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As you've already seen this 
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sang, there's a strong pattern 
in Christian music of reserving 

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the final verse of a hymn to 
talk about the second coming and

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to talk about the new heavens 
and the new earth and to talk 

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about Christ's return and 
eternal life. 

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Or we might sum up. 
All of that with the climactic 

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vision of future glory. 
That's what we've been singing 

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about. 
If it was stirring your heart, 

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well, that's why. 
And that's what we look forward 

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to. 
And. 

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That's what I want you to think 
with me, actually. 

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This will be a pop quiz time. 
Think through some of these 

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classic hymns, some we've sang 
today. 

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What is the? 
Final verse of It is Well with 

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my soul it goes this way and 
Lord haste the day when my faith

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will be sight, and the clouds 
will be rolled back as a scroll.

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The climactic vision of future 
glory. 

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How does how great thou art end?
How does that last verse start? 

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When Christ shall come with 
shout of acclamation or blessed 

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assurance? 
Which begins or which ends with 

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watching and waiting and looking
above? 

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And you all know this one. 
How does Amazing Grace end when 

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we've been there 10,000 years, 
bright shining as the sun? 

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We've no less days to sing God's
praise than when we first begun.

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He ends with this blending of 
eternal worship. 

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It's eternal things. 
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hope. 
And then these hymns do this 

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because it it, it inspires and 
fuels our hope. 

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We are as Christians by 
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Men and women. 
Of hope, and we are given true 

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and ultimate hope. 
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injustice and it deals with the 
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with final salvation, that deals
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Looking ahead to the New 
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It has much to say about hope. 
We're in Isaiah 66. 

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But looking even to the the 
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Testament, those 27 books, hope 
is a word used 84 times, Paul 

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says. 
This is the hope that belongs to

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your. 
Call, meaning hope, is 

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inseparable from the call to 
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It's part of it, inseparable. 
Paul calls it the hope to which 

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you've been called to, as if 
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capital H. 
This is the hope. 

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And the New Testament says that 
while we were strangers to the 

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covenant of promise, we were 
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without hope. 
Meaning, if you do not know 

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Jesus, if you have not yet 
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description of lostness. 
As you are a person without hope

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in the world, you are literally 
the hopeless ones. 

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In Isaiah 59, Jesus put on the 
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takes that in Ephesians 6 and 
says part of your spiritual 

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armor is to take that helmet of 
salvation. 

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But it is. 
It's called in that text the 

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helmet of the hope of salvation.
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true and living hope because 
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resurrection of Jesus Christ who
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grounded in all of the promises 
of the eternal, omnipresent, 

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omnipotent, triune God and Jesus
Christ. 

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And so promises, they're, 
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And there are promises that have
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Bible. 
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Isaiah and they're promised by 
authors like Paul who wrote to 

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the Colossians to say that God 
has chosen to make known to his 

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church how great are the riches 
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In you and then he adds this. 
The hope of glory. 

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And so there's an important 
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We're going to be tying all of 
these themes of Isaiah together 

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in this last chapter. 
But one theme of Isaiah that's 

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been going through the book as a
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theology of Isaiah, is captured 
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It's a theology of hope, the 
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And the word in Hebrew, looking 
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is Kava. 
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it can mean to hope or to wait. 
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sometimes it's very hard to tell
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there. 
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I will wait for the Lord, and I 
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He uses them. 
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Those who go down to the pit do 
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So you have the the redeemed who
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don't. 
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One a very famous. 
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Lord He will renew their 
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wings like eagles they will run 
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this way those who wait on the 
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strength and they will soar on 
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Isaiah 51 the coastlands hope 
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coastlands will hope for me and 
we're in the final chapter, the 

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final words of Isaiah this 
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began. 
He told you what he was going to

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tell you, He told you and now 
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you. 
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Been there from the beginning if
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Back to Chapter 1. 
He he starts there with hope. 

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He confronts Israel with their 
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it. 
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how the faithful city has become
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mixed with dross, and your 
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Those are very important words 
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Isaiah. 
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language to provide hope for his
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As he says, I will restore your 
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I will restore your counselors 
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Afterward you shall be called 
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faithful city. 
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faithless, you will be faithful.
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Isaiah 5 where he says that 
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producing wild grapes. 
You're supposed to produce wet 

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grapes. 
You're you're not producing the 

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food that I called you to. 
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you see this vineyard is 
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produce the fruits that God 
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And you say, what unlocks that 
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What's the means of the hope? 
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27. 
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be redeemed by righteousness. 
There's your hope for all those 

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who kiss the Son, for all those 
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Move from Chapter 1 into Chapter
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He begins to illustrate hope 
already, and you have one of the

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most beautiful, unforgettable 
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He says in the climactic vision 
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It shall come to pass in the 
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the House of the Lord shall be 
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the mountains. 
It shall be lifted above all the

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hills and the nations. 
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This is you. 
You will be part of this, this 

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final pilgrimage where all the 
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says. 
All of the ports will be open 

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for the ships of Tarshish to 
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tribe, tongue, and nation 
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The wealth of the nations, the 
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be opened eternally, making way 
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Christ and the beauty of his 
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David. 
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eye view and look down on that 
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streams of water flowing uphill 
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And this is picturing hope. 
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Your hope? 
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spiritual songs, the final 
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Isaiah, end with a consideration
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And if you haven't already 
turned to Isaiah 66 and we're 

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going to hear together the final
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We're going to go little by 
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through the chapter. 
And I've already said Isaiah. 66

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is the perfect end to the book 
because he takes all of these 

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themes, we should say most of 
these themes, many of these 

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themes that he's been working 
out, and he ties them all 

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together. 
He puts it all in a neat bow at 

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the end as it culminates in the 
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And the themes he's going to be 
binding together are true 

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worship, which is worship that 
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heart. 
He's talked about this, the 

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future prosperity of Zion. 
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says he's going to have 
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from every nation. 
And they're all going to be part

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of this glorious new Kingdom. 
And they'll be fruitful final 

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judgment where God is coming in 
in the future and he's going to 

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bring recompense with him. 
Final salvation, which is going 

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to include all nations, tribes 
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The new heavens and the new 
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the final state of all 
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And finally, the church's global
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And so the question is, what 
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We mentioned 6 themes here. 
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themes together? 
Worship in the nations and final

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judgment. 
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What holds it together is 
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It involves the chapter 66 and 
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And as a local church, we are 
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We are bound together. 
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given hope. 
That's what it means to be a 

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Christian. 
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eternal worship of God the 
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So we're brought together 
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hope culminates in eternal 
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And so for that reason, what I 
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7 marks of true worship. 
You'll see them clearly as we go

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through 7 marks of true worship 
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first mark. 
You can read with me in verses 

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one to two true worship exalts, 
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If you're worshiping any other 
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God in the wrong way, it is not 
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The verses 1 to the second-half 
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Lord heaven is my throne and the
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What is the house that? 
You would build for me and what 

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is the place of my rest? 
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made and so all these things 
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A little bit of context. 
If you were to go into the 

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ancient world, Thrones were set 
up on a a platform or there 

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would be stairs leading up to a 
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And the idea is the higher the 
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The lay people, the more 
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And so here God is saying. 
His his throne is in the heavens

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and not heaven like the 
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disembodied spirits go as as 
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He's not talking about heaven in
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He's talking about heaven as in 
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the glory of God and the sky 
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He's talking about the. 
Sky. 

