Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. What's happening you know, just trying to get through five chapters of Isaiah in a reasonable amount of time so people keep listening to us. Ha. Yeah. Yeah. Not likely, huh? Ha. This today I scoff at your economy of words. Yeah. Today and then Monday is, is a break from Isaiah, and then we're back in Isaiah on Tuesday, and it's another five chapters, including Isaiah 53, which is probably the most significant, one of the most significant chapters in the entirety of the Old Testament. I would even argue. And it's just thrown in with four other chapters on top of it. So well, remember the goal is to read, not to study totally. And so reading these chapters, probably not very long to do that. Maybe 15, 20 minutes, I would imagine, right? But if you're gonna get stuck on words and phrases that are important or just cause you to say, Hmm, then you're gonna spend a little more time. And that's okay. The more time you spend, the better. But if you're just reading and that's what we're expecting, then great. It should only take you 15, 20. Right? Right. If you're prepping for a podcast on this and it takes you, you have to have something to say that's, it takes you at at least 17 minutes, at least sometimes 18, if you're really pushing it. At least when we endeavor to do this. I think in our minds we knew this is gonna take a lot because we don't know everything in the Bible. Surprise. What I know. People are shocked right now. I know we don't know everything in the Bible. We're still working at our own theology in so many respects. And so as we read the Bible, we're learning and we're growing too. So we knew this would take a lot, but I think after you add up all the hours and the time to put into it, I don't think. Yeah, we knew how much, sometimes it's easier. Yeah. And it's just like, oh, I love this chapter. These are, these are familiar chapters. I know what this book's about without really having to do a whole lot of research. And then you get to Ezekiel and then we're just sitting saying, what do we do? What do we say? How can this be a four minute podcast? Right? Maybe we should make them all four minutes so that it's not weird. We make Ezekiel a little shorter than the others. Well, what's his face? Steven Nichols. He's got that five minutes in church history that he does. He does it right, man. Yeah. I could do five minutes in church history. I could do that one every day. But man, when we start talking about 15 and 20 minutes in some of these really challenging books, and it's not that they're, I think they're comprehensible. We're not trying to make scripture out to be more than. It's, it's not complicated. We talk about the perspicuity of scripture. It's clear, but not, not all of it is equally clear, right? The important stuff, abundantly clear, some of the more obscure things. When we start talking about the millennial kingdom and the temple and Ezekiel and the final chapters, 40, 48 or even Isaiah as we're putting pieces together and saying, okay, there's a lot of attention here given to this. The servants corporate Israel, the servant, Jesus, the servant Cyrus. We start talking about multiple servants and we're trying, we're trying to. Find the, the, I don't know, the outline and the backbone of the book. Sometimes that gets a bit tricky. I can, and I, I think you guys can sense some of that. Yeah. Even in the New Testament, Paul or Peter says of Paul's writings, he's like, Hey, some of these things are really hard. Not a lot of them though, he was overstating the case. Yeah. Romans seven, super easy. Romans nine. No one disagrees about these things. We're all abundantly clear on what he meant by that. Yeah, for sure. For sure. In fact, some people are so clear that they switched denominations. Hey. That seems relevant. Someone was so put off by, I mean, people within our stripe, let's just say that, that they. S turned in their resignation, jumped to a new seminary in a different Christian tradition. Yeah, they did. And burned some bridges on the way out. Oh yeah, they did talk about that a little bit. Yeah. You have some issues, some disagreements. Theologically, what do you do with that? And you, if you know what I'm talking about, you, if you know, you know, I'll say that. And if you don't know, there's someone in our ranks who was a high profile teacher, writer, that kind of person. And recently he left his seminary Yeah. To go to an Anglican seminary and now he's gonna be teaching there where he, where previously he was a Baptist. Right. So things are a bit muddy now. And, and people are making, they're speculating as to why, what, what happened? Where did this trans transformation take place? Talk a little bit about that. Help us to, to frame that, if anyone knows what we're talking about. And there's probably gonna be a few here. Yeah. Well, I. People, people do make different decisions and we should be perpetual students. We, we shouldn't ever get to the place where we're like, we, we've arrived. We understand everything there is to understand about God. Right. And we don't need to learn anymore. Anglicans are not heretics, by the way. Right. Just to be clear, he's not switching to a cult. Right. And we have nothing against Anglicans. We disagree fundamentally in some pretty significant issues, but we don't say that they're not Christians. And one of my favorite writers was an Anglican. By by the name of JC Ryle. Yep. And I love jc. Yeah, he's a great teacher. But we're, so we're not saying that he's an unbeliever now, we're just saying that