Dec. 8, 2024

Isaiah 40: Observational Outline Pt 2

Isaiah 40: Observational Outline Pt 2

We conclude our observational outline of Isaiah 40

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We conclude our observational outline of Isaiah 40

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All right.

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I hate, hate, hate when we're doing like an outline

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and we have to separate it by an entire week,

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because I know it's going to be very difficult for

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everyone to remember everything. But Isaiah chapter forty is where

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we are. We are doing an observational outline of Isaiah

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chapter forty. And we've done observational outlines before.

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Sometimes I will.

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Speak of the importance of them, but in this particular case,

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I am just going to take a minute here and

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I'll probably do an entire podcast about this, of the

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importance of an observational outline, especially when it comes to

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Isaiah forty through fifty five. And the reason why is

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because of the reason we're doing this anyway, the reason

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we're doing this entire study of Isaiah forty through fifty

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five is because of sermon after sermon after sermon in

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Isaiah forty forty one, forty two, forty three that would

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take the text and almost immediately insert us into the

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text and basically push out the original recipients. And that

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drives me crazy, because what happens is when you insert

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ourself into certain No Testament text, almost almost without fail,

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we will say, hey, all of these promises are for

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whom they are for us. Now, anything that bad happens

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is for them, is for them, And so it just

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drives me crazy the handling of the text. So we

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are doing an observational outline, because observational outlines I believe

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are at least I'm not saying they are a guarantee.

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But if everyone would do an observational outline of every

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single chapter before they argue about the verses or the

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meaning of the verses or offer an interpretation, I think

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it would alleviate a lot of the problems. The issue

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is you can't. I mean, let's just be honest. You're

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not going to get the people in the pew to

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do observational outline work because it's a lot of work.

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It's you're not going to get pastors really to do

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observational outlines. And even if they do the observational outline,

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they're just going to show up and behind the pulpit

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and just kind of just state it and just move on, right.

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They're not going to have everyone work on it together.

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So I have stated countless times that I don't believe

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anyone should be interpreting the passage or arguing for an

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interpretation until they've done observational outline or done other work.

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Right. So this morning, when.

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I was just I was asking Ai about a section

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in our observational outline because there was some discussion last

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week about well, should we group all of those verses

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together or should we separate them? And so I asked

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Ai Isaiah forty, I think it's twelve through twenty six?

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Should this be grouped together? Should this be separated? So

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Ai offered a long list of justifications for reasons to

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group them together, and so I'm like, okay, that's helpful.

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So then I thought, well, wait a minute, let.

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Me ask Ai, And so I asked Ai something along

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these lines. This is how I phrased the question. If

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someone hasn't done an observational outline of a chapter, shouldn't

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they refrain from offering interpretations of the verses found within

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that chapter? And shouldn't they refrain from arguing about the

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meaning of the verse. So I was curious how Ai

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would respond. So Ai responded, it is highly advisable that

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someone first conducts an observational outline of a chapter before

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attempting to offer interpretations or arguments about the meaning of

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individual versus.

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So even Ai was like.

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You should do observational outline before you do that. However,

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no one does that. I remember, I've talked about it

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so many times. If people want to argue, they rarely

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up and show me their observational outline of the chapter.

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But they'll be arguing about the meaning of something within.

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A chapter, and you just can't do that. You just can't.

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And I think that's why I mean, to me, considering

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sermon after sermon after sermon after sermon after sermon after

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sermon that I've listened to this year is just there

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are examples of just going to chapters and making them

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mean pretty much whatever they want, and it's it's it's

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so frustrating. And so with Isaiah forty, the reason it's

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so important is because how the chapter begins.

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How does the chapter begin? Every once you know it by.

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Now comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

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And so everyone runs to that chapter.

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So that we can get what so we can get

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the comfort, But is the comfort they're meant for us

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not even any nowhere closed? I mean, this is one

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chapter where I mean it's sometimes we can make an argument, right,

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some of you may go, well, maybe there's not even

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an argument here, right, there's not even an argument because

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the chapter thirty nine sets up the context. Who's the

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comfort for the people in Babylonian captivity?

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It's not for us. I mean, this is something that

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you cannot even argue about.

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But church after church after church after church after church

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runs to this section. So that's why we're doing the

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observational outline now for everyone here.

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You're used to doing these kinds of things.

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For people who listen online, it's you would be shocked. Well,

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I don't know, maybe you guys wouldn't be shocked, but

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you would be shocked. How many people who listen to

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us online are like, I've never been in a church

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that's done anything like this. I never even heard of this,

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Like what is this? Because it's a foreign idea, which.

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Is kind of frightening, isn't it.

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People go to church, but they've never been worked, they've

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never been challenged to work on an observational outline of

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the text that the church has offered a million interpretations

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like oh, it's so something is so broken in the

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entire the entire what church has become is so foreign

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to I think anything that it was ever intended to

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be right, Yeah, it's church is about something other than

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actually studying the town.

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I just wish everyone would just admit that.

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Everyone says they want a church that studies, but they

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don't really want a church that studies, because if you

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really study, you find yourself struggling with lots of philological

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and doctrinal issues that doesn't nicely fit into someone's preconceived ideas,

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and well it causes problems. So that I just wanted

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to get just remind us why we're doing this, all right,

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it's important what we're doing.

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This is hard work, it's tedious.

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I know it doesn't feel like a sermon. I know

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it may not feel like church, but it's really the

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I think it's the very What we're doing is what

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church should be literally about. I think we're getting really

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to the very core what it should be about. We

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as Christian gathered together because we believe God has given

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his revelation and this book. So if this is God's revelation,

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then we gather together. What's the most important thing to

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figure out what this means? Right?

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And sermons are the opposite of trying to figure out

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what it means.

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It gives you the it gives you this false illusion

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that you're studying the Bible when you're not really studying

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the Bible.

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Someone's just put together a sermon.

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He's just they're put together points, and sometimes it's like

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it actually keeps you from seeing the text. That's why

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I keep arguing against the whole sermon structure has to

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be burned to the ground, because so sermons really give

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you the idea that you're studying, but it's just someone

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taking points and in many cases almost imposing them upon

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the text. But because then they read them out of

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the text even though they've already put them there, everyone

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feels like that they we had a good study and

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this section of scripture, and you're like, what are you

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talking about?

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You didn't study the actual texts.

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So that's what we're trying to do, right, Hopefully it

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makes sense. So we're doing an observational outline of Isaiah

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forty and we are focusing strictly this is what when

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we do an observational outline. Here are the things we

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focus on. We focus on the structure and flow of

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the text without interpretive analysis. So when we do an

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observational outline, what are we not doing? We're not interpreting

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because you cannot interpret what you haven't observed, and the

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quality of your interpretation is dependent upon the quality.

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Of your observation. Bad observation equals what.

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Bad interpretation is very simple, it's very logical. But you

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cannot get Christians to do I would argue, if you

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leave here today and you go ask all the Christian

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friends you know, when was the last time they did

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an observational outline.

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They will all say never.

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However, ask them of what they believe about the Second Coming, Baptism, salvation, lordship, salvation,

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easy believism, calvinism. They will all tell you exactly what

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the Bible supposedly teaches. Yet they've never done an observational outline. Now,

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I will be blunt. That to me disqualifies them and

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they should not ever speak again. That's my that's my conclusion,

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because because they should be disqualified from doing so, and

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at least even AI acknowledges, well, they just say it's

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highly recommended, right, it's highly advisable. Yeah, that's the exact word,

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highly advisable. That they don't do this because AI understands

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what AI at least acknowledges that we we may not

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acknowledge it, but AI will acknowledge that humans bring something

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to the text that a I doesn't bring to the text,

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And that's all of our biases, preconceived ideas, past teaching,

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where AI can just say, look at the text, don't

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do any interpretation. That's that's the that's the strength of AI.

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We almost impossible for us to look at a text

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and not do what well bring our biases, but we

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almost immediately interpret. We almost interpret immediately. Right, even in

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a Sunday school class if a pass if a teacher

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reads a scripture and starts asking people, everyone immediately does

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what what does it mean? And it's like wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

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we can't be saying what it means. We've got to

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figure out what's actually there. So that's why we're doing

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an observational outline, all right. So the goal is to

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finish it, all right, that's the goal. I thought we

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were gonna have two hours today, but it didn't quite

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work out that way. So I got to finish it now.

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But I'm gonna have to do a little bit of review.

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Because let's be fair, it's been a week, right.

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I meant it's one thing to remember certain points, that's

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another thing to remember an observational outline.

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All right, so are you ready? Here we go.

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Observational outline of Isaiah forty number one. God's call to

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comfort his people Isaiah forty verses one through two.

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All right, So first, or we can say a.

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Roman numeral one if you want to do it that way,

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God's call to comfort his people Isaiah forty one through two.

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We broke this down into two parts.

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First, we have the command to comfort, which is Isaiah

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chapter forty, verse one.

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This is a repeated.

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Imperative comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Then we

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have the declaration of the comfort Isaiah forty verse two,

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which is addressed to Jerusalem. And what does it state?

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Her warfare has ended, her iniquity is pardoned, as she

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has received double.

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For all her sins.

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Right, so, Roman numeral one, God's called a comfort as people.

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That's broken down into two parts, command to comfort and

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declaration of the comfort. Everybody got that sounds pretty good, simple, straightforward?

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Does that feel that?

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Does that feel that we've observed everything in that text?

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I think we've observed everything there?

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Right? Okay, what have we not done?

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We didn't offer any interpretation, right, we did not offer

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any interpretation all right, Roman numeral two a voice, and

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we can call it a voice. We can call it

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a voice of preparation. I kept kind of adding more

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to it, but a voice of preparation or a voice.

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And please note we're referring to it as a voice,

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even though the text says, why are.

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We saying a voice and not the voice?

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Because this concept seems to be used multiple times here

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and we don't. We're just gonna call it a voice

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till we do interpretation. Then we will identify the voice.

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Because the minute we say the voice, then we immediately

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are forced to do what.

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Just try trying to identify it.

