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Invite you to turn your Bibles 
now to Isaiah 54. 

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You can find Isaiah 54 on page 
614 in the chair Bibles. 

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We'll actually start reading a 
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verse 10, since there are some 
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between Isaiah 53 and 54. 
And I want us to refresh our 

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memories of the profound 
prophecy of the suffering 

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servant in Isaiah 53. 
Isaiah 54 is a proclamation that

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just explodes out of Isaiah 53. 
It's like when President Harry 

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Truman announced that World War 
2 is over and there's finally 

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peace, causing the streets to be
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As a preacher, I kind of feel 
like in a lot of ways, Isaiah 

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5354 and 55 for next week, that 
they all kind of preach 

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themselves in a way. 
They're all proclamations of 

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good news and in in a style and 
tone of what a sermon should be,

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inviting all to come in faith to
Jesus to just receive his 

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abundant blessings. 
That being said, I'm going to do

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more than just read Isaiah's 
preaching as there is much for 

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us to slowly consider and savor 
and receive. 

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So Isaiah starting starting 
chapter 53 verse 10 that it was 

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the will of the Lord to crush 
him. 

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He has put him to grief when his
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guilt. 
He shall see his offspring. 

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He shall prolong his day days. 
The will of the Lord shall 

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prosper in his hand out of the 
anguish of his soul. 

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He shall see and be satisfied by
the knowledge. 

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By his knowledge shall the 
righteous one, my servant, make 

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many accounted righteous, and he
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Therefore I'll divide him a 
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shall divide the spoil with the 
strong. 

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Because He poured his soul out 
to death, and was numbered with 

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the transgressors, yet he bore 
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intercession for the 
transgressors. 

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Sing, O barren, one who did not 
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and cry aloud, You who have not 
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of the desolate one will be more
than the children of her who is 

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married, says the Lord. 
Enlarge the place of your tent, 

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and let the curtains of your 
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Do not hold back. 
Lengthen your cords and 

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strengthen your stakes, for you 
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and to the left, and your 
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nations and will people the 
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Fear not, for you will not be 
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Be not confounded, for you will 
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not forget. 
The shame of your youth and the 

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reproach of your widowhood will 
be remembered. 

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You will remember no more, for 
your Maker is your husband, the 

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Lord of hosts is His name, and 
the Holy One of Israel is your 

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Redeemer, the God of all of the 
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He is called for. 
The Lord has called you like a 

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wife, deserted and grieved in 
spirit, like a wife of youth 

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when she is cast off, says your 
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deserted you, but with great 
compassion I will gather you in 

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overflowing anger. 
For a moment I hid my face from 

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you, but with everlasting love I
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says the Lord your Redeemer. 
This is like the days of Noah to

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me. 
As I swore that the waters of 

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Noah should no more go over the 
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will not be angry with you and 
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For the mountains may depart and
the hills be removed, but my 

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steadfast love shall not depart 
from you, and my covenant of 

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peace shall not be removed, says
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you. 
All afflicted, one storm tossed 

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and not comforted. 
Behold, I will set your stones 

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in antimony, and lay your 
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I will make your pinnacles of 
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and all your wall of precious 
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All your children shall be 
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shall be the peace of your 
children. 

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In righteousness you shall be 
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You shall be far from 
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fear, and from terror, for it 
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If anyone stirs up strife, it is
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Whoever stirs up strife with you
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Behold, I have created the Smith
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produces a weapon for its 
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I have also created the ravager 
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No weapon that is fashioned 
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you shall refute every tongue 
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judgment. 
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servants of the Lord, and their 
vindication from me declares the

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Lord. 
Let's pray. 

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Oh God, as we come to Your word,
we humbly ask that You would 

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teach us your children that you 
might true, that we might truly 

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know You and genuinely love you 
as a faithful bride and receive 

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and rejoice in all the blessings
of your covenant of peace as we 

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pray in Jesus name, Amen. 
Well, what a beautiful gospel 

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proclamation. 
I love this passage. 

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Today. 
My aim is for us to consider 

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three things from this message. 
The mediator of the covenant of 

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peace. 10 blessings of the 
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And then we'll ask So what? 
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But first, before you get into 
that, let's consider a little 

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bit of the background and 
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Isaiah was a prophet who lived 
in the 7th and 8th centuries BC,

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and he prophesied during the 
destruction and exile of the 

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northern Kingdom of Israel. 
As many of you know, we've been 

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in the, the, the prophecy of, of
Isaiah here, this book on and 

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off for about a year, a little 
over a year now. 

