March 16, 2025

Isaiah 41 in Isaiah 40

Isaiah 41 in Isaiah 40

We compare Isaiah 41:14-20 to Isaiah 40:3-5

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We compare Isaiah 41:14-20 to Isaiah 40:3-5

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All right, Isaiah chapter forty one. We will continue here

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in a minute from what we left off in the

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first hour. We'll kind of move forward. I don't know

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how far we're gonna get in this, hopefully it will

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be beneficial. Jennie was asking, where's the next part of

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the Salem witch Trials. I'll try to do that either

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this afternoon or this evening because I need to talk

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about John Procter and what happens to his whole story.

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So I'll try to do that this afternoon or this

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evening if everything goes well. And but for now, it's

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all back to Isaiah chapter forty one. Isaiah chapter forty one,

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and the first hour we looked at Isaiah chapter forty one,

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fourteen through twenty. I'm going to read it Isaiah forty one,

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fourteen through twenty. That means we should be in this

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hour looking at verses twenty one through twenty nine. But

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Sarah Danzler pointed out that there is something in Isaiah

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forty one, fourteenth through twenty that seems very similar to

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a section in Isaiah chapter forty So we're gonna at.

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Least explore that, and then if we get.

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Done with that and we're kind of depending on the time,

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we may not then be able to go into the

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last section, so we may end up early. Because it's

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gonna be like when we get done, if I look

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at the time, do I start twenty one through twenty

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nine and make it halfway through and then have to

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stop and then next week like, that's gonna mess it

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all up.

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So we'll have to make a good decision.

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We'll see how this works, all right, So first let's

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read Isaiah forty one, fourteen through twenty because this will

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be a good reminder and get everyone on the same page.

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And of course online you never know which section someone's

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gonna click on, and you don't know if they've listened

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to the previous part or not. So here we go,

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fourteenth through twenty. Fear not, thou worm, Jacob, and you

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men of Israel. I will help thee saith the Lord

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and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

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Behold.

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I will make thee a new sharp thresheld instrument having teeth,

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And thou shalt thresh the mountains, beat them small, and

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shall make the.

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Hills as chef.

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Thou shallt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away,

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and the world wind shall scatter them.

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Thou shall rejoice in.

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The Lord, and shall glory and the Holy One of Israel.

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When the poor and needy seek water and there is none,

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and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will

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hear them. I the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

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I will open the rivers in high places, and fountains

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in the midst of the valleys. I will make the

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wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs

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of water.

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I will plant in the wilderness the.

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Cedar, the shitta tree, the myrtle, and the olive tree.

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I will sit in the desert the fir tree, and

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the pine and the box tree, together that they may

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see and know and consider and understand and together that

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the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the

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Holy One of Israel hath created it. Now at end

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this section of scripture, I'll just read an actual summary

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from it by Ai, because this is how it kind

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of summarizes and concludes. Isaiah forty one, fourteen through twenty

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reveals God's transformative power, which we spent the last part

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of the first hour in great detail of all the

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theological problems that arises from that. All right, he takes

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weak Israel and verse fourteen, they began as a worm, right,

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everybody sees that, and he makes them strong, provides water

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for the thirsty, restores the land. Ultimately, this passage points

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to God's now this is Ai points to God's future restoration.

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And his faithfulness to his people.

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I'm not completely convinced it's pointing to a future restoration

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because I believe it's simply there to do what and

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a very poetic metaphorical way. It's describing how the worm

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is going to be so transformed that no mountain, no obstacle,

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no nation is going to stand in the way from

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Judah doing what being delivered and going back to Jerusalem,

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rebuilding Jerusalem and rebuilding the Temple. That's what it's because

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that's the context, right, that's the context.

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So we're not going to jump to a millennial kingdom.

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We're not going to jump to the new heavens and

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the new Earth yet at this point we're not.

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If there's anything moving forward.

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In chapters forty two, forty three, forty four, forty five,

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forty six, forty seven.

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That we fill jumps, we will take care of it.

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Then this is too early on for it to start

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jumping in my estimation, okay, and it would be of

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no value for them. He's trying to help them what

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be encouraged and know God is going to be the

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one doing the deliverance so that they don't look to idols.

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I mean, that's we've talked about and because the next

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section is going to prove that clearly.

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All right, but.

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Uh, Sarah pointed out and and I know you didn't

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use these exact words, but that there is a thematic

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and linguistic parallel between Isaiah forty three through four and

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Isaiah forty one, fourteen through twenty. Is that a pretty

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fair way of describing what you were saying, Sarah?

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Or is that not fair? Okay?

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Oh, that's very good. All right, So forty three through five.

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I only looked at forty three through four, but now

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now that you mentioned five, I probably should have considered that.

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But do you agree that there's thematic and linguistic parallels?

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Okay?

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Wait, so that's what I gave to Ai, I said, okay,

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someone in church said that there is I use linguistic

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and thematic parallels is what I used. And I said, okay,

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is this true. Is this accurate? Is this is this

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fair thing to say? Ai said, Yes, there are strong

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thematic and linguistic parallels between Isaiah forty three through four

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and Isaiah forty one, fourteen through twenty. Both this is

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what AI says. Passages focus on God's power to transform

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landscapes and situations, whether that be preparing the way for

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the Lord, are renewing and restoring Israel.

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One way or the other.

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Both are kind of thrown in there, and it says

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here is a detailed comparison of the similarities and philological

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connections between the two passages.

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So we're going to break it down, all right. So

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first Isaiah.

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Forty three through four from the ESV, A voice cries

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in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord, make

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straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every

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valley shall be wide, exalted, or lifted up. Every mountain

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and hill shall be made low. The uneven ground should

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become straight or level, and the rough places plain or smooth.

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Right then, Isaiah forty one fourteen through twenty look verse

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for well, I'm just gonna look at selected verses. Verse fifteen.