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So since right now we're just doing an observation, we're

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just gonna call it a voice because later on, when

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it talks about a voice, what are we going to

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the same voice throughout?

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Or are they different voices? Right? But that's all what interpretation.

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and we said it goes from Isaiah chapter forty, verses

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three through five, is where we put it.

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as the voice again, but we still we believe that

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that's a different section. Right, So we had Roman numeral

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two a voice of preparation Versus three through five, and

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we broke it into two.

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The call to prepare the way in verse three, everybody

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see that, the voice of him, that Christ in the wilderness.

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prepare you the way. So we broke the voice of preparation.

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part was the call to prepare the way from verse three,

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because it literally says, prepare the way.

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Everybody see that, all right. Verse four is the second part.

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change of the land. We stated it in different ways

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because what happens in verse four every valleys shall be exalted,

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every mountain and hills should be made low, and the

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crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain.

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change of the land. Everybody see that. And then what

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did we say about verse five and the glory of

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the Lord should be revealed, because it says, and the

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glory the Lord shall be revealed.

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Reservational outlines are the easiest. Why we're just.

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comfort as people Verses one through two. That and we

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broke it into two sections, the command of comfort, the

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declaration to comfort. The second or rem Numeral two, a

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voice of preparation. We broke it into three parts, the

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call to prepare, the transformation of the land, and the

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revelation of God's glory.

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Everybody got all of that? So far, so good? Reman

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Numeral three six through eight. What did we call it?

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The frailty of human humanity and the enduring of the

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Word of God or the endurance of God's word, however

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you would like to put that.

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So you can call it the fraility of the frailty

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of man if you want to put that, the frailty

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of humanity, if you want to state it a and

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that way, And the enduring word of God or the

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endurance of God's Word, however you would like to phrase it.

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what do we have? We broke this down into how

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many parts? Two parts? All right.

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The first part was proclamation of human frailty. We see

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that in verse six through seven.

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What do we hear? All flesh is.

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Grass, and all the goodliness thereof is of the flower

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of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because

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the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it. Surely the

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people is grass. What's the emphasis here on the frailty

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of man? Everybody see that. There's the proclamation of that frail.

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Why don't we call it a proclamation? Because look at

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verse six the voice said cry, and he said, what

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shall I cry? And what is the proclamation? All flesh

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is as grass? Everybody see that?

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part of this section we called the permanence of God's Word.

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And what do we find in verse eight? The grass witheeth,

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the flower fadeth, But the word of our God shall

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stand forever. Now I was gonna almost ask an interpretive question,

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but I will not. Right there, Okay, So this section

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is called the frailty of humanity and the Enduring Word

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of God Verses six through eight. We break it into

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two parts. The proclamation of human frailty goes from verse

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six to seven. And the permanence of God's word is

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verse eight. Everybody got that. That brings us to Roman

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numeral four. And we and this goes from verses nine

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through eleven. What do we call this section?

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All right? The proclamation of good news?

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Behold your God? Is really the good news? That's proclaim right,

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the proclamation of good news. It starts in verse nine.

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And what do we see, Oh Zion, that bringest good tidings.

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Get thee up into the highest mountain, O Jerusalem, that

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bring us good tidings. Lift up thy voice with strength,

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lift it up, be not afraid, and say, unto the

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cities of Judah.

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Behold your God. That is the proclamation of good news.

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What is the good news? Behold your God? Everybody got that.

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So that's what this section is. Nine to eleven. Proclamation

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of good news. We broke this down into how many parts?

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Three parts? Three parts. The first part is verse nine.

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The call to Zion to proclaim good news says, go

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to the high mountain, O Zion, lift up your voice,

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so Jerusalem, fear not, say to the cities of Judah.

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So it's a call to proclaim this good news. Right, hey,

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go and proclaim it. Everybody see that, all right? So

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there's the proclamation or there's the call to Zion to

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proclaim the good news. Number two, verse ten, God's strength

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and reward. How does it work?

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God will come with strong hand, and his arms shall

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rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him and

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his work before him. So we call this God's strength

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and reward because that's literally what the verse says.

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Is it not? All right? God's strength and reward. Then

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the third part is verse eleven.

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He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. He shall

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gather the lambs with his arm, carry them in his bosom,

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and shall gently lead those that are with young. Everybody

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see that this is God's tender care as a shepherd.

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I mean, you see, all the subpoints are just basically

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just paraphrasing or summarizing what the verses say.

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Is everybody catching on, right?

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The Roman numeral just captures the entire section, and then

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the sub points are just basically summarizations of the verses.

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Everybody see kind of what we're doing, all right?

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So this section is called proclamation of good news. Behold

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your God goes verse nine to eleven. We broke it

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into three parts. The first part is called to Zion

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to proclaim the good news verse nine, God's strength and

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reward verse ten, and then God's tender care as a

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shepherd verse eleven. All right, that's where we stopped, is

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it not. I think we mentioned the next part, but

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we didn't do much with it, right.

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Right, the Greatness of God is Creator and sovereign. The

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Greatness of God as Creator and sovereign.

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The section I asked AI about, and it gave me

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a long justification for grouping this together. Gave me linguistic

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literary reasons. I could go through all the reasons, but

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right now, we want to finish the outline. All right,

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go back and look at why this is grouped together,

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because there was some and I understand when we're reading it,

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it's very difficult to say, well, should we or shouldn't we?

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AI thinks it should be grouped together. So I'm not

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saying that makes AI right.

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I'm just saying AI offered I think it was ten

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reasons why it should be grouped together. It offered a

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lengthy explanation.

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There's at least justification for it being together. Right, Does

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that make sense? Now when it comes to an observational outline,

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let's just make sure.

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Even if we disagree on where to break the sections into,

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that's not that serious. The main thing is that what

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we are doing wherever we break it into groups, is

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that it's just what observational. As long as it's observation,

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we're not hurting anything. If you're breaking it into different

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groups because of your desire to interpret it, now that's

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the problem because now you're putting the interpretation in the

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midst of the observation. The interpretation can't even visit you

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when you're doing observation, right, And if the interpretation walks

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into the room, you got to say get out, you

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gotta go. And it's hard because if you've been reading

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the text, you almost inevitably have certain thoughts about it,

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but you.

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Can't let that influence.

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Interpretation is not allowed into the room while observation is

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going on.

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It's got to go somewhere else. It's got to take

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a vacation, all right.

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So even if we disagree on where to break this down.

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As long as we all maintain observation, we're okay. The

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minute interpretation creeps in, then it becomes a problem.

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Does that make sense? Right?

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So we're gonna go with this break down, and if

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we need justification we'll talk about it after here we go.

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We called this section the greatness of God.

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As Creator and sovereign or sovereign and Creator, whichever order

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you would like to put that in. The main thing

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is this section verses twelve through twenty six is gonna

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talk about God's greatness and it's gonna specifically focus on

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his greatness as being creator and being sovereign.

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Everybody got that, all right?

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So this we're gonna break this part in and now

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we're gonna break this down into five parts. Now, why

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are we gonna break it into five subpoints? Because a

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long section?

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Is it? Not? All right?

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So we're gonna we have twelve through twenty six. We're

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gonna break this up. So look at verse twelve. What

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should we do with verse twelve? Who hath measured the

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waters in the hollow of his hand and meet it

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out heaven with the span and comprehended the dust of

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the earth and a measure and weighed the mountains and

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scales the hills in a balance. So this is going

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to focus on God's power in what creation? He measured

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the waters, he marked the heavens, and he weighed the mountains.

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So this shows God's greatness as creator? Or are we

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God's power in creation? Let's put it that way, God's

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power in creation? I think that's how I said it first.

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Is everybody comfortable with that?

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I know it's asking rhetorical questions, But the rhetorical questions

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are demanding what Who hath measured the waters in the

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hollow of his hand? The only one who can we

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can say that has done that is own God right

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and meet it out heaven with a span. God and

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all of those things. Is not only showing God is

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the only one. What is it demonstrating his power because nobody.

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Else has the same power? Does that? Does that make

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some sense? All right? So? All right?

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So the greatness of God as creator and sovereign goes

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from verse twelve to twenty six. The first part of

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this is God's power in creation. Then that covers verse twelve.

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What about verse thirteen and fourteen? What about verse thirteen

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and fourteen. I'm going to try to have you guys

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do more of the looking here now so we can

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move quickly. I want to start reading all of this,

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but if I start reading all of.

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This, we'll never finish.

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Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord or being

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his counselor hath taught him with whom took hey counsel,

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and who instructed him and taught him?

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You get the basic idea.

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This is God's incomparable wisdom. Now, remember this is the

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greatness of God, his creator and sovereign. But this shows

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his incomparable wisdom. What is this wisdom attached to? Well,

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you could say it's attached to his creation, because that's

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just what came before. Right, Hey, God, does anyone have

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God's power?

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No? Well, did anyone have to counsel him? And how

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to do this? No?

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I mean, and that immediately what the verse says in

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verse thirteen and fourteen, Who hath directed the spirit of

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the Lord or being the counselor hath taught him with

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whom took counsel and who instructed him, and who taught

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him in the path of judgment and taught him knowledge

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and showed him the way of understanding. Basically, God has

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the power and God has the wisdom.

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God has the power, and God has the wisdom. Right.

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So number one, God's power in creation. Number two, God's

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incomparable wisdom. You could call it God's great wisdom. Could,

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however you would like to define it Verses thirteen through fourteen.

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Everybody feel good about that?

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How about verses fifteen through seventeen. What do we have

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in verse fifteen through seventeen?

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Okay, good?

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00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:11.079
We can put it this way. The insignificance of nations

478
00:27:13.480 --> 00:27:16.759
Verses fifteen through seventeen is basically, the nations are what

479
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:20.200
like a drop in a bucket or dust on a scale.

480
00:27:20.279 --> 00:27:22.359
Is that kind of a paraphrase of what's going on

481
00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:27.000
there is? That's pretty accurate. Basically, before God, what are

482
00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:29.440
the nations?

483
00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:31.119
Nothing? Or they see that?

