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Invite you to take your Bibles 
and turn with me to the Old 

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Testament book of Isaiah. 
We're going to be looking at 

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chapter 61 today, Isaiah 61. 
We invite you to listen and read

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along as I read to you Isaiah 
chapter 61. 

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The Spirit of the Lord God is 
upon me because the Lord has 

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anointed me to bring good news 
to the poor. 

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He has sent me to bind up the 
broken hearted. 

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To proclaim liberty to the 
captives in the opening of the 

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prison, to those who are bound. 
To proclaim the year of the 

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Lord's favor in the day of 
vengeance. 

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To our God. 
To comfort all who mourn. 

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To grant to those who mourn in 
Zion, to give them a beautiful 

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headdress instead of ashes, the 
oil of gladness instead of 

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mourning, the garment of praise 
instead of a faint spirit. 

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That they may be called oaks of 
righteousness, the planting of 

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the Lord, that He may be 
glorified. 

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They shall build up the ancient 
ruins, they shall raise up the 

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former devastations, They shall 
repair the ruined cities, the 

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devastations of many 
generations. 

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Strangers, strangers shall stand
and tend your flocks. 

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Foreigners shall be your plowman
and vine dressers, but you shall

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be called the priests of the 
Lord. 

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They shall speak of you as the 
ministers. 

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For of our God. 
You shall eat the wealth of of 

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the nations, and in their glory 
you shall boast. 

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Instead of your shame there 
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Instead of dishonor, they shall 
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Therefore in their land they 
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They shall have everlasting joy,
for I, the Lord, love justice. 

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I hate robbery and wrong. 
I will faithfully give them 

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their recompense, and I will 
make an everlasting covenant 

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with them. 
Their offspring shall be known 

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among the nations, and their 
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the peoples. 
All who see them shall 

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acknowledge them that they are 
an offspring the Lord has 

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blessed. 
I will greatly rejoice in the 

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Lord. 
My soul shall exalt in my God, 

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for He has clothed me with the 
garments of salvation. 

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He has covered me with the robe 
of righteousness, as a 

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bridegroom decks himself like a 
priest with a beautiful 

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headdress, and as a bride adorns
herself with her jewels. 

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For as the earth brings forth 
its sprouts, and as a garden 

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causes what is sown in it to 
sprout up, so the Lord God will 

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cause righteousness and praise 
to sprout up before all the 

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nations. 
Let's pray together. 

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Father, as we come to this 
portion of Your Word today, we 

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pray that You would open and 
prepare the hearts and the minds

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and the eyes of the people here 
today. 

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That You would be at work 
through the Holy Spirit, taking 

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Your Word and convicting us 
where conviction is needed, 

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equipping us, encouraging us, 
helping us more and more to love

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You and desire to serve You. 
We ask You to do this because we

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ask it in Jesus name, Amen. 
Some of you may be familiar with

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the name Nicholas Winton. 
He's been called the British 

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Schindler and he was responsible
for the Kinder transports in 

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Czechoslovakia. 
During World War 2/19/38, the 

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Nazi occupation loomed over 
Czechoslovakia. 

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Thousands of Jewish families 
were trapped. 

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Parents knew that their children
were in grave danger, but they 

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were powerless to get them out 
of the country. 

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The borders were closing. 
The bureaucracy was of no help. 

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Money was scarce. 
There was no way to get safe 

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passage for the children. 
Nicholas Winton was a young 

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British stockbroker. 
He was on his way for a skiing 

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skiing holiday and he stopped in
Prague. 

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He saw what was happening and he
cancelled his vacation. 

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He felt like he needed to help. 
He he felt like he needed to 

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bring help to the helpless. 
He bargained with the British 

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government to let the children 
come to England. 

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Then he raised the needed funds 
to make it happen and he raised 

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up and found foster families to 
house the children. 

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He organized the transportation.
He arranged 8 trains and a 

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number of ferries to carry 669 
children across Europe to 

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London. 
Became known as the Kinder 

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transports, German for child 
transports for 50 years. 

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Only those who were involved in 
the rescue knew what Winton had 

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done. 
No one else knew. 

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Winton lived a quiet life. 
But in 1988, Winton was invited 

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to attend the taping of the BBC 
television show That's Life. 

