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Speaker 1: The year was marked by death. King Oziah, the mighty
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ruler of Judah, had fallen, his strength silenced by leprosy,
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his legacy marred by pride. The throne of Israel trembled,
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and the people feared the future. But in the midst
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of political chaos and national uncertainty, another throne was unveiled,
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one not of man but of majesty. Heaven split open,
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and Isaiah saw what no man had seen and lived
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to describe. The Lord High and Exalted, seated on a
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throne that made every earthly crown look like dust. The
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train of his robe filled the temple, not with cloth,
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but with glory. Smoke rose, the foundations trembled, and creatures
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unlike any ever imagined. Seraphim, burning with eternal fire, cried out, Holy, Holy, Holy,
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is the Lord Almighty. The whole earth is full of
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his glory. This was no vision for comfort, This was
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a collision. Isaiah, a nobleman and prophet in training, collapsed
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under the weight of it all. Woe to me, he cried,
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undone by the sheer holiness of the God he thought
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he knew. But this was not just a moment of terror.
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It was a moment of transformation. What happens when a
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man sees the holy What happens when the throne room
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of God invades the throne room of Man. Isaiah didn't
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just witness glory, he was consumed by it, and from
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the ashes of his brokenness came a message that would
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echo through millennia. This is not just a story. This
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is a reckoning, and if you let it, it will
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reshape the way you see Heaven, Earth and your place
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between them. By the end of this journey, you will
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see God not just as a figure of reverence, but
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as the consuming fire that purifies and transforms. You'll feel
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the weight of his holiness and the power of his grace,
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and your understanding of his glory will never be the
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same again. Welcome to Deep Bible Stories, where Bible stories
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are brought to life like never before. He wasn't just
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a prophet, He was a man of the palace. Isiah,
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son of Amoz, was no stranger to royalty. Born into
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a noble family, he walked the marble courts of Jerusalem
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with the confidence of a man who knew the elite,
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dined with kings and spoke with priests. He understood power
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not from a distance but from within its inner circle.
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His words would eventually confront kings like ahaz and Hezekiah,
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But before he ever challenged them, he understood them. Isaiah
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knew the language of courts, the fear of foreign alliances,
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the weight of policy decisions that shaped a nation. He
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wasn't just preaching from a distance. He was in the
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very heart of Judah's political and spiritual unraveling. And it
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was into that unraveling that God called him, not with
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a whisper, but with a wild fire. In the year
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King Uziah died, Isaiah stepped into the temple, as he
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had likely done many times before, But this time heaven
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broke in a vision so fierce, so holy, so unbearable,
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crushed him to the ground. He saw the Lord seated
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on a throne, surrounded by burning seraphim, their cries shaking
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the temple itself. Isaiah didn't rejoice. He collapsed. Woe to me,
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he groaned, I am ruined. Why because no amount of
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noble birth, no family pedigree, no access to royalty could
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prepare him for this, the unfiltered holiness of God. And
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yet from that place of ruin came his call. As
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seraph flew to him with a coal from the altar
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fire that should have consumed, but instead it purified. Your
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guilt is taken away. The declared that fire didn't destroy him,
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it forged him. Isiah rose not just forgiven, but commissioned.
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When the voice of the Lord rang out, whom shall
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I send? Isaiah's response wasn't calculated or cautious. It was immediate, desperate, Holy,
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here am I send me? But being sent wasn't a triumph.
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It was a burden. God told him from the beginning.
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The people will hear, but not understand. They will see
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but refuse to perceive. His message would fall like rain
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on hardened ground. He would speak to kings who feared
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enemies more than they feared God. He would watch his
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nation teeter toward destruction, not because God was silent, but
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because they refused to listen, And still he kept speaking.
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Isiah lived through the reigns of Usaiah, Jotham, Ahaze, and Hezekiah,
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four kings, each more complex than the last. He stood
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before leaders drunk on alliances with Egypt and Assyria. He
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warned of judgment of exile of Babylon, but he also
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saw beyond it visions of a child born a servant
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pierced a future redeemed. His ministry spanned decades, but his
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message spanned eternity. He wasn't just a prophet of judgment.
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He was a poet of restoration. He saw a world
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torn by rebellion and a God who refused to give
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up on it. He wept over cities that mocked holiness.
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He sang of a Messiah who would suffer. He described
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a kingdom not built by human hands, but by the
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arm of the Lord himself. This is the man behind
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the message, a prophet caught between pallaces and altars, between
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rebellion and redemption, a man who saw too much, wept
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too deeply, and yet kept proclaiming the word of the Lord,
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not because it was easy, but because he had seen
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the fire and he could not turn back. And now
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his voice rises through the centuries, calling us to the
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same question that met him in the throne room. When
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Heaven asks who will go, what will your answer be?
