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June 11 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today's reading will cover Isaiah Chapters 65 and 66. Our supporting passages come from Romans Chapter 10 and 11 as well as Deuteronomy 32:21. We will read about God telling us that He will show who He is to people who don't ask for Him and that people who don't look for Him will find Him- that is the Gentiles! Today God will tell us another reason this will happen- because His people, the Israelites, don't care about Him. God tells us today that He is getting ready to come (again.) While He is getting ready He will get all nations together and they will see how great He is. God will send people to lands where the people have never heard about Him or seen His greatness and all people will come and bow down to Him. In our discussion for daily application we will talk about US being witnesses for God. WE have been called to tell people how great God is! We are who God spoke about in Isaiah so long ago! We will talk about how God uses EVERYTHING for good, even the disobedience of His Israelite children, so that WE would be grafted into God's beautiful olive tree! We will be admonished today, however, not to become arrogant and think that we are now God's only chosen people. We are called God's servants in today's reading, in the same way that Jesus told us He came to serve rather than to BE SERVED, and we are to do God's work that He has set out for us with a humble heart, caring about what He says rather than following our own ways.
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Introduction and Purpose
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Hello everybody! Today is June 11th. You are here with Robin at In The Family Way Coaching. And we are here for our daily Bible reading. We are going through the entire Bible this year using the Day by Day Kids Bible that's been written by Karen Henley.
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And if you are following along on your commitment calendar, it's time to get your sticker ready or however you're marking it off because you're about to hear the Bible today.
Logistics and Participation
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You guys, I got to get your calendar in the mail. We haven't connected. Forest, Jedi, Diamond, Pearl, Julie. I should get that in the mail to you or something.
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That way you're not so long without the calendar.
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We are reading today in Isaiah, but before we get started, I want to thank you for being here. i am so excited. i have just been loving these daily readings every day. The Holy Spirit is just showing me things, and I'm just so excited that I'm seeing the videos getting longer and longer.
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So I'm going to try to um keep it short and sweet as I can, God's word so sweet.
Bible Versions and Tools
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It's like a honey on our lips we have read.
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And it is, there is so much depth and there are so many layers to God's word that every single thing we read, is cross-referenced in other parts of the Bible.
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So that's what really gets me going is when the Holy Spirit shows me. I've been using the Tree of Life Bible and it has an app that I've been using and it's totally free.
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And ah it's a little bit different from say the NIV version, which I would normally use because it incorporates a lot of the Hebrew words such as Adonai instead of the Lord, which is the replacement for the word Yahweh.
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It also uses some of the other Hebrew terms, such as shalom, when we have peace and written down, because as we mentioned before, it conveys the deeper sense of the word rather than simply saying peace.
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And then it has other Hebrew words in there as well ah for when they give the names of God. and And like today, they have the word blessing in there, which is Baruch.
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And I love it because I'm picking up a little bit of more language too in it. And they always have this little glossary that you can tap on that gives you the definition of the word that they're using.
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So I love that. So it's a, I've been using that version. And when you, my point to mentioning that is that when you read the verses, it's like having a study Bible.
Significance of Isaiah in the New Covenant
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because they give you a little asterisk and then it points you to other areas where the verse is used, where it is fulfilled or referenced or mentioned.
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And so there will be all these little footnotes as to where you can go. And then when you read those portions, you go you get a bigger picture and it's just the lights come on, your ears can hear, your eyes can see, the Holy Spirit just really reveals to you what is going on.
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And you get a full and deeper comprehension, a deeper understanding of what it is you're reading and how it makes sense into the big picture, which is what we're doing this year. We're reading chronologically and we're getting the whole big overview of what's going on in the Bible.
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And so it really brings in the big picture so well when you read the other verses that talk about it and reference it.
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Especially in the new covenant where today's readings, because Isaiah is often quoted in the new covenant, it brings me to those areas. So for instance, today our readings will be referenced in the book of Acts or Romans rather Romans written by Paul.
