Feb. 16, 2025

Isaiah 40: Mistake

Isaiah 40: Mistake

I explain my mistake I made in teaching Isaiah 40

I explain my mistake I made in teaching Isaiah 40

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Have you ever

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been doing something and all of a sudden you get

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this feeling like, wait, I think I've done this before.

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Or you go somewhere and you're like, wait a minute,

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I think I've been here before. You just get that

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feeling like, wait, I've been here, I've said these words,

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I've done this, and maybe you forgot in the past,

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but it feels like, all of a sudden, you just

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feel like I have been here, I've done this, I've

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said this is why am I getting this feeling?

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Well, you can have that feeling.

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And it may be interesting. You may try to figure

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out why you're feeling this. Maybe all of a sudden

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it will come to you, Oh, yes, I was here

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when I was seven, or or this happened when I

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was ten, and all of a sudden, the memory comes

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flooding back, and Okay.

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It's cool, it's interesting. It's no big deal.

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But it becomes a very big deal when you are teaching.

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When you are preaching for basically your Sunday morning service,

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and all of a sudden, somewhere not very far into

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the beginning, you realize, oh no, I am literally teaching.

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I'm literally preaching what I have already taught just a

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few weeks ago.

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How is this happening now? At that very moment, you

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have to make a decision. What do I do?

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What do I do? What do I do? Do I

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just stop it and go wait, time out? Nevermind, let's

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start over. I guess you could or you just continue

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on and see if anyone figures it out. And then

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at the end, well, then you feel embarrassed and humiliated.

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Well, I'm here to tell you.

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This morning and my teaching of Isaiah chapter forty. Yeah,

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I taught what I just taught a few weeks ago.

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It was a bad mistake. And all I can do

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here is try to explain what happened, apologize, get it

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out of the way so that we can move forward.

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So I guess in the meantime, let me go ahead

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and do this. And I do this all the time,

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so I know this is being repetitive, but I do

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this all the time.

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Good afternoon, everyone.

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It is Sunday, February sixteenth, twenty twenty five. It is

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currently four to twelve pm Central time, and I'm coming

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to you live from the Theology Central Studio located right

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here in Abilene, Texas. Now, this explanation, this apology, it

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may not mean much to anyone else.

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It may not even be necessary.

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Most people may not even listen to this, or they

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may start it and go, I don't care, and I

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can understand, so I'll just get this out of the way.

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I'm doing it more for myself because after something like

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that happens. Whenever I make any kind of mistake, it

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really really bothers me. Now, maybe that's because of pride,

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maybe that's because of ego. I'm very much willing to

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acknowledge that I'm a human being and those things are there.

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I wish I could say there was no pride, there

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was no ego, and that I was this humble person.

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But it doesn't always work that way. But when I

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make a mistake, when I mess up, I hate it.

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It eats at me, and then what it makes me

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do is just right there in that intro I was thinking,

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when I was trying to explain, have you had that

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feeling before? I was already questioning, wait, do you have

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a feeling before? Well, have you been there before? You

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would know that you've been there before, and so then

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I was just already, you know, questioning what I was saying.

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And so what happens is after I make some kind

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of mistake like that, then every little thing just becomes

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amplified in my mind. Just right there, I took a look,

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I made a little sound with my voice. That's already

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going to bother me. The intro's already going to bother me.

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I'm going to question everything I do because I messed

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up this morning.

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So now everything is just it's going to be. It's

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going to be. It's gonna be torture. It's what it's

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going to be. It's gonna be.

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It's gonna be basically every time I turn on the

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microphone for I don't know how long the feeling will last.

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It's just gonna bother me and bother me, make me

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question everything and make actually doing the podcast miserable for

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I'm hoping for a short amount of time.

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So I'm really doing this more for me. So here's what.

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Happened, all right, or let me just explain everything as

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many of you know, and you and this is really

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the context here to help you understand everything. October of

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twenty twenty four, we began what has turned into a

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very lengthy series covering Isaiah chapter forty to Isaiah chapter

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fifty five, all the way through Isaiah chapter fifty five.

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The reason we are doing this is because sermon after

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sermon after sermon after sermon mishandles this section of scripture,

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misupplies it, and it's just it's it's a mess. And

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all of the sermons that we have listened to, review

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and considered on this section of scripture, they've.

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Been a mess.