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Behold I make of you. This is God speaking of Israel,

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a threshing sledge, new sharp and having teeth. You shall

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thresh the mountains. And what's going to happen to them?

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They're gonna be crushed. That's gonna make them low, agreed,

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And you should make the hills like chef verse eighteen.

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I will open rivers on the bare heights and fountains

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in the midst of the valleys. I will make the

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wilderness a pool of water and dry land springs of water. Right,

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So AI created a chart. All right, here's how it

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breaks it down. It made a chart first Isaiah forty

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three through four in the wilderness, prepare the way of

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the Lord. It connects that to fourteen through twenty. I

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will open rivers on the bare heights and fountains in

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the midst of the valleys.

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So what it's simply saying is I'm going to prepare

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a way.

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Well, what's going to be need gonna be needed in

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their way. They're gonna need water. You're gonna need water, right, Uh,

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You're gonna need these things.

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You're gonna need water to.

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Be able to be prepared to make it from point

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A to point B. All right, So that's why it's

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connected and it says, here's the connection.

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God transforms the wilderness.

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Making it suitable for his presence or making it suitable

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for them. But God's gonna do the transformation. He's gonna

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do the change. We can see the similarity. Next verse

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four of Isaiah forty. Every valley should be lifted up,

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every mountains and hills should be made low.

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Then, of course it's gonna connect. At to fifteen.

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You shall thresh the mountains, crush them, make the hills

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like chef. Both passages to pick the removal of obstacles,

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whether for the Lord's coming or for Israel's return.

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Wherever the case.

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Whatever the obstacle is, it's gonna be what removed. I remember,

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the obstacles can be what well, that could be physical obstacles,

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They could be nations.

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Whatever the obstacles be, they're going to be removed, all right.

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Next verse four, the uneven ground should become level and

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the rough place is plain. Verse eighteen. I will make

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the wilderness a pool of water. In the dry land

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springs of water. God smooths and restores barren places, creating

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new life where there was none. I think we can

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see the parallel, can we not? We can see the parallel,

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and what does it just demonstrate over and over God

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is in charge and he's going to prepare, provide, and

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remove anything that's going to prevent his people from returning

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to the land because he is God and he is

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fulfilling White. The Covenant promises again, that's the Covenant. The Covenant,

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the Covenant. The Covenant does that.

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We all okay with that? All right?

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So then AI is like, here's some thematic parallels. Here's

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the thematic parallels. It gives me three thematic parallels.

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You're ready.

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First thematic parallel the power of God to transform.

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I think we can definitely see that.

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Isaiah forty God prepares a path by leveling mountains Isaiah

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forty one. He removes obstacles and provides water in the wilderness.

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Both passages shows.

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God's ability to alter nature for his divine purpose, whether

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preparing the way or restoring his people. So God's power

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to transform now it's being it's being spoken of, it's

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transforming landscape, but it really is going beyond that. He

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has the power to transform. And we spent the last

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hour talking about all of the philological problems. When we

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talk about God's power to transform, I'm not going to

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go back and redo that again because it.

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Can turn into an entire sermon.

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There's all kinds of issues with that concept, and Christianity

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constantly teaches transformation and then while we get into all

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of the problems. All right, So I think we can

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clearly see that for Israel, what do they need to know?

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It's God's that has the power to transform, not whom

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the Babylonian idols.

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Don't look to the idols. God has the power to transform. Second,

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from barrenness to abundance.

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Isaiah forty three through four describes a barren wilderness being

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prepared for God's arrival. Verses eighteen through nineteen describes a

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barren land being turned into a fertile, life giving environment.

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I think there's no question there the.

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Implication God's restorative work is both spiritual preparing the way

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and physical providing for Israel's renewal or return. All right,

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from barrenness to abundance. God, God is going to provide.

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Now again, if we want a parallel to us, If

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we want a parallel.

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To us, let's go back to the first one. God's

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power to transform.

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Well, First, God transforms us in what way.

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Positionally right? Because he takes someone.

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Who's a worm, who's weak, as Isaiah forty one describes it,

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broken bearing, whatever the case may be, and we are

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declared to be perfect, holy and righteous, even though we

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are not all right, So there's that that transformation, and

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then what happens in glorification. We're made practically what we

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are positionally, we are transformed, complete transformation, no longer a

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sinful body, no more pain, no more suffering, no more death.

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Right, So there is so if you want to apply

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to us.

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Our transformation is in two parts, right, yes, the positional,

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then the practical and the and the end.

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Between those two. We live a life of sin, failure,

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and sin and failure, just like Israel did.

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Right, So the parallel there is pretty good, right from

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barrenness to abundance. Same thing we we're bearing practically, we're

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going to always be baring in the sense we're going

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to be sinning. We're never gonna be able to fulfill

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the law of God God, so we're always going to

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be lacking and needing. But ultimately God he in a sense,

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gives us abundance positionally by giving us imputed righteousness or

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crediting imputed righteousness to us. And then ultimately and the

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new heavens and the new Earth when we are glorified

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correct right, so we see the power to transform. We

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see from barreness to abundance. Number three the removal of obstacles.

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The removal of obstacles okay. Isaiah forty verse four speaks

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of valleys being raised and mountains being lowered, symbolizing how

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God removes barriers. Isaiah forty one fifteen portrays Israel crushing

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mountains like a threshing sledge, symbolizing God's power through his people.

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The implication God removes what hinders his plans, whether for

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his coming or Israel's deliverance. Whatever the obstacle is, God

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is going to do. What remove it? God's going to

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remove it. God's going to remove it. If you think

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about it, what is the thing? What is the obstacle

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between us and God?

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Sin?

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us together? Well, he does so, first by sending his

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son to die for us, and then by our faith.

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He imputes the righteousness of his son to us, so

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I can stand before God as someone who's perfect, even

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though I am not. And then ultimately he will remove

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sin and glorification so that we spend eternity with him physically. Right,

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So that's how he removes that obstacle.

