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 In 2012, during the London Olympics, we kept hearing these words, I don't know whether you remember them.

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! The eyes of the world are on you, London. I don't know if I was going to repeat it ad nauseum.

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 The eyes of the world are on you, the world is watching.

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 The key show was the London Olympics, when the attention of the world was riveted, wasn't it, on the city in which we live for several weeks.

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 One city was in the news every day, and everyone saw it. That was all the time.

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 There have been times when Baghdad, the eyes of the world have been on Baghdad. Mosul, Aleppo, Paris, Sydney.

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 The eyes of the world are on a certain city. And we're either watching in delight or horror.

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 It takes, doesn't it, something of a massive scale for the eyes of the world to turn onto a city.

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 But it can happen. And it happens in Isaiah 60. It's a world city in Isaiah 60, taking the center stage.

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 Not just in the world, but the eyes of the universe are on this city.

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 I don't know how you feel about London. We should feel proud of our city, isn't it?

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 Most of us are migrants. We've come here from somewhere else.

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 But some of you were bored and bred here. Some of you have never lived anywhere else.

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 It's a wonderful thing. And I hope we feel proud of our city.

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 When you're tired of London, you are tired of life.

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 Alright?

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 And when people say, living in London, the problem isn't London.

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 When you move somewhere else, I assure you, the problems will follow you there.

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 The problem isn't the city.

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 Some of us might feel London's awful. We don't like it.

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 Some of us might feel it's glorious.

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 Some of us might feel like it's a place like nowhere else on earth.

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 We wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

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 But God has a city.

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 Here in Old Testament Jerusalem.

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 Zion.

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 And God is more proud of Zion

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 than we know.

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 He has more love for Zion

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 than you have for your home city.

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 Because it's where his people live.

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 And he loves his people.

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 And it's where he shows himself to be king of the world.

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 And you can see what he says.

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 He says, I want the eyes of the world

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 to look on my city.

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 You, my people.

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 You, my people.

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 Let's start with you.

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 Look at my city.

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 Verse 2.

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 For behold, which means stop what you're doing

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 and look.

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 Verse 4.

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 Lift up your eyes all around.

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 Look about you.

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 God says.

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 Being a pastor is a privilege.

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 Being a preacher is a great delight, usually.

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 But sometimes you reach parts of the Bible

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 which are so sublime.

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 And there's a description of the future

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 that actually only poetry is adequate.

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 And I have a simple prayer for this morning.

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 It's Psalm 19.

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 That the Lord's right precepts

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 will give joy to your heart.

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 And his radiant commands

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 will give light to your eyes.

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 So here's four ways that God wants to give us that.

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 Number one.

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 A world in darkness,

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 but a city a light.

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 A world in darkness,

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 but a city a light.

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 You've seen him here on great sporting occasions

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 when it starts and the credits start to roll

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 and everywhere is in darkness

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 apart from the illuminated stadium.

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 We've all seen that if we watch sport.

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 And there's something like that here.

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 A world in darkness,

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 but a city a light.

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 What do you do

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 when you look around this room this morning?

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 What do you see?

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 What do you see when you look around this room?

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 Some of us have sunny dispositions.

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 Others of us less so.

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 Some of us know

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 what it is to go through dark nights.

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 To know the black dog of depression.

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 We know, don't we, about thick darkness.

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 But of course,

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 the picture here in Isaiah 60

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 is a picture of moral blackness.

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 Things are bad out there.

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 And they're bad out there for Israel,

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 for Jerusalem.

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 For this city,

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 life was grim.

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 Do you remember?

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 The eyes of the world

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 are on this one city,

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 but the city's in big trouble.

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 And we've learned that all the way through Isaiah.

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 Here we are in chapter 60,

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 nearly at the end.

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 And we can say,

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 when people ask us,

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 what is it?

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 What is this book about?

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 We can say to them,

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 it is about how the faithless city

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 can become the holy city.

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 Isaiah is about how the whore

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 can become the bride.

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 It's a city in darkness and blackness.

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 And so I want you to see something,

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 Isaiah says.

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 I want you to look at something.

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 I want you to notice,

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 yes, you're in a city in trouble.

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 Yes, you live in a world in trouble.

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 Darkness covers what?

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 Jerusalem,

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 Jerusalem,

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 Zion,

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 now the whole earth.

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 And thick darkness is over the peoples.

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 That means all the nations.

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 God's people,

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 whether they're getting it right

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 or when they're getting it wrong,

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 always live in a world

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 that is getting it wrong

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 and that is lost

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 and that is dark.

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 The Apostle John says,

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 men love darkness

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 instead of light

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 because their deeds are evil.

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 We all know this.

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 Some of us live with this all the time,

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 don't we?

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 Death has arrived far too soon

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 in our homes.

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 There's a kind of despair

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 that just won't lift.

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 Life hasn't worked out

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 or isn't working out

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 the way that we thought it would.

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 Our home

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 is not the place

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 that we thought it would be.

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 In fact,

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 it's not even our home.

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 World affairs

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 and local news

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 on any given day

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 can sometimes be more

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 than you can bear.

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 So what is God's solution?

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 What does God have for us?

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 For the earth,

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 his earth,

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 the peoples of the world.

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 What is he going to do

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 about the darkness?

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 Do you see Isaiah's answer?

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 Isaiah's answer is,

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 verse 1,

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 he's going to set his city alight.

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 He's going to turn the lights on.

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 Look at this,

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 it's very important.

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 He's not going to turn the lights on

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 everywhere.

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 But in one place,

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 in one place,

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 he'll turn the lights on.

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 We want global solutions,

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 don't we?

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 What's the answer?

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 To world hunger,

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 world poverty,

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 world injustice.