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And we've heard just so many 
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And most recently we heard of we
heard four songs of the 

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Suffering Servant, these 
prophecies of the suffering and 

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death of the Lord Jesus Christ, 
with Isaiah 53 being the final 

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Suffering Servant song. 
A prophecy so clearly pointing 

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to Jesus that many who hear it 
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it's something being read from 
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As if Isaiah 54 was not randomly
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They are inseparably connected 
with the the hope filled 

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proclamation of chapter 4054 
being the response of what 

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Christ accomplished with his 
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If you look at the center of 
Isaiah 54 in verse 10, you'll 

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read the pinnacle of the 
chapter, a proclamation of the 

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covenant of peace between God 
and his people, a covenant of 

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never ending love. 
This whole passage is a 

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proclamation of that covenant. 
Now look at the end of chapter 

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54, the last sentence. 
This is the heritage of the 

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servants of the Lord. 
This is the heritage that Isaiah

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is saying is that that that this
chapter is a proclamation of the

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heritage, the the many blessings
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will receive in this new 
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So before we consider ten of 
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let's consider the mediator of 
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The mediator. 
I had us read a portion of 

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Isaiah 53 so that we would 
remember who inaugurated and 

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established the covenant of 
peace. 

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The covenant of peace is none 
other than the new covenant or 

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another name for the new 
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covenant, a name for that we 
that we see God use that title 

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for it when He makes His 
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17 and then that name is also 
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that we'll see next week, Isaiah
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Ezekiel 37, he says this, this 
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I will make a covenant of peace 
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It shall be an everlasting 
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The New Covenant, the covenant 
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covenant of God's grace, a 
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Abraham and fulfilled with 
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Jesus Christ is the mediator of 
the covenant of peace. 

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He established it and 
inaugurated it with His perfect 

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sinless life and His atoning 
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And as we read of the prophecy 
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Isaiah 5053, it says that he was
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He was pierced for our 
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Upon Him was the chastisement 
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brought us peace, peace with 
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The relationship between God and
His people was broken because of

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sin. 
We saw that all throughout the 

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book of Isaiah. 
We saw, you know, God's judgment

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was upon Israel for their sin. 
And the northern Kingdom was 

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exiled by the Assyrians. 
But the suffering servant has 

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brought peace between God and 
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their sins. 
Jesus has brought us peace with 

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God. 
His death is the guarantee of 

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the covenant of peace. 
Jesus is, as the book of Hebrews

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says, the mediator of a new 
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He's not just some sinful priest
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He will always be our mediator. 
So this gives us unshakable hope

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that the new covenant, the new, 
this covenant of peace, will not

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be broken by God's people like 
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As the end of Isaiah 53 says, 
Jesus bore the sin of many and 

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makes intercession for the 
transgressors. 

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Who's the transgressors? 
That's us. 

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We transgress the covenant. 
We sin against God, but we have 

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a high priest whoever intercedes
for us, who has borne our sins 

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and accounted us righteous. 
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just another covenant. 
It is an everlasting covenant of

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peace between God and man, a 
peace secured with the death and

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resurrection of Jesus Christ. 
So Jesus is the mediator of this

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covenant of peace. 
Let's now walk through Isaiah 54

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and consider the heritage of the
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blessings of the covenant of 
peace for all who put their 

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faith in the suffering servant. 
These 10 blessings are by no 

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means comprehensive. 
There's so much more. 

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So first the the there's the 
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Joyful singing. 
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Sing, O Baron, one who did not 
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and cry aloud. 
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for the children of the desolate
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children of her who is married, 
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The immediate response to the 
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to sing and rejoice. 
But who? 

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Who's called the saying who that
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who's barren, who's never had 
any children? 

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Who's this barren woman? 
That's called the sing. 

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It is Jerusalem, the city of 
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In verses 11 and 12, it speaks 
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foundations, pinnacles, gates 
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Now we we might Now this this 
next question might seem like an

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odd question, but which 
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Throughout Isaiah we've had a 
had a contrast between two 

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cities 2 Jerusalem's 11 wicked 
and rebellious Isaiah 3 and the 

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other forgiven and comforted 
Isaiah 40. 

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It can be confusing reading 
Isaiah because in one chapter 

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you'll hear of judgment upon 
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you'll read of mercy and 
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love. 
So which Jerusalem is this? 