484
00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:35.200
So this shows the insignificance of nations. So we have

485
00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:39.720
God's power in creation, his incomparable wisdom, his great wisdom.

486
00:27:39.880 --> 00:27:42.400
And then number three we have the insignificance of the nations.

487
00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:54.000
Goes from verses fifteen through seventeen. That could be doing

488
00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:56.400
a little bit of interpretation here, but I'm trying not to.

489
00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:59.200
I'm trying to just get us through the observation.

490
00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:05.559
I'm trying right now, what do you have in verses

491
00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:06.559
eighteen through twenty?

492
00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:10.440
This is the fourth section in this This is.

493
00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:11.759
The fourth sub point.

494
00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:14.279
I guess we could call this breaking this section down

495
00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:21.559
verses eighteen through twenty. What do we have in eighteen

496
00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:31.799
through twenty?

497
00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:41.319
What do we have in eighteen through twenty? Okay, all right,

498
00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:42.880
that's fine, Yeah.

499
00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:52.039
What do we have in eighteen through twenty? I think

500
00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:54.559
we could I'm going to call this section the foolishness

501
00:28:54.599 --> 00:29:00.480
of idolatry? Do I feel that that's fair? To whom

502
00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:02.839
will you like in God? Or what likeness will you

503
00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:05.240
compare it to God? The workman melteth the graven image,

504
00:29:05.240 --> 00:29:08.200
and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold and casts

505
00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:11.319
this silver chains. He that is so impoverished that he

506
00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:14.920
hath no oblation, chooseth a tree that will not rot.

507
00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:17.759
He seeketh unto him a cunning workman, to prepare a

508
00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:20.359
graven image that shall not be moved. I'm calling this

509
00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:24.279
the foolishness because this section, this section begins with God's

510
00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:28.240
power in creation. Here, Now we have what people creating

511
00:29:28.279 --> 00:29:32.640
their God. That's foolish when you compare can you compare

512
00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:35.880
an idol that you make with the God who makes.

513
00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:40.359
So it's the foolishness, right, does that make sense? So

514
00:29:40.440 --> 00:29:50.200
the foolishness of idolatry Verses eighteen through twenty. All right,

515
00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:52.799
so let's go through this again. This section is Roman

516
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:56.039
numeral five. It's the greatness of God as Creator and sovereign.

517
00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:58.960
It goes from verses twelve through twenty six. We're breaking

518
00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:00.279
this down into five parts.

519
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:00.960
Part one.

520
00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:04.960
Here is God's power in creation verse twelve. Number two,

521
00:30:05.319 --> 00:30:09.359
God's incomparable wisdom Verses thirteen through fourteen, Number three, the

522
00:30:09.359 --> 00:30:12.960
insignificance of nations verses fifteen through seventeen. Number four, we

523
00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:17.240
have the folly of idolatry Verses eighteen through twenty, and

524
00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:19.440
then that brings us to number five, verses twenty one

525
00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:20.279
through twenty six.

526
00:30:20.799 --> 00:30:21.720
What do we have here?

527
00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:47.680
Okay, I think there's a lot going on here. We

528
00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:50.759
definitely have some power. We definitely have him creator being

529
00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:51.400
mentioned here?

530
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:52.680
Do we have him?

531
00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:57.640
Does say anything about him sustaining possible? Possibly in this

532
00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:01.680
section as well, maybe Verse twenty four, twenty five, twenty six,

533
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:21.079
Verse twenty five, to whom will you like in me?

534
00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:23.119
Or shall I be equal to if the Lord lift

535
00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:26.039
up your eyes on high, and behold, who hath created

536
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:29.240
these things that bringeth out their hosts by numbers. He

537
00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:32.200
calleth them all by names, by greatness.

538
00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:32.279
Of his power.

539
00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:36.480
For if for he is strong in power, not one

540
00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:43.759
faileth what what doesn't fail? Well in that verse, the

541
00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:46.960
all his creation, because he's the one who does what

542
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:50.839
sustains it. All right, I'm just trying to justify what

543
00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:53.480
I'm getting ready to say here, right, So Verses twenty

544
00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:55.279
one through twenty six, we're gonna call this God as

545
00:31:55.359 --> 00:32:00.279
Creator and Sustainer. God is creator and sustainer, and he

546
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:09.759
goes twenty one through twenty six, because it says things

547
00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:11.759
like he stretched out the heavens as a curtain. He

548
00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:14.440
spreadeth them out as a tent. So it's more about creation.

549
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:17.640
So God as Creator and Sustainer Verses twenty one through

550
00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:24.039
twenty six, and for twenty one through twenty six. I'm

551
00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:26.240
not going to break it into subpoints because I think

552
00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:28.759
we've already kind of covered this in the previous sub points.

553
00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:31.119
So we're just gonna group these together, but we're not

554
00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:32.440
going to break them down into sub points.

555
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:43.720
We could, but we're not. Is that sound okay? All right, all.

556
00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:46.880
Right, that's a long section, right, So reman numeral five

557
00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:48.559
goes as twelve through twenty six. We call it the

558
00:32:48.599 --> 00:32:53.279
greatness of God as Creator and sovereign. The first subpoint

559
00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:57.440
God's power in creation verse twelve, number two, God's incomparable

560
00:32:57.440 --> 00:33:02.039
wisdom verses thirteen through fourteen, versus number three, the insignificance

561
00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:05.240
of the nations fifteen through seventeen, the folly of idolatry

562
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:08.880
Verses eighteen through twenty. Then God is Creator and sustainer

563
00:33:09.079 --> 00:33:10.640
Verses twenty one through twenty six.

564
00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:12.000
This leads us where.

565
00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:16.559
Twenty seven to thirty one, which would be Roman numeral

566
00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:23.160
six Roman numeral six God, Well, look at twenty seven

567
00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:25.599
through thirty one, look at twenty seven through thirty one,

568
00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:31.480
and you tell me what you see. Almost starting about

569
00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:48.200
ready to give it away. Why sayest thou, oh Jacob,

570
00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:50.640
and speaks O Israel. My way is hid from the Lord,

571
00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:53.000
and my judgment is passed over from my God.

572
00:33:53.319 --> 00:33:54.960
Hast thou not known? Hast thou not.

573
00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:57.319
Heard that the Everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of

574
00:33:57.319 --> 00:33:58.920
the ends of the earth, feigneth not.

575
00:33:59.119 --> 00:33:59.880
Neither is weary.

576
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:02.799
There is no searching of his understanding, he giveth power

577
00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:04.960
to the faint. All right, So this is what I'm

578
00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:08.039
going to call this section, God's Strength for the Weary.

579
00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:12.400
God's Strength for the weary goes from twenty seven to

580
00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:13.119
thirty one.

581
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:20.039
God's Strength for the weary. Everybody see that.

582
00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:24.920
Now we're about done with the observation outline. We're going

583
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:27.039
to break this down. But let me just ask a question.

584
00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:31.639
Even in this church, we've sung verse thirty one, right,

585
00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:34.639
we talk about this section over and over and over

586
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:38.280
and over in sermons, And how is these sermons almost

587
00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:42.719
always preach when it comes to these famous verses, especially

588
00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:46.159
verse thirty one. How are the I mean, you can

589
00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:48.480
just go listen to a million sermons today on Isaiah

590
00:34:48.519 --> 00:34:50.679
forty thirty one, how are they going to be preached

591
00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:56.679
that if we wait upon the Lord, God is gonna

592
00:34:56.719 --> 00:34:59.199
somehow renew our strength.

593
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:03.639
Ladies and gentlemen. That has nothing to do with you

594
00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:09.559
in this section. Who is the weary? Who are the

595
00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:10.360
ones fainting?

596
00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:14.760
If you just go back to verse twenty seven, why

597
00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:20.880
sayest thou, oh Jacob, and speakest oh Israel. My way

598
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:23.400
is hid from the Lord, and my judgment has passed

599
00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:24.199
over from God.

600
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:26.880
And then what does he start in verse twenty eight.

601
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:33.079
Hast thou not known? Who is he referring to Jacob

602
00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:36.519
and Israel? And what is he telling them? What do

603
00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:39.440
they need to wait on? This is not some generic weight.

604
00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:42.079
This is just not some Hey, you're going to a

605
00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:45.000
difficult time, Bobby, Just wait on the Lord and he

606
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:48.079
will renew your strength. No, they are waiting for a

607
00:35:48.280 --> 00:35:53.360
very specific thing. What are they waiting for deliverance, which

608
00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:53.719
is what.

609
00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:56.039
Promised.

610
00:35:57.039 --> 00:36:03.199
They're waiting on a specific promise. If they will trust God,

611
00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:05.639
then he will renew their strength.

612
00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:08.360
And what way? This is not generic?

613
00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:11.559
He's going to renew their strength because He's going to

614
00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:14.239
mount them up in a sense, on the wings of

615
00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:18.840
eagles and do what remove them from Babylonian captivity and

616
00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:23.679
bring them back to their land. It's poetic, but it's

617
00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:28.639
poetic speaking of a very specific thing. This group of

618
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:33.599
people need to wait on God to ultimately deliver them

619
00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:38.639
from a specific situation, which is Babylonian captivity. He's going

620
00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:42.440
to lift them up, blivering them back into their land.

621
00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:45.800
We can't jump into this and.

622
00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:48.360
Just but preacher after preacher just takes this and makes

623
00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:51.360
this about us, even though just how many verses before

624
00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:53.000
specifically names the people.

625
00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:55.639
Thirty one is.

626
00:36:55.639 --> 00:36:58.559
The one everyone preaches, right, But if you just go

627
00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:01.159
right back to twenty seven.

628
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:03.800
It literally names who it's talking about, does it not?

629
00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:08.159
And then verse twenty eight hast thou who is the

630
00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:12.760
thou Jacob and Israel? Right?

631
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:17.719
So then he then verse twenty nine thirty through thirty

632
00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:22.400
one is directed towards whom Israel.

633
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:25.519
It's not complicated.

634
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:29.280
Because what you go to church after church after church

635
00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:31.119
after church, who will preach that?

