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Episode 49: Luke and Isaiah · North Bible Recap

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  SPEAKER_00: Have a good day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm so glad that you're joining us for another episode of North Bible Recap.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christian, it's always good to be able to have you sitting with me and talking about God's word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, super excited to talk about.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got a lot of ground to cover today.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have talking about Luke, Isaiah, Psalms, and Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you very much.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna be diving into this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we got some we got some great uh content.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna look at uh Luke 11 through 16, and then we're gonna go into Isaiah 37 through 52.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let's just dive into the book of Luke.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so Luke, we've been talking about it for a couple of weeks now.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you have missed some of that historical context, uh go back to those episodes before, uh, listen to them.
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  SPEAKER_01: That way you kind of like have a better understanding.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Luke chapter 11, very, very popular uh scripture, Pastor.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is uh uh the Lord's Prayer.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you also find this in the book of Matthew.
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  SPEAKER_01: You also have the Lord's Prayer.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the main thing that really jumps out to me is that Jesus had a habit of praying.
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  SPEAKER_01: This was not something that he just did because he was doing ministry, he had this habit of prayer.
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  SPEAKER_01: And us as believers and as Christians, we should have a habit of prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what was like if the disciples were gonna ask one question of the Lord, what would be the question?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, teach us how to pray.
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  SPEAKER_01: How do we do this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have uh chapter.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, because to me, to me, you look at the natural sense, I've heard other guys say that, but I I I think this too is like I would have probably been saying, teach us how to break the bread and it multiplies like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what I would like to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell me how to make the multiplication happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, teach us how to like open those blinded eyes and stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But but they and they didn't know that all of that flowed out of his prayer life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is not prayer, wasn't something abnormal for the Jews, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: They have those rituals that, but there was something about his prayer life that they wanted to know, that they wanted to like teach me to pray, not how we know how to pray, teach me to pray how you're praying, because he was praying in a very uh different way.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the I think the first thing that he said is it says, Not if you pray, you know, this is if you've been coming to church, you have heard many preachers say this.
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  SPEAKER_01: He says, when you pray, which means that you and I should have this habit of uh praying.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Jesus gives them the breakdown of this prayer, and it is uh I want to read it unless you have it with you, Pastor, by chance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, verse number 17, 18, is that what you're talking about?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I'm talking about the chapter verse two on the prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um verse two on chapter 11.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, go ahead and read it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm here, I got it, I'm ready.
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  SPEAKER_01: It says, uh, so they said, Lord, teach us to pray as John taught his disciples.
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  SPEAKER_01: So clearly, John the Baptist had a habit of teaching his disciples how to do this.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he says, and he said to them, uh, when you pray, say, Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins.
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  SPEAKER_01: If we uh for we ourselves forgive everyone who is in debt to us, and lead us not into temptation.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Jesus gave them kind of like a like not necessarily he just prayed this prayer, he's also giving them a framework of what to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord, repent, uh, see the need for God in your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so it it's not a prayer that we need to recite any, but there's nothing wrong if we do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But more than anything, he just teaches them a framework of how to pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I apologize, I will be ready next time for the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I should have been ready for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, not ready, but I am ready now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, and it's so good.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just, and I love how he just always he starts off with when he was teaching them how to pray, he said, Lord, teach us how to pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then it said, he says to them, he says, This is how you pray, Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in other translations, it will say our father, which I love that so much even better, because it invites into this community is that um it's a shared experience, prayer is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I I I saw this yesterday on on my social media, actually took a screenshot.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, this is gonna go perfect.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now they're using here Matthew chapter six, uh the other section where we have the Lord's Prayer, but it talks about when he says um father, talking about relationship with the Lord, understanding that we have a a father-son, father-daughter relationship with the with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when he says, um, the we bless your name, it's it's about uh worship and praising the name of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, then when he talks about kind of like let your will be done, it's asking the Lord, let your uh what you want for me, for our country, for our life be done.
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  SPEAKER_01: Also talks about uh give us our daily bread.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's about putting our trust in the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, then he said when we ask for forgiveness, it says like that is actually repenting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like we need to have this um heart of repentance towards the Lord, and then um lead us not into temptation.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is direction, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Direct my steps, and then uh let your um sorry, I'm translating because the screenshot is in Spanish, so I'm trying to do both at the same time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, because yours is the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, this is in Matthew, it talks about how we are dependent of the on the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: So great structure for us to learn how to pray and come and pray to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's good, very good.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's well done.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and then uh the one of the main things here that we want to pray in Jesus prays, it's for us to have unity.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, something that I find very interesting, Pastor, you have this one, it's chapter 11, verse 17.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to bring this up because of unity.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Jesus says, but he, that's Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?
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  SPEAKER_00: For you say that I cast out demons by Bezebel.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I think really caught my attention when I was doing research on this is it says, if Satan's kingdom is divided, which Jesus is saying, Satan's kingdoms, it's not divided.
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  SPEAKER_01: It brings division to our kingdom, it brings division to us, but Satan has a kingdom that is unified.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now their purpose and their goal is to bring division, but just looking at the scripture, Jesus is showing them if if Satan's kingdom was divided, none of these things would be happening.
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  SPEAKER_01: We need to be more united than they are.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, Jesus prays for unity.
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  SPEAKER_01: I pray that you guys have unity.
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  SPEAKER_01: Paul talks about this throughout the kingdom of God, the people of God need to be united because we, if we're not united, our our kingdom will be destroyed, which is the plan and purpose of the enemy.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's good.