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 Okay, fine.

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 God has an answer

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 to world darkness

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 and it is in one place

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 and in one location.

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 His city,

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 arise,

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 shine,

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 for your light has come,

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 Jerusalem.

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 The glory of the Lord

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 has risen upon you,

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 O Zion.

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 So should we go to Heathrow?

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 Should we get on a plane

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 and travel there?

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 It would be wonderful,

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 wouldn't it,

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 to go to the city?

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 Is that what Isaiah's

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 talking about?

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 Everybody get on,

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 walking where Jesus

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 walked in Jerusalem.

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 I've never been to Jerusalem,

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 I'm told.

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 But the sunrise

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 over Mount Olives

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 when it comes up

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 in the east

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 and then it falls

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 on the city below,

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 they say it's a stunning sight.

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 Light floods,

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 walls and gates,

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 domes,

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 towers,

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 homes,

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 they're all bathed

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 in glorious light.

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 You've seen the pictures

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 like I have.

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 Tourists go,

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 don't they,

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 and marvel at it today.

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 There's got to be

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 something more than that.

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 It has to be.

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 This is the Lord

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 himself

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 rising

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 over Zion

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 like the sun.

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 So look,

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 Isaiah says,

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 what I'm about to show you,

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 yes,

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 is Zion,

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 but it is Zion

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 as a picture

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 of the new creation,

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 of what I'm going to do

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 at the end of time.

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 That's what we're

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 looking at here.

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 This is the kingdom

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 of God

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 come down to earth.

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 This is

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 John's vision

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 in Revelation

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 chapter 21

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 and 22

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 of a new Jerusalem

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 given to us

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 in advance.

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 So when that day

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 comes,

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 when we get there,

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 when we see

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 the glory of the Lord

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 covering his world

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 in light,

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 here's what we'll see.

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 Three great more

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 shafts of light.

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 We'll see,

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 secondly,

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 a world at peace,

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 a family enriched.

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 A world at peace,

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 a family enriched.

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 2nd verses 3 to 5.

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 And nations,

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 shall come to your light.

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 And kings,

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 to the brightness

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 of your rising.

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 Lift up your eyes

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 all around and see.

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 They all gather together.

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 They come to you.

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 Your sons shall come

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 from afar

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 and your daughters

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 shall be carried

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 on the hip.

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 Then you shall see

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 and be radiant.

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 Your heart shall shrill

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 and exult

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 because the abundance

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 of the sea

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 shall be turned to you

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 and the wealth

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 of the nations

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 shall come to you.

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 The end of the world

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 will mean

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 the end of war

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 and the beautiful growth

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 of God's family.

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 The whole idea

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 starts in verse 3.

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 And you see it?

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 Nations and kings

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 will come to God's city.

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 But they're not coming

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 to make war.

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 In the ancient world,

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 kings travelled

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 for two reasons only.

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 And the two reasons

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 were,

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 number one,

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 to pay tribute

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 or to make war.

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 To pay homage

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 or to increase

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 their territory.

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 And so while the kings

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 are on the move,

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 just get a feel of it.

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 They've left their sons,

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 their swords at home.

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 The nuclear codes

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 have been forgotten.

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 Trident is finished.

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 The guns have fallen silent.

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 Make no mistake about it.

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 Here is huge military traffic.

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 But it's all for peace.

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 It's all for peace.

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 Verse 5,

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 the wealth

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 and the riches

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 of the nations

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 are coming in.

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 They're coming in

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 on the battleships

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 of the seas.

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 But there's no planes.

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 No aircraft carriers.

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 Verse 6,

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 they're bringing out

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 animals.

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 They're bringing gold

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 and incense.

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 Verse 11,

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 look,

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 these kings,

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 they are not coming

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 in pride and aggression

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 but they are being led,

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 verse 11,

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 like lambs

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 in a triumphal procession.

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 Look how clear it is

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 in verse 17.

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 The middle of verse,

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 at the end of verse 17,

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 I will make your overseers

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 peace.

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 And your taskmasters

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 righteousness.

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 Violence should be no more

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 heard in the lamp.

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 Devastation or destruction

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 within your borders.

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 You shall call your walls

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 salvation

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 and your gates

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 praise.

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 Here's why this is beautiful.

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 It is beautiful

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 because

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 a world of peace

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 is matched

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 all the way through

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 this chapter

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 with a family of one.

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 A family restored.

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 A family reunited.

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 Is there anything

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 more wonderful

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 for parents

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 than that day

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 when the children

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 who've been abroad

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 and they've been

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 away from you

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 and they're not

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 within reach

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 or sight

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 and they come home?

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 And they come home.

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 This is a family

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 enriched.

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 Look at verse 4.

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 Lift up your eyes

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 all around and see

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 and they all gather together.

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 They come to you.

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 Your sons

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 from afar

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 and your daughters

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 shall be carried

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 on the hip.

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 This might have a literal

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 meaning.

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 Those sons and daughters

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 have been carried off

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 into exile

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 and they're brought

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 back home

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 to Jerusalem.

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 They come through

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 the doors

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 of the terminal

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 and the family

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 are there

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 and they run

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 to each other

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 and embrace

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 oblivious

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 that the rest

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 of the world

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 is there

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 because there's

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 such joy.

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 Look at verse 9.

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 For the coastline

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 shall hope for me

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 the ships of Tarshish

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 first

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 to bring your children

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 from afar

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 to sell them

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 on their gold

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 with them

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 for the name

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 of the Lord

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 your God

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 and for the Holy

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 Man of Israel

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 because he's

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 made you beautiful.

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 Tarshish is likely

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 Spain.

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 It's not a place

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 that sons and daughters

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 were ever carried

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 off to exile.