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So if you want to apply these.

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Three things to us, it's done in a very spiritual way. Right,

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the power of transformation positionally, then practically in glorification, barness

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to abundance positionally and then practically and then the removal

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of obstacles, which is the removal of sin positionally, and

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then practically for Israel, this is he's going to transform.

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He's going to transform in a sense, anything that's in

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their way. He's going to transform it so that they

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can make to make a way for them. He's gonna

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give them everything they need, and he's going to remove

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any obstacle in their way. And that's and that happened

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what historically in a very literal way, because when we

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read the decree of Cyrus and Ezra, he basically tells

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them to get everything they're going to need, to do

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what to prepare the way, and he he removes any

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obstacles because he destroys whom he takes over the Babylonians.

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Right, everybody got that, right? What are the philological implications

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from all of this? Right?

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Well, I think that once again shows God's sovereignty over everything. Right,

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got sovereignty over creation, and both passages God exhorts complete

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control over nature, altering landscape, removing barriers, and creating abundance

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where there was desolation. This connects to now According to AI,

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it connects to two passages, or at least.

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One of them.

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Well, we will look at both of them. Go to

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one O four, Go to Psalm one O four. What

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do you find in some one O four. I don't

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want to start do what God's marvelous creation and who's

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given in fact? How many verses in ps one oh four? Yeah,

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thirty five? Okay, all right, but if you'll just look here,

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look at some one oh four, we'll just start reading

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some of this. Bless the Lord, Bless the Lord, Oh

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my soul.

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Oh Lord, my God. Thou art very great.

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Thou are clothed with honor and majesty, Who coverest thyself

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with light as with a garment, who stretcheth out the

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heavens like a curtain, who layeth the beams of his

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chamber in the waters, who maketh the clouds his chariot,

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who walketh upon the wings of the wind, who maketh

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his angel, spirits his ministers, a flaming fire, who laid

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the foundations of the earth, that it should not be

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removed forever.

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Right, and in.

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Fact, at thy rebuke they fled the speaking of the mountains,

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look at this, if you look at verse six, Thou

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coverest it with the deep, as with a garment.

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The water stood above the mountains.

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At thy rebuke they fled the voice of thy thunder.

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They hasted away.

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He can literally make all the mountains what just flee disappear?

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Does that not sound a little bit like Isaiah?

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They go up by the mountains, they go down by

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the valleys, unto the place where thou hast found for them.

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Thou has set a bound that they may not pass over,

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that they turn not again to cover the earth. Speaking

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of making the waters flee, he controls the waters, He

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controls everything. Right, So Isaiah forty and Isaiah forty one

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is just taking this foundational concept that who's in charge

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of everything? God in charge of all creation. It does

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what He tells it to do. Now once again, that

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brings us right into a brick wall of a theological dilemma.

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If God is.

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Sovereign over every single thing. Then when things go a

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certain way, it leaves us with only one philological conclusion.

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God nobody likes that, and so for two thousand years

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Christians have struggled with that God is sovereign, but but

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he lets us do what we want. Well, then if

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he lets us do what we want, then he's not

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sovereign over us. Well then, but that means he's choosing

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not to exercise that sovereignty over us. So in some

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way he's still responsible, right since he could step in

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at any time and fix it. So if you I

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mean just and if he's not sovereign, well then okay,

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that just It just leads to all kinds of problems.

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It also points to another passage. AI tells us to

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look at is Joe thirty eight through forty one? What

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happens in Job thirty eight through forty one. I know

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we could read all of Psalm one four, but you

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get the basic idea. Yeah, thirty eight through forty one. Yeah,

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this is where a God asked all the questions? Is

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that the whole section? I believe we can look. Yeah,

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God speaks to Job, right, Hey, who is he that?

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Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge.

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Verse two, gird up now thy loins like a man.

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And then where does he start? In verse four, where

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hast thou? Where wast thou when I laid the foundations

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of the earth?

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Declare if thou hast understanding?

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And he begins to demonstrate what his power, his power,

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his power, his power, his power.

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God is sovereign. God is in control.

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Now there's comfort in that, yes, and there's discomfort in that.

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What is the comforting part of God being in control

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of everything?

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Right?

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Well, that God's in control, So that's good to know, right,

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there's there, there's a purpose, there's a meaning, there's a reason,

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there's a cause. I mean that all of that is

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good news, right. We find comfort in that. But sometimes

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it's not good news, right because if God is in charge,

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that's kind of job's question, Hey, where what are you doing?

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And sovereignty answers job not in a way that would

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be comforting to anyone if you went to a counseling

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session and going my life is falling apart, my kids

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are dead, I've got a disease, I've lost all my

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material wealth. My life is falling apart, and you basically

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are responded to with I'm gonna ask you a bunch

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of questions that you can't answer, okay, and then you're

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gonna be like, well, man, I'm sure glad I went

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to that counselor.

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I feel so much better about my life.

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Everyone always reads the Book of Job as if the

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story ends in such a happy way.

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I don't. That's a horrible thing.

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Your life is trash, And the best I'm gonna give

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you is philosophical questions. That's God's answer, right, and basically

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what is he? Basically when it's all sett and down,

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what does Job do? I'm just gonna shut up. I'm

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just now, I'm not gonna speak. That's difficult to understand.

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So the sovereignty of God is great on one end

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because it's like there's a purpose, there's a meaning. I mean,

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this stuff didn't just show up by accident. This is okay, great,

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I got purpose, I got meaning. But at the same time,

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you can be like, well, but God, if you're sovereign,

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then why And I could ask five hundred why.

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Questions, couldn't you?

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Right? If God is sovereign, do I may of you

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give you the numbers of how many children are sexually

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molested every year. Nobody wants those numbers, do they do?

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I want to give you the numbers. How many people

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are being sexually trafficked trafficked in this world? Nobody wants

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those numbers?