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  SPEAKER_01: I thought he was so good when I saw that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like, wow, I need to one, pray for this, but also have to lift this every single uh day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, uh, chapter 12.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, Luke is using this section uh to talk about wealth.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna see uh different portions where um you're gonna see uh I believe here is we have we have Pharisees.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, don't be anxious.
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  SPEAKER_01: Something that we need to um remember with each of the gospel, each book of the Bible, really, is who is the author writing to?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who is the audience?
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  SPEAKER_01: Luke is writing for a man named Theophilus.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have talked about this, probably a very wealthy man, a Greek man, a a Gentile man that had a lot of means.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even though he's writing for them, Luke never compromises the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what Luke is doing is saying, having wealth is not wrong, but your faith cannot be put in our in your wealth.
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  SPEAKER_01: And with that in mind, he goes on and says, you know, don't be anxious about anything, what goes in your body, what you put on, or any of those things.
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  SPEAKER_01: The main thing that we need to seek is the kingdom of God, saying having things it's not evil, but what is bad is if you put your faith, and that is something that we need to be careful that we're not putting our faith and making money, our Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And throughout this chapter, there is the parable of the rich fool, and then he goes on, don't be anxious, you must be ready.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so Luke, his audience is the Gentiles, but mainly this man that he's writing to.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so it just shows us that we need to put our faith in money or poverty doesn't define us.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a very because I think the opposite is people just then want to be identified with poverty.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm poor, like my Lord is poor.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's not in scripture.
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  SPEAKER_01: That that's what people use and say things, but that is not actually in scripture.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um, because the disciples were not poor, and that is something a lot of people say, you know, they were people who just walked and slept on the floor.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, they gave everything, they they laid everything down, but Peter had a business.
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  SPEAKER_01: Matthew was very wealthy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Matthew was a tax collector, worked for the Roman government.
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  SPEAKER_01: This were not people who were poor like we think of poor.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so it's very important that that and and that that we understand that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's important to note because Jesus would actually reference when they would have poor, and he would talk reference the poor.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, You always have the poor among you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he was talking about a financial poor there.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then of course there's times when you talk about the spiritual poverty of people's lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, and one of the most powerful stories here, he gives an example in this in this one is the story of the uh man who, the farmer, who has a busting crop and just things are money's flowing, and he builds bigger barns and just stores it away and says, I'm just gonna eat, drink, enjoy life, and relax.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and he says, No, tonight your life is gonna be accounted for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because here's the thing for if you're listening to me and God has blessed you, and the truth on you, just living here in America, most every single person listening to me is you are on the upper percentile of world's wealthiest people now, and then some of you, God has just even blessed even more.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you need to ask God about what do I do with this wealth?
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  SPEAKER_00: That wealth is not just a hoard, it's not just for personal gain, it is to be able to be a blessing to the kingdom and a blessing to people that are in need.
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  SPEAKER_01: So good, so good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, chapter 13, it goes on to talk about different parables.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, these parables are answering one question is what is the kingdom of God like?
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, Jesus uses different forms to show people what is the kingdom of God like, and it's very counterculture.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not what they were thinking, it's not what they were expecting, and that is what we should ask ourselves often.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, what am I, what, how am I supposed to live my life as somebody who is under the authority and lordship of Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because how we spend our money, how we spend our time, what we do with the resources that we have, it's not gonna always make sense to people, and that's what Jesus is talking about.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is the kingdom of heaven like?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like this, and people that was it's just not what they were thinking or expecting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, then he goes on, verse 34.
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  SPEAKER_01: It says this it says, uh, this is Luke uh 13, 30, uh 13, verse 34.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: How often will I have will I have gathered your children together as hands gather uh her broads under her wings, and you were not willing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, here we have Jesus talking.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, Luke does a wonderful job throughout the gospel showing how the Gentiles are part now of the family of God because of what Jesus did.
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  SPEAKER_01: He excludes the excluded, he brings the outsider in, but he also has a deep love for Jerusalem, for the Israelites, and he is heartbroken of how they have uh done this.
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  SPEAKER_01: He has so Jesus has extreme love for the outsider, but he also has love for the Israelites, and that's why Luke also emphasizes the call of Matthew.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because Matthew was an insider who, because of what he chose to work and do for his living, is outcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now Luke is bringing like, no, outsiders are welcome, and insiders are also welcome.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I think it was beautiful how Luke uh writes this, and this just shows us that God love for me should inspire me to love people who are not like me, and that's what the gospel is is like Jesus loved me with my sin and uh with my brokenness.
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  SPEAKER_01: I should love people like he loved me.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the message of the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the message of the gospel, is the message of the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so very much for saying that, and may we not ever forget it.
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  SPEAKER_00: May I not forget it, may all of us not forget that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then chapter 14.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now we have uh a lot of banquets.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now in Luke, we have lots of different banquets, and actually, Jesus gets in trouble because of he attends some of his banquets.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, he has banquets with tax collectors, he has banquets with Pharisees, and he goes to pretty much any party that he is invited.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, something I want to make very clear.
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  SPEAKER_01: Often, when people go to parties, and I'm talking secular parties, often they are corrupted by the parties.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't see that Jesus was ever corrupted by his environment.
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  SPEAKER_01: He actually changed his environment because he was present, but because he had a purpose while he was there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, those parties make him in got him in trouble.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was called a drunkard, he was called a glutton.
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  SPEAKER_01: He, I mean, he was it upset the religious leaders.