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 No, it's better

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 to see this

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 as saying

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 at the end of time

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 the world is reborn

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 in glory

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 in a new creation

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 and every believer

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 will stream

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 into the heavenly

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 Jerusalem

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 as a son

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 and daughter

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 in Zion.

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 You see

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 because Isaiah

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 is talking about

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 the end of time

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 this is the

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 great fulfillment

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 of the promise

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 to Abraham

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 Genesis 12

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 and 15

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 and 17

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 through you

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 Abraham

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 all the nations

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 of the earth

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 will be blessed

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 and I will make

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 your descendants

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 as numerous

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 as the stars

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 in the sky

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 and I will make

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 your offspring

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 like the dust

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 of the earth

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 so that if anyone

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 could count the dust

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 then your offspring

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 could be counted.

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 Do you see it here?

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 God is keeping

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 his great promise

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 to Abraham

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 and here they come

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 in Zion

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 verse 9

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 sailing in on their ship

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 and all the islands

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 of the earth

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 bring Zion's sons

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 and Zion's daughters

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 and brothers

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 and sisters

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 and when we see

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 that at the end

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 when we see men

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 and women

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 from every tribe

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 and every tongue

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 and every people group

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 and when we see

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 paupers and princes

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 and lepers

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 and lords

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 and kings

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 and queens

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 pour through

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 Zion's gates

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 how will we feel?

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 about a couple

00:13:59.079 --> 00:13:59.439
 of years ago

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 I started to use

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 a line

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 when I preached

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 at a wedding

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 and I speak

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 to the husband

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 about his new wife

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 and I tell him

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 to put children

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 in her arms

00:14:06.579 --> 00:14:07.199
 and light

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 in his eyes

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 people love it

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 it's a great line

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 I should copyright it

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 children in her arms

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 and light

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 in her eyes

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 don't you love

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 I love the picture

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 can you just see it

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 with me

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 in verse 4

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 that picture at the end

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 and daughters

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 shall be carried

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 on the hip

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 you see the new mums

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 after the service

00:14:27.920 --> 00:14:28.420
 you see them

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 coming to church

00:14:28.900 --> 00:14:29.960
 it's a wonderful sight

00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:30.700
 it's wonderful

00:14:30.700 --> 00:14:31.240
 to have children

00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:31.740
 in worship

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 absolutely wonderful

00:14:32.980 --> 00:14:34.900
 and children

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 on their mother's hip

00:14:36.179 --> 00:14:38.719
 it's a picture of joy

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 and when you see that

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 how do you feel?

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 look at verse 5

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 then you shall see

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 and be radiant

00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:54.859
 your heart shall thrill

00:14:54.859 --> 00:14:55.959
 and exult

00:14:55.959 --> 00:14:57.819
 because the abundance

00:14:57.819 --> 00:14:58.299
 of the sea

00:14:58.299 --> 00:14:58.919
 shall be turned to you

00:14:58.919 --> 00:14:59.879
 the wealth of the nation

00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:01.179
 shall come to you

00:15:01.179 --> 00:15:02.419
 it puts light

00:15:02.419 --> 00:15:03.059
 in your eyes

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 it's that kind of joy

00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:04.500
 isn't it?

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 that's what God

00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:06.940
 has promised you

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 if you are in Christ

00:15:08.220 --> 00:15:10.120
 that's what God

00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:10.820
 has promised us

00:15:10.820 --> 00:15:11.860
 as the people of God

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 we this morning

00:15:13.019 --> 00:15:14.639
 we meet as Zion's

00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:15.820
 sons and daughters

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 we're marching to Zion

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 beautiful

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 beautiful Zion

00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.759
 come we that love the Lord

00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:25.360
 and let our joys be known

00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:27.039
 we're marching

00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:28.220
 to Emmanuel's land

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 we are her foreign children

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 you're not a Jew

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 you

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 and one day

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 we will enter her

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 we will enter her

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 always

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 never to be shut out

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 always safe

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 never dangerous

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 and we will look around

00:15:47.580 --> 00:15:49.480
 at more children of Zion

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 than we can ever count

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 and there will be Abraham

00:15:52.620 --> 00:15:54.200
 our great

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 great

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 great

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 great

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 great

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 great

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 great grandfather

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 with his millions

00:15:59.400 --> 00:16:00.340
 of spiritual children

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 all around him

00:16:01.059 --> 00:16:05.559
 maybe you've never

00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:06.879
 known a family reunion

00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:10.159
 maybe your family

00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:11.579
 is the kind of family

00:16:11.579 --> 00:16:12.959
 where war breaks out

00:16:12.959 --> 00:16:15.699
 and it's possible

00:16:15.699 --> 00:16:16.379
 that for some of us

00:16:16.379 --> 00:16:17.679
 we've not known joy

00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:18.619
 like this within our

00:16:18.619 --> 00:16:19.319
 four walls

00:16:19.319 --> 00:16:23.079
 and Isaiah says

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 just wait

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 just wait

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 because it's coming

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 and maybe you know

00:16:31.940 --> 00:16:32.680
 the joy of this

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 or you've known it

00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:36.600
 mothers and fathers

00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:38.740
 and you come back home

00:16:38.740 --> 00:16:40.020
 your children come back home

00:16:40.020 --> 00:16:40.960
 and you love it

00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:42.980
 end of term

00:16:42.980 --> 00:16:44.840
 they're coming home

00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:45.460
 soon

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 and you can't wait

00:16:46.300 --> 00:16:46.860
 you can't wait

00:16:46.860 --> 00:16:48.000
 to have them back again

00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.140
 and there's that throbbing

00:16:50.140 --> 00:16:51.600
 swelling joy

00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:52.620
 as you heard them

