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737. Bible Study: Isaiah 50 (Jesus paid the ransom, the Power/Grace of God, turn to God, don't play with Fire) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 50 from the book of Isaiah.
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  Let's first pray. Dear God, please give us wisdom
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  and insight and application to our own lives as we read through
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  the scripture in Jesus name, Amen.
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  This is what the Lord says. Where is your mother's
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  certificate of divorce with which I sent her away, or to
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  which of my creditors did I sell you?
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  Because of your sins, you were sold.
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  Because of your transgressions, your mother was sent away.
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  So there's a lot right there about the certificate of divorce
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  being sent away. And this is, I'm going to read
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  what the study Bible says here. What was a certificate of
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  divorce? The law of Moses allowed a man
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  to divorce his wife by writing out a certificate, and that's
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  found in Deuteronomy chapter 24 and also Matthew 19.
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  A divorce was irrevocable according to Deuteronomy 24
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  verse four, and according to Jeremiah 3 verse 8, God gave the
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  northern Kingdom of Israel her certificate of divorce.
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  Now the study Bible says something that I don't know that
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  I necessarily completely agree with.
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  It says the study Bible says God was explaining that there was no
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  certificate since Judah had initiated the break in covenant
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  with him and thus his separation from his people in exile could
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  be rescinded. But this is OK.
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  So maybe I really needed to. I should have done this before I
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  started this podcast, but now all of a sudden it's coming to
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  mind and it's something I should have checked on this, the actual
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  Hebrew words, because divorce certificate of divorce and being
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  put away have different meaning. And I learned this from somebody
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  in Israel. And our study Bibles do mess
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  this up with translation, not study Bibles, but different
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  translations of the Bible mess it up because due to translation
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  and they call being put away the same as being divorced and they
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  aren't the same. Being put away is like for
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  America, it's like being separated.
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  You're not legally divorced, being receiving the certificate
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  of divorce, you are legally divorced.
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  So there's a difference. And so I want to read this
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  because our Bible translations don't distinguish between this,
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  not all, maybe some do, but not the NIV that I'm reading.
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  So I want to find out where that was.
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  Again, your mother was sent away.
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  So that is in actually the first verse.
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  So I want to go to the tools box in the blue letter Bible and it
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  says where is your certificate of divorce?
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  So it says like seeper carrot to those are the Hebrew words.
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  And I haven't read this in advance, so I know I'm probably
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  OK. So this is what it says, says
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  thus says the Lord. Where is the certificate of
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  divorce by which I have sent your mother away?
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  To whom of my creditors did I sell you?
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  Behold, you were sold for your iniquities and for your
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  transgressions. Your mother was sent away.
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  So sent away in here. It just.
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  Yeah, it says put away is what this means.
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  So that's different. That is like being separated
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  from your husband versus being divorced from your husband.
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  So that's the last. The last word is about because
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  of your transgressions, your mother was put away or was
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  separated. Like where is your mother's
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  certificate of divorce with which I sent her away?
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  It's like I have to read that a few times to really comprehend
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  what it's saying because he definitely says there's a
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  certificate of a divorce and which I have sent your mother
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  away. So that is, yeah, that's
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  referring to, yeah. Where is it?
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  I just basically, I guess it says I just, I put her away, not
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  divorced. And so then if that's the case,
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  then I do agree with what this is saying that that he, so this
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  perhaps is to Judah and not Israel.
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  And OK, so I agree with what the study Bible says, and it says
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  because of your sins you were sold.
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  So this is interesting though, about being sold, like because
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  of transgressions that being sold.
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  And what that did is brought to mind about being sold, how Jesus
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  bought back. He paid the ransom on the cross
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  and Scripture tells us that. So in Matthew chapter 20 verse
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  28, just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to
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  serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.
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  And then in Mark chapter 10 verse 45, it says, for even the
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  Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give
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  his life as a ransom for many. And then first Timothy chapter 2
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  verse 6 says, who gave himself as a ransom for all people.
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  This has now been witness to at the proper time.
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  And then in Hebrews Chapter 9 verse 15, it says for this
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  reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who
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  are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance now
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  that He has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins
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  committed under the first covenant.
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  So that explains it all in Hebrews 9:15 that God does.
