyone. Because so few people will be
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  left in the land, they will eat their fill of yogurt and honey.
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  And in that day, the lush vineyards now worth 1000 pieces
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  of silver will become patches of briars and thorns.
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  The entire land will become a vast expanse of briars and
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  thorns, a hunting ground overrun by wildlife.
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  No one will go to the fertile hillsides where the gardens once
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  grew, for briars and thorns will cover them cattle, sheep, and
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  goats, or graze there. You are an almighty God.
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  And before you stretch us out, time and eternity and you see
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  everything and sometimes, Gee, it's hard to trust your Lord,
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  Sometimes it's it's hard to to do what our conscience tells us
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  is the right thing, because it just seems like it's going to
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  shoot us in the foot and it's going to make our life so much
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  harder. Give us faith.
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  Shape our hearts that we would not be stubborn, sticking to our
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  own guns, but that we would gently be molded to you, and
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  that we would have the will and the confidence to follow you
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  wherever you would lead us. Thank you that you actually do
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  lead us, that your spirit convicts us, and that you draw
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  us alongside you and your Kingdom.
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  To go about your incredibly wonderful work, use us, mold us,
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  send us just like you sent Isaiah, and we pray all this in
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  Jesus name. Amen.