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 Good morning, church.

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 The reading is taken from Isaiah chapter 2, from verse 6 through to chapter 4, verse 6.

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! We will be sharing the reading the day of the Lord.

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! You, Lord, have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob.

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 They are full of superstitions from the East.

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 They practice divination, like the Philistines, and embrace pagan customs.

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 Their land is full of silver and gold. There is no end to their treasures.

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 Their land is full of horses. There is no end to the chariots.

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 Their land is full of idols. They bow down to the work of their hands,

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 to what their fingers have made.

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 So people will be brought low and everyone humbled.

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 Do not forgive them.

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 Go into the rocks, hiding the ground from the fearful presence of the Lord

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 and the splendor of his majesty.

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 The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled and the human pride brought low.

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 The Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

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 The Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty,

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 for all that is exalted, and they will be humbled.

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 For all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty, and all the oaks of Bashan.

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 For all the towering mountains and all the high hills.

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 For every lofty tower and every fortified wall.

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 For every trading ship and every stately vessel.

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 The arrogance of man will be brought low and human pride humbled.

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 The Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

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 And the idols will totally disappear.

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 People will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground

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 from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty.

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 When he rises to shake the earth.

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 In that day, people will throw away to the moles and bats

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 their idols of silver and idols of gold,

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 which they're made to worship.

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 They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags

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 from the fearful presence of the Lord

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 and the splendor of his majesty.

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 When he rises to shake the earth.

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 Stop trusting in mere humans who have but breath in their nostrils.

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 Why hold them in esteem?

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 See now, the Lord, the Lord Almighty is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support.

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 All supplies of food and all supplies of water.

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 The hero and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,

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 the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counsellor, skilled craftsman and clever enchanter.

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 I will make mere youths their officials.

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 Children will rule over them.

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 People will oppress each other, man against man, neighbour against neighbour.

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 The young will rise up against the old and nobody against the honoured.

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 A man will seize one of his brothers in his father's house and say,

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 You have a cloak.

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 You be our leader.

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 Take charge of this heap of ruins.

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 But in that day he will cry out,

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 I have no remedy.

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 I have no food or clothing in my house.

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 Do not make me the leader of the people.

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 Jerusalem staggers.

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 Judah is falling.

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 Their words and deeds are against the Lord,

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 defying his glorious presence.

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 The look on their faces testifies against them.

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 They parade their sin like Sodom.

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 They do not hide it.

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 Woe to them.

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 They have brought disaster upon themselves.

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 Tell the righteous it will be well with them,

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 for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.

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 Woe to the wicked.

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 Disaster is upon them.

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 They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

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 Youths oppress my people.

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 Women rule over them.

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 My people, your guides lead you astray.

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 They turn you from the path.

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 The Lord takes his place in court.

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 He rises to judge the people.

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 The Lord enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people.

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 It is you who have ruined my vineyard.

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 The plunder from the poor is in your houses.

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 What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor, declares the Lord,

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 the Lord Almighty?

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 The Lord says,

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 The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, strutting along with swaying hips, with ornaments jingling on their ankles.

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 Therefore, the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion.

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 The Lord will make their scalps bald.

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 In that day, the Lord will snatch away their finery, the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces, the earrings and bracelets and veils, the headdresses and anklets and sashes, the perfume bottles and charms, the signet rings and nose rings, the fine robes and capes and cloaks, the purses and mirrors, and the linen garments and tiaras and shawls.

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 Instead of fragrance, there will be a stench.

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 Instead of a sash, a rope.

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 Instead of well-dressed hair, baldness.

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 Instead of fine clothing, sackcloth.

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 Instead of beauty, branding.

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 Your men will fall by the sword.

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 Your warriors in battle.

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 The gates of Zion will lament and mourn.

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 Destitute, she will sit on the ground.

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 In that day, seven women will take hold of one man and say,

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 We will eat our own food and provide our own clothes.

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 Only let us be called by your name.

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 Take away our disgrace.

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 In that day, the branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.

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 Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy.

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 All who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem.

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 The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion.

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 He will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

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 Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over all those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night.

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 Over everything, the glory will be a canopy.

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 It will be a shelter and a shade from the heat of the day and a refuge from the hiding place, from the storm and the rain.

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 Thank you so much, Yvonne and Pesh.

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 Let's pray as we come to God's word.

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 Let's pray together.

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 Father, we do thank you so much for your word to us, and we pray, please, that you would give us tender hearts to it this morning.

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 We're very conscious just how slow we are, not simply just to understand your word, but maybe even more to take it to heart and put it into practice.

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 Yes.

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 And so, Lord, we pray that you'd be at work in me as I speak, all of us as we listen together to your word, that your will would be done and your name would be honoured and glorified.

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 In Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 I'm very conscious that a long reading like that can leave us slightly confused or bewildered about what the passage is really about.

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 So I want you to take a look at chapter 2, verse 22, which really is a summary for us of Isaiah's point.

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 If you get this, everything else this morning will fall into place.

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 And in a sense, if you get this, it doesn't really matter what else you hear this morning, because this is the main point.

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 At verse 22 of chapter 2, stop trusting in mere humans who have but a breath in their nostrils.

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 Why hold them in esteem?

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 This is it.

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 In a sentence, stop trusting mere humans.

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 Stop regarding man.

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 That is the point of the passage.

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 Isaiah is saying, listen, Judah, your problem is, you know, our problem this morning, my problem this morning,

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 is that we think too highly of human strength.

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 Notice Isaiah's logic, right?