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The producers had arranged for a
number of the children that 

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Winton had rescued to be 
reunited with him. 

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In the room were children who 
now were adults who had become 

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members of Parliament, a 
pediatric geneticist, A poet, A 

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filmmaker, a Canadian television
journalist, even a chief rabbi 

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in Jerusalem. 
Lives that had been transformed 

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by the work of Winton. 
Winton met not only some of 

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those that he had rescued, but 
they brought their children and 

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even their grandchildren that he
got to meet. 

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Winton was knighted by Queen 
Elizabeth in 2003 and then he 

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was awarded the Czech Republic's
highest award, the Order of the 

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White Lion, in 2014. 
He died in 2015 at the age of 

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106. 
Winton did what the parents of 

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those kids were powerless to do.
He rescued these helpless 

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children, 669 of them. 
He helped ones who were 

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incapable of helping themselves.
And as a result, the lives of 

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the children were transformed, 
radically changed, impacting 

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generations. 
The impact of those who had 

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been, who who were rescued, had 
and are having is dramatic. 

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This is also the story of Isaiah
chapter 61. 

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We're told of an Anointed 1 who 
would come and he would come to 

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bring help to those who were 
incapable of helping themselves.

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He would come to rescue and 
redeem a people who were 

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perishing and as a result, they 
would be transformed. 

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The impact would be dramatic. 
So let's take a few moments and 

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look and see a few things from 
Isaiah 61 today. 

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Let's look and see the mission 
of this Anointed One. 

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And then let's look and see the 
result of the Anointed One's 

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work. 
And then let's consider what the

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proper response to the anointed 
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And we'll finish by asking, So 
what? 

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What difference does this make 
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The first, the mission of the 
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the first 3 verses, we can ask 
the question of who is this 

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Anointed one? 
As we've reminded ourselves on a

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number of occasions as we've 
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of Isaiah, especially in the 
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When we when we read Isaiah, we 
understand that there are 

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multiple timelines that are 
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First, there is the timeline of 
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and the days when the people 
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Second, often in Isaiah there 
are times when it points forward

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to when the coming Messiah 
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incarnated and lived and did his
redemptive ministry. 

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And third, sometimes it even 
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will come back the second time 
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Isaiah 61 has elements of all 
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So when we think about these 
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talking about, we can think 
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this is speaking about King 
Cyrus, the king of Persia, who 

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conquered the Babylonians in 
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He sent Israel back home from 
exile. 

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He was, in a sense, the Lord's 
anointed. 

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The Lord had raised him up to 
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But I also would tell you that 
this passage is 1 of pastors 

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will tell you that this is one 
of our favorite passages because

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it's quoted in the New 
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The New Testament actually 
interprets this passage. 

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In fact, verses 1 and 2 are 
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Jesus himself. 
Jesus was in Nazareth at the 

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time. 
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in the synagogue and he stood up
and he read Isaiah 61 verses one

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and two. 
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everybody that was there that 
these verses were pointing to 

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him, that these verses were 
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That's how Jesus announced his, 
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ministry. 
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certainty that these verses are 
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Ultimately, they are talking 
about Jesus, the Lord's greater,

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the Lord's ultimate anointed 
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And what does this passage tell 
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do? 
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beginning, the end of verse one 
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Notice what we're told. 
He brings good news to the poor.

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He binds up the broken hearted, 
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brings comfort and peace to the 
hurting. 

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He proclaims liberty to the 
captives. 

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He opens the prisons to those 
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He proclaims the year of the 
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language from the year of 
Jubilee when all debts were 

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cancelled. 
He proclaims the day of 

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vengeance of God, the day of 
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He comforts those who mourn. 
He grants those who mourn a 

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beautiful headdress instead of 
ashes. 

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He gives oil of gladness instead
of mourning. 

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He gives a garment of praise 
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He enables his people to be 
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the planting of the Lord. 
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would be glorified in worship. 
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anointed one does. 
This is what Jesus does. 

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He brings us the good news of 
the gospel. 

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He brings us comfort and peace. 
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liberty for those who are 
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He proclaims the year of Jubilee
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once and for all with the Lord. 
He comforts those that mourn, 

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and he clothes them with 
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This is the Lord's anointed, 
this is Jesus. 