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So it is wonderful because he is a Hebrew and he is writing in relation to his wonderful understanding because he was, ah he was like a Pharisee he was a Pharisee and he called himself a Pharisee of Pharisees.
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So he was super knowledgeable and he really strove to, to follow God's word. and then Jesus of course blinded him on the road to Damascus and asked him, why are you persecuting my people?
Paul's Transformation and Teachings
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And he showed him the light and gave him understanding as to how, ah the words were pertaining from the Old Testament to the New Covenant.
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And then Paul used that knowledge to explain it and his words. I have read Romans before, but since we are reading in the book of Isaiah and understanding the big picture, and then I'm being referenced to those writings in Romans.
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The light is just blindingly bright as far as understanding and comprehension. And the spirit is just really talking and explaining things. And I'm just like, wow, this is wonderful.
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So while I'm doing all of that, I just, I want to share all of that with you. And it's relevant in our reading, but I'm going to try to keep our daily application,
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um to you know a little bit shorter. And it's so hard not to include everything that um that that the God is showing me.
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So maybe as I get going, maybe I'll expound on that a little bit more.
Themes of Isaiah and God's Invitation
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But let's go ahead and get going and continue on. We are going to be, i believe, finishing the book of Isaiah today.
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We are finishing it. There are 66 chapters in Isaiah. And today we are going to read chapters 65 and 66.
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And the first section for chapter 65 is entitled The Wolf and the Lamb.
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I show who I am to people who don't ask about me. People who don't look for me find me. I hold out my hands to people, my people, but they don't care about me.
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They do wrong things. They follow their own daydreams. They are like smoke in my nose. They are like a fire that burns all day.
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See, i won't stay quiet. I'll pay them back for what they did. Sometimes people find juice left in grapes. So they say, don't get rid of them.
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There is still some good in them. That is the way I will be with my people. I won't get rid of all of them. I'll bring them back to their land and there will be fields for their sheep.
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There will be a place for their cows to rest. That's what my people will have if they look for me. Look, I'll make a new sky and a new earth.
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The old things will be forgotten. People will never think about them.
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Be glad and show your joy forever. Be happy about what I will make. I will make Jerusalem bring joy to people. Its people will bring gladness.
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and there won't be crying anymore.
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There won't ever be a baby who lives just a few days. There won't ever be a man who dies too soon. People will think a 100-year-old person is young.
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My people used to build houses, but people from other lands lived in them. Now they will live in the houses they build. They used to plant fields, but people from other lands ate the food.
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Now they will eat food from the fields they plant. Trees live a long time, and my people will live a long time too. They will work and have all they need, and their children won't have hard times.
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I will bring good things for them and their families. I will answer before they ask. and I will hear while they are still talking. The wolf and the lamb will eat together.
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The lion will eat hay like an ox, but the snake will eat dust and nothing will hurt anyone anywhere on my mountain, says God.
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Isaiah 66, like a rushing wind. Here is what God says. Heaven is the throne where I sit. Earth is where I rest my feet.
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Where could you build me a house? Where would I rest? My hands made all these things. That's how they came to be, says God.
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These are the kinds of people I make great. They are the people who don't think they are the best. They are the people who care about what I say.
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Be glad with Jerusalem if you love the city. I will give Jerusalem peace like a river. I will give it riches like a river flowing over.
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a mother cheers up her child, and in the same way, I will cheer you up, and you will be glad about Jerusalem.
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See, God is coming with fire. His chariots are like rushing wind, and he will bring his anger hard and fast. God will judge his people.
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I am getting ready to come. I will get all nations together. They will see how great I am. I will send a sign to them. I will send people to islands far away.
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I will send them to lands where the people have never heard about me. I'll send them to people who never saw my greatness. They will bring my people from all nations to Jerusalem.
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They will come on horses. They will come on chariots. They will come in wagons. They will come riding mules and camels. The new sky and new earth will last, says God.
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My people's name will last. My family will last. All people will come and bow to me, says God.
Inclusion of Gentiles in God's Plan
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And that is the end of our reading today.
