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 now if you've got your bibles perhaps you could turn with me to isaiah chapter 52

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 we're going to look at just a very short section from verse 7 to 10 it'll be up on the screen

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 as well as we think about the mission of god's people a reminder that our mission is always to

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 to enjoy the gospel to enjoy our good news and isaiah 52 verse 7 to 10 serves that purpose of

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 helping us to recover that sense of joy as it describes to us the wonder of salvation

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 and encouragement to us to extend the hope of the lord to the ends of the earth so let's

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 read these verses together how beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good

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 news who proclaim peace who bring good tidings who proclaim salvation who say to zion your god reigns

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 listen your watchmen lift up their voices together they shout for joy when the lord returns to zion

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 and they will see it with their own eyes burst into songs of joy together you ruins of jerusalem

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 for the lord has comforted his people he has redeemed jerusalem the lord will lay bare his holy arm

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 in the sight of all the nations and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our god

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 this little text reminds us of the life transforming good news that there is in the bible at the heart

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 of our faith and it's good news here in light of two things in light of the current circumstances

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 of the people to whom this message from isaiah comes comes from god through isaiah and it's a life

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 transforming as we consider the character and the work of god the true king so this evening to help us to

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 in a sense to to grasp the circumstances of the people in isaiah's day to help us to enter into the

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 text we're going to go on a little guided tour and so we're going to go to the heart of the ruined

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 city of jerusalem in isaiah's time but we're also going to be passing by the city of stalingrad as we

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 think about the great siege of stalingrad in world war ii that lasted some 900 days or so between 1941

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 and 44 we'll be taken to a city surrounded by the nazi forces starving to death and we will also

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 take a very different journey we'll journey to narnia to that land where it was always winter

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 and never christmas and we'll do that to help us to think about the good news that we have here

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 that i hope these journeys will be a window for us into the life-changing joy of salvation that comes

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 when the king comes when help and deliverance comes and so as i said isaiah 52

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 came first of all to the exiles this is a message for exiles so they have been sent away from israel

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 because of disobedience and so they know that their city of jerusalem lies in

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 ruins they have been captured by enemies and perhaps god felt distant as they were in a distant

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 country and then comes that image of verse 7 so picture with me a breathless messenger running to the city

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 of jerusalem and the watchmen on the wall spot this man running over the hillside and the question is this

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 good news what's the news is it is it death or glory and as he gets closer and we hear his message it's

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 it's good news it's it's peace it's salvation it's your god reigns it's the equivalent of stalingrad

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 throwing a street party when the nazi forces were defeated it's narnia finding hope when they discover

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 that aslan the true king is on the move so let's jump into our text to see why we should celebrate

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 god's salvation three words that stand out from our text the first reason to celebrate because

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 god reigns verse 7 your god reigns now notice the answer to the despair that these people are facing

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 they say how beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news and we might

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 think well the hope is because this messenger's here but no it's not the messenger it's the message

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 that gives hope it's the beautiful message from their king of this king who reigns remember their

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 experience it's one of defeat of knowing god's judgment of being separate from their homeland and from

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 their temple and ultimately from the the promised land they have known humiliation and they have known

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 loss but now by god's grace the tide is turning hope returns joy dawns

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 just by way of observation this kind of picture is is helpful for us seeing that the christian message

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 our message our message is only ever going to sound to people as good news if we have that sense of the

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 spiritual danger and misery of life without jesus as savior

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 and when people dismiss the reality of sin or judgment or eternity jesus and his death may seem to them

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 pointless and so one thing that we always want to pray is that god would open people's eyes both

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 to have a right view of spiritual danger but also to have a right view of the the wonder of the salvation

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 that jesus offers now what does the reign of god mean for his people according to this messenger

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 in verse 7 have a look at these wonderful words the reign of god means peace means shalom it means wholeness

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 and flourishing it means life as it's meant to be means peace with god and peace within ourselves and

