March 23, 2025

Transition: Isaiah 41 to Isaiah 42

Transition: Isaiah 41 to Isaiah 42

We look at how Isaiah 41 transitions to Isaiah 42.

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We look at how Isaiah 41 transitions to Isaiah 42.

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All right. In the last hour, we finished Isaiah chapter

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forty one. We are done. We could then just immediately

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jump to chapter forty two, but we're not going to

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do that. Next week, we will start Isaiah forty two

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by doing an observational outline of the entire chapter. Then

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after we do an observational outline, then we'll start kind

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of breaking it down by the sections that we put

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together through that outline. So that's what we'll do next week.

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But today, as we did going from forty to forty one,

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we're gonna do the same thing going from forty one

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to forty two. We're gonna spend some time trying to

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look at how forty forty one transitions into forty two. Also,

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depending on how far we get today, there is a

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possibility that next week we won't even start with the

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observational outline. Next week, possibly the first hour may deal

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with one phrase. Is if you look at chapter forty two,

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verse one, you see the phrase behold two words, my servant.

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We may spend a considerable amount of time on that phrase.

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Because the forty and through a good portion of the

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rest of Isaiah, this idea of the servant or servant

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songs are going to become very critical and identifying this

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is going to be important, and I'm going to be

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very honest with you. I'm still struggling with it. I

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have major disagreements with everyone in Christianity over this issue.

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I even have I Me and Ai've argued and argued

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and argued. I don't even know if I'm in agreement

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with anybody on this because I just have some major

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problems with this, and we'll talk about it in greater detail.

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Just remember, I will just tell everyone just right now,

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you can go ahead and write it down in your notes.

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Whenever we discuss the servant or the identity of the

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just write down Isaiah forty one eight. We talked about

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it in the last hour, forty one eight because forty

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one eight is identifies my servant as Home Israel. All right, everyone,

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just keep that in mind, okay. I think that's the

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first time the servant is identified is in forty one

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to eight and it's identified as Israel. Just keep that

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in mind. Well, we're gonna do a lot of work

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on this, and just I'm gonna reference that a lot, okay,

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And I'm gonna put myself in great conflict with everyone

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over this, but we'll see. All right, so you're ready

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to do a study and the transition between forty one

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and forty two? Everybody ready? All right? Forty two chapter

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forty two, Isaiah forty two. How many verses in Isaiah

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forty two twenty five? If I believe? Everyone want to

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verify that? All right? So Isaiah forty two is directly

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connected to I cannot stress this enough. You should already

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know this. Isaiah forty two is directly connected to and

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builds upon Isaiah forty one. I'm trying to drive this

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point home, all right. When you get into Isaiah forty

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through fifty five, one flows into another. Everyone likes to

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rip these chapters out of context and make them about us,

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And this is going to be very important, all right.

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And Isaiah forty through fifty five? What is the most

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famous chapter in Isaiah forty through fifty five? What is

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the most famous chapter in Isaiah forty through fifty five? Everyone,

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here's one should know this. Fifty three. Everyone look at

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fifty three. Everyone look at fifty three. Everyone look at

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fifty three. Everyone look at Isaiah fifty three, and just

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start looking at it. What's some of the famous verses

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in Isaiah fifty three. Come on, just start, Someone named

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some of the famous verses. You should be able to

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recite them from memory. You shouldn't even have to look. Okay,

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all my sheep have gone astray? Okay? What else? He

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was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruise for our iniquities.

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Everybody see that? Okay? Now immediately, Isaiah fifty three is

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all about whom, and every sermon you hear it's about Christ.

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It's about Christ. It's about Christ. Now, remember, if we're

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following the flow from Isaiah forty through Isaiah fifty five,

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something dramatic has to change to get us from the

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context that we have been looking at, right, because what

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establishes the context of Isaiah forty through fifty five? What

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establishes the context of Isaiah forty through fifty five? Chapter

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thirty nine? We covered this like a million times? Is

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it versus five three eight? Everybody verify that thirty nine

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five to eight that talks about them going into Babylonian captivity,

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and then forty begins with comfort yee, comfort yee? Who

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is the comfort? Four? They've been identified numerous times in

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Isaiah forty and forty one Israel those in Babylonian captivity.

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So all of a sudden, you get to fifty three

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and it's about Jesus being crucified. What is they gonna

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do for the people in Babylonian captivity? Okay, well, let's

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just be blunt. It's gonna do absolutely nothing for them. Correct. Okay,

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so how are we going to get there? So? What

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do we have to? Then? Follow close attention to how

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each chapter transitions because something has to happen to get

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us to fifty three, and all of a sudden, you're like, whoa,

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We're not in Babylon anymore. Okay, hey, hey, we're not

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in Kansas anymore. We're we're now with the Crucifixion of Christ.

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What just happened? So I'm focusing on the transition mainly

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for there. But I don't want to just start looking

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at the transition when we get to fifty four or

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go to fifty two to fifty three. I have to

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start looking at the transition from forty to forty one,

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forty one to forty two, so we can see how

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one is building upon the other. Okay, does that make sense?

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I don't know if it's gonna help us. But that's

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what we're going to do, all right, because most sermons,

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most churches don't do the transition that much. They just

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go into the next chapter and we'll make it all

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about us. And we've already talked about that. Okay, So

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forty two is directly connected to and builds upon, Isaiah

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forty one. Everyone should say amen. But the issue is

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the question is, well, how are we going to get

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to this to fifty three? That's where my mind is already.

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I'm already like ten steps ahead thinking about that problem.

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All right, has everybody got that? But this is important.

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Oh we just heard a butt which typically negates everything.

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It marks a significant thematic and structural transition into the

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larger prophetic message of Isaiah forty through fifty five. Uh oh,

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that just got my attention. Something happens here that gets

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us to a broader prophetic message that may be key

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to fifty three. Right, that may be key to fifteen.

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Maybe forty two is going to be the key to

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fifty three. I'm not saying that's the case. So let

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me read that to you again. Forty two is directly

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connected to and builds upon, Isaiah forty one. Everyone should

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just say, hey man, that should just be we should

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just assume that's what's going to happen, right, but it

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marks it's a significant thematic and structural transition and to

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the larger prophetic message of Isaiah forty through fifty five. Now,

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if you've been since we started this and last year,

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I've been telling everyone read Isaiah forty through fifty five

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over and over and over and over and over and over.

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If you've been reading it over and over and over,

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you should already know what's coming and go, oh yeah,

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I know what the thematic shift is. I know how

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this works. If you don't, then hopefully we're going to

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figure this out. All right. Now, Isaiah forty one focused

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on God's sovereignty over nations and his rejection of idols.

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For those who were here the first hour, is that

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not true? Did Isaiah forty one focus on God's sovereignty

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over everything? Yes? Did it show his rejection of idols? Yes?

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He took him to court, right, he took them to court,

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and he gave his final verdict. All right, everybody saw everybody. Well,

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if you weren't here, hopefully just take our word for it. Okay,

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all right, isa say of forty two shifts to the

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introduction of what forty two to one. What's the very

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first word behold? Then what does it say, my servant? Behold?

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Now this is a this is gonna shift here behold.