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 Mere human weakness is seen in that verse, in the description of them.

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 What are mere humans like?

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 Well, they are those who have a breath in their nostrils.

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 In other words, don't trust in mere humans, because mere humans are creatures.

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 They have but breath in their nostrils, because they are creatures, they are not the creator.

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 Esteem does not belong to those who breathe breath, but to the one who gives breath.

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 That's Isaiah's point.

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 Now, maybe you, like me, have had a busy week, right?

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 So you've got lots of things in your calendar that you're trying to do, lots of things on your to-do list.

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 Maybe you have that same approach that I have, where you write everything down that you're going to do in a day.

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 You achieve one or two of them, and then leave at the end of the day really frustrated at all the things that you haven't done.

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 And I was sat at my desk on Thursday morning, and I was praying.

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 Thursday morning is kind of my big prep day normally for sermons, and so I was sitting at my desk praying on Thursday morning,

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 and just thinking, if only I could just, if only I had just a little bit more time.

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 If only I could just cancel one or two things in my calendar this week, I'll be fine.

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 And then I realised, oh, Steve, you've totally missed the point of your sermon, haven't you?

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 That the whole point is that you don't need more of you.

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 That is the point, isn't it?

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 Your big problem in life is not that you need more of you, you need more of the giver of breath, don't you?

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 You need more of the Lord.

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 And that's Isaiah's big point in this passage.

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 So if you miss everything else, hold on to that.

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 Stop trusting in mere humans.

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 You need the giver of breath, not just someone who has breath.

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 But the way that Isaiah is going to teach that to us,

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 he's going to give us three examples of human, I guess, power or pride that we find quite alluring,

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 and he's going to show us how each of those are humiliated.

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 And what I think we'll find is that although Isaiah is writing about 2,800 years ago, 2,700 years ago, something like that,

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 even though he's writing that long ago, these aspects of human pride still stand strong.

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 So he's going to unpick money, sex, and power.

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 And he's going to tell you and me that those three things are not places to find shelter.

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 They are not things that we can trust in.

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 He does them in the order of money, power, and sex, which doesn't quite ring as well as money, sex, and power, does it?

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 But that's the order that we're going to look at them in.

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 Money, power, and then sex.

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 So let's first see money.

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 Now, you might have the impression when you read the Bible,

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 oh, these guys are all kind of like really antiquated and living in really backwards places,

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 and they don't really know what life's all about.

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 But you have a look at verse 7 of chapter 2, and you see what life is like in Jerusalem.

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 Their land is full of silver and gold.

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 There is no end to their treasures.

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 Their land is full of horses.

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 There is no end to their chariots.

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 Their land is full of idols.

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 They bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.

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 Jerusalem is full of money.

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 Right?

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 Jerusalem is a wealthy, successful city.

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 I mean, it has its problems for sure, but still it's a place where money can be made.

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 Success is there to be had.

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 And notice the repetition, the land is full, the land is full.

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 It's full of silver and gold.

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 It's full of horses.

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 And it's full of idols that their fingers have made.

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 Now, don't miss the irony here, right?

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 These people are so rich and so wealthy and so together that though they are mere creatures, mere humanity, they have become the creators of gods themselves.

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 Do you see that?

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 They are rich enough to think that they are self-made and that any spiritual gap that they feel, they can make something even to fill that gap for themselves.

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 Now, I think you read it like that and you think, wow, that could be a description of us today, couldn't it?

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 Yeah, okay, money might be tight.

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 The cost of living keeps going up, doesn't it?

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 Jobs aren't as easy to come by as perhaps they have been.

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 But still, London is full of money, isn't it?

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 It's full of cars as well, for sure.

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 Not horses, but cars everywhere.

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 And homes.

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 And it's full of people filling the spiritual gap in their hearts with things that they have made with their own hands.

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 They're that successful.

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 We don't even think of ourselves as creatures anymore.

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 We think of ourselves as the creator of gods, even.

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 That's why when I walk my dog at about 6.30 in the morning around the park, there are people hugging the trees.

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 Why?

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 Well, because they are making gods.

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 Doing yoga in the park.

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 And notice everybody thinks like this.

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 So, in verse 6 of chapter 2, the people of Jerusalem have basically become like the rest of the world.

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 We're told that they're like people in the east.

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 They're like the Philistines.

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 They are holding hands with pagans.

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 And basically what Isaiah is saying is, God's people think the same way as the rest of the world now.

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 This is basically the version of life that everybody believes.

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 That if you've got enough stuff, if you've got enough money, life will be sorted.

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 And any gaps you find, well, buy yourself some crystals.

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 Hug a tree.

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 Now, you don't have to be rich to think like that.

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 In fact, sometimes the very, very rich can see how shallow it is, clearer than some of the rest of us can.

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 But even so, don't we have to acknowledge that this is not a place of shelter in the storm.

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 And notice that the big problem for this version of life, where basically life is about getting money and buying all that we need.

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 The big problem for that version of life is summarized in five words.

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 The day of the Lord.

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 That's the big problem with it.

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 Take a look at verse 11 and 12 of chapter 2.

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 The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled, and human pride brought low.

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 The Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

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 Verse 12.

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 The Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and the lofty, for all that is exalted, and they will be humbled.

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 Do you see what Isaiah is saying here?

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 There is a day coming when the shallowness of money will be exposed by the greatness of God.

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 And on that day, they will be humbled, those who've trusted in it.

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 Verse 17.

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 The arrogance of man will be brought low, and human pride will be humbled.

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 The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, and the idols will disappear.

