1 00:00:02,730 --> 00:00:06,730 Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your 2 00:00:06,790 --> 00:00:13,369 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at BibleStudyHeadquarters.com. You're listening 3 00:00:13,410 --> 00:00:16,860 Speaker 1: to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm John Stonge 4 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:21,639 Speaker 1: and today we're in Isaiah chapter 49 and we'll be 5 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:27,420 Speaker 1: reading from the Christian Standard Bible. Coasts and islands listen 6 00:00:27,460 --> 00:00:32,390 Speaker 1: to me. Distant peoples pay attention. The Lord called me 7 00:00:32,490 --> 00:00:35,790 Speaker 1: before I was born. He named me while I was 8 00:00:35,890 --> 00:00:39,370 Speaker 1: in my mother's womb. He made my words like a 9 00:00:39,510 --> 00:00:43,450 Speaker 1: sharp sword. He hid me in the shadow of His hand. 10 00:00:44,210 --> 00:00:47,309 Speaker 1: He made me like a sharpened arrow. He hid me 11 00:00:47,590 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: in His quiver. He said to me, You are my servant, Israel, 12 00:00:52,630 --> 00:00:56,900 Speaker 1: in whom I will be glorified. But I myself said, 13 00:00:57,180 --> 00:01:26,140 Speaker 1: I have labored in vain. He says, He says, It 14 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: is not enough for you to be my servant, raising 15 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,820 Speaker 1: up the tribes of Jacob and restoring the protected ones 16 00:01:33,220 --> 00:01:36,550 Speaker 1: of Israel. I will also make you a light for 17 00:01:36,580 --> 00:01:40,010 Speaker 1: the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of 18 00:01:40,069 --> 00:01:44,209 Speaker 1: the earth. This is what the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, 19 00:01:44,290 --> 00:01:48,190 Speaker 1: His Holy One, says to one who is despised, to 20 00:01:48,350 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: one abhorred by people, to a servant of rulers. Kings 21 00:01:53,420 --> 00:01:57,340 Speaker 1: will see. Princes will stand up, and they will all 22 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,559 Speaker 1: bow down because of the Lord who is faithful, the 23 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:05,700 Speaker 1: Holy One of Israel, and He has chosen you. This 24 00:02:05,770 --> 00:02:08,970 Speaker 1: is what the Lord says, I will answer you in 25 00:02:09,010 --> 00:02:11,470 Speaker 1: a time of favor, and I will help you in 26 00:02:11,510 --> 00:02:14,990 Speaker 1: the day of salvation. I will keep you, and I 27 00:02:15,050 --> 00:02:17,690 Speaker 1: will appoint you to be a covenant for the people, 28 00:02:18,250 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: to restore the land, to make them possess the desolate inheritances. 29 00:02:23,330 --> 00:02:26,130 Speaker 1: saying to the prisoners, Come out, and to those who 30 00:02:26,230 --> 00:02:31,380 Speaker 1: are in darkness, show yourselves. They will feed along the pathways, 31 00:02:31,820 --> 00:02:34,860 Speaker 1: and their pastures will be on all the barren heights. 32 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: They will not hunger or thirst, the scorching heat or 33 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,910 Speaker 1: sun will not strike them, for their compassionate one will 34 00:02:42,970 --> 00:02:46,890 Speaker 1: guide them and lead them to springs. I will make 35 00:02:46,970 --> 00:02:50,530 Speaker 1: all my mountains into a road, and my highways will 36 00:02:50,570 --> 00:02:54,730 Speaker 1: be raised up. See, These will come from far away, 37 00:02:55,430 --> 00:02:57,830 Speaker 1: from the north and from the west, and from the 38 00:02:57,889 --> 00:03:04,750 Speaker 1: land of Sinim. Shout for joy, you heavens. Earth, rejoice. Mountains, 39 00:03:05,010 --> 00:03:09,230 Speaker 1: break into joyful shouts. For the Lord has comforted his 40 00:03:09,330 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones. Zion says, 41 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,820 Speaker 1: The Lord has abandoned me. The Lord has forgotten me. 42 00:03:20,139 --> 00:03:23,750 Speaker 1: Can a woman forget her nursing child or lack compassion 43 00:03:23,830 --> 00:03:27,609 Speaker 1: for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, 44 00:03:27,910 --> 00:03:32,510 Speaker 1: yet I will not forget you. Look, I have inscribed 45 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:36,500 Speaker 1: you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are 46 00:03:36,580 --> 00:03:42,140 Speaker 1: continually before me. Your builders hurry. Those who destroy and 47 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:46,580 Speaker 1: devastate you will leave you. Look up and look around. 