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So our reading today is talking about... a couple of things. One, it's talking about the Gentiles, you and me.
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It's talking about how when God sends Jesus to be the savior, he's going to call people from all over the world to be his people. That's you and me.
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And we are the wild olive branch from the wild olive tree that has been grafted in to the native olive tree that is domesticated by God.
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And the other thing that it is talking about is the end times. So when it talks about people living to be a hundred years old and more, that is the thousand years of peace that God will bring when Jesus is reigning on earth.
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So I just wanted us to be sure and have understanding. And it says that, and of course, this will be in the time after the temple has been rebuilt and God is rebuilding it in Jerusalem.
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We've talked about that before. And so it says that all nations are going to be coming to Jerusalem. There will be believers from all over the world and God will send a sign.
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So let's go back to the beginning and talk about the connection here because this is our daily application. God says, I show who I am to people who don't ask for me.
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People who don't look for me, find me.
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How do they get to know him? Because he sends us, he tells us at the end of 66 that he will get all nations together.
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As he's getting ready to come, which is now, this is the time period in between Jesus's ascension and in the time before, when until God comes again, he says, I'm getting ready.
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And in that time, he will get all the nations together and they will see how great he is. And this is the sign that he will send to them.
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He's going to send people to lands where the people have never heard about him. He will send them to people who never saw his greatness. And they will bring his people.
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We are now his people from all nations to Jerusalem. So when God comes again, people will be traveling to Jerusalem to return and live there.
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And it says earlier in Isaiah, it says to the effect, Israel is going to say, where are all these people coming from? Where are all these children of God coming from?
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i didn't have all these children. And he says that there will be so many that the streets and the city will be so crowded with people because there simply isn't enough room. And it says God will expand the city.
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And it says that people will come from all nations to Jerusalem. They will come on horses and on chariots and in wagons. They'll come riding animals.
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And it says, all people will come and bow to me, says God. So a few weeks ago, we talked about our and one of our daily applications is that God told us that we are his witnesses.
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A witness is someone one who experiences things with God and then tells people about it. And we've talked about that a bunch of times. So we are to go to people as God sends us.
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and to tell people about God's greatness from the perspective don of what he has done for us. When we experience that transformation in our mind that is spoken of in the new covenant, where God transforms us with a renewing of our mind, when we experience amazing things, not just and Not just everything that happens with God, not just things like with my washer, but with transformation that causes us to it to have greater faith and confidence in God, trust in him so that we believe more about him and learn more about him.
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and rely on him more, learn more about him. He delights in us. We change our way of thinking. The Holy Spirit changes our mind and our way of thinking. And so we no longer are the old self. We are new.
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We become a whole new person. And so it's this transformation process of what we used to be and how we are now that we are to share with people as our witnesses and to say that this would not have been possible without God.
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Look what God has done for me. And so we were to tell everybody about this by being his witnesses. And that's what God is talking about here today for our daily application.
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And the reason why he was doing all of this, he always gives us a why. This is bonus round. This is not necessarily, this is not part of our specific daily application. But because I'd like to explain what it is that we're reading.
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It says, I hold out my hands to my people, but they don't care about me. They do wrong things. They follow their own daydreams. And so because of that, God would use the Gentiles to irritate his people.
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And so branches were cut off, as Paul tells us in Romans, and we are the branches that are grafted in. However, it is meant to be that those branches be grafted back in, and the Jewish people are meant to come to believe in him And so that is what I was reading about today. And it is awesome.
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Oh my gosh. I will give you a short overview. Hopefully I can keep it on the shorter side here.
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and As I read from the big version, God says in chapter 65, he says, he says I was sought by those who did not ask for me.
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So while it says in our version, I show who I am to people who don't ask for me, it says in the big ah Bible, I was sought. So people who do not ask for him were sought by him.
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And I found, I was found by those who did not seek me.
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I said, here I am, here I am to a nation not called by my name.
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it says, I have stretched out my hands all day to a rebellious people who walk in a way that is not good, following their own thoughts.
