Episode Transcript
Good morning, it's 10 o'clock.
Second Kings chapter 19 verse 19 was our stopping point last week.
So that's where we pick up today.
Second Kings 19 19.
And while you're turning there, I Would like to welcome the graduates of the Genesis to Jesus and building on Jesus classes.
I Don't really have a name for our class We're the adult Bible study, but here's an idea You started off with Genesis to Jesus Then you went to building on Jesus so we may call this class living for Jesus.
How's that?
Whatever name we give it our textbook is the same one that you brought over So you don't have to buy a new textbook like you would in college to go to another class And we hope that you'll make it a point to be faithful to this class just like you were to the other and You can dig further into God's Word with us We're glad to have brother Fulton in here, too But I told him before the class we want to see him get back over there as soon as we can with a new class That's the way we roll around here.
But until then we're going to enjoy the chance to study God's Word together and Even though you haven't been in our class Speaking to those who came from the other building today You have attended the 11 o'clock hour to hear the pastor teach the book of Hosea And Hosea was a prophet who lived at the very time that we're reading about in Second Kings chapter 19.
How about that?
but as always You're always welcome to go back as far as you want on Facebook and catch up with the lessons that we teach in here All of our lessons are recorded and they're available for anyone to watch Anywhere in the world we don't charge and we won't Now if sometime while I'm teaching today you see brother Fulton over there doing push-ups or air squats He's used to working out while he listens to my Sunday school.
So We're we're not going to we're not it won't be a distraction to me.
I promise All right last week we left off with a plea from Hezekiah during his prayer to the Lord and Speaking of the king of Assyria.
He prayed Save thou us out of his hand Has a kiah was asking the Lord to save the nation of Israel even though he was the king of Judah to save the nation of Israel out of the hand of The king of Assyria and his name was Sennacherib so if you hear me say Sennacherib or the king of Assyria that would be the same person and the primary reason for this prayer Was the deliverance from an enemy?
You know salvation is a deliverance and I began to touch on that last week When you're saved in Any situation you are delivered from some type of enemy that enemy could be a military foe it could be Disease or the greatest enemies sin death and hell And all that comes with that But mankind especially in religious circles Has often misunderstood What salvation is all about some think well, that's just a term those Baptist like to throw around We don't throw it around we preach it just like Jesus taught it Many have thought in again in religious circles, and I'll say in Baptist religious circles That they could be saved by just saying Lord save me Lord save me and we have a Website brother Fulton does that's built upon people who had confusion about what salvation?
Really means they were taught wrong, and we're thankful that this church is able to Help through our pastor and through your prayers, and you're giving people understand what salvation is but I want you to see that there was indeed a Time when Jesus was not pleased when his disciples said save us You may think what what he didn't like that Matthew chapter 8 verses 23 through 26 Matthew 8 23 through 26 It says and when he was entered into a ship that's Jesus his disciples followed him and Behold there arose a great tempest in the sea In so much that the ship was covered with the waves But he Jesus was asleep and his disciples came to him and awoke him saying Lord save us Okay, now.
That's what people who save us we And he sayeth unto them why are ye fearful oh ye of little faith?
Then he arose and rebuked the winds in the sea, and there was a great calm Wow they said Lord save us and the Lord told them you're fearful and you have little faith Let that settle in for a moment, but I want you to think about their circumstances these disciples were in a boat With the one who created all things He created the winds and the waves and everything else that was troubling them that angry sea That was God's creation he made the sea and all that was in them and as angry as the sea was Their Lord was not the least bit moved Or stirred by the storm in fact he slept Which is a picture of absolute rest isn't it we see that somebody sleeping we see a baby sleeping we say interesting he's sleeping You can't get any more asleep than to be asleep can you?
and the disciples In that boat were already safe They were already saved they were in the boat with the Lord I Want you to imagine if Noah would have had the same response When the ark was lifted up by the floods and carried about on the waters for many days The the Lord shut them in you all remember that from your teaching and the the Hebrew word for pitch That sealed that door is the same word for atonement.
It's a wonderful thing so Noah and his family and all of those animals all those creatures were in the ark and Can you imagine when the ark began to rise up off the land and the mountains and the trees and all of that began to disappear Under the waters if Noah would have said oh Lord save us save us we perish He was in an ark with the door shut The Lord shut the door and his family was safe.
He was safe.