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And he says, my throne is so 
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heaven, it's in the heavens, 
it's in, it's in the. 

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Clouds, that's how. 
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any other king. 
It's like he's saying I am the 

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King of Kings and the Lord of 
Lords, and so high am I that my 

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footstool is earth itself. 
So he's saying I am dignified. 

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The same thing came. 
In Isaiah 6 when it said that he

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had the train of his robe filled
the temple. 

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And kings throughout history, 
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England, have trains of robes. 
And even the the Robe of the 

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State that Queen Elizabeth wore 
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inches. 
Long and four foot wide. 

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Which is a little bit overkill, 
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I am. 
Dignified and of course, they 

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say of Jesus Christ, His throne 
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There is no end to it. 
It's the same image. 

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He is sovereign. 
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as we continue down, I want to 
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what Isaiah is saying. 
I want you to think back and 

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consider back to an unlikely 
place, Edwin Hubble and his 

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discovery back in the 1920s. 
Hubble looked through his 

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galaxies and saw what we call 
redshift, and realized for the 

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first time that our galaxies are
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As a matter of fact, not only 
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the universe is again not only 
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and rapidly accelerating, and 
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can't even comprehend the 
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billion light years, and it's 
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that the universe is expanding 
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three times the speed of light, 
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universe with His glory. 
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Psalm 139. 
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What he says here in verse 2 or 
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this house that you would build 
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All the other gods of the 
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You could put Dagon in a temple 
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God, and God says, are you going
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building made of gold and wood 
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Think about the fullness of God 
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and the sovereignty and he says,
and are you going to put me in a

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house? 
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spatially. 
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than that. 
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things my hand has made. 
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be, declares the Lord. 
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heaven and earth. 
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stones, I made the wood. 
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I invented the processes that 
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make bronze, and you're going to
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things that I created. 
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you going to give a gift to me 
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her as a gift. 
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to contain God. 
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To see that He is omnipresent, 
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This is the context. 
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know about God the Father. 
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true God. 
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earth. 
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He is sovereign. 
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True worship springs from a true
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then the second. 
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Verse 2 would say these are the 
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These are the people that come 
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But this is the one to whom I 
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contrite in spirit and who 
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The commentator, McKay kind of 
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And he says there's really three
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three characteristics to which 
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which he delights in. 
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commenced himself to the poor. 
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the lowest levels of society. 
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When Scripture talks about the 
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always talking or only talking 
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theological categories, and he 
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a religious term for those who 
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absolutely. 
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So a true worshipper is somebody
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destitute. 
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their being. 
They are lost without the 

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salvation of Jesus Christ and of
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you are not a true worshipper. 
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with the opening words Jesus 
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As he says, the Spirit of the 
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Lord has anointed me to preach 
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Jesus said, and the greatest 
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on the Mount. 
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spirit or Luke simply blessed 
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the word destitute. 
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spiritually, then you do not yet
worship the Lord of glory. 

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The second mark of a true 
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He says it's the contrite in 
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That's our translation and and 
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The original word is. 
Crippled. 

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You are lame. 
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You're crippled. 
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context, and contrite means 
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remorse. 
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if you do not come to the Lord 
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then you have not come to the 
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And so I remember Isaiah 5715. 
We're we're revisiting all of 

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these themes. 
He says, remember, we're 

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preparing a highway in our 
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addresses. 
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God lives in two places. 
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Isaiah 6. 
He's dwelling on the in the 

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throne room of heaven. 
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apart from us. 
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of every broken center. 
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This is what John the Baptist 
said, prepare the highway 

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because God wants to live there 
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What an amazing God we have. 
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Three, remember. 
Jesus's work. 

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The first thing it says about 
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Who did He come for? 
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not break, and a smoldering Wick
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She comes for the crippled, 
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The third mark of a true 
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at His word. 
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technical term for those who 
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and His commands. 
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open this, we recognize that God
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world through an open Bible. 
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effort and pain to to understand
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reveals God's will to us. 
It is the power of God for 

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salvation. 
It's the. 

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Power to live according to the 
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to live. 
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a healthy fear of God and a 
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And you look at the seven marks 
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What's marks this morning? 
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church history. 
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hunger for spiritual truth. 
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Charles Brown, we'll call him 
Charlie Brown. 

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He says in his book Revival of 
Religion, he talks about a 

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minister in the Church of 
Scotland as he describes revival

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in his own time. 
He says, quote, it was a common 

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thing, as soon as the Bible was 
opened after the preliminary 

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services, and just as the reader
began, for great Meltings to 

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come upon the hearers. 
And a lot of you have 

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experienced that and you know 
what he's talking about. 

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When you open the word or you 
hear the word preached and it 

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melts you because you you 
recognize you're falling short 

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and you set the standard for 
yourself. 

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As Ezra opens the book on the 
side of all the people and they,

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they are so ensconced in this 
word, they love the word so much

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that as the book opens, the 
people involuntarily rise and 

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they stand as Ezra reads the 
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It's incredible. 
And So what? 

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Will be we see here in the 
future, we will eternally be 

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doers of the Word and not 
hearers only. 

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We will come to Jerusalem and be
taught by the living God 

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himself. 
We pray now your mayor will be 

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done on earth as it will be on 
that day in heaven. 

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And we can hear the words of 
James 121 where we're called to 

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put away all filthiness and 
rampant wickedness and receive 

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with meekness the implanted word
which is able to save our souls.

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And So what? 
What does What is the second 

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mark of true worship? 
It's a true worshipper, a humble

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Sinner fully dependent on God 
and God alone, trembling at His 

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Word that says this. 
Is the man or woman who. 

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Captivates God's attention and 
delights His heart. 