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  SPEAKER_01: But this whole chapter has different types of banquets, and again, one of those big banquets is uh there is a man who prepared the banquet and says, Now remind everyone, tell everyone to come, talking about the Israelites, the insiders, the people of the story.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what do we hear?
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  SPEAKER_01: They make excuses.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I cannot do it right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what does the master do?
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, because the gospel comes first to the Jews, then to the Gentiles.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they first invited the Jews and said, No, too busy, cannot do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, what did the master did?
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, invite everyone in the hedges.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, those were people who were lame, sick, broken.
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  SPEAKER_01: Another picture of the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_01: The gospel doesn't come just for perfect people, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: They say, you know, the the the heel doesn't need a doctor, the sick does.
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  SPEAKER_01: And here we have another banquet where we have an invitation for the insiders to come in, which is what we do church.
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  SPEAKER_01: Church is a place not just for us believers to gather.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it is a person, but it's also a place that the outsiders can come in and understand I am welcome in this family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's so that's so good.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I was I've thought about this um a lot because it would make you know, he came first to the Jews and then went to the Gentile.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what if the Jews had accepted him?
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  SPEAKER_00: What if the Jews had embraced him, then we'd never been invited in?
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  SPEAKER_00: I've I've thought about that some, which is kind of a twist on because I've never heard me really address that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as I look into the text, even throughout the uh Hebrew text, all the way back to the beginning, God has always been inclusive to all people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but the gospel message is also exclusive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and it just came first to the Jews.
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  SPEAKER_00: If the Jews had embraced and enveloped, and then it would have just been the story would have been the way God would have really wanted to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you have accepted this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's go out and tell the rest of the Gentile world of the goodness and the grace of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So does that make sense?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, but in other words, but though when he gave it to the Jew first, the Jews as a whole rejected.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, I'm still gonna go for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: From the beginning, I wanted to use you to do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he and that is that is the thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: God wants to use us, absolutely, and if we don't, he will use whoever is available.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I remember years ago an elder minister preaching, and it was like, you know, if you don't answer the call, if you don't step up, then God will find somebody.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is so true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I just like that's even today still drives me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, God, I don't want you to have to go somewhere else.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, when you speak to me, I want to say yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's not that if you miss it, then God is done with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, there are things that you will miss out that God really wanted to use you to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: That then that's what it's about.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to say that in the beginning of when he when the scripture starts, the whole point was for Abraham to be a blessing to the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: So God wanted to use his people to be a blessing to the other people.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh, chapter 15, this is very famous.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh Luke chapter 15, we have the parable of the coin, the hundred sheep, and the two sons, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, one thing again, I want to remind you the audience of this are Gentiles and Theophilus, a wealthy man.
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  SPEAKER_01: This Luke chapter 15, it's actually a parable about wealthy people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because if you have 10 coins, you're a wealthy person.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was most likely like maybe a solid silver coin, it was not like our coins today, which if you move.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you drop it, you're gonna don't even want to pick it up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, these coins are worth significant amounts of money.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then we have a hundred sheep.
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  SPEAKER_01: Am I saying that word right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Sheep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: And a hundred sheep, that's a lot of money today.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a lot of money today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, yes, it is, and so and it and and it shows again that has a hundred and ninety-nine stay, one is very valuable, and the master goes and finds it, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And then the two sons.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you understand, if you have read uh the the story of the prodigal son, we know that this father was a wealthy father and then divides everything, give it to the kids, and one of them stayed with him, but the other one spent it away, did all the crazy things.
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  SPEAKER_01: But this whole thing is that Jesus has no problem with wealth, but wealth cannot have you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it cannot, it cannot possess uh you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when you when you're reading, it's this parables are great, but let's keep in mind who the audience of this was.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, um, anyways, that's a little bit of uh Luke.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're we're gonna continue it next week.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and we're gonna jump in into the book of Isaiah.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: There's quite a bit that we have to cover today.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but anything that you want to say about Luke before we move on, Pastor?
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't want to meant to cut you if you had something to say.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: This this is the book of Luke.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think what you're talking about, Theophilus, the one that has uh he's writing to.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, I think you've mentioned this that most likely he was the financer of uh this book.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: And and he is a gentile, from what we know.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we don't know 100%, but it's it's pretty evident by some of the signs and historical um uh you know outside uh writings that uh he was probably a gentile.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: And just we we must remember we are to finance the gospel, all of us.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that's what the tithe is about.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um that tithe breaks the stronghold of greed in our life.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: Just doing that breaks the stronghold of greed.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: And then we move beyond that too, like, hey, how much more God are you asking me to do?
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: But that's just a um and so what I love about this book is that here is a guy who was not raised in the um the world of Judaism, who has come to faith in Christ Jesus, and now he is spending huge amounts of money to make sure that we get an accurate account of the gospel of everything, and then we begin to now share it to the world because the cost of uh we've been doing Bible translation and talking about it at North Church, but what the cost it was extraordinary.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: You think about if you say, I'm gonna hire you, Christian, and I want you to write the Bible, think about how much time that takes.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: You have to travel to find the information.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's a lot of travel involved.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of expense.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: There's housing, there's all these things.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: You have to travel with security because traveling with money will people can jump you.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: There's a whole lot here.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's an extraordinarily expensive feat, but people have been investing in the word of God.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe the word of God will not return void.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: Everything else will fade.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: Everything else will disappear, but the word of God remains.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 22:22
  unknown: Okay.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: So good.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: So good.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: So Isaiah, we're gonna cover chapter 37 to 52, but I need to go back a little to chapter 36 because it's kind of where this section uh begins.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: So chapter 36 to chapter 39, uh, it's the same as 2 Kings chapter 18, verse 13 to chapter 20.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: So in your Bible, as you're reading this, I want you to go back and look at 2 Kings chapter 18, verse 13, and on.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's literally word for word, we have in both 2 Kings and in this section of Isaiah.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: Now we don't know uh which one came first, if it was Isaiah or 2 Kings, uh, but it's they're dealing with this same thing, but it's literally like the text is the exact same.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, when I was reading that in a commentary, I did not believe it.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: So I went into my Bible and I'm like, oh, literally, word for word, uh, in both um that text.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: So now what is happening in this section?