00:16:52.620 --> 00:16:57.379
 and Isaiah is saying to us

00:16:57.379 --> 00:16:58.320
 can we see the light

00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:00.620
 can you feel

00:17:00.620 --> 00:17:01.620
 can you feel

00:17:01.620 --> 00:17:03.040
 the glory of God

00:17:03.040 --> 00:17:05.059
 breaking upon us

00:17:05.059 --> 00:17:07.240
 warfare is past

00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:07.839
 harmony

00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:09.539
 family forever

00:17:09.539 --> 00:17:10.299
 but there's another

00:17:10.299 --> 00:17:11.019
 sharp of light here

00:17:11.019 --> 00:17:12.220
 a world in reverse

00:17:12.220 --> 00:17:13.220
 and a people enthroned

00:17:13.220 --> 00:17:15.160
 a world in reverse

00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:16.079
 and a people enthroned

00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:18.240
 the chapter is all about

00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:18.839
 a great reversal

00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:19.460
 in fact it's about

00:17:19.460 --> 00:17:20.920
 several great reversals

00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:22.160
 Isaiah is so skillful

00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:23.420
 at using reversals

00:17:23.420 --> 00:17:26.160
 so in Isaiah 16

00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:26.560
 I don't know whether

00:17:26.560 --> 00:17:27.140
 you noticed it

00:17:27.140 --> 00:17:27.779
 as I read it

00:17:27.779 --> 00:17:29.000
 everything is going

00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:29.860
 in reverse

00:17:29.860 --> 00:17:31.840
 it's going

00:17:31.840 --> 00:17:33.340
 in the opposite direction

00:17:33.340 --> 00:17:34.320
 from what we think

00:17:34.320 --> 00:17:34.820
 it would

00:17:34.820 --> 00:17:37.940
 so here are people

00:17:37.940 --> 00:17:39.460
 flocking to the city

00:17:39.460 --> 00:17:40.340
 and they are

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 thronging to it

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 and the nations

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 are coming to Zion

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 it's the main type

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 of verb

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 in the chapter

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 they are bringing

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 they are coming

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 they are traveling

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 they are gathering

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 they are processing

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 and look

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 it's not God's people

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 opening wide the gates

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 to go out to the world

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 it's the world

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 coming to them

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 you see that

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 it's the world

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 coming to their city

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 it's like a pilgrimage

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 in reverse

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 I don't know

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 whether you remember

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 seeing the

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 pictures of

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 Iraqi special forces

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 kind of bit by bit

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 advancing on Mosul

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 and they are trying

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 to take it back

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 from IS

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 I can't remember

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 the numbers

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 was it 20,000

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 or 200,000

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 a staggering number

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 of people

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 that were trapped

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 in that city

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 and as the army

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 arrives

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 what did they do

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 as the army arrives

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 what did they do

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 they flee the city

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 fled the city

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 this long line

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 snaking off

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 into the distance

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 over the horizon

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 that's what we are

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 familiar with

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 aren't we

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 we are familiar

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 with people

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 fleeing the city

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 on the run

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 a massive refugee

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 crisis all over

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 the world

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 people fleeing

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 but here Isaiah says

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 at the end of time

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 we will see the biggest

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 refugee community

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 the world has ever seen

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 as thousands

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 upon thousands

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 upon thousands

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 flock to the New Jerusalem

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 but it's not the only reversal

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 what's the real surprise here

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 the true back to front

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 new world order

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 did you notice that

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 it's that not only

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 are the nations

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 going against the flow

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 and now they are

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 travelling to Zion

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 but they are bowing

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 low before God's people

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 the kings of the earth

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 come to God's people

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 and the kings of the earth

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 come to God's people

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 and they lavish them

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 with gifts

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 and they bow low

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 before them

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 look at verse 7

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 all the flocks of Kedah

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 shall be gathered to you

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 the rams of Nebaoth

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 shall minister to you

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 they shall come up

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 with acceptance

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 on my altar

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 and I will beautify

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 my beautiful house

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 verse 10

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 foreigners

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 shall build up your walls

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 and their kings

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 shall minister to you

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 for in my wrath

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 I struck you

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 but in my favour

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 I have had mercy upon you

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 verse 14

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 the sons of those

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 who afflicted you

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 shall come

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 and bend in low to you

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 and all who despise you

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 shall bow at your feet

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 and they shall call you

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 the city of the Lord

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 the Zion

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 of the Holy One of Israel

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 former top dogs

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 now take second place

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 who is the royal title

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 now in this new world

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 Queen Elizabeth

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 is it Robert Mugabe

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 who wins here

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 in the end

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 the dictator

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 or the dictator

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 look at verse 15

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 whereas

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 you have been forsaken

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 and hated

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 with no one passing through

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 I will make you majestic

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 from ever

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 a joy from age to age

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 do you see the reversal

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 God's people are now enthroned

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 God's people are now

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 given

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 royal stated

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 and the nations

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 bow low

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 you are a royal priesthood

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 make no mistake

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 here

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 the nations are not

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 forced into it

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 this is what the nations

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 want to do

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 verse 9

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 they bring their wealth

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 and honour to the Lord

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 look how homely it is

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 verse 8

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 these great mighty warrior kings

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 coming to Zion

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 they are like

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 verse 8

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 doves

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 doves coming over to the windows

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 to their nest

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 they're coming home to roost

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 and they're coming back to where they belong

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 under God's wing

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 and as they get there

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 they find this little tiny church

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 down the road

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 that no one hardly ever knew existed

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 and there was Mr and Mrs Jones