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And then notice the result of 
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You can see that in verses 4 
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The result of the anointed one's
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transformation, both for the 
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God's people after Jesus. 
If you look at verse 4, it's the

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language of restoration, of 
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God's people then would would go
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they would start to restore it 
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city of Zion, Jerusalem, the 
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But we also know this is also 
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Jesus returns again, we will 
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ultimate city that is described 
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Revelation, a kind of Garden of 
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made even better. 
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nations would come. 
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But I think what is being said 
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that the nations will ultimately
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God, that when Jesus returns and
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earth are established, it'll be 
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nation, every tribe, every 
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And in verse 6 we see that the 
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fulfill their intended purposes.
It will serve as the priests and

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the ministers of our God, the 
spokesman of the Lord, 

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proclaiming God's truth and 
grace, speaking the good news of

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the gospel to others, calling 
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And what may be some of the 
greatest news that comes to us 

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as a result of the work of the 
anointed One we read in verse 7.

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Shame will be replaced with joy,
everlasting joy. 

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A day is coming when shame will 
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Here, as we come to verse 8, we 
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covenant with the Lord and His 
people is established, an 

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everlasting covenant 
relationship between the Lord 

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and His people that is secured 
by the work of the Anointed 1. 

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So much so that in verse 9 we 
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offspring will be known and 
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And as we come to verse 10, we 
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What will it accomplish? 
What's the result of it? 

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He'll clothe His people with 
garments of salvation, and 

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through His work people will 
have robes of righteousness 

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wrapped around them. 
The Lord will dress His people 

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as a bride and groom at the 
wedding. 

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This is the result of the work 
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This is the work of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, transformation of 

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His people as He establishes His
truth, as He establishes the 

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gospel, and people are 
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Well, what's the response to the
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1 What does Isaiah tell us is 
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this anointed one, who He is and
what he accomplishes and the 

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result of his work. 
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11. 
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I will greatly rejoice in the 
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My soul will exalt in my God. 
The end of verse 11. 

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The Lord God will cause 
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sprout up before all nations. 
You see the proper and 

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appropriate and necessary 
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His work. 
It is praise and worship of the 

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Lord. 
The Lord sent His anointed one 

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to people who were living, who 
were walking in sin, who were 

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helpless to help themselves, who
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themselves, who were heading for
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And the Anointed 1 is sent and 
comes and saves the helpless and

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the powerless. 
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of doing ourselves. 
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transformed. 
Our lives are transformed 

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forever. 
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necessary response is for us to 
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the Lord, to rejoice, to 
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forever. 
Well, what do we do with all of 

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this? 
What are some takeaways for us 

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today? 
Three things. 

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First of all, is this. 
Brothers and sisters in Christ, 

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listen to this. 
Your shame is replaced with joy.

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Your shame is replaced with joy.
That's what verse 7 says. 

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Instead of your shame, there 
shall be a double portion. 

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Instead of dishonor, they shall 
rejoice in their lot. 

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Therefore, in the land they 
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They shall have everlasting joy.
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painful feeling of humiliation 
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consciousness of wrong or 
foolish behaviour. 

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And listen to what God's Word 
says today for you. 

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If you are in Christ Jesus, 
there is no more shame. 

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It's appropriate for those who 
are in Christ to feel sadness 

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and to feel grief and conviction
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sin, to feel weary because of 
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fallenness and the brokenness of
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Shame was removed at the cross. 
It was removed by the payment of

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our debt through the death of 
the Lord Jesus Christ. 

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Romans 3 says there is now no 
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Christ. 
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now no shame for those in 
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The Lord is not ashamed of you. 
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Lord rejoices over His people 
with gladness. 

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The Lord exalts over his people 
with loud singing. 

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The Bible tells us so we should 
be filled with joy, everlasting 

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joy. 
Grieve over your sin, Be sad 

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about it, be angry about it, 
fight and lean against it. 