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: This section are dealing with King Hezekiah.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: Hezekiah is one of the best kings that ever lived.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um, he didn't end well, but he was a king who found the scrolls, found the law, the Torah, and read it and pretty much reformed the Israelite faith.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: He brought them back into God, all the idols and the the temples that they had that were not the temple.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: He destroyed all of that and and was seeking the Lord.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: His father, terrible, his son, not good either.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: But he was a someone who really did what God wanted him to do because he found the scroll, which tells us this is why we need to be in the word of God.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's impossible to read the Bible and stay the same.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's impossible to read uh these things and just still have an evil spirit or be wicked.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: So, anyways, he um he found the covenant of God, he repents, he cries out, he leads the uh religious reformation in Judah.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and also uh he wants Israel to worship Yahweh alone alone.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: So chapter 31, sorry, chapter one to 31 is a book of Isaiah.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: So Isaiah is broken down into two three different books.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: Uh chapter one through chapter 39.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, the prophet Isaiah was alive.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: So if you look at historically, it's impossible for a human to live 250 years.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: Then the book of Isaiah covers about that much time.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: I I want to say something about Hezekiah just real quick before you move on.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_00: I know that you've kind of already moving past it, but um, Hezekiah did one of the most remarkable feats of engineering in the history of mankind, and that was the tunnels that he built to supply water for the city.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: When they were in a time of uh being sieged, one of the things that was the biggest thing when you would see there would be a siege on a city.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: Many times they would have these big walled cities, and if you go to Jerusalem, uh, which I've been there, um, and you have these big walled cities.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: Well, they're pretty good at defending the city, and you put it's hard to break in, hard to get over.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: But many times when they would siege, they would keep from people getting food and water in.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: And so then that would ultimately that's they'd starve out the people on the inside.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's how they destroy a lot of kingdoms.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's how most kingdoms were overtaken.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: What he they did is they dug way down, got water from a from a spring that flowed, and were actually able to keep water in the city and actually cap it to keep water from going out of the city.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_00: It is a true medical.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I have actually walked through a portion of those tunnels.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: And walking through the and it's really surreal to be able to walk through these dark ton dun dungeons, and you have a headlamp on, walking through, and it's up to your knees and water, some places a little deeper, and knowing that this was built around around 700 BC.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, almost 3,000 years ago.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: And in the engineering feat have had they had two different groups of men, one on one side of the city, the other side, doing these holes all the way, these tunnels until they met.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: Just to do that, it's hard enough today, and with all the um technology we have, but but then that was truly amazing.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, it's just but it's so sad that Hezekiah ended the way he did.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but my goodness, there was amazing feats that through the hand of God he did.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and we're gonna continue to talk about some of this as well with him.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: So uh chapter 36 to 39, this is um Isaiah, chapter 6 and 39, it's supposed to mirror Isaiah chapter 1 through chapter 12.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna explain why that is so 36 to 39 is King Hezekiah, chapter pretty much one through 12 is his father.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I I mentioned before the Saesarean treaty.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: I want to I look in some information because I want to read this uh to you to help you understand a Sausarean treaty because the entire Old Testament is pretty much a treaty that God made with his people.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: Now, this was not a Jewish um uh document, this was the culture, and God used what they knew and understood as the culture that they were living in and made a treaty with them.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: So here's kind of what what a Caesarean treaty is.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, do you have it by chance in there?
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: I do.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, can you read it?
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: A Caesarea treaty was a formal agreement between two unequal parties, a dominant power, the Caesarean, and a subordinate one, the vassal, with emphasis placed on the superior party's role and authority.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_00: One, the Caesarean provided protection and allowed the vassal nation to exist while retaining the right to demand tribute.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_00: The vassal accepted a subordinate status, though not slavery, and honored the Caesarean through tribute and material goods.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_00: These treaties followed a consistent structure.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: They began with a preamble identifying the dominant and subordinate parties, followed by a prologue listing the Caesarean's previous beneficial acts toward the vassal.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: The document then contained stipulations or obligations and concluded with blessings and curses sealed by witnesses.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: The Caesarean Treaty form is historically significant for biblical interpretation.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_00: The Sinai Covenant was formally patterned after this type of agreement with archaeological discoveries from the ancient Hittite Empire, approximately fourteenth century BC, providing the clearest examples.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: And also, many scholars believe the Caesarean treaty form influenced the structure of Deuteronomy.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: The Hebrews adopted this international treaty form to express their covenant relationship with God.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: The theological implications are profound.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: While other small Near Eastern nations depended on Caesarean power for survival, Israel's treaty with God meant it acknowledged no other master.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: Its freedom and strength lay in wholehearted commitment to God alone.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_01: So I hope that makes sense to understand that what the Saesarean treaty and the vassal.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: So Israel is the vassal in the treaty with God, God being the Saussarian.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_01: I love that it says it it's it they were not slaves, they were allowed to live in the land.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: Now, throughout the book of Isaiah, throughout the kings, often God is telling the prophets, go tell the king, do not make a treaty with Egypt, do not make a treaty with the Syria.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_01: Do not what they what they're what is God trying to say is like, if you make a treaty, I have I cannot protect you.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: So what happened is in chapter 7, it says this, and the Lord said to Isaiah, go to meet Ahaz.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is King Hezekiah's father, you and a name that I cannot pronounce, your son, at the end of the conduit, conduit, conduit conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the uh washer's field.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_01: So now this is a specific place that Isaiah is telling, go and meet King Ahaz.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: This is God being the Saesarean, Ahaz being the vassal.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: And he tells them, prophesies, and tells them, Do not make a treaty.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_01: What else King Hazas does?
