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Amen. 
We're ready for him. 

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Hallelujah. 
Sometimes you just get homesick.

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You ever been like that? 
Like a kid, maybe your first 

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time away from home and whoever 
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of looked at him and went in 
that night hour when you should 

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have been sleeping and said. 
I want to go. 

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Home, huh? 
There's times in this old world,

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I've kind of feel like that. 
I kind of look toward the Lord. 

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I'm like, I want to come home, 
Amen. 

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There's no place like home. 
Amen. 

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If you can stand with me, turn 
your attention to the book of 

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Isaiah 33. 
Good to see each of you, Zach. 

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Good to have you all with us 
tonight, Amen. 

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The House of the Lord, 
appreciative of that and those. 

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There's still some family 
members here visiting and grown 

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attached as an aunt to a niece 
and so on and so forth and 

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grateful for them tonight, 
Isaiah 33, going to read just a 

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few verses of Scripture. 
I'm going to start with verse 

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#20 your tonight. 
Thank you for being here. 

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I know it's cold outside. 
To the best of our effort, we 

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always try to make it warm in 
here. 

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OK. 
And so I know you had to leave 

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your house and get into either a
code car or you warmed up your 

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car before you came, made your 
trip here. 

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Amen. 
And we pray tonight. 

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I know it's not in vain. 
It's not in vain. 

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Whenever we put ourselves in the
position, Bible says that we 

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comfort one another with words 
when we gather together. 

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You said, well, Brother McGee, I
could do that by cell phone. 

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But in the age in which that was
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possibility. 
Which meant they had together. 

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They had together. 
Amen. 

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And so I'm glad for that 
tonight. 

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Verse #20 This evening the Bible
says Isaiah putting pinned the 

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page. 
He says, look upon Zion, the 

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city of our solemnities. 
Thy nigh shall see Jerusalem a 

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quiet habitation, a Tabernacle 
that shall not be taken down. 

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Not one of the stakes thereof 
shall ever be removed, neither 

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shall any of the cords thereof 
be broken. 

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But there the glorious Lord will
be unto us, a place of broad 

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rivers and streams, wherein 
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neither shall galley ship pass 
thereby. 

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For the Lord is our judge. 
The Lord is our lawgiver. 

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The Lord is our king. 
He will save us. 

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Thy tacklings are loosed. 
They could not well strengthen 

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their mast. 
They could not spread the sail. 

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Then is the prey of great spoil.
Divided the lane. 

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Take the prey. 
It's. 

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Kind of bitch. 
Betwixt in between couple titles

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tonight on this, so I'll let you
choose. 

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I'm either going to call this 
tonight the lane, take the prey,

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or give him the ship. 
Either way is sufficient for my 

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purposes. 
Tonight you can smash them 

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together if you want to the 
lane, take the prey toll and 

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give them him the ship. 
Amen. 

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Want to talk to you tonight. 
Now listen, tonight we're on a 

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journey, OK? 
This is the reason why I say 

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that I know I read some peculiar
verses from Isaiah. 

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All right. 
A little bit peculiar. 

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And whenever that happens, that 
means a lot of work is, is is 

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required of this guy on this 
side of the pulpit. 

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All right, so that might be some
things you're not familiar with,

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like how does this apply so and 
so forth. 

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So let's trust heaven tonight to
help us. 

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All right, Let's trust heaven 
tonight to help us. 

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Father, I come to you. 
I'm thankful, Lord Jesus, to be 

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here. 
I'm thankful, Lord, for your 

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spirit. 
God, let that same spirit that 

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raised Christ from the dead, 
Lord God, let it sweep into this

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building. 
God to the ministry of your 

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word. 
I know, God, you're able to 

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speak to us, know, God, what 
you've been dealing with beyond 

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Lord Jesus this week. 
Help me God, to adequately Lord,

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articulate Lord Jesus, your word
God, so it'll be applicable, 

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Lord, to each one of us in our 
lives. 

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God, I'll not fail to thank you 
Lord, for what you accomplished 

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in this place. 
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accomplished, it will be because
the Lord you did it. 

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Lord, you came through and you 
made yourself known in this 

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house in the lovely name of 
Jesus Christ that I pray 

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Hallelujah and Amen of the 
church. 

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St. name Amen. 
You may be seated tonight. 

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Isaiah chapter 33 was written. 
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Isaiah in and around this area 
were written during an Syrian 

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crisis that was happening toward
the region of Judah. 

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You can read of it also in some 
other places of scripture like 

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the kings. 
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Sennacherib. 
It was a king. 

