WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.000 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:16.280 We are on Thursday, man oh man. 5 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:21.120 And this is the fourth promise talking about God's protection detection. Yes, 6 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:23.839 that's right, different week context. It's been a great week. 7 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:24.960 I hope that's encouraging week. 8 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:28.480 Yeah. But before we get into that, we are going 9 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:31.719 to tackle a segment today that is highly unusual because 10 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:33.920 I just read it a minute ago. Yes, this is 11 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:36.840 called a draft list, which we've done before. Yes, but 12 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:39.960 this one's a little unusual. Desiree says today's topic is 13 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:44.840 no weapon forged against you will prevail. So for today's segment, 14 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:47.000 let's do a draft list of weapons you would want 15 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:50.399 to use if you were in a zombie apocalypse. But 16 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:52.880 the zombies were made of marshmallows. 17 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:58.159 Zombie apocalypse? What weapons? This is a draft? What weapons? 18 00:00:58.240 --> 00:00:58.799 Yeah, we're gonna have. 19 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:00.880 Well that was an easy one for me, and then 20 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:05.000 she flipped it on its head and said, all the 21 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:06.799 zombies are made out of marshmallows? 22 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:10.519 Correct, what kind of Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. 23 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:12.239 But We've already made fun of Desiree on Monday. 24 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:13.400 We're not going to make fun of it today. 25 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:15.079 So we're not going to make fun. We're gonna put fun. 26 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:18.200 Although I will say after eight hundred and something episodes 27 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:19.120 it must be hard. 28 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:20.120 We're at the bottom of the barrel. 29 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:23.280 We're at the bottom of the barrel. So we're going 30 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:25.040 to do You want to do rock paper scissors to 31 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:28.959 see who goes first. Yeah, let's get ready one shoot. 32 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:32.719 You always be me yep. Well usually most of the time. 33 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:35.439 I did rock heated scissors, I win. So here we go. 34 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:37.040 And by the way, I don't think any of my 35 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:39.239 three weapons that I'm going to choose you're going to 36 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:42.280 really fight for anyway. Okay, okay, So number one, okay, 37 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:47.120 I would like optimisis prime. Optimist Prime's heated sword. 38 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:50.959 Oh, heated sword, so optimist Prime. Yeah, that's a good one. 39 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:53.120 It's a huge sword that comes out. 40 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:55.000 And it's heated and it just melts stuff. 41 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:57.879 It'll cut right through marshmallows like nobody's business. 42 00:01:58.760 --> 00:01:59.319 That's a good one. 43 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.840 And it's mass it's huge. Yeah, it sliced through crowds. 44 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:04.840 I like that one. That might be the best one. 45 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:06.719 But thank you might be the best one. I don't 46 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:10.199 even think we can get over that one. I was thinking, 47 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:14.120 yeah that I would want a giant flamethrower and just 48 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:14.759 toast them. 49 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:16.439 Oh yeah, toasted marshmallows. 50 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:19.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 51 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:21.000 Flamethrower just in general. Yeah, just a regular flne thrower. Yeah, yeah, 52 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:24.960 that's good. Okay. Number two, have you ever seen a 53 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:28.120 movie ant Man? Yes, remember when they were the restroom 54 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.680 and uh, he shot him with that gun and he 55 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:32.759 turned into this little thing of google. Yes, remember that, 56 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:34.120 I want that weapon. 57 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:36.240 You want that gun, and just shrink them all into. 58 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.199 Little, yeah, just tiny little piles of Google. 59 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:42.400 So they go from like giant marshmallow zombies zombies to 60 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:49.280 like lucky charms, little gooey like Halloween chunky lucky charms. 61 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:51.800 Okay, so as long as as long as the gun 62 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:55.960 didn't need to be reloaded, you and all the zombies 63 00:02:55.960 --> 00:03:00.280 would be instantaneously shrunk down to a little tiny times 64 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:04.479 kid of course, kidding me. Tek carts, yellow moons, oorn stars, 65 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:06.719 green clovers, blue diamonds, and purple horseshoes. 66 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:11.280 Okay, come on, okay, could you have said that, by 67 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:13.719 the way, No, I could not. Okay, I wasn't busy 68 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:15.479 memorizing the cartoon or the commercial. 69 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:16.960 We didn't I can even do it in his voice. 