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The room shook not from an earthquake, but from a voice. Holy, Holy, Holy,
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is the Lord Almighty. The whole earth is full of
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his glory. These weren't mere words, They were declarations that
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thundered from the mouths of seraphim, beings too radiant for
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the eye, yet veiling their faces in reverence. Isiah didn't
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stumble into a poetic metaphor. He was seized by the raw,
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unveiled reality of God's holiness. And in that moment, everything
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he thought he knew about himself, about his people, about God,
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God was shattered and remade. We often speak a holiness
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as moral purity, as separation from sin, and that's true,
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but Isaiah saw something deeper, something terrifying and magnetic. This
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holiness wasn't just clean, It was consuming. It didn't just
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stand apart. It overwhelmed. God's holiness in Isaiah six is
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not a trait. It is a force. It is the
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reason the foundations trembled. It is the reason the temple
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filled with smoke. It is the reason Isaiah cried out,
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not in praise but in panic, woe to me, I
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am undone. Because to see holiness is to see clearly.
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And when Isaiah saw God clearly, he saw himself truthfully,
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unclean lips, unclean nation, unclean soul. That's what holiness does.
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It exposes. It doesn't flatter, it doesn't negotiate, It burns
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through every pretense and strips us down to the bone.
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And yet in that terrifying clarity, something unexpected happens. Holiness
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doesn't crush him, It cleanses him. A coal from the altar,
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still smoking with Heaven's fire, touches his lips, and the
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angel speaks, Your guilt is taken away, Your sin is
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atoned for. What kind of God is this? A God
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whose very presence could melt stone yet chooses mercy. A
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God who doesn't lower his standards but raises sinners up
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to meet them. This is holiness not just as judgment,
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but as grace, not as distance but as invitation. It
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is love too fierce to leave us unclean. It is
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justice that purifies rather than destroys. And here lies the
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heart of Isaiah's message and the reason it still grips
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us thousands of years later. The most important thing about
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God is not his power, though he is omnipotent, not
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his knowledge, though he is infinite in wisdom. It is
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his holiness that is what the angels repeat, not once,
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not twice, but three times. Not love love, love, not mighty, mighty, mighty,
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but holy, holy, Holy. It is the only attribute elevated
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to the third degree. It is the sum of all
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his perfections. It is the blazing center of his being.
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This revelation shattered Isaiah, and then it sent him. Because
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when you've stood in the throne room, when you've seen
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the God who is like no other, you don't go
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back to business as usual. You go out bearing fire
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in your bones. So now we ask have we encountered
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this holiness? Or have we settled for a god who
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is safe, tame and manageable. Isaiah didn't meet a comfortable deity.
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He met the God whose holiness redefined everything. And when
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we see him that way, we cannot remain unchanged. This
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is the fire at the center of the universe. This
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is the holiness that still speaks. Will we listen? Will
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we bow? Or will we like Isiah's generation here and
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yet not understand? Because once you've heard, Holy, Holy, Holy,
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the only question left is will you let it remake you?
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The prophet stood in the streets of Jerusalem and saw
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what no one wanted to name. A nation gone mad.
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Their rituals continued, their incense still burned, their choirs still
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sang psalms, and their priests still lit candles. But God
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wasn't listening. The heavens were silent, and the temple, once
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the meeting place of glory, had become a stage for performance.
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Isiah's voice thundered not against pagans or outsiders, but against
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the people of God who had learned how to look
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holy while their hearts rotted in rebellion. Hear me, you, heavens,
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listen earth, Isiah cried, calling creation itself as witness. The
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ox knows its master, the donkey its owner's manger. But
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Israel does not know. My people do not understand Isaiah
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one two three. The indictment was cosmic. Animals showed more
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loyalty than the covenant people. They had turned religion into ritual,
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justice into bribery, and trust in God into treaties with
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foreign kings. God's words through Isaiah were blistering. Stop bringing
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meaningless offerings. Your incense is detestable to me. I cannot
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bear your worthless assemblies Isaiah one thirteen. He wasn't just annoyed,
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he was nauseated. The very acts meant to honor him
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had become mockery. Why because they divorced worship from justice.
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While they sang praises in the sanctuary, they crushed the
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poor in the streets. While they raised holy hands, their
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fingers were stained with blood. Isiah paints a picture of
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Judah as a wounded body, beaten from head to foot,
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festering with saws, but still refusing the medicine of repentance.
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Why do you persist in rebellion. Your whole head is injured,
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your whole heart afflicted Isiah one five. Sin wasn't just rebellion,
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it was insanity. They kept drinking poison and wondered why
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they were dying. And yet their madness was strategic. They
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didn't just forget God, they replaced him. They placed their
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trust in Egypt, in Assyria, in idols carved by their
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own hands. Isiah saw it all, the bribes, the lies,
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the economic corruption, the political manipulation masquerading as wisdom. Woe
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to those who call evil good and good evil, he
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declaredd who put darkness for light and light for darkness
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Isaiah five twenty. The nation had lost its moral compass,
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not by accident, but by design. They didn't just fall,
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they dove. This is why Isaiah is so fierce, because
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he isn't just condemning behavior, He's exposing betrayal. They knew
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the Covenant. They knew the commandments, they had seen the
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hand of God. Deliver them from Egypt, guide them through
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the wilderness, plant them in the promised Land. And still
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they chose lesser gods. But here is the tragedy, worse
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than the sin, worse than the injustice, worse than the alliances.