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I know great names in Bible, you
got to love them, but 

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Sennacherib's invasion of Judah?
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Chapter #33 This is one of the 
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Woe oracles to. 
Assyria, and it's at the same 

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time a song of hope unto 
Jerusalem. 

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There's a series of these woes 
that are mentioned from Isaiah 

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chapter 28 to Isaiah chapter. 
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During this time, Assyria was a 
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Isaiah's day, it thought. 
Much of itself, many other 

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nations had. 
Failed. 

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Before it, whenever it came 
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that Israel would be like any 
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against as well. 
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estimation. 
It was a force to be reckoned 

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with. 
It was a undefeatable. 

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Foe. 
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with Jerusalem. 
That we read up here in our 

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text, Sennacherib's own Annals. 
Of history record that they as 

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an Assyrian. 
Nation had taken out 40. 6 

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fortified cities of Judah. 
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mind that Jerusalem. 
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On their belt, the 40. 7th city 
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demise they they had. 
Captured. 

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According to scripture they had.
Captured the city of Lakish. 

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Which was Judas second most 
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City. 
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they exercised over that 
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You can read that there were 
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Executions that took place and. 
There were terror. 

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Tactics that they used against 
the city. 

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Release and stone release of 
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that there were impalments of 
human bodies that happened 

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during this time and there were 
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Imprisonments that took place 
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Had put up their siege. 
Ramps and their battering Rams 

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against the city. 
Of Lake Esh. 

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And it seems that every attempt 
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for a treaty between any of 
these nations. 

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Between any of these countries 
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That they failed, you can read 
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you know I'm in scripture verses
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And eight that. 
Basically tell us that the 

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ambassadors of peace shall weep 
bitterly. 

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And that was because no peace 
could be found, there could be 

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no treaties made. 
That the Bible says that he had 

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broken the covenant again 
because there were no. 

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Agreements that they can make. 
They were not being upheld. 

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They were not be substantiated. 
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but if no man again men, meaning
two men cannot come to a table 

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with any type of agreeable terms
for any type of peace. 

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As a matter of fact, it's during
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Israel or jutor this northern 
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Hezekiah. 
The Bible says that he's paying 

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off. 
Tribute money to Sennacherib 

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He's. 
He's trying to just pay them off

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to get out from underneath the 
thumb of this Assyrian foe. 

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He's he's given 300 talents of 
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And 50. 
Talents 30 talents of gold from 

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the temple but to no avail. 
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of the Assyrian army. 
The countryside of of Judah had 

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been ravaged. 
You read in Scripture that the 

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fields had been destroyed and 
the vineyards had been burned, 

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and some of the trade routes 
that they commonly use had been 

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disrupted in so much that verse 
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the earth mourneth and 
languisheth in that Sharon was 

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like a wilderness, a deserted 
place. 

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As a matter of fact, we read in 
Scripture that an Assyrian 

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official will soon come to the 
city walls of Jerusalem and 

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begin to shout threats, not in 
the Assyrian language, but in 

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the Hebrew tongue, because they 
wanted every common man of the 

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city to be able to hear their 
boast and to understand that 

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they were mocking their earthly 
king and they were marked 

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mocking their heavenly king. 
And that official would stand 

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there and adamantly deny God's 
ability to deliver the nation of

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Israel. 
And because of this, the 

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Scripture says even in verse #7 
that some of the valiant people,

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some of the brave people, some 
of the courageous people are 

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crying without, they're crying 
within the streets. 

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This is just the condition of 
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under the oppression of the 
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And then the, the Bible gives us
this imagery, this description 

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that is found in verse #23 it's 
a description of the condition 

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of Jerusalem. 
And it is a true and a good 

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description. 
The Bible says that thy 

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tacklings, it's referring to 
Jerusalem and the people of 

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Jerusalem and the nation of 
Israel like a ship. 

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It says thy tacklings are loose.
They could not well strengthen 

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their mast. 
They could not spread the In 

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other words, Jerusalem is 
present, she is intact, but she 

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is under a siege and she feels 
out of control. 

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She feels powerless concerning 
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She feels immobile. 
If I put it in modern terms, she

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feels like a sitting duck and 
she cannot forge her own 

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success. 
You have walked with me just 

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here a little bit tonight. 
Imagine, if you will, the 

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imagery of the ship, the Bible 
says. 

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It's a ship with its. 
Riggings loose and its mast. 