636
00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:36.519
And then we'll make it about whom us? That is complete?

637
00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:39.000
That is just trash.

638
00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:43.079
And the reason that's trash is because it sets people up.

639
00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:45.559
Well, oh, I've been waiting on God. So God's gonna

640
00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:47.239
do what He's.

641
00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:50.960
Gonna somehow raise me up and he's gonna do this

642
00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:53.360
for me, and he's gonna just stop talking.

643
00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:57.800
That's why sometimes I have like I couldn't go I don't.

644
00:37:58.440 --> 00:37:59.079
I hate to say it.

645
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:00.760
At this point in my christ In life, I don't

646
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:04.199
think I could go to church. I really don't think

647
00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:07.320
I could go to church anymore. I've almost because everything

648
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:10.239
they say I would just be like what is happening here?

649
00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:15.039
Like what is happening here, and it's kind.

650
00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:18.199
Of a bad place to be where the more you

651
00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:21.039
study the Bible and the more you care about the

652
00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:24.079
meaning of the text, the more unwelcome you really are

653
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:28.320
in church. Church is not the place for people who care.

654
00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:30.079
About the Bible. I know if I say that, people

655
00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:32.639
are gonna argue with me, but it's just true.

656
00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:36.519
If you really care about the text, you're gonna find

657
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:37.599
yourself in trouble.

658
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:38.000
Now.

659
00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:40.760
I should have caught on to that, because I found

660
00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:44.960
myself in trouble from the very beginning, but I did

661
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:45.679
not really.

662
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:49.280
I just thought, I thought, Oh, they're all.

663
00:38:49.159 --> 00:38:51.599
I need to do is create a church for people

664
00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:54.320
who really care about the text, and it's gonna be

665
00:38:54.920 --> 00:38:58.960
wildly successful because there's people out there starving.

666
00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:00.880
They're so hungry.

667
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:03.480
Oh I want a church that will study the Bible,

668
00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:05.280
study theology.

669
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:08.519
Oh, and they're gonna just pour in, was my thought.

670
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:10.840
Well, I heard a lot of people walk through that

671
00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:14.000
door who said they wanted that, and they wanted that

672
00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:18.480
until what until they got it, and then they didn't

673
00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:23.679
want it. But they would still tell you today that

674
00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:26.840
they want it, but they don't want it because I

675
00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:28.559
can get the sermons from their church as they go

676
00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:32.079
to and say, that's not what we do here. I

677
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:35.559
know that I can rip the sermons apart in fifteen

678
00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:39.960
different ways, not because I'm smarter, not because of being

679
00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:42.360
more godly. It has nothing to do with it. It

680
00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:45.400
just means do you care about the actual words on

681
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:49.039
the page? And if you do that, stop preaching that

682
00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:56.079
nonsense that that's for us. I'm not Israel. This entire section,

683
00:39:56.320 --> 00:39:59.280
if you look at this outline, you can clearly apply

684
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:01.559
it to the people it's written to. And who are

685
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:04.920
the people tridden to. We've talked about it. It's chapter

686
00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:10.119
thirty nine. If you need a reminder. Starting in verse five,

687
00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:13.360
then said Isaiah Hazekayah, hear the word of the Lord

688
00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:15.960
of Host. Behold the days come that all that is

689
00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:18.679
in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid

690
00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:22.960
up in store under the station, be carried to Babylon.

691
00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:26.800
This is those who are in Babylonian captivity.

692
00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:29.480
God sends them a message of comfort.

693
00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:32.039
Why do we think we can go take a letter

694
00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:35.039
of comfort given to us specific people.

695
00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:38.320
Knock them out, take the comfort and apply it to us.

696
00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:41.679
You can do that in preaching. But guess what is

697
00:40:41.719 --> 00:40:44.119
going to happen to the people in their life. They're

698
00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:48.280
not going to experience the comfort because the comfort was never.

699
00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:50.039
For them.

700
00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:53.280
They can convince themselves they are, but they're lying to

701
00:40:53.400 --> 00:41:02.199
themselves that Isaiah forty oh, I'm even afraid to try.

702
00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:05.159
If I challenged everyone just to take the sermon's two

703
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:07.599
point oh app today and start looking for sermons on

704
00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:10.840
Isaiah verse thirty one, I'm telling you, if I went

705
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:14.159
home right now started reviewing sermons on Isaiah forty thirty one,

706
00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:16.960
by the end of tonight, I'm going to have I'm

707
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:18.519
going to just go to the liquor store and I'm

708
00:41:18.519 --> 00:41:20.400
going to be so drunk by Monday that I'm not

709
00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:22.480
going to even remember my name because I'm not going

710
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:24.559
to be able to take it. And people say, well,

711
00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:29.280
that's just an exaggeration. Oh what it should bother everyone,

712
00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:33.679
because sermon after sermon after sermon is going to be

713
00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:36.000
making promises to you from that.

714
00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:40.960
But that's to me, that spiritual malpractice.

715
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:45.559
That's like a doctor coming to you going, hey, take

716
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:48.119
this and you're all your problems are gonna go away,

717
00:41:48.119 --> 00:41:49.280
and you take it and take it and.

718
00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:54.559
It does absolutely nothing for you, or it makes you.

719
00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:56.760
It could make you scre because you're gonna get depressed

720
00:41:56.760 --> 00:41:58.639
and it's not working well when.

721
00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:03.039
Well, we sing the song because of scripture.

722
00:42:03.480 --> 00:42:06.079
Whether we apply it to us, well, hopefully we probably

723
00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:08.400
have in the past. We probably have in the past

724
00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:15.800
because that's the way I was taught to preach. Yeah,

725
00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:21.519
I know, yeah, I've heard it's not my people. There

726
00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:26.480
is defined by the context. So yeah, I probably have

727
00:42:26.639 --> 00:42:29.360
because I was taught to preach that, right, would mean

728
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:32.079
I would be taught. Oh look, Isaiah Ford, but they

729
00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:34.760
that wait upon the Lord? All right, So I can

730
00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:36.840
talk a sermon about waiting. All right, what are the

731
00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:38.960
things required to wait? And then I could give you

732
00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:40.840
like three or four points on how to wait, and

733
00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:43.119
then you would leave here going, Oh that was a

734
00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:45.719
good That was a good sermon, Pastor. You gave me

735
00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:48.239
four practical things about waiting, and I do need to

736
00:42:48.280 --> 00:42:50.199
wait on the Lord because right now I'm going through

737
00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:51.039
this or this or this.

738
00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:52.960
Thank you, pastor for the comfort.

739
00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:56.159
Oh so you should have just pulled out a gun

740
00:42:56.199 --> 00:42:59.199
and shot me. Well, I mean that would have been

741
00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:01.239
a little extreme, but you know, you get the point, right,

742
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:03.880
because that but I would have been That's how I

743
00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:05.880
would have been taught, and you can go to any church.

744
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:07.320
That's how it would have been preached.

745
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:09.199
And then it would have been like, wait, so when

746
00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:11.280
you talk about what who do we wait upon?

747
00:43:11.880 --> 00:43:14.119
Why do we wait upon God? Because he can?

748
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:16.960
And then I could go back into Isaiah and show

749
00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:19.400
his power and his strength as creator and say that's

750
00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:21.039
why I would, and it would feel like that I'm

751
00:43:21.039 --> 00:43:23.920
being what that I'm true to the text, and you'd

752
00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:25.920
be like, oh, this is such a good sermon.

753
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:44.599
Basically, yeah, yeah, which is sad, is it not? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, true.

754
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:47.480
I mean it's not like that they're not doing it

755
00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:49.239
because they think it's wrong. They're doing it because they

756
00:43:49.239 --> 00:43:51.119
think it's right. But it's just the way we were

757
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:55.639
taught to handle the text. Because the the the the

758
00:43:55.800 --> 00:43:59.320
presupposition that controls everything is that basically, this is for

759
00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:01.039
whom for us?

760
00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:06.360
Every word, every word is for us. So then every word.

761
00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:10.039
Is applicable to us, because then they'll go to all

762
00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:14.840
scriptures given by inspiration for God, and it is profitable

763
00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:18.199
for doctrine, for reproof, for corrections. The Man of God

764
00:44:18.199 --> 00:44:20.280
maybe thoroughly furnished in every good word. So they'll take

765
00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:23.480
that and say see every word is for me. Well,

766
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:27.000
being profitable doesn't mean necessarily it's applicable. I mean that's

767
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:27.719
a different thing.

768
00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:28.119
Right.

769
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:35.440
Being able to instruct or correct does not necessarily mean okay, right, yeah,

770
00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:38.079
and the lesson we learn from that is right, very true.

771
00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:41.400
God kept his word to these people in Babylon in captivity.

772
00:44:41.559 --> 00:44:45.440
So whatever word is to me, God will keep right.

773
00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:47.880
So there is an application there, but it's got to

774
00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:51.920
be a correct application. Can't say that God's going to

775
00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:54.440
come up and give me some strength or renew or

776
00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:57.199
do these things for me, because it's because these things

777
00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:01.039
are not generic. Though even though it's spoken in a

778
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:06.480
poetic way, it's very tangible. He's going to mount them

779
00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:11.239
up literally, right, He's gonna carry them literally, Like you.

780
00:45:11.280 --> 00:45:14.320
Know what I'm saying. It's all literal, very literal, even

781
00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:15.320
though it's poetical.

782
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:17.440
But so when we come in and take the poetic

783
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:19.880
language and then say it's about us, then it becomes

784
00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:22.760
very generic. Right, So what does that mean, Pastor God's

785
00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:23.719
gonna renew my strength?

786
00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:26.840
Well, you'll just feel strong. It's a feeling I'm gonna

787
00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:35.280
get you. See, that's that doesn't mean anything. We know,

788
00:45:36.679 --> 00:45:43.760
it's gonna get right.