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 And proud people who had all they could have ever wanted.

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 They had all the money and all the horses they ever wanted.

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 They had made gods for themselves, are now trying to hide in caves and under rocks.

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 Verse 21.

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 They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from the fearful presence of the Lord

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 and the splendor of his majesty when he rises to shake the earth.

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 It's worth just slowing down, isn't it?

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 Just to see this together.

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 Notice what Isaiah is saying here.

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 Isaiah is telling you, whoever you are this morning, however wealthy or otherwise you might feel,

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 Isaiah is telling you, it doesn't matter.

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 There is a day coming when it will be exposed to you that what you have is an insufficient shelter on the day of the Lord.

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 And so it doesn't matter how successful you are, how many horses or cars you have,

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 or what particular idols you have been able to make out of your money.

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 You will stand before God who made you,

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 and you will stand before him in the splendor and glory of his holiness,

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 the breath giver.

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 And if all you have is your money,

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 then you're like Jeremiah with a pen trying to bat off balls from the balcony.

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 You will be crawling under the rocks in shame.

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 Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, it doesn't matter how much money you have.

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 You can be more specific though, can't you?

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 Because I think there's a particular way that the splendor of our riches is exposed on the day of the Lord.

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 Let me try and give you an example of what's going on here.

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 Maybe you've had this experience where you've been to someone's birthday,

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 and you've bought them a present.

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 And you've given them the gift, right?

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 And then someone else has turned up at the party,

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 and they have given them a bigger gift, right?

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 And then you're like, you're humiliated,

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 because the gift that you gave them

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 doesn't seem as impressive as the gift that somebody else gave them.

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 You see a thing in a church that we used to be in,

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 where on Christmas morning,

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 some of the kids would bring some of the presents that they received on Christmas morning.

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 And one of our kids stood at the front really proudly,

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 and they got a toothbrush, right?

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 I've been given a toothbrush, right?

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 And then the kid next to them had a gigantic remote-controlled car.

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 He's like, I don't know what I got.

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 And was able to tell us exactly how much money it cost his parents as well, right?

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 And so there is something about the glory and greatness of something else

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 exposing the shallowness and smallness of the glory of what it is that you have.

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 And that's it here.

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 You see, on its own,

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 what you think might be glorious in your money and what you've got,

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 that might seem impressive on its own,

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 but you wait till you see the glory and the splendor of God himself.

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 Then you will see how pathetic that is,

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 and how small it is.

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 The day of the Lord will be the day when the invisible glory of God will be revealed,

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 and the splendor of his greatness will be exposed to all of us.

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 And in the light of his splendor,

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 the splendor of your salary or your home or your saving will look dull and shabby,

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 and will leave you running for the hills.

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 And notice the detail in verse 20.

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 Notice what the people are doing.

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 They are throwing away their idols that they have made.

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 They're chucking them in the bin,

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 because in the face of God's glory,

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 they're seen as the rubbish they are.

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 I don't even want this.

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 Let's get rid of it.

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 Again, it's just worth thinking, isn't it?

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 Have we reckoned with this?

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 That there's a day coming when you will meet God in his glory face to face,

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 and your nice new fit, your fancy car, your savings account,

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 your aspirations for a better lifestyle will all be exposed as drab glory

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 in the face of God's glory.

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 That's money.

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 Secondly, power.

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 Take a look at chapter 3, verse 1.

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 See now, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,

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 is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support,

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 all supplies of food and all supplies of water,

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 the hero and the warrior,

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 the judge and the prophet,

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 the diviner and the elder,

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 the captain of 50 and the man of rank,

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 the counsellor, skilled craftsman,

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 and clever enchanter.

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 Notice here that God is stripping Judah of the people of rank,

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 the people of power, the hero, the warrior, the judge, the prophet,

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 all of them gone, removed and humbled.

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 And instead, in verse 4, if you look down,

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 God is making children rule us over them.

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 Not necessarily because literal children are going to be ruling over them.

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 Rather, the point is that children are the definition of inexperienced,

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 people who don't know what they're doing.

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 And so what follows is carnage,

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 specifically verse 5, oppression.

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 Young and old are fighting against one another.

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 And it's not so much that God imposes foolish leaders on the people,

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 rather they choose these leaders for themselves.

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 So in verse 6, they thrust leadership into the hands of anyone they can find,

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 even if they know they can't do it.

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 Look at verse 6.

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 They're so impoverished now that they seize one of his brothers in his father's house and say,

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 you have a cloak, you be our leader.

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 You take charge of this heap of ruins.

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 And in that day, he'll say, I have no remedy.

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 I have no food or clothing in my house.

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 Don't make me the leader of the people.

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 And the result is, in verse 8, that Jerusalem staggers and Judah is falling.

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 They've become worse and worse as the whole place starts to fall apart

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 under the leadership of people who don't know what they're doing.

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 So much so, in verse 9,

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 The look on their faces testifies against them.

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 They parade their sin like Sodom.

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 They do not hide it.

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 Woe to them.

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 They have brought disaster upon themselves.

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 The Lord doesn't intend to let it carry on, does he?

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 So he drags them into court in verse 13.

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 And he pronounces judgment in verse 14 and 15.

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 It is you who have ruined my vineyard.

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 The plunder from the poor is in your houses.

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 What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor,

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 declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty?

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 And notice what's going on here.

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 You can see, can't you, that Isaiah is promising the humbling of human power.

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 Jerusalem and Judah do not be impressed, he says, with mere human power.

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 Because the people of Judah, just like the residents of London,

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 are absolutely besotted by power.