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It is this God had gone silent Isaiah one fifteen.
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Chills the soul. When you spread out your hands in prayer,
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I hide my eyes from you. Even when you offer
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many prayers, I'm not listening. That is the judgment. Not
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fire from the sky, not enemy invasion, but divine silence.
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The God who once dwelled among them, now looked away.
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And yet even here, even now, a flicker of mercy remained.
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Come now, let us settle the matter, God pleads astonishingly
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tender after all this betrayal, though your sins are like scarlet,
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they shall be as white as snow Isaiah one eighteen.
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Repentance was still on the table, forgiveness was still in reach.
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But the choice was theirs, obedience and restoration or rebellion
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and ruin. Isaiah's words are not history. They are a mirror.
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Because our altars may not burn incense, but our lives
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often burn with idols. We trust in influence, we mask
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in justice. We praise with our lips while ignoring the
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cries of the oppressed. And we think God is pleased.
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But Isaiah reminds us he is not fooled. So where
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do we stand? Are we a people with clean hands
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and pure hearts? Or have we too learned to sing
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in church while we sin in secret? The sins of
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Judah are not locked in the past. They echo still,
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and the silence of God that should terrify us. If
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Isaiah were to walk our streets to day, would his
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message be any different? Or would he cry again, woe
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to the rebellious nation loaded with guilt, who have forsaken
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the Lord? And if so, are we ready to listen? Now?
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The smoke had not yet cleared, and already the promise
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began to whisper through the rubble. Isiah had thundered judgment,
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had wept over the madness of his people, had seen
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the heavens grow silent. But even then, even in the ruin,
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God was not done, Because buried beneath the ashes, hidden
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under the weight of krupt and exile, there remains something
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The fire could not destroy a remnant. This is the
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forgotten doctrine of Isiah, the remnant theology that threads its
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way through his scroll like a scar of mercy. In
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Isaiah six, when the prophet receives his call, God tells
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him the people will hear but not understand, will see
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but not perceive. Their hearts are dull, their ears closed.
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Judgment is inevitable, cities will lie, waste, fields will become deserts.
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But then a strange phrase, as a terebinth or oak
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leaves a stump when it is cut down, so the
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holy seed will be the stump in the land Isaiah
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six thirteen. The tree would fall, but the stump would live.
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The remnant would remain. God's judgment is never without purpose,
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and it is never without a future. He tears down
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to build up. He purifies, not to destroy, but to preserve.
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The remnant are those who survive the fire, not because
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they are stronger, but because they are surrendered. They are
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not the elite, the proud, the powerful. They are the broken,
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the humbled, the few who bow low and whisper, here
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I am cleanse me. In Isaiah's time, this remnant would
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be those who didn't sell their souls to Assyria or Egypt.
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Those who wept for Zion instead of exploiting her. Those
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who waited prayed, repented even as their nation crumbled. Isaiah
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ten twenty to twenty two says, in that day, the
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remnant of Israel will no longer rely on him who
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struck them down, but will truly rely on the Lord,
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the Holy One of Israel. A remnant will return. This
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is not passive survival. This is radical trust. Because God
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doesn't just rescue remnants, he rebuilds with them. The remnant
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isn't God's back up plan. It is his pattern again
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and again in scripture. When the many fall, the few
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are called to rise. Noah in the flood, Joseph in Egypt,
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Gideon with three hundred, Daniel in Babylon, and now Isaiah's
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remnant in the shadow of exile. Why does this matter?
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Because some of you are looking at your world and
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asking has it all burned too far? Some of you
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are watching your churches drift, your communities compromise, your loved
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ones grow cold, and you wonder is there anything left
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to stand on? Yes, the stump still smokes, the holy
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seed still pulses underground, the remnant will rise, and maybe,
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just maybe you are part of it. The remnant of
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those who don't look like success. They may be scattered, weary, overlooked,
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but they are marked not by position but by hunger,
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not by fame, but by faithfulness. They are the ones
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who tremble at His word, who don't trade truth for comfort,
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who still long for holiness in a world drowning in compromise.
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Isaiah doesn't just speak to his generation, he speaks to
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ours because the doctrine of the remnant is not about nostalgia.
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It's about the future. It's about God's unstoppable plan to
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redeem the earth, not through the majority, but through the surrendered.
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So if you feel alone, take heart, If you feel small,
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stand tall. You may be part of the few through
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whom God will restore the many. We have ebooks available
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Join thousands of believers who are using these resources to
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grow deeper in their faith. Judgment has fallen, but hope
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still speaks, and its voice is found in the fire
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tested altar, c lens, spirit filled remnant of God. Will
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you be among them? The King was trembling, not in
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awe of God, but in fear of men. AHA's ruler
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of Judah, had heard the rumors armies were advancing alliances,
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forming war on the horizon. His heart, Scripture says, was
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shaken as the trees of the forest are shaken by
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the wind Isiah seven to two. And into this moment
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of panic and political scheming, God sent Isiah not with
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military strategy, but with a prophecy that would echo through eternity.