They were saved and The work Upon which they depended for their salvation the work that that ark and them in it in the ceiling of it depicted Was a work that was finished before the foundation of the world Jesus was the lamb slain before the foundation of the world that Noah and his family who believed Believed on the same work that you and I believed on The disciples in the passage I gave you Were in a boat with Jesus and their trust was supposed to be in him and it was in him as their Savior and as he rested Because they were in him.
They also should have rested.
They shouldn't have been panicking in the boat saying Lord save us Whether Jesus would have calmed the seas or not They would have been safe in the boat with him Literally they should have been able to take a nap right alongside the Lord During that storm Jesus was saved from the storm and so were they that were with him and Even though he had not yet gone to the cross to die for sins The works were finished before the foundation of the world In the mind of God is already done He was just waiting for time to catch up with truth He was the lamb slain and just being in the ark of Jesus is enough and How are we in this ark with him?
We're in it by faith We're in it by faith in his finished work the gospel So if that's the case if the work has already been done Why would a person said Lord save me?
Yet many do that at the front of churches just like this one Instead of just resting in what he did For them at Calvary and when Hezekiah called upon the Lord to save Israel and Judah out of the hand of the king of Assyria This was a plea for an earthly salvation.
That is Lord.
You see him They've already taken Samaria, which was the northern kingdom also called Israel.
I think you probably have learned that in Hosea and Then he was king over the southern kingdom, but he said save us And we know Hezekiah had already trusted in the Lord for salvation.
So he wasn't asking God to save him Spiritually, he was already saved you go back and read the introduction to him and you'll see He was a better king than even David and so he pleased the Lord.
He was Saved by his trust in God's salvation.
So he didn't need to say Lord save me for that reason But just as he sought deliverance from an earthly enemy Sinners who place their faith in Jesus also are seeking a deliverance From a spiritual enemy.
That's the wages or the consequences of sin and Until a person understands he has to be delivered from the consequences of sin.
He'll not understand salvation I mentioned Romans 10 13 to you last week that we would Visit that because it it's very pertinent here to what we're looking at in 2nd Kings if A person doesn't understand salvation and you ask him are you saved?
He's not gonna get it or very likely not gonna get it And so people often misunderstand Romans 10 13.
They'll say It says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
So I'm saying Lord save me and They think this means you have to make some sort of verbal plea to God Begging him to save you begging him to do something about your sin But if you look in that same passage in Romans 10 verse 14 It says how then shall they call on him and whom they have not believed Calling on the Lord in whom you have not believed will not bring salvation so if a no-meaning evangelist or or a misled evangelist or pastor teacher or whoever it may be says All right.
I've got three minutes here to deal with this guy on his porch And I've got to get him to say that sinners prayer to end and he never does explain the gospel to him He just says you'll call on the name of the Lord.
He'll save you So you call on the lame the Lord best, you know how and they do it.
They say it and They still don't understand the gospel.
You know what the the missing link is there.
They haven't believed They haven't believed the gospel In fact Romans 10 16 says but they have not all obeyed the gospel For he say us that's Isaiah say it Lord who hath believed our report Believing the gospel is obeying the gospel The Campbellites will try to get you distracted on that So you have to obey the gospel meaning you've got to do some things that they think are Tending towards salvation.
That's not what it means at all Believing the gospel is obeying the gospel and a lost sinner has to be taught the gospel and Believe it to be saved a believer may call upon the Lord But as Paul said how can they call on him and whom they have not believed the believers not calling on him to save him From his sins.
He's already been saved So we don't tell people just call on the name of the Lord to be saved You know an unbeliever now listen closely an unbeliever could call upon the name of the Lord and go to hell in unbelief Now if you said that at the average IBCFBC whatever it is conference they go whoa.
Whoa, that's heresy right there get down from the pulpit right away No, it's not Did Jesus say he that hath not called on the name of the Lord shall not be saved He said he that believeth not is condemned He that believeth not is condemned And we could go further Into that but we don't tell people to call on the name of the Lord to be saved Luke chapter 13 verses 22 through 25 Luke 13 verses 22 through 25 and if you're from across the way here sometimes we go a little bit faster So if you want to just write these passages down, that's okay Make a note because if I begin to read them and you're still looking for them you won't hear me and you won't be able to understand what we're talking about and He went this is Jesus and he went through the cities and villages teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem Then said one unto him Lord are there few that be saved and He said unto them strive to enter in at the straight gate for many I say unto you will seek to enter in and shall Not be able When once the master of the house is risen up and is shut to the door and you begin to stand without and to knock At the door saying Lord Lord open unto us and he shall answer and say unto you I know not when she are Did you know these are unbelievers who are calling upon the name of the Lord?