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 And they assume that if the people of power were more like them,

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 or were better, or were somebody else, everything will be okay.

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 Now we think like that, don't we?

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 We assume, don't we, that what we really need is human power.

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 We live, don't we, in a country that we have had six prime ministers in ten years.

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 It's incredible, isn't it, when you think in the previous 19 years we had three.

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 Why is it?

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 Well, I think basically we're persuaded that human power is the answer to our problems,

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 if only we can put it in the hands of the right person.

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 I think that's what we think, isn't it?

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 It's why at work you think, if only my boss was better,

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 if only I had a different boss, then it would be better.

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 If only I had a different teacher at school, then it would be better.

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 If only the right person is holding power.

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 But actually for Isaiah's Judah, God is systematically undermining human power,

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 not out of spite, but to try and stop them from trusting in mere humans.

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 And so for you and me, that assumption that we have,

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 that if only power was held by a better person, that life might be better.

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 I mean, it might be true in some ways.

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 It might be better to have a better boss.

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 It might be better to have a new job.

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 But if you're trusting in mere humans,

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 then you need to understand that human power will ultimately,

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 and is ultimately, frustrated.

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 Really though, I think it's a danger, isn't it,

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 that we map Judah and Jerusalem onto national power here.

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 But actually the truth is, as you read a Bible,

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 you're not really meant to read Israel into the United Kingdom.

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 Really, it's better to understand Israel to be a picture of the church in the future.

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 And so actually what's going on here really is not just human power in the nation.

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 Really we're to think about human power in the church amongst God's people.

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 And there too you can see, can't you,

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 where basically we often think and assume

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 that it is human power in the church that we really need.

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 Prideful power.

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 And God unpicks that, doesn't he,

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 by sending us people to lead us

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 who are like inexperienced children who don't know what they're doing.

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 And you probably don't need me to spell out

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 how that works out in the church today.

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 And the detail here is worth noticing as well.

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 If you look again at verses 14 and 15 of chapter 3,

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 you can see, can't you,

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 how this power is humbled.

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 Notice how God speaks about the leaders of the people.

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 The Lord enters into judgment against the elders and the leaders of his people.

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 It's you who have ruined my vineyard.

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 The plunder from the poor is in your houses.

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 What do you mean by crushing my people

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 and grinding the faces of the poor, declares the Lord Almighty?

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 Do you see all these my's?

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 These are my people, says the Lord.

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 My vineyard.

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 You see, you and I, we assume that our power,

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 or human power, is independent somehow.

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 That we have the right to do what we want,

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 to go where we want, to be who we want to be,

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 to pursue our own goals.

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 And God says, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.

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 It's my power.

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 These are my people.

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 It is my plans that govern the world.

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 And you will find yourself in my court,

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 in judgment for how you've handled my power

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 that has been delegated to you.

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 And so stop trusting in mere humans.

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 Stop thinking you're enough.

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 Because any power you have really ultimately belongs to God.

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 You have it on loan,

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 and he will take it back from you

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 and hold you to account for it.

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 Finally, sex.

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 Sex.

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 Now, notice with me,

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 there's a repeated pattern in chapter 3.

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 This, I think, is one of the challenges

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 that we're going to find going through Isaiah,

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 is there are lots of little patterns within the passages.

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 And I'm trying to deal with it in reasonably large chunks,

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 so that we're not still looking at Isaiah in, you know,

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 2035 or whatever it is.

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 Okay, so we're going to move through it reasonably quickly.

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 But you might notice that there's a pattern in chapter 3.

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 So, that the folly of the leaders is exposed by God,

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 and so then they scramble around

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 to find anybody who will be their king.

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 Right?

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 That's what's going on in those previous sections.

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 And then what happens in the second half of chapter 3

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 is that the folly of human sexuality is exposed,

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 or the shallowness of a sexualized culture is exposed,

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 leaving the people in chapter 4, verse 1,

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 looking for anybody with a pulse to marry.

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 So, it's this kind of pattern of essentially

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 just doubling down on the mistake.

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 Now, the focus in this second half

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 is on the women of Jerusalem,

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 but I don't suppose it is just a problem

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 that the women are facing.

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 I think what Isaiah is doing is he's using the women

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 as an example to expose a broader issue in the city.

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 So, in verse 16, the Lord describes what's going on.

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 The Lord says,

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 the women of Zion are haughty.

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 They are walking along with outstretched necks,

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 flirting with their eyes,

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 strutting along with swaying hips,

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 with ornaments jingling on their ankles.

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 Here, the image is of a woman

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 walking the streets of Jerusalem.

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 This woman is rich.

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 She's not poor.

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 She is strutting with sexual self-confidence,

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 with her neck held high,

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 so that you can see the chains around her neck.

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 The power of the woman in the perfume ad, isn't it?

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 Who has everything that she could want.

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 It's the strut of the Oscar winner on the red carpet,

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 or the dance of the influencer.

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 You could say, couldn't you, from this week,

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 it's Sydney Sweeney selling sports betting.

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 This it is.

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 It's a powerful woman,

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 and everyone turns to stare.

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 Everybody is in awe of her,

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 except God.

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 And so in verse 17,

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 he exposes the folly,

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 just like he did with the leaders.

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 Hebrew boffins will tell you

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 that verse 17 is hard to translate,

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 and so our NIV translators

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 have gone with what they think

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 is the least offensive faithful version

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 of the translation,

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 saying the Lord is shaving their heads

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 at the end of verse 17.

