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701. Bible Study: Isaiah 6 (Isaiah commissioned by God, Israel/Judah subject to Wrath) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 6 from the book of Isaiah.
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Dear Lord, please allow the Holy Spirit to open our eyes, to give
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us revelation, to give us insight as we read through your
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word. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and
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exalted, seated on a throne, and the train of his robe filled the
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temple. Above him were seraphim, each
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with six wings. With two wings they covered
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their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two
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they were flying, and they were calling to one another.
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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty.
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The whole earth is full of His glory.
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At the sound of their voices, the door posts and thresholds
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shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
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Woe to me, I cried, I am ruined. This is Isaiah talking, for I am
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a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean
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lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.
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Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand,
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which he had taken with tongues from the altar.
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With it he touched my mouth and said, See, this has touched your
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lips. Your guilt is taken away and
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your sin atoned. For.
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I will pause there for a moment and just read the questions and
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answers that get up to this point from the study Bible
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because and then I'll talk if there's something that isn't
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covered here that I wanted to say.
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So why isn't Isaiah's Commission at the beginning of the book?
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Isaiah's Commission in the year that King Uzziah died most
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likely preceded his preaching ministry.
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In much the same way that a writer establishes context,
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Isaiah may have delayed this chapter for the sake of impact.
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The first five chapters of the book clearly established Judah's
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sinful condition. The people had mocked the Holy
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One of Israel, and now he has commissioned Isaiah to call them
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to account. What are seraphim?
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Seraphim are angelic creatures that seem to serve as a kind of
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honor guard for God. They are not mentioned
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elsewhere, but their actions correspond to those of the quote
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living creatures of Revelation in chapter 4, verses 6 through
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9, each of whom is also said to have 6 wings.
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From their name, which means burning ones, we assume that
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they manifest A fiery brilliance.
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Their main activity appears to be praising God.
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We see that in Isaiah chapter 6 verse 3 and Revelation chapter 4
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verse 8. What is the meaning of unclean
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lips? Unclean lips are sinful since
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the mouth expresses the sinful intentions of human of the human
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heart. Recognizing that he himself was
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a man of unclean lips who was living among a people steeped in
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this sinful condition helps us better understand the anguish
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Isaiah felt as he stood before an awesome and holy God.
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Then it says how valid are visions today?
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In scripture, God sometimes spoke to people in visions and
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dreams. You can find that in Numbers
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chapter 12, verse 6. There's also a lot of other
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places where this happens. In the book of Daniel, there's a
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lot of that, actually. All of these prophets had
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visions and dreams and Joseph in the book of Genesis had dreams
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and he was, you know, very early on when he dreamed about the 12
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tribes of Israel actually bowing to him.
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They're just God used dreams and visions throughout, like most of
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the prophetic books of the Bible.
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Anyone who, I mean, he communicated with people that
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way, people I believe, who were obedient and submitted to God
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received these these dreams and visions.
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The Lord commissioned Isaiah to be a prophet through a vision.
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The apostle Paul received a vision in the night.
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Peter's vision came to him in a trance.
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And the Book of Revelation comprises 1 long vision given to
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the apostle John. So those are all the New
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Testament ones. But along the Old Testament,
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it's all over the place. So in his sermon on the day of
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Pentecost, Peter quoted Joel two in the last days God says I will
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pour out my spirit on all people.
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Your sons and daughter will prophecy, your young men will
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see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
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You can find that in Acts chapter 2 verse 17 and of course
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in Joel chapter 2. So Peter certainly viewed the
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last days as ushered in by Jesus death and resurrection.
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But we are to take everything Peter said here.
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But are we to take everything Peter said here literally?
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Or was he quoting an extended passage from Joel to make a more
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simple point? Opinions differ on whether God
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still appears to people in visions.
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Some people believe that since we have the Bible and the Holy
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Spirit's guidance, we no longer need visions.
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Others believe that God continues to speak through
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dreams and visions, though these occurrences are rare and must be
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authenticated by what is already revealed in God's Word.
