Bible Study: September 13, 2023

Okay, so we lastly, well, I'm going to remind us again because I'm going to, I think we're going to get into chapter 53 today, which is a very familiar chapter to all of us, but I want to remind us again that since chapter 40 in Isaiah, we've been talking about the time when Jesus Christ is on earth, and he is talking to the people that live over into that kingdom.

And he's talking to Israel, and he's talking to the Gentiles, and he's talking, and he reminds them, as I've said many times, that he is God, and he goes through all the processes of showing he is God, he is the Savior, and there's no one like him.

He discounts all the gods of the earth, he discounts all the gods that they may have worship, and shows that not one of them could ever do anything that he did or ever could bring about what will come about when Jesus Christ is on earth. So we've had that consistent message from Isaiah 40 right on up until the time that we're here. We went through chapter 51 last week. Most of chapter 51 we're going to start in verse 17. And as we get into the return of the Jesus Christ that is going to really be highlighted about what we've been talking about the whole time as God teaches the people living over into the kingdom.

He is God, he is the Savior, and there is none like him. But let's just recount before we get into chapter 51 verse 17 what we talked about last week in chapter 51. You'll remember that in chapter 51 there are three Listen to Me's that we talked about. The first one is listed there in chapter 51 in verse 1, and he says, Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness.

That would be you and me, right? We follow God, we follow the truth, live by the truth. Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord. Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you were dug. Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you, for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. What God is saying is, have faith in Me. Look to Me.

Always look to Me. That is where we look. At this age and in the age to come, they will be looking to God. He is our provider. He's our sustainer. He is everything. We look to Him and have faith and trust in Him. Then in verse 4 is the second, Listen to Me, my people. And he says, the law will proceed from me. I will make my justice rest as a light of the peoples. My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone forth, and my arms will judge the peoples. Look to your eyes, verse 6, to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath, for the heavens will vanish away like smoth.

The earth will grow old like a garment, and those who dwell in it will die in like manner. But my salvation will be forever. The law goes forth from me, and salvation comes from me. God keeps repeating those things to us. Listen to me. Have the faith in me. Trust in me. Listen to me. Salvation comes from me. Verse 7, Listen to me, you who know righteousness, you people in whose heart is my law. Don't be afraid of other men, he says. The same thing that Jesus Christ says in the New Testament over and over again.

Don't be afraid of them. Fear God. Fear him who can take the eternal life away from you. Follow him. Have faith in him. Live by his law, and don't be afraid. And then lastly, and then we're going to look at three, awake-awakes. This is where it's like we're symbolically calling on God. Awake. Deliver your people. We know. We trust in you. And we went through for, you know, the first one, awake-awake, that is in verse 9 there of Isaiah 51, where he says, Awake, awake. Put on strength, O arm of the Lord. God, we know you.

We know you're strong. We know you can deliver us. Awake as you did in the ancient days and the generations of old. Isn't it you, he says, aren't you the arm that cut Egypt apart and wounded the serpent? Isn't it you? We know you can. Awake, deliver your people. We're listening to you. We trust in you. We have faith in you. We know that salvation comes from you. Awake, awake.

You know, return, he says, come and comfort your people. Come and deliver us. And then we came down to verse 17 last week, where this is where we cut off. So we will pick it up there tonight, beginning in verse 17 is the second. Awake, awake. And there he says, awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk at the hand of the eternal, the cup of his fury. And we know, we know between now and the return of Jesus Christ, there is going to be a lot of suffering that comes upon mankind because of what he has done.

Among the many things that God teaches us in his word is that we bring the suffering upon ourselves if we would just follow God, if we would just obey him. Remember, I think it's in Isaiah 48, somewhere around 15, 16, 17, 18, the verses there.

If you had just obeyed my commandments, if you had just listened to me, it didn't have to be this way. But there will be that suffering, but out of that suffering comes the return of Jesus Christ and the establishment of his kingdom. So he says, you know, stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk at the hand of the Lord, the cup of his fury.

And you know, when it talks about the cup of his fury, it's like God pours out that fury on people.

I think without turning there, you'll remember because we've been in Revelation many times as we've gone through the book of Revelation. In Revelation 14, it talks about how God pours out the suffering on people. We talk about the cup, the cup that Babylon has. And throughout Scripture, let me just give you a couple of scriptures if you want to look at them later. I have written down here John 18 and verse 11. And where Jesus Christ talks about, he will drink the cup that God has prepared for him. He was willing to go through the suffering. And then Revelation 1410 that talks about the cup in Revelation. So he says, Jerusalem, you've suffered, people of God, you've suffered. You've drunk the cup of his fury. You have gone through the great tribulation. You have gone through the trumpet plagues, the trumpet blasts that are recorded there that we'll be talking about and observing. You know, that is part of the day of trumpets coming up here in a couple days. Going on to verse 17, he says, you've drunk the drug, the dregs of the cup of trembling.

Now, we've talked about in Jeremiah 30, is it Jeremiah 30, where it talks about the Jacob, you know, the trembling that's there, that they tremble. Jacob's trouble, the time of Jacob's trouble. And they tremble and they fear. Because you've drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, you've drained it out. It's been poured out on you. And then he goes on to say, there's no one to guide her. No one among Jerusalem, there's no one to guide Jerusalem. Among all the sons, she has brought forth. There's been many, many sons of Jerusalem. There's been many, many leaders there and whatever, but there's no one to guide her. There's no one to take her by the hand. Among all the sons she has brought up, they've all, they aren't capable of delivering her from what is going to come. Only salvation, only comes through God. What he writes is surely going to come. No one can deliver Jerusalem. No one can deliver the world except the Messiah, except God. Verse 19, these two things have come to you. Who will be sorry for you? These two things will come to you. Desolation and destruction, famine and sword. And by whom? By whom will I comfort you?

Only God provides comfort. He is the God of all comfort. It says in 2 Corinthians 1 verses 1 to 3 there. He's the one who comforts. He's the one who provides. That's who we have to look to. Jerusalem nor man nor any of us are going to deliver ourselves by our wisdom, by our might, by our power. It's only by God, only by God. Verse 20, your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets like an antelope in a net. They haven't escaped. All the maneuverings, all the plans, all the strategies, all the weapons, nothing is going to save them. They are going to be there completely defeated by the wiles of the world and what comes against them. They are full, God says in the last part of that verse, of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of your God. Why does God do this?