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So I have come along to hopefully try to challenge

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the way it's handled and try to offer a very

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detailed and very careful exegetical study of Isaiah forty through

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fifty five. One of the things we did was create

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an observational outline of Isaiah forty all the way through

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Isaiah fifty five. So that means in Isaiah forty we

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broke we broke things down into very specific sections, for example,

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Isaiah forty one through two, and then we then we

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put three through I think five together we may have

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gone three through eight, and then we put nine through eleven,

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and then we put twelve through seventeen, and then so

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we broke it down into different and different sections.

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In our outline. I mean it makes perfect sense, right, Okay,

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this section, this section, this section.

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Now here's the thing in this teaching series, this stuff

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of Isaiah forty through fifty five. There are a lot

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of different things going on. Right one, We're doing sermon reviews, okay,

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So we may do a sermon review of Isaiah forty three.

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We may do a sermon review of Isaiah forty five.

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We may be doing a sermon review of Isaiah forty

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and a section we've already covered or in a section

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still weeks away. So while I'm trying to teach through

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the book, we're also doing that also at the same time,

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we may do an episode where we just deal with

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one issue in one verse or a phrase or or

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something along that line. So we kind of have reviews

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going on, additional discussions going on, and then the teaching itself.

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And for the most part, the teaching is supposed to

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happen at Victory Baptist Church in front of a live audience,

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and if for some reason we cannot be there, I

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typically replace it with something else. I typically replace the

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teaching with something else so that I can maintain keeping

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Isaiah forty at the church.

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That's typically the way it works.

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So that's a lot to keep up with, right the reviews,

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the other additional episodes, and then teaching through it in

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a straight and consistent way to make even to even

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complicate matters a little more is in our going through

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Isaiah chapter forty. I decided at one point, let's do

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an entire teaching on basically transitioning from one section to

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the next section. Let's do an entire study on transition.

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And I think the transition was between verses nine through

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eleven to verses twelve through seventeen. I think that's where

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I did. I did an entire like I don't know,

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thirty minutes, forty minutes. Hey, this is how these sections connect.

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Here's the transition. It may have been somewhere else. I'd

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have to go back and look at everything. So that

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means we're going through it. Then we're kind of stopping,

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and now we're adding something additional. We're adding the study

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of transition. And the reason I did that is because

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I was trying to give more people insight into how

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the sections fit together and being able to identify that transition. Also,

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when I noticed that as we got further down into

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Isaiah forty especially when you kind of even when you

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start looking at verse twelve, but especially when you start

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looking at verse eighteen and following that a.

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Lot of this.

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To truly appreciate what's going on, we have to step

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away from the text and we have to go study

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the culture and the history of religion and Babylon and

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their idolatry, because then we'll understand that that's a temptation

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for Judah in Babylonia captivity, which this is all about.

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And so we can explain the temptation and what they

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would have been possibly pulled to this religion or they

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would want to take part of that religion and mix

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it with the worship of the True God of Israel.

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And so I thought, okay, that will be interesting. So

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that took two weeks or not two hours to do that, well,

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an entire Sunday at church. So that was kind of

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an interruption going through it. So we did that, and

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then today I'm like, okay, now we get back into

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the text.

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Now we get back into the text.

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And for some reason in my mind, well we needed

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to go to twelve through seventeen. We need to go

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to forty twelve through seventeen. My brain never registered.

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What are you doing? What are you doing? What are

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you doing? You've already taught that. I don't know how

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I missed it.

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It's probably because just the other day, we're in Isaiah

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forty three. Early this morning, about fifteen minutes or a

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little before I even went live, I was already looking

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at another sermon on Isaiah forty five. So you know,

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all this forty forty one, forty two, forty three, forty four,

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forty five, forty six, we covered this. Oh, interrupt this,

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let's cover this. Oh now, let's step away from the text.

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Let's do this, all of this different content, doing special

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episodes after and what about forty hours of teaching. I

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made this horrible mistake this morning.

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And as soon as I.

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Started like, okay, this morning, we're gonna look at Isaiah

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forty twelve through seventeen, it didn't really register.

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At first.

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I'm like, Okay, this will be interesting, this will be cool.

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I'm gonna break this down, okay, And then I'm gonna

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break it down exegetically. I'm gonna look at the thilological considerations.

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I'm gonna give us some I'm gonna try to find

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some things that can.

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Be applicable to us. All right, this should be good.

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I'm gonna make sure I keep relaying it back to

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all the things we learned about Babylonian idolatry. Okay, great,

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this is good, all right, go. And as I started

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going through it, I'm like, wait a minute, I covered this,

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Wait a minute, I covered this. I remember I remember

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distinctly having the conversation about verse sixteen and Lebanon is

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not sufficient to burn, nor the beast thereof sufficient for

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a burnt offering. And all of a sudden, it was

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like a pure panic, and I was like, what do

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I do?