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If you, I think you've received a vision from God, be sure to
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discuss it with your pastor or a Christian mentor because
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cautious about relating or interpreting a vision apart from
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the guidance of God's Word. And so it gives some.
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So anyway, this is, I'm curious like when my Bible was written
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or produced, I know I probably bought it in 2016 or 17.
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So this was, let's see when it was copyrighted.
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I'm just curious. Let's see.
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Copyright 2011. So maybe at that time there
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weren't a lot, but boy, if you look today, how many people are
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having dreams and visions? Children, adults, men, women,
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I'm, I'm going to say thousands, maybe even millions of people
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are having dreams and visions today.
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And, and there's, there's no doubt.
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I mean, like there's a couple of YouTube channels that I've found
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that do publish people's dreams and I've, I've listened to
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several of them. Some of them, you know, actually
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most of them do seem to have the Holy Spirit inspired just by the
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message that they give aligns with Scripture.
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There are some that, you know, I, I guess some of them that
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might be a little bit off, but again, just like you always do
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is test everything with God, pray about it to God.
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Does it line up with Scripture? Anything that contradicts
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Scripture, don't believe it, but it, I, I believe that God does
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still speak to people in dreams and visions.
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And probably because that happens to me and it started the
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night of my baptism and it's continued and I've had over 80
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dreams since then. And some of the dreams, I would
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see something in my dream and then later it would that vision
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that I saw in my dream or that scene, it wasn't a vision
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because I was sleeping and but that would show up in real life.
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And this happened numerous times that ended up catching my
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attention because it was like, OK, this is more than just a
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dream. There's something more to this.
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And very often the name of Jesus and the power of the name of
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Jesus was featured in my dreams. So I have experienced this so
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that's why it's easy for me to believe this because I know and
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I know this is this all started when I fully surrendered and
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didn't want to be a hypocrite anymore about how I was living
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life and that's when the stuff started happening.
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Never before did it ever happen. So I I believe there is some
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correlation between obedience, surrender and decision about
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following, following Christ and not being a hypocrite.
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That made a difference. And yeah, so anyway, this isn't
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about me. This is about chapter 6.
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So anyway, dreams and visions I think are still happening today.
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So continuing on in Scripture chapter verse 10, May the heart
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of this people make the heart of this people.
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Oh, wait, I jumped around. OK, so I I finished to him being
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atoned. It was like, OK, so it didn't
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OK, here it is. Sorry.
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I'm jumping around because I was looking for this burning coal
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and seeing if the study Bible had some information on it
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because I have a thought about it, but I was hoping that the
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study Bible would have something because it will probably explain
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it much better than I. So how can a live coal take away
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guilt burning? Coals were taken inside the Most
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Holy Place on the Day of Atonement, Leviticus 16, verse
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12, when the sacrifice was made to atone for sin.
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The hot coal here symbolizes both God's wrath and His process
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of purification. In order for sin to be forgiven,
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God's wrath, which both destroys and purifies, must be released
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against the sin. Significantly, one of the
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seraphim, the burning ones is the instrument of purification
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administered to the prophet Isaiah, administered to the
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prophet Isaiah may well have learned from this experience
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that sinful human beings can join in the worship of the
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burning ones only when a purified only when purified by
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the fire of God. OK, so I have a little bit of a
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different, not a different, but an additional understanding or
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thought about this. So I, I agree with you know,
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the, the Day of Atonement and the sacrifices and the burnt
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offerings that were done and those were used for forgiveness
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of sins. But the atonement was only that
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you nothing could bring about atonement except for Jesus and
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for the I guess the, the, yeah, the life for the life.
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I mean, that was a temporary forgiveness that had to be done
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annually that God gave to the Israelites as a way of temporary
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forgiveness. And but that was also symbolic.
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Those sacrifices were also symbolic of Jesus eventually,
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because the Lamb of Jesus has referred to metaphorically as
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the Lamb of God, the sacrifice who takes away the sin of the
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world. And that's what Jesus does.
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So obviously this is way before Jesus.