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But for those who are in Christ 
Jesus, there is no condemnation,

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there is no shame because of the
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Jesus on the cross and through 
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Secondly, as God's people, we 
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restoration, the transformation 
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We looked and saw in verses 4 
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restoration, that that that 
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people who were in exile in 
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It was a reminder that a day was
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the restoration, the rebuilding,
the transformation of Jerusalem 

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and the Temple. 
A day when they would not just 

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hear about it, but a day when 
they would experience it and 

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participate in it. 
But there is an even greater day

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of restoration that is coming 
for God's people, a greater and 

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ultimate restoration and 
transformation when all things 

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that are fallen and broken and 
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When Jesus returns again, when 
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the new earth, we will 
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restoration. 
A restoration of sinful and 

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broken bodies and minds. 
Restoration of souls that are 

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heavy laden and weary. 
Restoration of a creation that 

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has been affected by the fall. 
A restoration of the places 

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where we live that are filled 
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injustice. 
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That day is coming for God's 
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wilderness right now. 
It's certain that it's coming. 

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That restoration is coming. 
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promised by the Lord Himself. 
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not breaking His word, he's the 
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pass. 
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coming restoration, it is meant 
to fill God's people now with 

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hope. 
We hope not for the things of 

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this world. 
We hope for the coming of the 

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Lord Jesus Christ. 
Let me just ask you, if you're 

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someone who struggles to live a 
life that is characterized and 

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full of hope, you need to ask 
yourself, what are you? 

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What are you taking in? 
What are you feeding your heart 

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and your mind? 
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What is influencing you? 
The Daily News? 

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Social media? 
Political leaders? 

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Hurtful family members. 
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Word of God and what it tells us
about what is true, about what 

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is true now for those who are in
Christ and what is true in the 

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future about the restoration, 
the transformation that is 

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coming when Jesus returns. 
That's as we fill our hearts and

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our minds with that true 
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That hope will give us strength 
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life's challenges, difficulties,
trials, temptations that we face

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now while we wait. 
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live like who we are. 
We need to live like who we are.

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What does Isaiah tell us about 
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What does he say about who we 
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and his work for us and in US? 
Well, just go back and look at 

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the verses. 
Go back and look at Isaiah 61. 

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What? 
Who are we? 

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We are the poor who have been 
given good news. 

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We are the broken hearted who 
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We are the captives who have 
heard and experienced liberty. 

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We are those bound up who have 
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We are the one who's who. 
We are those who mourn, who've 

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heard the year of Jubilee and 
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We're the ones who have been 
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the places of our ashes. 
We are the ones who have been 

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given oil of gladness in place 
of our mourning. 

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We are the ones who have been 
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place of faint spirits. 
We are the ones who are called 

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oaks of righteousness. 
We are the ones who are to be 

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the priests and ministers of our
God. 

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We are the ones who are in an 
everlasting covenant 

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relationship with the Lord God 
Almighty. 

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We are the ones who have been 
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salvation, who have been wrapped
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This is who we are in Christ 
Jesus. 

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This is the objective reality, 
the objective truth of who we 

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are in Christ Jesus. 
It doesn't matter whether we 

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feel like it or not. 
The Lord Himself has declared 

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that this is who we are, this is
our status, so we should live 

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like who we are. 
In moments of temptation to give

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in to sin, we need to remember 
who we are. 

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That we would in that moment. 
That we would reason with 

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ourselves that the sin that is 
tempting us does not align with 

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who we are. 
That our anointed one, the Lord 

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Jesus, gave so much to change 
our status from slaves to sons 

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and daughters. 
That should strengthen us and 

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motivate us to say no to our 
sin, to turn away from it and 

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turn back to the Lord. 
So in moments of temptation, 

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come back to Isaiah 61 other 
places in the Scripture who tell

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us objectively who we are in 
Christ. 

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Be motivated and empowered to 
lean to fight against your sin. 

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Shame is replaced with joy. 
Be full of hope in the 

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restoration that is coming. 
Live like who we are. 

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Let's pray together. 
Father, such wonderful things 

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from Your Word, Glorious truths 
and promises. 

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Help us to cling to them as we 
meditate upon your Word. 

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Father, we pray that you would 
not only deepen our love for 

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you, but that you would deepen 
our motivation and ability to 

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live for you in every way, to 
glorify You in every way, to 

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honor you in our lives in every 
way, to live like the new 

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creations that we are in Christ.
We ask you to do this because we

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ask it in Jesus name, Amen.