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What do I do? What do I do?

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So all I could do and my brain is number one,

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make sure you really lean into connecting this to all

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of that stuff you discussed about Babylon and the idolatry,

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because when you covered it before, you didn't you didn't

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lean into that as much because you hadn't covered it yet,

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all right, So make sure you do that.

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And then make sure you really.

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Emphasize the whole worship, what worship really is. Make sure

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you because at least it'll be something.

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Different, all right.

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So I but I just my mind was just reeling.

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I'm like what am I doing? What am I doing?

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This is so messed up, And already the day was

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already kind of a little odd because you know, we

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were going to have in person services and that all

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got changed last night around what nine pm? So when

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I woke up, my my original thought is, oh, I

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think I can pull this off, and I can do

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three episodes.

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Right.

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I can do an episode, just a very quick episode,

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like a podcast episode dealing with Isaiah forty through fifty

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five and modern preaching. That'll be interesting. I always good

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because I had it set up to kind of do

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it as an intro at church, because then that just

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kind of reminds everyone at church why I'm spending all

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of these hours on this, because I got to keep

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reminding them because many of them are not listening to

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everything on the podcast.

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So I'm like, okay, I got that done. Great.

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Then I was like okay, now on my mind, just

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like okay, now go to Isaiah forty twelve through seventeen,

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finish that up, then come back do another hour and

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then cover eighteen to twenty four, and then this will

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be an extremely successful Sunday.

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I will do basically three hours.

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Of teaching Sunday morning that will be successful. But man,

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I'm doing that second broadcast and I'm realizing I am

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teaching what everyone has heard everyone everyone. I'm like what,

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And he's just the further the more every word I say,

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I'm like, I said that before, I've said that before,

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I've said that before, and I.

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Just I'm sorry.

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But then I start kind of having this internal debate. Well,

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maybe maybe you just feel like it, maybe you're just

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having this sense of dejas vu, but really you've not

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done it before. Maybe in all the mean, you've listened

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to a hundred sermons on Isaiah forty. Maybe you're confusing

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it was something you've heard. Maybe you're confusing it with

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a podcast episode you did. Maybe you haven't actually preached this,

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maybe you haven't touchd. So then I'm like, okay, okay,

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go go, And then well maybe I have. And then

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I'm just having like this massive internal debate inside. Well

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I'm trying to teach. By the time it's over, I

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just feel defeated and done. So I finish and I

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just sit here for a minute.

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And I'm like, oh, what have you done? What have

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you done?

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So I open up the church one app I scrolled

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down February third, I did a message I entitled Isaiah

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forty twelve through seventeen. And guess what I had just

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labeled the one that I just did from this morning

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Isaiah forty twelve through seventeen. What an absolute embarrassment. I

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literally taught the same summary. Now, in some ways, I

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wasn't gonna say a word. I was not gonna say.

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I was just gonna keep this quiet. I knew now

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it was gonna eat away at me. But but I

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was I was waiting, who's gonna Who's gonna be the

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first person from the church to message me going, uh,

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you just literally preached the same sermon. Now, they may

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they may have thought you're just being repetitive. Maybe maybe

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he was, who knows.

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What they thought.

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They just may thought, look, we know he's trash anyway,

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so this is nothing new.

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He does this. I don't know what they thought.

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I was waiting and waiting and wait, I've been kind

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of waiting all day if I was going to hear

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from anyone going, hey, you know, you messed up, or

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maybe they were just being nice. But either way, here's

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what happened. And you can go listen for yourself. You

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can go to the February third, twenty twenty five episode

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of Isaiah forty twelve through seventeen, right, and then and

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then you'll see then the next week we did The

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Gods of Babylon Part one and part two.

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Right, you can see that.

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Then you'll see that I did a review of Isaiah

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forty three on the fifteenth, and then this morning, the sixteenth,

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I did Isaiah forty through fifty five modern preaching, kind

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of AI's reaction to reviewing one hundred sermons on Isaiah.

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Forty through fifty five.

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And then you'll see Isaiah forty twelve through seventeen. I

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guess what I had to call it. I had to

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call it Isaiah forty twelve through seventeen worship because I

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had to try to distinguish it from the other Isaiah

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forty twelve through seventeen.

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But it's the.