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He stood before the king, calm in the face of chaos,
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and spoke the words, ask the Lord your God for
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a sign. But ahaz arrogant in unbelief, refused. He masked
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his rebellion as piety, saying I will not ask. I
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will not put the Lord to the test. God, undeterred
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by royal resistance, gave the sign anyway, and it was
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not what anyone expected. Behold, the Virgin shall conceive and
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bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel Isaiah
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seven fourteen. Immanuel, God with us. The words fell like
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thunder in a time of war, but their full meaning
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wouldn't be felt for centuries. This prophecy was layered like
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stone upon stone, part immediate, part eternal. On one level,
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Isaiah was speaking to his own generation. A child would
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be born as a symbol of God's presence among them,
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a reminder that though judgment was near, abandonment was not.
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But there was more, so, much more, because Isaiah wasn't
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just foretelling a birth, he was unveiling a mystery. In
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chapter nine, the child returns, and this time the titles
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expand beyond comprehension. Wonderful counselor Mighty God, ever lasting Father,
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Prince of peace. This is no ordinary sun. This is
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deity wrapped in flesh. This is the infinite, borne into
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the finite. This is a child who will carry the
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government on his shoulders, whose peace will never end, who
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will sit on David's throne with justice and righteousness forever.
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But even here the paradox deepens, because between chapter seven
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sign and chapter nine's glory, Isaiah inserts the shadows of
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chapter eight. Before the light shines, darkness must fall, as
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Syria will invade, The land will groan, the people will
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see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom Isaiah eight
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twenty two. It is as if God weaves the promise
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into the pain, threading mercy through the tapestry of judgment.
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Why because this is how God moves, not through bypassing brokenness,
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but by entering into it. Immanuel doesn't mean God will
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fix everything quickly. It means God will be with you
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in the midst of everything. It means a baby born
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in the middle of oppression, a light dawning in Galilee
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of all places. It means hope not hovering above the world,
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but bleeding into its wounds. And make no mistake, Isaiah's
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words are not poetic abstraction. They are prophetic fire. He
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saw what few dared imagine, a child who would not
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only symbolize God's presence but embody it, a son who
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would not just rule but redeem, and a kingdom that
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would not just be restored but remade. This is why Matthew,
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centuries later will reach back to Isaiah seven and say,
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this is that Jesus, born of a virgin, is not
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merely fulfilling Isaiah's words. He is the full revelation of them.
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The shadow of Immanuel has become the substance. But what
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do we do with this? Now? We live in a
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world not unlike a hazis, rulers, trembling nations, plotting darkness, spreading,
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and still the sign remains. A child has been born,
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not to entertain, not to decorate nativity scenes, but to rule,
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to suffer, to save. Isaiah nine to two declares the
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people walking in darkness have seen a great light. That
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light has come. It has a name, it has a face,
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and it still shines through the pages of Isaiah. For
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those who dare to believe in the impossible, a virgin
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will conceive, a child will reign, God will walk among us.
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The question is not whether the sign has been given.
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The question is have we seen it? The thrones of
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men rise like mountains, tall, immovable, drenched in gold and blood. Babylon, Assyria, Egypt,
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nations that swaggered across the ancient world, speaking in conquest,
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marching in pride, promising peace while sowing fear. Their kings
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wore crowns, forged in violence, and their empires declared themselves eternal.
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But Isaiah saw what they could not. Every empire is
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dust in the hands of the Lord, and no nation,
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no matter how powerful, escapes the gaze or the judgment
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of the Holy One of Israel, God does not fear
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the strong. He uses them. Isiah's oracles against the nations,
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beginning in chapters thirteen through twenty three, form a chorus
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of divine confrontation. Each nation, each empire is named, each
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is stripped of its illusions, and through it all a
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sobering truth is revealed. God raises kingdoms not to bless
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their pride, but to fulfill his purpose, and when they've
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served his will, he breaks them like clay in the
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potter's hand. Assyria was the rod of God's anger, the
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instrument of discipline against rebellious Israel. Woe to Assyria, God
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says in Isaiah, en the rod of my anger, in
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whose hand is the club of my wrath. But then
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the tone shifts, for though Assyria was used by God,
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she did not act in obedience. Her heart was full
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of boast. Her king said, by the strength of my hand,
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I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I
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have understanding. The axe boasted against the hand that swung it,
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and so God promised to shatter the very tool he
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had used Babylon. Isiah devotes an entire chapter to its
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downfall before it even rose to full power. See the
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day of the Lord is coming, he prophesies in Isaiah thirteen.