70 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:18.199 I don't want to do that. 71 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:22.599 So I was just eating it like a madman. Okay. Uh, 72 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:27.840 I would say, a giant roasting fork. Oh yeah, okay, 73 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:28.960 So I've got a theme here. 74 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:31.599 Okay, yeah, so you're just gonna you're just gonna stab. 75 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:34.159 Him yeah, well yeah, yeah, stab them and then then 76 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:37.840 run to a fire something yeah. Something. Alls I know 77 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:39.719 is that when I've got a marshmallow at the end 78 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:42.319 of my fork, he's not dangerous. It's not coming after 79 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:44.479 me anymore. But you only have one fork, that's true. 80 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:47.120 So if you have multiple zombies, then you get to 81 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:48.080 stab it squishy. 82 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:49.159 You just keep squishing them on. 83 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:54.560 Okay, all right, so this is a long fork. It's 84 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:58.639 fifty zombies. Hand me that long fork. Okay, all right. 85 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:01.159 Uh here here's my third one. And by the way, 86 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:04.439 I decided to get really clever with this one. It's 87 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:07.919 all along the side, along the lines that you're going with. Okay, okay, 88 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:12.280 uh you remember Willie Wanka's chocolate river. Yes, okay, so 89 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:15.639 they're marshmallows, right, yes, okay, So the weapon because the 90 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:19.439 river isn't the weapon. The weapons is an army of ooplopus. 91 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:23.839 So give me an army of oopa loompus to push 92 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:27.519 the zombies into the Chocolate river so that we can 93 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:31.120 have a beautiful, you know, hot chocolate kind of thing. 94 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:35.920 Well, I was thinking of molten chocolate, like like on 95 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:36.399 a s'more. 96 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:39.480 Oh yes, right right, yeah, because you can melt them. 97 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:42.120 Yeah, because it melts them, it changes the thing. But 98 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:44.600 if you're going to use the chocolate, then I would 99 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:49.319 do like a giant graham cracker smashers. 100 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:52.319 Okay, there is that? Is that your weapon? 101 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:53.000 That's my weapon? 102 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:58.160 Now, okay graham Crackers smashers just to smash the marshmallows. 103 00:04:57.639 --> 00:04:59.720 Because we got the chocolate. Yeah yeah, and we got 104 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:01.519 the four work you're gonna roast them. 105 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:01.959 Yeah. 106 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.639 And then flamethrower. Yeah we have the flame thing now 107 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:06.000 now we got the Yeah. 108 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.160 Well Augusta Augustus when he fell into the river, he 109 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:12.480 got sucked up and then shot up that pipe. Yes, right, 110 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.920 so I mean like it's sort of a weapon. 111 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:18.279 Right, get that that big giant vacuum thing. 112 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:22.160 Yeah? Hey, the which is the other weapons? They push 113 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:24.639 them into the Chocolate river and then they get sucked 114 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:25.800 up and they just get shot out. 115 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:29.319 So hey, people, if you ever find yourself in a 116 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:33.800 marshmallow zombie apocalypse, don't say we didn't try to help. 117 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:37.399 We feel like we've done our part. 118 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:39.800 We have done our best. That's right, you have done 119 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:41.120 our best, and you're welcome. 120 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:46.879 That's right. You're gonna be You're gonna be fighting, fighting 121 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:51.240 these marsh mellow zombies out in the street, and sudden 122 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:53.639 you can go, hey, wait a minute, Jeff said. 123 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:56.360 Yeah, that's right, that's right. And then so look just 124 00:05:56.360 --> 00:05:59.160 look for the closest flame thrower yeah, yeah, exactly, or 125 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:00.839 the big long fifty foot fork. 126 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:03.839 Yeah, or giant grand cracker smashes. 127 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:06.480 Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, all right, okay, do 128 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:07.519 you have a transition for that one? 129 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:09.800 I don't think we're ever getting that time back. That's 130 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:13.319 what I think. Uh, what time we wasted? That time 131 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:14.240 we're never getting the better? 132 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:16.319 Yeah, well, the people are you going to get that 133 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:19.000 time back? So they're going to say they just wasted 134 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:20.759 six minutes of their lives. 135 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:23.319 Well, the good news is hopefully God will never be 136 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:24.319 angry with us. 137 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:27.399 Oh okay, is that the transition? 