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Is weak or shaky. 
And its sail is not unfurled, 

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but it's closed up. 
All of these three items that's 

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mentioned concerning this ship 
that the the tacklings and the 

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mast and the sail. 
These are three very essential 

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Amen items of a sailing vessel 
in order for it to be. 

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Able to sail. 
Amen. 

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Without these three serving 
their purpose, the ship is dead 

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in the water. 
It is subject to drifting, its 

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subject vulnerability. 
It's subject to being defeated. 

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Let me just break it down with 
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If you walk with me just for a 
little bit, it's the tackling of

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a ship that speaks to all of the
ropes and the cables and the 

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lines. 
Amen Of a ship that gives a ship

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its control and its stability. 
Without a a dependable rigging 

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of a ship, the mast, that 
vertical member in the middle 

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that holds the sail. 
The mast of ship cannot stand 

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upright without strong fastened 
rigging. 

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For that matter, the sail of the
ship can't be unfurled and be 

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brought out wide without the 
ropes and the cables that 

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attached to it, so it can 
somehow grasp a hold of the 

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wind. 
So a ship that has loose 

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tackling, it can float, it can 
drift, but it has no control 

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over where it's drifting and it 
has no control over where it's 

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floating, if you will. 
A ship that is without or has 

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loosened tackling is out of 
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It is at the mercy of both the 
currents of the water and the 

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currents of the wind. 
As a matter of fact, that large 

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vertical pole that you often see
on sailboats, that's what's 

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referred to as the mast. 
It is that pole that supports 

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the sail. 
It is what is known as the power

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column of the ship, because 
along with that mast and a sail 

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that is open wind power can be 
captured. 

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And then the power that is 
captured is distributed by that 

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strong pole to 'cause that ship 
to move forward. 

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But when you have a faulty mass,
that means you have no power for

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the ship. 
We look at that sail, the Bible 

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says, and it's not spread open, 
but we understand, we know that 

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a sail, its purpose is to 
harness the wind and it 

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determines the speed of the ship
and it determines the direction 

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of the ship that sails going to 
help in the navigation. 

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A man in the progress of that 
ship. 

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But if you don't have a sail 
that's open wide, the vessel 

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cannot move forward. 
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that means you have no movement.
A man in a concrete direction. 

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So all three of these things, 
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the sail, they all work 
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They work in tandem. 
That that tackling's got to be 

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tight in order for the sail to 
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strong, to harness the wind to 
support and transfer that power 

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to a ship, to move it forward, 
you need a resolute mass, you 

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need a open sail, and you need 
tackling. 

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That is tight because a 
dependable mass cannot transfer 

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any power when it has a closed 
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They all work together. 
Here's what the scripture does 

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not say. 
The scripture does not say the 

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tacklings are threadbare, 
they're loose. 

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The scripture does not say that 
the mass is broken. 

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It just says it lacks some 
support. 

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It's not strong. 
It does not say that the cell is

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ripped. 
It just says that it's not 

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positioned to the open position.
What that means then for us is 

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this, that what this ship is 
experiencing is no control, no 

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power and no movement. 
We're not looking at a damaged 

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ship. 
We're looking at a defeated 

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ship. 
What are you saying tonight? 

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But McGee, that's the Israel and
that's Judo and and that's the 

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city. 
No. 

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I think OFT times it's a picture
of humanity. 

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I think off times it's a picture
of us. 

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It's a predicament that feels 
many times, all too often 

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uncomfortably familiar to human 
life. 

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Because off times on this 
journey even we are there and 

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we're not destroyed, but we feel
effectively powerless as well. 

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We float with the wind and we're
driven by the course of the 

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waves, but we have no means to 
govern ourselves or direct, if 

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you will, this vessel direction 
off times is lost and sometimes 

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our movement is stalled and we 
feel a little bit vulnerability 

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in the moment with each passing 
hour. 

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What are you saying, brother 
McGee? 

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Tonight I'm saying off times. 
We're just like that ship. 

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We have all the characterization
of in a ship and we have the 

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stability of our faith and we 
have the stability of our 

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routine and we have the 
stability of our 

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responsibilities. 
But sometimes some of our 

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systems of strength and 
direction, Amen have come, if 

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you will, useless or out of 
control. 

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Sometimes as I journey through 
this land, singing as I go, I 

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feel like I am under siege and 
the pressure just mounts and the

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fear invades my life. 
And a dark cloud of uncertainty 

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over clouds me. 
And there's threats with help 

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and there's threats with him. 
And I feel hopeless and I feel 

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helpless and my systems have 
failed and I feel like I can't 

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steer, I can't propel, I can't 
defend. 