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A cruel day with wrath and fierce anger. Babylon, the
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jewel of kingdoms, the pride of the Chaldeans would become
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like Sodom and Gomorrah. Its towers would fall, its temples
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would be haunted by owls. The eternal Empire would become
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a wilderness of ghosts. These are not just ancient curses,
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they are theological revelations. Isiah pulls back the curtain on
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history and shows us the true stage. God rules the nations,
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and he humbles them all. There is no king too mighty,
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no army too vast, no culture to advance to escape
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the justice of God. Why because pride is the poison
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of empires. It is the disease of nations who forget
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who gave them breath. And Isiah reveals that God opposes
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the proud, not just individually but nationally. When a people
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exalt themselves, oppress the weak, defy righteousness, and claim to
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be their own savior, they sign their own sentence. And
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yet even in judgment there is a strange hope, For
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in the fall of these empires, God reveals not only
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his justice, but his sovereignty. He is not reacting to
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the world's chaos. He is ruling over it. Isaiah fourteen
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shows a fallen Babylon, mocked by the nations it once crushed.
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The tyrant is dead, the earth is at peace, and
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a whisper begins to rise. How you have fallen from
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heaven morning star, sun of the dawn Isaiah fourteen twelve.
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Pride brought them to the heavens, But only humility can
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stand before God. This is the gospel hidden in the
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fall of nations. God is the only king who cannot
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be overthrown. His justice is not delayed, It is patient.
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It waits, giving time for repentance, but it does not sleep.
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So what does this mean for us? We may not
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rule empires, but we build our own kingdoms, careers, platforms, reputations, legacies.
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We trust in the strength of our own hands. We
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boast in our wisdom, we raise flags of self sufficiency,
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and all the while, Isaiah whispers from the ancient dust,
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Beware the pride that forgets God, Beware the strength that
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mocks its maker. Because the same God who used as Syria,
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who toppled Babylon, who silenced Egypt, still watches the nations,
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still weighs kings on his scales, still humbles the proud
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and exalts the lowly. Isaiah's oracles are not just history,
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They are prophecy. For every generation intoxicated with power, every
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nation must kneel, every empire must fall. Only one kingdom
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stands forever. Will we learn from the ruins, or will
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we build our own only to watch them burn. He
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came without fanfare, no chariots, no throne, no trumpet to
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announce his arrival. Isiah says he grew up like a
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tender shoot, like a root out of dry ground, fragile, overlooked,
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unimpressive to the eye. He had no beauty or majesty
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to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that
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we should desire him, Isaiah fifty three, verse two. And
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yet this was the one. This was the servant, not
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the warrior Israel expected, not the king the nations feared,
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but a man acquainted with grief, familiar with sorrow, despised
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and rejected, the Messiah, bruised before crowned, the redeemer, wounded
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before enthroned. Isiah saw him before Bethlehem. He saw him
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before Calvary, and what he saw shook Heaven itself. Surely
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he took up our pain and bore our suffering. The
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Hebrew word used implies not just sympathy, but substitution. He
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didn't just walk beside our sorrow. He carried it. He
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wore it like skin. Every lash he endured wasn't random violence,
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It was our violence. Every bruise wasn't in justice. It
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was justice falling on him instead of us. And yet
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we missed it. We considered him punished by God, stricken
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by him, and afflicted. To our eyes, he looked cursed
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to Heaven's eyes, he was the lamb. Isiah goes deeper still.
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He was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for
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our iniquities Verse five. These are not poetic metaphors, They
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are prophetic premonitions. Long before the Romans invented crucifixion, Isaiah
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saw nails. He saw the weight of sin drive spikes
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through innocence. He saw blood that cleanses, bruises that heal,
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wounds that speak a better word than our guilt. Ever,
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could we allies the divine contradiction. The one with all
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power chooses to be powerless. The one who formed the
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universe allows his body to be broken by it. This
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is the shock of Isaiah fifty three. Not just that
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the servant suffers, but that God himself is willing to
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be wounded. Why because justice had to be satisfied, but
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Love refused to let us die. And so the cross
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becomes the altar, the servant becomes the sacrifice, and the
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curse becomes the crown. Isaiah says, the punishment that brought
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us peace was on him, and by his wounds we
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are healed, not by his miracles, not by his teachings.
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By his wounds, those torn hands still hold the keys
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to freedom. We, like sheep, had gone astray, each turned
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to our own way. But the Lord laid on him
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the iniques of us all. And when he was led
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like a lamb to the slaughter, he did not protest.
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He opened not his mouth. Heaven's king went willingly to
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the slaughter house of man. Yet even in death, the
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plan did not collapse. It was the Lord's will to
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crush him and cause him to suffer, And the will
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of the Lord will prosper in his hand. He would
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not stay buried, He would see his offspring, he would
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prolong his days. Isiah saw resurrection centuries before it happened.
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The crushed servant would become the reigning king. And now
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he intercedes for us, not just a distant savior, but
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an advocate, not just a martyr, but a mediator. He
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bore our sins then, and he prays for us. Now.
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The suffering servant is not just a doctrine. He is
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the doorway. There is no gospel without Isaiah fifty three.