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 and peace in the world it's the way things ought to be when god reigns it's good tidings it's good

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 news just as it was in original creation when god created and proclaimed that it was good

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 when god as king rules over all there is goodness there is good news in that

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 and there is too in verse 7 salvation now for these exiles literally they might be thinking in terms of

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 broken chains and and the end of being captives and slaves and getting to return home but spiritually

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 that's a really powerful image isn't it and the bible picks up the idea of us all being spiritually

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 slaves jesus says we are slaves to sin and we cannot stop ourselves from being sinners and being sinful

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 we are unable to break free we are unable to conquer that great enemy of death spiritually we are far from god

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 and eternal life outside of the good news of salvation so the gospel message your god reigns comes

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 with that note of real celebration for the people of god

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 when people tell of the the siege at stalingrad one of the the crucial turning points so if you imagine a city

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 that's been bombarded month after month after month but there came a point where russian troops and and

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 armaments came and managed to to break through and they they set up a rail link so now food supplies are going into the city

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 and now weapons are going into the city and there was that beginning of hope that that hitler would not have

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 the final word

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 we go to narnia you know the story we are introduced to the the white queen jadis the one who claimed the throne

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 of narnia but then central to the story is aslan's return the true king returns to his kingdom

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 and instantly how power it is broken and begins to fade that perpetual winter turns to spring father

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 christmas shows up because the king has come and what the bible says is that god is the true king

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 overall and his reign for his people is good news it's peace salvation

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 and it's important for us to to capture as christians it's important for us to get that sense of joy and

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 celebration

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 as we think about how do we communicate the good news it begins with appreciating just how good our good

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 news is especially when we think about the reign of king jesus because jesus was and is god who reigns

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 mark chapter 1 verse 14 and 15 jesus proclaims good news from god the kingdom of god has come near he calls

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 the people to repent and believe the king has come bringing in his kingdom luke chapter 4 he begins to

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 preach in nazareth he says the spirit of the lord is on me he has anointed me to proclaim and to proclaim

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 what to proclaim good news to proclaim the release for captives jesus is this king who has come and he

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 reigns we see it in the life of jesus what's the kingdom of jesus like his life is bringing in god's

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 kingdom and we see healing and we see driving out evil and we see it raising people to life and we see him

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 restoring peace and wholeness pictures of what his eternal kingdom is like

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 but then we see how he brings salvation as god's king he is a king who suffers and dies for his people

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 jesus in that sense is treated as an enemy

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 so that we who trust in him might be regarded as friends of god and today our hope is that jesus still

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 rules and still reigns in heaven in glory at his father's right hands as david reminded us he continues

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 to pray for his church he continues to pour out his spirit on his church and he will return to take his

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 church to be with him and we look forward to the new heavens and the new earth where we will enjoy as

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 god's people that perfect reign that goodness that joy forever so there is reason to celebrate because god

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 reigns but that's not all that is contained in this section we also have a second reason to celebrate and

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 that's because god returns look at verse 8 with me so we've gone from a single messenger

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 shouting good news this message is now picked up as it were by the watchmen on the walls of the city

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 and they are passing this news to the rest of the city listen your watchmen lift up their voices together

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 they shout for joy when the lord returns to zion they will see it with their own eyes what's the good news

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 for this city and ruins the lord is coming back our king will return

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 so so again this is the context of exile and part of the tragedy of exile is that

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 this people who had known so much of god's goodness and kindness and living in that covenant relationship with god

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 had left the land due to their sin due to their idolatry due to their turning their back on the one true god

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 and so god announced judgment and that judgment came from king nebuchadnezzar who came and he destroyed

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 jerusalem and he took captives away

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 and another prophet a prophet now by the name of ezekiel chapters 8 to 11

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 it reminds us that part of that judgment from god is that god himself left the building

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 the glory of god departed from the temple

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 of all the losses that the people of god knew the loss of fellowship with the one true god

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 it was a great loss so now now they can celebrate with joy because here is the promise