138 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:31.319 I guess, because that's what verse nine says in Isaiah 139 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:31.879 fifty four. 140 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:34.439 Okay, so God won't be angry with us for what 141 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:35.360 wasting people's time? 142 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:37.600 Yeah, I guess. So they're trying to say, what's the 143 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:38.800 promise for this one today? 144 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:41.759 Well, the promise is no weapon formed against you will prevail. 145 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:44.079 Oh that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, here we go. 146 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:44.839 Let's read it. 147 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:46.759 We built, we have built in transition. 148 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:49.079 Well that is in Isaiah fifty four. 149 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:53.399 Yes, what the heck? I'm searching for goofy things. And 150 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:56.240 we could have just said, uh, you know, Isaiah talks 151 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:59.279 about how no weapon, no I must that's right, that's 152 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:00.120 all we need to say. 153 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.800 Yea, even if we are marshmallow zompies. Well, I don't 154 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:05.480 know about you, but okay, here we go. 155 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:06.839 Hopefully I'm a little more dangerous. 156 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:09.199 And verse nine it says, just as I swore in 157 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:11.879 the time of Noah that I would never again let 158 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:14.720 a flood cover the earth, so now I swear that 159 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:17.480 I will never again be angry and punish you. For 160 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:21.319 the mountains may move and the hills disappear, But even then, 161 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:24.360 my faithful love for you will remain. My covenant of 162 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:26.639 blessing will never be broken. Says the Lord who has 163 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:31.000 mercy on you, Oh storm battered city, troubled and desolate. 164 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:33.639 I will rebuild you with precious jewels and make your 165 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:38.199 foundations from lappi lazuli. Do you know what lapizul is? No, 166 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:41.560 It's like a bluish stone. It's beautiful, beautiful. 167 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:43.079 I can't believe you knew how to pronounce it. 168 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:46.079 I was just in Egypt and a place they were 169 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:49.720 selling lappy lazuli. That's why. Really, yeah. I will make 170 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:54.519 your towers of sparkling rubies, your gates of shining gems, 171 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:57.600 and your walls of precious stones. I will teach all 172 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:00.920 your children and they will enjoy great peace. You will 173 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:03.079 be secure under a government that is just and fair, 174 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:05.360 and your enemies will stay far away. You will live 175 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:07.920 in peace, and terror will not come near. If any 176 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:10.920 nation comes against you to fight, it is not because 177 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:13.519 I sent them. Whoever tax you will go down and defeat. 178 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:16.920 I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals beneath 179 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:19.360 the forge and makes the weapons of destruction, and I 180 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:22.279 have created the armies that destroy. But in that coming day, 181 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:27.120 no weapon turned against you will succeed. You will silence 182 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:30.360 every voice raised up to accuse you. And these benefits 183 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:32.919 are enjoyed by the servants of the Lord. Their vindication 184 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:37.559 will come from me. I the Lord have spoken. So 185 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.559 if you remember, Isaiah spends a lot of time prophetically 186 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:44.759 talking about the destruction of Israel God's judgment. But then 187 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:46.879 he also pivots and starts saying, but hey, it's not 188 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:49.200 gonna last forever, and I'm going to restore you. Things 189 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:51.240 are going to get better. So God's so sure. I 190 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:53.519 was the one who made the blacksmiths. I was one 191 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:55.919 who assembled the armies. But now let me tell you 192 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:58.679 from this point on, once you turn to me, right, 193 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.000 because in that he's been talking about you live in peace, 194 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.159 I'll teach you. If you come to me, I'm going 195 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:07.000 to make your towers great, all those kinds of things. 196 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:12.720 He says. Now in that coming day, no weapon formed 197 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.000 against you will prosper or will succeed. 