789
00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:47.039
But I'm saying for these people, it's very specific. Right,

790
00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:50.400
they are going to get literal strength to be literally

791
00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:55.199
brought out of their captivity. It's very material, very physical,

792
00:45:55.480 --> 00:46:04.440
very specific. They Right now, the application is what God

793
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:06.840
has spoken to us. We should be able to wait

794
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:09.519
and then that can give me strength in which sense. Well,

795
00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:11.239
I know that there will come a time Christ will

796
00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:14.320
return right now. Yeah, but see now we're applying it

797
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:16.880
in a correct way. Now, we're applying it in a

798
00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:19.920
correct way. But pastors just come and just speak as

799
00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:22.519
almost this is for us, but it's not for me.

800
00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:25.079
Now there may be lessons I can derive.

801
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:27.360
From it and how, and that's why there's a fine

802
00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:31.199
line there, and it can confuse the people and how

803
00:46:31.199 --> 00:46:31.840
to do this.

804
00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:33.679
It is confusing.

805
00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:39.039
But we got to just know that that's specifically for them.

806
00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:40.960
So does that make sense? All right?

807
00:46:41.039 --> 00:46:43.599
So let's go back through this section, all right, God's

808
00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:46.480
Strength for the Weary versus twenty seven to thirty one.

809
00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:49.199
We haven't broken it down at the parts yet, have we.

810
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:53.719
Let's break it down into four parts. Sound good, but

811
00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:57.800
we just had to have that conversation because man, the

812
00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:00.519
amount of sermons you hear in this section are in sane?

813
00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:03.199
Okay? All right? So what do we have in verse

814
00:47:03.199 --> 00:47:03.800
twenty seven?

815
00:47:11.239 --> 00:47:15.800
Okay, we could I have questioning Israel's doubts, questioning it

816
00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:19.320
because they're being questioned, are they not? Why is say

817
00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:22.960
this now, oh Jacob and speakes though Israel, my way

818
00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.280
is hid from the Lord and my judgment has passed

819
00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:26.119
over from God.

820
00:47:26.440 --> 00:47:28.639
So this is questioning Israel's doubts.

821
00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:33.280
Basically, why do you say, oh Jacob, that God has

822
00:47:33.320 --> 00:47:38.000
forgotten you? Basically they're being asked, why do you why

823
00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:39.639
are you at questioning.

824
00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:40.440
That God has forgotten you?

825
00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:42.760
Now, of course, in a practical way, I can understand

826
00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:44.199
very much why they're saying it.

827
00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:47.360
But okay, but we don't want to get into interpretation here.

828
00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:50.760
So questioning Israel's doubts verse twenty seven, What do we

829
00:47:50.760 --> 00:48:04.960
have in verse twenty eight? So number one, questioning Israel's doubts.

830
00:48:05.039 --> 00:48:08.599
Number two, God's everlasting power and understanding. Do you think

831
00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:09.079
that's fair?

832
00:48:11.159 --> 00:48:16.119
Okay? Yeah, yeah, hast thou not known? Hey, I'm questioning

833
00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:16.960
your doubts.

834
00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:20.480
Okay, But now I'm gonna give you the well this

835
00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:29.400
information of God's everlasting power and understanding, right, number three.

836
00:48:29.559 --> 00:48:43.079
What do you hav in verse twenty nine to thirty

837
00:48:43.239 --> 00:48:45.079
Verse twenty nine through thirty, was just gonna say God

838
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:48.239
gives strength to the week, because it says verse twenty nine,

839
00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:55.760
he giveth verse twenty nine, he giveth power. He gives

840
00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:58.119
power to the faint and to them they have no might.

841
00:48:58.159 --> 00:48:59.599
He increaseth strength.

842
00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:00.199
You see that?

843
00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:03.199
So God gives strength to the week Verses twenty nine

844
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:11.960
through thirty. And what do we have in verse thirty one, Well,

845
00:49:11.960 --> 00:49:16.800
we'll say promise for those who wait? Or yeah, promise

846
00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:18.880
or are we going to say promises if you want

847
00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:21.760
to make it plural? But promise for those who wait

848
00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:37.119
verse thirty one. All right, let's go back through the

849
00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:40.719
whole outline. Everybody ready, going all the way back to

850
00:49:40.760 --> 00:49:45.159
the top. The first Roman numeral one is God's call

851
00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:47.440
to comfort his people, and it goes from verse one

852
00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:50.920
through two. Everybody got that, And this is God's call

853
00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:54.360
to comfort his people. We broke this down into two sections,

854
00:49:54.639 --> 00:49:58.280
the command to comfort verse one and declaration of comfort

855
00:49:58.360 --> 00:49:58.840
verse two.

856
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.639
Everybody feel comfortable with that? I think so?

857
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:07.159
Roman numeral two a voice of preparation Verses three through five.

858
00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:11.599
The call to prepare the way the transformation of the

859
00:50:11.679 --> 00:50:13.960
land and verse four. So the call to prepare is

860
00:50:14.039 --> 00:50:16.719
verse three, the transformation of the land is verse four,

861
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:19.039
and the revelation of God's glory is verse five.

862
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:25.159
Roman numeral three.

863
00:50:25.639 --> 00:50:29.119
The frailty of humanity and the enduring Word of God

864
00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:33.199
goes from verses six through eight. We broke this down

865
00:50:33.239 --> 00:50:37.599
into how many parts two, the proclamation of human frailty

866
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:41.000
Verses six through seven, and the permanence of God's word

867
00:50:41.079 --> 00:50:45.360
in verse eight. This brought us to Roman numeral number four.

868
00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:49.440
The proclamation of good news Behold your God Verses nine

869
00:50:49.519 --> 00:50:52.960
through eleven. We broke this down into how many parts

870
00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:57.960
three call to Zion to proclaim the good news and

871
00:50:58.039 --> 00:51:03.559
verse nine. God's strength and reward in verse ten, and

872
00:51:03.599 --> 00:51:06.440
God's tender care as a shepherd and verse eleven.

873
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:12.039
This brings us to Roman numeral.

874
00:51:11.960 --> 00:51:15.159
Five, which is the big section twelve through twenty six.

875
00:51:16.920 --> 00:51:20.239
We broke this down into how many parts five.

876
00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:23.760
The first part was God's power in creation verse twelve.

877
00:51:25.119 --> 00:51:31.000
The second part was God's incomparable wisdom Verses thirteen through fourteen. Next,

878
00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:35.559
the insignificance of nations Verses fifteen through seventeen. The folly

879
00:51:35.599 --> 00:51:39.239
of idolatry Verses eighteen through twenty one, and God as

880
00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:44.519
Creator and Sustainer Verses twenty one through twenty six. This

881
00:51:44.559 --> 00:51:46.760
brings us to twenty seven through thirty one, which is

882
00:51:46.840 --> 00:51:53.719
Roman numeral number six, God's Strength for the Weary Verses

883
00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:56.280
twenty seven through twenty one. That's the title of this section,

884
00:51:56.360 --> 00:51:58.760
God's Strength for the Weary. We broke this down into

885
00:51:58.760 --> 00:51:59.320
how many.

886
00:51:59.119 --> 00:52:01.519
Parts four parts.

887
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:06.360
Number one questioning Israel's doubts Verse twenty seven, Number two,

888
00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:10.920
God's everlasting power and understanding Verse twenty eight. God gives

889
00:52:10.920 --> 00:52:14.880
strength to the week Verses twenty nine through thirty and

890
00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:24.119
number four promise for those who wait verse thirty one.

891
00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:28.239
All right, now we're gonna do a summary of the outline.

892
00:52:28.679 --> 00:52:30.440
We're gonna do a summary of the outline, which is

893
00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:34.239
going to group this in an easier format. All right,

894
00:52:34.519 --> 00:52:38.519
kind of a summary of the outline. You ready, Summary

895
00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:41.800
of the outline Number one Isaiah forty one through eleven.

896
00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:48.079
This introduces the themes of comfort, preparation, and proclamation, emphasizing

897
00:52:48.119 --> 00:52:53.760
God's coming to redeem and restore his people. So we're

898
00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:56.559
gonna just summarize this now, We're just summarizing it so,

899
00:52:56.920 --> 00:52:59.760
Isaiah forty one through eleven introduces themes. What are the

900
00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:04.760
themes comfort, preparation, and proclamation? And this is emphasizing God's

901
00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:06.599
coming to redeem and restore his people.

902
00:53:14.840 --> 00:53:17.400
Number two Isaiah forty twelve through twenty six.

903
00:53:18.280 --> 00:53:22.800
This extols God's greatness as creator, contrasting his power and

904
00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:31.199
wisdom with the frailty of humanity and the futility of idolatry.

905
00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:35.639
Isaiah forty twelve through twenty six basically speaks of God's greatness.

906
00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:36.599
It lifts it up.

907
00:53:36.599 --> 00:53:41.639
It exalts God's greatness as creator, contrasting his power and

908
00:53:41.679 --> 00:53:43.719
wisdom with the frailty of humanity.

909
00:53:43.320 --> 00:53:48.239
And the futility of idolatry.

910
00:53:49.159 --> 00:53:51.119
I'll do number one again because I know there's a

911
00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:53.960
lot here to write down. Isaiah forty one through eleven

912
00:53:54.039 --> 00:53:58.519
introduces the themes of what comfort, preparation, and proclamation? And

913
00:53:58.599 --> 00:54:02.599
what does this emphasize the God's coming to redeem, God's coming.

914
00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:07.079
To restore his people. I think that's pretty simple.

915
00:54:07.960 --> 00:54:13.159
Number two Isaiah forty twelve through twenty six exalts, extols, exalts,

916
00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:15.920
lifts up however you would like to word it. God's

917
00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:19.800
greatness as creator, and it contrasts his power and wisdom

918
00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:39.280
with what the frailty of humanity and the futility of idolatry. Right,

919
00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:45.599
and they need to repeat any of that. If you do,

920
00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:51.400
just say speak now or forever hold your peace, all right?

921
00:54:51.519 --> 00:54:56.480
Number three Isaiah forty twenty seven through thirty one. This

922
00:54:56.599 --> 00:55:01.159
concludes with a reminder of God's everlasting strength. I think

923
00:55:01.199 --> 00:55:03.599
everybody sees that, and a promise to renew those who

924
00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:05.519
trust in him. Are those who I think we should

925
00:55:05.559 --> 00:55:08.400
rewrite that. Let's do this one. It concludes with a

926
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:13.039
reminder of God's everlasting strength and his promise to those.