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Thankfully, the Apostle Paul 
quotes this very verse in 

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Galatians 4 and interprets for 
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In Galatians 4, Paul is 
comparing 2 women, Sarah and 

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Hagar. 
He's doing that to illustrate a 

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point about the freedom 
Christians have from the law. 

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He says that Hagar, a slave 
woman, is symbolic of the 

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present Jerusalem, which is in 
slavery with her children under 

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the Mosaic covenant, the Old 
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But Sarah is symbolic of the 
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and she is our mother. 
Then Paul quotes Isaiah 54 verse

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one, that the barren one will 
rejoice for her children, and 

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because your children will be 
more than the one who is 

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married. 
Now this Galatians 4. 

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It's not the easiest passage to 
interpret, so I'm not going to 

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go into all the details of 
Paul's argument. 

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But what we do know is that the 
barren one of Isaiah 54 is 

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Speaking of the Jerusalem from 
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city of God from all ages. 
The church that Jerusalem is 

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like Abraham's wife Sarah, who 
was barren and was so old it was

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impossible for her to have 
children, in the same way it's 

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impossible for the people of 
God, the church, to have 

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spiritual children on its own. 
God must act. 

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God must graciously bring about 
children for her, and Isaiah 54 

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promises that He will. 
This is just a great cause for 

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rejoicing for Jerusalem, for the
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The new covenant makes abundant 
joy a distinguishing mark of 

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God's people, just as we read a 
few weeks ago in Isaiah 51, it 

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says, And the ransomed of the 
Lord shall return and come to 

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Zion with singing. 
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their heads. 
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joy and sorrow and sighing, 
shall flee away, receive and 

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rejoice and savour the 
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Christian bought for you this 
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bought for you with the sorrows 
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That's the first blessing we 
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blessing of abundant children. 
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The reason for the joyful 
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to give an abundant number of 
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offspring as numerous as the 
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Jerusalem, God's faithful city, 
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numerous as the stars, children 
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For the children of the desolate
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children of her who is married, 
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Enlarge the place of your tent 
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habitations be stretched out. 
Do not hold back. 

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Lengthen your cords and 
strengthen your stakes, for you 

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will spread abroad to the right 
and to the left. 

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Your offspring will possess the 
nation's and will people the 

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desolate cities. 
This is kind of like the famous 

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line in the movie Jaws. 
You're going to need a bigger 

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boat, except here in this case, 
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tent. 
Children are moving in and these

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offspring will spread across the
world. 

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As verse 3 says, your offspring 
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children of Jerusalem from above
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their dwelling in places all 
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every tongue, tribe, language 
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faith in the suffering servant 
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Abraham, the man of faith. 
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3 is the same word for offspring
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10. 
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an offering for guilt, he shall 
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He shall see His offspring. 
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resurrection of Jesus, that 
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cross, he would still see his 
spiritual offspring, the reward 

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of his suffering that would come
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The children of Jerusalem who 
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will be the offspring of the 
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forgiven of their guilt and 
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God will bless the church 
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abundant children from every 
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Israel. 1/3 blessing of this new
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Fearless peace. 
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Fear not, for you will not be 
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Be not confounded, for you will 
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not, for you will forget the 
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reproach of your widowhood. 
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This is not the first time that 
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words. 
Fear not right. 

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He God planned to comfort his 
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through the New Covenant. 
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Jerusalem will not need fear any
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It will be far from terror. 
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this undercurrent in their souls
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of even, maybe even terror 
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God who promises to be with them
and for them, whatever they 

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face. 
They have no clue what happens 

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after after death. 
And so they just avoid thinking 

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about their inevitable death. 
They try to silence their fears 

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with drugs, alcohol, work, sex, 
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much more. 
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in Isaiah 48. 
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the Lord for the wicked. 
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Fear can be replaced with hope. 
Jesus faced his fear of the 

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agonies of the cross so that you
and I could receive his comfort 

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and peace. 
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blessing, shame, free honor. 
Jerusalem faced shame for her 

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rebellion against God. 
Like a barren woman who was 

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ashamed of her childlessness, 
her exile out of the Promised 

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land and the death of so many of
her people from the hand of the 

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Assyrians and the Babylonians 
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dishonor for Jerusalem and and 
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But the suffering Servant has 
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honor. 
He has given her, as Isaiah 61 

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says, He has given her a 
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ashes, like a seesaw, because 
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And Isaiah 53, the church was 
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chapter 54. 
Here, because Christ has won 

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offspring through his 
crucifixion, Jerusalem from 

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above will not be barren, but 
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the honour of the abundance of 
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What shame do you carry? 
We all carry shame. 

