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Speaker 1: to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm John Stonge,

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Speaker 1: and today we're in Isaiah chapter 50, and we'll be

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Speaker 1: reading from the New English Translation. This is what the

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Speaker 1: Lord says, Where is your mother's divorce certificate by which

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Speaker 1: I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did

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Speaker 1: I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins.

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Speaker 1: Because of your rebellious acts, I divorced your mother. Why

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Speaker 1: does no one challenge me when I come? Why does

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Speaker 1: no one respond when I call? Is my hand too

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Speaker 1: weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to

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Speaker 1: rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry

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Speaker 1: up the sea. I can turn streams into a desert

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Speaker 1: so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.

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Speaker 1: I can clothe the sky in darkness. I can cover

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Speaker 1: it with sackcloth. The Sovereign Lord has given me the

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Speaker 1: capacity to be His spokesman so that I know how

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Speaker 1: to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning.

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Speaker 1: He makes me alert so I can listen attentively as

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Speaker 1: disciples do. The Sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly.

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Speaker 1: I have not rebelled. I have not turned back. I

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Speaker 1: offer my back to those who attacked, my jaws to

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Speaker 1: those who tore out my beard. I did not hide

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Speaker 1: my face from insults and spitting. But the Sovereign Lord

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Speaker 1: helps me, so I am not humiliated. For that reason,

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Speaker 1: I am steadfastly resolved. I know I will not be

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Speaker 1: put to shame. The one who vindicates me is close by.

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Speaker 1: Who dares to argue with me? Let us confront each other.

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Speaker 1: Who is my accuser? Let him challenge me. Look, the

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Speaker 1: sovereign Lord helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look,

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Speaker 1: all of them will wear out like clothes. A moth

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Speaker 1: will eat away at them. Who among you fears the Lord?

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Speaker 1: Who obeys his servant? Whoever walks in deep darkness without

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Speaker 1: light should trust in the name of the Lord and

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Speaker 1: rely on his God. Look, all of you who start

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Speaker 1: a fire and who equip yourselves with flaming arrows, walk

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Speaker 1: in the light of the fire you started and among

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Speaker 1: the flaming arrows you ignited. This is what you will

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Speaker 1: receive from me. You will lie down in a place

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Speaker 1: of pain. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your word,

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Speaker 1: and we thank you for the prophetic foreshadowing that we

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Speaker 1: see in this portion of Scripture of the ways in

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Speaker 1: which your son Jesus Christ was going to be treated

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Speaker 1: during the course of his earthly ministry. We see reference

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Speaker 1: to his beard being pulled out. We see reference to

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Speaker 1: the disdain that people would show him. But Lord, we're

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Speaker 1: grateful for the fact that we have the privilege to

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Speaker 1: trust in your son Jesus Christ and to receive your

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Speaker 1: gift of salvation. So Lord, help us to walk with

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Speaker 1: you today. Help us to be men and women who

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Speaker 1: recognize that we are redeemed through Jesus and by Jesus.

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Speaker 1: And help us to glorify your name with our lives.

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Speaker 1: We love you, Lord, and we commit this day to

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Speaker 1: your care and pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.