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Stay with me. 
But wait, said it before, folks,

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and I need to repeat it. 
The dilemma of the cell that's 

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not open and the mass that is 
not strong really boils down to 

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the tackling. 
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important for both the mast and 
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to a control issue. 
Someone chain in it is the very 

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issue. 
Listen to me for. 

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A little bit. 
It's the very issue that Isaiah,

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from chapter 1 to chapter 66 of 
his book that's been chipping 

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away at all alone. 
That's the reason why you hear 

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his boast and his pleas that 
there's no God like Israel's 

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God, that he's different from 
any idol God of every other 

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nation of the world and what 
they have manufactured. 

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It's why Isaiah constantly says 
that there is none beside him. 

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How this God of Israel is a God 
that works alone, a God that's 

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OFT times all by himself. 
Whereas he proclaims even in 

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later chapters that there are 
idols that must be carried. 

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But our God, Amen, doesn't have 
to be carried. 

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He'll you even when you are grey
headed. 

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There is none like our God. 
But you got to understand 

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Israel. 
Israel has at times and many 

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times forsaken God forgot God 
turn their back on God. 

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If I can say it like this, 
Israel, many moments have fumble

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the control issue of their lives
when it comes to God. 

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At times they thought that they 
were better served by charting 

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their own course or choosing 
their own way, and other times 

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they put themselves in the vices
of Pagan gods and false gods who

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had eyes but could not see 
mouths but could not speak ears 

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but could not hear noses. 
Had they? 

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Yet they could not smell hands, 
had they? 

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But they could not interfere. 
Amen. 

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In the progress of human 
humanity, they had put 

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themselves in those places and 
those times. 

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Amen. 
But not too far removed from 

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this moment that we read in 
Scripture. 

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Even the Bible says that Isaiah 
is speaking to Israel. 

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And he says, listen folks, 
you've been trusting in Egypt 

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and you've been entrusting in 
what Egypt could get you. 

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You've been trusting in their 
horses and you've been trusting 

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in their Chariots. 
And that's the reason why Isaiah

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stands in chapter 31 and he 
pronounces A woe. 

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He says woe to them that go down
to Egypt for help and stay on 

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horses and trust in Chariots 
because they are many and in 

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horsemen because they are very 
strong. 

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But look not unto the Holy One 
of Israel, neither seek the 

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Lord. 
What are they dealing with? 

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They're dealing with a control 
issue. 

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That's the reason why even 
Isaiah spoke to them. 

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And the third verse of Isaiah 
31, he said listen, you put your

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trust in Egypt and the 
Egyptians. 

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He says Egyptians are men and 
not God. 

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He said their horses are flesh 
and not spirit. 

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Isaiah even argued to them. 
He said if you would lean upon 

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Egypt, it'll be as though you're
leaning upon a broken Reed and 

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it's going to Pierce your hand. 
It's going to injure you. 

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Every other venture you have, 
every other hope you have, every

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other God and solution and 
escapade that you have. 

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It's just a loose rigging and a 
weak mass. 

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That's the reason why that the 
prophet comes to a place and we 

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read of it. 
He convinces and he persuades us

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in chapters that are being 
developed like Isaiah 32, and 

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one Isaiah begins to write about
a king. 

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He says, behold, a king shall 
reign in righteousness. 

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And by the time we get to Isaiah
33 and verse 17, he's riding 

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thine eyes shall see the king. 
And by the time we get to the 

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verse right before the ship 
imagery, we read in verse #22 

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that the Lord is our king. 
Isaiah is doing something. 

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At first it's just a king, a 
loft somewhere, very generic. 

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But then he takes a category of 
a king among kings as being the 

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king. 
Hallelujah, a separated, set 

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apart king. 
And then he takes a little 

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closer. 
No, a king has become the king 

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has become our, Oh yes, our 
king. 

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And I think this shirt isn't the
long thing. 

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I'm having problems with the 
sides. 

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So if we play peekaboo, you just
cover your eyes. 

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We're going to try to prevent 
this, Brother Zach. 

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If I got to tie my coat around 
my, you know, lace, you 

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understand what I'm saying? 
I'm serious, Sister Amber, so I 

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got to take the whole shirt tail
out. 

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We'll do it. 
Someone grab some duct tape and 

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we'll fix it up. 
There starts to be a prediction,

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Brother Trout, about what 
happened. 