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Right? How many women are raped? Anybody want those numbers?

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How many are murdered? Now? Nobody wants those numbers? Right?

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But is that not the obvious question when it comes

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to God is.

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Sovereign? It's very complicated, it's not.

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But the philological answer is God is sovereign no matter

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what happens, right, His sovereignty is not determined by what.

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By What occurs.

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Circumstances does not prove or disprove God's sovereignty. He's sovereign,

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irregardless of the circumstances. Now, that's a very from a

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debate tech From a debate perspective, it really is kind

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of trash because it's like, you.

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Can't be proved wrong.

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Right, Hey, you say God is sovereign, Well what about this? Well,

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God is sovereigny regardless of this?

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Well I went the debate. Okay, From a debate perspective,

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I hate it.

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Right, because it's just it's it's a logical fallacy basically

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a circular reasoning, right, I mean, why God is sovereign?

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Why is God sovereign? Because God says a sovereign all right, Well,

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I guess that makes you feel good.

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That doesn't make me feel good at all, right, it

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leads to lots of problems. And if God is sovereign

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over everything, well, then I wish you would just exercise

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that sovereignty over whom humans, and then that would immediately

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stop what murder, rape and all of that. So God

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doesn't exercise a sovereignty And so people say, well because

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of free will, But then that gets into all kinds

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of theological problems because if God is the one giving

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the free will, God knows what's gonna happen with the

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free will. He's still responsible, right, And obviously God doesn't

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always respect free will because he intervenes numerous times, right,

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He intervenes over over Pharaoh, over Egypt. He steps in

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whenever he wants. So if he can say if he

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steps in once, then he can step in what every

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single time? When Sarah is taken, God steps.

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In to protect her.

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Well, he steps in, So I mean like that's so

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that it becomes very problematic in trying to figure it out.

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But there's no there's no question. In Isaiah forty and

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Isaiah forty one, Psalm one oh four, Job thirty eight

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through forty one, what do we demonstrate.

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God's sovereignty over creation? God is sovereign.

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That is just a theological dogmatic assertion. God is sovereign.

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The Church has struggled with the sovereignty of God for

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two thousand years. Right, Everyone will say this is the

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weird thing in christian If you say God is sovereign,

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every church, every denomination will say what amen, But then

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immediately start offering, well, bud, how about this free will?

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What about this this?

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And because nobody has any good answers and I don't

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have any good answers. On one hand, I find great

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comfort in God's sovereignty. On the other hand, I'm kind

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of bothered. Right. I mean, if you're if you're in

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a place, right, you go to a place, you're there

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and somebody starts doing horrible things to someone in your family,

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you may intervene, but you may go to the people

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who are in charge.

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Of the place to do what to fix the problem,

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to solve the problem.

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And what if the people when you go to say, well,

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where were you and I built this?

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Where were you?

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You'd kind of be like, dude, you're trash, I'm is happening. Yeah,

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so but you're in charge. Yeah, so you would be like,

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that's messed up and aroundabout way. That's kind of what

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God tells job. You're suffering, Yeah were you? Where were

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you when I made everything? But my kids are dead?

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Yeah?

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So did you create the heavens and the earth? Do

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you know everything?

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Well?

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No, but my kids are dead. Yeah, I've got this

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horrible disease and I'm suffering. Yeah, did you make the

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heavens and the earth?

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Well? No, I mean that's that's not comforting. Okay, that's

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not that's not comforting.

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God is sovereign now, and for Israel's case in Isaiah

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forty and forty one, his sovereignty is being used for them.

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He's going to remove all the obstacles. He's going to

475
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prepare away so that they can go back. That's great,

476
00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:57.079
But they could ask, well, if you're so sovereign over everything,

477
00:26:57.400 --> 00:26:59.039
why did we end up in this situation?

478
00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:02.200
And to begin with?

479
00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:05.359
And well, they don't know it at that time, but

480
00:27:05.480 --> 00:27:08.000
you know, seventy eight they're going to be wiped off

481
00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:10.039
the face of the earth, and in the nineteen forties,

482
00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:12.119
six million of them are going to be exterminated by

483
00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:17.559
a man by the name of Hitler. That raises some

484
00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:19.200
serious questions, does it not.

485
00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:22.240
Again? And people want to put.

486
00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:24.960
Free will into it, but free will is not Everyone

487
00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:27.319
thinks free will is the answer, but free will doesn't

488
00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:30.200
answer anything because who gave people free will? Well, then

489
00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:32.440
you have to say God gave everyone free will? Well,

490
00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:34.799
and God knew what was going to happen, and then

491
00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:37.759
how come he can intervene at certain points that seems

492
00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:38.640
to go over God.

493
00:27:39.119 --> 00:27:42.000
This seems to not follow people's free will.

494
00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:44.759
It becomes and if everyone has free will, then there's

495
00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:47.759
no point in praying about anything because God's not intervening.

496
00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:50.960
If you say people are completely free and God can't intervene,

497
00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:53.839
then there's no point in praying because God's not intervening.

498
00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:56.960
But if God intervenes, then do you pray that God

499
00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:00.640
that Bobby will let God intervene And the whole thing

500
00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:04.200
just becomes a I mean, it looked like one of

501
00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:07.279
those conspiracy theorists in a basement with a wall with

502
00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:09.960
all kinds of you know, this connects to this, and

503
00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:12.039
this connects to this, and they're losing their minds. That's

504
00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:16.119
what theology sometimes feels like. Because this he becomes.

505
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:20.079
Great. God is sovereign.

506
00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:24.680
That is good news for Israel in this specific situation, right.