We're reminded, does he just dislike mankind? Does he glory in seeing man suffer? No, he does it for our own good. Unfortunately, mankind sometimes has to suffer and be in pain before they can ever come to the point that they repent, acknowledge God, and acknowledge his power, and then be able to follow him. Israel, Judah, the whole world, when we look at the trumpets of Revelation, the world is brought to its knees, so it finally realizes you can't stand against God. There is only one way to salvation, peace, harmony, everything that mankind has ever wanted, and that's through God. Jesus Christ, as he returned, as he came the first time to conquer Satan and to open up the opportunity for those who he calls to have his Holy Spirit and overcome human nature and the way of Satan in us, it will be his second coming that defeats Satan and the way of this world, which is 100% determined to break us and to conquer us and to bring mankind and the earth to nothing.

So we see that in verse 2. There are a few of those things for our own good, but if we would just listen to him, if we would just believe him and do the things that he wants us to become who he wants us to be, the world doesn't do that because of what it says in Romans 8-7. They're full of the enmity of God, the resistance to him. So verse 21, therefore please hear this, you afflicted, and drunk but not with wine. You afflicted. That would be Jerusalem, Israel, the people who have been sorely afflicted. Thus says the Lord. Thus says your Lord, the Lord and your God, who pleased the cause of his people. He says, see, I've taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, all that that you endured before my return, all that that you had to go through. I've taken that out of your hand, that cup of trembling. I've taken out of your hand the drugs, the dregs of the cup of my fury. You shall no longer drink of it, but I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you.

Again, as God uses other nations and other situations to bring his people to punishment, all too often they gloat, they glory, they claim that they are the ones who, you know, have their great power, their great might have done this. They too will suffer affliction. They too have to learn the fear of God and suffer so that they can come to recognize him. I will put what they put you through into the hand of those who afflict you, who you have said to you, lie down, that we may walk over you. Kind of, we even use that phrase today, that I can just walk all over you. You're nothing, you're nothing but a doormat. Lie down, that we may walk over you, and you have laid your body like the ground and as a street for those who walk over. I know Jerusalem had no choice. They were just powerless against what came against them. That's the second awake. Awake, awake, God. He will come, He will deliver from the slavery and the oppression that is upon His people.

Then we have the third awake in chapter 52. Awake, awake. Put on your strength, O Zion. Put on your beautiful garments. God has come and He's delivered you. He's taken away the cup of trembling. He's taken away the dregs of the cup of His fury. Now you put on your strength. Now you turn to Him. Remember, our strength always comes from God. You turn to Him. He has delivered you. Put on your strength, O Zion. Put on your beautiful garments. When we talk about the garments of God, it probably reminds you of revelation. Keep your finger there in Isaiah 52 for a moment. Let's go first to Zechariah chapter 3. Zechariah the second book from the end of the Old Testament, Zechariah 3. We see some of these garments, these kind of symbolic garments that God talks about.

We're here in Zechariah 3. We'll turn to revelation in a minute. We'll see it more clearly there. But here in Zechariah 3 verse 1, it says, He showed me, this is Zechariah, God of course, giving him these words, then He showed me Joshua, the high priest, standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him. Remember, Satan is always there to oppose God and God's people, always. So we see that picture. That's reality. And the Lord said to Satan, the Lord rebuke you, Satan. The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you. Is this not a brand plucked from the fire? Now, Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and was standing before the angel. He was a sinner. He had things that needed to be repented of. He needed to be washed white. He came before. I might remind you of what we read in Isaiah 6 when God was calling Isaiah. Isaiah said, I have filthy lips. God says, I'm cleansing your lips. Speak the words that I say. Joshua was clothed with filthy garments. He was standing before the angel. He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. To him he said, See, I removed your iniquity from you, and I will clothe you with rich groves. I'm going to put clean garments on you. I forgive your sin that you will be clothed with righteousness. And I said, Let them put a clean turban on his head. So they put a clean turban on his head, and they put the clothes on him, and the angel of the Lord stood by, and then he gives him this. If you'll walk in my ways, verse 7, keep my commands, etc. But we see the symptoms the symbolism of the garments. We see it a lot in Revelation. So let's turn back to Revelation.

Revelation 3, we have the messages to three of the churches here, to Sardis and to Philadelphia and Laodicea. And we see to each of them, God talks about these garments. Revelation 3 and verse 4. He's talking to the church at Sardis. And Sardis, if you'll remember, God says, you have a name that you are dead, but there are some of you who are still alive. So he tells them repent. Get life back. Get back with God. Don't just have my name and not be you doing what I ask you to do. In verse 4, he says that he says, you have a few names, even in Sardis. You have a few names, even in Sardis, who haven't defiled their garments. They're walking with me in righteousness. They are following God. They are living by his ways. You have a few names, even in Sardis, who have not filed their garments. And they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy. Down in verse 5, going right on, he who overcomes, overcomes self, overcomes the world, overcomes his own attitudes, overcomes sin. The sin that does so easily beseech, becomes like God. He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments. And I will not blot out his name for the book of life. But I will confess his name before my father and before his angels. Down in verse 18, down in verse 18, to the church in Laodicea that has some problems too. They know God's word. They're not as dead as many in Sardis are, but they're not really on fire for God. They are partly in the world and partly following God. They haven't come out of the world. They're not they're not red hot. They're not the zealous for God's way. And in verse 18, after he talks about, you know, tell, warns him about, you know, you don't know that you're rich and miserable, poor, blind, and naked. He goes in verse 18, I counsel you to buy from me gold, refined in the fire, that you may be rich. And white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed. Buy white garments. Do that. Do that by following God and following him implicitly. In verse chapter 4, verse 4, we find, you know, this vision that God gives John of up in God's throne room, right? In verse 4, he's talking about the throne. Around the throne were 24 thrones, and on the thrones I saw 24 elders sitting clothed in white robes, and they had crowns of gold on their heads. Literally.