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There is no cross without these words. This is the
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chapter that Jewish synagogues often skip, the chapter that early
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Christians memorized in secret, the chapter that has brought hardened
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skeptics to their knees because it reads like an eye
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witness account written seven hundred years in advance. Who is
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this man? He kis Jesus and Isaiah saw him. So
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now the question is not did he suffer? The question
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is will you let his suffering heal you? Will you
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let his silence in trials speak louder than your guilt?
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Will you fall at the feet of the one who
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was pierced so you could rise because this is the
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servant and not weak, not defeated, but victorious through wounds.
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He walked into the synagogue in Nazareth, the same dusty
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village where he had grown up, where his hands had
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shaped wood and stone where the people knew his name,
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but not his mission. He stood up, took the scroll
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of Isaiah, unrolled it with trembling hands, and found the place.
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Not by accident, not at random. He found the place,
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and he read, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
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because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to
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the poor. He has sent me to bind up the
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broken hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives, and recovery
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of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,
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to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Then he
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sat down silence, every eye fixed on him, and he said,
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to day this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing Luke
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four twenty one. With those words, the Gospel of Jesus
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Christ was publicly inaugurated, and it began with Isaiah, long
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before Bethlehem, before Calvary, before Pentecost. There was Isaiah sixty one,
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a prophecy so alive with mercy, so loaded with deliverance
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that Jesus himself used it to define his entire mission,
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and Isiah wrote its centuries before Christ breathed his first
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earthly breath. Isiah was not guessing. He was seeing, not
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just a poetic oracle, but a blueprint. The spirit of
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the Lord would rest upon one who was sent not
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with wrath but with restoration, not with vengeance, but with vision.
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He would come to the poor, not the economically disadvantaged only,
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but the spiritually bankrupt, the soul starved, the ones who
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knew they could not save themselves. He would come to
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the brokenhearted, not to analyze their pain, but to bind it,
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not to scold their wounds, but to carry them. He
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would come to the captives, not just those behind physical bars,
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but those bound in shame, addiction, fear, and sin. Isaiah's
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gospel is not soft. It is wholly fire for a
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dying world. To proclaim the year of the Lord's Favor
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is not a feel good message. It is a declaration
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of war against darkness, against despair, against everything that breaks
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the human soul. And yet Jesus stops mid sentence. He
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reads only part of Isaiah sixty one. He ends with
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to proclaim the year of the Lord's Favor, but does
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not go on to finish the line and the day
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of vengeance of our God. Why because that part is
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still to come. The first coming was for mercy, the
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second will be for justice. Isaiah's vision holds both in
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perfect balance, grace offered now, judgment reserved for later. But
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both are real, both are holy, both are anchored in
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the mission of the Messiah. Isaiah goes further to give
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them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil
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of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead
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of a spirit of despair. This is not motivational language.
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This is resurrection power. This is the great exchange, where
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God takes the worst of us and gives us the
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best of him. He doesn't just forgive, he rebuilds. He
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doesn't just heal, He anoints, and the result they will
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be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord
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for the display of his splendor. This is the fruit
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of the Gospel, not just rescued individuals, but rooted saints.
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People who once wept now rise, People once shattered now
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stand as trees. Not for their own glory, but for
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his Jesus didn't come to improve lives. He came to
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recreate them. Isiah saw it, Jesus fulfilled it, and we
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now live inside of it. This is the Gospel according
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to Isaiah. It is not a New Testament. After thought
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It is an Old Testament explosion hidden in plain sight,
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a servant with the spirit, the Savior who binds wounds,
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a king who sets captives free, a God who exchanges
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ashes for beauty. Isaiah sixty one is not just prophecy.
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It's an open door. So the question is will you
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step into it? Will you let him take your ashes?
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Will you trade your mourning for his joy? Because the
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spirit of the Lord is still upon him, and his
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gospel is still breaking chains even now. The prophet had
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fire in his mouth, but tears in his eyes. Isaiah,
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the mighty Voice of God, stood not only as a preacher,
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but as a watchman placed on the walls of a
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city that refused to listen. His cries were not just warnings,
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they were wails. He wasn't detached, he wasn't cold. He
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was devastated because the people he loved would not return.
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The chosen Ones would not choose God. They had ears,
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but they refused to hear eyes, but they shut them tight.
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And so as judgment drew near like a storm over
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the horizon, Isaiah stood between heaven and a hardened people,
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his voice trembling with holy grief. In Isaiah six, the
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very day of his calling, God had told him the
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bitter truth, Go and tell this people, be ever hearing
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but never understanding, be ever seeing but never perceiving. His
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mission wasn't to lead a revival. It was to be
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a witness against rebellion. His words would be seeds that
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landed on concrete. His prophecies would ring through empty hearts.
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The temple might be full, but the people were deaf
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to glory, blind to holiness, numb to mercy. Isaiah lamented
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like a man watching a house burn, while the family
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inside sang songs of peace. In chapter twenty two, he
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cries out over Jerusalem, you looked in that day to
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the weapons in the palace of the forest, but you
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did not look to the one who made it, or
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have regard for the one who planned it long ago.