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This is around 700 BC. So Isaiah is he's prophesying
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during the times of the kings of Israel.
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So they already knew about these things.
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You know, the law had already been given to the Israelites.
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They weren't really following them, Israelites, Judah, the,
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you know, the tribes and some were maybe following better than
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others. But at this point in time, both
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of them were turning away from God.
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And Isaiah is basically being commissioned by God to make it
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known that because they've turned away from God and haven't
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turned towards him, there was going to be judgment.
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Now, I do also agree with what the study Bible says, that
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because it talks about a purification of fire.
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There's a purification of water and of fire.
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As you look into Scripture and you know, the water is a couple
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different things. You know, it may be that
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purification that happened during Noah's, the flood, the
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flood of Noah's time where God did purify the earth and got rid
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of everyone but the eight people that were on Noah's ark, It
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flooded the world. And God uses the rainbow to tell
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us that he will never flood the world again.
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But that is something by water where it was purified.
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The rituals that were given to them with the priest, they had
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to cleanse themselves. They had to wash themselves to
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be ceremonial clean. That's another purification by
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water and then a purification by water today that we experience
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is baptism. Baptism is the for the
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forgiveness of sins. But then there's that other part
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of it that Jesus talked about that going through a baptism of
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water and of fire and the fire often this is interesting
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because when the Holy Spirit came on, the people, on the
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disciples that were this written about in the book of Acts, it
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came as like a tongue of fire above their heads, the anointing
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of the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit is also
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related to fire or purification. If people don't listen or
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respond to God's Word, he will put people through fire, not
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literally, but through a testing period.
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Often he refers to people as silver and how silver is refined
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by going through fire. And there was a great
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description of this or insightfulness about that
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Scripture that talked about God is the refiner and he's putting
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the silver into the fire and he has to watch it until it gets to
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a point where he can see his image.
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And that's what he does with us. He'll put us if we are not
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responding to him, he'll put us through the fire.
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He'll put us through the the challenge so that that that, you
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know, that testing of us, that, you know, those unfortunate
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events are there to purify us and and then when we come out,
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we will become changed and more of a reflection of God.
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And so that purification by fire happens that way also.
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So I think there's a lot of different ways.
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And then, you know, just coming under fire when we don't wake
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up, when we don't, with all of God's words and his warnings, we
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can respond to that and perhaps avoid some of the fire of
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purification. Or we can just say, not right
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now, I've got other things, I'm busy, I can't do this right now.
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Then we can probably expect that we're going to get some stronger
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fire coming into our life that's going to shake us up.
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And often people will turn to God when everything else is
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taken away from them, when everything else is destroyed and
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they have nothing else. And then they finally turn to
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God when everything's taken away.
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So if we are stubborn and we don't listen, when things are
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good in our lives, we can keep on going down the path and have
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an expectation that at some point God is going to put a
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little fire in our life because he wants all the purpose of it
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isn't to harm people. It is to wake people up to have
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them seek God because it's to seek God, seek him and he will
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be found. So He wants to encourage us.
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And when we're very strong headed and stubborn and we don't
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want to turn to God, then he has to do these things to make our
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life challenging so that we turn to him.
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And it's written throughout history.
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He does this over and over again.
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When you read through the Bible, you find out this is how God
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works. So when you're in the middle of
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testing, that's why Paul says, you know, like, oh gosh, I will
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find find joy, I guess, in all circumstances, because as we go
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through hardships, it's actually purifying us.
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It's creating endurance within us.
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And and so anyway, that's what I what is written in the study
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Bible. So then I will go back to verse
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8. Then I heard the voice of the
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Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us?
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And I said, here am I send me. So Isaiah's offering to be of
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service to God, he said go and tell this.
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So he, the Lord said go and tell this people.
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So he's talking about Israel, all of Israel, I guess Judah and
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well, the 10 tribes, I guess, I guess is primarily to the the
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tribe of Judah. Go and tell this people, be ever
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hearing, but never understanding, be ever seeing,
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but never perceiving. Make the hearts of this people
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calloused, make their ears dull, and close their eyes, otherwise
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they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand
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with their hearts, and turn and be healed.