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A mark of true worship. 
The 3rd as you move through to 

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verses three to four. 
True worship is not just 

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religious ritual. 
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It's more than just doing 
outward external religious 

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things. 
And as you look at that, these 

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verses, it says that it 
describes an ox sacrifice and a 

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lamb sacrifice and a grain 
offering and the burning of 

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frankincense. 
And it says if your religion and

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your rituals, your external 
righteousness does not come from

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the heart and is not done in the
right spirit, then it's like 

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murder in God's eyes. 
But does it come from the right 

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spirit and the right heart of 
worshipping the God that we've 

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seen in verse one and two and 
from the the heart that we've 

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seen in in verse 2. 
Then he says it's like animal 

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cruelty. 
That's all it amounts to. 

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It's like Pagan worship. 
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He who slaughters an ox is like 
one who kills a man. 

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He who sacrifices a lamb is like
one who breaks a dog's neck, He 

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who presents a grain offerings 
like one who offers pigs blood, 

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and he who makes a memorial 
offering of frankincense like 

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one who blesses an idol. 
They've chosen their own ways 

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and their soul delights and 
their abominations. 

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I will choose harsh treatment 
for them and bring their fears 

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upon them. 
Because when I called, no one 

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answered. 
When I spoke, they did not 

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listen. 
That they did what is evil in 

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their eyes and chose that and 
which I did not delight. 

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If you're filling your life and 
your time with things that God 

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does not delight, and the 
warning is here, He'll bring 

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your fears. 
On you he's. 

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Going to get your attention. 
And you see here the man who 

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comes with his external 
sacrifice, a good thing, 

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something God prescribes, an ox 
sacrifice. 

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You come with an ox sacrifice, 
you come like a murderer. 

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He says the man who sacrifices a
lamb is like the one who touches

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a dog, an unclean animal. 
And it gets worse. 

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The one who offers a grain 
offering is like one who offers 

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pigs blood. 
And if you put yourself back 

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under the Levitical law, in that
ancient context, there is 

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nothing more offensive or 
disgusting than a pig. 

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Which is why in in 167 BC, 
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conquers Jerusalem and he wants 
to offend the Jews and and be 

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sacrilegious, and what does he 
do? 

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He desecrates the temple. 
By slaughtering a pig on it, It 

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was the worst thing that he 
could think of, and he's saying 

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that that's what your offerings 
amount to. 

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And worst of all, one offering a
memorial offering of 

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frankincense is like one who 
blesses an idol, which is quite 

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literally the breaking of the 
second commandment, or if you're

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Catholic or Lutheran, the first 
commandment. 

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It's this is idol worship. 
Think back to Exodus 20, verse 

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4, where the 10 commandments are
given. 

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He says you shall not make for 
yourself a carved image. 

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You shall not bow down to them 
or serve them. 

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For I the Lord your God and the 
jealous God. 

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So you're inciting the jealousy 
of God. 

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You're taking the worship that's
meant for him, and you're giving

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it to an idol. 
Hudson taught us earlier in the 

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series, Idol translates nothing.
It's no thing. 

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It's vanity and it's vain. 
You're taking what's meant to 

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glorify the God of heaven, and 
you're giving it to vanity and 

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nothing. 
And God is jealous and it 

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incites his wrath. 
And Isaiah taught us repeatedly,

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if you, if you pour yourself out
unto outwardly religious things,

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but miss true religion. 
This was Isaiah 58, one of my 

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favorite passages in the whole 
book. 

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You miss your fasting, he says. 
But you've missed a true fast. 

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You're doing the things that you
think delight God, but you've 

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missed what's really his heart, 
which is caring for the orphan 

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and the widow and the the 
prisoner and the sojourn and 

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then sick and worshipping God 
from a true heart. 

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You've observed the Sabbath and 
missed the true Sabbath. 

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You've missed God's heart and he
says, even though you're doing 

452
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,560
the things that I have 
commanded, because you've missed

453
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,200
what I delight in. 
It's false worship, and it might

454
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,040
as well be. 
Murder and animal abuse. 

455
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,200
And then Andrew Davis, who's a 
leader in our own denomination 

456
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,200
and our own convention, he says 
in Isaiah 66 that what it's 

457
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,200
doing, especially in verses 3 to
4 with this religious external 

458
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,320
religion, and especially in 
verse 17, which you're going to 

459
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:54,960
see is just purely Pagan 
religion. 

460
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,520
He's separating the world into 
two categories, eternal 

461
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,240
worshippers and false 
worshippers. 

462
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,640
And there's no middle ground. 
You're worshiping God eternally 

463
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,960
or your worship is false 
worship. 

464
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,720
And to those who worship in the 
wrong spirit, who do not tremble

465
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,280
at His word, who have not been 
counted righteous, He says 

466
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,160
you're on par with murdering 
pagans. 

467
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,840
Look at verse four. 
He says he's going to treat them

468
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,720
harshly. 
And if you think that's harsh, 

469
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,880
look at what He says. 
He says I called you, but you 

470
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,680
didn't answer. 
I spoke to you, I revealed 

471
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:28,320
myself to you, and you did not 
listen. 

472
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,560
But you did what was evil and 
did not do what delighted God 

473
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,720
most when you've seen what 
delights Him. 

474
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,520
To be a humble, broken Sinner, 
to fall on the Lord of glory for

475
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,800
mercy, to tremble at His Word, 
to provide and protect and 

476
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,720
include the orphan, the widow, 
the prisoner, the soldier and 

477
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,360
the sick. 
To love your neighbor as 

478
00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:47,240
yourself, and to love the Lord 
your God with all your heart, 

479
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,320
with all your soul, with all 
your mind, and with all your 

480
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,200
strength. 
That's what He delights. 

481
00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:56,760
And that's the true Sabbath and 
the true fast, the 4th mark of 

482
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,280
true worship. 
This is a promise. 

483
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:00,720
This might. 
This isn't. 

484
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,160
Maybe this will happen. 
This is. 

485
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,200
You can take it to the bank. 
This will happen. 

486
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:08,560
True worship brings persecution.
Verses 5 to 6. 

487
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,360
Let's read those together. 
Hear the word of the Lord, you 

488
00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:15,360
who tremble at His word, He's 
talking to you, the true 

489
00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:17,840
worshippers. 
Hear the word, those who tremble

490
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,400
at His word, your brothers who 
hate. 

491
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:23,360
You, and cast you out for my 
name's sake, have said, Let the 

492
00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:26,560
Lord be glorified, that we may 
see your joy, but it is they who

493
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,160
shall be put to shame. 
The sound of an uproar from the 

494
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,280
city, the sound from the temple,
the sound of the Lord rendering 

495
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:36,000
recompense to his enemies. 
He says your brothers hate you 

496
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,840
and they're going to cast you 
out for my name's sake. 