this is a big shift. Big shift, yeah. Yeah. And, and so we should be perpetual students. So the fact that somebody's gonna shift even from one mainline denomination to another one is not unheard of. I think we just need to. Do that carefully thoughtfully and humbly. And I think he may have checked the first two boxes. He humbly. Yeah. Mm. But the way that he spoke of his, the denomination he was leaving as he went to this new one, was, was certainly not charitable. It was, it didn't betray a humility and Nope. I mean, we don't know him. And you and I were talking about this yesterday and, and you were right on that. You were like, Hey, we, we don't know this guy. But it's hard to, to read the words that he wrote about. His former institution in any way that makes it. Seemed like this is humility and charity on the way out. And yeah, he burned bridges and, and that's the difficult, he took a flame throwers to everybody. He did napalm. I mean, it was just, boom. He, yeah. And that's, that's the hard thing. We should be perpetual students, but I think there's a danger, and Joel Bey put it this way, I was, I was reading something by him recently. He said, the work of learning true theology is more than an intellectual enterprise. That's true. It requires faith in Christ, submission to God's will and the pursuit of God's glory. Mm-hmm. And as long as that's what we're after. So faith in Christ's submission to God's will and pursuit of God's glory, as long as that's what we're after, great. Let's keep learning. Let's keep growing. But we can drift into. This hubris that comes along with a, a lot of times an overindulgence into the realm of church fathers and church history and thinking this reverse chronological snobbery that they had it right. And they're the more you know, intellectually astute and their perception is right, and what, what we believe currently is the church is just, we're just a bunch of ignoramuses trying to feel our way blindly through life and figure things out. And, and, and that can lead to some dangerous areas. The, the church fathers are great. For a lot of reasons, but they also were not infallible and they made a lot of incorrect assumption, the incorrect conclusions. And so we, we just need to make sure that that God's word is our authority. And so I disagree with his reasons for shifting. As you said, we would have some disagreements with the Anglican church. But the thing I I, that grieves me more is the way he went about it shift and the, the heist that came along with that. Yeah. He did not go out silently, quietly, humbly, all the above. And I think I, I think one of the dangers, especially today, there's a lot of resurgence for Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism. More liturgical traditions of the Christian faith, and probably one of the driving factors is that it appears at least more historical, and in some ways it's true. There, there are roots that go down pretty deep and long. However, one of the challenges is that you start to, again, I, I guess the best way to put it is the way that you've put it. You, it's reverse chron, chronological snobbery, where you look at the past and glorify it as being this is the way it was supposed to be, but even in the earliest. Development of the first Century Church. There were already issues. Yep. Acts chapter 15 says that they had to have a council to really clarify some of the problems that they were experiencing. You've got early on in the church, Paul contending against false teachers as some form of what we think is gnosticism or something like it. There was already issues in the first Century church and so to say, well, if, if Paul, if it was good enough for Paul and the Apostles, and it should be good enough for us really puts history on a pedestal that I don't think scripture allows us to do. Right? We have to look at everything biblically, not just history, the the, the present and the future, but all of it to look at all of it and say, does it measure against scripture? And that's such a good instinct for us to have instead of glorifying the past or the present for that matter. Don't glorify the past. Don't glorify the present. Glorify the Lord and he's revealed in his word. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of his word, why don't we jump in with these next five chapters, because we got five chapters, so we might as well. Yeah. Here, I'm, we're just gonna cover the five chapters right now. Right? Okay. Ready? God's Sovereign and he's gonna flex and that's kind of these five chapters. Alright, well let's wrap it up. Yeah, let's pray. We're done. Hey. Let's pray. No. But, but in chapter 44, he's really reminding Israel of, of his power, his authority. He's reminding them of, of his relationship to them. Look at verse six, thus says The Lord, the King of Israel, his redeemer that is Israel's redeemer, the Lord of host. I'm the first, the last. There is no God beside me. So you've got him saying, I'm your Lord. I'm your king, I'm your redeemer, and I'm the only God. And then he contrast that in chapter 44 with these false idols and the foolishness. Of even the idol makers who take a block of wood and then chop it in half and with half he's gonna make a fire, and with half he's gonna create this idol and he's gonna bow down and worship it. He says they know not nor do they discern for. And here's the, the, the act of judgment against God of, of God against them, rather is God shut their eyes so they cannot see in their hearts, so they cannot understand. That's going back to Isaiah chapter six. It's also