927
00:55:12.840 --> 00:55:18.559
Who wait on him. Let's put it that way. Let's

928
00:55:18.559 --> 00:55:24.360
put it that way. I'm gonna type that. I'm going

929
00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:34.239
to retype that, all right.

930
00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:39.440
It concludes with a reminder of God's everlasting strength and

931
00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:41.920
his promised to renew those who wait on him.

932
00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:48.239
I think that's a good way to state it. Now.

933
00:55:48.519 --> 00:55:53.119
This structure that we've kind of come up with highlights

934
00:55:53.199 --> 00:55:59.559
the chapter's progression from comfort, right, you see that and

935
00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:05.199
hope to a grand vision of God's sovereignty and sustaining power.

936
00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:09.239
It basically says comfort, comfort, and then you may ask, well,

937
00:56:09.239 --> 00:56:12.199
how are these people going to be comforted? Well, how

938
00:56:12.199 --> 00:56:14.960
are they going to be comforted with this message and

939
00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:20.559
this revelation of God's sovereignty, his power, his wisdom, him

940
00:56:20.599 --> 00:56:24.400
being greater than the nations, him being greater than the idols.

941
00:56:24.840 --> 00:56:28.239
So there's a progression here, right, Hey, go tell the

942
00:56:28.280 --> 00:56:33.679
people to be comforted. And the people may say, why

943
00:56:33.719 --> 00:56:36.400
am I going to find comfort? Well, because look at

944
00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:39.440
my situation, and they would have every right, and we

945
00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:41.400
see a little bit of them. They're kind of their

946
00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:44.519
questions and doubting, right, And so the point is, as

947
00:56:44.559 --> 00:56:47.320
you go through the chapter, here's what you should look to.

948
00:56:47.719 --> 00:56:48.960
Look to God's greatness.

949
00:56:49.159 --> 00:56:53.199
He is sovereign, he is creator, he's more wise, he

950
00:56:53.280 --> 00:56:58.599
has power, and he's going to ultimately do what trust

951
00:56:58.639 --> 00:57:01.559
in his power, and he's ultimately deliver you. And in

952
00:57:01.599 --> 00:57:04.599
their case, they can hold on to that because specifically

953
00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:08.800
he is now. Whenever we want parallels to us, let's

954
00:57:08.880 --> 00:57:11.719
just remind us. Our parallel is this, and I say

955
00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:16.119
it all the time in a practical way. We are

956
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:22.280
in Babylonian captivity because we live in a world of flesh,

957
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:27.159
a world of sin, a world of pain, a creation

958
00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:32.199
that groans under God's judgment. Right, we still have a

959
00:57:32.280 --> 00:57:36.119
sinful nature. Our bodies are broken and they have disease,

960
00:57:36.360 --> 00:57:38.880
and we see pain suffering. Do we not see pain

961
00:57:38.920 --> 00:57:40.800
suffering and death and all of that in our world?

962
00:57:41.519 --> 00:57:41.800
Yes?

963
00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:46.159
Now, at the same time, just as difficult as it

964
00:57:46.159 --> 00:57:48.000
would have been for them, it will be for us.

965
00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:50.440
So let's just be honest here, right, Okay, let's just

966
00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:54.039
be honest. When you go to a people like this

967
00:57:54.400 --> 00:57:58.320
in suffering and you point to God's power, in God's

968
00:57:58.360 --> 00:58:01.280
strength as a source of that comfort, in some ways,

969
00:58:01.320 --> 00:58:02.719
that can be maddening, can it not?

970
00:58:05.480 --> 00:58:07.559
Of what comfort is there.

971
00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:10.239
To hear that God is all powerful if you're suffering,

972
00:58:10.559 --> 00:58:14.719
Because unless God's going to use that power to intervene immediately,

973
00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:17.239
it's not going to do anything. But does there is

974
00:58:17.280 --> 00:58:19.039
there any promise of immediate relief?

975
00:58:19.679 --> 00:58:22.480
No? The chapter ends with what wait.

976
00:58:23.480 --> 00:58:27.960
That's that's a hard message to hear. Oh, God's all powerful,

977
00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:31.880
but I have to wait? Well, how about he take

978
00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:34.880
that all power? And how about how about maybe how

979
00:58:35.079 --> 00:58:39.239
about a divine hurry up? Because we've been suffering for

980
00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:42.519
a long time. But they're there for a specific reason. Well,

981
00:58:42.519 --> 00:58:45.239
in the same in our way, it can be just

982
00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:46.400
as difficult for us.

983
00:58:50.360 --> 00:58:55.079
God's all powerful. Well great, guess what that means.

984
00:58:55.480 --> 00:58:57.400
Does not mean It does not mean that power is

985
00:58:57.440 --> 00:58:59.639
going to ever be used in a way to help

986
00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:01.119
you with your current situation.

987
00:59:01.400 --> 00:59:04.039
It does mean, just as.

988
00:59:03.880 --> 00:59:07.880
They were delivered, we will and all we can do

989
00:59:08.119 --> 00:59:12.079
is wait, and then there will come a time that

990
00:59:12.119 --> 00:59:13.480
we then will be.

991
00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:19.559
Mounted up with in a sense and carried away and

992
00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:21.039
delivered from our bondage.

993
00:59:21.119 --> 00:59:25.719
So really, the whole Babylonian captivity is very much like

994
00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:29.960
our reality. Now we want God to intervene. Now, we

995
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:32.599
want God to fix our problems. Now God has the

996
00:59:32.679 --> 00:59:35.119
power to do so, he chooses not to do so.

997
00:59:35.400 --> 00:59:39.360
I don't understand that that bothers me to no end,

998
00:59:39.840 --> 00:59:47.119
but it's the reality we must embrace. Yes, this message

999
00:59:47.159 --> 00:59:55.880
came to them before they even went into captivity.

1000
00:59:56.039 --> 01:00:02.000
Yes, yeah, right exactly. The word of comfort did not

1001
01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:05.039
take away the very thing they were gonna need comfort from,

1002
01:00:05.159 --> 01:00:07.280
right yeah.

1003
01:00:07.320 --> 01:00:11.039
But so and just for us, we've known, we've had

1004
01:00:11.079 --> 01:00:13.880
the word of God even before we were born, and

1005
01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:16.440
we know that well, we're gonna be born into a

1006
01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:20.199
world of pain, suffering, and death. Now the church wants

1007
01:00:20.199 --> 01:00:23.400
to try to almost rewrite it that hey, we're in

1008
01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:25.960
this bad situation, but God is there to intervene on

1009
01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:27.719
a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

1010
01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:29.519
He's gonna fix this. He's gonna do this, he's gonna

1011
01:00:29.519 --> 01:00:31.239
do this, he's gonna do this, he's gonna do this.

1012
01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:32.719
And a lot of people hear.

1013
01:00:32.639 --> 01:00:35.920
Those messages in church, and then as life gets worse

1014
01:00:35.960 --> 01:00:38.599
and worse and worse, sometimes they look around and go,

1015
01:00:40.119 --> 01:00:40.960
this is a lie.

1016
01:00:41.079 --> 01:00:42.840
I mean, I can give the example.

1017
01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:45.639
I worked with someone who was a part of the

1018
01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:48.159
praise band at New Hope Church there at Ebley, right,

1019
01:00:48.199 --> 01:00:49.480
and I give her a hard time all the time

1020
01:00:49.519 --> 01:00:51.920
because they're charismatics, and I always tell her to heal

1021
01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:53.400
the people on the phone instead of me having a

1022
01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:56.000
book and appointment. Right, I gave her a hard time. Well,

1023
01:00:56.079 --> 01:00:58.480
someone who was a part of that church. I don't

1024
01:00:58.480 --> 01:00:59.880
know if he was in leadership, he was kind of

1025
01:00:59.880 --> 01:01:02.519
a part of the church. His father got really really

1026
01:01:02.559 --> 01:01:05.159
really really sick, and the pastor and everyone in the

1027
01:01:05.280 --> 01:01:08.639
church told him that his father was going to be killed.

1028
01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:13.360
His father died, and well, he ended up leaving the church.

1029
01:01:18.599 --> 01:01:20.760
Well, I know many stick around, but I'm just saying

1030
01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:23.119
for so many it brings them to a breaking point,

1031
01:01:23.199 --> 01:01:27.800
right because the Church loves to create this idea of

1032
01:01:27.880 --> 01:01:31.440
basically God is, you know, sitting right there. You know,

1033
01:01:31.880 --> 01:01:34.639
he rides shotgun with us, and every little problem and

1034
01:01:34.679 --> 01:01:37.559
every little difficult God's gonna take care of. God's gonna

1035
01:01:37.559 --> 01:01:40.719
take care of. And that's not the reality we live.

1036
01:01:41.719 --> 01:01:45.559
The reality. We live our reality. I am not saying

1037
01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:50.000
deny God. See a lot of people misinterpret my approach

1038
01:01:50.039 --> 01:01:51.280
to this and they get mad at me.

1039
01:01:52.280 --> 01:01:54.320
I'm not saying deny God.

1040
01:01:55.400 --> 01:01:57.760
I'm saying that if we're going to believe in God,

1041
01:01:58.039 --> 01:02:00.360
we have to acknowledge that we have a God who

1042
01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:04.079
is not intervening in all the ways that Christians claims

1043
01:02:04.079 --> 01:02:05.119
that he's intervening.

1044
01:02:05.519 --> 01:02:06.800
We do believe.

1045
01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:14.840
He will intervene, just like he was not intervening for them.

1046
01:02:15.079 --> 01:02:18.519
Was he raising the people from the grave who died

1047
01:02:18.519 --> 01:02:21.840
in Babylonian captivity? No, was he alleviating their suffering.

1048
01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:26.280
No? Did not same thing as seventy a.