But there's always those white robes that God wants us, God wants us to be adorned in. And we do that by the garments that we make ourselves clean, by the way we do live our lives and cast out the filth in it. Or the unleavened bread, if I could go back to that analogy from the first Holy Days.

And cast out the leavened bread and put in the unleavened bread. And then Revelation 16, 15. Christ's words here in the middle of chapter 16 as the bulls of the seventh trumpet are beginning to be poured out on mankind. It says, Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches and keeps his garments. Lest he walk naked and they see his shame. Keep your clothes on. Keep those white garments on. Do what God's will is. And I would say more and more, you know, we have to really be aware of what we're doing and getting growing closer and closer to God as we see a world grow further and further and further away from God. And espousing things and teaching things and flooding the airwaves with all these crazy and perverted and dangerous ideas that are out there that can lure us away. And that will only increase as time goes on, God says. The closer we are to God and we make sure that we're walking with him, the closer we are to him will shield us from, you know, the deception that can come upon the earth. So those garments, you know, God uses them figuratively here and symbolically for us. So let's go back to chapter 52 in Isaiah.

When we were talking about, you know, this is the third, awake, awake. You know, awake, awake, God, you're strong. Awake, awake, Jerusalem. God has delivered you. Awake, awake. Put on your strength, O Zion. Put on your beautiful garments. Now walk with God. You haven't walked with God before. Christ has returned. He's delivered you. Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come to you.

It will be the people who are living God's way of life. That's what Jerusalem will be inhabited. Remember, when Christ returns, His Spirit, it says in Joel 2.28, will be poured out on all flesh. His law will be taught in all the world. You and I, if we continue to follow God and yield to Him and let Him continue to develop us into who He wants us to become, will be there to teach His law. He will have absolute faith in you and me that we can teach His law because we're doing it in our lives now. And we're showing Him that we completely trust and believe in Him and that our citizenship is in heaven because we're living by those laws in our life now. The uncircumcised and the unclean will no longer come to you. It will be people who come to Jerusalem. You know, we'll be talking about this at the Feast of Tabernacles. Let us go up to the mountain of the Lord. There He will teach us His way. For out of Zion will go the law. It will be truth that is being taught.

They will no longer come to you. It will be those who are seeking the truth.

Shake yourself off from the dust. Arise, He says in verse 2. In our Bible, the UCG Bible commentary, I think makes a good point there. You can read right over there. Shake yourself from the dust. Arise. You've been in slavery. You've been sitting down. You've been people have been walking all over you. Get up, Jerusalem, and get up from slavery and sit down. And the Bible commentary says that's symbolic of them sitting on thrones. They are now people who are respected. Sit down, O Jerusalem. Get up from the dust. Sit down.

Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck. That's those yokes of slavery that are fastened around you. O captive daughter of Zion, God has delivered you. Awake, awake. Now do His will. For thus says the Lord, you have sold yourselves for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money. You were worth nothing. When you were captured, people didn't come to you. You didn't sell yourselves. You got nothing out of this. You only got it. You only got destruction. There was no benefit in you in you being sold into slavery. In Old Testament times, if you were sold into slavery, your debts were relieved and you had to serve a person, but you were sold in this for nothing just because of your sin, just because of your distance from God. And you shall be redeemed without money. God delivers. There's no—Christ already paid the payment for our redemption. Verse 4, for thus says the Lord God, my people went down at first, and He kind of recounts some history here. My people went down at first into Egypt to dwell there. That takes us back to Exodus when Jacob was in Egypt, and the Israelites came into Egypt during the famine. They were there. They became slaves there. God delivered them. Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. We talked about that. The Assyria came. They oppressed Jerusalem. They actually conquered Israel and took away Israel as slaves. The Assyrian didn't conquer Jerusalem, but Babylon later did.

Now therefore what have I here, says the Eternal, that my people are taken away for nothing. They got nothing for it. They got no relief. They just got oppression. They just got slavery. There was no benefit in this. They did it to themselves. It was the worst thing that could have possibly happened. Therefore what have I here, that my people are taken away for nothing. Those who rule over them make them whale, says the Eternal. My name is blasphemed continually every day.

There's none. We read about that in Revelation 13. The coming beast's power. What does it say? That leader does. He does nothing but blaspheme God. They are all against God. God says, my people, they've done it to themselves by the choices that they've made. My name is blasphemed every day. Therefore, my people, God says, they will know my name. They will come to know that. We see that over and over in these prophecies. That they may know my name. That they know who I am. Therefore, my people shall know my name. Therefore, they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is me. God will make himself known, and people will know he is God. He alone is the Savior. He is the deliverer. There is none. There is no other God besides him.

And then in verse 7, he talks about the preaching of the gospel, the preaching of the joy and the good news of the coming kingdom of God that will deliver the world from itself.

From the oppression, the misery, the war, the strife, everything that defines this world, that God will, that the preaching of the gospel does. Paul repeats this. We won't turn to Romans 10 and 15. You can look at that later, but you can see Paul talks about this as well. He uses these scriptures as he's talking about the gospel and the hearing of the word that the people must hear. Verse 7 says, How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings glad tidings of good things, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns. How beautiful is that? There is a coming time of trouble, but how beautiful is it that we know salvation is there, and it's God who brings it.

It's him in who we have our trust and who we look. Your watchman shall lift up their voices, it says in verse 8, with their voices they will sing together. They will sing the same thing. You may have heard us say sometimes that, you know, as the ministry and the ministers of Jesus Christ, we all need to be speaking the same thing. God gives us the same truth. We need to be speaking that same thing. Here he talks about that unity of the truth and the unity of the message. With their voices they shall sing together, for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord brings back Zion. There will be unity, unity in every way under God's way. And then one of those praise verses, break forth into joy. Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem. God has delivered you. Hold on just a minute here. God has delivered you. For the Lord has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem. The eternal has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations. He's shown his strength. None can deny that it's him who delivers. None that can deny that it is God who has returned. All the signs, all the seals, the heavenly signs, the trumpet plagues, the return of Jesus Christ where he decimates earth and then ushers in that time of beauty and that time of teaching of who he is, of which we're reading here in these 10 chapters of Isaiah. The Lord has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations. And all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. Everyone will see it. It's not just for one nation. It's not just for physical Israel. It's for the whole world. And then after three listen to me's and three awake awakes, we have a depart depart. And that's a message to them and a message to us. We see God's salvation. We know God's salvation. We read of it. We know that we've been told in Isaiah a few times in the chapter in the chapters of the 44-45 when God says it's going to happen. It's going to happen. There is no doubt that it's going to happen. And he says, when the word goes forth from my mouth, it happens. And so in verse 11, he says, depart, depart. Go out from there. Touch no one clean thing. Go out from the midst of her.

