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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture, a calming

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Speaker 2: Scripture Center devotional podcast designed to help you end each

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Speaker 2: day with God's word in your mind and on your heart.

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Speaker 2: Right after this short word from our sponsors, will reflect

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Speaker 2: on tonight's scripture, Isaiah chapter sixty five. Tonight's scripture reflection

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Speaker 2: is written by Rachel Britton and read by Carrie Eichberger. Isaiah,

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Speaker 2: chapter sixty five. I revealed myself to those who did

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Speaker 2: not ask for me. I was found by those who

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Speaker 2: did not seek me, to a nation that did not

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Speaker 2: call on my name. Said here I am, here I am.

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Speaker 2: All day long, I have held out my hands to

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Speaker 2: an obstinate people who walk and weighs not good, pursuing

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Speaker 2: their own imaginations.

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Speaker 1: A people who continually provoke me to my very.

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Speaker 2: Face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning encense on altars

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Speaker 2: of brick, who sit among the graves and spend their

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Speaker 2: nights keeping secret vigil who eat the flesh of pigs

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Speaker 2: and whose pots hold broth of impure meat, who say

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Speaker 2: keep away, don't come near me, for I am too

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Speaker 2: scared for you. Such people are smoke in my nostrils.

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Speaker 2: A fire that keeps burning all day. See it stands

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Speaker 2: written before me. I will not keep silent, but will

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Speaker 2: pay back in full. I will pay it back into

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Speaker 2: their laps, both your sins and the sins of your ancestors,

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Speaker 2: says the Lord. Because they burn sacrifices on the mountains

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Speaker 2: and defide me on the hills, I will measure into

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Speaker 2: their laps the full payment for their former deeds. This

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Speaker 2: is what the Lord says. Asben juice is still found

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Speaker 2: on a cluster of grapes, and people say, don't destroy it.

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Speaker 2: There is still a blessing in it. So will I

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Speaker 2: do in behalf of my servants. I will not destroy

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Speaker 2: them all. I will bring forth descendants from Jacob and

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Speaker 2: from Judah, those who will possess my mountains. My chosen

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Speaker 2: people will inherit them, and there will my servants live.

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Speaker 2: Cheron will become a pasture for flocks, and the valley

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Speaker 2: of Acre a resting place for herds.

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Speaker 1: For my people who seek me.

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Speaker 2: But ask for you, who forsake the Lord and forget

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Speaker 2: my holy mountain, who spread a table for fortune and

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Speaker 2: fill bulls of mixed wine for destiny, I will DestinE

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Speaker 2: you for the sword and all of thee will fall

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Speaker 2: in the slaughter. For I called, but you did not answer.

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Speaker 2: I spoke, but you did not listen. You did evil

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Speaker 2: in my sight and chose what displeases me. Therefore, this

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Speaker 2: is what the Sovereign Lord says. My servants will eat,

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Speaker 2: but you will go hungry. My servants will drink, but

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Speaker 2: you will go thirsty. My servants will rejoice, but you

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Speaker 2: will be put to shame. My servants will sing out

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Speaker 2: of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry

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Speaker 2: out from anguish of heart and wail unbrokenness of spirit.

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Speaker 2: You will leave your name from my chosen ones to

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Speaker 2: use in their curses. The Sovereign Lord will put you

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Speaker 2: to death, but to his servants he will give another name.

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Speaker 2: Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so

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Speaker 2: by the One True God. Whoever takes an oath in

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Speaker 2: the land will swear by the One True God. For

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Speaker 2: the past troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my eyes. See,

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Speaker 2: I will create new heavens and a new earth. The

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Speaker 2: former things will not be remembered, nor will they come

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Speaker 2: to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what

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Speaker 2: I will create.

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Speaker 1: For I will create.

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Speaker 2: Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.

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Speaker 2: I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people.

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Speaker 2: The sound of weeping and of crying will be heard

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Speaker 2: in it no more. Never again will there be in

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Speaker 2: it an infant who lives but a few days, or

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Speaker 2: an old man who does not live out his years.

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Speaker 2: The one who dies at a hundred will be thought

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Speaker 2: a mere child. The one who fails to reach a

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Speaker 2: hundred will be considered a cursed. They will build houses

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Speaker 2: and dwell on them. They will plant vineyards and eat

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Speaker 2: their fruit. No longer will they build houses and others

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Speaker 2: live in them, or plant and others eat. For as

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Speaker 2: the days of a tree, so will be the days

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Speaker 2: of my people. My chosen ones will long enjoy the

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Speaker 2: work of their hands. They will not labor in vain,

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Speaker 2: nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune. For they

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Speaker 2: will be a people blessed by the Lord. They and

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Speaker 2: their descendants with them. Before they call, I will answer.

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Speaker 2: While they are still speaking, I will hear. The wolf

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Speaker 2: and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will

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Speaker 2: eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the

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Speaker 2: serpent's food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all

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Speaker 2: my holy mountains, says the Lord. We often carry into

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Speaker 2: the night the weight of the day's worries, regrets, and

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Speaker 2: painful former things. Nighttime can easily become a breeding ground

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Speaker 2: for amplifying our problems and for dredging up the memories

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Speaker 2: we'd rather forget. However, Isaiah sixty five, particularly verses seventeen

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Speaker 2: through nineteen, invites us to think in a completely new way.

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Speaker 2: As we read Isaiah sixty five, the promise of new

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Speaker 2: heavens and a new Earth appears to speak only of

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Speaker 2: future events. But this newness of life is available to

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Speaker 2: us for today, rather than being an out of reach tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Three times this passage in Isaiah uses the word create.

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Speaker 2: God is the creator of the earth and the heavens,

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Speaker 2: acting not just at the beginning of time, but as

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Speaker 2: the giver of life. Today, God is making all things

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Speaker 2: new physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually. As believers in Christ,

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Speaker 2: we participate in God's creative work here and now. We

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Speaker 2: are becoming new creations. Each morning. His said fast faithfulness

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Speaker 2: allows us to be restored by His compassion and his mercies.

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Speaker 2: Each day we are moving closer towards the promise of

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Speaker 2: a glorious future where the pains of the past will

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Speaker 2: finally be forgotten. Reflect on the newness that God has

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Speaker 2: brought to your life today. Think of just one thing

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Speaker 2: for which you can be glad and rejoice. The Creator,

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Speaker 2: your heavenly Father, holds the world, the heavens, and your

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Speaker 2: life and his creative hands. Your glorious future has already begun,

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Speaker 2: Lord God. As I lay down to sleep tonight, I

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Speaker 2: want to release the day's worries and the warmer things

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Speaker 2: of the past that so often plague by night guard

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Speaker 2: my mind as I rest and quiet the anxious thought

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Speaker 2: that keep me awake.

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Speaker 1: Instead, I choose.

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Speaker 2: To focus my thoughts on your abundant mercies and all

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Speaker 2: that you are currently making new in my life. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for being the creator who never stops making all

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Speaker 2: things new. I surrender this day into your hands, knowing

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Speaker 2: that you are working even while I sleep. I place

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Speaker 2: my hope and trust in you, believing that beautiful and

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Speaker 2: joyful newness will rise out of what seems hopeless and regretful.

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Speaker 2: Renew my soul tonight in Jesus name, Amen, How did

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