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Same thing, so they're like part of me, Like I

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should just delete it. That's what I should just delete it,

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and then nobody will know. People, most likely the people

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in the church are not even going to know that

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the episode was to leave. They're not even gonna catch on.

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And then I could just come in the next week

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start with versus and start and.

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Go eighteen to twenty four.

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Now, what I should have done is as soon as

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I realized I made the mistake, what I should have

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done is just deleted it and then just did another

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live episode covering eighteen to twenty four, then post that

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nobody would have ever known the difference, and I would

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have just talked about it for an hour for my health.

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But I try my best. I try my best. Whatever

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mistakes are made, I just leave it there. I don't

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try them to I don't try to do anything. Now

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there are times that, yeah, if my stomach is growling

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because I haven't eaten, or I'm swallowing, or do something

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weird with my voice, there's times I will go in

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and try to edit that out if I can, And

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sometimes I leave it.

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But again, that's pride, that's ego, right, And.

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So if preaching becomes now the source of pride and ego,

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the preaching is not even helping me much less because

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it's preaching and teaching it's supposed to what break and

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crush our ego.

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And and and and and you know, humble us.

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Humility is the thing Christianity should lead to, not arrogance

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and pride, it should lead to humility.

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So by leaving it there, you know some will trust me.

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So it won't be along.

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I haven't checked YouTube today, but it'll be YouTube or somewhere.

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You idiot, what are you doing? Or I'll get an

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email you are a complete moron? Did you not? Really?

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And and they they're gonna let me know. So someone's

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already gonna let me know, and and and and they're right.

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I how did it happen? I've been trying to figure

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out for hours. How did I don't really know how

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it happened. I can make a million excuses. I mean,

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look at all the content I've produced on this, Look

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at all the sermons I've listened to at some point

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at all kinds of start just merging together.

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My own foolishness is the way I have my notes.

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See, I originally had all of my notes ready for

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Isaiah forty twelve through seventeen, before I created all of

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my notes on the Gods of Babylon. So what I

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did is I put all of my notes of the

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Gods of Babylon for some reason before Isaiah forty twelve

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through seventeen. So when I got done to that, I

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could just flow right into twelve through seventeen. I don't

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know why I put it that way. I don't know why.

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For some reason, I'd convinced myself that we're gonna go

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We're gonna go back and look at the gods of Babylon.

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Then we're gonna return to Isaiah forty twelve through seventeen.

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But if I was going to do that, then I

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needed to not use those notes. I needed to recreate

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a whole different way of approaching twelve through seventeen, more

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than just saying, Okay, we've looked at the gods of Babylon.

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Now let's connect everything to that study. But in a

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roundabout way, when we studied the gods of Babylon, we

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already did that, so there was no real rit. I

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just needed to go straight to eighteen to twenty four,

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And really I just needed to go, yeah, eighteen twenty four.

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I still think we need to do twenty five to

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thirty one.

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Separately because we have their famous verses and thirty and

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thirty one that everyone rips out of context. So I

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think we still need, we almost need to do a

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separate message on thirty to thirty one.

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So I just want to let everyone know.

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I'm aware I messed up.

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I hate it.

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I went back and started listening to the February third message,

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and it was like, look.

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What an idiot. I'm a complete idiot.

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I'm literally saying the same words. I'm literally saying the

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same phrases. I'm literally saying it with the same emphasis.

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This is ridiculous. But there's nothing I can do now. Well,

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actually there is something I could have done. I could

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have just gotten over it and do another hour and

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stop not and and even right now. They shouldn't have

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gotten into my head as soon as I started the intro,

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already feeling inadequate and stupid and embarrassed. I shouldn't have

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I shouldn't even have let it impact this. That's my

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own that self, that's that's the enemy of self. We

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talked about it in our kind of philosophical study about

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a dog's life. We have this self consciousness which can

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be our greatest enemy. Right, we are self aware. I'm

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aware that I did this, and it makes me look stupid.

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I did this. It makes me look foolish, So why so?

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And so then it's it's it's self pity, right, It's like,

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oh poor me, while I'm sitting here doing absolutely nothing

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Sunday afternoon, when I could be behind the microphone. I

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could have been covering this. I could have been covering that.

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We need to do that work on First John about

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perfect love.

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We could have done that.

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Oh, I need to look and see the testimony of

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God that's mentioned, and what Second Corinthians. I need to

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see if that met we were gonna do that.

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Oh, I've got other things we could have been.

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I could have already produced three four five hours more

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of content. I should have just said forget food, just

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doubled down, and I'll do so much additional content that

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it will make up for the mistake. But I allowed

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the mistake because I'm self conscious to become aware of it.