They're saying Lord Lord open unto us or Lord Lord save us They will want him to let them in They'll call upon him to let him in let them in to save them Remember the disciples questions question was are there few that be saved and how did Jesus say to enter in?
He said through the straight gate The same straight gate he talked about in Matthew chapter 7 verses 13 through 14 Where he said enter ye in at the straight gate For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in there at Because straight is the gate and narrow is the way that which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it So the unbeliever may call upon God to save him or to open the door and let him in but he'll do so in unbelief and this misunderstanding of calling on the name of the Lord Has spread like a plague in a lot of churches and that's what happens when you don't teach the Bible verse by verse did you know that that's another example of what happens when you pull a scripture out and Listen when somebody says I used the Romans Road I love every word of every book of the Romans all the way from 1 through 16.
I love all of them So I don't say this in disrespect to God's Word But when you pull these scriptures out for the Romans Road, you're doing it for the sake of convenience because it's quicker It's faster Instead of saying you know what?
I'm gonna teach Romans chapter 1 verse 1 and you come to my Sunday school class and we're gonna go all the way through all The books of Romans God willing and we don't know how long it's gonna take That's how we'll teach Romans here.
That's how I believe we've gone through Romans here Have you taught through Romans all the way since we've been here?
Okay, okay, but that's how we would teach through that so we don't pluck out scriptures and and get them and misinterpret them One more thing before I let this go and this has always been an objection that I've had in my mind if calling Saying something if calling on the name of the Lord With an audible voice would result in salvation.
How could a mute person be saved?
Think about that.
How could somebody who can't speak be saved?
They wouldn't if that were the case, but you know both deaf and mute and blind and lame and halt Gentile and Jew slave master all Can call on the name of the Lord not in the way that's been erroneously taught in churches, but scripturally in other words They may invoke his name Hezekiah was calling upon God for the deliverance of Israel But he had the right to call upon the name of the Lord.
He was a believer And why did Hezekiah want God to save Israel look back in your text if you would if you've lost your way It's we're in 2nd Kings 19 and verse 19 He called on him to save Israel out of the hand of the king of Assyria that All the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God even thou only This intercessory prayer as We alluded to last week meaning Hezekiah Went to the Lord on behalf of someone else He went to the Lord on behalf of the nation of Israel not just on him his own behalf but for all the the nation of Israel that was anything but selfish and The purpose for this salvation was that all the nations of the earth Would know that God alone is the Lord in?
other words Hezekiah desired for God To be glorified and magnified in all the world.
That's why he wanted him to answer that prayer Lord Would you show them who you are show them?
You're the only one?
they have all these false gods that they worship and the king of Assyria has been bragging that We burned all those false gods in the fire from these other nations.
They were powerless as the Kai said That all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou Are the Lord God even thou only yes, there's only one God He knew Israel and Judah Weren't worthy of salvation.
They weren't worthy to be delivered from their enemies.
They were a divided kingdom Their kings were mostly wicked The priesthood had been fractured Even though it was recently reinstated in Hezekiah's time the temple had been defiled Although it was recently sanctified in his time Let's learn a lesson right here from the words of Hezekiah From his motivation for this prayer Here it is whatever you ask God to do Let it be done that he may be glorified Rather than for the purpose of you being satisfied Whatever you ask God to do let it done be done that he may be glorified Rather than for the purpose of you being satisfied in fact Christians if the Lord is glorified Then we ought to be satisfied Even if the outcome of the prayer is not what we originally desired If my dear relative is Not healed from a disease Even though I've besieged or I begged the Lord to do so that he may be glorified then if that relative passes away in my grieving and sorrow I Should still be satisfied that God was glorified in the death of that dear relative because he is If God heals my dear relative then I Want to be satisfied that God was glorified in healing my dear relative so if your own satisfaction is The primary purpose of your prayers and let me tell you many of them are If your own satisfaction is the primary purpose of your prayers, then you've already started off wrong You've already set yourself up to be disappointed with God and you shouldn't be You're looking at prayer from your own perspective Rather than God's perspective rather than from a kingdom perspective And if God's glory on the other hand is the primary purpose of your prayers, then you'll never go wrong You'll never go wrong Because no matter what the outcome is you'll be satisfied that God was glorified Here's a great example of that in the book of Job His servants had been slain His livestock had been burned up His children killed He was in a bad shape Listen to what happened afterward After all that it's found in Job chapter 1 verses 20 through 22 if you want to write that down Job 1 verses 20 through 22 Then Job arose and rent his mantle that means he tore that cloak he was wearing mantle and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped and said Naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked thither shall I return the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away Blessed be the name of the Lord in all this Job sinned not nor charged God foolishly Wow and all his grief and agony Job worshiped the Lord.