1049
01:02:26.400 --> 01:02:29.920
D when Jerusalem was surrounded and depending if we go

1050
01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:35.480
with Josepha's account, a million people died and they resorted

1051
01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:41.239
to cannibalism. They were eating each other during that siege.

1052
01:02:41.280 --> 01:02:44.880
Did God step in and help them? No, they were slaughtered.

1053
01:02:46.239 --> 01:02:48.760
I mean, I can go story after story after story.

1054
01:02:48.920 --> 01:02:52.559
When David all week on the podcast, we've been talking

1055
01:02:52.559 --> 01:02:55.079
about First Samuel twenty six and First Samuel twenty seven

1056
01:02:55.360 --> 01:02:58.719
because again preachers taking for Samuel twenty six and so

1057
01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:02.800
misrepresenting that tech. But in First Samuel twenty six, David

1058
01:03:02.800 --> 01:03:05.280
has the opportunity to kill Saul, right, and he doesn't

1059
01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:07.559
do so everyone thinks his motives are all pure. I

1060
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:09.880
think his motives weren't so pure. But okay, he doesn't

1061
01:03:09.960 --> 01:03:13.519
kill Saul. But in the next very next chapter, good

1062
01:03:13.599 --> 01:03:17.239
old David, right, he does, and everyone's like and God

1063
01:03:17.320 --> 01:03:20.159
intervenes in twenty six, which just makes it even more confusing.

1064
01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:22.840
He puts three thousand people to sleep so David can

1065
01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:24.559
walk in say I'm not gonna kill Saul.

1066
01:03:24.800 --> 01:03:27.880
Then in the very next chapter he does, what, oh man,

1067
01:03:27.960 --> 01:03:30.480
Saul's gonna kill me. So what does David run to?

1068
01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:33.400
He joins the Philistines, and what does he do when

1069
01:03:33.440 --> 01:03:39.480
he's with the Philistines. He goes and slaughters people for

1070
01:03:39.719 --> 01:03:40.559
the Philistines.

1071
01:03:40.719 --> 01:03:42.280
The text says he kills every.

1072
01:03:42.159 --> 01:03:51.840
Man, woman, child, and animal. And stole their property. Did

1073
01:03:51.840 --> 01:03:53.559
God intervene to help them?

1074
01:03:54.079 --> 01:03:54.239
No?

1075
01:03:54.480 --> 01:03:57.639
So, even in the Bible where God is intervening, sometimes

1076
01:03:57.679 --> 01:03:59.360
when you read the Bible, isn't it confusing?

1077
01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:00.760
Wait a minute.

1078
01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:04.039
God intervened right there and part of the Red Sea,

1079
01:04:05.599 --> 01:04:09.159
but he doesn't intervene here. He doesn't intervene here. He

1080
01:04:09.199 --> 01:04:12.719
doesn't intervene here. Jesus, while on earth is raising people

1081
01:04:12.760 --> 01:04:15.400
from the dead, but he leaves John the Baptist to

1082
01:04:15.480 --> 01:04:16.480
rot and die in prison.

1083
01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:21.360
Is that not confusing? In the Book of Acts, people are.

1084
01:04:21.239 --> 01:04:26.119
Being healed, Stephen gets stoned to death, and they're just like, oh,

1085
01:04:26.239 --> 01:04:29.119
too bad, I mean to do you?

1086
01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:30.599
Does that not ever bother you?

1087
01:04:31.079 --> 01:04:34.039
So even in the Bible where God is intervening and

1088
01:04:34.079 --> 01:04:39.280
doing miracles all over the place, there's still these parent

1089
01:04:39.840 --> 01:04:43.280
You're like, well, wait a minute, what you just did

1090
01:04:43.400 --> 01:04:48.239
that miracle? Why wouldn't you do a miracle here? I mean,

1091
01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:51.519
sometimes it's confounding, is it not. I mean, anyone who

1092
01:04:51.599 --> 01:04:52.719
reads the Bible, she'd be like.

1093
01:04:52.679 --> 01:04:53.360
Well, wait a minute.

1094
01:04:53.400 --> 01:04:56.559
Like again, and first Samuel twenty six, God puts three

1095
01:04:56.559 --> 01:04:59.360
thousand people to sleep, but in twenty seven he can't

1096
01:04:59.360 --> 01:05:02.119
make David go night night, to stop, you know, people

1097
01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:05.000
being slaughtered. I mean, oh, he could put three thousand

1098
01:05:05.039 --> 01:05:07.639
people to sleep, but he couldn't keep Bathsheba for sleeping

1099
01:05:07.639 --> 01:05:09.360
a little bit longer, so she's not on the roof

1100
01:05:09.400 --> 01:05:11.599
when David walks out. He couldn't have had David go

1101
01:05:11.639 --> 01:05:15.079
to sleep. I mean, he gotta fix that problem. Oh

1102
01:05:15.239 --> 01:05:18.199
did he even bother to step in to save Bathsheba's husband?

1103
01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:19.480
No, let him die.

1104
01:05:20.119 --> 01:05:24.320
Sometimes it's even maddening just reading the Bible. Well, when

1105
01:05:24.320 --> 01:05:27.480
you leave the Bible, we can we can clearly agree

1106
01:05:28.639 --> 01:05:32.559
God is not operating today. And I know some people

1107
01:05:32.599 --> 01:05:34.719
are gonna say God is the same yesterday, today, forever.

1108
01:05:34.880 --> 01:05:37.840
He is the same in his attributes and his nature.

1109
01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:42.320
We know he's not necessarily acting in the exact same

1110
01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:44.280
way because when was the last time he saw him.

1111
01:05:44.119 --> 01:05:46.880
Part the Red Sea? Right?

1112
01:05:46.920 --> 01:05:50.400
Okay, right, So we know clearly things operate in a

1113
01:05:50.639 --> 01:05:53.360
slightly different way. We know that He used to speak

1114
01:05:53.360 --> 01:05:55.119
in all kinds.

1115
01:05:54.920 --> 01:05:55.519
Of different ways.

1116
01:05:55.559 --> 01:05:57.440
Today he speaks to us through the Bible, So we

1117
01:05:57.480 --> 01:05:58.599
know that there's a change.

1118
01:05:58.719 --> 01:06:00.000
That doesn't mean God is changed.

1119
01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:02.480
I know that people have a hard time with that concept, right,

1120
01:06:02.800 --> 01:06:06.440
but clearly something has changed. So in our day, God

1121
01:06:06.519 --> 01:06:09.039
is not even intervening like he did there. But even

1122
01:06:09.039 --> 01:06:12.320
when he intervened there, it was already maddening at times. Right,

1123
01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:15.960
it was already sometimes confusing. Well for us, the church

1124
01:06:16.039 --> 01:06:19.840
still wants to somehow believe that every little difficulty, every

1125
01:06:19.880 --> 01:06:23.280
little problem, God's gonna step in, God's gonna make it better,

1126
01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:24.440
and God's gonna fix it.

1127
01:06:24.880 --> 01:06:27.079
That's just not the way it works.

1128
01:06:27.519 --> 01:06:29.960
The best way to understand our life is we're in

1129
01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:32.440
Babylonian captivity and we're gonna suffer.

1130
01:06:33.239 --> 01:06:33.440
Now.

1131
01:06:33.480 --> 01:06:37.519
Some people will suffer more, some people will suffer less.

1132
01:06:37.679 --> 01:06:39.880
But the one thing we all know in life what's

1133
01:06:39.920 --> 01:06:44.639
going to happen. There's gonna be pain, suffering, trial and tribulation.

1134
01:06:44.679 --> 01:06:47.599
Even Jesus said in this life now he was speaking

1135
01:06:47.599 --> 01:06:50.159
specifically to the disciples, and they were about to have

1136
01:06:50.239 --> 01:06:53.760
tribulation because they're all gonna be martyred except for John. Right,

1137
01:06:53.800 --> 01:06:56.920
so they definitely were gonna Did God intervene to save

1138
01:06:56.960 --> 01:06:57.480
any of them?

1139
01:06:58.039 --> 01:07:00.360
No? Did he raise him from the dead? No? Oh,

1140
01:07:01.360 --> 01:07:03.320
Sometimes it's maddening, like a why not?

1141
01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:08.039
Okay, right, and I raise Lazarus, But John, the badness

1142
01:07:08.079 --> 01:07:08.480
are You're out?

1143
01:07:08.519 --> 01:07:11.639
Alike? Sometimes it's so random it makes no sense.

1144
01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:15.559
But for us, I think the Babylonian captivity gives us

1145
01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:19.119
a good sense, right, it gives us a good.

1146
01:07:18.920 --> 01:07:21.039
Sense of that's kind of how life is.

1147
01:07:21.199 --> 01:07:24.360
We're in a situation. God is not intervening in all

1148
01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:29.519
this miraculous way like everyone claims. But we can still

1149
01:07:29.559 --> 01:07:34.239
do what we can, still find comfort as they found comfort.

1150
01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:41.719
And what fact, God is creator, He's all powerful, he's

1151
01:07:41.960 --> 01:07:46.159
all wise. He's greater than any god that we could make.

1152
01:07:47.400 --> 01:07:49.239
And what we are to do is to trust in

1153
01:07:49.320 --> 01:07:54.639
him because the day will come that he will, in

1154
01:07:54.679 --> 01:07:57.719
a sense renew our strength, mount us up on the

1155
01:07:57.719 --> 01:08:02.320
wings of eagles, and do what deliver us from our captivity,

1156
01:08:02.400 --> 01:08:07.039
which is in heaven. So in that sense, there's some

1157
01:08:07.199 --> 01:08:12.280
applicable things. But justice, they were given all these great messages.

1158
01:08:12.480 --> 01:08:15.400
Did that fix their problem? Just say, as Sarah said,

1159
01:08:15.480 --> 01:08:17.479
they got this message about one hundred years before it

1160
01:08:17.560 --> 01:08:22.960
even started. Did this message fix God's power and sovereignty?

1161
01:08:22.960 --> 01:08:25.239
Did it stop the Babylonian captivity from happening?

1162
01:08:26.359 --> 01:08:26.479
No?