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It wants you to see something. Everybody see that. It

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shifts to the introduction of the servant of the Lord

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a fake. Now just start looking in forty two, just

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start scanning it, skimming it. Tell me some things about

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what this servant in forty two, how he's, how they

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are described, and what they're going to do. Just start

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looking in forty two, just start skimming it. Tell me,

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just throw out some things about this servant. Oh, he

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should bring judgment to the gentiles. That's interesting, okay? Is

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elect chosen? Put a spirit upon a bruise? Read? I mean,

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there's a lot of descriptions going on here about this servant, right,

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And in fact, what I almost want to do, like

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if we're in Hermoneutics class, I almost want to just say,

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you know what, I don't even care how this works

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on the recording. I almost just want to say, guys,

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just start working on it and write down everything, every

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description of the servant in forty two. I almost want

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to just make you do that, all right, because it's

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very important, because this is a dramatic shift, right. This

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servant now becomes very key here, right, So I'll just

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read a couple of things. This figure, this individual, this

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person is going to carry out God's justice. I think

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that's fair to say. Do you think that's fair? All right?

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Bring a light to the nations? Do you think that's

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a fair description, and fulfill God's redemptive purposes? I think

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that that's all pretty accurate, all right? Everybody got that?

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So that's kind of something big is getting ready to

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happen here, and we're going to have to figure this out.

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We're gonna have to figure this out. Now. You already

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know where my mind I'm gonna struggle here a little bit,

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right because forty one eight identifies the servant as whom

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Israel forty two to one. You know where I want

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to go with, right, The servant was already identified where

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and forty one eight. So then I made a big

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deal of this in the last hour. So my thinking is, well,

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then this has to be Israel. But does that seem

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to fit Israel? It seems a little complicated now to

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make that Israel. Yes, so is it going to be identified?

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I don't know, all right, So here we go transition

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from Isaiah forty one to Isaiah forty two. Now I'm

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just gonna break down this in different arguments. I'm gonna

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I'm gonna play Devil's advocated times, I'm gonna challenge, I'm

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gonna question. I don't know where we're gonna end up

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by the end of this hour. Okay, we may end

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up so confused, it may not be funny, but we're

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gonna do our best. Okay, all right, So forty and

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forty one, right, I think we can can? Can we

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agree that forty and forty one Cyrus is seen, even

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though he may not be named. Find me where Cyrus?

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We did this in the last hour, So some of

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those who are here in the first hour, you should

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already be ready to do this. Show me where Cyrus

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is identified or hinted, or are mentioned or seeming to

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find him in forty and forty one. Yeah, now we

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think that Cyrus? Right, Yeah, we think that's Cyrus. Okay, possibly,

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so chapter forty that's verse three is where we started

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first discussing Cyrus. Correct, Okay? Where else? Okay? Verse six

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is that is verse six of Cyrus and chapter forty

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verse six. You can go back and look at your nodes.

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I don't think we identified that voice as Cyrus in six, okay,

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all right? Anything else in forty all right? How about

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forty one? Forty one? I think I think we're really

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I think forty one we're very clear. In forty one, right,

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verse two, what does it say? Okay, I'm gonna stir

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up one from the east. Everybody see that, all right,

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I'm gonna raise who raised up the righteous man from

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the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations

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before him, made him rule rule over kings, gave them

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as the dust to his sword, and as a driven

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stubble to his bow. He pursued them, passed safely, even

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by the way that he had not gone with his feet. Okay,

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so verses two and three we know that's Cyrus, all right?

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Where else in chapter forty one? Non chapter forty one?

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Twenty five? I think someone said forty five. I'm like,

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there's not forty five verses? Okay, all right, twenty five? Right,

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I have raised up one from the north. Cyrus is

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clearly identified in forty one, no question about it. There's

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no question, all right, So here's what happens, all right,

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so make sure we hear this all right. This first

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first key point in our transition is it's a transition

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from Cyrus the instrument to the servant, God's chosen agent,

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from Cyrus to the servant, from Cyrus to the servant.

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So then one could argue, what, yeah, I'm talking about

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the transition, Yeah, from Cyrus to the servant right now.

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But so what's what's the obvious question? And one could ask,

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is Cyrus and forty one, who's who's clearly identified? Is

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that the servant in forty two? Now, on one hand,

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I want to say it's Israel, because Israel's identified in

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forty one right as the servant. But this servant seems different.

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So does now just go back to what we read

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about Cyrus. Now, okay, we've got a couple of passages

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about Cyrus looked at all right, So just take the

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two verses in chapter forty one about Cyrus. A right,

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everybody got those written down, right? Got those? Now there's

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two other we read in the last hour, well, no,

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before Ezra was it forty four and forty five? Right?

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mentioned by name, is he not? Forty four to twenty eight? Okay,

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So here's what I want you to do, all right,

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everybody ready, Now, I'm not I'm I'm not making any

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dogmatic assertion. I'm getting you to think. All right, Go

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to forty one. What are the two verses in chapter

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forty one? Verse what two three and twenty five? Look

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at two three and twenty five and just start making

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a list of what it says about Cyrus and verses

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two three and twenty five. All right, Just start making

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a list of the things said about Cyrus and versus

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two three and twenty five, two three and twenty five.

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what is said there. Just make a list what is

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actually said about Cyrus two three and twenty five. Just

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go two three and twenty five. This may be an

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exercise in futility, but it's still a good I don't

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believe it's an exercise in futility because it's getting us

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to think. Here, all right, I maybe it may not

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lead you to an answer, but it's gonna it's getting

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you to think. All right, So I think Sarah's writing

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these down. All right, Sarah, what is the first thing

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we learned about Cyrus? And forty one? What verse three

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or two is righteous? It's from the east. He's gonna

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rule over king plural that means up nations? Right. Next?

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Is that everything in two and three? Okay, okay, that's okay,

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but you're getting the be okay, gotcha, all right? And

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then twenty five it comes from the north, call qu

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on God's name. Uh, he's gonna crush. He's gonna crush,

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all right, So we got him a conqueror crushing. God's involved. Okay,

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Now go to forty four is it twenty eight? Forty

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four twenty eight? What do we hear about him? In

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forty four twenty eight he's named specifically Cyrus. Okay, he's

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he's god shepherd, oh boy, Okay, he should basically do

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everything God wants. He's going to fulfill God's will. He's

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going to be called for Jerusalem re rebuilt and the

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Temple to be rebuilt. All right, that's everything in forty

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four twenty eight, and then forty five to one it's

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named again he's God's anointed. Oh boy, that's even who.

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really getting somewhere next. And just note this is very important.

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forty five to one, he's not called God's anointed, he's

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called what in forty five to one. Oh, I thought

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you said it said servant in the first hour. I

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thought you said sir. Okay, all right, okay, all right.

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I was like, wait the nivy said servant. I was like,

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I was like, we got major translation issues here. Okay,

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all right, good, I'm glad it's not in some ways.

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I was got that's going to make it more complicated. Good,

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this is going to make it easier now, okay, good.

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So it doesn't say servant and forty five one okay, good? Right,

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anything else? Hold his right hand subdues nations again. Nations

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have got that plural? Okay, okay. The gates are going

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to open for him. God's going before him. Oh there, Oh,

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there we have it. He's gonna make the crookeedre's there's

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the Isaiah forty three. Okay, all right, Remember nobody wanted

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me to say that. Isaiah forty verse three was talking

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about Cyrus everyone, all commentaries, sermons. Everybody thinks I'm wrong

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on that, even uh, even Ai argued with me a

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little bit. But right there, it sounds like Isaiah chapter

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forty verse three, anything else, Okay, yeah, that's okay, okay. Oh,

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so he's gonna do something for Israel for a servant. Okay,

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that's interesting. Okay. So now now go to forty four.