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 But the ESV,

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 which I think is probably better,

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 puts it as laying bare their secret parts.

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 What's going on here is that God is stripping them

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 and exposing them for who they are.

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 And that's what goes on, isn't it?

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 Verse 18,

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 as bit by bit,

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 God snatches away their jewellery.

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 In that day,

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 the Lord will snatch away their finery,

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 the bangles and the headbands

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 and crescent necklaces,

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 the earrings and bracelets and veils,

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 the headdresses,

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 the anklets and sashes,

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 the perfume bottles and charms,

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 the signet rings and nose rings,

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 the fine robes and the capes and the cloaks,

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 the purses and mirrors

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 and the linen garments,

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 the tiaras and shorts.

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 So that verse 24,

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 instead of fragrance,

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 there'll be a stench,

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 instead of a sash,

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 a rope,

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 instead of well-dressed hair,

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 baldness,

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 instead of fine clothing,

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 saploth,

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 instead of beauty branding.

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 It's a brutal image.

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 Bit by bit,

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 God is unpicking this sexual prowess,

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 necklace by necklace,

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 Gucci bag by Gucci bag.

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 What looked impressive,

00:28:46.140 --> 00:28:48.480
 now is laid naked to the crowd,

00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:51.540
 begging for attention from anybody

00:28:51.540 --> 00:28:53.360
 who's left alive.

00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:58.280
 I remember when I was training for ministry,

00:28:58.580 --> 00:29:00.120
 there was an older lady

00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:02.359
 and her husband who I would visit.

00:29:02.659 --> 00:29:04.799
 They were probably in their late 80s at the time

00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:07.119
 and I was in my 20s.

00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:10.939
 The wife would often make inappropriate comments

00:29:10.939 --> 00:29:14.179
 and she was really a very broken woman.

00:29:15.339 --> 00:29:16.159
 And she said to me

00:29:16.159 --> 00:29:17.739
 in one of her more reflective moments,

00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:18.179
 she said,

00:29:18.259 --> 00:29:18.739
 listen, Pastor,

00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:20.299
 what you need to understand

00:29:20.299 --> 00:29:21.619
 is I used to be somebody.

00:29:23.059 --> 00:29:24.639
 I used to be the person

00:29:24.639 --> 00:29:26.099
 that people would notice.

00:29:26.099 --> 00:29:29.439
 people would look at me in the street.

00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:32.319
 People would give me their attention.

00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:34.500
 I would walk into a room

00:29:34.500 --> 00:29:36.059
 and everybody's eyes would be on me

00:29:36.059 --> 00:29:38.099
 because I was the most beautiful person in the room

00:29:38.099 --> 00:29:40.339
 and everybody looked at me.

00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:42.519
 And now nobody does.

00:29:43.559 --> 00:29:44.519
 Nobody comments.

00:29:45.980 --> 00:29:48.199
 Not even my husband notices me anymore,

00:29:48.379 --> 00:29:48.779
 she said.

00:29:48.779 --> 00:29:51.660
 And that's it here, isn't it?

00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:54.059
 The power of human sexuality,

00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:55.519
 the beauty of the human body,

00:29:55.639 --> 00:29:57.700
 the allure of the gym and the spa,

00:29:58.339 --> 00:29:58.839
 fading,

00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:01.039
 stripped away by God.

00:30:01.700 --> 00:30:02.740
 And Isaiah says,

00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:03.079
 listen,

00:30:03.639 --> 00:30:04.660
 women of Jerusalem,

00:30:05.319 --> 00:30:07.440
 men and women of Jerusalem,

00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:09.319
 men and women of London,

00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.139
 do not place your hope

00:30:12.139 --> 00:30:14.720
 in the power of your sexual attraction.

00:30:15.460 --> 00:30:17.460
 Do not place your hope in your body.

00:30:17.460 --> 00:30:19.600
 Looks, relationships, sex

00:30:19.600 --> 00:30:20.600
 will not give you a place

00:30:20.600 --> 00:30:21.980
 to stand on the day of the Lord.

00:30:23.100 --> 00:30:23.360
 You know,

00:30:23.579 --> 00:30:24.920
 the wall paint of makeup

00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:25.519
 that you put on

00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:26.420
 when you head out the door

00:30:26.420 --> 00:30:27.960
 will not impress Jesus.

00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:31.400
 And what you need most

00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:32.579
 is not a new outfit,

00:30:32.819 --> 00:30:33.740
 it's not a new husband

00:30:33.740 --> 00:30:35.059
 or any husband,

00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:36.160
 it's not a wife,

00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:37.380
 it's not a better look.

00:30:37.840 --> 00:30:40.559
 That is trusting in mere humans.

00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:42.940
 And on the day of the Lord,

00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:44.680
 that will not help you.

00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:49.019
 Notice how Isaiah speaks,

00:30:49.140 --> 00:30:50.460
 the coming day of the Lord

00:30:50.460 --> 00:30:51.539
 is like a storm

00:30:51.539 --> 00:30:52.320
 from which you need

00:30:52.320 --> 00:30:53.259
 to find shelter.

00:30:54.360 --> 00:30:54.960
 But we've seen this,

00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:55.200
 haven't we,

00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:55.640
 with the children,

00:30:55.740 --> 00:30:56.720
 which is why in chapter 2

00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:58.240
 people are diving into caves

00:30:58.240 --> 00:30:59.560
 and hiding under rocks.

00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:01.440
 And the point of the chapters

00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:02.140
 is that money,

00:31:02.460 --> 00:31:03.400
 sex and power

00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:04.620
 are terrible shelters

00:31:04.620 --> 00:31:07.360
 in the storm of God's judgment.