48 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: They all gather together. They come to you. As I live, 49 00:03:51,300 --> 00:03:55,750 Speaker 1: this is the Lord's declaration. You will wear all your 50 00:03:55,850 --> 00:03:59,790 Speaker 1: children as jewelry and put them on as a bride does. 51 00:04:00,530 --> 00:04:03,910 Speaker 1: For your waste and desolate places and your land marked 52 00:04:03,950 --> 00:04:08,490 Speaker 1: by ruins will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants, 53 00:04:09,030 --> 00:04:11,790 Speaker 1: and those who swallowed you up will be far away. 54 00:04:12,610 --> 00:04:15,390 Speaker 1: Yet as you listen, the children that you have been 55 00:04:15,490 --> 00:04:19,580 Speaker 1: deprived of will say, This place is too small for me. 56 00:04:20,310 --> 00:04:24,190 Speaker 1: Make room for me so that I may settle. Then 57 00:04:24,270 --> 00:04:28,289 Speaker 1: you will say within yourself, Who fathered these for me? 58 00:04:29,060 --> 00:04:32,500 Speaker 1: I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive, 59 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,220 Speaker 1: exiled and wandering. But who brought them up? See, I 60 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: was left by myself. But these, where did they come from? 61 00:04:42,540 --> 00:04:46,779 Speaker 1: This is what the Lord God says. Look, I will 62 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,890 Speaker 1: lift up my hand to the nations. and raise my 63 00:04:49,970 --> 00:04:53,950 Speaker 1: banner to the peoples. They will bring your sons in 64 00:04:53,990 --> 00:04:57,669 Speaker 1: their arms, and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders. 65 00:04:58,589 --> 00:05:03,450 Speaker 1: Kings will be your guardians, and their queens your nursing mothers. 66 00:05:04,330 --> 00:05:07,190 Speaker 1: They will bow down to you with their faces to 67 00:05:07,230 --> 00:05:11,060 Speaker 1: the ground, and lick the dust at your feet. Then 68 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: you will know that I am the Lord. Those who 69 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: put their hope in me will not be put to shame. 70 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: Can the prey be taken from a mighty man, or 71 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: the captives of a tyrant be delivered? For this is 72 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:28,980 Speaker 1: what the Lord says, Even the captives of a mighty 73 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:32,460 Speaker 1: man will be taken, and the prey of a tyrant 74 00:05:32,540 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: will be delivered. I will contend with the one who 75 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: contends with you, and I will save your children. I 76 00:05:40,790 --> 00:05:44,070 Speaker 1: will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they 77 00:05:44,110 --> 00:05:47,770 Speaker 1: will be drunk with their own blood, as with sweet wine. 78 00:05:48,740 --> 00:05:52,020 Speaker 1: then all people will know that I, the Lord, am 79 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,910 Speaker 1: your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. 80 00:05:58,730 --> 00:06:02,750 Speaker 1: Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your word, and 81 00:06:02,770 --> 00:06:05,010 Speaker 1: we thank you for this portion of Scripture today that 82 00:06:05,070 --> 00:06:08,730 Speaker 1: reminds us that you are our Savior, that you have 83 00:06:09,230 --> 00:06:13,740 Speaker 1: engraved the names of your people in your hand. Lord, 84 00:06:13,779 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 1: we're grateful for the fact that your Son, Jesus Christ, 85 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,830 Speaker 1: has come to this earth today And the nails of 86 00:06:19,870 --> 00:06:23,370 Speaker 1: the cross that pierced his hands and his feet were 87 00:06:23,410 --> 00:06:27,180 Speaker 1: born by his body to pay for our sin. Lord, 88 00:06:27,190 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 1: we're grateful that through faith in your son, we are 89 00:06:29,860 --> 00:06:34,099 Speaker 1: freed from the power of sin. We are forgiven and 90 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: we are made new in your sight. Lord, you truly 91 00:06:37,660 --> 00:06:42,140 Speaker 1: are our rescuer and our redeemer. And we're grateful for 92 00:06:42,180 --> 00:06:44,780 Speaker 1: these reminders that we see in this portion of your word. 93 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:47,250 Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord, for your love. Thank you for your 94 00:06:47,290 --> 00:06:49,810 Speaker 1: presence with us today. And thank you for all of 95 00:06:49,850 --> 00:06:53,940 Speaker 1: your blessings. We pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.