497
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,720
They're doing it even now. 
And he says they're going to 

498
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,920
mock the faithful. 
These words let the Lord be 

499
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,720
glorified that we may see your 
joy as as sarcasm. 

500
00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:48,800
They're being sarcastic and so 
the world. 

501
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,560
Hates you. 
And it's For these reasons that 

502
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:53,680
it says the world is. 
I mean, they already hate you. 

503
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,360
And because they hate you, 
they're going to cast out you 

504
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,080
for Christ's name's sake. 
It says they're going to mock 

505
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,280
you and they're going to 
persecute you. 

506
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,320
This is a promise. 
The days are coming. 

507
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,160
Jesus said the same. 
As a matter of fact, he 

508
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,720
pronounced you blessed. 
He says blessed are you when 

509
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,920
others revile you and persecute 
you and that are all kinds of 

510
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,920
evil against you falsely on my 
account. 

511
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,240
And we don't like to think about
the hatred of the world. 

512
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:18,560
We think about them being 
neutral. 

513
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,000
They're they're like wheat out 
there waiting to be harvested. 

514
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,480
That's not how Scripture sees 
them. 

515
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,640
The world out there is anti God 
and Antichrist and nobody talked

516
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,880
more about the hatred of the 
world than Jesus did and his 

517
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,360
words are recorded in John. 
He says the word hate 7 times in

518
00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:37,000
John 1518 to 20. 
Five And he gives you a theology

519
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,880
of hate. 
He says verse 18 the world hates

520
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,640
you. 
Verse 18 the world hated Jesus 

521
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,960
before it hated you. 
Verse 19 Listen, they hate you 

522
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:52,000
because Jesus chose you. 
Verse 23 They hate God the 

523
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,640
Father. 
Verse 24, they hate the Father 

524
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,960
and they hate His Son. 
In verse 25, they hated Jesus 

525
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,400
without a cause. 
And So what you have put forward

526
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,920
here is the doctrine of imputed 
hatred. 

527
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,560
You get Christ's righteousness. 
They hate Him. 

528
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:12,440
Now they hate you because you 
are the light of the world, and 

529
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,320
so the sole reason that they 
hate you is because you are a 

530
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,040
true worshipper. 
Why do they persecute you? 

531
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,600
John tells you. 
Jesus tells you. 

532
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,160
It's so simple. 
Because your works are good and 

533
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,720
theirs are evil. 
That's why. 

534
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,880
That's why your worship invites 
their persecution and their 

535
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,040
hate. 
Your works are good and theirs 

536
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,080
are evil. 
And so if you receive love and 

537
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,080
praise from the world, Jesus 
says you are not his disciple. 

538
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,400
But if you are persecuted, he 
says you're blessed, you are 

539
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,600
filling up and completing the 
sufferings of Jesus Christ and 

540
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,360
on that final day you will be 
glorified for it. 

541
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,840
And they will ultimately it says
here, this is your hope. 

542
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,480
They will ultimately be put to 
shame, but not before they 

543
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,240
ridicule you for your true 
worship. 5th mark of true 

544
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,720
worship as we continue. 
Down this large section from 

545
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,360
verses 7 to 14. 
True worship is eternal. 

546
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,520
To read this section together, 
this metaphor of Zion as a 

547
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,240
mother, it says before she was 
in labor, she gave. 

548
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,640
Birth. 
Before her pain came upon her, 

549
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,960
she delivered a son. 
Who has heard such a thing? 

550
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,320
Rhetorical question. 
Who's seen such things? 

551
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,960
Shall a land be born in a day? 
Shall a nation be brought forth 

552
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,160
in one moment? 
For as soon as Zion was in 

553
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:25,800
labor, she brought forth her 
children. 

554
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,440
Shall I bring to the point of 
birth, and not cause to bring 

555
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:29,480
forth? 
Says the Lord. 

556
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,040
Shall I Who? 
Cause to bring forth. 

557
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,440
Shut the womb, says your God, 
verse 10. 

558
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,040
Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be 
glad for her, all you who love 

559
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,320
her, rejoice with her, and joy 
all you who mourn over her, that

560
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,360
you may nurse, and be satisfied 
from her consoling breast, that 

561
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:44,680
you may drink deeply with 
delight from her glorious 

562
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,360
abundance. 
For thus says the Lord, Behold, 

563
00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:50,520
I will extend peace to her like 
a river, and the glory of the 

564
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,120
nation's like an overflowing 
stream. 

565
00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:55,160
And you shall nurse, you shall 
be carried upon her hip, bounced

566
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,880
upon her knees, as one whom his 
mother comforts. 

567
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,280
So I will comfort you, you shall
be comforted in Jerusalem, you 

568
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,080
shall see, and your heart shall 
rejoice, your bones shall 

569
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,680
flourish like the grass, and the
hand of the Lord shall be known 

570
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,480
to his servants, and he shall 
show his indignation against his

571
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,000
enemies. 
And so in This isn't the 

572
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,520
familiar theme of the the 
glorious abundance of Zion. 

573
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,040
Remember, the ports are open 
eternally so that all the wealth

574
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,320
of nations can continually flow 
into to that city, come up to 

575
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,480
that city with worshippers and 
with their. 

576
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,280
They're well, think of the the 
gates being open continually. 

577
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,560
It's picturing Zion as a mother.
You have God as your father and 

578
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:37,160
Zion as your mother eternally. 
God says, and he says he's going

579
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,200
to bring forth the people in the
nurturing environment of God's 

580
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,560
eternal Kingdom. 
He says you're going to to suck 

581
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,480
on the breast of this eternal 
city and it's going to be like 

582
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,120
prosperity. 
Coming to you the. 

583
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,480
Comfort and prosperity you're 
going to take part in. 

584
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,240
Remember the the beauty of the 
city of all the stones and all 

585
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,560
the gold and all the jewels. 
The the streets will be made of 

586
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,240
gold and the gates will be made 
of fine pearls. 

587
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,520
He says that will be your 
eternal state. 

588
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,400
This worship is eternal and the 
restoration of God's people is 

589
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,480
going to be against the curse of
Eden, where he says childbirth 

590
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,320
is now going to be slow and it's
going to be painful. 

591
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,080
And yet it says here that Zion 
is a mother who brings birth 

592
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,760
painlessly and suddenly he asked
a rhetorical question like a 

593
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,800
Riddle in verse 8. 
How can a woman give birth 

594
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,360
before her pain has come upon 
her? 

595
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:23,680
This is nevertheless that's 
what's going to happen before 

596
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,960
she even experiences birth 
pains. 

597
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,360
The children will be. 
There. 