Be clean, you who bear the vessels of the Lord. It's like the same message that's given in 2nd Corinthians 6 and in Revelation 18. Come out of her, my people. Come out of her, my people.

Be clean. Live by God's way of life. Don't even touch the unclean thing. Don't let it tempt you.

Don't fixate yourself on it. Get away from it. Get out of the world. There is no salvation and no pleasantry in the world that compares what God has given us. And when he says here, you who bear the vessels of the eternal, he's talking about those who he is preparing, the first fruits. You and me, right? And everyone who follows God and lives in his truth.

Because those are priestly duties. If you go back to Leviticus 22, those priests, they had to be clean to do God's way. You read about the washings, you read about the clothes that they put on, the garments they wear that have to be clean and washed. And that's what God's saying. You, you and me, you know, be clean. You who bear the vessels of the Lord. You who say that you believe in God. You who talk of God's truth. You who are setting yourself as examples of God's way of life. You be clean and as a witness to me. Verse 12, for you shall not go out with haste. It's not kind of like you're going to escape, right? Someone leaves the prison door open and you run as fast as you can and hope they don't catch you. You shall not go out with haste. You're not going to go out by flight. Well, here's our chance where this escapes criminals. No, no, no. It's God who delivers us. And it says there in verse 12, He will be the one who goes before us.

He is the deliverer. He is the one who conquered the enemy. He will lead his people out. The Lord will go before you and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. And so we come to a break here in Isaiah 52. We move into another section here in verse 13. Again, we've been through, if we include Isaiah 40, 13 chapters of God is salvation. God will deliver you. You have come out of affliction. Yes, you have suffered. The reason you have suffered is because you did it to yourselves. You didn't follow me. I will deliver you. We had the millennial signs, the Isaiah 35s, the deserts will bloom. Everything is going to be great when everything is under God's rule.

But it's our responsibility today to live by his way. We've been through 12 chapters of that.

And then we come into verse 13 that begins to talk about the one who made it all possible.

And that's Jesus Christ. Now, often, around Passover time, we rightly talk about these last verses in Isaiah 52 and all of chapter 53 that are prophecies of the Messiah to come. Remember when Isaiah was writing, there was still no first coming of the Messiah. And all these prophecies, or this prophecy in the rest of chapter 52 and 53, are talking about the first coming of the Messiah but also showing us he's the Messiah. He's the Savior. God was going to deliver. He's going to deliver Israel. He's going to deliver Judah. He's going to deliver the Gentiles. The Savior of the whole world is Jesus Christ. It's all because of him. In a Passover, we recognize that. It's because of him. And as we go into the Feast of Trumpets, it's because of him. He delivers the world from destruction, slavery, and misery again. And so we go into chapter 53, which is a fitting chapter right here because we need to know who that Savior is and what he did for mankind to do that. So let me pause here for a moment. Becky, you got a question or a comment? Hi, I just have a comment. I think it was verse 11 that word touch. I looked that up and it looks like it literally means to lay the hand upon for any purpose. I thought that was really interesting when it says, touch no unclean thing. It literally means like don't put your hand on anything. Don't touch it for any reason is the way that I took that. Yep. Come completely out of the world. Don't let any of those things linger in your mind. It's a process we go through the rest of our lives.

One of the other, like if you go down a little further in that, it's 50-60 is what it is. It's to draw near. So even like to get close to something unclean, it sounds like, like you said, come completely out. Don't go close to it. Just separate yourself is the way I took it. And kind of the way we would do that today, right? Don't even think about it. Don't even go down that road and entertain for a moment how tempting it is. Don't even yield a little bit to temptation.

Deliver us from temptation. Yeah, very good. Okay, so let's look at chapter 53. With everything we've been through, here's our 52 and verse 13. This is clearly Jesus Christ. He clearly is the Savior. The kingdom was assured with his first coming when he died. He paid the penalty for our sins when he was resurrected to eternal life. He is our forerunner, and we have the hope of eternal life as God will resurrect first at the return. Well, the Feast of Trumpets pictures the resurrection of the dead, the first fruits, and then in the second, of course, in Revelation 20, all the rest of humanity is resurrected. But in verse 13, he talks about, you know, my servant. Behold, my servant shall deal prudently. You know, you look up that word. It's that yes, Jesus Christ was certainly prudent. He certainly was wise. He certainly conducted himself, but that word could also be profitably. Was his life profitable to God? You know, when you look at his life, it might have been from a purely human perspective. It's like, well, you know, he died. He wasn't a rich man, you know, and everything, but he was rich in God's eyes. He accomplished everything, and we look at him. There is no one who has accomplished what Jesus Christ has. Behold, my servant shall deal prudently or profitably. He will be exalted and extolled and be very high, Savior of all mankind, absolutely the most important human who has ever lived, and only through his name, shall salvation come. And yet, as he was there, he suffered immensely more than any man. It says that in verse 14. Just as many were astonished at you, you know, if you look at what Israel, the modern day nations of Israel, are going to go through, and people are like, how could you have been like that great nation or those great nations on earth and have come to the point you are? So it says, his visage, his appearance, his physical body, was marred more than any man. No man endured what he's endured. So his visage, oh, his appearance, was marred more than any man and his form more than the sons of men. And when you look at the detail and put yourself into the detail of what Jesus Christ suffered, the jeering, the mockery, you know, those are mild comparisons to the scourging. And how many is the scourging that probably most other men who endured what he did would have been dead as a result of the scourging. And after that, carrying that cross and then being nailed and on a thing where everyone was just waiting for him to die, surrounded by people who just wanted him dead and left alone, left alone, you know, and all that. Just the misery on every single level it says here is more than any man. So shall he sprinkle many nations, or so will he startle many nations, so he will be an example to many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him when they see him return, right? For what had not been told them, they shall see. What had not been told them. You know, it is the church's commission to preach the gospel to the whole world, but they don't understand what it is.