198 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:17.480 Now let me start with because you started with verse 199 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:20.480 number nine. Yeah, and I want to start there, because 200 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:22.759 he said, just as I swore in the time of 201 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:25.440 no that I would never let again let the flood 202 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:29.679 cover the earth, so I now swear right. And so 203 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.879 let's talk about the promises of God. So this was 204 00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:36.360 a covenant that God is referring to that he made 205 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:38.840 with this people in Genesis chapter nine. We referenced it 206 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:41.759 last week, didn't we yes about the rainbow, and the 207 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:45.279 fact that God makes a covenant is significant because a 208 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:49.840 covenant is defined by a promise until death. Right. So 209 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:52.440 when God makes a covenant to his people, that's why 210 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.159 it's so significant because God never dies, so therefore his 211 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:59.600 covenant lasts forever. So I can make a covenant with 212 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:02.080 my wife, which I did when I got married her, right, 213 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:04.720 and it's supposed to be in its designed till death 214 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:08.159 do us part. That is the intention of a covenant, right, 215 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:12.879 and so, but our lights are finite, so that God 216 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:15.759 makes a covenant and it lasts forever. That's why we 217 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:18.360 mentioned it last week about the rainbow, because it's it's 218 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:20.799 still coming. The rainbows are still there after every rain 219 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:24.919 and so he's making a promise to Jerusalem, and I 220 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:27.200 think that it's the thing I want to point out 221 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:30.759 is less about this particular promise and more about the 222 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:35.080 promises of God. Right. The promises of God are everlasting. 223 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:38.960 The promises of God themselves will never fail, and God 224 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:42.120 will always keep his promises. So when he promises something, 225 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:45.840 it is a promise that you could bank on forever, right, 226 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:48.720 And that, by the way, that goes through every generation, 227 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:52.039 just like the rainbow does. And then, just like Jesus 228 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:56.080 made the the in the Last Supper, he said, this 229 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:58.759 is the covenant I make to you. I bring you 230 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.720 a new covenant. And the new covenant I make is 231 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:06.360 and he poured out the wine and he broke the 232 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:09.480 bread and he said, I'm making covenant with you, and 233 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:12.279 it's the covenant with humanity. And basically it was Jesus 234 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:16.799 giving his life in the same way that his body 235 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:20.039 was broken, the bread was ripped, the cup was poured out, 236 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:24.240 this blood was spilled out. The covenant was salvation. The 237 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:27.600 covenant is that we forever have our sins paid for 238 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:32.639 by Jesus, who is the one who is going to 239 00:11:32.679 --> 00:11:35.399 pay for all of our sins, just like the sacrificial lamb, 240 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:41.440 you know what you know was the sacrifice to pass 241 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:42.399 over for our sins. 242 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:43.360 Right. 243 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:45.639 Yeah, So it's it's just about covenants. 244 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:49.240 Yeah, I love that. That's the promises of God. Are 245 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:50.440 that secure? 246 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:51.600 Right? 247 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:55.879 They're not just a nice idea. They're secure to the 248 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:58.879 point of He's never going to die, which means he'll 249 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:02.840 never break his promises. When you read this, this key 250 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:06.559 one for today is in that coming day, no weapon 251 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:09.799 turned against you will succeed, or no weapon formed against 252 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:12.960 you will prosper, is what you've heard. And then he says, 253 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.559 you will silence every voice raised up to accuse you. 254 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:18.600 I thought that was interesting. I don't know that I've 255 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:22.000 ever really noticed that before. But he says, these benefits 256 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:25.919 are enjoyed by the servants of the Lord, and their 257 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:29.360 vindication will come from me. So it's interesting as he 258 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.399 mentions all these things. I'm going to rebuild your cities. 259 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:34.919 I'm going to teach your children. You're going to enjoy 260 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:37.279 great peace. You're going to have a government that's fair. 261 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:41.320 You will live in peace. No terror will come against you, 262 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:44.519 nations won't be able to come against you. Right, all 263 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:47.120 these kinds of things, no weapon formed against you will succeed. 264 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:50.919 He says, all of these benefits are enjoyed by the 265 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:54.720 servants of the Lord. So even though you will silence 266 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:59.360 every voice raised up to accuse you, it's in the 267 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:04.919 context of serving the Lord. Right, that's it. So what 268 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:06.879 are these people supposed to be about? Are they supposed 269 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:10.399 to be about rebuilding their city with precious jewels. No, 270 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:13.000 that's what God's doing. Are they supposed to be about, 271 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:17.159 you know, working for peace and rebuilding great governments? 