He said the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away You know God gives us life and he sustains it until it's our time to die He gave Adam and Eve life He gave them perfect health in sinless conditions in that garden But because they sinned they forfeited their right to live forever and they forfeited their life their right to live in that garden Romans chapter 5 verse 12 says Romans 5 12 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned Who brought death into this world?
It was man God created man to live God brought life, but man chose death So the next time you hear some unbelievers say Well, if God is so good, why does he let children die?
If God is so good, why does he let bad things happen to good people?
You can tell them God's not at fault in any of that Man sinful man caused every bit of that It said wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world God didn't cause man to sin.
Did you know?
That there are some sects of our I hate to say of our Christian religion because I don't know whether Christians are not Who believe that God caused man to sin so they can support the rest of their?
Systematic theology which also has errors in it Brother knows what I'm talking about.
Yeah And the Bible clearly tells us that's not the case God's not he doesn't sin.
He's not tempted to sin like we are Now Jesus was tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin But God doesn't think oh, I'd like to do that.
But you know what that's that goes against my principles He doesn't think that way And he sure doesn't want man to sin God hates sin Besides that it's a faulty notion that there are good people Whom God has wronged I?
Mean we say that we say oh so and so he was he was a good guy and we know what we mean Relatively speaking when compared to all other sinners in society.
He was a pretty good fellow, but he was not sinless He was unrighteous unless he was saved But the Bible says there's none good.
No, not one Job didn't say Lord after all that Lord.
I'm a good person.
How could you let this happen to me?
He didn't say Lord, can you answer my prayers this way or that way?
No, he blessed the name of the Lord That was his response.
He didn't say woe is me because I'm not satisfied You know Joe was a praying man.
In fact, he made sacrifices just in case his children had cursed the Lord He was an intercessory prayer warrior But there was no sin in his words and he never charged God foolishly he never blamed God He glorified God even though he was grieving at his great loss and you can do both and you should God gave us tears When Moses died the people mourn for 30 days.
I believe it was we don't see that they did anything else they mourned Now on the other hand Job's wife was not spiritually minded when it came to all the things that had befallen him She wasn't in the same frame of mind as Job or as Hezekiah is in our text As a Kai wanted the world to know that God alone is God He wasn't concerned about his throne.
He didn't say Lord you put me on this throne.
I'd like to be king for a while I'm still building up my retirement.
I don't want to quit yet He didn't do any of that Whether he was king or not.
He wanted God to be glorified We might say that the motive for Job's wife's prayers was Not that God would be glorified but that she herself would be satisfied listen to what she told her husband in Job 2 verse 9 Then said his wife unto him.
Thus thou still retain nine integrity curse God and die Just like many unbelievers in this world she got angry with God Because of all this she got so angry with God that she told her husband to curse God and die and many people are this way You know sometimes even Christians Express some sort of anger with God disappointment with God and I think it's just from a lack of understanding the scriptures and a lack of understanding the purpose of prayer and That God is sovereign And he's perfect He doesn't disappoint us and if you think he does your perspective is wrong I know of a dear young Christian lady who had a baby Who was very sick at birth?
And she prayed fervently and asked others to pray for this baby and her baby passed away nevertheless just a few days old or weeks old and One of the things she wrote on her Facebook page was this And I quote thank you to everyone who prayed for her to heal We will never understand why God didn't answer our cries End quote now she wasn't angry with God.