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Things that we did that we 
shouldn't have done, things that

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we didn't do that we know we 
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something shameful, something 
evil that happened to us, 

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somebody else did to us. 
We all have that. 

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Christ bore the shame of the 
cross so that your shame would 

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be but a temporary burden, a 
burden that cannot define you in

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this life, and a burden that 
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the Kingdom of the new heavens 
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Shame. 
Free honor. 

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Let's now look at verses 5 and 
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blessing of the covenant of 
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Renewed marriage. 
Renewed marriage. 

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For your Maker is your husband, 
the Lord of hosts is his name, 

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and the Holy One of Israel is 
your Redeemer, the God of the 

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whole earth. 
He is called for. 

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The Lord has called you like a 
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spirit, like a wife of youth, 
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God, Why was Jerusalem barren, 
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Because she had been unfaithful 
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Yahweh, God had in a sense 
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We read this just a few chapters
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Thus says the Lord, where is 
your mother's certificate of 

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divorce with which I sent her 
away? 

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Or which of my creditors is it 
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Behold, for your iniquities you 
were sold, and for your 

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transgressions your mother was 
sent away. 

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Isaiah 54 and the covenant of 
peace is like a marriage renewal

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between God and His people. 
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suffering servant, the 
relationship between God and His

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people be would be forever 
mended. 

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Jerusalem would be rid of her 
shame and her childlessness 

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because her marriage with God 
would be forever restored. 

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It is He who will give her 
children and no other. 

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The sovereign God of heaven and 
earth will be Jerusalem's 

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husband. 
He is her Redeemer, the One who 

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pays all her all the costs to 
have her as His bride and to 

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provide for her every need. 
The story of childless Ruth and 

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how she is redeemed by Boaz and 
given children. 

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That's a beautiful picture of 
what God's redemption of His 

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people is like. 
How He is their husband faithful

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to provide for them and protect 
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Now we come to 1/6 blessing. 
No, no husband's love matches 

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the love of God for His redeemed
bride. 

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We see this in verses 7 through 
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We see the blessing of 
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For a brief moment I deserted 
you, and with great compassion I

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will gather you and overflowing 
anger. 

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For a moment I hid my face from 
you, but with everlasting love I

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will have compassion on you, 
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This is like the days of Noah to
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As I swore that the waters of 
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earth, so I have sworn that I 
will not be angry with you and 

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will not rebuke you. 
For the mountains may depart and

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the hills be removed, but my 
steadfast love shall not depart 

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from you, and my covenant of 
peace shall not be removed, says

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the Lord, who has compassion on 
you. 

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God and his undying love for his
people doesn't pretend as if 

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nothing bad never happened. 
Israel's rebellion was evil and 

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caused God to overflow with 
anger in comparison to his 

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everlasting nature, the 
everlasting nature of God's 

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love. 
God's angry judgment seems like 

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a brief moment, as we read in 
Psalm 30 at the beginning of the

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service, the God's anger is but 
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for a lifetime. 
God's love is expressed here as 

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steadfast, never departing. 
God compares this situation with

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Jerusalem, as with the the time 
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Noah. 
Just as God's anger overflowed 

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with the waters of judgment, and
just as God's judgment was 

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satisfied after the flood, and 
and then God covenanted with 

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mankind to never flood the earth
again, so also God in the 

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covenant of peace has had His 
justice satisfied when God's 

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overflowing anger for sin was 
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And so God has promised to never
bring condemnation and judgment 

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upon His redeemed people. 
Even the mountains and the hills

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may crumble, but God's love will
never crumble for His people. 

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His new covenant will never be 
removed or broken. 

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This should give you great 
assurance for your salvation 

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because God is faithful to His 
side of the covenant, and 

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because Jesus is the mediator of
the covenant, our representative

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head for our side. 
Therefore, the new covenant will

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never be broken, just as surely 
as Jesus will never sin. 

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Our covenant of peace with God 
will never break, although we 

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sin against God. 
If you are in Christ, when you 

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sin, God's steadfast love does 
not depart from you, because you

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are graciously forgiven in 
Christ. 