272 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:20.639 And no, these are the promises that God's given. 273 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.799 Right, Right, that's all God's job. And then he says, 274 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:28.679 you just be my servant. You do my work, and 275 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.320 then I'm good. You do your part and I'll do 276 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:31.840 my part. 277 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:34.240 Right that we do what we can do. God can 278 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:35.080 do what only God can do. 279 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:43.720 Yeah, that's right. And what's funny is my kids and 280 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:47.759 maybe your kids were this way. My kids had stages 281 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:51.039 in their life when they were happy to have me 282 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:54.279 do what they could have done and what only I 283 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:57.360 could do. Sure, right, they couldn't pay the mortgage, they 284 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:01.960 couldn't fund their rides everywhere, they couldn't pay for their sports. 285 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.679 They couldn't. So I was doing all that. I was 286 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:08.559 providing safety and security and provision for my kids. But 287 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:11.679 then there was a time when they were being immature 288 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:13.639 that they were happy to go ahead and let me 289 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.200 mow the lawn too. They were happy to let me 290 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:19.480 go ahead and clean the dishes after we did all 291 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:23.399 the cooking for the night, right, and I think immature 292 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:27.399 Christians are happy to let God do all his part, 293 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:31.879 and then they want him to miraculously do their part. Right, right, 294 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:34.480 But that's not the promises he's making. No weapon formed 295 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:39.320 against you will prosper if you're serving me, right, that's it. 296 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:42.240 And I think it's funny we want God to do 297 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:44.879 miracles rather than working through our difficult marriage. 298 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:47.840 Well, he says, these benefits are enjoyed by the servants 299 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:48.360 of the Lord. 300 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:51.519 Right, Yeah, we want God to work miracles to fix 301 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:53.720 our marriage rather than us doing the hard work of 302 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.279 working through the marriage. We want God to do a 303 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:59.879 miracle to solve our money problems that we dug ourselves 304 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.000 into that pit. Now we want Aim to the miraculously 305 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:04.360 get us out of it, rather than doing our part. 306 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:08.480 And so in this they had rebelled against God judgment Cain. 307 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:10.720 They got wiped out. And then God says, you know what, 308 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:13.200 once you turn to me in previous chapters, once you 309 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.360 turn to me, he says, then see if I don't 310 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:20.159 now bless you again. And I'm going to rebuild all 311 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:22.320 those things you lost, and I'm going to redo all 312 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:24.080 this stuff, and it's gonna be me. I'm gonna one 313 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.120 that steps in and do that. I just need you 314 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:28.080 just now start serving me. Do what you're supposed to 315 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:30.759 be doing, and I'll do my part. So it just 316 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:31.440 stood out to me. 317 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:35.480 Yeah, that's amazing. And what about the idea that it 318 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:40.159 says no weapon formed against you shall prosper? Is that 319 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:45.120 something specific that we can apply to us? I mean, 320 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:47.320 I'm thinking, like you know, we obviously did a little 321 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:49.840 thing at the beginning there, we were talking about different weapons, 322 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:52.080 or do you think this is more of a general 323 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:57.279 promise that says basically, anybody who comes at you, I'm 324 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.360 going to take care of Because he wasn't necessarily referring 325 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:01.759 to bows and bow and arrows. 326 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:05.000 Right, he was talking about blacksmith there, yeah, and forges. 327 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:07.919 Yeah. I don't think he was referring to specific weapons. 328 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:11.440 He's referring to the ultimate protection, right, would you agree? 329 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.440 Yeah? Okay, Well, I think in that situation he is 330 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:17.879 talking about actual weapons because he talks about the blacksmith forging, 331 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:20.200 he talks about the weapons of destruction, he talks about 332 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:22.720 the armies that he created to destroy. Yes, but I 333 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:26.360 think there's nothing that's coming against you, yea yea, yeah, 334 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:26.759 for us. 335 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:29.840 Yeaheah, yeah, yeah, I think I think that the application 336 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:30.879 is what I should. 