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What happens, though, when 
tackling is no longer loose but 

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becomes tightened and tethered 
to something that can have 

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control? 
There's a little picture that 

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starts to emerge from the places
of Scripture of what can happen 

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when God is in control. 
It's a prediction. 

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We find this prediction early on
and Isaiah 33 and five, it says 

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the Lord is exalted, for he 
dwelleth on high. 

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Yeah, field sign with judgment 
and righteousness. 

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I like verse six. 
Look at it now, follow it 

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carefully, and wisdom and 
knowledge shall be the stability

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of thy times and strength of 
salvation. 

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The fear of the Lord is his 
treasure. 

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What's that saying that's 
telling us, Zion? 

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Whenever the Lord gets put in 
his proper place, whenever he 

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becomes, if you will, the Lord, 
the Master, the dictator, the 

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sovereign of your life, He says 
there'll be stability and 

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strength that will come back 
into Jerusalem. 

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And the secret weapon of Israel 
will not be her swords or her 

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bows or her arrows or her Spears
for that matter. 

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The strength of Israel will not 
even be her weapons or her 

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earthly alliances or even her 
defenses. 

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The fear of the Lord will be her
treasure. 

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Hey, man. 
That's why you'll read later in 

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the Psalms reflecting back on 
this moment. 

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He says some trust in horses and
some in Chariots, but we will 

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remember the name. 
Oh, God, Isaiah is great. 

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The focal point of Isaiah. 
It pulsates with Isaiah's name 

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and the material that's written 
in this book. 

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Because Isaiah means the Lord is
salvation is the culmination of 

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everything that this book of 
Isaiah is hedged upon because 

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materially over over again in 
the pages of the 66 chapters, we

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are reminded of God's 
faithfulness despite Israel's 

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unfaithfulness. 
And we're told in this book that

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God would not reject his people 
he created and he chose. 

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He says, because I've grave in 
you on the palm of my hands, and

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Jerusalem, your walls are ever 
before my eyes. 

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That's the reason why in verse 
#20 of our text tonight, Isaiah 

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beckons to all who are in 
earshot. 

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He says, look upon Zion. 
She's a city under siege by the 

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Assyrians. 
She's oftimes removed from the 

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original intent that God has set
her up for, he says. 

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But note the verbiage. 
But a Tabernacle shall not be 

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taken down. 
Not even one of her stakes will 

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be removed. 
No court shall be broken, Says 

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None of that's going to happen. 
I know what she looks like. 

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Whoa. 
I know seemingly what her 

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condition is, he says. 
But the Tabernacle won't come 

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down. 
The cord will not be broken, a 

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stake will not be removed. 
Look at the verbiage, lot of 

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imagery going on here in our 
text. 

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Unlike unlike most major cities 
of of the then known world, and 

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just of culture for that matter,
they typically put major cities 

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by waterways. 
They typically put major. 

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Cities by by by by rivers for 
just the practice of sustaining 

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the inhabitants and sustaining 
the economy of that particular 

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area. 
You read through Scripture and 

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you see that Babylon has the 
great Euphrates river that they 

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can depend upon. 
You got Egypt. 

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They can depend upon that river 
called Nile with all the lush 

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things that would come upon its 
banks. 

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You can read of Nineveh and Urn.
They boast of the Tigris River 

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that they had even a New 
Testament. 

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You want to read of Tyre and 
Sidon and they're along the 

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coast of the Mediterranean Sea. 
But when you read of Jerusalem, 

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she not so much even has a 
spring. 

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But I say it says in this 
location where there's seemingly

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no water source. 
In verse 21, he says the 

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glorious Lord will be a place of
broad rivers and streams. 

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The psalmist picks up on it and 
says there is a river. 

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The streams whereof shall make 
glad the city of God. 

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It wasn't a natural river. 
It was a supernatural river. 

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It wasn't something that you 
could feel with your hand and 

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get your hand wet. 
But there was a river and it's 

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here, folks, I'm named Tim. 
A sermon. 

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Yet it feels like here the ship 
imagery begins. 

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Look at the Scripture, because 
the Lord speaks that he will be 

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this river, this broad river, 
the stream. 

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But this word is spoken. 
It's imagery for the foe, it's 

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imagery for the enemy. 
It says on this river there'll 

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be no galley with oars or 
galliant ship pass thereby on 

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this river. 
In other words, there'll be no 

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enemy ships on this river. 
And yet then, equally speaking 

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about Dalliant ships, the enemy,
or dally with oars the enemy 

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ships, is the contrast then, in 
verse #23 of Jerusalem as a ship

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with no control, no power, and 
no movement. 