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 who prayed

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 and gave

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 and gave

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 and served

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 and served

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 and out of that church

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 some went to world mission

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 and Mr and Mrs Jones

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 prayed

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 and lived

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 very ordinary lives

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 there they are

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 with the wealth of Saudi Arabia

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 brought in through the door

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 and because missionaries

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 went to Saudi Arabia

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 with the gospel

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 there are some of the

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 royal rulers of the kingdom

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 bowing low

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 before Mr and Mrs Jones

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 who prayed for those missionaries

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 and gave to those missionaries

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 and they say

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 this is Zion

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 this is God's city

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 your God is

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 our God

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 how do we know

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 how do we know

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 it's true

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 how do we know

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 the nations will do this

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 how do you know this

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 well we've seen it already

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 what did you make of verse 6

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 is it too early for Christmas

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 verse 6

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 a multitude of camels

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 shall come

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 even the young camels

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 of Midian and Ephra

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 all those from Sheba

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 shall come

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 and they shall bring gold

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 and frankincense

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 and bring good news

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 the praises

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 of the Lord

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 we three kings

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 of Orient are

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 one in a bus

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 one in a car

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 we bear gifts

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 we travel from afar

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 except there were three

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 weren't there

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 well actually we don't know

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 how many wise men were there

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 I quite like to think

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 there were 300

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 there may have been 30

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 there may have been 3

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 there may have been

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 who knows

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 but what happened

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 is that the kings

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 of the earth

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 brought gold

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 and frankincense

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 and myrrh

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 for the Lord

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 let's get this

00:23:24.500 --> 00:23:27.519
 what happened there

00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:28.279
 for the Lord

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 of heaven and earth

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 lay in a manger

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 and the greatest

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 on earth

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 I would low

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 before the least

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 of the earth

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 kings

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 before a baby

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 I hope you believe it

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 with all your heart

00:23:45.019 --> 00:23:47.460
 and so that when you

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 watch the news

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 and when you lead

00:23:49.019 --> 00:23:49.900
 your tiny little

00:23:49.900 --> 00:23:50.900
 bible study group

00:23:50.900 --> 00:23:53.000
 and when you attend

00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:54.019
 a house group of 6

00:23:54.019 --> 00:23:54.880
 or you speak in a

00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:55.839
 conference of 600

00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:59.220
 when you teach the bible

00:23:59.220 --> 00:23:59.680
 to children

00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:00.900
 or you preach to 500

00:24:00.900 --> 00:24:02.259
 when you get the news

00:24:02.259 --> 00:24:03.500
 of Relief International

00:24:03.500 --> 00:24:05.200
 or the Barnabas Fund

00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:06.259
 or Asher's Bakery

00:24:06.259 --> 00:24:08.480
 or missionaries

00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:09.019
 in Japan

00:24:09.019 --> 00:24:09.900
 like I did this week

00:24:09.900 --> 00:24:11.279
 that mighty vast nation

00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:11.940
 that slumbers

00:24:11.940 --> 00:24:12.900
 all in darkness

00:24:12.900 --> 00:24:13.920
 and the church

00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:14.799
 is too small

00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:16.019
 and the people

00:24:16.019 --> 00:24:16.759
 are too weak

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 or you get the news

00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:19.299
 of pastors imprisoned

00:24:19.299 --> 00:24:19.920
 in Iran

00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:20.519
 and Korea

00:24:20.519 --> 00:24:22.019
 I hope you believe

00:24:22.019 --> 00:24:22.879
 with all your heart

00:24:22.879 --> 00:24:23.819
 that one day

00:24:23.819 --> 00:24:24.579
 one day

00:24:24.579 --> 00:24:25.759
 the reversal is coming

00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:29.839
 the world

00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:30.900
 will flow backwards

00:24:30.900 --> 00:24:33.660
 and the sons

00:24:33.660 --> 00:24:34.480
 of our oppressors

00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:35.259
 will come bowing

00:24:35.259 --> 00:24:35.819
 to us

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 I want to give us

00:24:39.159 --> 00:24:39.759
 a very particular

00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:40.619
 application about this

00:24:40.619 --> 00:24:40.899
 this morning

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 I'll come back to it

00:24:41.539 --> 00:24:42.359
 in the last point

00:24:42.359 --> 00:24:43.099
 but I want to finish

00:24:43.099 --> 00:24:43.919
 with this last point

00:24:43.919 --> 00:24:44.619
 what does it mean

00:24:44.619 --> 00:24:45.119
 that the world

00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:45.960
 will flow backwards

00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:47.000
 everything will be

00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:48.079
 turned upside down

00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:49.779
 and fourthly

00:24:49.779 --> 00:24:51.220
 a world in eternity

00:24:51.220 --> 00:24:53.500
 God in our midst

00:24:53.500 --> 00:24:56.399
 if the end of the world

00:24:56.399 --> 00:24:57.179
 will see the world

00:24:57.179 --> 00:24:57.899
 flow backwards

00:24:57.899 --> 00:24:59.939
 and kings will serve servants

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 and the homeless

00:25:00.919 --> 00:25:02.379
 will eat at the royal table

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 and the persecutor

00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:04.819
 will bow before

00:25:04.819 --> 00:25:05.559
 the persecuted

00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:06.859
 if the world

00:25:06.859 --> 00:25:07.899
 will go into a reverse

00:25:07.899 --> 00:25:09.039
 if those things happen

00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:10.159
 then Isaiah says

00:25:10.159 --> 00:25:12.299
 it's even as if

00:25:12.299 --> 00:25:13.539
 time and creation

00:25:13.539 --> 00:25:14.700
 will flow backwards

00:25:14.700 --> 00:25:17.619
 into God

00:25:17.619 --> 00:25:21.079
 so Isaiah teaches us

00:25:21.079 --> 00:25:21.379
 doesn't he

00:25:21.379 --> 00:25:22.419
 that the very things

00:25:22.419 --> 00:25:23.359
 that God gives us

00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:24.440
 to mark time

00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:25.359
 and seasons

00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:26.720
 to separate

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 night and day

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 they'll just be turned off

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 they'll not be

00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:31.179
 these anymore

00:25:31.180 --> 00:25:34.580
 because in verse 19

00:25:34.580 --> 00:25:35.620
 the Lord himself

00:25:35.620 --> 00:25:36.940
 will be our light

00:25:36.940 --> 00:25:38.980
 and God will be

00:25:38.980 --> 00:25:39.660
 with us

00:25:39.660 --> 00:25:41.759
 and on every side

00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:42.980
 we will see his glory