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Then I said, For how long Lord? And he answered, until the
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cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are
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left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged, until the
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Lord has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly
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forsaken, and though a 10th remains in the land, it will
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again be laid waste. So that was interesting to me.
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I thought again because this was first of all the the kings of
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Israel were really evil. They ended up losing their
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capital of Samaria which is modern day West Bank.
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They lost that first and they were captured by the Assyrians.
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Then Judah was did the same thing as Israel.
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It was Judah and Benjamin were the southern tribes and they,
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they had a mixture of good kings and bad kings, but they were
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eventually taken over by Babylonia or the Babylonian
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king. And I think it was
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Nebuchadnezzar who did that. And so both of the, the
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groupings of the Kingdom that was divided, they both got
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conquered. They got conquered because they
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weren't turned towards God. They were not living according
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to God's commands and. So we can apply this to our own
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lives, that we can expect judgement from God if we are not
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obedient to God's commands. Because God.
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God says be holy because I am holy.
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And the commands are guideline, not guidelines.
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Well, they are, but they're guardrails.
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They keep us from sin. When we obey that, they keep us
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from sin. Sin separates us from God.
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So if we obey the commandments, we are not separated from God.
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We are also showing God that we love God because Jesus said if
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you love me, obey my commands. So when we obey the commands,
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that's when we show God we, we accept you, we love you, we're
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listening to you. We are your children.
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We are obedient to what you want.
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We are respecting God because we are obeying his commands, the 10
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commandments. So OK, so this was interesting,
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like I said, because it says although a 10th remains in the
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land. So God promised a long time ago
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that he would never ever wipe out Israel, that Israel would
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become like the stars in the sky, like the sand on the
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seashore, and that will happen. But they have to go through this
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refining because they keep turning away from God.
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And when I say they, they do, you know, but it also applies to
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us, We do also, we are not any better than Israel.
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So we don't like the fingers and say, well, gosh, they're really
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bad. And you know, I see a lot of
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that happening today where they're being people are turning
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to, you know, against Israel and pointing out all of Israel's
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faults. Israel is not unlike any of us
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that have not perfect lives with God, not living out the way God
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commands. So we can't, you know, don't
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point the fingers because it says that if you do that or if
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you're judging others, you will be judged in the same manner.
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So if you want to be judged harshly, keep on judging.
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I don't want to become harshly judged.
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I don't need any help with, you know, I'd, I'd prefer a softer
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judgement and hopefully God will be merciful in that.
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In fact, you know, when we become believers and we accept
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what Jesus did as his death on the cross for our salvation, we,
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we won't be subject to God's wrath.
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That's what I know. So that's going to be a softer
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judgement. Will we have a certain placement
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in God's Kingdom according to the way we lived our life?
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I believe so. I think the Bible does tell us
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that. So what we do on earth does
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matter. God does forgive our sins and it
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says he, he will remember them no more.
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That's when we have repented of them, when we stop doing them,
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not when we keep on doing them. So when we stop doing them, He
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kind of gives us a clean slate. That's kind of being called born
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again. We become a new creation, not by
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our own willpower and decision, but by the help of God through
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the Holy Spirit in our lives. That's how we overcome sin.
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That's how we begin to become purified.
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That's how we begin to come become holy like God is holy
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through the Holy Spirit, not by anything we do, it's through the
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Holy Spirit. So that's why we have to, you
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know, say that we have to be thankful for our salvation that
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is 100% by God and it's 100% because God has mercy on us and
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it is a gift to us and it came through Jesus's sacrifice on the
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cross, which I don't atoned for all of our sins.
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He was the the sacrifice that it, you know, wipes out all of
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our sins. That's how God can remember our
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sins no more because of what Jesus did on the cross.
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But Jesus told us that in addition to his dying on the
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cross, OK, what there is something that we have to do and
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a lot of people like to say Jesus plus nothing, but that's
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not true because why did Jesus say read chapter 3 of the Gospel
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of John. Jesus said we must be born
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again. So Jesus dying on the cross is
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not going to save the entire world unless we repent.