507
00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:28.279
And there's times God's sovereignty probably plays out in my

508
00:28:28.359 --> 00:28:30.359
life in a way which I don't know and I'm

509
00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:32.880
very grateful for. But there's other times it's played out

510
00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:35.160
and I don't know where why God didn't do Why

511
00:28:35.160 --> 00:28:36.759
did God do this or not do this, or do

512
00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:41.599
this or do this or why why? Some people are

513
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:46.119
born in a place where there's pain, suffering, death and violence,

514
00:28:46.119 --> 00:28:48.200
and other people are born in a nice little family.

515
00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:51.079
They got everything they ever needed, a white picket fence,

516
00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:54.720
two dogs, a cat, and lets you can do your.

517
00:28:54.599 --> 00:28:55.960
Homework on the boat.

518
00:28:56.559 --> 00:28:59.079
Other people are born being tied up in a closet,

519
00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:01.359
beat with a baseball, and burn with a curling iron.

520
00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:08.640
That how does that work? Right?

521
00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:18.519
Hey, it's great God God is sovereign. When Israel tells

522
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:21.160
them to go into that land and kill everyone, it's

523
00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:26.480
not so great when you're the one being killed. Let

524
00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:29.400
me see, Well, they were pagans and Israel was what

525
00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:36.880
were they not idolatiers over and over and over and

526
00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:39.559
over and over again. Do they not offer up their

527
00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:42.359
own children for sacrifice? Now, depending on what actually happened

528
00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:44.680
in those sacrifices, we could talk about. But either way,

529
00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:47.359
I mean, was Israel better than those nations that they

530
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:48.079
were slaughtering?

531
00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:51.799
No, so it's really complicated.

532
00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:56.640
But in this particular case, it does demonstrate God's sovereignty

533
00:29:56.640 --> 00:29:59.720
over creation. Second, does it not show God's power to deliver?

534
00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:04.440
And Isaiah forty anticipates a new Exodus like deliverance which

535
00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:08.559
is later fulfilled in Christ. Isaiah forty one, fourteen through

536
00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:13.119
twenty speaks of God's delivering and renewing Israel. God God

537
00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:15.640
is not just a judge of the nations. He is

538
00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:19.480
also a redeemer of his people. God has the power

539
00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:23.640
to deliver and redeem again, that is great for whom

540
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:31.720
them and their situation. He has the power to redeem

541
00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:38.920
and to deliver. How long were they in how? I mean,

542
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:43.880
how long did the Holocaust go on? It took six

543
00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:48.359
million people being exterminated before finally the concentration camps were

544
00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:54.319
finally rescued the remaining people. I'm glad you got here.

545
00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:56.359
Thank you American troops for showing up.

546
00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:56.759
Thank you.

547
00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:02.200
I mean six million people are dead, so that right

548
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:07.839
there is complicated. Right, Hey, I'm glad you showed up.

549
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.039
You know here now and their case they're in Babylon captivity.

550
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:14.000
We know why they're in Babylon captivity. But again, God could,

551
00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:18.400
I mean, God can deliver and redeem whenever he wants.

552
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:24.400
It's just sometimes he doesn't deliver and redeem when we want.

553
00:31:25.480 --> 00:31:28.559
From a practical standpoint, but I think we see God's

554
00:31:28.599 --> 00:31:29.519
sovereignty over creation.

555
00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:31.599
We see God's power to deliver and redeem. Now.

556
00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:33.759
I know, at least you guys are used to me

557
00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:35.680
saying things like this. I always feel bad for the

558
00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:38.039
people online because they get mad at me and they

559
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:40.279
get upset. If the church was bigger, I people would

560
00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:41.720
get mad. I'm telling you if I said this kind

561
00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:43.720
of stuff in almost any church in abling this morning,

562
00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:47.119
what would happen. We know what would happen. They would

563
00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:49.279
get up and get mad and walk out. Because I'm

564
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:51.440
not supposed to say these things. But anything I'm saying,

565
00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:56.519
I'm not saying anything that's not true, right, I mean,

566
00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:00.799
these are This is the reality people face. Sometimes churches

567
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:05.160
don't understand why a Christian kid goes to college and

568
00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:08.599
walks away from their faith because they get confronted with

569
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:11.440
the very kind of realities I'm pointing out you should

570
00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:14.640
be confronted with them where not in a college classroom,

571
00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:17.920
but in the pew in church, because these are realities

572
00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:18.839
that deep down.

573
00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:22.200
You know are true. You know these, you know this conflict.

574
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:24.440
Anyone who hasks faith should know.

575
00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:27.319
Man, I'm believing a God in whom I cannot see,

576
00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:29.720
but I see all of this stuff. This sometimes makes

577
00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:33.519
no sense, and it is sometimes contradictory to the power

578
00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:37.960
that we assigned to God. We assign absolute power to God.

579
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:41.920
We assigned complete knowledge to God.

580
00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:45.599
Okay, well, and all knowing, all powerful God.

581
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:53.079
I'm sorry, there's some questions, right, Yes.

582
00:32:53.799 --> 00:32:54.720
I think that's fair.

583
00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:59.359
So this Isaiah forty, Isaiah forty one, along with someone

584
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:02.160
oh four and thirty through forty one, shows God's sovereignty

585
00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:05.759
over creation, his power to deliver and redeem. All right,

586
00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:11.839
And now some will argue that this also foreshadows We

587
00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:15.160
talked about this in the Last Hour, the Messianic Age,

588
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:19.400
maybe the Millennial Kingdom, maybe the new heavens and the

589
00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:22.480
New Earth. Let's just go through a number of scriptures. Right,

590
00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:27.799
we know Isaiah forty three through four shows up. Ready,

591
00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:32.519
everybody got their bibles. Matthew three to three, you can

592
00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:47.119
look at it. What do you see in Matthew three

593
00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:59.799
to three. I'm gonna turn to these, for this is

594
00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:02.160
he that was spoken of by the prophet.

595
00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:04.880
That's Isaiah right.

596
00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:08.920
Saying, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare

597
00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:11.760
ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

598
00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:14.679
Look at Mark one to three.