Let us do turn to Romans 15, because Paul quotes that verse in Romans 15. Romans 15 and verse 20. Paul writes, and so I made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation, but as it is written, to whom he was not announced, they shall see, and those who have not heard shall understand.

So Paul was the apostle, we say, to the Gentiles. He went out where they hadn't heard about Jesus Christ. As it is written, to whom he was not announced, they will see. And they did, as God called them, understand what Paul said, and those who have not heard shall understand. Well, here in verse 15, what they had not been told, they'll see. They'll see him return. The whole world in Matthew 24 says, will see him coming. He will return, and he will conquer the nations. They won't believe until it happens that they are going to be conquered, but he will conquer them. Now, what they had not heard, they shall consider. They'll know for a fact. Jesus Christ will return and save the world from itself. And then in chapter 53, we have these just amazing verses.

I didn't read Romans 10 verse 16, but there I think he, that's where we were Romans 15. But in Romans 10, 16, even Paul says, well, who has believed our report? Who believes what Isaiah wrote down? Who believes Isaiah? Who believes these things about the coming Messiah that he's going to suffer the way he did? Who believes Jesus Christ? Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Well, in Amos 3, 7, he says that he's going to reveal his truths to the prophets, the true prophets of God. And so Paul was an apostle. He was a prophet.

He was talking about that to people. Today, the Church of God will talk about that to people. It says that he will reveal his secrets to the prophets before those things happen that we may know. That we may know it's him. It's another one of those proofs of God that we've talked about through Isaiah as well. Who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he will grow up Christ, the one who became Jesus Christ, he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, just a human born as a baby, growing up through childhood, just like you and I grew up through childhood, as a tender plant. He will grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground, out of humanity. He will come. He is the Son of God, but the Son of man as well. He has no form or comeliness. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. God didn't make him the most handsome man on earth. God didn't make him the tallest man on earth, the most muscular man on earth. People would come to him because they heard his word and because God opened their minds. They saw who he was, they saw his example, and they desired his disciples to become like him. Not because he was the most attractive, the strongest, the tallest, or anything like that, but because of who he was, the character that he had, the strength in God that he had, everything that he was. People weren't attracted by his physical comeliness. As God opened their mind, they were attracted and called by the spiritual part of understanding who he is.

I don't know how much we talk about disciples anymore, but at a leadership workshop that we did back here a couple weeks ago, we talked about disciples. Remember, disciples sometimes in movies that you watch or even in other things you may read, it replaces the word disciple with student, and that is in error. Students learn what their teacher teaches, but a disciple not only learns what the teacher teaches, he studies the teacher. He becomes like the teacher. When you read about disciples, they are learning everything about that man. Some of us who are older will remember when we were in grade school and high school, we would read autobiographies of great men, people like Abraham Lincoln, others who were successful. You studied what they were like. You read their autobiographical, but you learned what they were like because you could determine keys of how we need to become in order to be successful like them. No one more important to study and become like than Jesus Christ. That's what the Bible says, and that's what we're called to be like Him. Study the words, know His words, and study Him too so that we are being like Him. Verse 2 talks about who this man is. All these things were written before he came to earth. The Pharisees all supposedly knew these scriptures, but then they didn't recognize the Messiah. Verse 3 says, He's despised. He's rejected by men. We know the story of Jesus Christ. Indeed, He was. They hated Him. They hated what He did. They were jealous of Him. They were envious of Him. They had pride in themselves, and they couldn't let go of it. When they saw Him doing things, they couldn't do the healings. They saw the faith in Him, and they saw how people gravitated toward Him because of the character that He had. They hated Him. He's despised. He's rejected by man. A man of sorrows. He's acquainted with grief. We hid. You and I, because we're guilty too, we hid, as it were, our faces from Him. We resisted Him. There are times in our life we don't want to do what He says. We don't want to be like that. We want what the world does. We want to do our own thing. We want to believe our own things. We want to do what our things are and not deny self. One of those things that Jesus Christ said is, you can't be my disciple if you don't deny self. If you're not willing to deny yourself and take up your cross and follow me, you can't be my disciple.

We did it too, but God was merciful and patient with us. Through His Holy Spirit, we learned to yield to Him and repent of that resistance and that enmity that we had toward Him that we didn't want to do it. We hid, as it were, our faces from Him.

He was despised, and we didn't esteem Him. At some point in our lives, all of us were that way.

By the choices that we made, by the attitudes that we display, in verse 4, surely He has borne our griefs. You're margin there, like mine, and the Hebrew actually indicates, surely He has borne our sicknesses. He's borne those things.

Because there are the laws that God has given us, and if we were obeying them exactly as He gave them, as they will in the kingdom, these things wouldn't happen to us. In Exodus 26, verse 15, He does say to Israel, if you'll just follow me, I won't put any of these diseases on you that the Egyptians have had. Surely He has borne our griefs, and He's carried our sorrows or our pains, and yet we esteem Him stricken. You know, we said, you brought that upon yourself. You're getting what you deserve, the Jews would have said back then. Yet we have seen Him stricken. It's your problem. You're getting crucified. You're getting scourged because of what you did, smitten by God and afflicted. As they sat there and they watched it back as Jesus Christ was living at that day, thinking, it's all Him. We hate Him, crucify Him, release to us parabbas. We'd rather have a murderer among us than Jesus Christ. Now, I should pause there in verse 4, and we should turn back to Matthew 8. Just like we do in Passover time, to remind us that when we read about that He is born our sicknesses in Matthew 8, 17, you see that when Jesus Christ was on earth, He did everyone who was brought to Him. He did heal their diseases. Verse 16 of Matthew 8, When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed, and He cast out the spirits with the word, and healed all who were sick. He did that. He had complete faith in God. God gave Him the power to heal those things, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet in the verse we've just read, Matthew 53, that it was fulfilled, He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. He did. There's also a verse in 1 Peter 2. I didn't read that one.