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Now go to forty two to one, and now look

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at everything about that servant, oh called thee by name. Okay,

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all right, so there's a lot going on. Now look

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at forty two and all the description of the servant.

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How similar or how different is it to Cyrus? How similar?

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How different? Now look at everything about the servant in

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forty two, everything you can find about the serving forty two?

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How similar different is it to all the things we

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just read about Cyrus? Okay? Is that different? Or saying?

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What do we think? Kind of similar? Yeah, he's gonna

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tread down, knockdown. Okay, okay, okay, that's similar. There. Put

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it this way. There is some similarity, right, there's no

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way to get around that. There's at least some similarity inspirit. Yeah,

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he's going to fulfill old God's purpose just now, no

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established justice on earth that goes now? Is that just

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using a hyperbolic kind of idea. That's that gets into

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there is some similarity, can we agree. I'm not saying

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it's perfect, but there's some similarity. Okay, Oh there's oh man,

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very direct. Oh my goodness, those are exact words. No,

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that's a little different, but some of that other is

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almost identical Cyrus language. This is where I just want

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you to at least fill the tension here. That's is Yeah,

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there's a lot of there's a lot of parallels here, ladies,

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a lot of parallels. Now what I'll do at some

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point I'll have AI build a chart for us. I'll

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have AI build a chart and then we'll look at

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it and greater. I didn't want to do that today.

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I just wanted you to start seeing we got something

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going on here. Right. So most people, so at least

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most will say that we have a transition from Cyrus

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to the servant. I say, is it? Is it a

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transition from Cyrus not being named to Cyrus now being

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identified as a servant. I can't say that, but there

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is a transition here, right, Isaiah forty one focuses heavily

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on Cyrus, the unnamed one from the East or from

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the North, whom God uses as an instrument to deliver

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Israel from Babylon. No one can get around the fact

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that in forty one Cyrus plays a major part. He does,

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he's mentioned in two, he's mentioned it, He's mentioned it

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at the beginning, he's mentioned at the end, and he

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is mentioned. And why is he so significant? In forty one,

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God calls the Idols to court, and what does God

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used for his numberumber one piece of evidence? God's number

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one piece of evidence is Cyrus. He's my evidence. The

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Idols can't do anything. They don't do anything. I'm doing something,

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and Cyrus is his name. So Cyrus is key in

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forty one. No one can Everyone has to see that, okay.

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would state it this way, a different kind of figure.

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See I struggle here the servant of the Lord. Now

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this is how some describes the person in forty two one.

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I struggle with this. He's not a political conqueror, but

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one who will bring justice, gentleness, and spiritual restoration. Do

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you feel that that's accurate? That The servant in forty

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two is notolitical, is not a political conqueror who will

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bring justice, but he brings gentleness and spiritual restoration. Well,

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the gentiles aren't mentioned, but even with Cyrus, he talks

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about nations. So that doesn't really that doesn't to me

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meaning much to me, right, but I'm looking for Okay,

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maybe is that the gentleness and how about the spiritual restoration? Maybe?

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But so let's just say this. Let's just say this.

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The transition from forty one to forty two is Cyrus

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unnamed to a servant unnamed? Is that fair? Forty one

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Cyrus is not named, is he? No? But then the

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servant is the servant named in forty two? No, So

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we go from the unnamed Cyrus we know it Cyrus

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to forty two to the unnamed servant. We have to

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at least acknowledge that transition takes place. Can we agree

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to that much? All right? Okay, then how about this

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from confrontation with Idols to God's chosen servant Isaiah. Forty

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one ends with a mock trial condemning idols as delusion

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and empty wind. Look at forty one twenty nine. Everyone

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should see that we covered that in the last hour.

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It ends with this mock trial condemns the idols as

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delusion and empty. Win everybody see that. In forty one

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to twenty nine, okay, all right. Forty two to one, though,

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opens with a completely different tone. Behold my servant, whom

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I uphold, my chosen in whom my soul delights. The

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contrast is intentional. Idols are what empty. The servant is

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filled with the spirit of God and brings truth and justice.

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It's contrasting these I now see. This is where this

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is where Cyrus comes right to my head. What was

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the evidence in forty one? Cyrus? No? Immediately forty two

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begins with a clear contrast between how the idols are

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described in forty one to now, the servant being completely different. Well,

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Cyrus was the evidence in forty one, why would he

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not be the evidence in forty two? You see where

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I struggle here. I'm not saying I'm right, I'm not.

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Look all I like to take you through. This is

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where a lot of times people in church always gets

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confused with me. When I'm thinking things through, people think, well,

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immediately want to argue with me. It's like, just slow down,

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you gotta let me get to the end. I'm still

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working through it. I like to take you through the process, right,

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I don't know. Sometimes I don't even know where I'm

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going to end because I'm still trying to work through it.

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But you can see where why my mind would be like, well,

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if the contrast is intentional, well, then the contrast was

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already established in forty one, was it? Not? Idols? You're nothing,

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you can't do anything, you can't look Cyrus is my evidence? Well, then, clearly,

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how does forty one to twenty nine ends? The idols

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are delusional, they're empty, they're vain, they're worthless. And then

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forty two, all of a sudden, my servant, though, is

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the opposite to those idols? Right, my servant is what,

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Oh yeah, there's no chapter. Yeah, there's no chapter division.

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Behold behold right exactly, there's no If you we don't

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see the chapter division, it's even more striking, is it

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not behold nothing?

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But behold this? Well, who's he been telling them to

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behold in forty one? The one from the eastern, one

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from the north Cyrus. So then you see why my

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mind is like, Cyrus is all over this. Now nobody

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likes me to say that right. In fact, I was

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listening to a sermon on the way here on Isaiah

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forty two. This before the sermon even began. Who did

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they identify the servant as? What do you think Jesus? Again?

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I would say Jesus is not of any help to

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them from if you're going to be pointing to what

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he does in the future for them in their current situation.

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And everything has been about what their current situation? And

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how did we go from forty one to forty one?

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How did we go from Cyrus to Jesus without any transaction?

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I mean, what just happened? How did I get from

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Cyrus to in one chapter? And and and as Sarah

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just pointed out, it would make no sense to go, hey,

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behold the idols, now behold Jesus. What just happened? It's well,

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thank you, Look, Sarah said, I made sense. Everyone hear that.

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The Pope has declared that. I make sense. We're stopping church.

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I'm retiring. Why No? But yeah, hey, the one thing

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you know when you come here, you're gonna hear what

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you've never heard anywhere else. Okay, that's the one good thing.

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I don't know if that's a positive thing. Or not okay,

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but that we're gonna close the church down today because

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I've been told by the Pope that I make sense.

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So no one listening online can send me an email

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and argue because the Pope has declared it does. Think

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that'll work. I don't think it'll work. I don't think

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it'll work, all right, But but I agree that I'll

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get a call. I'll get a call from the man. No,

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the Pope has not made that declaration. Okay, here, he

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doesn't even know who you are. But I get I

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do like the fact that Sarah pointed that out. Just

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look again, look at verse twenty nine. What does twenty

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nine begin with in the King James behold? And then

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forty two begins Behold, that is great observation. That's a

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great That's why I try to train you guys to

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do It's good. That's great observation because it I mean,

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man that seems to scream everything at me. All right,

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So it goes from confrontation with idols to God's chosen servant.