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He bore the sins of many. 
Isaiah 53. 

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If you could send your way out 
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it wouldn't be an everlasting 
covenant and Jesus wouldn't be 

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the mediator. 
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works, a legal covenant 
dependent on perfect obedience. 

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But in the New Covenant, Jesus 
has satisfied the perfect 

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requirements of the law. 
So and so all who are found in 

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Him, united to Him by faith. 
They are counted as perfect as 

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He is, and their sins are 
removed from them as far as the 

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east is from the West. 
God's love will never let you go

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though you stray from Him. 
He pursues his lost sheep and 

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brings you back to His loving 
home. 

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Rest assured of God's love for 
you, dear Christian. 

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If the Father ever stops loving 
the Son, he'll stop loving you. 

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But that will never ever happen.
Look now at verses 11 and 12. 

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Here is a 7th blessing, A 
beautiful city, all afflicted, 

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one storm tossed and not 
comforted. 

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Behold, I will set your stones 
in antimony and lay your 

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foundations with sapphires. 
I will make your pinnacles of 

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agate, your gates of carbuncles,
and all your wall of precious 

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stones. 
God will transform the desolate 

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city ruined by destruction into 
a beautiful city adorned with 

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wealth. 
This description of Jerusalem is

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likely the foundational text for
John's vision in Revelation 21 

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of the New Jerusalem coming down
from heaven, described as the 

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Bride, the wife of the Lamb. 
The New Jerusalem's 12 walls are

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adorned with precious stones, 
and its gates and foundations 

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are also adorned with wealth. 
So this speaks to the abundant 

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wealth and riches that God, the 
Husband of the Church, will 

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provide for her in the new 
heavens and new earth. 

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We will be heirs of all things, 
infinitely wealthy, having no 

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lack of provision or desire or 
beauty. 

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Because Jesus was stripped of 
his clothes and of all earthly 

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worldly possessions. 
Because of Isaiah 53, we will be

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forever adorned with splendor 
and wealth. 

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So, dear Christian, you may 
struggle financially in this 

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life, you may have many desires 
left unsatisfied, and your youth

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and your beauty will fade. 
But when heaven comes down to 

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earth and Jesus sets up his 
forever Kingdom, you will reign 

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with him in glory, with beauty 
unimaginable, and with wealth 

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abundant and unending. 
So put away all your hope in the

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riches of this life. 
They're so transient. 

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Be rich in good works and invest
in the Kingdom that will last 

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forever. 
In verse 13 we see an eighth 

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promise, a promise quoted by 
none other than Jesus in the 

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Gospels. 
It's the promise of divine 

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instruction, verse 13. 
All your children shall be 

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taught by the Lord, and great 
shall be the peace of your 

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children. 
Here the the topic of 

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Jerusalem's children comes back 
into focus. 

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Her children will be taught and 
discipled by none other than 

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Yahweh Himself, and his teaching
will be learned and received by 

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all his students without 
exception, resulting in great 

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peace for Jerusalem's children. 
That's a beautiful promise, 

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isn't it? 
As I just said, Jerusalem Jesus 

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quotes this promise in John 
chapter 6. 

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So thankfully we get his 
interpretation, his 

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authoritative interpretation, 
something that us pastors just 

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absolutely love. 
When the when the Bible 

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interprets itself like this and 
John 6, Jesus is talking to 

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people who just want him to do 
another miracle. 

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They aren't interested in the 
gospel or in following Jesus. 

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So Jesus gives a reason why 
these Jews are not responding in

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faith and obedience. 
He He says this in John chapter 

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6, verses 44 and 45. 
No one can come to me unless the

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Father who sent me draws him, 
and I will raise him up on the 

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last day. 
It is written in the prophets, 

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and they will all be taught by 
God. 

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Everyone who has heard and 
learned from the Father comes to

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me. 
Why did so many of the Jews 

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reject Jesus? 
Because they needed to be drawn 

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and taught by God in order to 
come to Him. 

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But they rejected Jesus teaching
because, as Isaiah 6 diagnosed 

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them, their ears were 
spiritually deaf, their hearts 

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were hard, and they were 
spiritually blind. 

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They were living as those who 
were citizens of the earthly 

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Jerusalem, not the heavenly 
Jerusalem. 

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But the promise of the New 
Covenant is that God will 

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disciple His people, the 
children of the New Jerusalem. 