00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:10.619
 you might impress others

00:31:10.619 --> 00:31:12.240
 with your money,

00:31:12.959 --> 00:31:14.599
 your sexual attractiveness

00:31:14.599 --> 00:31:16.759
 or the power that you have,

00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:18.799
 but it will be no shelter

00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:19.679
 on the day of the Lord.

00:31:21.899 --> 00:31:23.439
 But the message of the passage

00:31:23.439 --> 00:31:24.579
 as we see it as a whole

00:31:24.579 --> 00:31:25.599
 is not just negative,

00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:27.159
 it's not just stop trusting

00:31:27.159 --> 00:31:27.959
 in mere humans,

00:31:28.059 --> 00:31:29.779
 there is a positive flip side to it.

00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:30.419
 Really,

00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:31.719
 the positive is

00:31:31.719 --> 00:31:33.459
 so humbly trust

00:31:33.459 --> 00:31:34.659
 in the Saviour Jesus,

00:31:35.159 --> 00:31:35.959
 humbly trust

00:31:35.959 --> 00:31:36.819
 in the Saviour Jesus.

00:31:36.819 --> 00:31:38.339
 Let me read chapter 4

00:31:38.339 --> 00:31:39.839
 verses 2 to 6 to you again.

00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:40.799
 If you've zoned out

00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:42.299
 or lost the passage in your Bible,

00:31:42.399 --> 00:31:43.240
 please find it again.

00:31:43.639 --> 00:31:44.839
 And let me read this to you

00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:45.539
 because this is where

00:31:45.539 --> 00:31:46.399
 we want to end.

00:31:46.980 --> 00:31:48.299
 Verse 2 of chapter 4.

00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:49.500
 In that day,

00:31:49.579 --> 00:31:50.460
 the branch of the Lord

00:31:50.460 --> 00:31:51.720
 will be beautiful and glorious,

00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:53.579
 and the fruit of the land

00:31:53.579 --> 00:31:54.799
 will be the pride and glory

00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:55.960
 of the survivors in Israel.

00:31:56.679 --> 00:31:57.919
 Those who are left in Zion

00:31:57.919 --> 00:31:59.059
 will remain in Jerusalem,

00:31:59.259 --> 00:32:00.279
 will be called holy.

00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:02.000
 All who are recorded

00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:03.240
 among the living in Jerusalem,

00:32:03.379 --> 00:32:04.819
 the Lord will wash away

00:32:04.819 --> 00:32:06.319
 the filth of the women of Zion.

00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:07.679
 He will cleanse

00:32:07.679 --> 00:32:09.220
 the bloodstains from Jerusalem

00:32:09.220 --> 00:32:10.519
 by a spirit of judgment

00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:11.559
 and a spirit of fire.

00:32:12.139 --> 00:32:12.819
 Then the Lord

00:32:12.819 --> 00:32:13.480
 will create

00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:15.079
 over all of Mount Zion

00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:16.079
 and over those

00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:17.019
 who assemble there

00:32:17.019 --> 00:32:19.099
 a cloud of smoke by day

00:32:19.099 --> 00:32:20.619
 and a glow of flaming fire

00:32:20.619 --> 00:32:21.179
 by night.

00:32:21.539 --> 00:32:22.480
 Over everything,

00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:23.159
 the glory

00:32:23.159 --> 00:32:24.859
 will be a canopy.

00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:26.039
 It will be a shelter

00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:26.679
 and a shade

00:32:26.679 --> 00:32:27.700
 in the heat of the day

00:32:27.700 --> 00:32:28.839
 and a refuge

00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:29.799
 and a hiding place

00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:30.639
 from the storm

00:32:30.639 --> 00:32:31.700
 and rain.

00:32:31.700 --> 00:32:34.240
 Now notice, right,

00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:35.860
 we are back in that day.

00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:37.200
 This is the day of the Lord,

00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:38.360
 the day when money,

00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:39.120
 sex and power

00:32:39.120 --> 00:32:40.059
 will be humiliated.

00:32:40.420 --> 00:32:41.720
 But notice there is something

00:32:41.720 --> 00:32:42.420
 on that day

00:32:42.420 --> 00:32:43.620
 that is standing strong.

00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:45.140
 It's called the branch

00:32:45.140 --> 00:32:45.799
 of the Lord.

00:32:46.539 --> 00:32:48.259
 The glory of that branch

00:32:48.259 --> 00:32:49.640
 is not outshone

00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:50.740
 by the glory of God,

00:32:50.900 --> 00:32:53.039
 but holds up in that day.

00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:54.080
 The branch of the Lord

00:32:54.080 --> 00:32:55.039
 will be beautiful

00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:55.960
 and glorious,

00:32:56.200 --> 00:32:56.519
 we're told.

00:32:56.519 --> 00:33:00.079
 And it provides pride

00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:00.639
 for the people

00:33:00.639 --> 00:33:01.440
 who have remained

00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:02.200
 in the land,

00:33:02.299 --> 00:33:03.160
 who have stayed

00:33:03.160 --> 00:33:04.139
 trusting the Lord

00:33:04.139 --> 00:33:05.539
 and stayed faithful to Him.

00:33:06.579 --> 00:33:08.180
 Now the amazing thing here

00:33:08.180 --> 00:33:09.139
 is, and if you can get this,

00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:09.839
 this is wonderful

00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:10.460
 and brilliant, right,

00:33:10.539 --> 00:33:12.299
 the branch of the Lord

00:33:12.299 --> 00:33:13.980
 seems to be a man.