Now, maybe someone remembers that one if you want to call that out. Yeah, chapter 2. I think 24 and 25. 24 and 25. Yes, yeah, okay. 1 Peter 2, 24 and 25.

Actually, from 21 on speaks of this chapter right now. 24 and 25. He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed. So we see that in the New Testament as well, showing the fulfillment of these verses here in Isaiah 53.

Okay, let's go back to chapter 53 then. Verse, we were in verse 5. He. And, you know, look at the word, our, O, you are, in this verse. But He was wounded. Why? For His transgressions? No, He was wounded for our transgressions. That's my transgressions and your transgressions and all of mankind's transgressions. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement for our peace, that we might have peace in our lives, that we might have a kingdom coming and a time coming, that there will be peace. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him. And by His stripes, we are healed. Verse 6. Do we appreciate by the actions that we take, by the attitudes that we have, by the commitment to Him that we show, are we showing we really appreciate what He's done? It says in verse 6, all we like sheep have gone astray.

We have turned everyone to His own way. We've all done that. And as much as we are committed to living His way of life now, and that should be more and more with each passing day of our lives, that whatever you say needs to change or show me that what needs to be changed in my life, it needs to go out. There's nothing of me. It has to be our nothing of me I want to retain only what you put in me. We have turned everyone to His own way, and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. You know, we've all done that, but our calling is to become like Him and put away our ways. Like we're talking on leavened bread, put out the leavened bread and put in the unleavened bread, become like Him. Verse 7. He was oppressed and He was afflicted. He didn't deserve it, but He was oppressed. He was hold down. People made His physical life miserable, if you will. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, and yet He opened not His mouth. You know, that's one of the things that marveled Pilate in Mark 15. Actually, let's go there. Here, Jesus Christ totally unjustified everything that He suffered. He had all these accusations being thrown at Him. People saying, kill Him, kill Him. He did this. He did that. He answered nothing because He knew it was God's will that this was prophesied and it had to happen, and He was willing to do it. He wasn't going to try to justify Himself. His purpose wasn't to extend His physical life then. His purpose was to lay down His life. That the kingdom might be assured that He might fulfill His commission, just like God has a commission and a purpose in our lives. We know what His will is. We shouldn't be fighting against His will and wishing this and wishing that and protesting this and protesting that. God's will be done, always with the vision that when Christ returns, the world is going to be a beautiful place. It's worth any kind of pain that people might have to go through.

Let's go to Mark 15. Mark 15, verse 3.

You can just imagine the scene when Jesus Christ was brought there. The chief priests of the day, the Sanhedrin, they hated Him. They wanted Him dead. They had been plotting His death forever. They just wanted Him gone. When they brought Him before Pilate, here in chapter 15, they came before Him. It says in verse 3, the chief priests accused Him of many things. All lies. Look at Pilate. This is a chief offender here. Look how much He's done. The chief priest is using Him of many things, but He answered nothing. I'm not even going to try to defend myself. I'm just going to listen to what they have to say. He knew that God's will would be done. Pilate answered Him or asked Him again, do you answer nothing? See how many things they testify against you. Aren't you going to try to defend yourself at all? But Jesus still answered nothing. So that Pilate marvel, what's self-control? What is going on here? What man would be accused falsely and just sit back and let it happen? He had complete trust in God that God's will was going to be done, and He wasn't going to alter it. Now, that doesn't mean we should never speak up for ourselves, but it shows the self-control that Jesus Christ had and the commitment that He had to God's will.

So important that it's even here in chapter 53 is one of the prophecies of what the Messiah would be like, and Jesus Christ was exactly like that. So we go back to 53.

Number seven. He was oppressed, He was afflicted, and He didn't open His mouth. No complaining.

He was led as a lamb to the slaughter. He knew where He was going. He knew that death was the result of where He was that day. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as the sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened, not His mouth.

He simply yielded to God's will because He also had the complete trust in God that when this life ended, that physical life of His ended, the next moment of His consciousness, He would be resurrected to eternal life, the very same hope and belief and expectation that you and I should have, that if it ever comes to the point where we yield our lives and our lives end, we will be able to do that again because of what we believe. The next second is eternal life, and that's what God has in mind for us. That's why in Psalm 116, verse 15, He says, Precious in His sight is the death of His saints. They've made it. They've made it. The next second of their consciousness, they will be resurrected to eternal life. Verse 8, He was taken from prison and from judgment. What happened to Him wasn't fair. It was mob rule that ruled that day. It wasn't even the law of Rome that ruled.

More and more we see mob rule kind of happening in our society a little bit as it goes. He was taken from prison and from judgment. The courts failed Him that day. The courts failed and Pilate yielded to public pressure to condemn Him to death. He was taken from prison and from judgment. Who will declare His generation? As you look back, it's kind of a confusing verse. When they looked in the commentaries, it's like, well, who will vouch for Him? Who's going to say, well, He's a good man. He's a good man. He lived his life well. He didn't do anything wrong. He doesn't deserve this. Where's the character witnesses? Who stood up for Him to Pilate and say, wait a minute, all these people saying that, let me talk to you about all the good things He did and ask them that question. But no one declared anything. They just stood there. They just let Him be killed. None of His people spoke up for Him. Who will declare His generation? Or who will vouch for Him? For He was cut off from the land of the living. For the transgressions of My people, He was stricken. It was His own people, the people who were waiting for the Messiah, who didn't see Him, who didn't get it. They just wanted Him put to death. They hated Him, the very Messiah that they were waiting for. And they made His grave with the wicked. He died an ignominious death, the death of the criminal. But with the rich at His death, no man more successful in His mission, no man more rich in spiritual riches or whatever you want to call it. With the rich at His death, He accomplished everything, did exactly what God wanted Him to do, what He came to earth to do, and He did it all for you and me with the rich at His death. Because He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. Never told a lie. Never got mad at anyone. Never beat anyone up. You know, when they were pushing Him around, He didn't, you know, land one across their face. He just took it. There no one could accuse Him of anything. And a key verse there is, nor was any deceit in His mouth. He was blameless. So that's a key lesson for you and me. Keep our fingers there in Isaiah 53. Go back to Revelation 14, where it talks about these 144,000 that are first fruits to God. And, you know, saints, it calls them. Chapter 14 of Revelation. You know, here's the 144,000 having His Father's name written on their foreheads. They have progressed through life and become who God wanted them to be. And so in verse 4 it says, these are the ones who were not defiled with women. They're virgins. They have cast aside all their old false religious beliefs, and they are living by every word of God, doing away with the unclean, doing away with the untrue and living by truth. They are virgins. They are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes.