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He will open hearts like He did 
with Lydia, the seller of purple

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in the book of Acts. 
He will open hearts to receive 

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the gospel. 
He will teach His children by 

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His Spirit. 
All his sheep will hear His 

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voice and follow Him. 
John 10. 

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All who belong to the new 
Jerusalem, the city of heaven, 

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they will all know God. 
Jeremiah 31 For God himself will

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teach them. 
So Brothers and sisters, this it

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is a promise, it is this promise
of divine instruction that 

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should give us hope and move us 
to pray for those we are 

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disciple. 
So parents, pray that God would 

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teach your children by His 
Spirit and with His word, that 

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He would reveal Himself to them 
in their inner being. 

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Sunday School teachers, pray 
that God would teach your 

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students that He would convict 
them of sin, reveal to them 

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their need of a Savior and, and,
and, and, and show them the 

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infinite value of this free 
offer of the gospel. 

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For those of you that that are 
so faithful to pray for the 

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preached word, we so appreciate 
that. 

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Pray that God would teach His 
children and open hearts to hear

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the gospel as He did for Lydia. 
I can say words in this pulpit, 

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but I cannot teach in the way 
God teaches. 

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Only God teaches the heart 
effectually with spiritual 

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revelation. 
Pray for that to happen as we 

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preach. 
And for those who are sharing 

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the gospel with others in so 
many different contexts, pray 

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that God would teach those you 
are witnessing to that they 

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might become children of God, 
children of promise, and 

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citizens of Jerusalem. 
Divine instruction. 

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Now 9th promise comes in verses 
14 and 17, the promise blessing 

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of permanent righteousness, 
verse 14. 

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In righteousness you shall be 
established. 

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And then if we jump down to the 
last sentence of the chapter 

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here, we get the word 
vindication and it's the same 

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word as righteousness. 
So it's it's probably better 

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translated as righteous 
righteousness. 

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This is the heritage of the 
servants of the Lord and their 

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righteousness from me declares 
the Lord. 

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00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,560
Isaiah 5311 proclaimed that the 
suffering servant, the righteous

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one, would make many to be 
accounted righteous. 

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And so here we see the promise 
of righteousness promised to all

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who share in the covenant of 
peace. 

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We cannot produce righteousness 
on our own, just as the barren 

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Jerusalem cannot bear children 
on her own. 

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00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,520
And so we need the righteousness
of Jesus Christ counted for us, 

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and so to just. 
And so just as just as Abraham 

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believed God and is counted 
righteous, so also we too, when 

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we believe God's promise, the 
same covenant of grace, when we 

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believe in Jesus Christ, we too 
will be counted righteous. 

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A 10th and final blessing here 
is promised. 

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Promised is divine protection. 
Let's read through the end of 

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the chapter here. 
In righteousness you shall be 

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established. 
You shall be far from 

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oppression, for you shall not 
fear, and from terror, for it 

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shall not come near you. 
If anyone stirs up strife, it is

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not from me. 
If anyone stirs up strife with 

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you, they shall fall because of 
you. 

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00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,720
Behold, I've created the Smith 
who blows the fire with coals 

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and produces a weapon for its 
purpose. 

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00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,320
I've also created the ravager to
destroy. 

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No weapon that is fashioned 
against you shall succeed, and 

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00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:36,200
you shall refute every tongue 
that rises against you in 

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00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,600
judgment. 
This is the heritage of the 

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servants of the Lord, and their 
vindication for me, declares the

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00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,760
Lord. 
In the heavenly Jerusalem, we 

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00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,400
will be forever protected from 
all our enemies, for they will 

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00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,600
be forever separated from us in 
hell. 

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00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,720
No more oppression, no more 
terror, no more strife, no more 

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00:36:55,720 --> 00:36:58,760
war, no more weapons, no more 
false accusations. 

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00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:03,360
We will be forever protected and
we will dwell in the Shalom of 

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our true home, our better 
country, our promised land. 

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00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:12,400
This is the heritage of the 
servants of the Lord, of those 

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00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:16,920
who take refuge in the servant 
of the Lord Jesus. 

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Let's pray. 
Heavenly Father, we thank you 

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for your covenant of peace, that
although we were unfaithful, 

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that you called us, you had 
mercy on us. 

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It's amazing that we can be 
called your bride. 

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Help us Lord, to live in light 
of these promises, in light of 

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these blessings. 
This we pray in Jesus name, 

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Amen.