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Forty one ends with a mock trial condemning idols they're

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delusional and empty. Forty two opens with a divine declaration, Behold,

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00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:46.640
my servant. The contrast is intentional. Idols are empty, the

454
00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:49.720
servant is filled with the spirit of God and brings

455
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:54.599
truth and justice. It answers the implied question if the

456
00:32:54.640 --> 00:33:01.440
idols are worthless and Cyrus is a temporal when what

457
00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:05.599
or who is God's true instrument of salvation and justice? Now?

458
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:08.680
I don't know if it answers that question. I don't

459
00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:12.279
know if it does. I struggle with this because he

460
00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:16.160
everybody wants forty two to jump to something else, But

461
00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:19.599
to me, forty two opens with just following what forty

462
00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:27.559
one was doing. I don't know. I because just the

463
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:32.720
way I see, all right, So we have from Cyrus

464
00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:37.079
to the servant, or I'm gonna say, from unnamed Cyrus

465
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:42.200
to unnamed servant, from confrontation to God's chosen servant. I'm

466
00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:43.920
gonna state it that way because then we don't have

467
00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:48.200
to get we don't have to handcuff ourselves, all right.

468
00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:53.559
Is there continuity between forty one and forty two? Well,

469
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:57.119
I think the continuation of the theme of God's sovereign

470
00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:00.440
action Isaiah forty one shows that God alone directs history

471
00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:04.839
and his purpose whomever he chooses, whomever he wills to

472
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:07.799
carry out his purpose and who is that person identified

473
00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:15.119
in forty one who carries out his will Cyrus? And

474
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:21.760
Isaiah forty two begins, whom my servant, whom I uphold

475
00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:27.039
mine elect. I mean, He's chosen this person, right. Isaiah

476
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:30.760
forty two continues this by revealing God's chosen servant who

477
00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:33.679
will not only deliver his role, but bring justice to

478
00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:37.440
the nations a broader mission. Now I understand the mission

479
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.079
may be broader, but it's hard for me to just

480
00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:44.320
say Cyrus, Cyrus. Oh, Cyrus is gone. And then what

481
00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:48.559
happens if we leave Cyrus in forty two? Where do

482
00:34:48.639 --> 00:34:51.559
we end back up in forty four and forty five?

483
00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:58.280
Right back to Cyrus? See that. Ah, I'm gonna struggle

484
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:01.519
with this. I'm going to struggle with this. I'm gonna

485
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:05.960
be nobody's gonna like me, but I struggle with this.

486
00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:09.360
All right? So we have the continuation of the theme

487
00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:12.639
of God's sovereign action. All right? Then do we have

488
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:16.800
a continuation of kind of the trial? Idea forty one

489
00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:19.960
is a courtroom scene the nations and idols are summoned

490
00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:24.079
and found waiting. Isaiah forty two introduces the servant as

491
00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:26.920
the one who will bring justice to the nations, fulfilling

492
00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:32.440
what the idols could not. The trial thing kind of continues, Right, idols,

493
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:36.039
you can't do this, you can't do that, but who

494
00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:42.360
can my servant? Well wait a minute, That's what God

495
00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:46.440
was saying in forty one when he pointed to whom Cyrus.

496
00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:51.320
You see, I know I'm gonna get myself in trouble,

497
00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:55.320
but I'm just It continues. So we have a continuation

498
00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:57.639
of the theme of God's sovereignty, we have the continuation

499
00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:00.559
of the trial kind of the idea, and we have

500
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:03.599
an ongoing contrast between the true God and false gods.

501
00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:09.519
What happens in forty one twenty nine Behold, they are

502
00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:14.360
all delusion referring to idols. And then, as Sarah pointed out,

503
00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:17.079
and I'm going to redo this, we have this ongoing

504
00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:20.920
contrast between the true God and false gods. Isaiah forty

505
00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:24.239
two to one, Behold, my servant. It's a deliberate use

506
00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:27.480
of behold to draw a contrast. As Sarah pointed out,

507
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:34.039
behold emptiness, idols, Behold God's true agent, the servant. I mean,

508
00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:38.000
you cannot deny that that it's right there on purpose

509
00:36:41.199 --> 00:36:46.159
a man that something going on here. Okay, so I'm

510
00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:49.400
just going to go through a couple of things. God

511
00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:52.639
uses Cyrus as a pagan ruler to deliver Israel. That's

512
00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:56.119
chapter forty one. No one can deny that. Forty two,

513
00:36:56.159 --> 00:37:00.000
God introduces his servant, a figure of humility and righteousness.

514
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:05.239
Does that you see? How does that not Sorrus?

515
00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:20.079
I don't know, all right, go ahead, all right?

516
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:29.719
Oh oh true, I agree, and I and I would

517
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:31.960
be I would be right there. But when we get

518
00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:34.079
to forty four and forty five and he refers to

519
00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:39.280
him as his anointed, his shepherd, well then it's like, okay, well,

520
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:42.800
even though I am uneasy, God is not uneasy with it.

521
00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:48.559
God's not uneasy. Oh yeah, the duality is all majorly

522
00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:59.119
struggle with Yeah. I agree, Yeah, I do agree there. Yeah,

523
00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:04.119
but from that from the text, right, Forty one emphasizes

524
00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:08.559
judgment against nations and idols. Forty two emphasizes justice, heading

525
00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:13.360
healing and restoration for the nations. Forty one, Israel is

526
00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:18.440
called my servant, but often passive and weak. Forty two,

527
00:38:18.519 --> 00:38:22.599
a new servant is introduced, active, gentle, and empowered by

528
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:28.079
God's spirit. See that sounds like Sarus. He's active, and

529
00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:31.400
he's empowered by God. I mean, now the other gentle

530
00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:33.360
part is the only thing that could be. But again,

531
00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:36.920
if Sarah's the one who gave us the history, he's

532
00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:41.000
pretty gentle. When it comes to Babylon, he walks in,

533
00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:43.679
and what does he do for all those people there?

534
00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:47.559
He lets him go, how much do you? How gentler

535
00:38:47.599 --> 00:38:50.280
can you be? And he has to be gentle to

536
00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:54.079
be called God's shepherd? Do we not see a shepherd

537
00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:59.639
as being gentle? Will you call him a shepherd? That's

538
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:04.079
pretty gentle? Okay, at least to some level. All right?

539
00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:10.039
Forty one historical political deliverance from Babylon. Now forty two.

540
00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:14.920
See this is where people will say it's spiritual, it's messianic.

541
00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:21.199
I don't know. And even if you say it's messianic,

542
00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:24.239
even if you say forty two is messianic. What is

543
00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:30.719
Cyrus literally called? And forty four or forty five God's anointed?

544
00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:40.960
That's a messianic term. Okay? True? All right? So man

545
00:39:41.079 --> 00:39:45.239
I struggle with this. So what are so those are

546
00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:47.639
kind of the differences and shifts from forty one to

547
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:50.519
forty two, just trying to really emphasize that. How about

548
00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:56.320
some of the philological implications between the two. God uses

549
00:39:56.360 --> 00:40:00.199
both ordinary and extraordinary means, Isaiah. Forty one Cyrus is

550
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:02.920
used in a political and military way, an example of

551
00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:07.800
God working through ordinary and historical processes. And forty two

552
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:10.360
see this is where everyone's going to run to. The

553
00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:18.280
Servant's work is quiet, healing, spiritual, and redemptive. I just

554
00:40:18.400 --> 00:40:21.400
don't I think we want it to be that, because

555
00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:27.280
everybody wants forty two to be about Jesus Man. I

556
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:30.280
struggle with this all day, all right, but I do

557
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:34.679
believe God uses both ordinary and extraordinary means to some level. Okay,

558
00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:36.960
I think most of this is done ordinarily, but okay,

559
00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:41.480
number two, the shift from national to universal. Forty one

560
00:40:41.719 --> 00:40:45.719
is mostly about Israel and their enemies. Forty two introduces

561
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:50.320
a servant for the nations. He will bring forth justice

562
00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:53.039
to the nations and a light for the nations. I

563
00:40:53.079 --> 00:40:55.679
do believe the nations are more prominent in forty two.