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 it's the promise of the return of the king king coming to save the day

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 again think about stalingrad bombarded hungry desperate citizens but then on the horizon

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 seeing tank after tank from their russian comrades seeing hordes of soldiers coming

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 and all of a sudden there's hope this will not last forever we have not been forgotten

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 or to think of that wonderful ancient rhyme that mr beaver shares with the children in narnia

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 says wrong will be right when aslan comes in sight at the sound of his roar sorrows will be no more

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 when he bears his teeth winter meets its day and when he shakes his mane we shall have spring

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 again the great hope for narnia the return of the true king the hope for the people of god is that

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 god wouldn't leave them in exile god wouldn't say i'm done with my people rather he would return

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 why was there the separation the bible is really clear why is there separation is because of the

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 people's sin because of the people's turning to idols and that's that's true for us why is it that we

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 are by nature separate from god it's because of our sin because our our hearts don't turn towards god

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 they're naturally turned away from god

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 different question why does god return why would god return and the answer is entirely because of his

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 grace and his mercy it's not that the people deserve it it's that god delights to show mercy and grace

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 and that's still true for us today that still remains the hope of god's people the hope of the world that

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 though we are by nature sinners and rebels and enemies against god that god in his grace and mercy

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 is willing to come to us and to save us and to return us back to himself

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 and when we think about who is jesus we recognize jesus was and is god who returns the gospels are

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 full of that in malachi chapter 3 so so the last book in the old testament there was this future hope

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 that the lord would return to his temple and then you think about so we've been in john's gospel it's no

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 wonder there's so much attention on jesus coming to the temple he is the lord who comes

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 literally comes to his temple the son of god comes to be among his people to rescue them and he declares

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 i am actually the true temple if you want to meet with god you need to come to jesus he says

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 another one of the old testament prophets zechariah zechariah 9 9 spoke of um that future hope of the the king

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 who would come riding on a donkey the king who would return to them gentle and riding on a donkey

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 and that's what we see with jesus shortly before his death jesus returns the king returns to jerusalem

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 riding on a donkey as our humble servant king and that's not the end of that theme because now

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 as the people of god we are still awaiting another return of king jesus so he came once he returned once

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 and he has begun building his kingdom begun the work of establishing salvation but the end of history

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 jesus will come back again his return is when we will see that prayer answered your kingdom come

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 perfectly salvation will be complete on that day all his enemies will be defeated on that day

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 eternal life will be secured on that day so our hope and our joy remains the same as those of the people

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 in isaiah's day the return of the king we live in between that the first return the first coming of

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 jesus and the second coming of jesus our king

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 and there's one other reason to celebrate in this short section verses 9 and 10 and we celebrate the

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 reality that god redeems

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 now the message spreads beyond the single runner beyond the watchman on the walls to the ends of the

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 earth from the ruins of jerusalem to the ends of the earth a song of god who redeems

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 burst into songs of joy together you ruins of jerusalem for the lord has comforted his people

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 he has redeemed jerusalem the lord will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations

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 and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our god in the book of isaiah from from chapter 40

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 onwards the theme of comfort becomes really prominent and important and an end to the loss and the

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 misery and the defeat and and we're told here in part how that comfort will come the lord has

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 comforted his people and he has redeemed jerusalem and that word there is the idea of the kinsman

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 redeemer for those of us perhaps who know the story of ruth boaz was her kinsman redeemer a close

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 relative who was able to to buy back land or to buy someone out of slavery to to pay a price to bring

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 restoration and god says to his people i will be your kinsman redeemer

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 that speaks to us of relationship of costly love of commitment on god's part to to save his church and to

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 keep his church and so it's no wonder this message in verse 9 and 10 it becomes a song

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 from the the ruined city of jerusalem to the ends of the earth there's this song that god saves

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 maybe we think of a psalm like psalm 96 verse 10 say among the nations god reigns this is this is the hope