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  He gives us free will. If we rebel against Him and we
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  reject Him, He lets us go. Now, He did not let Judah go.
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  He may have put her away. He may have sold her to the, you
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  know, solder, I guess, I don't know, as a a servant to someone
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  else. I mean, that's what they did to
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  pay their debt back. And that was the Hebrew
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  tradition that if they didn't have the way to pay for it, then
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  they could be sold. They would become an indentured
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  servant to another family. I guess if they owed somebody
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  money and they couldn't pay their debt, they would be they
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  would work it off. And I think that's what it's
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  saying here that God is doing with Judah.
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  He is basically selling them. They're going to have to work it
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  off because they wouldn't turn to him.
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  They rebelled against him. He didn't divorce them, but they
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  were going to have to pay for it.
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  And ultimately Jesus paid the ransom so that they can be
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  united one day again in in God's Holy Land in Jerusalem.
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  Reading Jeremiah chapter 3 is is interesting because the study
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  Bible references that where according to Jeremiah 38 God
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  gave the northern Kingdom of Israel her divorce certificate.
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  So it says in Jeremiah 3, verse 8, I gave faithless Israel her
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  certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her
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  adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful
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  sister Judah had No Fear. She also went out and committed
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  adultery. Then it says because of Israel's
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  immorality, Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to
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  her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone
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  and wood. So this is like spiritual
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  adultery where Israel was worshipping other gods and
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  allowed that in there. That's where Jezebel was
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  actually part of the the the Israel, the 10 northern kingdoms
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  when they split apart and Ahab there was just like 1 evil ruler
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  after another, the kings of Israel as documented in the
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  Bible. It just said basically all of
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  them were evil. There's only one that was given
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  a little bit of an OK and he was Jehu and he was actually used by
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  God to I think kill the rest of Ahab's descendants or something
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  to that effect. So he was used as a tool
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  basically as a resource to God. And it's not saying he was
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  necessarily good, but God used him to bring judgment on is on
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  the northern Kingdom of Israel and the northern Kingdom of
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  Israel was captured by Assyria and they were they were spread
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  all over to all different lands. So God did let them go and it
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  apparently says that they, well, this is talking about Judah,
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  that Judah, he didn't sign a certificate of divorce.
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  He's being faithful and that's almost like God is always
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  faithful to his promise. He always promised that there
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  would be a throne in the line of David, which Jesus ultimately
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  fulfilled. So God doesn't go back on his
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  word. He was probably really
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  disappointed with Judah, that Judah was doing the same thing
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  as Israel. But he had made a promise that
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  through the tribe of Judah that there would, you know, through
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  David's descendants would come a savior, and that is Jesus
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  Christ. So going back to what Jeremiah
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  said, because Israel's immorality mattered so little,
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  she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone
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  and wood. In spite of all this, her
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  unfaithful sister did not return to me with all her heart, but
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  only in pretense, declares the Lord.
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  So Judah was going through the motions, but it wasn't
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  heartfelt. And this is how we can apply all
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  this to us too. Are we going through religious
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  motions or do we sincerely love God?
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  Do we? What is our relationship with
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  God? Do we are we like unfaithful
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  Judah? Are we just going through the
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  motions saying, yeah, I went to church on this day and yeah, I
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  did these good deeds. But do we have a relationship
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  with God? Are we talking to God?
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  Are we, are we relying on God, trusting in him, sharing, you
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  know, like you do a good friend or a spouse or a sick, you know,
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  somebody that you really are close to.
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  Are you communicating with God like that?
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  The Lord said, here's what Jeremiah says.
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  The Lord said to me faith, faith less Israel is more righteous
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  than unfaithful Judah. So even the one that he sent
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  away for divorce or certificate of a divorce is more righteous
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  than unfaithful Judah. So this is like talking about
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  the Pharisees being more righteous than the unfaithful
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  Judah. This is, yeah, it's just like
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  everything is going wrong for God's chosen people here.
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  Jeremiah says, go claim this message toward the north.
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  Return faithless Israel, declares the Lord.
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  I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful, declares the
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  Lord. I will not be angry forever.
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  Only acknowledge your guilt. You have rebelled against the
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  Lord your God. You have scattered your favors
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  to foreign gods under every spreading tree and have not
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  obeyed me. So God just wants.