598
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,560
And the restoration of God's 
people is contrary to the slow 

599
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,640
and predictable processes like 
we would think a nation would be

600
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,240
built. 
America was built on the slow 

601
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,040
movement of a mother has 
children and they have children 

602
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,360
and the mother dies. 
And there's a slow, predictable 

603
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,240
birth rate and death rate of a 
city or of a nation. 

604
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,640
And it grows. 
And it says that's not how Zion 

605
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,440
will be brought forth. 
It will come forth in a day, in 

606
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,800
the twinkling of an eye, 
miraculously. 

607
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,240
And in the sea, it's not just a 
political pilgrimage, but a 

608
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,720
miraculous rebirth. 
Zion will be eternally 

609
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,560
prosperous. 
As previous chapters again have 

610
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,200
said, The gates and ports will 
be open. 

611
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,480
They will be comforting. 
The city will be comforting. 

612
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,000
The metaphor is a mother 
bouncing you on her knee. 

613
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:15,360
It's a picture of Joy carrying 
you on her hip and nursing. 

614
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,720
You and you have a really 
interesting verse in verse 13 

615
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,600
where God the Father says he 
will be to you like a comforting

616
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,600
mother. 
He's exhibiting the attributes 

617
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,800
of a mother saying as one whom 
his mother comforts. 

618
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:35,200
So I will comfort you. 
And this isn't the slow process 

619
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,480
of history. 
This is an immediate coming and 

620
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,840
we have to say what what is this
referring to? 

621
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:41,960
And you read the commentators 
they see. 

622
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,360
Multiple fulfillments of this 
passage. 

623
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:49,160
The first fulfillment would be 
when Cyrus God put it on King 

624
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,800
Cyrus's heart to to let the 
people go. 10% of the Jews left 

625
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,040
their captivity and came back to
Jerusalem and it was the city 

626
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,880
grew in a day. 
As soon as they got back, here 

627
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,600
were the people with their 
spiritual energy rebuilding the 

628
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,560
walls and reconstituting the 
nation. 

629
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,840
They came forth without this 
long birth rate of this. 

630
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,760
The second fulfillment that the 
commentators see is at the birth

631
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,360
of the church at Pentecost. 
You have 120 believers in the 

632
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,880
upper room praying, and the 
Spirit comes and all of a sudden

633
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,560
3000 are added to the Kingdom of
God. 

634
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,480
We think through the Psalms as 
God is writing in the heavenly 

635
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,040
registry of Jerusalem. 
This one was born there. 

636
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:30,480
You have 3000 or I guess 3120 on
that day. 

637
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,040
Now as citizens of the Kingdom, 
it will grow so quickly, 

638
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:35,720
miraculously and 
instantaneously. 

639
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,720
And then finally, above all, the
sudden bringing forth of God's 

640
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,520
restored people is in the new 
heavens and the new earth. 1st 

641
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,240
Corinthians 15 talks about that 
day. 

642
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,720
It says the trumpet is going to 
blow and in the twinkling of an 

643
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,840
eye we will have glorified 
bodies. 

644
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,000
The the dead will be raised and 
the twinkling of an eye you will

645
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,560
have God's eternal Kingdom and 
his people. 

646
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,920
They will come forth 
immediately, says the trumpet 

647
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,160
will sound and the dead will be 
raised in perishable. 

648
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,440
And we shall all be changed, and
we will be his people and He 

649
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:10,320
will be our God and we will 
worship Him forever. 6th mark of

650
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,880
true worship. 
True worship avoids the wrath of

651
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,760
gods. 
Probably said better negatively.

652
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,480
False worship incites God's 
fury. 

653
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,600
And here you have in verse 17. 
It's not like the false worship 

654
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,280
of verses 3 to 4 where it was 
masked in kind of God's 

655
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:30,280
commandments and religious 
language and Christianese here 

656
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:35,160
it's just Pagan religion. 
It doesn't even masquerade as as

657
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,440
Christianity. 
Look at verse. 17 Those who 

658
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,160
sanctify and purify themselves 
to go into gardens following one

659
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,120
in the midst eating pig's flesh,
and the abomination in mice 

660
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,960
shall come to an end. 
Together declares the Lord and 

661
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,280
when you see these words 
sanctify and purify this is 

662
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,400
religious language and these 
individuals believe that 

663
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,240
whatever their Pagan idolatry is
doing that it's getting them 

664
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,760
closer to God whatever that is 
whatever conception that is for 

665
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,000
him they're being made 
acceptable in his sight and it's

666
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,080
interesting that we think of 
paganism as being something in 

667
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,920
Bible times these. 
Illiterate foreigners, these 

668
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,120
pagans. 
But paganism is on the rise in 

669
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,560
America. 
We have this new movement called

670
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,560
Neopaganism and and people are 
willingly identifying themselves

671
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,560
as pagans. 
Nature based rituals are 

672
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,480
everywhere. 
The celebration of festivals and

673
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,840
solstices and equinoxes. 
I hear it all the time. 

674
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,600
Wiccans are prevalent and their 
ritual magic and their crystals 

675
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,280
and their herbs and their images
and their candles. 

676
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,640
And you have in your every time 
you open your newspaper or the 

677
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,520
magazines, there are the 
horoscopes and there's the 

678
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,640
astrology. 
And we have two blocks from this

679
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,360
church, a new metaphysical shop.
And every time I drive downtown,

680
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,600
I see people coming and going 
from that shop. 

681
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:52,040
It's here. 
And he says that these pagans 

682
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:56,280
are on par with the Christ less 
Christians of verses 3 to 4. 

683
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,640
They are inciting God's wrath 
and they're on par with them. 

684
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,240
And to these false religions, 
Paul says in the New Testament, 

685
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:08,800
they are returning to worthless 
and and weak elemental things of

686
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,600
this world. 
That's what they're returning 

687
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,719
to. 
They're enslaved to them over 

688
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,080
and over again, and they return 
to them like a dog returns to 

689
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,800
its own vomit. 
And it says that their religion 

690
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,400
is demonic. 
And above all, it brings. 

691
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:25,040
God's wrath, which is why we can
see verses 15 to 16. 

692
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,960
This is the end of false 
worship, for behold, the Lord 

693
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,480
will come in fire, and his. 
Chariots like the. 

694
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,280
Whirlwind to render his anger 
and fury. 

695
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:36,840
And his rebuke with flames of 
fire. 

696
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,000
For by fire will the Lord enter 
into judgment, and by his sword 

697
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,400
with all flesh, and those slain 
by the Lord will be many. 

698
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,040
He speaks of the the judgment of
the sword. 

699
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,080
He speaks twice of the judgment 
of fire. 