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But it's going to be according 
to God's word, that weak, that 

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withdrawn, that insufferable 
Jerusalem who verse 23 says as 

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the lame, because that's their 
condition. 

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Even in ship form, as the lame, 
they will take the prey. 

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And I stand back, brother Earl, 
and I'm kind of like I'm saying,

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no, we got the condition. 
We, we, we know where it's at. 

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I'm in disbelief and partly 
shock. 

454
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:06,800
No, not loose tackling, not a 
weak mast, not, not a unfurled, 

455
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,920
not an unfurled shell. 
No, it's not moving. 

456
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:13,120
It's not going on, not at all. 
And I asked the question how? 

457
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,640
And it's verse 22 that gives 
life to everything that's in 

458
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,040
Isaiah and life to everything 
that's in the Scripture. 

459
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:27,280
It says for the Lord is our 
judge, the Lord is our lawgiver,

460
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:34,400
the Lord is our king, He will 
save us. 

461
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:43,640
A king have become the king, 
have become our king, he will 

462
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:48,720
save us. 
And it's interesting because 

463
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:53,800
side by side, right here in 
scripture, in 2 verses, we have 

464
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:59,520
the qualities of their Lord 
right next to the compromise 

465
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:06,640
condition of the ship. 
Understand again, Jerusalem's 

466
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,120
under the steady stare at their 
adversary. 

467
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:15,320
She's desperately lacking. 
She's lame and no uncertain 

468
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,600
terms. 
But what she has done is made 

469
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:27,320
room for her King again. 
Someone say Amen folks. 

470
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,080
I'm just telling you, I don't 
believe this is coincidence. 

471
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,760
I went to a service Friday night
and went to somebody's 

472
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,800
ordination service, got back 
that night, got in bed late, I 

473
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,120
went to sleep. 
I woke up Saturday morning, I 

474
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,800
already been entertaining the 
Scripture and some of the things

475
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,640
and the first thing whenever I 
opened my eyes, I heard the Lord

476
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,280
speaking to me the way God only 
speaks to me and he tell me, 

477
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,160
hey, you need to check out the 
three aspects of God's office 

478
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,080
compared to the three things in 
the ship. 

479
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:03,280
So I went and I started looking 
to this because they said our 

480
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,960
God, our judge, our lawgiver, 
our king. 

481
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:11,280
First of all, let's look at this
that throughout Israel's history

482
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:18,840
that had a lawgiver Moses, they 
had had some judges like Gideon 

483
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:25,200
and Samson and Samuel dead, had 
some kings like Saul and David 

484
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:29,880
and Solomon, and in all of these
various offices that would lead 

485
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,360
in command to be authoritarian 
in the life of Israel. 

486
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,040
Now all of them are summed up 
inside of their Lord. 

487
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,920
Have I with me? 
But take a little look here. 

488
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:44,720
I won't hold you much longer 
when we read about loose 

489
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:50,600
riggings, which no doubt 
reflects the loss of order, the 

490
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,280
loss of restraint. 
Again, not trying to 

491
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:58,520
oversimplify or talk to you like
a bunch of elementary kids, but 

492
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,880
riggings hold tension. 
It keeps the ship responsive 

493
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,960
under pressure. 
And so whenever the riggings and

494
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:11,760
the tackling hangs and it's 
slack control is loss, the 

495
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:16,719
structure weakens. 
But that directly answers to the

496
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:22,960
Lord as our judge, because as a 
judge he establishes boundaries 

497
00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:27,920
and he enforces order. 
Because where judgment is absent

498
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,400
and the system loosens, there's 
nothing that hopes firm without 

499
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:39,679
proper judgment. 
I read of a unsteady mast 

500
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,280
against it's a loss of 
structure, it's a loss of 

501
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,520
authority. 
He mean it can't bear the sail, 

502
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,400
it cannot channel the power, 
it's unstable, it becomes 

503
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,159
dangerous. 
But the Lord answers that as a 

504
00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:57,720
lawgiver who defines the limits 
and defines the support. 

505
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,600
Law gives power to the 
framework, and without it, 

506
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:08,080
authority fails the unspread 
sail. 

507
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,560
It's a loss of direction. 
It's a loss of movement. 

508
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,360
It can't capture the wind. 
It can't turn that power into 

509
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,080
progress. 
Without it, it's going to drift.

510
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,200
And the Lord is answering that 
as their king, because as a king

511
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,360
he will set purpose and he'll 
command action. 