Second Corinthians chapter four, when God says, the God of this world is blinded the eyes of the law. So when your loved one or your neighbor, or your. Coworker is worshiping a fault to God, or even just an atheist who's rejected the existence of God, and you're presenting all these arguments, and for you, you look at this and you say, what doesn't make sense to you about this? We have to remember, it only makes sense to us because God has opened our eyes to give us the ability to understand and see these things, but God is reminding Israel of the foolishness of idolatry and instead of him as their redeemer, and so he's. Reminding them of this and, and, and flexing a little bit here in chapter 44 which is going to conclude with a reference to Cyrus. But before we get to chapter 45, anything on chapter 44 pr? Yeah. One quick note here. Notice here in verse 20 talks about the person who engages in idolatry. It says he feeds on. Ashes, a diluted heart has led him astray and he cannot deliver himself or say, is there not a lie in my right hand? Couple observations about that. First idolatry is unsatisfying. Feeding on ashes is not gonna fill your tummy. Would not taste good, would not encourage you to try that. Also that salt water. Don't drink salt water. Ocean water. Don't do that. But notice also it's the diluted heart. The problem with idolatry is obvious to those who are not engaged in idolatry. Mm-hmm. You read your Bible, you say, oh man, it's, it's foolish to bow down to a, a wooden block or to worship money or career, or to worship something that is not God. It's obvious to everyone else because the heart. Is deceiving the person who is engaging in it. So there's a complicity there. Scripture does call us to be aware of our idolatry, but notice the heart is complicit in leading itself astray. You ought to be aware of that because the human heart is not different. Even though ours is regenerate, our hearts can still deceive us and we need to be aware of that. And finally, it cannot deliver him ultimately. Idolatry is impotent to do anything in the person's life besides condemn them. It always tantalizes the person by suggesting, Hey, if you just do this thing, if you just achieve this level, if you just get to this particular object of your desire, then your lust will finally be satisfied. But anyone who's ever sinned before knows that when lust is satisfied, it's only satisfied for the fleeting. Mm-hmm. Most fleeting of moments. Mm-hmm. Milliseconds. And then you're hungry for it again. Just in a different way and for greater portion. So just take a look here at the really the way that idolatry works. I thought this was helpful and interesting for you to see because this is how it works even today for Christians. We just have to be aware. Our hearts can deceive us. It's not satisfying and ultimately. Idolatry only provokes further sin and not less. Yeah. I mentioned end of chapter 44 references, Cyrus. He calls Cyrus the Lord does my shepherd and he will fulfill all my purpose. And then he goes in, in chapter 45, and at least the first 13 verses talks about that purpose. In fact, in chapter 45, verse one, he calls Cyrus. He's anointed, and that's the same word that he's going to use of kings, but also of eventually the Messiah. And here it's used of Cyrus because he has been, Cyrus has set apart from the use of God for God's purposes. That's what it means to be anointed God is, is you could think about consecrating him for his purposes and then he says, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings. And so God is, is saying to Israel and also by extension of the nations. I'm the, the one behind cyrus's activity here, but Cyrus is gonna be the, the shepherd and the anointed one, because he's going to come and deliver Israel from Babylon and the Babylonian captivity. He's gonna take out Nebuchadnezzar. It's really from Cyrus's perspective, gonna be more about Babylon versus Persia than it is about God's people. But God is gonna use Cyrus to set up the return of the exiles. Even what we're talking about a little bit this morning in Malachi they're back in Jerusalem, even in the book of Malachi because. Cyrus freed them from Babylon and sent them back there. So the first part of Chapter 45 is so comforting because it's just a reminder. Man, God uses events in, in circumstances and people that we would never expect him to use to accomplish his will and his purpose. So as we look at the landscape, geopolitically, whatever it may be we don't have to despair or say, God, do you know what's going on here? In fact, this morning, in, in, at church, in, in Malachi, that's one of the problems of Israel and the, the last part of the book, they're saying, God, you're. They're challenging his character. They're saying, God, you don't care about this. In fact, you're even approving of what is evil, and we gotta be careful not to do that. God is moving the chess pieces as he sees fit, and he knows exactly what he's doing here. And his, his relationship with Cyrus is a, a great reminder of that for us. Yeah, and one of the challenging things about that is that this means that God is in control of every aspect of our human existence, whether that be rulers, both righteous and wicked, or whether that be events both good and bad. And we see that here in verse seven. He says, I form light and I create darkness. The word for darkness there is rah. Ah, it's. Evil. That's the word we typically use for evil. Now, scripture is gonna be clear here that we don't wanna charge God with evil. He doesn't directly do that. God's