00:33:14.879 --> 00:33:15.059
 Right?

00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:16.299
 You can see that

00:33:16.299 --> 00:33:17.839
 because he is in Jerusalem

00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:19.200
 and the branch of the Lord

00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:20.420
 is bearing fruit

00:33:20.420 --> 00:33:21.079
 in the land.

00:33:21.559 --> 00:33:22.660
 And how can that be?

00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:24.000
 The whole chapter,

00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:24.700
 the whole section

00:33:24.700 --> 00:33:24.980
 has been,

00:33:25.180 --> 00:33:26.200
 stop trusting in me,

00:33:26.200 --> 00:33:26.680
 of humans.

00:33:27.100 --> 00:33:27.840
 And then at the end

00:33:27.840 --> 00:33:28.160
 it is,

00:33:28.299 --> 00:33:29.600
 here is a man

00:33:29.600 --> 00:33:31.299
 called the branch

00:33:31.299 --> 00:33:31.900
 of the Lord

00:33:31.900 --> 00:33:33.120
 who is bearing fruit

00:33:33.120 --> 00:33:33.799
 in Jerusalem,

00:33:33.940 --> 00:33:34.880
 the glory of which

00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:35.640
 is lasting,

00:33:36.059 --> 00:33:37.559
 the glory of the coming Lord.

00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:40.539
 Who is this?

00:33:42.180 --> 00:33:43.019
 Well, in verse 4,

00:33:43.120 --> 00:33:44.059
 this man is able

00:33:44.059 --> 00:33:44.759
 to wash away

00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:45.860
 the filth of the people.

00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:47.880
 The stains of moral mess

00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:48.799
 and abusive power

00:33:48.799 --> 00:33:49.680
 are cleansed.

00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:50.580
 And he does it

00:33:50.580 --> 00:33:51.360
 by a spirit.

00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:51.779
 Literally,

00:33:51.980 --> 00:33:53.519
 here is the divine spirit

00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:54.860
 of judgment and fire.

00:33:54.859 --> 00:33:56.699
 So this mere man

00:33:56.699 --> 00:33:57.879
 is the branch

00:33:57.879 --> 00:33:58.939
 of Yahweh,

00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:00.279
 the Lord God,

00:34:00.379 --> 00:34:01.219
 and he is working

00:34:01.219 --> 00:34:03.019
 in the power of Yahweh,

00:34:03.099 --> 00:34:03.859
 the power of God,

00:34:03.919 --> 00:34:04.359
 the spirit.

00:34:04.939 --> 00:34:06.199
 And in verse 5,

00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:08.699
 he does the creative work

00:34:08.699 --> 00:34:09.359
 of God,

00:34:09.759 --> 00:34:10.299
 Yahweh.

00:34:10.739 --> 00:34:11.579
 A creative work

00:34:11.579 --> 00:34:12.259
 which involves

00:34:12.259 --> 00:34:13.139
 building something

00:34:13.139 --> 00:34:13.880
 which will be covered

00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:14.940
 in cloud and fire.

00:34:15.299 --> 00:34:16.119
 The tabernacle,

00:34:16.460 --> 00:34:17.339
 a new place

00:34:17.339 --> 00:34:18.380
 to meet with God.

00:34:18.819 --> 00:34:19.880
 Smoke and fire

00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:20.679
 where God's people

00:34:20.679 --> 00:34:21.359
 can assemble

00:34:21.359 --> 00:34:22.099
 in his presence

00:34:22.099 --> 00:34:22.960
 under a canopy

00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:23.720
 and a shelter,

00:34:24.240 --> 00:34:25.599
 a canopy of glory

00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:27.400
 where in verse 6,

00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:28.240
 his people will find

00:34:28.240 --> 00:34:29.679
 shelter and refuge

00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:30.380
 from the heat

00:34:30.380 --> 00:34:30.900
 and the rain.

00:34:32.500 --> 00:34:33.980
 Now, Isaiah is speaking

00:34:33.980 --> 00:34:35.840
 seven,

00:34:35.980 --> 00:34:36.559
 eight hundred years

00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:37.139
 before Jesus

00:34:37.139 --> 00:34:39.699
 and it's prophetic language.

00:34:40.740 --> 00:34:41.699
 He is writing about

00:34:41.699 --> 00:34:43.220
 what he has not yet seen.

00:34:44.420 --> 00:34:44.679
 And yet,

00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:45.119
 you and I,

00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:45.860
 because we read this

00:34:45.860 --> 00:34:47.079
 as New Testament Christians,

00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:47.900
 we go,

00:34:48.179 --> 00:34:49.460
 that's Jesus.

00:34:49.460 --> 00:34:51.139
 that's Jesus.

00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:53.539
 A mere man

00:34:53.539 --> 00:34:55.260
 who comes in the power

00:34:55.260 --> 00:34:55.880
 of the spirit

00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:58.079
 to do God's creative work

00:34:58.079 --> 00:34:59.320
 of creating a place

00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:00.400
 to meet with him,

00:35:00.699 --> 00:35:01.960
 a place of smoke

00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:02.619
 and fire

00:35:02.619 --> 00:35:04.240
 where we can find shelter

00:35:04.240 --> 00:35:05.019
 from the storm

00:35:05.019 --> 00:35:05.780
 that is to come.