599
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:26.719
You're gonna probably find very similar language. Mark chapter one,

600
00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:30.239
verse three, the voice of the one crying in the wilderness.

601
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:32.559
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make.

602
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:38.119
His path straight, right, Luke three, Just so that there's

603
00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:44.000
no confusion, Luke three, four through six, As it is

604
00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:45.719
written in the Book of the Words of Isaiah, the

605
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:48.239
prophet saying, the voice of the one crying in the wilderness,

606
00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:49.840
prepare you the way of the Lord.

607
00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:50.639
Make his path straight.

608
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:53.079
Every valley should be filled, every mountain and hills shall

609
00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:55.639
be brought low, and crookeds shall be made straight, and

610
00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:58.920
the rough way shall be made smooth, and all the flesh.

611
00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:01.079
Shall see the salvation of God. Right.

612
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:05.280
John chapter one, verse twenty three. I mean this is

613
00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:09.039
in When it's repeated this many times, you know it's significant. Right,

614
00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:13.960
he said, I am the voice of the one crying

615
00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:15.880
in the wilderness. Make straight the way of the Lord,

616
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:19.079
as said the prophet Isaiah. All right, So what does

617
00:35:19.079 --> 00:35:23.079
this mean? Well, all of these passages are foreshadowing at.

618
00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:25.559
Least the coming of the Messiah to some level.

619
00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:30.000
Right, just as all of these obstacles, all of this

620
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:32.480
stuff is going to be made right so that Israel

621
00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:37.599
can return to Jerusalem. All of the obstacles will be

622
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:42.599
removed so that the Messiah can appear. John the Baptist

623
00:35:42.679 --> 00:35:44.599
was there to help prepare that.

624
00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:47.519
Right. He was there to prepare the.

625
00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:52.719
Coming of the Messiah. Right, same concept, everyone agrees there. Right,

626
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:56.280
if you look at Isaiah forty one, eighteen through nineteen,

627
00:35:56.320 --> 00:35:57.920
we've already looked at it, but you can see it

628
00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:05.400
right there, Isaiah forty one, eighteen through nineteen. We've looked

629
00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:09.599
at it now multiple times. Right, I will open the rivers,

630
00:36:09.719 --> 00:36:10.800
I will plant in the wilderness.

631
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:12.559
See all of that. Right.

632
00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:17.800
Some say this echoes later prophecies of restoration, which we

633
00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:20.119
see in Isaiah fifty five, which we read in the

634
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:25.239
first hour Isaiah fifty five twelve through thirteen and Revelation

635
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:29.280
twenty two to one through two. Some believe Isaiah forty

636
00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:33.800
one eighteen nineteen. I mean those has an immediate historical

637
00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:37.800
context of what He's going to remove everything, prepare everything

638
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:38.679
for Israel.

639
00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:39.679
To go back to Judah.

640
00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:43.519
It's also promising and kind of foreshadowing the kind of

641
00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:46.920
the restoration and how everything will be during the Millennial

642
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:49.679
Kingdom and then ultimately and the New Heavens and the

643
00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:54.920
New Earth and Revelation twenty two right, So ultimately, the

644
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:59.159
imagery of transformation in both passages Isaiah forty and Isaiah

645
00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:03.440
forty one finds ultimate fulfillment in Christ, who removes spiritual

646
00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:10.360
obstacles and brings restoration. So ultimately, God's sovereignty and his

647
00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:17.000
power to redeem will ultimately be fulfilled in Christ, who

648
00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:21.719
sovereignly will redeem people and save them from their sins

649
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:28.199
positionally and then ultimately will restore everything in the New

650
00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:29.280
Heavens and the New Earth.

651
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:30.400
So do you see how.

652
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:35.480
That works in Israel? God is sovereign. Yes, God has

653
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:40.719
the power to redeem. Yes, these passages indicate that, but

654
00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:44.199
they also point to the ultimate fulfillment because part of

655
00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:47.280
it is quoted in the New Testament as applying to

656
00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:49.079
John the Baptist, which is pointing to Christ.

657
00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:49.719
Christ.

658
00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:57.840
Christ is God's sovereign answer to deliver and redeem people,

659
00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:01.880
but not in the way that maybe we necessarily would think, right,

660
00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:06.719
because He redeems us by saving us positionally and then

661
00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:11.400
waiting till eternity to restore us in a practical sins.

662
00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:16.280
Which defies our ideas? Does it not? Right?

663
00:38:16.519 --> 00:38:19.480
There is how it all plays out, So what is

664
00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:24.079
the conclusion here? Isaiah forty three through four and Isaiah

665
00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:27.719
forty one fourteen through twenty both depict God's power to

666
00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:32.079
transform desolate places, remove obstacles.

667
00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:34.079
And prepare the way for his purpose. Do we agree

668
00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:34.440
on that?

669
00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:37.960
If you look at Isaiah forty one Isaiah forty three

670
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:42.039
through four, they depict God's power to transform desolate places,

671
00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:48.800
remove obstacles, and prepare the way for his purpose. Right.

672
00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:53.320
While Isaiah forty anticipates the coming of the Lord, Isaiah

673
00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:56.559
forty one describes the renewal of his people. Together, they

674
00:38:56.559 --> 00:39:01.639
emphasize God's sovereignty, redemption, and ultimate restoration. And I want

675
00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:04.840
you to see that his sovereignty, his redemption, and his

676
00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:12.639
ultimate restoration. Right, God is sovereign and Israel's deliverance. Yes,

677
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:16.400
he's going to be sovereign in their ultimate restoration. He

678
00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:19.599
was sovereign in their restoration back to the Jerusalem. He

679
00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:23.079
will be sovereign in their restoration in the millennial.

680
00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:24.000
Kingdom, he will be.

681
00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:27.079
He's sovereign and over all of it. Does it always

682
00:39:27.079 --> 00:39:29.239
make sense from a human perspective.