700
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,280
If you were to look up fire in 
the Theological Dictionary of 

701
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,280
the Old Testament has this 
wonderful illustration of this 

702
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,639
metaphor. 
In the Old Testament, he says 

703
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,680
fire is not limited to any form.
It blazes up to an intensity 

704
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,680
that is pure and inaccessible. 
It disseminates light and heat 

705
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,560
like the stars and like 
lightning flashes. 

706
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,880
It can be either beneficial or 
destructive. 

707
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,000
All this giveth the nimbus of 
the mysterious, the immaterial, 

708
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,680
the terrifying. 
What God is saying is that for 

709
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:18,200
all those whom His fire does not
purify and refine, it will burn 

710
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,600
you eternally. 
He's going to give into that 

711
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,200
amenity. 
You'll be sent to a place where 

712
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,680
the worm does not die and the 
fire is not quenched. 

713
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,640
It is terrifying, it's 
mysterious. 

714
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,640
It's immaterial to those who do 
not follow Christ. 

715
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:35,080
He will enter into judgment with
the sword and with the fire and 

716
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,520
the warning. 
Those slain by the Lord will be 

717
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:42,120
many true worship avoids this 
wrath of God. 

718
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,840
And finally, the seventh true 
worship, I love this true 

719
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,680
worship is. 
Global worship. 

720
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,400
True worship is multi ethnic, it
is Without Borders, it is 

721
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,680
without barriers, it is eternal 
and it is global. 

722
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,760
And this is a glorious theme 
that's prevalent. 

723
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,960
It's in the the first part of 
God's mind in Isaiah it says all

724
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,840
people from all nations 
everywhere are called in these 

725
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:10,040
verses to listen to the word of 
the Lord, to hope and his 

726
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,680
justice and his salvation and to
join in his worship. 

727
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,280
That's the call to everyone. 
And Paul makes a huge point of 

728
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,760
this in Romans 15. 
He begins to survey through the 

729
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,680
Old Testament on this theme of 
the worship of the nations. 

730
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,960
And he he makes an ordered list.
He says in order that Gentiles 

731
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,600
might glorify God for his mercy 
continues down as it is written,

732
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,600
I will praise you among the 
Gentiles and sing your name any 

733
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,040
any Gentiles in the room 
praising the Lord of glory this 

734
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:36,960
morning. 
This is what he's saying. 

735
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,520
Again it's written, Rejoice, O 
Gentiles with his people. 

736
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,520
Again Isaiah says, quoting 
Isaiah, the root of Jesse will 

737
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,440
come, and even he who arises to 
rule the Gentiles, in him will 

738
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,520
the Gentiles hope. 
You have Paul, who is writing a 

739
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,280
letter to the Gentiles. 
He is the minister of God to the

740
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,520
Gentiles, is writing to them 
saying, may the God of hope. 

741
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,800
There's our theme, Phil, you 
with all joy and peace and 

742
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,320
believing, so that by the power 
of the Holy Spirit you may 

743
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,960
abound in hope. 
The Gentiles are called to 

744
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,720
worship and eternal hope, just 
like the Jews. 

745
00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:12,320
And we say it as a Gentile 
preaching to Gentiles. 

746
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,520
Praise God, He's not left us 
without salvation. 

747
00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:18,640
And you can read verses 18 to 19
with me. 

748
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,960
I want you to see the 
geographical references and why 

749
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,160
he chose these. 
He'd kind of pick some places 

750
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,880
that he's talking about. 
He says I know their works and 

751
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,040
their thoughts and the time is 
coming to gather all nations in 

752
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,120
tongues, and they shall come and
see my glory, and I will set a 

753
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,920
sign among them. 
From them I will send survivors 

754
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,320
to the nations, to Tarshish and 
to pull and Lud, who draw the 

755
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,520
bow to Tubal and Yavin, to the 
coastlands far away that have 

756
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,280
not heard my fame or seen my 
glory. 

757
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,040
And they shall declare my glory 
among the nations. 

758
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,720
And look at these references and
you'll see why he picked them, 

759
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,000
he says. 
First is Tarshish. 

760
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,400
Tarshish was in Spain. 
We're talking the far West of 

761
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,680
the world or for you, we said 
the far West of the world. 

762
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,080
It's it's the the farthest end 
of the known world. 

763
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,400
Paul, when he is riding to the 
Romans, what does he say? 

764
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,600
I'm trying to get to you the end
of the known world and even more

765
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,960
than that for you to send me on 
to Spain. 

766
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,160
And you see that is what he's 
talking about. 

767
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,400
That is Tarshish. 
The ends of the world are going 

768
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,760
to come to Christ. 
That is the far coastlines to 

769
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,720
the West. 
And then he says pull and LED 

770
00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:22,960
which are not mentioned in 
scripture except for in their 

771
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,120
connection to Kush which is in 
the far South. 

772
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,160
So you say go straight S you 
come to Africa and remember the 

773
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,640
Ethiopian eunuch as the 
salvation is going out to all 

774
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,240
the world. 
This Enoch comes from the court 

775
00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:37,600
of Candace to the South and is 
saved and eunuchs are included 

776
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,840
and Africans are included. 
You have the West and you have 

777
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,440
the South. 
And then Tuval is modern day 

778
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,480
Turkey to the north, which is 
the the place of Paul's 

779
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,480
missionary journeys. 
He went all through Turkey to 

780
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,080
the north. 
And then finally Yavin, which is

781
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,480
either Macedonia or Macedonia. 
Anakea. 

782
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,800
Why is that significant? 
Because we studied together as a

783
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,320
church the epistles to the 
Ephesians. 

784
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,560
And Yavl is the Thessalonian 
believers. 

785
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,440
They were to see his glory. 
They were to receive a survivor.

786
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,840
And with the birth of the 
Thessalonian church, these 

787
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,560
prophecies were coming to pass. 
You see it in Scripture. 

788
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,320
Isaiah being fulfilled before 
your eyes, the the salvation was

789
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,160
going to all of the Gentiles. 
And finally it says the 

790
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,800
coastlands, which just 
represented the absolute 

791
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,000
farthest ends of the world, the 
furthest away Gentiles. 

792
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,600
It's a theme in Isaiah. 41 One, 
listen to me in silence, O 

793
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,280
coastlands, let them renew their
strength, let them approach, let

794
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:34,640
them draw near, let them speak. 
42 Two, this is the servant 

795
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,120
song, the first servant song 
describing the mission of Jesus 

796
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,240
Christ. 
He will not grow faint or be 

797
00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:42,840
discouraged until he has 
established justice in the earth

798
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,880
and the coastlands. 
Wait for his law, The servant 

799
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,240
song again in Isaiah 49, the 
mission of Jesus Christ. 