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_01: Betrays the Saesarean, which is God in this case.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_01: Chapter 36 of Isaiah says this, and the king of Assyria sent uh a name that I cannot pronounce, uh Rabashekind.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, that's actually pretty good uh from Lashes again.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if I pronounced this right to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem with a great army, and he stood by the conduit, yes, the upper pool on the highway of the Washer Field, same place, but now the Saeserian is not Yahweh, because what is Yahweh sent to Isaiah meets Ahaz in this place.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_01: Now we have Hezekiah in the same place.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: Because Hezekiah did not only inherit the kingdom, he also inherited the vassal.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_01: He was a vassal to Assyria.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_01: But what happens is where his father failed to be faithful to Yahweh and betrayed him and start made a treaty with Assyria, Hezekiah actually betrays Assyria and makes another treaty with Yahweh, which is this is why King Hezekiah was one of the best kings, because he brought people back into uh relationship uh with God.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: So uh Hezekiah chapter 37.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: So Hezekiah, if if you're doing the reading with us, you read that Hezekiah is scared.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: Because Assyria is coming, and Assyria has destroyed, I think at this point, 36 of the 37 towns, and uh but cannot touch Jerusalem.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um, cannot touch it because why?
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: Because God is protecting uh them.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so just so you can see how kind of like a treaty, uh uh those treaties worked, but here we have Hezekiah that makes a treaty back with God.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so um in chapter 37, he prays for deliverance.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_01: He actually, this letter that he received from Assyria, he brings it to the feet of the Lord and he says, Deliver us.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: And here is what says Pastor, if you can read Isaiah chapter 37, verse 36.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_00: And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: Verse 37.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_00: Then Shekinah Shechinakrab, I think it said the king of Assyria, departed and returned home and lived in Nineveh, as he was worshipping in the house of Israq, his god, Adminelech and Sahir, his son, struck him down with a sword, and after they escaped to the land of Erat, Erashadon, his son, reigned in his place.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_01: Pastor, I did not ask you because of all the difficult names.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_01: I just realized that there were a bunch of them in there.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um thank you for that embarrassing moment.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_01: But here's what I really want to bring to light because of Hezekiah made a treaty with the Lord, and when he received the letter from Assyria, he takes it pretty much and lays it out to the Lord in one night.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_01: An angel of the Lord stroke down 185,000 people.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_00: One angel.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_01: One.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_01: This is this is why throughout the whole Bible, and why we preached this from our stage and churches preach, trust in the Lord, because this is what the Lord can do in our life.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, you think about that.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: One angel, 185,000, boom, dead.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and every time that an angel would show up for somebody in the old testament and even the new testament, what would the individual do?
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like somebody, like an angel fall down the face.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no, and then what would the angel always say?
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, yeah, and also don't worship me.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm just a messenger of God that's coming to do this thing.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_00: But I always love this too, is when Jesus, you think about what Jesus did on the cross when it says that he could have called a legion of angels.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: One translation says 10,000.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_00: If one angel does this, imagine 10,000 of them.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_00: You would have mercy.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_00: But Jesus is drawn point, he laid down all of his power to become the sacrifice for us.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_00: I just love that.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: So good.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: So uh chapter 39, and I'm gonna go a little bit quickly now on the neck in the in the in the following ones, but chapter 39, pretty much talking about don't trust political alliances.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_01: What did Hezekiah do?
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_01: Here's what his fall happened.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, he shows Babylon all the money of the temple, and Babylon comes and destroyed them, burnt, took everything, and burned everything down.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_01: And in this time, um, Daniel, we know that Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they were eunuchs, and this is what chapter 39 says.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: They took them as eunuchs.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_01: One of these eunuchs is Daniel, and the other three that I just mentioned.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so and this happened a hundred years after Isaiah prophesies this thing.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: So Isaiah 1 through 39, this is Isaiah's lifetime.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, this is 742 BC to 700 BC.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_01: Isaiah 50 to 55 is a post-exile, so 605 to uh 539, and Isaiah 56 to 66.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_01: This happened between 539 BC to 400 uh BC.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_01: We know that Babylonian, Babylon, Babylon come, destroy, burns everything in Jerusalem, and take everyone into captivity.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_01: Jeremiah lives in that exile.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_01: He is part, not Isaiah, Isaiah cannot be alive during this season.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_01: But often people will say, Well, if Isaiah didn't write the entire book of Isaiah, how is that valid?
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_01: As I was doing research and listening to a few people talking about this, it helped me understand that today authorship is very different than the ancient world, especially with plagiarism and many other things, right?