00:25:42.980 --> 00:25:44.240
 and it's as if

00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:45.600
 everything will go back

00:25:45.600 --> 00:25:46.740
 to how it was meant

00:25:46.740 --> 00:25:47.660
 to be in the beginning

00:25:47.660 --> 00:25:51.840
 only better

00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:55.279
 yes it will be Eden

00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:56.279
 but it will be better

00:25:56.279 --> 00:25:56.740
 than Eden

00:25:56.740 --> 00:25:59.279
 for in the beginning

00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:00.119
 there was a garden

00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:02.000
 and there was

00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:03.240
 a sun and a moon

00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:03.779
 in the sky

00:26:03.779 --> 00:26:04.619
 but now at the end

00:26:04.619 --> 00:26:05.500
 there will be a city

00:26:05.500 --> 00:26:06.459
 and instead of Adam

00:26:06.459 --> 00:26:06.839
 and Eve

00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:07.599
 verse 22

00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:09.159
 there will be a thousand

00:26:09.159 --> 00:26:10.059
 mighty nations

00:26:10.059 --> 00:26:10.500
 of people

00:26:10.500 --> 00:26:11.179
 on every hand

00:26:11.180 --> 00:26:12.060
 on every hand

00:26:12.060 --> 00:26:13.259
 and we will live

00:26:13.259 --> 00:26:14.259
 forever in the perfect

00:26:14.259 --> 00:26:15.019
 world with God

00:26:15.019 --> 00:26:16.120
 himself in our midst

00:26:16.120 --> 00:26:18.299
 and your days

00:26:18.299 --> 00:26:19.259
 of sorrow will end

00:26:19.259 --> 00:26:21.980
 and your days

00:26:21.980 --> 00:26:22.900
 of sorrow will end

00:26:22.900 --> 00:26:26.820
 what was the sorrow

00:26:26.820 --> 00:26:27.740
 that this was

00:26:27.740 --> 00:26:29.700
 for the people

00:26:29.700 --> 00:26:30.420
 in Isaiah's day

00:26:30.420 --> 00:26:30.660
 do you remember

00:26:30.660 --> 00:26:31.200
 what their sorrow

00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:31.820
 was well it was

00:26:31.820 --> 00:26:32.900
 oppression wasn't it

00:26:32.900 --> 00:26:35.580
 it was verse 14

00:26:35.580 --> 00:26:36.240
 scorn

00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:36.920
 verse 15

00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:37.480
 injustice

00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:38.360
 think of chapters

00:26:38.360 --> 00:26:39.519
 58 to 59

00:26:39.519 --> 00:26:40.640
 sorrow for sin

00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:42.020
 think of chapter 57

00:26:42.020 --> 00:26:43.980
 it will be all over

00:26:43.980 --> 00:26:49.300
 so let me give you

00:26:49.300 --> 00:26:49.940
 two applications

00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:50.620
 for this week

00:26:50.620 --> 00:26:54.580
 some of us

00:26:54.580 --> 00:26:55.580
 have seen enough

00:26:55.580 --> 00:26:58.040
 and lived long enough

00:26:58.040 --> 00:26:59.280
 to know that sorrow

00:26:59.280 --> 00:27:00.460
 seems to be on hand

00:27:00.460 --> 00:27:03.880
 on every side really

00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:06.700
 I went to see someone

00:27:06.700 --> 00:27:07.160
 last week

00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:07.820
 and they said to me

00:27:07.820 --> 00:27:09.120
 it seems like my friends

00:27:09.120 --> 00:27:10.240
 are being picked off

00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:11.620
 one by one

00:27:11.620 --> 00:27:14.160
 Derek Kidner

00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:14.880
 is one of my favourite

00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:15.539
 commentators

00:27:15.539 --> 00:27:16.140
 he was a wonderful

00:27:16.140 --> 00:27:16.620
 godly

00:27:16.620 --> 00:27:17.000
 humble

00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:18.559
 Old Testament scholar