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They made alliances with Egypt. They fortified walls, they stacked
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their arsenals, but they did not pray, They did not repent,
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They did not seek the Lord. They were preparing for war,
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but not for judgment. Isaiah saw it all. He watched
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as leaders grew drunk on power, as priests soothed people
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with lies, as justice was trampled in the courts, and
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the orphans left voiceless in the streets. He saw worship
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reduced to noise, and truth traded for gain, and he wept. Therefore,
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I will weep bitterly, he said, Do not try to
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console me over the destruction of my people. Isaiah twenty
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two four. This was not the lament of weakness. It
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was the lament of holiness, a broken heart formed in
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the furnace of divine love. Because Isaiah was not just
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a mouth. He was a man, and his love for
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his people ran deep, even when they betrayed the very
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God who formed them. He cried. They are a rebellious people,
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deceitful children, unwilling to listen to the Lord's instruction. They
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say to the seers, see no more visions, and to
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the prophets, give us no more visions of what is
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right Isiah thirty nine O. Ten. They wanted comfort, not truth,
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inspiration not conviction. They were deaf by choice, blind by pride,
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And yet Isiah did not stop speaking. That's the agony
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of the prophetic call. You keep proclaiming even when the
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walls won't echo. You keep weeping, even when the people laugh,
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You keep standing, even when the nation collapses. Because God's
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heart beats in your bones, and his love burns too
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deep to be silenced. Isiah wasn't just lamenting a nation.
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He was lamenting what could have been. He had seen
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the glory, he had tasted the fire. He knew what
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was possible. But Israel chose idols, they chose treaties, They
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chose self over surrender. And so he wailed, not in
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rage but in sorrow, not in cynicism, but in love.
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Can you hear his cry even now? Because his words
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are not ancient dust, they're thunder. For to day we
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too have ears, but often refuse to hear, eyes but
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refuse to see. We build our walls, our empires, our doctrines,
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and forget the one who formed us. We demand soft
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words when God is calling us to repentance. So the
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watchman still wails even now. Isiah stands on the tower
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of Scripture, his voice echoing through centuries, calling a deaf
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and blind people to wake up, to return to sea.
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Will we or will we? Two sing songs in burning houses,
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while the voice of God cries from the gate, return
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to me, and I will heal you. The smoke of
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judgment had barely lifted and already, Isaiah began to speak
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of something impossible, not repair, but rebirth. Not just the
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rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls or the return from exile, but
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something far greater. See I will create new heavens and
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a new Earth Isaiah sixty five seventeen. The prophet who
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had stood in the ashes, who had watched cities burn
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and kingdoms fall, now lifted his eyes and saw eternity unfolding.
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The same God who shattered idols and silenced empires was
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now speaking again. But this time his voice didn't thunder
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with wrath. It sang promise. Isaiah, the watchman and weeping poet,
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became the prophet of final things, and what he saw
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was not the end of a story. It was the
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beginning of a world remade. The former things will not
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be remembered, nor will they come to mind. God wasn't
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just erasing pain, He was recreating time. In Isaiah's final chapters,
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we are pulled beyond history, beyond exile, beyond the failures
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of Judah and the rise of Babylon. We are taken
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to a realm where death loses its grip, where infants
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never die, where the sound of weeping is no longer
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heard a realm, not of broken promises but fulfilled ones.
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The prophets saw a Jerusalem transformed, not just politically or socially,
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but spiritually cosmically. They will build houses and dwell in them.
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They will plant vs and eat their fruit. Peace not
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as a fleeting treaty, but as the new law of creation.
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Harmony between predator and prey. The wolf and the lamb
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will feed together. Isaiah's words were not metaphor, they were
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future history. He was watching the dawn of the Kingdom
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of God, but not every one would enter it. Isiah's
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final vision is not naive, It is not universalist. The
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God who comforts also confronts all mankind will come and
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bow down before me, he says in Isiah sixty six
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twenty three. But just one verse later, and they will
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go out and look on the dead bodies of those
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who rebelled against me. Their worm will not die, nor
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will their fire be quenched. The prophet who spoke of
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heaven did not shy away from hell. Glory and judgment
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stand side by side, because the Holy One remains wholly
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to the end, and still he invites. This is the
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one I esteem, He who is humble and contrite in spirit,
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and trembles at my word Isaiah sixty six colun Ii.
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Not the proud, not the strong, not the ones with
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perfect theology or polish'd worship, but the ones who tremble,
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the ones who mourn their sin, the ones who still
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believe that God speaks and that his word still burns
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with truth. Isaiah ends not with a sigh, but with
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a summons. Heaven is not a far off idea. It's
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the destination of the faithful. And more than that, it
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is a declaration that God finishes what he begins. Isaiah
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saw the virgin birth, he saw the crucified servant, he
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saw the Gospel, and now he sees the final chapter.