564
00:40:55.760 --> 00:40:58.960
I do agree there. I do agree there. Dude, can

565
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:04.239
we look up, Sarah, I don't know if you have

566
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:07.239
the ability to look up? How like? How many nations

567
00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:13.639
did Cyrus conquer or take over? Like? I think it's

568
00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:18.559
a lot, right, Yeah, see you see, guy, I just

569
00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:22.360
want to see, like if if, if, if forty two

570
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:33.800
has this more global scope, is that's historically consistent with cyrusbility. Okay,

571
00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:40.199
that's three, that's within twenty years. It's three pretty big areas.

572
00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:53.079
Babylon was seen as like the under you know, that's

573
00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:57.599
a massive part of the world. Okay, yeah, so that's

574
00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:04.039
the nations, and many of those nations would be gentile, right, okay, yeah, clearly, yeah,

575
00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:06.519
all of them would be. Right. In fact, what does

576
00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:17.559
he do with the Jews? Hey, lets them go back, right, right,

577
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:23.079
which shows gentleness. See. To the others, it would be

578
00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:26.360
wipe them all out, burn them all down, destroy them right. See.

579
00:42:26.559 --> 00:42:30.280
Oh man, see there's too much history that see it

580
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:38.559
sounds like Cyrus. Here. I struggle with this. Okay, he

581
00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:44.559
doesn't roll long but right, yeah, but he's there, all right.

582
00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:48.800
So the philological implications God's use of ordinary and extraordinary

583
00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:53.599
means the shift from national to universal. There is that

584
00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:56.639
shift from that national to universal. I will agree that

585
00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:59.079
that shift occurs from forty one to forty two, but

586
00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:01.639
I still think it fits Cyrus. I still think it

587
00:43:01.639 --> 00:43:05.400
fits Cyrus to some level. All right. So here's kind

588
00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:09.800
of a conclusion. All right, Isaiah forty two is not

589
00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:15.760
disconnected from forty one. It is a natural and necessary development. Now,

590
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:19.960
I believe that that helps prove my case that I'm

591
00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:22.800
kind of at least hinting at right. Look, I'm just

592
00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:26.800
putting a hypothesis here that we can't forget Cyrus. Right,

593
00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:30.440
and if it is true, let me read that again.

594
00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:33.960
If it is true that Isaiah forty two is not

595
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:36.880
connected from a disconnected from Isaiah forty one, it is

596
00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:41.639
a natural and necessary development. Okay, forty one ends with

597
00:43:41.719 --> 00:43:44.880
a vacuum. False gods have been discredited, and even God's

598
00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:47.639
use of Cyrus is only a temporary measure. Now I

599
00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:50.320
struggle with that. I don't see Cyrus as being described

600
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:56.199
as a temporary measure in forty one. I don't think

601
00:43:56.199 --> 00:44:00.840
it ever states, Hey, this Cyrus guy is only temporary. No,

602
00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:06.920
Cyrus has pointed us God's evidence of his omniscience and sovereignty.

603
00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:12.119
So I don't know about that. All right, Isaiah forty

604
00:44:12.119 --> 00:44:14.280
two now says, now, look at my servant, who will

605
00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:19.440
accomplish with no what, no idol or empire ever could.

606
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:23.480
Now I will. I know this Cyrus does accomplish what

607
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:26.920
no idol ever could Can we agree with that? Now,

608
00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:33.199
Cyrus does not accomplish what no empire ever could. That

609
00:44:33.360 --> 00:44:35.440
right there, I may that my name be a little

610
00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:40.960
bit more difficult. But how much does forty two lay

611
00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:46.920
that out? We'll have to see. So the transition sets

612
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:53.199
the stage for the profound unfolding of the servant songs

613
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:59.159
the servant songs. Is there a dictionary entry for the

614
00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:02.320
servant song? You may want to look up servant and

615
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:10.199
see if it says servants songs. I don't know if

616
00:45:10.199 --> 00:45:13.960
there's an entry for it or not, and I don't

617
00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:16.880
have internet connections, so I can't just pull up I

618
00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:19.119
didn't even think about having this ready to go, but

619
00:45:21.239 --> 00:45:34.559
may not have Servant songs may not be listed. No

620
00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:37.599
it look in look up the entry for the Book

621
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:39.760
of Isaiah and see if it has a thing about

622
00:45:39.760 --> 00:46:09.280
the servants songs. Yeah, oh wait, maybe maybe maybe maybe

623
00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:18.800
hang on looking up pulling up every textbook I ever

624
00:46:18.880 --> 00:47:01.000
used in school. Yeah, I don't, may may not have Yeah, okay, okay,

625
00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:04.440
the suffering servant. Okay, Well, basically forty two is going

626
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:07.119
to set this whole thing up for these what's known

627
00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:09.800
as the servants songs. Well, well, we'll look at this

628
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:12.599
in the greater detail and break this all down, all right,

629
00:47:12.679 --> 00:47:16.159
because that becomes very key. All right, now, I'm gonna

630
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:29.880
give you see how many one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

631
00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:33.840
I'm gonna give you ten passages really quick here, all right,

632
00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:36.320
just look at them and tell me what you find here.

633
00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:39.639
All right, we'll just end with this, Okay. Look at

634
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:48.000
forty one versus eight through nine. Forty one eight through nine.

635
00:47:48.320 --> 00:47:51.039
You're gonna see what we're looking for immediately. Forty one,

636
00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:54.679
eight through nine, you're gonna see the phrase my servant,

637
00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:57.679
are you not? Okay? Forty one eight through nine, there's

638
00:47:57.679 --> 00:48:01.039
no question about it. Who is the servant Israel? Everybody

639
00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:05.760
see that they're his. God reminds Israel that they are

640
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:07.440
his showsen. Sorry, I'm not gonna have time to get

641
00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:09.320
an any explanation. I just want you to have these

642
00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:16.199
scriptures down right. Forty two to one, my servant, we

643
00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:19.320
have my servant. Everybody see that. I think we can

644
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:21.639
agree that the servant in forty two to one is

645
00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:23.840
different than forty one eight through nine. I think we

646
00:48:23.880 --> 00:48:27.440
can agree there, Do we agree? I think we can

647
00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:32.760
agree there? Now which from a reading comprehension perspective, it

648
00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:37.039
irritates me so much, right because if you're going to

649
00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:39.760
identify the servant in forty one and you're gonna come

650
00:48:39.760 --> 00:48:42.360
to forty two and use the exact same phrase with

651
00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:45.400
no helping me under it, and that just drives me

652
00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:48.440
crazy because everything from reading would say, well, identify the

653
00:48:48.440 --> 00:48:53.039
servant from forty one, but then not only that, which

654
00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:56.760
makes that already frustrating. Forty one is all about Saras, Saris,

655
00:48:56.800 --> 00:49:01.280
sars cyrus. So then forty two seems to I mean,

656
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:04.000
there's just so many problems here, right, So we got

657
00:49:04.079 --> 00:49:15.960
that one. How about forty two nineteen? All right, this

658
00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:18.760
is I think this is Israel. This is basically his

659
00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:21.559
unfaithful servant. So it goes back to Israel. Well, for

660
00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:23.920
crying out loud, you can't do it. How do you

661
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:27.679
do that? How do you do that? Like from a

662
00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:31.599
reading comprehension, this thing blows my mind. Okay, this is

663
00:49:31.639 --> 00:49:34.199
where this is where when people say Isaiah is the

664
00:49:34.199 --> 00:49:37.880
most convoluted and complicated mess. This is a good example.