512
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,360
His kingship will give direction
to the power, and without it 

513
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,560
there'll be no movement without 
the king. 

514
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:37,280
I did. 
OK. 

515
00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:47,680
What's that mean? 
His was in a deplorable state, 

516
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:57,640
but they gave the ship back to 
the Lord and where they 

517
00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:00,560
seemingly looked as though they 
had control issues. 

518
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,000
Something that's starting to 
command authority and structure 

519
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,240
and order and power and movement
now. 

520
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:13,040
And so much read the story, 
whether it be in kings or here 

521
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:19,120
in Isaiah of Assyrian Israel, 
and you'll read these words that

522
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,320
when Israel gets through all of 
this and they look back over 

523
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,720
their shoulder, you know what 
they see concerning their battle

524
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,840
with Assyria. 
There never was one that they 

525
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:34,760
had to engage in. 
For that matter. 

526
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,760
The Bible says on the night 
before the battle as they slept 

527
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:43,880
that an Angel of the Lord came 
down into the Assyrian camp, 

528
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:51,320
brother Fred and struck 185,000 
soldiers in dead of night 

529
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,320
without 1 weapon ever being 
raised. 

530
00:36:54,600 --> 00:37:03,000
The Lord came in Jerusalem was 
never captured, the Tabernacle 

531
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:08,640
was never shown the exit, the 
cord was never broken, the stake

532
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:10,680
was never removed. 
How? 

533
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,200
Because they got their control 
issue under order and they 

534
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:22,080
allowed the King back in on, you
understand, it was a powerless 

535
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,960
vessel, but now it had a 
reigning Lord. 

536
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:29,040
It was a deplorable vessel, but 
now they had a reigning judge 

537
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,760
and a perfect lawgiver and a 
sovereign king. 

538
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:46,480
You would not think a ship like 
that to be victorious. 

539
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,120
That's the reason why the 
scripture couches it in these 

540
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,000
terms. 
Then when it came to the 

541
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,560
dividing of the spoil of the 
adversary, it was the lame. 

542
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,880
It was the lame that took the 
prey. 

543
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,120
Not the strong, not the self 
confident, not the one that had 

544
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:07,720
it all together. 
The lame. 

545
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:12,120
How do lame take prey? 
It's when they give their 

546
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:20,840
control, when they give their 
control over to the control of 

547
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,280
another you and stand with me 
tonight. 

548
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,680
I'll hasten to an end. 
I would dare to say tonight what

549
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,400
I felt in my spirit this week, 
that there may be some here 

550
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:29,520
tonight. 
Amen. 

551
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,120
You're symbol McGee. 
I'm not broken, but you just 

552
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:36,480
might be tired of drifting. 
Maybe you're just in drift mode.

553
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,480
Amen. 
Here a little bit and there a 

554
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,040
little bit. 
You're still floating. 

555
00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:42,560
You're still believing. 
And if you're honest with 

556
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,000
yourself, you might even feel 
like you've lost somewhat of 

557
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,960
your control. 
And since your rigging, your 

558
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:53,640
tackling is loose, your mast is 
unsupported, your cell is still 

559
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,120
folded. 
And you say, Pastor McGee, I 

560
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,000
feel like I've been under a 
siege. 

561
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:04,520
There is pressure on every side.
I'm not destroyed seemingly, and

562
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,960
I'm not defeated. 
But in appearance, it seems like

563
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:12,480
I'm immobilized in my spirit. 
And I'm just telling you tonight

564
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,440
what God is trying to relay to 
you. 

565
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,240
Hear me well is don't work on 
when trying to fix the ship. 

566
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,680
You need to yield your ship, you
need to turn over your ship. 

567
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:26,320
Jerusalem didn't start 
tightening ropes and raise the 

568
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,200
sail. 
No, they made room for their 

569
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:34,440
king. 
The Lord is our judge, He is our

570
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,640
lawgiver. 
He is our king. 

571
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:46,000
He will save us. 
Do you ever try to steer your 

572
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,560
own life? 
How's that working for you? 

573
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,040
You ever try to write your own 
rules? 

574
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,160
How's that work for you? 
Choose your own direction. 

575
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,440
Yeah. 
Come on. 

576
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,160
How's that working for you? 
Has it wore you down? 

577
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,240
The Spirit is asking us tonight.
Who's steering your ship? 

578
00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:13,600
Come on. 
Come on. 

579
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,360
Pastor, I'm getting weary from 
holding the wheel. 