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_01: But in the ancient world, uh, a prophet will have a school of prophets.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_01: Elijah and Elijah have a school of prophets, those people would carry the exact same authority as the prophet, just like we carry the same authority as Jesus.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_01: So the disciples of Isaiah in that school of prophets carry the message of Isaiah with the same authority, so that's where we can understand.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, this is valid.
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so um, chapter 40 on this is a brand new section of the book of Isaiah, and it starts with this towards comfort comfort.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's comfort comfort, oh Jerusalem that says, um, so and it's again we see a different, a different tone.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_01: Because they are in exile, destruction has already happened.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_01: Now God is comforting them and he is restoring them.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_01: So now he doesn't need to discipline them.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_00: They've already been disciplined for a long, long time.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: It is the same way with how we if you think of this in regards to how God deals with his people.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: You think about how you as a parent, okay, you warn your child, you warn your child, don't do this, don't do this.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: Do you find that's throughout the bottom?
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_00: Warn them, warn them, don't do that, don't do that.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_00: And you might they might do it, and you're like, okay, um, next time, you know, and but at some point, okay, no, discipline.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna go time out and you gotta sit there.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_00: You can't you can't touch your can't watch your show that you want to watch, or if you are um a person disciplines with um spankings and they get some type of spanking, they cry, they're upset.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: But and then what do you do as a parent though?
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_00: At some point you comfort them.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, yep.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_00: You comfort them and you let them know that I didn't do this because I wanted to, I did it because I had to.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: You you forced my hand to bring the discipline, but I want you to know I love you, I care for you.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna get through this.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, yep, so good.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, so the great enemy of Jerusalem now is Babylon.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um, there is always an empire taking over an empire.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_01: So Babylon overtakes Isyria, uh uh, I believe is Alexander the Great, the Persian uh overtakes Babylon, and then I believe this is the same, and then Alexander the Great overtake them.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like there's always someone who is Persia, Assyria, Babylon, and then you have Alexander the Great with the and then Rome comes with Alexander the Greeks and then Rome, yeah.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so it's kind of like how that all unfolds throughout the hundreds of years.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_01: So uh chapter 41 talks about Cyrus, uh now somebody who's coming from the east.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, now this is the Persian king uh that destroyed the Babylonian Empire, and now Cyrus is the one that allows the Jews to return to Jerusalem.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um, then chapter 42, it's a servant's song, a servant is known as the messiah.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_01: So you start hearing this um poetic way of how Isaiah is talking about the coming Messiah that is going to come and save Israel.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, Acts chapter 8.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um, this is talking about back of the eunuchs.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so in uh Isaiah chapter 2, we see this in the book of Acts with the Ethiopian eunuch, it's reading this portion of scripture, and it is Philip who comes and interprets this uh because uh the whole thing it's about how Israel is gonna be a blessing to the nations.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_01: So, what does the Philip is sent there to explain this to the eunuch?
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's a picture of God fulfilling some of this uh prophecies, Isaiah chapter 49.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_01: This is the second servant's song.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, the servant uh of the Lord will uh be the true Israel, and he's coming to redeem the true Israel.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_01: What do I mean by the true Israel?
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is a language that you see.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_01: Matthew talks about the one that is gonna come and make the true Israel.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_01: Matthew talks about a prophet like Moses, it's going to come, somebody that that carries that.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so Matthew talks about the exile from the cross, meaning when God, when Jesus is on the cross and he says, My God, my God, why you have forsaken me?
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then the resurrection is the restoration from exile, which is what happened in the old testament.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_01: In this exile, God had to take them, punish them, and now he's bringing them.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_01: We even see that in the life of Jesus.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_01: When Jesus is on the cross, it's like God looking away from his son, it's judgment, it's coming.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_01: But what does God do?
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_01: He resurrect his son, and so he does that in our lives.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so Paul talks about this as well in the in the book of Acts and even in some of his letters talking about the true Israelites.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_01: Who are the true Israelites?
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_01: Are they people who are circumcised or circumcised in the heart?
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_01: This theme, it's grabbed from the book of Isaiah, this true Israel.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so Isaiah chapter 50, there is a courtroom.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna end here.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_01: There is a courtroom in the whole book of Isaiah, there are eight different uh sessions where there is a courtroom.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, the book of Isaiah starts in a courtroom.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but the interesting thing about the book of Isaiah, chapter 50, it's that it's it's called like uh how God divorced uh the lawsuit against Israel.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_01: Now, this is not that God is divorcing Israel.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_01: The language here is that it's it's he's asking a question, like where are where is your divorce papers?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because the Israelites during the exile are wondering, did God divorce us?
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: Like, are we not in this Susarean treaty anymore?
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_01: Did He just got rid of us and left us here?
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_01: And God is asked, He's saying this, like, where is your certificate of divorce?
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have one because I didn't give you one and you cannot create one for yourself.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_01: So it shows that God never, even though in that judgment and all of that, he never divorces his people in God's theocracy.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: See, there are three offices: the prophet, the priest, and the king.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, the role of the prophet is to anoint kings, it's to represent uh represent uh people to God.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then the the priest has four jobs to anoint kings, to hold the nations to the covenant, to stand in the royal courts, meaning in that in that in that um courtroom, a prophet is actually like a lawyer between God and his people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then he provides the legal representation for Yahweh, Yahweh, here on earth.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_01: So the priest's role is to represent uh the people to God, and the king is supposed to be a role model of the Torah, which is why Samuel fell and every king fell.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_01: But guess who didn't fail?