Not, I don't want to go there, wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, being first fruits to God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth, just like Jesus Christ, and in their mouth was found no deceit. No deceit, for they are without fall before the throne of God. They've become, through their life, led by God's Spirit, not anything we can do on our own, have to have God's Holy Spirit to ever become even to begin down that walk of having no deceit.

Just like Jesus Christ, no deceit in His mouth, that's what God is looking for us, that we become people of truth inside and out. Verse 10, going back to Isaiah 53.

Hi, Becky. Yeah, go ahead.

It's me again. That ties back in with that verse 11, touch no unclean thing, and then all about the garments being clean. It just ties in really well. Yep. Yep.

Verse 10, verse 10 then, yet it pleased the Lord. Isn't that a funny thing? It pleased the Lord to bruise Him. Why did it please God to bruise Him? It was because it was for mankind that Jesus Christ did it. It's because He loved mankind so much. He created us for a purpose that transcends this physical life because He sees eternity. He's got a plan in mind for everyone, the potential of man that has been hidden from mankind. Jesus Christ was willing to come down and to pay the penalty for our sins, to absorb that punishment, to die for us that our sins could be forgiven.

It pleased God for what He did. All the hosts of heaven, they worship Christ because look what He did. He did it. He accomplished that mission, and He did it all because they loved mankind so much. Every man, woman, and child, God's not willing that any should perish. It pleased God because He accomplished the position He didn't—His commission. He didn't enjoy seeing Him suffer, but He had the love for us, and Jesus Christ had the love for us and the joy set before Him that He was willing to do it for you and me. Yet, it pleased the Lord to bruise Him. He's the one who put Him to grief. When you and I, when you make His soul an offering for sin—I think that's I've got the word nefesh written in there—that's the Greek word that means nefesh is just a living soul that it dies, right? No immortal soul, nothing like that. The soul that sins, it shall die. It says in Ezekiel, I guess Ezekiel 20 and several times in Ecclesiastes, just like the animals die, man dies. When you make his soul, because when Jesus Christ died, when that physical body died, it died. And when He was resurrected three days and three nights later, it was to eternal life, not in the same body. That body died. When you make his soul an offering for sin, when we say, we accept your sacrifice, Jesus Christ, then we also have to live the life. We have to do the things. If we really accept His sacrifice, it should change us to the very core that we realize and recognize we have to live the way He wants. We can't just say thank you and get on with our lives. It's a real life-changing belief. When you make his soul an offering for sin, He will see His seed. Oh, you become a child of God. When you really get it, when you repent of your way of life, when you are baptized and the sins and the old life washed away and you have hands laid upon you, receive the Holy Spirit. God sees you, it says in 2 Corinthians 5, 17, as a new creation, one of His children, as it says over in Romans 8. He shall see His seed. He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.

There are blessings that come from living God's way of life. Many of us can speak of that. There are blessings that come from living God's way of life. When we do His will, it certainly happens. He shall see, verse 11, He shall see the labor of His soul.

He'll see what He gave His life, His physical life for, and He's satisfied. It's a satisfaction to Him. It's good. It makes Him happy to see people yield to Him and accept His sacrifice and then live His way of life as they march toward civilization. It says in the Gospels, there's more joy in heaven over even one sinner who repents, because when they repent, they're on the way to eternal life. That's what God wants. Of course, repentance is turning from our old way and turning to God. He shall see the labor of His soul and be satisfied. By His knowledge, My righteous servant shall justify many. Jesus Christ did. It's only because of Him. Everyone who has their sins forgiven, everyone who receives eternal life, it's because of the man Jesus Christ, who gave His life, a Passover, as we go to the Feast of Trumpets here this Sabbath, that we look at and we say, that's because of Him. He'll save the world from complete destruction, because that's where Satan has us all headed. If it wasn't for Jesus Christ, who comes and intervenes, as it says in Revelation 11, I believe it is, He destroys those who would destroy the earth. He is our Savior. By His knowledge, My righteous servant shall justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will divide him, a portion with the great. He is the greatest. He died as a criminal, but He's great. Therefore, I will divide him, a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong.

When we yield to God, it says we are heirs with Him, because He poured out His soul unto death.

He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and He made intercession for the transgressors.

Let's conclude there for tonight. As we enter into Trumpets, we remember and are reminded more of what God's plan is, the time of trouble ahead of us, but the overwhelming joy and the glory that belongs to Jesus Christ for bringing in, ending this age and the new age that will be of such benefit to everyone who lives over. We can rejoice in that and give Him the credit, because it's all because of Him. Paul, did you have a question or comment?

Are you going to have a Bible study next week? I was planning on it. That would be the last one before the Feast of Tabernacles, though.

Okay, well, we're leaving that day and we'll be on the road. Oh, okay. Well, we'll try to do it. I mean, if everyone's going to be on the road, we're not leaving until the next day, but what is next week? Is next week the 20th? Oh, no, no, we're not leaving until the following week. Okay, yeah, no, we'll plan to have one next week, unless I hear from a lot of people that you're not going to be here. So, yeah, you're going to leave next week. Very good. Okay, are you going to Branson again this year?

Yep, very good. Okay. So, any questions, comments, or anything about anything we've talked about tonight? I would like to say that about being clean, it makes me think about when you witness to people that if they reject you, you're supposed to have the dust off your feet, not a trace left.

Yep, that's Matthew 10. Yep, very good. Yeah, Dale?