580
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:21,280
I'm tired of drifting tonight, 
Pastor, so remind me. 

581
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:26,480
You can't do it on your own. 
You can't do it on your own. 

582
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:30,160
We're here tonight at a place of
transfer. 

583
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:35,080
Lord be my judge. 
Lord, be my lawgiver. 

584
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:45,160
Lord, be my king when I yield. 
Victory comes on the horizon. 

585
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,280
When I yield. 
It's not my battle cry that's 

586
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,280
sent some shiver down the 
adversary. 

587
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:59,800
No, it's just the miracle of the
lame taking the prey. 

588
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,200
And that only happens when I 
give him my ship. 

589
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,880
I would dare to say that the 
outcome would have been far 

590
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:20,880
different had Israel not adopted
him as their king again once he 

591
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,600
got on board. 
It's just like all the great 

592
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,720
stories of Scripture, The wind 
and the rain. 

593
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:27,560
Rain is going to the New 
Testament. 

594
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,000
Peter sees someone out in the 
water. 

595
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,600
Is that you, Lord? 
Yeah. 

596
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:37,200
Bid me come, oh quick, spoken 
Peter. 

597
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,280
You know, he says, Well, come 
homeboy, go out on the water. 

598
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,440
The Bible describes storm and 
everything's going like Jesus 

599
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,240
and Peter both walk on the 
storm, you see. 

600
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,840
But the moment Jesus gets on 
board, everything settles. 

601
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,160
That's what happens when your 
ship gets yielded. 

602
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:06,120
Bible says he saw them toiling 
in their rowing. 

603
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:16,320
That's a control issue, but 
Jesus steps on board and what 

604
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:21,000
looked like a married 12 or so, 
that wouldn't make it across. 

605
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:26,280
The Bible says they got to the 
other side because the Lord had 

606
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:30,560
become their judge, their 
lawgiver, and their king. 

607
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:39,080
We have a choice here tonight. 
We have a choice. 

608
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:43,040
We can struggle on this vessel, 
or we can yield this vessel 

609
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,000
under the control of someone 
else. 

610
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:48,960
You can push against the 
pressure. 

611
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:53,760
You can fight with your little 
water pistol against hell, or 

612
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:59,560
you can invite the Lord who's 
graving you on the palm of His 

613
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:06,440
hands into your situation, into 
your dilemma, into your problem,

614
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,920
into your odds that are not in 
your favor. 

615
00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:15,880
I tell you what I'm doing right 
now because I'm already got a 

616
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,400
little hankering against all of 
this sickness going on. 

617
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,880
You know what I'm saying? 
Lord, come in the middle of all 

618
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:27,000
this. 
Be our judge, be our lawgiver. 

619
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:34,080
The Old Testament says where the
word of a king is, there's 

620
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:38,640
power. 
What did they say in the New 

621
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,240
Testament when off time storms 
came out of softness upon the 

622
00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:44,640
sea? 
Said, what manner of man is 

623
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,000
this? 
That even the winds and the 

624
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,560
wave? 
Oh boy, his voice. 

625
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:54,600
That's the power of a king. 
Aboard your vessel. 

626
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,400
These altars are open tonight. 
You can bow your hands, raise 

627
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,480
your hands, take a lap around 
the church, speak in tongues. 

628
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,440
I don't care. 
I'm here to tell you tonight I'm

629
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,960
convinced. 
According to God's word, however

630
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:12,880
deplorable life may seem or 
feel, that the lane can take the

631
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:17,000
prey, that the ship that looks 
like it has no power, no 

632
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:22,920
movement, and no control can get
to its destination unharmed and 

633
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:27,480
unscathed. 
As we give our ship to Him, as 

634
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:34,600
we yield our problem to Him, as 
we I hear my wife saying, and I 

635
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,720
wish someone would come with 
that on their lips, Hey, man in 

636
00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:41,080
the heart tonight, God, I give 
you control. 

637
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:45,400
God, I give you control. 
And when God gets the control, 

638
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:49,600
he'll sure up the power. 
When God gets the control, He'll

639
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,360
sure up the stability. 
When God gets the control, He'll

640
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:57,200
sure up the movement. 
He'll get fresh direction. 

641
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,400
I don't have this gun, but you 
do. 

642
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,640
Come on, Sir. 
You need to stop wearying 

643
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,280
yourself. 
Stop. 

644
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,080
Stop wringing your hands and 
snow. 

645
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:17,400
You're going to be able to fix 
it. 

646
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,640
You just need to heal control 
tonight.