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 not just for the exiles not just for the people of jerusalem it's hope for the world that god reigns

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 that jesus saves

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 when stalingrad was eventually freed from that siege after 900 days there were reports of of tears of joy of

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 of street parties breaking out of wild celebration after years freedom had come

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 in narnia when aslan leapt into battle and crushed the witch and and won the victory there is joy

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 among people and animals because the king has come and the king had saved

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 and in the same way and much much greater jesus was and is god who redeems god who saves

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 that's how he was announced by the angels the savior who has been born to you is the messiah

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 the lord god's chosen savior had been born and he was none other than god in human form

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 jesus the son of god and in his life don't we see at the arm of the lord at work

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 pushing back darkness acting as the light of the world acting with the power of god to bring in his kingdom

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 and then in his death

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 the arm of the lord nailed to a cross in order to secure our forgiveness

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 and our salvation when we trust in him

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 so we praise and celebrate the god who redeems

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 the whole story of the bible is the story of jesus

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 and it's the story of salvation that we are called

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 to celebrate

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 as we close

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 let's go back to verse 7 let's think about that

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 that single messenger on the hillside

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 it's speaking for the king

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 it's peace

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 it's good news

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 we are saved

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 doesn't that represent a brilliant picture of

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 the church

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 and of us as christians

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 we are sent by

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 king jesus

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 and and the hope for the world is not us as messengers but it's in the message that we declare

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 jesus

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 has come to make peace between people and god

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 by dealing with the problem of sin that leads to death

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 jesus is good news because in him we can have eternal life we can have

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 relationship with god that lasts forever

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 he jesus is the king

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 who saves

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 and that's why we preach

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 this is why we want to spend time on monday evenings praying for those we know

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 and care about who aren't christians yet

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 it's why we want to show compassion

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 in our community in our workplaces to our families

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 it's why we

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 seek with the help of the spirit to bring him into our conversations because we know

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 that jesus really is good news

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 we know that salvation is a cause for celebration

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 so as the people of god as we discover again and again as we rediscover in the word of god

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 how amazing our good news is

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 may we pray

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 that we would want others to hear

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 and that we would be ready to be that messenger

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 bearing that good news from our king

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 spreading the joy of his salvation

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 let's pray together

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 lord our god we thank you that throughout

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 the whole bible

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 we find the wonderful story

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 of your saving grace

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 we thank you that you are the god who reigns

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 that you have created all things including us

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 we thank you

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 that despite our sin

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 despite our rebellion against you

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 that in your mercy and grace

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 that you have sent your son jesus

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 to live

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 and die

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 and rise

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 and return to the glory of heaven

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 as our king

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 we thank you that

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 he is your king who reigns

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 we thank you that

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 he is the king who has come

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 and who will come again

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 and we thank you that

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 jesus is the king who on the cross

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 secured salvation

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 for all who would put their trust in him

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 father again as we think of this

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 good news spreading through the world

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 as we think of the

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 the misery and the suffering and the darkness

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 that we hear and see so much of in the world

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 and we pray that your spirit would be at work

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 turning back the darkness

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 bringing people from that kingdom of darkness

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 into your wonderful kingdom of light

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 and lord we pray it so that you would have the glory that you deserve

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 we pray it so that more and more people would have true

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 and lasting joy

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 please help us

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 never to forget

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 the good news of jesus

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 help us never to take it for granted

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 give us that boldness and help that we need

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 to share it with others

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 to pray for others

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 to work

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 for the sake of others coming

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 to know jesus as savior too

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 now we pray in his name

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 amen

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 now let's close together

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 singing the hymn

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 nothing but the blood of jesus

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 and we will stand together to sing

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 all right

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 sing

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 are still there

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 it is

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 there

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 in

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 funny

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 but they usually

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 remember

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 we would not do it

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 still

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 how

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 can

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 d

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 and

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 for

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 those

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 you

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 you

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 you

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 you

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 and

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 you

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 you

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 you

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 amiga