683
00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:30.119
No, it doesn't.

684
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:34.039
Right, there's so many things about Israel that makes no sense. Well, God,

685
00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:36.039
you could have prevented this. You could have done this,

686
00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:38.800
You could have stopped this, and we question it all.

687
00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:41.199
Anyone looking at the history of Israel should.

688
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:43.199
Be questioning it. God could have fixed this, He could

689
00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:45.400
have stopped this, He could have prevented this. Nothing.

690
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:48.440
Well guess what, it plays out the same way for us,

691
00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:52.599
as I've already said. God is sovereign and our salvation. Yes,

692
00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:59.239
completely sovereign. Does it always make sense, No, it doesn't

693
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:01.400
make sense and any way, shape or form.

694
00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:02.920
Wait, wait, you're gonna create.

695
00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:05.960
You're gonna create Outam and Eve so that they will fall,

696
00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:07.480
so that we will all.

697
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:14.239
Be born sinners. We're all born centers, we're all born condemned.

698
00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:17.480
That seems to make no sense. Right.

699
00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:19.960
And if I'm born a sinner and if I have

700
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:25.239
a sinful nature, well wait, I'm already the cards are already

701
00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:29.320
stacked against me, are they not? And if I'm truly

702
00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:32.039
born a center, then what does that mean about my will? Well,

703
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:34.360
my will's gonna be impacted by that sin. So then

704
00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:35.360
is it truly free?

705
00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:35.599
Well?

706
00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:37.199
How do I how can I test to see if

707
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:41.400
man truly has a free will? Just tell them to

708
00:40:41.559 --> 00:40:46.960
obey God perfectly? Can anyone do that? That proves we

709
00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:48.000
don't have a free will?

710
00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:49.440
Free wills?

711
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.159
Just I mean, anyone who argues you have a free will,

712
00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:54.599
then I'll be like, just obey the Bible perfectly. They

713
00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:57.320
can't do it. That means their will is not free.

714
00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:59.679
Because if I can't do what the Bible.

715
00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:02.000
Says, and then I've got to identify what is keeping

716
00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:02.760
me from doing it.

717
00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:04.039
What is keeping me from doing it?

718
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Is my sinful nature, all right, So if nobody can

719
00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:09.519
obey it, that means then no, what are we going

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to do?

721
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:13.039
Well God sovereignly? Then, now, people don't like this.

722
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Before the foundations of the world chose Okay, look, I

723
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:22.400
don't like that, But God chose Israel.

724
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Yes, he chooses us, then he redeems us.

725
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But he redeems this in a way that doesn't seem

726
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:33.159
to make sense, right, because we think we should be

727
00:41:33.199 --> 00:41:34.559
redeemed in what way?

728
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:39.519
In a transformative way? Right?

729
00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:42.599
But he redeems us by an imputed righteousness, not an

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00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:45.719
infused righteousness, which seems to make no sense. You're gonna

731
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:48.360
declare me to be that which I am not. That

732
00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:50.800
seems to make no stake. And then he is going

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to transform me. But what's frustrating. He's not gonna transform

734
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me to win till I want to be transformed now.

735
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But the same thing is true of is He promises

736
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them complete transformation, does he not? In Ezekiel and in Jeremiah.

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He's gonna give them a new heart. They're no longer

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going to turn to idols. They're going to fulfill all

739
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of his commands.

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Has that happened?

741
00:42:18.039 --> 00:42:22.519
No, that's insane. He says he's gonna transform them. Why

742
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:25.320
didn't he transform them? I don't know before they went

743
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into Egyptian captivity.

744
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Wouldn't that have made more sense? But he didn't. So

745
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in some.

746
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Ways we should not expect anything different than what he's

747
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done for Israel. He left them not transformed practically, but

748
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they were still His people that he made a covenant with.

749
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Right, they fell, fall, all the.

750
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Problems that take place that's gone on throughout history, and

751
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it parallels us. We're saved where God's chosen, but yet

752
00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:58.480
we fall, we sin, but we're still His chosen.

753
00:42:58.559 --> 00:42:59.880
We're in a covenant with him.

754
00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:03.639
But ultimately Israel will be transformed and who else will

755
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be transformed?

756
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:06.119
Us?

757
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And if we go, If we look at it from

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a maybe a chronological perspective, the millennial kingdom is before

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the new heavens and the new Earth. So Israel is

760
00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:23.840
transformed before all of us in a sense. So this section,

761
00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:30.760
this connection shows God's sovereignty, his redemption, and his transformative power.

762
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But it all is fulfilled in Christ all right. So

763
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Isaiah forty three through four and Isaiah forty one fourteen

764
00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:45.840
through twenty depicts God's power to transform desolate places, remove obstacles,

765
00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:48.599
and prepare the way for his purpose. While Isaiah forty

766
00:43:48.639 --> 00:43:51.880
anticipates the coming, Isaiah forty one describes the renewal of

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00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:56.599
his people. Together, they emphasize God's sovereignty, redemption, and ultimate

768
00:43:56.920 --> 00:44:01.639
restoration or ultimate transformation. There we have it there's the

769
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:07.000
connection between the two right now, I knew there's no

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way we can do the next section right at noon,

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00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:11.360
So I knew that was I had to kind of

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00:44:11.400 --> 00:44:13.920
just extend that out a little bit longer because I

773
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was going to get caught in between.

774
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So there we go.

775
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Any questions about that now, I'm glad Sarah brought that up.

776
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That's why that's good.

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00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:26.159
Observational That's what we're supposed to do in Bible studies,

778
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were supposed to observe. What's interesting is in the observational

779
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outline created by AI, it did not draw that immediate correlation.

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I think it mentioned it briefly, but it didn't do

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much with it. So that's why sometimes we have to

782
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even when we're using a tool like AI, we've got

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to do our own observation of the text. Now, once

784
00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:47.840
we gave it to AI, it immediately said, yeah, there's

785
00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:51.280
something here, but it didn't just immediately provide it to us, right,

786
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So in fact, i'd have to look at my observational outline.