800
00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:52,400
Jesus says, Listen to me, O 
coastlands, and give attention 

801
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,160
you peoples from afar. 
The Lord has called me from the 

802
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:59,240
womb again to minister to them. 
Isaiah 51 My righteousness draws

803
00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:01,560
near, my salvation has gone out 
my arms. 

804
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,400
Wait to judge the peoples, the 
coastlands. 

805
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,760
Hope for me. 
In my arm, for my arm they wait.

806
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,440
Chapter 60, Verse 9. 
The coastline shall hope for me,

807
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,680
the ships of Tarsus first to 
bring your children from afar. 

808
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,040
We've said it before, we've said
it again. 

809
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,000
It does not bring God enough 
glory. 

810
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,520
For one nation, one ethnicity, 
the Jewish people, to bring him 

811
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,360
glory. 
He wants worship from every 

812
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,200
tribe, every tongue, every 
nation from every period of 

813
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:29,000
history, the poor to the rich. 
That is what he desires and that

814
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,400
is what he will receive. 
On the last day. 

815
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:35,200
Amazing rhetorical force in 
verse 21. 

816
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,760
Look with me and it says in some
of them I'm going to take for 

817
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,800
priests as Levites declares the 
Lord. 

818
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,480
And he's saying if if Gentiles 
are becoming priests, then every

819
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:49,320
religious boundary is now gone. 
Gentiles who were hated, 

820
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,720
Gentiles who were excluded are 
now becoming the very ministers 

821
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,520
of God included in the presence 
of God, which shows you that God

822
00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:00,920
is impartial and he wants 
worship from every socio 

823
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,280
economic class. 
Every nation gets to be a true 

824
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,360
worshipper. 
And verses 22 to 23 as we 

825
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,440
continue down are the eternal 
climax to God's promises, The 

826
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,840
fulfillment of the Abrahamic 
covenant, the fulfillment of the

827
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,360
Davidic covenant, the 
fulfillment of the new covenant,

828
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,480
the covenant of grace. 
For as the new heavens and the 

829
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,040
new earth that I make shall 
remain before me, says the Lord,

830
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,400
so shall your offspring and your
name remain. 

831
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,840
From new moon to new moon, and 
from Sabbath to Sabbath, all 

832
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,160
flesh shall come to worship 
before me, says the Lord. 

833
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,360
The final state is being 
described. 

834
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,240
You will be my people, and I 
will be your God from this time 

835
00:41:35,240 --> 00:41:40,720
forth and forevermore. 
Somebody say Amen to that. 

836
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,200
But Isaiah doesn't end here 
graciously. 

837
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,800
Isaiah does not end here. 
Our passage does not stop here. 

838
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,720
There's one more verse and that 
will end this section as 

839
00:41:50,720 --> 00:41:53,160
multiple sections have ended 
before it. 

840
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:56,440
That serves as the end of all 
word false worship. 

841
00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:00,320
It is a warning to the wicked. 
Read with me the last words of 

842
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:04,360
Isaiah the prophet. 
They shall go and look out on 

843
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,120
the dead bodies of the men who 
have rebelled against me. 

844
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,800
For their worm shall not die, 
their fire shall not be 

845
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,160
quenched, and they shall be an 
abhorrence to all flesh. 

846
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,360
And rebel is the keyword. 
The Princess had become rebels. 

847
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,920
It says that the wicked were 
rebelling against God. 

848
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,120
It means they knew His will, 
they knew that His design for 

849
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,400
their life, and they did what 
they wanted to anyway. 

850
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,800
When they rebelled, it said they
grieved His Holy Spirit. 

851
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,080
We had to point the finger at 
ourselves last week to say when 

852
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,120
we rebel, we too grieve the 
Spirit of God. 

853
00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:36,200
And this verse is the ultimate 
fruit of rebellion. 

854
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,920
Go out, probably. 
Means even in that eternal city,

855
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:43,480
go outside of the city gates and
you think of Jerusalem. 

856
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:47,040
To the South of the city was 
their dump, their town dump, 

857
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,640
their the refuse heap. 
And it was a place of constant 

858
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,400
burning in the constant process 
of decay. 

859
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,320
It was the biblical picture. 
It became the biblical metaphor 

860
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:57,840
for hell. 
It was the. 

861
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:02,200
Valley of Hanam and what is 
gnawing at them is their worm, 

862
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,280
and what's burning is their 
fire. 

863
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,760
The worm will never go away, and
the burning and the fire will 

864
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,680
never be quenched. 
And Isaiah setting up a parallel

865
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,960
in verse 23 to the eternal 
worship of God's people and the 

866
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:19,280
eternal torment of those who he 
refused to acknowledge him and. 

867
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,920
As we look toward saying goodbye
to Isaiah, I want you to 

868
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,280
consider with me that every 
country in the world, without 

869
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:31,400
exception, it's important to 
say, has segregated along socio 

870
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,680
economic boundaries. 
And you see it in America, You 

871
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,480
see it in the developed world, 
perhaps more than others. 

872
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,240
You go to Beverly Hills, there's
gates. 

873
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,040
The poor are not allowed in. 
They segregate themselves. 

874
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,280
They've got better 
transportation, better trash, 

875
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,720
better sanitation, hospitals, 
school security. 

876
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,320
We segregate our poor. 
My wife spent a summer in India.

877
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:52,920
And she was amazed there when 
she went there. 

878
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,560
They don't segregate their poor 
like we do in kind of the the 

879
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:56,960
first world, she says. 
It's incredible. 

880
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,680
You would have shanties just 
leaning up against some of the 

881
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,640
richest homes and they they 
dwell together. 

882
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,280
But this? 
Further exemplifies the problem,

883
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,520
you have luxury apartments 
towering over slums and caste 

884
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,880
structures where the poor are 
permanently made vulnerable 

885
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,000
because it's part of their 
political system it's it's 

886
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:20,720
ensconced into their religious 
system and there is no escape We

887
00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:23,440
see also that every country in 
the world without exception is 

888
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:27,120
full of corruption. 
Isaiah in chapter 10 said woe to

889
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,960
those who make unjust laws and. 
Deprive the poor of their 

890
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,320
rights. 
Transparency International 

891
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,120
started a. 
A corruptions indexed, a 

892
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,880
perceived corruptions index 
where they, they take experts 

893
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,680
and they measure every country 
in the world for their how 

894
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,480
corrupt their public sectors 
are. 

895
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,560
And you know, the best score in 
the world is an A minus. 

896
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,160
The best country in the world 
gets a 90. 