She just didn't understand why God didn't heal her baby Or at least she didn't express anger in her in her quote there but what gives us comfort and Hopefully one day she was able to see this from God's perspective What gives us comfort is that a healed a baby in God's presence is far better off than a sick baby in our presence And I'll take that to the bank Praise God and in that God is truly glorified So when you pray you pray according to what God's Word says about your problem and pray expecting that whatever the outcome is God will be glorified that the world will know that there is one God and That is Jehovah God the one we worship Now that we've read and studied has a Kai's wonderful prayer and the motive for that prayer and hopefully learn some things about our own prayer Life, let's see what the outcome is going back now to verse 20 second Kings 19 verse 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amos sent to Hezekiah saying thus saith the Lord God of Israel That which thou has prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria.
I have heard So Isaiah was also alive and prophesying during this time.
Now we have Hosea we have Isaiah In our 11 o'clock hour We've studied about Hosea who lived in prophesied during this approximate time seeing Isaiah doing the same now This is another benefit of Studying the Bible verse by verse You know if we were just topically preaching up here, it's very doubtful we would ever get to this place right here There are other things about Hezekiah that may seem more miraculous to the carnal eye and they certainly are wondrous, but We study verse by verse and we get to see that the prophets we've always heard about and read about See when they lived see when they testified of The word of the Lord and see who the Kings were who were in place and perhaps the other prophets And I love doing that it just increases our knowledge of the Bible How does I how did Isaiah answer him he said Thus saith the Lord God of Israel That's right.
Not the God of the divided Judah But the God of a unified Israel which we addressed just a while back God called Israel out of Egypt He didn't just call the tribe of Judah.
He called the nation of Israel out of Egypt and just as we learned about Hezekiah when he prayed to the Lord God of Israel Isaiah shows us that he also knows That God will one day again unify his people.
I love how this prayer looks forward And who are his people they are the Israel of God not just the physical nation of Israel The Israel of God which consists of all the believers of all kindreds tribes tongue and nations of all times under the headship of Jesus Christ not under the headship of Benjamin Netanyahu or King Solomon or King David under the headship of Jesus Christ and He says looking back down in verse 20 Isaiah said that which thou had he's speaking On behalf of the Lord.
He said thus saith the Lord that which thou has prayed to me against the nacrid king of Assyria I have heard Notice that God heard Hezekiah's prayer Hezekiah asked him to hear the prayer and those words that were spoken against him and to see everything that was going on back in verse 4 Hezekiah's messengers had asked Isaiah to pray for the remnant of the people who were left So not only has Isaiah prayed for these people but Hezekiah also has prayed for these people And this brings up a crucial point if you ask someone to pray about a matter You better also be praying about it Don't just deliver it to the pastor's front door and say here I need you to pray about that and then you go along your merry way and just Come back later and say well, did you pray about it?
What did God tell you?
That's not how we do that Hezekiah delivering this prayer request Isaiah did not relieve Hezekiah of the duty to also pray for the Lord or to the Lord and Hezekiah Now think of all the people he could have asked to pray He had a priesthood right there a priesthood who had recently been Reconciled back to the temple told to clean up their act and to clean out the temple and to put only those things in there That were supposed to be in there.
He could have just said hey Whatever your name is Otis.
Maybe he was that was the name of the priest Otis.
Come here I want you to pray with me.
I want you to go to the Lord in prayer with me and agree Concerning this thing that's an acrob is done to Israel.
I Don't think he could depend on those priests at that time But he knew he could depend on Isaiah Because Isaiah's favorite saying was thus saith the Lord thus saith the Lord How's his favorite scripture wasn't it thus saith the Lord so he wrote it down You never go wrong if you say thus saith the Lord as long as that's what the Lord saith And that's who we want praying for us too is a godly man a godly woman But we also must pray How foolish would it be if someone said brother Andy would you pray for my marriage When they themselves weren't praying for it And I'm not likening myself to Isaiah, but he and I do have one thing in common.
We're both believers who pray to the Lord We're concerned about what the Lord saith two believers has a chi and Isaiah prayed to the Lord about the same thing and the fact that Isaiah Told has a chi what God's answer was is one of the proofs that Isaiah was truly God's prophet As if he'd have been wrong, that would have been the end of that wouldn't it?
The prayer was look back in your text against Sinac Arab king of Assyria That which thou has prayed to me against an acrob king of Assyria and Sinac Arab was a fierce adversary Whose army had conquered the northern kingdom of Israel called Samaria in some of these verses and now he's surrounded Jerusalem and Is attempting to conquer Judah as well?