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  This applies to all of us. God just wants us to acknowledge
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  our guilt. Acknowledge that we rebelled
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  against God and we have not obeyed Him.
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  He's just look, look at how faithful he is and he just wants
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  people to return to him. So he's speaking this to the
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  Northern Kingdom faith return faithless, faithless people
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  declares the Lord for I am your husband.
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  I will choose you one from a town and two from a clan and
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  bring you to Zion. So it looks like he's not
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  choosing everyone, but he's, you know, where they've been
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  scattered. Maybe it is everyone.
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  I will choose you, one from a town and two from a clan, I
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  guess wherever they are, and bring them to Zion.
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  Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will
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  lead you with knowledge and understanding.
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  I have a feeling that this is talking about the Millennium
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  period where those who have where God will assign the
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  people, definitely the ones who have been beheaded, Christians
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  who have been beheaded for the sake of their faith because they
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  have ultimately given their life for God.
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  Essentially, if you think about it like they sacrificed their
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  life for God, for their belief in God, that they would not deny
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  God. And it does say in the
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  Millennium, the 1000 years when Jesus reigns on earth, that
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  those who had beheaded came to life and reigned with Christ for
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  1000 years. So I think those are the
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  shepherds after his own heart who will lead you with knowledge
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  and understanding. Because it says during the
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  Millennium, people go there to be trained and, you know, to be
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  taught by the Lord. That's what's happening during
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  the Millennium. So this is, I mean, when I read
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  the rest of it, maybe you'll realize that this is this hasn't
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  happened yet. This is coming in the future.
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  So Jeremiah 316 in those days when your numbers have increased
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  greatly in the land, declares Lord, the people will no longer
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  say the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
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  It will never enter their minds or be remembered.
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  It will not be missed, nor will another one be made.
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  Well, right now that's not true for us today because I know I've
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  seen and I've, well, I've seen reports of it, whether or not
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  it's real or it it certainly looked like it was real,
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  apparently. And there was an article written
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  about it. You know, again, you can't
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  believe what you see or read these days, but there it it it
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  apparently it took three years to build this, but it and why it
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  would take that long today, I have no idea.
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  But there is a new Ark of the Covenant that someone wealthy
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  put money out to build it. And there were pictures that
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  were circulating of it of this arc in different places.
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  It actually went to Mar a Lago. And there was talk in this
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  article that was written that it was going to go to be with
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  Israel and actually go with them into their battles.
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  Now, I was shocked that I saw that and I couldn't, I don't
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  know. I, I, I don't know if you can
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  even find it online, but I did see it and there were other
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  others that saw it. And so if that is true, if
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  there's actually a replica arc that's been made, then this
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  statement in Jeremiah does not apply yet because it says it
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  will. It will never be remembered.
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  It will not be missed, nor another one be made.
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  And there was apparently another one that's been made.
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  And Israel will be. Their numbers will be greatly
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  increased. It said at that time they will
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  call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord.
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  We don't call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord right now.
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  And all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of
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  the Lord. No longer will they follow the
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  stubbornness of their evil hearts.
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  In those days the people of Judah will join the people of
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  Israel and together they will come from a northern land to the
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  land I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.
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  So now it sounds like they are going to be front in a northern
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  land at that time when they come back.
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  So this is interesting. I myself, how gladly would I
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  treat you like my children and give you a pleasant land, the
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  most beautiful inheritance of any nation.
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  I thought you would call me father and not turn away from
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  following me. But like a woman unfaithful to
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  her husband, So you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me.
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  A cry is heard on the barren heights, the weeping and
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  pleading of the people of Israel, because they have
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  perverted their ways and have forgotten the Lord their God.
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  Return, faithless people, I will cure you of backsliding.
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  Yes, we will come to you for you are the Lord our God.
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  So this is interesting too return faithless people.
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  I will cure you of backsliding. God's not saying you can
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  backslide. He says I will cure you of it.
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  We have to turn to God if we are backsliding.
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  It's it there's I think false teachers out there that just you
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  know, say like you're OK if you're backsliding.
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  I well, I don't think so. That's not what God says.