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And it says, so I will measure, so I will bring forth offspring from Jacob. My chosen ones will inherit it and my servants will dwell there.
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So because his people have ah frustrated him and not listen. He says that he is going to to send other people that are not his people to Jerusalem.
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He says, I called, but you did not answer. I spoke, but you did not hear. You did what was evil in my sight and chose what I did not delight in.
Roles of Believers and Humility
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Therefore, says the Lord God, my servants will eat.
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Did you know that we are servants of God? He calls his Israelite people his people, but we are his servants. Just as Jesus said he came to serve, not to be served.
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We are also servants of God. We are now friends with Jesus, but we are all servants of God. We are doing the work that God has called us to do.
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And the work that he has called us to do is what we have read about today. That he is sending I will send people to places far away.
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He sends us. He says, behold my servants will eat while you go hungry my servants will drink but you will be thirsty my servants will rejoice but you will be put to shame my servants will sing for joy with a happy heart but you will cry from pain of heart and wail out of a broken spirit you will leave your name behind as a curse from my chosen ones and the Lord God will slay you, but he will call his servants by another name.
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That's you and me.
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However,
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when we read that but in Romans, Paul is quoting these very verses in chapter 10.
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And he says in chapter 10, verse 19, Israel did not understand. Moses said, I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation with a nation empty of understanding.
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I will vex you. Vex, oh, this is great. The word vex means to irritate. Annoy, provoke, distress, harass.
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Diamond, Jedi, forest, pearl. Have you ever irritated one another? Have you ever provoked one another to be angry or to be jealous about something?
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That's what vexing is. And God said that in way back in Deuteronomy, he told us that he was going to do this.
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And i love this. It gives us the the reference here for Deuteronomy.
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32 verse 21, God says, they made me jealous with a non-God. They vexed me. So he says that his people irritated him and provoked him with airy idols. So I will make them jealous with a non-people, with a foolish nation. I will vex them.
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So God is using us to irritate his people.
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And Paul tells us that
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in verse and chapter 11, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be, for I too am an Israelite. God has not rejected his people whom he knew beforehand.
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Or do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah and how he pleads with God against israel Lord, they have killed your prophets and they have destroyed your altars. I alone am left and they are seeking my life.
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But what is the divine response from God to Elijah? I have kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bowed to the knee of Baal. Remember we read about that?
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When Elijah was concerned, God said, you don't need to be concerned. I have saved for myself a remnant. So in the same way at this present time, there has come to be a remnant, according to God's gracious choice.
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But if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace. What then? What Israel is real ah seeking, it has not yet obtained, but the elect obtained it.
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and the rest were hardened. Just as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes to see and ears not to hear until this very day.
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And we read that in Isaiah 29 and it was written in Deuteronomy.
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chapter Verse 11, we're gonna skip down and it says, I say then, why did they, ah I say then they did not stumble so as to fall.
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But by their false step, salvation has been brought to the Gentiles to provoke Israel to jealousy. Now, if their if Israel's transgression leads to riches for the world and their loss riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness.
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But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles insofar as I am an emissary to the Gentiles. If somehow I might provoke my ah provoked to jealousy my own brothers, my own flesh and blood and save some of them.
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So Paul was looking to save his people, the Israelites. For if their rejection leads to reconciliation of the world,
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What will their acceptance be but life from the dead? Even more so is their acceptance would be even better. So if the first fruit is holy, so is the whole batch of dough.
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And if the root is holy, so are the branches. But if some of the branches were broken off and you being a wild olive were grafted in among them and became a a person who takes part of the root of the olive tree with its richness, do not boast against the Israelites. So this is a warning too.
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Don't get arrogant and say they are no longer God's chosen people. Now we are a favored. We are chosen. Do not boast against the branches. If you do boast, it is not you who support the root, but it's the root that supports you.
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Remember, I was talking before about it's very important for us to have greater understanding of our roots in connection to our Israelite history.
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or Jewish history, I'll put it that way. And that's why it's still important for us to observe the festivals that God has commanded and for us to understand how the Old Testament works in connection with the new covenant.