665
00:49:38.199 --> 00:49:40.960
You go from my servant being identified as Israel, then

666
00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:43.119
you throw in forty two one that seems to throw

667
00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:45.079
it out of cot whack. And then you go to

668
00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:48.159
forty two nineteen the same chapter, and now my servant

669
00:49:48.199 --> 00:49:51.360
is back to referring to whom it seems to be Israel.

670
00:49:53.159 --> 00:50:04.079
That seems to be the implication. Did everybody see that? Okay?

671
00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:17.440
All right? How about forty three ten that you may

672
00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:20.159
know and believe me, this goes back again to guess

673
00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:23.760
what Israel? Israel is God's witness and servant chosen to

674
00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:28.000
testify to God's uniqueness and faithfulness. It's back to Israel again.

675
00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:37.639
All right? How about forty four one through two. Oh,

676
00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:40.639
we're back to once again Israel is described as as

677
00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:49.880
my servant. How about forty four to twenty one. Forty

678
00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:58.719
four to twenty one, it's Israel Israel again. How about

679
00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:10.719
forty five four? Okay, there we go, So we have

680
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:20.719
Israel Israel. Do what's the same words? What is that?

681
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:25.480
I don't understand? Okay, now we can see. Now we're

682
00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:27.760
making a separate case. Do you see where I'm going

683
00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:33.599
with this? Now? Right? Okay, do what I'm not even

684
00:51:33.639 --> 00:51:36.320
making that claim now. Now I'm claiming that this is

685
00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:40.920
the exact same language in forty two to one. It's

686
00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:45.039
the exact same language. All right, all right, now that

687
00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:58.159
was forty five four, Okay, how about forty eight twenty.

688
00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:09.599
How about forty eight twenty? Okay, back to Israel. We're

689
00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:18.679
still back to Israel. Okay, how about forty nine three

690
00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:48.000
Israel Israel. How about fifty two thirteen, Yes, fifty two thirteen. Yeah, Behold,

691
00:52:48.039 --> 00:52:51.559
my servants shall deal prudently. He shall be exalted and

692
00:52:51.639 --> 00:52:54.400
extolled and be very high. Now this one's a little

693
00:52:54.440 --> 00:52:57.440
complicated on what to do there, But so what can

694
00:52:57.480 --> 00:52:59.440
we see from the use of my servant in all

695
00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:02.679
of these situation cuations? Come on, Sarah, what are we seeing?

696
00:53:06.199 --> 00:53:14.599
Behold night, sir? And again, so what are we noticing? Sarah?

697
00:53:14.679 --> 00:53:21.719
Every single time I said it too, And that's because

698
00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:28.280
we imply that forty two one is not Israel. Now

699
00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:31.320
go back to forty two one. I challenged forty two

700
00:53:31.400 --> 00:53:44.159
one as possibly being Cyrus. Okay, possibly you get the

701
00:53:44.159 --> 00:53:47.239
god of Israel. Yeah, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel. Now go

702
00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:49.639
back to forty two to one. Now I'm not saying

703
00:53:49.639 --> 00:53:51.800
this works. I told you, by the time we end this,

704
00:53:51.880 --> 00:53:54.199
you're gonna end up more confused than you give. But

705
00:53:54.239 --> 00:53:55.840
that's why you come to this church, right, you come

706
00:53:55.880 --> 00:53:59.119
here to be confused? Right? All right? So because we don't,

707
00:53:59.119 --> 00:54:00.719
because no other church is going to be doing what

708
00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:03.320
we're doing, No other church is gonna become anywhere close

709
00:54:03.360 --> 00:54:06.400
to handling what we're doing here, right. And I say that,

710
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:08.239
and I don't say that in an arrogant way. It's

711
00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:10.480
just true. I mean, after a million sermons on this,

712
00:54:10.719 --> 00:54:14.960
no one touches what we're doing here. Okay, So my

713
00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:18.239
argument for the servant in forty two to one being

714
00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:21.039
Cyrus is what, how would you summarize my argument for

715
00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:24.039
Cyrus being the servant in forty two to one? Well,

716
00:54:24.079 --> 00:54:36.960
Sarah made it very Yeah. Now behold my servant, right,

717
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:40.480
all right? So, from a contextual standpoint, God is in

718
00:54:40.519 --> 00:54:43.760
forty one, He's having a trial against the Idols, and

719
00:54:43.800 --> 00:54:47.880
he proves to the Idols that I have some I'm

720
00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:50.599
showing you I'm in control because I have Cyrus, who

721
00:54:50.639 --> 00:54:53.480
is going to do these things. Behold you are nothing,

722
00:54:53.679 --> 00:54:56.760
and then behold my servant. It makes sense that that's

723
00:54:56.800 --> 00:55:00.519
Cyrus from a contextual standpoint. However, my pro problem with

724
00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:04.119
that is that the servant is literally identified as Israel

725
00:55:04.400 --> 00:55:08.639
and forty one and forty two and forty three and

726
00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:13.119
forty four and forty five, and on and on and on.

727
00:55:13.239 --> 00:55:17.039
Throughout the entire section, Israel's identified as the servant, over

728
00:55:17.079 --> 00:55:19.800
and over and over and over again. Well, then that

729
00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:23.880
screams to me from a hermeneutical standpoint, whoa Well, then

730
00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:28.559
one in the world happened in forty two. So is

731
00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:32.760
there anyway for forty two to be about Israel if

732
00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:37.960
we see Israel being personalized? Now, remember this happens constantly, right,

733
00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:43.320
Israel's referred to as what a sun. It's sometimes used

734
00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:47.880
in an ethropomorphic way, where it's described as a person. Right,

735
00:55:48.320 --> 00:55:52.920
we know that it's Israel's described as servant. And Sarah

736
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:54.840
found a verse where was what was that verse that

737
00:55:54.880 --> 00:55:58.480
we read that was almost the exact identical language of

738
00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:02.719
forty two describing Israel. I can't remember which one of

739
00:56:02.719 --> 00:56:07.559
the what was it forty five? Yeah, look at forty five,

740
00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:17.519
and Israel's clearly identified in forty five? What versus it? Oh? Okay,

741
00:56:18.119 --> 00:56:20.760
oh okay, yeah, Now that's the one we have the

742
00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:22.880
exact language. But I thought there was one that described

743
00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:25.440
Israel almost the exact same language. And all of those

744
00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:36.519
references that we just looked at Okay, all right, I

745
00:56:36.559 --> 00:56:39.679
thought I thought there was one that gave even more information. Okay,

746
00:56:39.840 --> 00:56:42.320
but all right, well we looked at so many references.

747
00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:44.199
Well we'll have to do that. But if you go

748
00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:50.000
back to forty two, all right, behold my servant, whom

749
00:56:50.079 --> 00:56:53.719
I uphold mine elect, and whom my soul delighteth I

750
00:56:53.719 --> 00:56:56.199
have put my spirit upon him. He should bring forth

751
00:56:56.320 --> 00:57:00.199
judgment to the gentiles. Now, other than the judgment to

752
00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:02.519
the gentiles, all the rest of that sounds like Israel.