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  If God demanded this of his chosen people, don't you think
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  it'll be for all of us, others who are not Jews?
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  So Jeremiah continues. Surely the idolatrous commotion
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  on the hills and mountains is a deception.
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  So I think this is also worshipping this like false
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  gods. They used to like have these
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  altars set up on high mountains where they worship false gods,
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  and it's just interesting. Surely this idolatrous commotion
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  on the hills and mountains is a deception.
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  Maybe that's some future deception too, that we will see.
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  Surely the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
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  From our youth, shameful gods have consumed the fruits of our
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  ancestors, labor their flocks and herds, their sons and
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  daughters. Let us lie down in our shame and
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  let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the Lord
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  our God, both we and our ancestors.
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  From our youth till this day, we have not obeyed the Lord our
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  God. God's rules, His commandments
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  that He's given are guardrails for our protection.
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  They aren't limit. They aren't limitations on our
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  life. They are so that we can have
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  eternal life, so that we can and we don't receive eternal life by
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  obeying every single commandment.
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  First of all, we can't do it. Scripture shows us that we fail
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  just like Israel and Judah. So if we fail, that means we
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  don't get Thee eternal life. But that's where Jesus came in
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  because he was the ransom. He was the life that was given
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  for the life of many because he was the Son of God.
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  And that's why it's so important what he did on the cross because
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  he made it possible for us to be in God's Kingdom.
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  So we shouldn't treat what Jesus did on the cross as something,
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  you know, we, we didn't get to witness it.
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  We didn't, those of us living today, we didn't witness it.
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  So we just hear about it and it takes away some of the severity
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  of what was done to Jesus. And it'll, I'll talk a little
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  bit about that. Actually, Isaiah talks a little
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  bit about that. So we'll just continue to what
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  he talks about. So when I came, why was there no
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  one? Well, Jesus, I'm going back to
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  Isaiah now, verse 2. When I came, why was there no
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  one? When I called, why was there no
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  one to answer? Was my arm too short to deliver
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  you? Do I lack the strength to rescue
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  you? I see this as as referring to
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  Jesus. When I came, why was there no
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  one? Like, why did people not accept?
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  Why were people not accepting Jesus?
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  Because there are some Messianic Jews now today who do believe.
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  And there were obviously the first.
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  The first Christians were actually Jews.
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  They were the people who saw Jesus, who knew Jesus, who
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  believed him, who witnessed it all.
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  And then they told other people. But I don't, I don't know if
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  this is really referring to Jesus, but it seems like it is.
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  Like when I came, why was there no one?
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  Like why was there this rejection by a mere and then
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  God's talking about his power by a mere rebuke?
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  I dry up the sea. I turn rivers into a desert.
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  Their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
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  I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth as
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  covering. Like is there anything outside
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  beyond anything that God can't do?
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  There's nothing that God cannot do.
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  God can do everything. God can do the impossible.
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  You know, we, you know, how much effort it would take for us to
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  dry up a sea, But God can do it because he created, he created
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  all this. And we that's something that I
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  think we might do, we might change the way we look at things
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  if we realize the power of God and if we realize that grace is
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  actually the power of God. And to see this correlation,
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  this connection, if we go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 12 verse 9,
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  it says, But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for
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  my power is made perfect in weakness.
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  Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weakness so
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  that Christ's power may rest on me.
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  And then in Acts chapter 4 verse 33, it talks about with great
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  power. The apostles continued to
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  testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God's grace
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  was so powerfully at work in all them.
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  So grace is power. I I always think of it as like
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  the power of the Holy Spirit. Now Stephen, a man full of God's
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  grace and power, formed great wonders and signs among the
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  people. And then in in Ephesians it says
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  I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God's
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  grace given me through the working of his power.
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  So grace and power are connected.
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  We can have power when we rely on the grace of God.
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  The Sovereign Lord has given me going back to Isaiah, the
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  Sovereign Lord has given me a well instructed tongue to know
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  the the word that sustains the weary.
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  He wakens me morning by morning wakens my ear to listen like one
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  being instructed. The Sovereign Lord has opened my
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  ears. When I hear read this, I think
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  is this Isaiah or Jesus or both? Because as it continues on, it
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  starts to sound more like Jesus rather than Isaiah.