Yeah, yeah, Mr. Shavey, it just struck me about about Peter. I'd just like to read something here, if I could, from Matthew 16, 21. He says, from that time forth began Jesus to show unto the disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed. He raised again the third day. Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from you, Lord, this will not be unto you. And then Christ said, but he turned and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan, for you're in offense unto me, for you saver not the things that be of God, but these that be of men. And I couldn't help but think, you know, as Peter became more converted, and I'm sure he learned to understand the book of Isaiah and realized that Christ had to suffer all those things, you know, and go through them all.

And then I think John 21, when a member of Christ said to Peter, You love me three times, he really wants Peter to get it, you know?

So it's a progression to spiritual understanding and conversion growth, I guess.

Maybe we can all kind of learn from those things. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, to Peter's credit, because the number of those times, right, I think about him, and I think he could have just said, Well, forget this, I didn't mean that. I didn't mean it that way. So you can get all mad about it and go away. But he but he learned he learned over time what God was trying to tell him. Yeah, that yeah, very good. So yeah, yes, he was humble.

Yeah, I yeah, Gloria. Oh, yeah. Hey, I just got today, the new Beyond Today. And I read it right away. And the first two articles were by you and we're just so prepared for the feast by those two articles. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Wonderful. Yep. Okay. Yeah, Irene.

I just found it interesting. In the new international version, in Isaiah 53, verse 10, it says, Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer. And though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering. So they they actually translated their as his life instead of soul.

Okay, well, that's good, because it was his life. Yeah, so yeah. Yes. Very good.

Hey, Dave.

Good evening, everyone. I just was going to say a couple things is it's always always strikes me how much God always says, Remember, you know, remember not only what he's done for us and how he's called us and remember this awesome truth that the world doesn't understand and what he's doing with us now, but also remember what he's going to do for us and how he's going to look after us and protect us. And it's so hopeful to me and so encouraging that God has this wonderful plan of salvation and he lets us be a part of it. And that's what I wanted to say in general. Also, I hope everybody has a great Trumpet. It's a high holy day because it's Trumpets and a Sabbath, so it's going to be a super duper awesome day and I hope everyone has a great one. Yep, very good. Yeah. And sometimes we remember after it happens too, right, Dave? It's like, well, we read these things, it's like, Oh, that's what God said. And it did happen that way. We realized what was happening right at the moment. So yeah, remember is a key word in the Bible. So hey, Reggie. Hey, Miss Chaby. I'll just say, you know, in a day of atonement, whenever Christ is pictured as the goat and Satan is pictured as the goat, actually Christ is the Lamb of God.

But he took on all our sins, all the sins of humanity.

In that respect, he's actually taking on our sins and all the sins of mankind. Yes. Very good. Becky? Hi. Got one more. Just what Dale was saying about Peter, and he asking him if he loved him three times. I heard something interesting recently that it didn't say for sure, but that it could have had to do with how he denied Christ three times. So then Christ was asking him three times, like, as a reminder of what he'd gone through. And I thought that was very good point. That's a very good point. Yeah, I think the same thing, Becky.

Yeah. It's really neat, the symbology there. Yeah. Hey, Gloria and Bud.

Very good Bible study, Mr. Shambi.

I wanted to go back to Isaiah chapter 3 verse 53 verse 4, and it's quote Matthew 817. Okay. He himself took our firmatives and war or sicknesses.

Here, then, is an important foundation for divine healing that Christ's physical suffering, together with his death, was not only to pay for our sins, but also to take upon himself the suffering and diseases and injuries. I'm always amazed when we're in the doctor's office.

They try to keep us tied to them, and I, for one, believe in divine healing. They're there for a purpose. If I have a broken arm, I'm going to run to it, but I'm careful the other way.

Yep. Very good. We will learn more about that trust as we go forward, I think, too. So, and that God promises to heal us. So, yeah. Hey, Xavier.

Good evening, everyone. Brother Chibby, John chapter 1, seems to have a very good summary of everything we just read in regards to, you know, the Word became flesh. And in verse 10, in regards to, it was in the world, the Word came into being by him, and it did not know him. He came to his own. His own did not receive him. But as many receive him to them, he gave the authority to become the children of God, even the those who believe in his name, who were not begotten because of their bloodline, genealogy, nor by the will of the flesh, nor by the will of mind, but by the will of God. This is all mercy. Yep. Yeah, no, that is a good summary of his life. I mean, he that's his purpose right there. So. Yeah, Mr. Chibby, I would like to say something about the white garments and keeping them clean. If you think of back then, like 2000 years ago, 3000, it was very difficult to keep your clothes clean. I mean, just think how valuable a white garment was, and it wouldn't be wrinkled. I mean, it was just highly praised and I mean, highly prized.

That's what God was like portraying for us is that when we're clean and live like God's way, and his eyes were like unspotted or unrinkled and beautiful and white garment.

And it was difficult for them to keep though. Yeah, to wash their garments and iron them back then too, right? It was not like we can push a button and have it all done. So yeah, very good.

Virgil, going back to what Brother Jung just said, I'm not just saying what the first comment you made about stamp your feet and check out the dust and to stay clean. We always saw our Lord was He would ask questions, but He never took teaching from people. He always taught. And it should be the same with us with God's help that we uniquely teach what we don't take the world's teachings. We don't take their dirt home with us. If we had a conversation, we don't take their ideas, we don't take Protestantism, Judaism, whatever it may be. If you teach them with God's help, uniquely, you go your way and hopefully it helps them. That's a very good analogy, right? Sometimes that's what happens. You bring other beliefs in and that's what causes a lot of problems for ourselves personally and others as well. That's a good point.

Gloria or Bud, did you have something else or is your hand up from before? You.

You got my hand up? Yes. Well, that's okay. That's okay.

Okay, we'll see you at Sykeston.

Oh, are you going down? Yeah, we'll be down there, this Trumpet. Yeah, we're looking forward to it. So we're leaving.

Yes. Yeah, we're leaving the Seneca-Liz congregation. In Sykeston, Missouri. I have to kind of look up and see exactly where Sykeston is, but we will be there.

Okay, we look forward to seeing everyone there. Okay, if nothing, if nothing, anything else?

Okay, then I'm going to go ahead and sign off. We will, everyone, have a very good rest of the week and outstanding and inspiring Trumpets. And those of you who are still home, we will look forward to seeing you next Wednesday night, okay? Okay, bye, everyone.