787
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:58.239
But I think I think AI may have briefly mentioned it,

788
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but it wasn't in great detail. Sarah's the one who

789
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really pointed it out. But there is a thematic and

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linguistic connection. And what's interesting then it kind of takes

791
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this idea of his sovereignty, the transformation, and the redemption.

792
00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:16.719
And because you put forty one.

793
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Connected to forty then you can put it to Christ

794
00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:22.599
because it's quoted in the New Testament, which kind of

795
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:28.679
brings the whole full picture, the historical, the historical and

796
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:36.840
far as Babylonian captivity, Christ, salvation spiritual, but then ultimately

797
00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:40.960
points to Israel and the Millennial Kingdom. So it kind

798
00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:45.000
of gets all three elements together, right, Israel and their

799
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:48.480
contexts there, Salvation with Christ.

800
00:45:48.519 --> 00:45:50.719
Which is very critical to saving.

801
00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:52.800
Israel as well because all Israel will be saved, and

802
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:56.119
then ultimately the Millennial Kingdom and the restoration. It brings

803
00:45:56.199 --> 00:46:01.320
all of it together. Maybe not nice and neat, but

804
00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:04.920
it does so. So that leaves us with next week

805
00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:11.679
twenty one to what twenty nine right, the end of

806
00:46:11.719 --> 00:46:15.719
the well end the chapter next week right, so we'll

807
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:17.440
see what we do. We may do that the first

808
00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:20.400
hour and or do that the second hour. Do something

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00:46:20.440 --> 00:46:22.960
different in the first hour, because I don't want to

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00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:25.320
start forty two until we can you know what I'm saying,

811
00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:38.840
It'll be like yeah, absolutely, okay, oh yeah, yeah, which

812
00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:42.039
fits perfectly with forty one.

813
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:42.400
Yeah.

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00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:45.159
If everybody will look at forty five forty verse five,

815
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and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and

816
00:46:48.079 --> 00:46:50.960
all flesh shall see it together for the mountain, for

817
00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:53.400
the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it, And then

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00:46:53.480 --> 00:47:24.199
look at forty one is it verse twenty Oh.

819
00:47:11.519 --> 00:47:16.719
That they may see and know? Well maybe yeah for everyone.

820
00:47:16.679 --> 00:47:25.000
Yeah, yeah, yeah, forty five forty first five and the

821
00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:27.280
glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh

822
00:47:27.320 --> 00:47:31.079
shall see it. And then in forty one twenty that

823
00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:35.199
they may see, they may see and know and consider

824
00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:37.440
and understand together that the hand of the Lord.

825
00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:39.400
Yeah. I think in some ways God is going to

826
00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:41.840
do all of this. Everyone's going to see that Israel

827
00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:42.960
has been brought back.

828
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:50.800
I mean, everyone's going to know they rebuilt Jerusalem, right,

829
00:47:58.159 --> 00:47:59.639
and all flesh sees.

830
00:47:59.360 --> 00:48:02.760
The same concept. Right.

831
00:48:03.239 --> 00:48:06.119
So God's gonna work in a sovereign way so that

832
00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:09.000
the world sees his power working in Israel to bring

833
00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:12.000
him back, and then in Christ the world will see

834
00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:16.519
the salvation. I mean, because everyone, almost every culture, everyone

835
00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:19.079
has some understanding of Christ to some level. They may

836
00:48:19.119 --> 00:48:21.760
believe something completely different. The Arab world may believe he

837
00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:24.039
was just a prophet of Muhammad Mohammad, but they know

838
00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:28.760
something about Christ. Everywhere that people believe something about Christ.

839
00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:31.400
So in a sense, the world has seen the salvation,

840
00:48:31.480 --> 00:48:33.960
provided they may reject it, they may turn it into

841
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:36.480
something else. So the same concepts show up. Yeah, I

842
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:40.719
mean the core the parallels are striking and very very

843
00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:46.519
much there all the world right, which fits perfectly with

844
00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:50.079
it all together, right, And Luke is the one who

845
00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:53.119
writes acts about going into Samaria and the other most

846
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:56.119
parts of the world right and tracks Paul's missionary journeys,

847
00:48:56.119 --> 00:48:59.039
which makes sense because he's in a sense showing the

848
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:02.760
practical fulfillment of it, right, So all of it fits

849
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:04.440
together perfectly.

850
00:49:04.599 --> 00:49:08.639
So yeah, those are great observations. All right. So we'll

851
00:49:08.639 --> 00:49:09.920
finish forty one next week.

852
00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:12.079
Like I said, I either I don't know how we'll

853
00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:14.599
do it, and then we have forty.

854
00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:16.400
Two and we'll move forward.

855
00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:18.960
And I don't know how long it's going to take us,

856
00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:20.679
but we're going to understand this better than all the

857
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:23.000
sermons I've listened to on it. So all right, let's pray,

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00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:25.519
Lord God, we come before you this afternoon, or thank

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00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:30.199
you for just having a place where we can come

860
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:33.719
and make observation and study and question and challenge.

861
00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:34.480
Lord.

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00:49:34.519 --> 00:49:36.800
I think there's it's got to be true of everyone

863
00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:39.039
in this room. It's got to be true of everyone online.

864
00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:43.159
If we're truly honest, we're not giving a church answer.

865
00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:47.079
There's times, Lord, we struggle with your sovereignty, with your knowledge.

866
00:49:47.519 --> 00:49:51.480
We don't understand it at times, Lord, but we acknowledge

867
00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:55.119
that it's true whether we understand it, and all we

868
00:49:55.159 --> 00:49:57.960
can do is humble ourselves before it. And we asked

869
00:49:57.960 --> 00:50:04.079
this in Jesus name, and God's people said seven