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  SPEAKER_01: One king, the serving king that is coming, one king that fulfilled everything.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus is all of these three things.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus is a he is the prophet, priest, and king, and he did all of those three well like no one else.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_01: We find all these things in the book of Isaiah.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_01: It was it's fascinating.
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_01: There is so much.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't I tried, but I can do everything.
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_00: And that's why it says in Isaiah that we covered this last time was that the government will be on his shoulders.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, yep.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_00: He is the Prince of Peace.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, he is wonderful counselor, he is mighty God, everlasting father.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_00: He alone encompassed all that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well done.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_00: Great job, great job.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do want to clarify for the audience there that I think I I think I misstated a little bit, just make sure on clarity of the uh empires that kind of ruled uh throughout the Hebrew Bible, and just kind of break up and then over into the New Testament, uh, is going to be first Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that they ruled for many, many, many, many, many years as kind of the the main superpower.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_00: That doesn't mean maybe they were all the way over into Asia, but they covered a lot of ground all the way over because there's that they're they're getting you know traffic and marketing and stuff all the way from Asia back over.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_00: And then you had Assyria, uh, who pretty much ruled the world.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_00: Then it was Babylon.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now in there you say, well, how about Solomon?
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_00: He they kind of the Bible talks about well, he was originally that they were very powerful.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but but these others controlled much of the world.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_00: Their whole mission was to dominate the world.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_00: So Babylon, and then after Babylon uh was Persia, and then after Persia was Greece, uh leading up almost right up to uh the New Testament, yeah, and then probably 200 years before it was Rome that took over and would take us all the way through the rest of the Bible.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_00: So good, good, good.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so let's dive into uh Psalms 103 and 104.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's do it.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, just two chapters uh we're gonna cover, but I just want to lay out um these two.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um we've been kind of identifying who are the authors of each one of those.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh Psalms 103, uh the author is David.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_00: Clearly marked, David is the author.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Psalms 104 uh is unknown.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think we have talked about, I think that there was 51.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody out there can, you know, um chat it and find out for sure, or go to Clyde and make sure, but I think there's 51 unknown, and I think it's what I've given before, um authors.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_00: And then, of course, then all the others are assigned to somebody, but all the psalms like you talked about a while ago, uh, with um that was influenced by David, uh, all of the writing.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_01: And he carries that authority that David had.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's hard for us to comprehend that because that's not how we see the things, right?
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but it's kind of like, for example, if I have to tell someone in our staff, if I say Pastor Rodney needs this, very different.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's you're not present, but it's like if you were.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_01: Because I'm I am coming with that authority of like Pastor Rodney asked for this, right?
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_01: This is kind of what's happening here with people that are writing, is they have that authority, even though they're not David.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_00: And go ahead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Psalms uh 103 celebrates what God has done for his people, and Psalms 104 celebrates who God is as creator and sustainer of the universe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm I'm gonna do this.
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm just gonna go through uh Psalms 103, okay?
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so we're going to just um take a little bit of time to read it, think about it.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and I want to break down in Psalms 104, I'll let you kind of, I mean, I'm gonna let the audience uh kind of go and read it for themselves, but I'm gonna kind of break down a little bit of Psalms 103.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna read it, and then if I certain ones, I may say, hey, could you read that one or you know point out what is it saying?
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_00: But Psalms 103, first off, is the first five verses, one through five, uh, really is he is all he's doing is worshiping.
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  SPEAKER_00: This whole thing is not about complaining, it's not about grumbling, it's not about request to God, it's not about God, I'm I'm being beat down.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um it's just simply praise to God.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_00: Psalms 103.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's giving him honor and giving him praise.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_00: And one of the greatest uh dangers of Christian life is not not forgetting God's commands, uh, it's forgetting the blessings of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it really is.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's easy for us to forget.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_00: And anybody who has children can see that.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_00: Didn't we just do that?
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_00: And they soon forget.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_00: But we do too, even as adults.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_00: We forget the blessings of God and the goodness of God.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Psalms 103.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna start with verse one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let all that I am, praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: With my whole heart, I will praise his holy name.
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_00: Let all that I am, praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: May I never forget the good things he does for me.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_00: He forgives all my sins and heals all my disease.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_00: He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies.
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  SPEAKER_00: He fills my life with good things.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_00: My youth is renewed like the eagles.
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  SPEAKER_00: So David commands his soul to worship God, is what he's doing here.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_00: He's telling himself, and you know, sometimes we have to do that.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_00: I have to tell my feelings, no feelings.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what you're gonna do.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, came into worship in the house of God, showing up to read the God's word, whatever it is.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_00: I have to tell myself, no, this is what you're gonna do.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_00: You're going to stop, acknowledge God, worship Him right now.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I want you to read verse from your translation.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what are you reading from?
• 50:31
  SPEAKER_01: ESV, English.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_00: Read verse number two.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_01: Number two says, Bless, oh, bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I really wanted you to read that.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_00: I thought that that translation would probably be more like what I grew up hearing it.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_00: So I memorized it early on in life, slight variation, but more like that than what I read.
• 50:52
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the whole essence of these first five verses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't forget.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_00: All of his goodness and all of his benefits.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, because he leaves, he lists in there, you know, he forgives you of your sins, he heals your diseases, he redeems your life, he crowns you with love and mercy, he satisfies your life with every good thing, he renews your and we have to remind I think one of the things that it's important, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: We have to remind ourselves of those things when those things are not happening in our life.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 51:18
  SPEAKER_01: But is remembering what he has done.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_00: And then verses uh six through ten is about God's character in the foundation, is the foundation of his kingdom.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_00: So God's character is the center of everything.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_00: Look, listen to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord gives righteousness and justice to all who are treated unfairly.