00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:07.360
 This is Jesus

00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:09.820
 who in his full humanity

00:35:09.820 --> 00:35:11.099
 is empowered by the spirit

00:35:11.099 --> 00:35:12.340
 to cleanse and to forgive

00:35:12.340 --> 00:35:14.139
 so that in the one person

00:35:14.139 --> 00:35:15.240
 of the divine son

00:35:15.240 --> 00:35:16.519
 in his humanity,

00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:18.500
 we might find a place

00:35:18.500 --> 00:35:20.400
 to meet with God himself.

00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:22.840
 Shelter that's strong enough

00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:23.900
 to stand the rain

00:35:23.900 --> 00:35:24.539
 and the sun

00:35:24.539 --> 00:35:25.980
 and the glory of God

00:35:25.980 --> 00:35:27.039
 because it is

00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:28.019
 the glory of God.

00:35:31.179 --> 00:35:32.059
 Let me just try

00:35:32.059 --> 00:35:32.759
 and bring it all together

00:35:32.759 --> 00:35:33.360
 if I can.

00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:35.780
 All of us in this room,

00:35:36.820 --> 00:35:38.579
 however old or young we are,

00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:40.000
 whatever our background is,

00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:41.639
 all of us

00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:43.380
 will stand before the Lord

00:35:43.380 --> 00:35:44.460
 on the day of his coming.

00:35:44.460 --> 00:35:46.980
 The storm of judgment

00:35:46.980 --> 00:35:47.539
 is coming

00:35:47.539 --> 00:35:48.300
 and you and I

00:35:48.300 --> 00:35:49.800
 will stand before our creator

00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:51.559
 and if our hope is in money,

00:35:51.780 --> 00:35:52.460
 sex or power

00:35:52.460 --> 00:35:53.300
 we'll be exposed

00:35:53.300 --> 00:35:54.240
 and destroyed

00:35:54.240 --> 00:35:55.420
 for the fools that we've been.

00:35:56.500 --> 00:35:58.260
 But there is a place of shelter,

00:35:59.019 --> 00:36:00.320
 a person of shelter

00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:02.320
 and it is the man,

00:36:02.460 --> 00:36:03.320
 Jesus Christ,

00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:04.980
 who is God the Son.

00:36:06.099 --> 00:36:07.539
 And if you and I

00:36:07.539 --> 00:36:08.760
 have met with him

00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:11.380
 and come to trust in him,

00:36:11.780 --> 00:36:13.340
 if we have met with God

00:36:13.340 --> 00:36:14.840
 in the person of Jesus Christ

00:36:14.840 --> 00:36:16.100
 and received his cleansing

00:36:16.100 --> 00:36:16.660
 and forgiveness,

00:36:17.140 --> 00:36:18.620
 then on that day

00:36:18.620 --> 00:36:20.880
 we will be safe

00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:22.420
 from the storm

00:36:22.420 --> 00:36:23.140
 of God's judgment.

00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:25.780
 And so what you need,

00:36:25.860 --> 00:36:26.700
 what I need,

00:36:27.400 --> 00:36:29.740
 is not more of me

00:36:29.740 --> 00:36:31.360
 but more of him.

00:36:32.180 --> 00:36:33.400
 We need to trust him.

00:36:34.100 --> 00:36:35.720
 We need to draw near to him.

00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:37.780
 We need to listen to him.

00:36:37.780 --> 00:36:39.980
 We need to lean on him.

00:36:40.660 --> 00:36:42.480
 We need to shelter in him.

00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:47.160
 There's a prayer written

00:36:47.160 --> 00:36:48.440
 by a Puritan

00:36:48.440 --> 00:36:50.480
 that I found so helpful

00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:52.800
 and my mind often runs to it

00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:56.220
 and it picks up these themes

00:36:56.220 --> 00:36:58.019
 of Isaiah 2, 3 and 4.

00:36:58.160 --> 00:36:59.560
 Let me just read it to you

00:36:59.560 --> 00:37:01.660
 and then we'll pray together.

00:37:02.560 --> 00:37:04.040
 He writes this, he says,

00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:05.719
 I hasten towards an hour

00:37:05.719 --> 00:37:08.320
 when earthly pursuits

00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:08.900
 and possessions

00:37:08.900 --> 00:37:10.179
 will appear vain,

00:37:10.759 --> 00:37:12.639
 when it will be indifferent

00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:14.099
 whether I have been rich

00:37:14.099 --> 00:37:15.079
 or poor,

00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:17.360
 successful or disappointed,

00:37:18.420 --> 00:37:19.960
 admired or despised,

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 but it will be

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 of eternal moments

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 that I mourn for sin,

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 that I hungered and thirst

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 after righteousness,

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 that I loved the Lord Jesus

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 in sincerity,

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 that I gloried in his cross.

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 May these objects

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 engross my chief concerns,

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 he says.

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 That's it, isn't it?

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 That's why Isaiah says,

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 stop trusting in mere humans

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 because there's a day coming

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 when all of those things

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 will appear vain

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 and it will be of eternal moment

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 whether you've taken shelter

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 in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 Let me pray as I close.

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 Amen.

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 Heavenly Father,

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 we hasten towards an hour

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 when earthly pursuits

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 and possessions

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 will appear vain,

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 when it will be indifferent

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 whether we've been rich or poor,

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 successful or disappointed,

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 admired or despised,

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 but it will be of eternal moments

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 that we have mourned for sin,

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 hungered and thirsted

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 after righteousness,

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 loved the Lord Jesus

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 in sincerity

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 and gloried on his cross.

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 May these objects, we pray,

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 engross our chief concerns

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 as we ask in the name of Jesus.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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