00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:19.200
 late in life

00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:19.759
 he wrote about

00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:20.339
 the general

00:27:20.339 --> 00:27:21.099
 desolations

00:27:21.099 --> 00:27:21.880
 of old age

00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:24.539
 he said

00:27:24.539 --> 00:27:25.299
 not only may the

00:27:25.299 --> 00:27:26.559
 light of the faculties

00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:27.240
 and the senses

00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:28.200
 begin to fade

00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:29.039
 but so too

00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:30.059
 the warm glow

00:27:30.059 --> 00:27:31.039
 of old friends

00:27:31.039 --> 00:27:32.120
 familiar customs

00:27:32.120 --> 00:27:34.000
 and long held hopes

00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:35.120
 age

00:27:35.120 --> 00:27:36.640
 steals each away

00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:38.800
 he wrote

00:27:38.800 --> 00:27:39.780
 all this will come

00:27:39.780 --> 00:27:40.380
 at a stage

00:27:40.380 --> 00:27:41.460
 when there is no

00:27:41.460 --> 00:27:42.180
 longer the resilience

00:27:42.180 --> 00:27:42.800
 of youth

00:27:42.800 --> 00:27:44.160
 or the prospect

00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:44.900
 of recovery

00:27:44.900 --> 00:27:45.820
 to offset it

00:27:45.820 --> 00:27:48.120
 in one's early years

00:27:48.120 --> 00:27:48.980
 and the greater part

00:27:48.980 --> 00:27:49.280
 of life

00:27:49.280 --> 00:27:50.259
 troubles and illnesses

00:27:50.259 --> 00:27:51.580
 are chiefly setbacks

00:27:51.580 --> 00:27:52.400
 not disasters

00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:54.680
 one expects

00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:55.780
 the sky to clear

00:27:55.780 --> 00:27:56.240
 eventually

00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:57.960
 it's hard to adjust

00:27:57.960 --> 00:27:58.600
 to the closing

00:27:58.600 --> 00:27:59.620
 of that long chapter

00:27:59.620 --> 00:28:00.880
 to know that now

00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:02.120
 in the final stretch

00:28:02.120 --> 00:28:03.060
 there will be no

00:28:03.060 --> 00:28:03.660
 improvement

00:28:03.660 --> 00:28:04.640
 the clouds

00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:06.340
 will always gather

00:28:06.340 --> 00:28:06.840
 again

00:28:06.840 --> 00:28:08.440
 and time will

00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:09.380
 no longer heal

00:28:09.380 --> 00:28:10.120
 but kill

00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:17.799
 but Isaiah says

00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:18.539
 there will come a time

00:28:18.539 --> 00:28:19.259
 when your sun

00:28:19.259 --> 00:28:20.239
 will never set

00:28:20.239 --> 00:28:20.619
 again

00:28:20.619 --> 00:28:23.099
 and your moon

00:28:23.099 --> 00:28:24.519
 will wane

00:28:24.519 --> 00:28:25.119
 no more

00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:27.279
 and the Lord

00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:27.959
 will be your

00:28:27.959 --> 00:28:29.119
 everlasting light

00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:31.039
 and your days

00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:31.799
 of sorrow

00:28:31.799 --> 00:28:33.500
 will end

00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:37.719
 and here's an

00:28:37.719 --> 00:28:38.439
 application for all

00:28:38.439 --> 00:28:38.619
 of us

00:28:38.619 --> 00:28:40.319
 let's never forget

00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:40.639
 this

00:28:40.639 --> 00:28:41.219
 that one day

00:28:41.219 --> 00:28:41.959
 everything will go

00:28:41.959 --> 00:28:42.419
 backwards

00:28:42.419 --> 00:28:44.659
 one day the nations

00:28:44.659 --> 00:28:45.500
 will come to us

00:28:45.500 --> 00:28:48.599
 but until then

00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:49.259
 and we have to get

00:28:49.259 --> 00:28:49.719
 this right

00:28:49.719 --> 00:28:50.579
 we go to them

00:28:50.579 --> 00:28:54.019
 until the end

00:28:54.019 --> 00:28:55.219
 until the new creation

00:28:55.219 --> 00:28:56.339
 we go to them

00:28:56.339 --> 00:28:59.399
 until this day

00:28:59.399 --> 00:28:59.719
 friends

00:28:59.719 --> 00:29:00.599
 until the daylight

00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:01.119
 breaks

00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:01.719
 and the shadows

00:29:01.719 --> 00:29:02.439
 flee away

00:29:02.439 --> 00:29:03.539
 and the glory

00:29:03.539 --> 00:29:04.539
 of the Lord

00:29:04.539 --> 00:29:05.179
 covers the earth

00:29:05.179 --> 00:29:06.319
 until we get there

00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:08.119
 we board airplanes

00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:11.039
 we kiss our

00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:11.959
 families goodbye

00:29:11.959 --> 00:29:15.799
 we take our

00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:16.299
 children

00:29:16.299 --> 00:29:18.599
 God willing

00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:19.319
 to the ends

00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:19.899
 of the earth

00:29:19.899 --> 00:29:21.500
 to serve the gospel

00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:22.519
 to Afghanistan

00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:23.859
 to Pakistan

00:29:23.859 --> 00:29:25.279
 to Iran

00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:27.019
 here's how it works