And so we may infer here I think very safely that not only did has a has a chi a prey against sin acrob, but Isaiah did too And we'll see more proof of that in the next few verses, but it brings me to another important point about prayer I Bet you didn't realize you learn so much about prayer in our study of the Kings.
I didn't either But I'm very thankful Let's say now folks This is real right here Let's say you have a husband and a wife who have a son grown son and that son says he wants to marry a certain woman However, it's known that that woman is an unbeliever And so the husband says I don't condone the marriage and I'm not going to speak in favor of it And the wife says well, I think they make a cute couple and they love each other The husband says his son should not be unequally yoked together with an unbeliever But the wife says she believes that after the marriage her son can persuade this unbelieving young lady to become a Christian and This type of situation happens more than you'll ever know Now let's say both parents commit the matter to the Lord in prayer the husband prays Lord I Pray you turn my son's heart away from this marriage because your word says not to be unequally yoked together with an unbeliever and Then the wife prays Lord.
I pray you'll turn my husband's heart toward this marriage and away from his Desire to see it not happen.
Now.
That's like dueling prayers in it.
You've got one prayer over here and one prayer over here They what ought to happen is the same thing that happened with Hezekiah and Isaiah Both pray according to God's will God's will is not some mysterious thing Some people may think well, you know, what just whatever God wills well Have you looked it up in his word to see what he wills because he tells you Sometimes people do that to escape the reality that the Bible has condemned the very thing they want to see happen that they want to do But concerning marriage his will is plainly declared in his word all you have to do is look it up You know people will spend hours and hours on the internet trying to find something they're really interested in and they'll Google and then They'll get more results and then enter it a different way and ask somebody Hey, what you know, where would you find this?
I'll go to great lengths, but you ask somebody to look something in the Bible said oh, I don't know I don't have time or I don't really understand or I wouldn't know where to find it Well, you didn't know where to find it on the internet.
That's why you went to the Google search, right?
1189 chapters 66 books you have time and You know what else you can use Google to find that scripture on the internet.
Isn't that wonderful?
It's not all evil But concerning marriage God is plainly declared it in his word And if you will let it be a blessing to your marriage It will be a blessing to your marriage to your relationship with your family to your relationship with your friends if you are both believers I'm talking whether it's husband and wife or two best friends or a sister and brother whatever it is your parents If you're both believers and you're at odds with each other about something Make a commitment to first see what the Bible says about it Remember in most cases God has already answered your prayer about the matter and Once you've sought what the Bible says then both of you commit to praying according to God's Word Going back to the example of the son wanting to marry the unsaved fiance What would have happened if both parents in that situation?
Agreed to pray according to God's will well, they would have counseled their son to avoid marrying an unbeliever They would have prayed to the Lord together Lord turn our son's heart away from His own will and turn him to your will Friend this is so simple, but it seems to be the hardest thing in the world for many people to do What if has a Kyle would have prayed Lord?
Please help Sennacherib to like me.
I don't understand why he doesn't like me I've never done anything wrong to him.
Please help us to be co rulers over this vast beautiful kingdom and Then while he's praying that if he were to do such a thing Isaiah on the other hand is over here saying Lord Execute your wrath upon Sennacherib You said what you were going to do to him?
Destroy his army so that all the world will know that you are God and you alone Has a Kyle would have been on the losing end of a dueling prayer, wouldn't he?
This will never happen when you pray according to God's will which is according to God's Word Verse 21, we'll just dip our toe in the water here in verse 21 and probably have to stop in a couple of minutes Isaiah continues this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him the virgin daughter of Zion hath despised Thee and laughed thee to scorn the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee and Because this requires a fair amount of explanation in searching the scriptures We are going to cut it short right here and pick up with verse 21 next time So we don't have to have an interruption in the Theology that's contained in there and we're so glad that you're here.
Let's be dismissed in prayer father Thank you for the faithfulness of the people who've come for the the classroom next door who have sought now Lord to go beyond the first principles of the oracles of God and To begin eating the strong meat that comes afterward and I pray you'd help us to teach them To give them the sense of the scriptures that their understanding would be enlightened and in all this We need the help of the Holy Spirit to do it go with us now in our next hour May always say and do and sing and desire the word preached Glorify you so that all the world will know that you and you alone are God in Jesus name.
Amen