897
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,160
In America, we're ranked 65th 
with a score of or 28th with a 

898
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:56,920
score of 65. 
And every country in the world, 

899
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:01,160
without exception has been built
on the backs of slaves without 

900
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,000
exception. 
Which is a sobering thought 

901
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,640
until we remember what Raleigh 
Sadler taught us when he came to

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00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,520
train us on how to care for 
vulnerable people. 

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He said the only Kingdom not 
built on slave labor is the 

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Kingdom of God. 
And he said the only country 

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that experiences no corruption, 
100 out of 100 on the 

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corruptions Index, is the 
Kingdom of God. 

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00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,080
And this Kingdom is upside down.
Rather than keeping the poor out

908
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,800
of the vicinity of the rich, God
keeps the rich out of the 

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vicinity of the. 
Poor. 

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00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,800
And need the poor stream to 
Jerusalem and enjoy the wealth 

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00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,280
and the privilege of Jerusalem. 
And the rich are taken to the 

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00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:39,400
valley of Hanam, the town dump, 
and are burned eternally with 

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fire. 
And so the Kingdom of God is 

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unlike any Kingdom on the earth 
because it's a Kingdom of 

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righteousness and justice and 
peace. 

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Foreigners are not second class 
citizens in his Kingdom. 

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Completely contrary to Jewish 
expectations. 

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Gentiles will be first class 
citizens. 

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00:45:55,720 --> 00:45:58,840
Foreigners in eunuchs will be 
serving alongside Levites as 

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00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,720
priests. 
Money means nothing because the 

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streets are going to be paved 
with gold and the gates made of 

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the finest jewels. 
Status means nothing because all

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glory pales in comparison with 
the glory of the King, whose 

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00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,440
whose throne is in the heavens 
and the earth is his footstool. 

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00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:15,840
And what a beautiful. 
Picture it will be a full 

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provision, full protection, full
inclusion of every true 

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00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:24,040
worshipper of the King of Glory 
and from every tribe, tongue and

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nation. 
I want you to see as the book 

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ends. 
Kim points out the book ends in 

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00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:33,880
the Kingdom of men with the 
wicked everywhere, with the the 

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00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,280
righteous being hated and 
persecuted by the world. 

932
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,080
It ends with the righteous 
servants of God struggling to 

933
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,680
build and maintain justice, 
surrounded by wicked 

934
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:46,040
governments, with the reality of
racism and slavery and sex 

935
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,200
trafficking and governmental 
corruption. 

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But Isaiah 66 says we. 
Are not left without hope in the

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world and in John Bunyan's 
classic book Pilgrim's Progress.

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00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:58,800
Has anybody read Pilgrim's 
Progress before? 

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00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,440
The two people that make it 
across the the gate into the 

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Celestial City, What are their 
names? 

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Christian and hopeful. 
Christian and hopeful. 

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Are the two that make it and I 
don't know if it was consciously

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or not, but the book. 
Ends in the same way the book of

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Isaiah ends. 
Christian and Hopeful come into 

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00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,560
the Eternal City and Christian 
looks and he sees somebody 

946
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:23,240
that's trying to come in. 
Their own way with their own 

947
00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:25,560
relationship with God, with 
their own doing it their own 

948
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,040
way. 
And he says, Christian says. 

949
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,040
I turned my head to look back 
and saw ignorance coming up to 

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00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,640
the Riverside. 
When he came, when he was come 

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00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:34,840
up to the gate, he looked to the
writing that was above and he 

952
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,720
began to knock, supposing the 
entrance should be quickly 

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00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:40,240
administered to him. 
But when he was asked by the men

954
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:43,040
that looked over the top of the 
gate, Whence come you and what 

955
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,160
would you have he answered. 
I have ate and drank in the 

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00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,720
presence of the King, and he is 
taught in our streets. 

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00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,520
Then they asked him for his 
certificate, that they might go 

958
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,440
in and show it to the King, and 
he fumble in his bosom for one, 

959
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,120
and found none. 
And so they said, have you found

960
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,080
none? 
But the man answered never a 

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00:47:58,080 --> 00:47:59,920
word. 
So they told the King he would 

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00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:02,880
not come down to see him, but 
commanded the 2 shining ones 

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00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,600
that conducted Christian and 
hopeful to the city, to go out 

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00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:09,120
and take ignorance and bind him 
hand and foot and have him away.

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00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:13,200
Then I saw that there was a way 
to hell, even from the gate of 

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00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,600
heaven. 
And just as striking is the 

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00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,840
conclusion of Isaiah. 
It ends with the image of 

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00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:22,080
unburied corpses of the wicked 
and the thought of their eternal

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00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:26,560
suffering in hell. 
And verse 24 is a warning to. 

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00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:30,520
Anyone who does not know Jesus 
Christ, to anyone who would 

971
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,920
worship God in their own way, 
hear the warning again. 

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00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,560
Then they shall go out and look 
on the dead bodies of the men 

973
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:39,560
who have rebelled against me. 
For their worm shall not die, 

974
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,280
their fire shall not be 
quenched, and they shall be an 

975
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,920
abhorrence. 
To all flesh, let's pray 

976
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:48,920
together. 
Lord, we tremble at your Word. 

977
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:54,520
Your word is reflecting to us 
Your will, Your design, Your 

978
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:58,480
plan for the cosmos. 
Lord, if there is any in this 

979
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:01,720
room that does not have ears to 
hear, open their ears this 

980
00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:05,520
morning and may they hear verse 
24 to see that there is a place 

981
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,000
called. 
Hell, and it is real, and there 

982
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,200
is a pathway to hell even from 
the gate of heaven, for all 

983
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,560
those who would try to enter in 
with their own righteousness, 

984
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,360
their own way, their own 
worship, make the Lord true 

985
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,840
believers out of them. 
And for those who do have hope, 

986
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,200
who are the hopeful ones? 
Who are the Christians? 

987
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,560
Lord, we pray that you would 
make Your hope abound in our 

988
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:26,920
hearts, that these promises 
would be so true, that the 

989
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,920
future heavens and earth would 
be so tactile and so real to us,

990
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:31,440
that would we would. 
Live this life as if we're 

991
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,400
already there. 
Lord, we live as if that day is 

992
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:36,120
tomorrow. 
Because it will be. 

993
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:38,720
God, we love you with all our 
hearts and mind and strength. 

994
00:49:38,720 --> 00:49:41,000
Thank you for your word and 
press the words of Isaiah and 

995
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,840
our soul. 
May they transform us forever 

996
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,640
and make us more like your Son. 
God, we love you. 

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00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:48,600
We ask all this in Christ's 
name, Amen. 

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