00:29:27.019 --> 00:29:28.279
 because people

00:29:28.279 --> 00:29:29.239
 go to them

00:29:29.239 --> 00:29:31.819
 because the

00:29:31.819 --> 00:29:32.359
 cabins

00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:33.459
 Joe and Fred

00:29:33.459 --> 00:29:34.159
 will go to

00:29:34.159 --> 00:29:34.859
 North Africa

00:29:34.859 --> 00:29:36.819
 because Ian

00:29:36.819 --> 00:29:37.179
 and Heather

00:29:37.179 --> 00:29:37.619
 Jones

00:29:37.619 --> 00:29:38.139
 will go

00:29:38.139 --> 00:29:38.740
 to Burkino

00:29:38.740 --> 00:29:39.139
 Faso

00:29:39.139 --> 00:29:41.419
 because Jose

00:29:41.419 --> 00:29:42.039
 Segorio

00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:42.459
 will go

00:29:42.459 --> 00:29:43.279
 to Madrid

00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:44.939
 because they

00:29:44.939 --> 00:29:45.439
 go

00:29:45.439 --> 00:29:46.079
 one day

00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:46.599
 the nations

00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:47.259
 will come

00:29:47.259 --> 00:29:50.240
 and maybe

00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:50.740
 this morning

00:29:50.740 --> 00:29:51.400
 you never

00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:51.879
 thought that

00:29:51.879 --> 00:29:52.500
 world mission

00:29:52.500 --> 00:29:53.339
 was for you

00:29:53.339 --> 00:29:57.660
 but it is

00:29:57.660 --> 00:29:59.180
 going

00:29:59.180 --> 00:30:00.359
 or giving

00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:01.460
 or praying

00:30:01.460 --> 00:30:03.900
 because you

00:30:03.900 --> 00:30:04.279
 wonder what

00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:04.640
 will really

00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:05.220
 come of it

00:30:05.220 --> 00:30:05.759
 and look

00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:06.960
 says God

00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:07.420
 here it is

00:30:07.420 --> 00:30:08.079
 if you go

00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:08.440
 look who

00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:08.879
 comes

00:30:08.879 --> 00:30:12.759
 and so maybe

00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:13.440
 Japan that I

00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:13.940
 read of this

00:30:13.940 --> 00:30:14.359
 week will

00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:15.160
 one day

00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:15.740
 become like

00:30:15.740 --> 00:30:16.180
 China

00:30:16.180 --> 00:30:18.779
 and maybe

00:30:18.779 --> 00:30:18.980
 the

00:30:18.980 --> 00:30:19.360
 cavils

00:30:19.360 --> 00:30:19.660
 as they

00:30:19.660 --> 00:30:19.980
 go to

00:30:19.980 --> 00:30:22.560
 North Africa

00:30:22.560 --> 00:30:25.080
 and everyone

00:30:25.080 --> 00:30:25.460
 that they

00:30:25.460 --> 00:30:26.000
 have worked

00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:26.480
 with will

00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:27.000
 be dead

00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:27.500
 and gone

00:30:27.500 --> 00:30:27.940
 but the

00:30:27.940 --> 00:30:28.720
 joy of

00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:29.320
 generation

00:30:29.320 --> 00:30:30.539
 after generation

00:30:30.539 --> 00:30:32.240
 after generation

00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:33.039
 of North Africans

00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:33.500
 will be the

00:30:33.500 --> 00:30:34.000
 glory of the

00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:34.340
 Lord who

00:30:34.340 --> 00:30:34.720
 knows

00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:38.039
 did you

00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:38.320
 know that

00:30:38.320 --> 00:30:38.700
 the same

00:30:38.700 --> 00:30:39.320
 Rome that

00:30:39.320 --> 00:30:40.259
 crucified the

00:30:40.259 --> 00:30:40.700
 Lord Jesus

00:30:40.700 --> 00:30:41.440
 Christ in the

00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:42.060
 first century

00:30:42.060 --> 00:30:42.360
 AD

00:30:42.360 --> 00:30:42.940
 bowed the

00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:43.380
 knee to him

00:30:43.380 --> 00:30:43.560
 in the

00:30:43.560 --> 00:30:44.160
 fourth century

00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:44.500
 AD

00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:45.859
 when

00:30:45.859 --> 00:30:46.380
 Constantine

00:30:46.380 --> 00:30:46.759
 declared

00:30:46.759 --> 00:30:47.200
 himself a

00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:47.500
 Christian

00:30:47.500 --> 00:30:51.000
 where will

00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:51.420
 you be this

00:30:51.420 --> 00:30:51.839
 time tomorrow

00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:52.259
 five past

00:30:52.259 --> 00:30:52.559
 twelve

00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:55.599
 in office

00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:57.980
 in school

00:30:57.980 --> 00:30:58.319
 room

00:30:58.319 --> 00:30:59.259
 with your

00:30:59.259 --> 00:30:59.740
 children

00:30:59.740 --> 00:31:03.759
 well we can

00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:04.160
 share the

00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:04.759
 gospel can't

00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:05.019
 we with

00:31:05.019 --> 00:31:05.440
 confidence

00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:05.799
 and with

00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:06.160
 joy

00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:11.039
 does IPC

00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:11.440
 have a

00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:11.900
 future

00:31:11.900 --> 00:31:15.519
 well Isaiah

00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:16.040
 blows the

00:31:16.040 --> 00:31:16.519
 doors off

00:31:16.519 --> 00:31:16.980
 doesn't he

00:31:16.980 --> 00:31:18.540
 about what

00:31:18.540 --> 00:31:19.019
 we think of

00:31:19.019 --> 00:31:19.780
 time scales

00:31:19.780 --> 00:31:20.420
 and measuring

00:31:20.420 --> 00:31:20.880
 devices

00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:21.800
 because no

00:31:21.800 --> 00:31:22.540
 one has a

00:31:22.540 --> 00:31:22.940
 future

00:31:22.940 --> 00:31:23.800
 like the

00:31:23.800 --> 00:31:24.180
 people of

00:31:24.180 --> 00:31:24.440
 God

00:31:24.440 --> 00:31:27.000
 no one

00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:27.400
 has a

00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:27.800
 future

00:31:27.800 --> 00:31:29.040
 for those

00:31:29.040 --> 00:31:29.600
 who belong

00:31:29.600 --> 00:31:30.340
 like those

00:31:30.340 --> 00:31:30.700
 who belong

00:31:30.700 --> 00:31:31.180
 to Zion

00:31:31.180 --> 00:31:32.840
 for this

00:31:32.840 --> 00:31:33.300
 city

00:31:33.300 --> 00:31:34.320
 forsaken

00:31:34.320 --> 00:31:35.220
 hated

00:31:35.220 --> 00:31:36.000
 ignored

00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:39.000
 this city

00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:39.420
 will one

00:31:39.420 --> 00:31:39.840
 day be the

00:31:39.840 --> 00:31:40.220
 joy of the

00:31:40.220 --> 00:31:40.660
 whole earth

00:31:40.660 --> 00:31:42.380
 amen