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Like Jesus said, take up your own cross.
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So we have to ask for forgiveness and become a new
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creation. We have to put death to our sin.
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It is a a cross that we have to pick up.
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Like it's not easy to do that, but it's something that we have
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to willingly do. And Jesus will give us the Holy
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Spirit because that's how we become born again.
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That's how we become holy. So anyway, that just, that's the
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message of salvation. That's how it happens.
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And if you don't believe me, read the Bible carefully.
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Don't just listen to people talk.
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Go into the Bible and find support for whatever you believe
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and read it in total because you can take one sentence out of
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context and you don't have you don't take it comprehend it in
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from the front cover to the back cover.
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And it's so important. You need to understand or know
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about the entire Bible and and people can read the Bible in a
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year. So don't let somebody say, oh,
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that's too big. In fact, because of the Bible
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apps and because I had a lot of time, I actually read the entire
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Bible in three months. I played it non-stop, like when
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I was driving and I was listening to the Bible, which
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because it could an audible Bible that could read to you
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while you were doing that. And then I read it wherever I
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needed to pick up after that point.
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But I accomplished it in three months.
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And so it can be done. And you know, most people say do
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a Bible in a year. There's plenty of study guides
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out there that show you how you can get through the Bible in one
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year. So it's worth it, believe me.
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OK, so God let's a remnant remained and although a 10th
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remains in the land, it will again be laid waste.
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When I saw again and I questioned that, I'm like, I
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wonder if this means like in the future, like will it be laid
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waste? I know God is going to save
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Israel, but how far will he let it go before he saves Israel?
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Because it does talk about the great tribulation, about this
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distress that has never been seen before in the world and
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will never be seen again. So it I don't even know what is
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going to happen during that time, but I believe that that's
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what Jesus is talking about. If those days had not been cut
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short, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect,
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those days are shortened. So I believe that's when Jesus
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comes because it just gets so bad.
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And if he doesn't come, they will be wiped out.
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So that's why I think that this again, may be may be referring
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to a future time potentially in our generation, our lifetime.
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So, but as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut
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down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.
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So God is not letting go of his claim to the land.
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Jerusalem will be where Jesus reigns from.
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And the holy seed, you know, that's, that's God, that's
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Jesus. You know, there's, there's going
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to be, it will remain there. So that's the end of chapter 6.
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And there's a few more questions and answers for a couple of
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them. And so I'm going to read that
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and then probably just conclude so this doesn't get to be too
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long. Did God want his people to
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remain unrepentant? In hindsight, we know that all
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too few in Judah did heed Isaiah's words, and that a long
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error era of political disasters began during the course of his
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ministry. But Isaiah himself did not need
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hindsight at his call. It was made clear to him that
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his ministry would be remarkably unsuccessful in his own
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generation, but that the very failure was ordained by God.
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On the other hand, we are not to suppose that God forced would be
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obedient Israelites into disobedience.
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A parallel may be found in Exodus, where the Pharaoh is
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sometimes said to have had hardened his own heart and other
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times to have his have had his heart hardened by God.
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So that is true. And I, I do believe that God
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gives us free will, but he also allows our free will to be used.
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So there's, there's a point in time where God just says, let
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people be the way they are and then he will do it.
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And he can often, you know, there's this, there's, there is
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the enemy of God and the enemy, the evil spiritual realm that
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influences people. God can use that to accomplish
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his will. So he's upset with Judah because
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they were warned and they were warned and they were warned and
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they just didn't heed the warning.
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And so God is telling. I mean, basically God's saying
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to Isaiah like this just clarified that, you know,
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there's going to be a judgement on these people, you know, don't
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even worry about that anymore. They, they've had, you know, all
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these opportunities and this is, you know, they're not going to
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change their ways. They're, you know, it says their
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hearts are hardened. Basically, they're strong
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headed. They are not willing to change
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their actions. We have that in people today.
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There's a lot of people who don't want to change their ways.