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A world restored, a people renewed, a king reigning forever.
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John in the Book of Revelation will echo Isiah's words,
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nearly verbate him. He too will say, then, I saw
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a new Heaven and a new Earth. He too will
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see Jerusalem descending. But Isaiah saw it first, not with
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telescopes or visions of space, but through the lens of holiness,
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a world remade by the God who once said let
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there be, and who now says, behold, I make all
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things new. This isn't poetry, this is prophecy, This isn't phantasy.
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This is the future. So the question Isaiah presses on
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us at the end of his scroll is simple and eternal.
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Will you be part of this world that is coming?
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Will you tremble now so you can stand then? Will
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you yield now so you can reign later? Because this
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prophet did not just see his own time, he saw yours.
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And the door to the new creation is still open
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for now. He said yes before he knew what it
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would cost. Here, am I send me? That cry still
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rings from the mouth of a trembling man in a
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trembling temple, where the glory of the Lord cracked open
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the sky and the fire of holiness touched human lips.
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Isaiah was not called because he was ready. He was
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called because he was wrecked. And in that wreckage, in
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that place where sin met grace and shame met cleansing,
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he was made useful. But he wasn't sent to success.
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He was sent to silence. God told him up front,
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they will see but not perceive, they will hear but
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not understand. And still he went through decades of kings
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and crises, through war, rebellion, exile, and heart break. Through
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prophecies of hope and oracles of doom, he carried the
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burden of heaven in a world that wanted anything. But
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this is the story of Isaiah, a man who saw
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too much, a man who spoke anyway, and a man
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who loved a people who would not love God back.
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A man who stood in the whirl wind of judgment
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and the stillness of redemption. A man whose words reached
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past time itself and painted the portrait of a Messiah
50:22
before Bethlehem ever saw a star. But it's not just
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Isaiah's story. It's our story, because we too live in
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days where people have ears but choose not to hear,
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eyes but choose not to see. We too live in
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nations drunk on pride, cultures seduced by idols, churches tempted
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to exchange holiness for relevance. And yet God still calls,
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still cleanses, still sends. Isaiah stood in the temple and
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saw the Lord high and lifted up. To day we
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stand at the foot of the cross and see the
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sun lifted up for our sin. Isaiah was cleansed with
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a coal from the altar. We are cleansed by the
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blood of the Lamb. He saw a throne of fire.
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We have seen a throne of grace. But the cry
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must still rise. Here am I send me because there
51:23
are still captives, still blind, eyes, still broken, hearts, It
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still chains, to break, still kingdoms, to confront, still a
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gospel to preach. The spirit that anointed the servant in
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Isaiah sixty one is now the spirit that dwells in us.
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And the words of the prophet still burn with life.
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A rise shine, for your light has come. Come all
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you who are thirsty, seek the Lord while he may
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be found. Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth.
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Isaiah is not a close scroll, It is a living summons.
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And now as we close the journey, it is time
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to respond. Let us pray. Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord,
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God Almighty. The whole earth is full of your glory. Lord.
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We come to you trembling. We are a people of
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unclean lips, dwelling in a world of pride, pollution, and rebellion.
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We confess the idols we have bowed to the comfort
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we've chosen over calling, the fear we've allowed to silence truth,
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the distractions we've embraced instead of your voice. But you
52:29
are not finished with us. You are still seated on
52:32
the throne, still cleansing, still calling, still commissioning. So here
52:38
we are. We do not come with strength, We come
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with surrender. We do not boast of our worth. We
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cry for your mercy. Touch us Lord with holy fire,
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Refine our lips, renew our minds, restore our hearts. Let
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the coal of your alter burn away everything that does
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not belong. Make us ready, not for comfort, but for obedians.
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Give us Isiah's vision to see what is unseen, To
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see the suffering servant in the faces of the hurting.
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To see the new creation even as the world breaks
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around us. To see the crown beneath the cross, and
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the kingdom rising beyond the ruins. Give us Isaiah's voice
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to speak truth in love, to declare good news to
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the poor, to bind the broken, to proclaim the year
53:26
of your favor with boldness and joy. Give us Isaiah's
53:30
heart to weep for the blind and deaf, to lament
53:33
over rebellion without losing hope. To love your people even
53:37
when they turn away, To stand watch and not come
53:40
down from the wall. And give us Isiah's courage to
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say yes when the mission looks impossible, to go, when
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we are called to endure, when no one listens, to believe,
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when the night grows long, to declare with faith and fire,
53:55
here am I send me. Use us to shake the nations,
53:59
you as to rebuild the ruins. Use us to prepare
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the way, until every knee bows, every tongue confesses, every
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heart knows you alone, our God. Let the words of
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Isaiah burn in us. Let the servant reign through us,
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Let the spirit empower us. Let the new creation begin
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within us. We are yours, we are ready, We are
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remnant in the name of the one Isaiah saw high
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and lifted up, pierced and risen, Jesus Christ, the Holy
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One of Israel. Amen. If this blessed you know there's
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