1163
01:08:28.159 --> 01:08:30.960
Did it alleviate the suffering in the Babylonian captivity?

1164
01:08:31.279 --> 01:08:35.119
No? But yet what's the message? God is all powerful?

1165
01:08:35.199 --> 01:08:36.119
Because these things.

1166
01:08:36.199 --> 01:08:38.319
What is true of God is true of God no

1167
01:08:38.399 --> 01:08:40.279
matter what we go through.

1168
01:08:40.479 --> 01:08:42.000
But that can be frustrating.

1169
01:08:43.359 --> 01:08:45.880
It can be frustrating for someone to say, hey, trust

1170
01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:48.560
in God, He's all powerful. I do trust in God

1171
01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:50.920
that he's all powerful, but don't tell me that that

1172
01:08:50.960 --> 01:08:52.640
means he's going to use that power to help me

1173
01:08:52.680 --> 01:08:55.239
in my situation, because it may not be coming.

1174
01:08:55.159 --> 01:08:57.920
Just like it didn't come for them for seventy years.

1175
01:08:58.199 --> 01:09:02.199
Meaning there were people who went into case activity who

1176
01:09:02.399 --> 01:09:07.000
died there. There were people born there who died there.

1177
01:09:07.920 --> 01:09:12.239
So God's power, God's wisdom was of no value to

1178
01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:18.880
them practically speaking, just as sometimes God's power, strength and

1179
01:09:18.920 --> 01:09:24.279
wisdom is no value to me practically, but it is

1180
01:09:24.319 --> 01:09:26.880
still what I am to hold on to because of

1181
01:09:26.960 --> 01:09:31.720
what it says about ultimately, where there will be no

1182
01:09:31.800 --> 01:09:33.399
more pain, no more suffering, and no more death.

1183
01:09:33.600 --> 01:09:36.720
That is hard to that's a hard road to navigate.

1184
01:09:38.439 --> 01:09:41.680
There are days that I can just preach, hey, guys,

1185
01:09:42.760 --> 01:09:45.720
we have an all powerful God who created the heavens

1186
01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:46.279
and the earth.

1187
01:09:46.520 --> 01:09:49.800
He is all wise, He is present with us all times.

1188
01:09:49.960 --> 01:09:51.560
We should find great comfort in that.

1189
01:09:51.760 --> 01:09:54.760
Sometimes that sounds almost good to say, and then sometimes

1190
01:09:54.800 --> 01:09:56.680
I want to say, look, I.

1191
01:09:57.560 --> 01:09:58.199
Don't know about you.

1192
01:09:58.319 --> 01:10:00.600
That doesn't do anything for me because right now I

1193
01:10:00.680 --> 01:10:03.920
have this problem and God's not intervening in this.

1194
01:10:04.479 --> 01:10:05.399
There's times it.

1195
01:10:05.359 --> 01:10:07.920
Bothers me more than it helps me. And that's just

1196
01:10:08.079 --> 01:10:10.239
and we should be honest with that. It's okay to

1197
01:10:10.279 --> 01:10:14.640
be honest. Was not Israel having some doubts? Did we

1198
01:10:14.680 --> 01:10:17.079
not see that? There's some things there where they're being

1199
01:10:17.119 --> 01:10:20.560
asked some questions. Why are they being asked these questions?

1200
01:10:21.720 --> 01:10:24.720
They have some doubts? At one point? Did they not

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say they basically why say us thou oh Jacob and

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speaks oh Israel, My way is hid from the Lord.

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They're basically like God doesn't even know where we are.

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God has forgotten us. There was times they were asking

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these questions where is God? Did that mean that they

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question God as far as his existence or questioned his ability.

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They didn't question his ability, they question if God maybe

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have forgotten where they.

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Are, because if you know, God is all powerful, sometimes

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his actions or inaction is maddening. It should be mad

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when you read the Bible, right, it's like, hey, it's

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great that God stepped in and had a discussion with Cain.

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Weren't that great that he talked to Cain? He said, hey,

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just do right. Isn't that great? Would have been better

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that he would.

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Have talked to Cain when Cain was raising the knife

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and getting ready to kill his brother.

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And said stop.

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Wouldn't that had been a little bit more beneficial, Hey,

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if you can step in and talk to Cain about

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his sin issue. It would have been great that right

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before Eve got ready to take a bite, you said,

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put the fruit down.

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You can't have it.

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That would have been great because that would have avoided Oh,

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it wouldn't have been great that when David said, hey,

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go get her, God would have said, no, David, you

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01:11:43.479 --> 01:11:44.159
can't have whend.

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That had been great because that.

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Would have saved I don't know a life of a

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baby and of a husband.

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But God didn't bother to step in. But when Sarah

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was taken, God stepped in.

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That's so confusing sometimes, so it should confuse us when

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we read, and it can be very confusing in life.

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We have to embrace it, just as Israel's probably confused.

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I mean, they're very.

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Much closely connected to God's power being shown in pretty

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01:12:15.840 --> 01:12:16.800
drastic ways.

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Right, Hey, God, you stepped in here. You can't step

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01:12:20.760 --> 01:12:23.640
in here. I mean, come on, you destroyed this, you

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01:12:23.720 --> 01:12:26.159
did this, you did this. We just need a little

1243
01:12:26.159 --> 01:12:29.239
bit of help here. You made food fall from the heavens.

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01:12:29.920 --> 01:12:36.600
But God's not gonna step in seventy years nothing, and

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01:12:36.600 --> 01:12:39.000
the one hundred years before there's so many things he could

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01:12:39.039 --> 01:12:41.880
have done and which just begins to demonstrate what.

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That.

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We have to be very careful about how that we

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01:12:47.439 --> 01:12:52.920
don't make promises that we can't make because the reality is,

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01:12:53.039 --> 01:12:55.800
in this life we're just like Israel in a sense

1251
01:12:55.800 --> 01:12:59.239
in Babylonian captivity. We are in captivity now. And can

1252
01:12:59.279 --> 01:13:01.159
we learn from some of this? As Bobby said, there's

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some principles we can learn, but those principles have to

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be directed to the ultimately. We can't say that God's

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01:13:07.399 --> 01:13:10.399
going to step in in our situation. He will step

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01:13:10.439 --> 01:13:15.479
in ultimately to fix all the situation.

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Does that make sense? I think that's that's fair to say.

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All right now, well we'll stop right there there we

1259
01:13:23.880 --> 01:13:26.479
go any questions on the observational island. I wanted to

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01:13:26.479 --> 01:13:29.279
get some practical things thrown in there, but I think

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01:13:29.279 --> 01:13:33.920
that's good, right anything, practice, anything, Just the main thing

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01:13:33.960 --> 01:13:36.479
we've now covered, we've looked at the whole chapter. I

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think now if you look at the chapter, you can

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see how all of it fits perfectly with whom the

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01:13:42.319 --> 01:13:46.279
people in Babylonian captivity. Right, every word you can see

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01:13:46.319 --> 01:13:48.000
now how it fits them.

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01:13:48.239 --> 01:13:49.640
Now, the one section.

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01:13:49.359 --> 01:13:53.760
Will we have difficulty will specifically be verse three, four

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and five. And the reason that's going to cause us

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01:13:56.359 --> 01:13:58.279
problems is verse three is quoted.

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01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:02.560
Where and the New Testament. And then we're going to

1272
01:14:02.560 --> 01:14:04.159
be like, wait a minute, what's going on here?

1273
01:14:04.439 --> 01:14:08.239
Because it's our we'll be tempted to do what only

1274
01:14:08.359 --> 01:14:11.039
understand this in light of the New Testament and say, well,

1275
01:14:11.039 --> 01:14:13.640
this is a reference to John the Baptist.

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He's the voice in the wilderness. But slow down.

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01:14:18.079 --> 01:14:20.760
The New Testament writers use that of John, but that's

1278
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clearly not the.

1279
01:14:21.520 --> 01:14:27.399
Meaning here, right. The voice in the wilderness is what.

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01:14:29.079 --> 01:14:31.840
That someone is going to prepare the way for Israel

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01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:34.520
to come out of Babylonian captivity. This has everything to

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01:14:34.560 --> 01:14:37.520
do with that situation. I remember we talked about in

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01:14:37.560 --> 01:14:39.760
our study of Romans. I know nobody will remember this.

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We spent like twelve weeks looking at how New Testament

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01:14:43.079 --> 01:14:46.319
writers use Old Testament scripture, and sometimes their use of

1286
01:14:46.359 --> 01:14:50.800
Old Testament scripture makes absolutely no sense to us. Just note,

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01:14:50.800 --> 01:14:53.960
in this context this would happen, John the Baptist is

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01:14:53.960 --> 01:14:59.039
of no value to them. This is about someone preparing

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01:14:59.119 --> 01:15:02.199
the way for boom for them to be delivered. And

1290
01:15:02.239 --> 01:15:05.000
we know, humanly speaking, I'm not saying that that's who

1291
01:15:05.000 --> 01:15:07.760
this is referencing to, but humanly speaking, we do know

1292
01:15:07.800 --> 01:15:14.279
who ultimately got him out of captivity, who Cyrus. And

1293
01:15:14.319 --> 01:15:17.359
we know Cyrus is literally named in this section of

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01:15:17.359 --> 01:15:20.399
scripture Isaiah forty through fifty five. You can't ignore Cyrus

1295
01:15:20.439 --> 01:15:23.159
in this, Okay, so Cyrus has to at.

1296
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Least be considered.

1297
01:15:24.239 --> 01:15:26.399
Now, John the Baptist, we can see how the New

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01:15:26.439 --> 01:15:29.560
Testament uses it, But for the immediate purpose, we got

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01:15:29.560 --> 01:15:33.279
to see how verse three applies to what the historical situation?

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01:15:34.079 --> 01:15:36.720
Does that make sense? All right, we'll stop there. We

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01:15:36.760 --> 01:15:37.680
had to finish all of that.

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01:15:37.960 --> 01:15:41.520
We had to so we went well one hour and

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fifteen minutes, but no first hour.

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So yeah, that's good. All right, let's pray