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Right, And I am aware.

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Of it, and then it just You're an idiot, You're stupid,

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You're moron, You're an idiot. Now, I may be an

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idiot and stupid and moro. That may be true, but.

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There's nothing I can do to change that. Right, There's

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nothing I can do. Right. What's the my science teacher

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used to say in high school?

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I think she used to say, ignorance can be fixed,

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but stupidity is for life or something along she had

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it hanging up in the classroom. Ignorance can be fixed,

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but stupidity is for life or it's forever, okay, And

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I'm like, well, I don't want to be the stupid one, right,

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Ignorance I can fix, right, Well, sometimes I don't even

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fix my ignorance.

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In this particular case, I don't know what.

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I I don't know what I was thinking.

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I mean, it's right there in the church went out.

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Can I say, are.

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Forty twelve or seventeen?

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Now?

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I should have known as soon as I started teaching,

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I mean I did pretty quick. I was like, I

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don't even I almost have this memorized. Why do I

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have this almost memorized? Well, I wonder why you almost

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have it memorized. You've already taught it. That's why you

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have it memorized, you idiot. That's why you have it memorized. Okay,

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the reason you don't need your notice because you've already

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taught it.

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Okay, maybe even more than once. So there we go.

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If so, if you have listened to the message on

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February the third, by all means, go listen to the

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one from February sixteenth, and you yourself can determine that

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was way too I may if I already get accused

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of being redundant. I already get accused of that, So

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I mean, go ahead. But you can say, well, it's

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no more redundant than you typically are. Or you can

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say well, because you took that week break, you took

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that week break and did those two hours on the

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Gods of Babylon, it was good to go back and then.

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Put that all together.

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So now you can flow right into verses eighteen to twenty.

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Four, and it actually, it actually will turn out.

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Maybe someone will say it actually going back and listening,

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it's actually pretty brilliant.

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Good. Maybe someone will just lie.

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I'll pay the first person who will just lie to

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me one hundred dollars.

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No, I won't. I'm not gonna.

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I don't have one hundred dollars to give you.

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Okay, but it's worth that much. Okay.

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But yeah, that's what happened, and there's no there's nothing

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I can.

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Do about it. But it's a good lesson.

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It's a good lesson on how when things go wrong,

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we have to determine how we're going to handle it. Right,

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do you do you let it derail it? Derailed my

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entire Sunday afternoon. I've gotten absolutely nothing accomplished. Look what

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I'm doing. I'm doing this. I could have gotten something

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else done. There was no re see now, and now

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I'm gonna be mad at myself for a lot of

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exap because now I'm convicting myself. See, you're it's self pity,

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self centeredness. It's human pride, you human arrogance that's actually

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hurting and derailing. Not just it not only does it

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hurt you spiritually, it hurts you in just getting something done.

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You're gonna have a pity party.

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So maybe there's a lesson in there somewhere for someone

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I don't know, But I'm not gonna go any longer

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because it's already twenty four minutes. And now we spent

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twenty four minutes doing this, and twenty four minutes doing this,

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I could have spent twenty four minutes teaching on Isaiah

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forty Okay, yeah you see how see now it just

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it just and so this just sets up a really

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bad week. It already does. So I could try to

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make a hundred excuses, there's no real excuse. I just

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some for for some reason, looking at my notes, I'm like, oh, Isaiah,

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forty twelve through seventeen is next. There's nothing else. I

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don't need to check anything. It's good to go. I

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already have it typed up, right, I know. I wonder

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why or daughter, it's already typed up and ready to

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go because you've already preached it.

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Now. Of course I am.

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I am much further ahead and having things ready to go.

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But I should have just had it organized and I didn't.

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All right, that's what happened. That's my mistake. I apologize

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for anyone who took the time to listen this morning.

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Please don't hold that against me.

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There's plenty of ye If you need some things to

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hold against me, I can send you. I can send

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you a list, you know, I can send you a

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PDF file. But for this, hopefully you'll you'll just say, well,

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that was kind of redundant, that was kind of boring.

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I've heard all that before.

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Maybe next week he'll do a better job, and I

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hopefully next week I'll do a better job. Can't guarantee it,

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all right, but thank you for listening. Everyone, have a

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great Sunday. And yeah, I don't know if I'm going

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to do anything else. Today as far as broadcasting, so yeah,

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it's already four thirty eight. Yeah, said the day is gone.

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So all right, thanks for listening, God bless