753
00:57:02.519 --> 00:57:04.119
And I don't even I don't think you can even

754
00:57:04.119 --> 00:57:08.239
say it doesn't. Now, bringing judgment to the gentiles, well

755
00:57:09.920 --> 00:57:22.559
that that, how do we understand that? Right? Christ bring

756
00:57:23.079 --> 00:57:31.480
Israel brings forth the judge? Correct? And what do they do?

757
00:57:31.559 --> 00:57:35.880
For a thousand years? They rule and reign with Christ

758
00:57:36.039 --> 00:57:39.360
during the Millennial Kingdom. If said, can we make that work?

759
00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:42.519
I'm not saying we can, but it kind of I'm

760
00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:45.320
not saying I think it's within the realm of possibility. Right,

761
00:57:45.320 --> 00:57:47.400
I'm not saying it's plausible, but it's when the realm

762
00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:50.480
of possibility. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor

763
00:57:50.519 --> 00:57:53.079
cause his voice to be heard in the street. Israel

764
00:57:53.239 --> 00:57:57.679
is humble, silent, right because they remain in a position

765
00:57:57.800 --> 00:58:02.760
of humility and brokenness and defeat. Do they not? I

766
00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:05.840
think they do? Right, A bruised read. Shall he not

767
00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:08.599
break in the smoking flag? Shall he not quench? He

768
00:58:08.639 --> 00:58:11.679
shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail

769
00:58:11.719 --> 00:58:15.199
but be nor be discouraged. That he have set judgment

770
00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:17.840
in the earth, and the isles shall wait for his law.

771
00:58:18.280 --> 00:58:22.400
Israel is going to be ultimately elevated as everyone comes

772
00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:28.000
to Jerusalem. Right from Jerusalem, the word of God goes forth.

773
00:58:28.199 --> 00:58:33.079
Who brings the law? The law is given to Israel.

774
00:58:33.519 --> 00:58:36.679
They're the keepers of the law, are they not? And

775
00:58:36.719 --> 00:58:39.079
when I say keepers of the law, preserving it, not

776
00:58:39.159 --> 00:58:41.480
that they obey it? Okay, But you get the idea, right,

777
00:58:44.280 --> 00:58:55.000
So I just men, I just yeah, all right. I

778
00:58:55.519 --> 00:58:58.000
the Lord have called THEE in righteousness. God called THEE

779
00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:00.960
in righteousness. He called Israel and righteousness, and will hold

780
00:59:01.000 --> 00:59:04.400
thine hand right. And I will keep THEE and give

781
00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:06.760
THEE for a covenant of the people, for a light

782
00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:09.760
to the gentiles. Is Israel not supposed to be that?

783
00:59:12.840 --> 00:59:16.320
I mean? I just oh, I'm looking for a cross

784
00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:26.119
reference here. Hang on forty two, Hang on Look at

785
00:59:26.119 --> 00:59:31.719
Isaiah forty three to one. Hang on, that's uh oh yeah,

786
00:59:31.719 --> 00:59:35.559
look at Isaiah forty three to one. But now, thus

787
00:59:35.559 --> 00:59:38.440
saith the Lord that created thee O Jacob, and he

788
00:59:38.519 --> 00:59:40.639
that formed the O Israel. Fear or not, For I

789
00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:45.280
have redeemed thee. I have called thee by name, Thou

790
00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:48.960
art mine, when thou passest through the world, He's going

791
00:59:49.039 --> 00:59:51.119
to preserve them. He's doing all of that for Israel,

792
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:57.880
for Israel, for Israel, for Israel. Can it be possible?

793
00:59:58.079 --> 01:00:01.760
So we have we have three possibilities. We'll end with this,

794
01:00:02.039 --> 01:00:04.239
all right. I know we didn't get anywhere close. We're

795
01:00:04.239 --> 01:00:08.199
gonna have three possibilities. Forty two to one. The servant

796
01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:13.079
is introduced. That's a fact. Can everyone agree? All right?

797
01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:16.679
We have three possibilities. The servant in forty two to

798
01:00:16.679 --> 01:00:20.719
one is Cyrus, and I've given you my best reasons

799
01:00:20.760 --> 01:00:27.320
for it. Okay, everybody got that number two. The servant

800
01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:30.679
in forty two to one is Israel. And what's the

801
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:33.920
best argument that it's Israel? Because the verses before and

802
01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:38.039
the verses after, over and over and over universally identify

803
01:00:38.239 --> 01:00:41.679
Israel as God's servant. It is clear. I mean how

804
01:00:41.719 --> 01:00:46.920
many times can you see it? So it makes sense? Correct?

805
01:00:47.840 --> 01:00:53.239
And number three is, for some weird reason, in every

806
01:00:53.360 --> 01:00:57.480
church in America, the servant in forty two one becomes

807
01:00:57.519 --> 01:01:09.000
what Jesus? Because everything is Jesus in the church? Right again,

808
01:01:09.239 --> 01:01:12.320
what's brown? How's the fluffy tail runs up trees and

809
01:01:12.360 --> 01:01:19.679
gather nuts? Well, if you're in church, it's Jesus. Okay.

810
01:01:21.679 --> 01:01:27.760
Now from a historical textual context, can we agree Cyrus

811
01:01:27.800 --> 01:01:32.800
in Israel makes far more sense than Jesus from a

812
01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:37.719
textual context, Yeah, absolutely right. How in the world did

813
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:39.880
Jesus show up in forty two one? I don't even know.

814
01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:42.159
I don't even know what is happening. Now, what has

815
01:01:42.199 --> 01:01:43.719
this got to do? How is this going to bring

816
01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:49.760
any comfort to the people? Now? Some people say, but

817
01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:53.519
but Israel is seen as we and and broken. Well, wait,

818
01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:58.360
does anyone remember what happened in forty one? Do we

819
01:01:58.400 --> 01:02:02.599
not have that section about Israel being transformed? They're being

820
01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:06.679
all transformed? Right, Israel's gonna be completely transformed, which, once

821
01:02:06.719 --> 01:02:09.719
again you could argue, is a piece of the evidence.

822
01:02:10.039 --> 01:02:15.480
Hey you see Israel, they're broken, They're gonna be completely transformed. Now,

823
01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:18.960
behold my servant the servant. That's a worm and forty

824
01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:23.760
one right, it's a worm in forty one right, then

825
01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:26.880
it says it's gonna be transformed, and then forty two

826
01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:30.199
says the idols are nothing. But now behold my servant.

827
01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:36.639
My servant's gonna be completely transformed. Which fits perfectly from

828
01:02:36.639 --> 01:02:40.960
forty one to forty two, does it not? Now? Cyrus

829
01:02:41.000 --> 01:02:43.679
also fits perfectly from forty one to forty two? But

830
01:02:43.719 --> 01:02:47.440
guess what does not show up anywhere? Jesus doesn't show

831
01:02:47.519 --> 01:03:03.639
up anywhere. Okay, well, I'll have to stop there, aren't you?

832
01:03:03.719 --> 01:03:09.320
Glad you got all the answers? Okay, all right, which

833
01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:11.639
one do you prefer? Which one do you prefer? And

834
01:03:11.719 --> 01:03:14.480
it's okay, Well, just how many like Cyrus being the

835
01:03:14.480 --> 01:03:20.280
servant in forty two? One? Do what? I tried to

836
01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:23.199
make a pretty good argument? Okay, I like it? How

837
01:03:23.280 --> 01:03:32.199
many like Israel being it? If it's how many like

838
01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:36.719
Jesus being the servant? I've heard it preach my whole life,

839
01:03:36.719 --> 01:03:38.840
and I don't. I don't. I don't like it at all.