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_00: He revealed his character to Moses and his deeds to the people of Israel.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is compassionate, merciful, slow to get angry, and filled with unfailing love.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_00: He will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_00: He does not punish us for all our sins, and he does not deal harshly with us as we deserve.
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_00: And again, that's about his character.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_00: How that he just continues to be grace filled to us.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_00: And then verse number 11 through verse number 13 is about God's love is greater than our failure in our life.
• 52:18
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, for his unfailing love toward those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_00: He has removed our sins as far from us as East is from the West.
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_00: I've quoted that a lot over the years.
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_00: In verse 13, the Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him.
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_00: Again, he's using some very powerful illustrations that's all about it's connected to the gospel and to Jesus and Jesus' fulfillment on the cross, and that our sins were placed upon him, and that our righteousness is found in him.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_00: And he's just laying down there, all of our failures has been taken care of by Jesus Christ.
• 53:11
  SPEAKER_00: And then he dives into verses number 15 through verses number 18, that our lives are temporary, that God's love is eternal.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_00: Would you read verse 15 through 18?
• 53:23
  SPEAKER_01: He says, As for man, his days are like grass, he flourished like a flower on the field, for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_01: But the stepfat but the steps steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him and his righteousness to children to children's children.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_01: Do you say 18?
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 53:54
  SPEAKER_01: To those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.
• 54:00
  SPEAKER_00: So right there, he's just saying of our frailty and our weakness that we're like grass.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 54:05
  SPEAKER_00: Come and go.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_01: Mine is burnt right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mine too.
• 54:13
  SPEAKER_00: And so, but you but you he gives us a picture of like, hey, he's mindful of us, even though we are not really worth much.
• 54:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 54:21
  SPEAKER_00: As far as like we we fade away.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_00: But yet it speaks to the value that he he gives to us, which is beautiful.
• 54:29
  SPEAKER_01: Because if we are like grass, right, we don't appreciate those things, but it shows God's love that even we're nothing, literally, he sees us as everything to the point that he sent his son to die on a cross.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_01: So we could have eternity with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_00: That is.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_00: And then finally, verses 19 through 22 is that the king rules over all.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 54:54
  SPEAKER_00: And let me read this the Lord has made the heavens his throne, and there he rules over everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord, you angels.
• 55:05
  SPEAKER_00: You mighty ones who carry out his plans.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_00: Listen for each of his commands.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, praise the Lord, you armies of angels who serve him and do his will.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord everything he has created, everything in all his kingdom.
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_00: That all that I am praise the Lord.
• 55:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's interesting.
• 55:28
  SPEAKER_00: We just those the angels worship him.
• 55:31
  SPEAKER_00: God reigns.
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_00: And it's talking about you, armies of angels.
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_00: Armies of angels.
• 55:37
  SPEAKER_00: How many?
• 55:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I just immediately think armies of angels, like thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of angels.
• 55:45
  SPEAKER_01: We just talked about how a one angel killed 185,000 people.
• 55:48
  SPEAKER_01: No, that should humble us.
• 55:50
  SPEAKER_01: It just shows like how big and magnificent God is.
• 55:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 55:56
  SPEAKER_01: This is the type of king that like his power cannot, nothing in this world can stand it.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_00: And then we can't trust him with the basic things of life.
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_00: And trust him with our okay.
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_00: This is good.
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_00: All right, let's go to uh Proverbs chapter 19.
• 56:13
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna wrap up here.
• 56:14
  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs chapter 19.
• 56:15
  SPEAKER_00: Again, what we've been doing with Proverbs is it is um basically not these are kind of principles that we can live by, these are thoughts that we can guide our life.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_00: These are not um meant to be commands, they're meant to give some basic wisdom to life.
• 56:35
  SPEAKER_00: And verse number uh one of chapter 19, I'm just gonna read that one verse.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_00: This is something I wrote two years ago.
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, two years ago I wrote this better to be poor and honest than to be dishonest and a fool.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 56:49
  SPEAKER_00: And so I just wrote be honest.
• 56:50
  SPEAKER_00: Honest people are not only trustworthy, but also happy, they're hopeful and thankful.
• 56:57
  SPEAKER_00: They are at peace with themselves and God because everything about their lives is out in the open.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_00: There are no secret, hidden secrets that secretly torment them.
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_00: So they can enjoy life, not because they have much or little, but because they walk in truth.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_00: So there we go.
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_00: So good.
• 57:19
  SPEAKER_00: So so good.
• 57:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we covered a lot again.
• 57:23
  SPEAKER_00: Luke, Isaiah, Psalms, and Proverbs.
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so very much.
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_00: You have any final thoughts, Pastor Christian?
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_01: Just keep digging in the Word of God, even when sometimes don't things don't make sense.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, the Word of God is meant to be read every day.
• 57:38
  SPEAKER_01: This is our daily bread.
• 57:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like we just literally uh read.
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but the word of God, you said it, it's alive and active, it will never return void.
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_01: Time spent in the word of God is not waste of time.
• 57:51
  SPEAKER_00: It is not, it is not.
• 57:53
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, and thank you for leading the way with your passion for God's word.
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate that.
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's a blessing to me.
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_00: And thank you uh for joining us.
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_00: If you have got to the end of this, do you have a passion for God's word too?
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_00: And keep dabbing in.
• 58:06
  SPEAKER_00: Let's keep growing together until next time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm North Bob.