337 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:33.200 Have shad the application to me and you yes, yeah, yeah, 338 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:33.919 yeah for sure. 339 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:40.360 So so the so God is promising that one day 340 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:43.440 he's going to restore Jerusalem and uh and then and 341 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:47.240 then nothing will come against it, He'll never punish them again. Uh. 342 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:51.240 Now after this time at Isaiah was is this is 343 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:54.080 this a future promise or did God punish them after 344 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:57.360 that or was it from this time on chronologically that 345 00:16:57.440 --> 00:16:59.759 Israel has never punished That's an interesting question. 346 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.559 Yeah. No, this is this whole section right here is 347 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:07.279 talking about what will happen after they repent, because they 348 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:10.720 hadn't repented yet. Okay, remember, so Isaiah. 349 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:12.160 Is making a future promise. 350 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:14.680 Yeah, he spends a big chunk of time warning them, yep, 351 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.039 and then he says, then here's how it's going to 352 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:20.599 be resolved. You get the fifty three Jesus all that 353 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:24.240 kind of stuff and Isaiah and then he finishes up saying, 354 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:27.039 and when you do come back to me, I'm going 355 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:29.720 to restore all the things I took away from you before. Right. 356 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:32.640 That's kind of how the Book of Isaiah works, not entirely, 357 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:36.079 but chunks of it. This portion is now God saying 358 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:37.519 this is how we're going to clean up the mess 359 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:41.039 you caused. Right, not not that he caused, but you caused, 360 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:43.359 you know, the people of Israel. But in this, in 361 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:46.119 this verse, so clearly this verse, no weapon turned against 362 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:48.799 you will succeed, No weapon formed against you will prosper. 363 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:52.680 That verse is specifically at the Israelites. But I have 364 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:56.519 found myself praying this verse, saying, God, if you could 365 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:58.359 do it for them whom you loved, I know you 366 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:01.079 loved me, would you do it for me too? So 367 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:05.079 I've claimed this verse on a number of occasions, asking God, Hey, 368 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:08.319 you promised other people you loved no weaponformed against them 369 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:10.720 will prosper. Hey, would you blunt the weapons of my 370 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:13.039 enemies right now? The people trying to hurt me? Would 371 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:15.440 you confound them? Would you silence every voice raised up 372 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:19.559 against me? Right? And so I've prayed the principle, knowing 373 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:21.319 that God did it for others, why wouldn't he do 374 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:25.720 it for me? In what was it in Hubbacchic he 375 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:29.160 says you did it in old times? Do it again? Right? Right? 376 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:29.359 Right? 377 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:32.000 And that was a minor prophet just saying God, we 378 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:34.240 saw what you did before. It was amazing. Do that 379 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:37.319 in our time too, And so it's appropriate for us 380 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:40.000 to take these promises that we see God making. Clearly 381 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:43.079 this promise is directed rate at the Israelites, but it's 382 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:45.519 appropriate for me to say, God, I know you did 383 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.160 that for them, do what you did in old times, 384 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:50.359 do that for me too. I need it right now. 385 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:53.279 I don't have anywhere else to turn. There's all this destruction, 386 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:55.279 and you might be in a situation where maybe the 387 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:57.559 world burned down around you because of your own situation. 388 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:01.200 But just like the is Lights, if you just because 389 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:03.839 your own decisions, just like the Israelites, if you turn 390 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:06.640 back to God and you repent, See God, you are 391 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:09.200 the center of my world and all that stuff, then 392 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:11.640 you can begin rely on him to begin rebuilding. Because 393 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:14.319 that's what God does, is he brings beauty out of ashes. 394 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:18.000 Also in Isaiah right here is it, Jeremiah? 395 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:19.359 No, that's isa Is that Isaiah? 396 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:24.119 Yeah? And then he says God's great at that. That's 397 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:26.559 one of the He's an expert at bringing beauty out 398 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:30.279 of the ashes again and things coming back to life 399 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:34.039 is what it does. He's a pro at resurrection and 400 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:36.279 new life and so God to do the same thing 401 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:38.079