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They're being hard, hard, hard headed, strong willed and want
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to do it their way. They don't want to submit to
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God. Well, God's going to take care
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of that at some point in that person's life.
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And, and I guess I, I learned it the hard way.
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And so I've been through it. He didn't kill me, but he did,
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you know, destroy a lot in my life.
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And, and so if we don't listen, that's how it will be for us.
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And I, I do see other people headed and that same path.
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And I like to warn them because I'm like, gosh, you know, I went
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through all this stuff. You could avoid this if you
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would just listen. But people don't want to listen.
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They're not going to do what somebody else says.
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God has to convict them or the Holy Spirit has to convict them
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personally before they ever are willing to change.
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So we can make it known to them, but we can't force anybody to
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change their ways. That has to be a personal
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decision because it is a personal relationship with God.
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So everybody has to figure it out on their own.
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But anybody that I've spoken to should know.
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And then it's just up to them when they're ready to actually
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obey God and and then work on their relationship with God
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again to get back in a good relationship with God.
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So anyway, going back to what? Why is the holy seed referred to
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as a stump? This symbolic language is the
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heart of Isaiah's message. Even a felled tree leaves a
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stump behind, which may prove to be the seed bed for fresh
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growth. Though God's punish, or through
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God's punishment, a small group of people, a remnant would be,
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would return from exile in Babylon, purified and holy.
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With this obedient remnant, God would work his plan of
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redemption. So again, I think that, you
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know, God did eventually send Babylon to capture the people,
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and apparently there was a tent that would remain in the land.
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And I don't know if there's going to be more Scripture that
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clarifies who they were. I think they were the poor
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people that got left and then others were taken and they went
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into exile. And then some of them, Daniel
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was one of them who remained faithful.
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And then we also have Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, which were
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given names. We, we remember those names
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often they're, they're Babylonian names because their
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Hebrew names were changed. But those are others who just
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stays strong in their faith. And they were among the, the
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wisest, not the wisest, the, you know, the fit.
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They were, I guess they were like the, the best of the best.
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They were young men that were sought out and trained in
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Babylonian ways, but they did not give up their belief and
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faith in God and they stayed strong.
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And because of their strength and their faith, they actually
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showed people that God is real. And actually I think Jesus
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appears to them when they are going to be burned at one point.
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But they stayed strong and they were rescued out of this burning
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incinerator and they didn't even smell like smoke when they came
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out. So it's just like a huge miracle
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that that God did because of their faith.
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So we'll read about that in the future.
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But Babylon to destroy. And then after Babylon, Assyria
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apparently came again. Or if this is the future time.
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And I just wonder like, will this, this final entity be from
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the land of a Syria that comes against Israel?
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And Assyria is kind of made-up of, of it's not just Syria, but
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Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and a portion of Iran are all part of
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what the land that was called Assyria back in this time, the
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ancient land. So I believe that God will use
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those countries against Israel and he has and, but he still
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will not let Israel be destroyed.
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And then when we get to this Millennium reign of Christ, when
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Jesus is ruling on earth, that is this time, I think of
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restoration, where again Israel will be given the opportunity
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again to be as numerous as the stars in the sky and as numerous
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as the sand on the seashore. I think that's kind of the
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purpose and of the Millennium, like the next thousand years
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after Jesus starts raining, he gives Israel this opportunity to
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repopulate and to have more offspring.
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And these are the holy ones of Israel, the survivors of the
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wrath because they will have the wrath of God and the wrath of
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God apparently comes through his his his enemies, like he uses
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the enemy's desires again, their free will to accomplish his
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purpose. So very interesting to to read
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scripture and to learn from it. So hope you subscribe and come
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back because every day I try to do a different chapter and talk
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about the things, the insight that I've learned from others
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and from the study Bible and hopefully it it opens all of our
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eyes. And sometimes we, I have new
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thoughts that come to mind that relate to scripture, that my
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eyes are opened in another way when doing this.
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And, and I hope that this does the same for you and that it it
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just encourages your faith and it helps you remain close to
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God.