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  But I think that Isaiah is speaking through the Lord and
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  these words are coming to Isaiah, the words that sustain
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  the weary. He wakens me morning by morning,
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  wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.
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  The Lord, the sovereign Lord has opened my ears.
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  Then it sounds like maybe this is talking about Jesus.
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  It says I have not been rebellious.
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  That could be Isaiah. I have not turned away.
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  But here's where it sounds like Jesus verse 6 I offered my back
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  to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my
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  beard. I did not hide my face from
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  mocking and spitting. So this is all about Jesus was
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  flogged. And so he said this, He told his
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  disciples and they witnessed it too, and they themselves also
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  got flogged. But it says let's see his let's
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  see. There was many things about
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  Jesus being flogged. It says like in Mark chapter 15,
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  verse 15. Wanting to satisfy the crowd,
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  Pilot released Barabbas to them. He had he had Jesus flogged and
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  handed him over to be crucified. In Matthew 27 verse 26, it says
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  then he released Barabbas to them, but he had Jesus flogged
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  and have it handed him over to be crucified.
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  And then in Matthew chapter 20 verse 19, it this is Jesus said
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  this it says and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be
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  mocked and flogged and crucified on the third day he will be
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  raised to life. So actually when this is being
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  stated, it's Jesus predicting his death 1/3 time and it starts
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  in Matthew verse 20, Matthew chapter 20, verse 17.
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  Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem.
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  On the way He took the 12 aside and said to them, we are going
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  up to Jerusalem and the Son of Man will be delivered over to
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  the chief priest and the teachers of the law.
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  They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the
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  Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified.
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  On the third day. He will be raised to life.
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  So that's again what happened to Jesus.
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  And then it says in Isaiah, it goes on to say I offered my back
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  to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my
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  beard. I don't, you know, that's not
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  really documented about being a beard being pulled out.
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  I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.
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  In Luke chapter 18 verse 32 it says for he referring to Jesus
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  will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and
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  insulted and spit upon. So again, this really sounds
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  like Jesus. Because the sovereign Lord helps
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  me, I will not be disgraced. I'm sorry.
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  Going back to Isaiah, because the sovereign Lord helps me, I
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  will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face
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  like Flint, and I know I will not be put to shame.
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  So this is another thing that in Scripture, in first Peter art,
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  actually, yeah, it's first Peter, first Peter chapter 2,
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  verse 6, it says, for in Scripture it says, see, I lay a
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  stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the
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  one who trusts in him, that's Jesus.
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  The cornerstone will never be put to shame.
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  And that's actually referring another.
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  That's like a duplicate. That's like Isaiah 28 verse 16.
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  So it's another repetition. Then back to Isaiah chapter 50.
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  He who vindicates me is near. Who then will bring charges
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  against me? Let us face each other.
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  Who is my accuser? Let him confront me.
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  It it is the sovereign Lord who helps me, who will condemn me.
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  They will all wear out like garment.
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  The moths will eat them up. Who among you fears the Lord and
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  obeys the word of His Servant, both Jesus and Isaiah?
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  I mean, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
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  Isaiah is certainly talking about the fear of the Lord.
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  Like who? Who is that who fears the Lord?
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  Who obeys him? If you fear the Lord, you will
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  obey, because you will want to show him that you love him.
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  And Jesus said, if you love me, obey my commands.
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  So it says, let the one who walks in the dark, who has no
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  light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on their God.
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  So here he is again saying, turn to the Lord, turn to the Lord.
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  And it says, but now all you who light fires and provide
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  yourselves with flaming torches, go walk in the light of your
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  fires and the torches you have set ablaze.
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  This is what you shall receive from my hand.
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  You will lie down in torment, disaster.
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  So if we are going on this, this, this life journey without
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  God and we're trying and we're playing with fire, we're going
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  to get burned. Disaster will come to us.
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  We need to turn to the Lord. That's really what's being said
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  here. We need to turn to the Lord and
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  don't rely on ourselves. If we just rely on ourselves,
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  that's prideful. That's saying we can do it on
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  our own and God knows better. We can't.
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  No one in history has. We need God.
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  We need to rely on God. So that concludes chapter 50.
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  Hope you come back for chapter 51 next time.