840
01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:40.559
I don't like it. It makes no sense to me.

841
01:03:41.039 --> 01:03:42.880
Like at that point, the whole thing just begins to

842
01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:44.760
fall apart. I don't even know where we even are

843
01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:46.480
in the I don't even know where we are in

844
01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:50.159
the narrative anymore. We lost we lost the narrative completely,

845
01:03:50.440 --> 01:03:53.360
Like the narrative just falls completely and utterly apart, Like, wait,

846
01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:56.840
how did Jesus show up here? Like, well, I'm still

847
01:03:56.840 --> 01:03:59.000
we're still in Babylonian kept They're not even out of

848
01:03:59.000 --> 01:04:01.840
Babylonian kept tim Yeah, like what happened? Like how did

849
01:04:01.880 --> 01:04:05.519
we get Jesus here? Now? It may set the stage

850
01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:09.559
for Jesus maybe in fifty three, but I'm a long

851
01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:13.079
ways away from Jesus showing up here, Like I come on,

852
01:04:13.239 --> 01:04:16.960
I got problems here put him here? But again, I

853
01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:21.360
could I could play the sermon that in fact, Yeah,

854
01:04:20.719 --> 01:04:23.039
I think I think it begins with it. Hang on,

855
01:04:23.320 --> 01:04:24.920
let me see if I can go back to the beginning.

856
01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:31.280
Hang on, because I think he says it right from

857
01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:36.119
the start.

858
01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:40.639
In your few Bibles Isaiah forty two, Isaiah, Jeremiah lamentations,

859
01:04:40.719 --> 01:04:46.519
Ezekiel's amazing. This is about seven hundred and twenty five

860
01:04:46.599 --> 01:04:49.639
years before the birth of Christ. It can't help but

861
01:04:49.760 --> 01:04:52.280
see the Lord Jesus here as the Great Servant, among

862
01:04:52.320 --> 01:04:54.639
other things, opens the eyes of the Blind.

863
01:04:56.320 --> 01:05:00.519
It is this Jesus like, what are you talking about?

864
01:05:00.760 --> 01:05:03.360
What are you talking about? Wait? How did you do?

865
01:05:03.559 --> 01:05:06.559
Where did Jesus come from? I'm like, hey, He's like,

866
01:05:06.679 --> 01:05:09.679
you can't help, but see, No, I can very much help.

867
01:05:09.760 --> 01:05:12.800
But see, Okay, I can help, but see because I

868
01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:16.559
don't have to have you reading it into the text. Okay,

869
01:05:16.760 --> 01:05:19.199
but if you study forty to forty one and its

870
01:05:19.320 --> 01:05:22.480
natural progression of thought, we get to forty two, and

871
01:05:22.960 --> 01:05:24.960
Sarah's the one who pointed it out, and I'm glad

872
01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:28.360
she did not Behold Behold, I mean, come on, you

873
01:05:28.559 --> 01:05:32.440
got to see that. So I don't have any good answers,

874
01:05:32.480 --> 01:05:35.320
but we definitely had. I hope you had fun exploring

875
01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:39.360
all the questions because we gotta we gotta do something,

876
01:05:39.599 --> 01:05:42.920
and we'll do We'll do somewhere. So I'm gonna I'm

877
01:05:42.920 --> 01:05:47.719
gonna feed my three hypotheses into AI over the week.

878
01:05:47.960 --> 01:05:50.800
I'm gonna feed it and feed it and argue, and

879
01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:53.880
then I'm gonna have to create a chart for basically

880
01:05:54.360 --> 01:05:59.719
challenging and critiquing my hypothesis. And then and then we'll

881
01:06:00.400 --> 01:06:04.280
I'll ask AI what does it conclude? And then we'll

882
01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:07.199
see we'll see, we'll have we'll have all of my theories,

883
01:06:07.960 --> 01:06:10.239
and then we'll have Ai tell me if I'm wrong

884
01:06:10.440 --> 01:06:12.519
or not. And Ai has no problem telling me when

885
01:06:12.519 --> 01:06:15.800
I'm wrong, okay. So but but I sometimes get mad

886
01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:18.440
and argue back. Okay, but and it says, why what

887
01:06:18.559 --> 01:06:20.400
are you doing? I'm always right okay, and I'm like,

888
01:06:20.719 --> 01:06:23.679
I'm bit all right. So so we'll see. It'll be

889
01:06:23.679 --> 01:06:25.880
interesting to see how AI handles this, because this is

890
01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:29.639
a major we got a major problem here, we really do.

891
01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:32.280
We got to figure this out, and we and we

892
01:06:32.320 --> 01:06:34.039
got to figure it out. Not so much for us.

893
01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:36.599
It's got to make sense to the people who are

894
01:06:36.719 --> 01:06:40.920
getting the message. Right, it's this is supposed to be

895
01:06:40.960 --> 01:06:44.840
comforting to them. Okay, how is this comforting to them?

896
01:06:44.679 --> 01:06:47.679
The message has to make some sense to them. Cyrus

897
01:06:47.719 --> 01:06:50.440
makes the most sense for comfort, or it could be

898
01:06:50.480 --> 01:06:53.480
comforting to them that, oh, we're going to be basically

899
01:06:53.960 --> 01:06:56.880
restored to be God's servant. We will fulfill what God

900
01:06:56.920 --> 01:07:01.000
wants Israel to do. And well, we do know when

901
01:07:01.039 --> 01:07:03.559
you get to the New Covenant promise, Israel is going

902
01:07:03.639 --> 01:07:06.480
to be They're going to be the light to the nations.

903
01:07:06.880 --> 01:07:09.519
The nations are going to flow into Jerusalem to hear

904
01:07:09.559 --> 01:07:11.760
the word of God. No one's going to have to

905
01:07:11.800 --> 01:07:13.880
ask if they know God, because everyone's going to know

906
01:07:13.920 --> 01:07:16.360
God from the smallest and then they're going to be

907
01:07:16.360 --> 01:07:18.840
a light to the nations. All those things promised about

908
01:07:18.920 --> 01:07:22.559
what Israel will become sounds a little bit like forty two.

909
01:07:24.840 --> 01:07:27.920
Sounds very similar. And of course Israel's identified as the

910
01:07:27.960 --> 01:07:31.000
servant throughout all of forty through fifty five, over and

911
01:07:31.039 --> 01:07:33.360
over and over and over and over again. So we

912
01:07:33.400 --> 01:07:35.559
can't just leave them out of it. All right, We'll

913
01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:37.960
got we come before you this afternoon, or we are

914
01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:40.239
grateful that we are in a church where we can

915
01:07:40.280 --> 01:07:42.559
do this type of thing. I know it would be

916
01:07:42.639 --> 01:07:46.880
rejected and we would be we would be in so

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much trouble in other places. I hope we never take

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for granted what we've gotten to do all of these years,

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all of the study and debate and struggle. It may

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at times to some seem not worth anything, but it

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is worth far more than maybe we will ever understand.

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And I'm grateful I got to experience this all these

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times and years struggling through text, where in other places

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we would not be allowed to do this. We're grateful

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for it, and we thank you for it, and we

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ask all of this in Jesus name, and God's people

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say amen.