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Because it is not us who supports faith in Jesus. It is under through understanding of how God brought this about and why everything is important.
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You may say you will say then that branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in. True enough, Paul says. They were broken off because of unbelief and you stand by faith.
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Do not be arrogant, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. So that's a warning to us not to become arrogant and think that we are better.
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We are not better. We are all part of the same body of Christ. They don't use the word Christ. They use the word Messiah. We are all one in Messiah. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
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Notice then both the kindness and severity of God.
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Severity toward those who fell but God's kindness toward you. If you continue in his kindness, otherwise you too will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in.
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If they do not continue in their unbelief, then they will be grafted in. That's a double negative. That's hard to read. if if they continue, if they if they begin to believe, then they will be grafted in again. And that's what we're looking to do.
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We are looking to witness also to our Jewish brethren, our Jewish brothers and sisters, to explain to them these verses in Isaiah, which point to Jesus as being the Messiah and how we have been grafted in so that they will have understanding with eyes to see and ears to hear.
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For God is able to graft those branches in again, it says in verse 23. For if you, if we were cut out of that tree by nature, which is, if we were cut all out of that, which is night by nature wild and grafted by contrary to nature with a cultivated olive tree, how much more will those original branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?
00:29:02
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So God we've spoken about has used, uses every single thing for good. Even Israel's turning away and hardening, which brought, as we saw the other day, God bringing someone to intercede for us, being Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
Fullness of Gentiles and Israel's Salvation
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God uses everything for good. He would use their hardening to to bring us into his kingdom so that we could celebrate and be part of the same family with them.
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I love seeing how God brings everything into shalom, into wholeness, into wellness. Do you see that big picture? oh it's beautiful.
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he says a little further down in Romans 11, verse says, it says I do not want you to be ignorant of this, lest you be wise in your own eyes, that a partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
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So we are looking for the fullness of the Gentiles and in this way, all Israel will be saved because it is written, the deliverer shall come out of Zion and he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
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And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins. Concerning the good news, they are hostile for your sake, but concerning chosenness, they are loved on account of the fathers for the gifts and the calling of God.
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irrevocable. They cannot be taken away.
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um my gosh. I just love that. So we want to be sure we don't become arrogant with humility. As God says earlier in our reading today, this God, let's see, where did it go?
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These are the kind of people I make great. The people who don't think they are the best, that is being humble, and those people who care about what I say.
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Let us be a people who cares about what God says and to not become arrogant in our faith, but to do what God wants us to do and to be witnesses of his greatness and help the fullness of the Gentiles to come in.
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people who have not heard about God, to people who are not yet turning toward God. It says that God will be, they will be finding God without them even having looked for him.
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We will surprise them in their day by bringing them these good news. We read earlier in Isaiah that blessed are the feet that bring good news. So blessed are you who bring this good news to people.
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So let's do our part to bring the fullness of the Gentiles in and help usher in that age where the Jewish people also turn their hearts back toward God so that we can all become one, be unified in the body of Yeshua, in Christ, in Messiah, and to attain that shalom, that wholeness together as a people, as God intended.
00:32:35
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So I hope that you feel that God has lit your light. I hope that didn't go too long. I don't have any timer on or anything. I don't know how long it is, but is that not beautiful? God's word is so rich and there is so much to it. There are so many layers.
00:32:49
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It's not just about witnessing. It's why we are doing it. A lot of times we don't feel like doing something unless we understand why it's important to do it. And that's why it's important to
Call to Action and Gratitude
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do it. This is a worthwhile task for us to do We are meant, we are on God's mission. He has sent us to do this.
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So I hope that you feel motivated and inspired and eager to fulfill the calling to which you have been called to, using your identity in in God and who he created you to be, to reach others for his kingdom and bring the fullness of us into his kingdom.
00:33:29
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00:33:48
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And let's spread the word about reading God's word. Let's be that light in the world with Jesus. Have a fabulous rest of your day. And as always, i will be here again for everyone tomorrow.