relationship to good and bad are not symmetrical. His relationship to good is direct. When there's good things that are happening, God gets the glory because he's directly involved. When it comes to darkness, he is not. And the same way involved with it. He governs it. He oversees it. This is a, a claim of his sovereignty, but he is not actively engaging or participating in evil. But make no mistake, he is governor over it. He is sovereign ruler over it. And so this is why he can engage in it. He can engage with in it without being sinful because he can guarantee that the outcome produces greater glory for him and greater good for us. You and I can't do this. This is not an end justifying the means situation. Humans can't do this because we can't predict. All of the possible outcomes. We think we can, but we can't. Only God can do that with certainty, which is why he can raise up Cyrus to do his bidding and still say, he's my shepherd. He's my anointed, because he will guarantee that he does exactly what God wants me to do. And that deliverance is, is a foreshadow of what the deliverance of the rest of the chapters really speaking of, which is the future millennial kingdom when God is going to save Israel. Verse 17, Israel is saved by the Lord with an. Everlasting salvation, you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity. So now we're looking long term at how God is gonna deliver the people, but it's not just Israel. Note in verse 22, he says, turn to me and be saved all the ends of the earth. For I'm God. There's no other by myself. I've sworn from my mouth, has gone out in righteousness. A word that shall not return to me. Every knee will bow and every tongue swear allegiance. That should remind you of something Paul wrote about in Philippians chapter two. There is a coming a day when every knee will bound, every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. So that's an example of what we refer to as progressive revelation. Isaiah and his audience are, they're, they're hearing this, Isaiah's recording this, and then Paul's gonna extrapolate on that even more to help us understand. A, a further measure of, of God's plan here. And, and we get to sit here understanding that, well, how are the nations gonna be calling on God and be saved, or they're gonna be calling on God and be saved by the one who humbled himself, the Messiah, the, the, the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom every knee will bow in every tongue, confessed that he is the Lord to the glory of the Father. So at chapter 45, the first part is about cyrus's deliverance, and then it shifts to looking forward to that future deliverance of the millennial kingdom in the, in the still yet future today. Chapter 46. Then speaking of idols, he names a couple of them right off the bat. Those of of Babylon, specifically Bell and Nebo, and he's going to call them out and he says this, he says, these things you carry are born as burdens on weary beast. Verse one. Look down to verse three though. Listen to Mio house of Jacob and the remnant of the House of Israel, who have been born by me from before your birth. And so God is making sure, again, to contrast these false gods who he says, look, they have to carry their gods. Your God has carried you. Your God has born you. And so God again is, is still flexing. He's saying, I am the greater one. And recognize that. Understand that. He says in verse nine, I am God. There is no other. I'm God. There's none like me declaring the N from the beginning like we've been talking about the sovereignty of God, his ordinance. Providence over his creation from ancient times, things not yet done, saying, my council shall stand and I will accomplish all my purpose. A reference to Cyrus again there in verse 11, the, the bird of pray from the east, the man of my council, he's gonna call to come against Babylon. So chapter 46, against specifically targeting the, the idols of Babylon There, if you really believe this, you would basically eliminate anxiety from your heart. If you trusted what God is saying here, not just to Israel, but to us, he says it to them, but it's for us as well. We are benefiting from this reality. This is God's self revelation and self-disclosure of how he operates. And so he's flexing on them to tell them, I am God. I am God. I am God. By the way, have you heard I am God? And no one else is. And by the way, if you're gonna go to an idol. And, and granted, we're, we're looking at idols like Bell and Nebo. But, but you can think about modern day idols like beauty, success, financial security. You can look at modern day idols like real estate options. I, I wanna live in a certain place in a certain city. Those kinds of things. He's saying all of those things burden you. I idolatry burdens. Those who participate in it. Whereas in theology, rightly applied, lifts the burdens. Jesus is gonna say later on, my burden is easy. You my and my yoke is light. And that's the effect of good theology. When you truly believe what God says it is, burden lifting, cast your cares upon the Lord, cast your burdens upon him because he cares for you. I love this picture here. He uses it throughout the whole chapter basically in order to say, I am God. By the way, have you heard I am God, trust me. And if you believe this man, anxiety really has few places to hide. And, and then in chapter 47, he picks up on that same theme but goes after Babylon because Babylon is challenging the Lord on that and saying that of themselves. So look down in verse eight of chapter 47. Hear this, you love her of pleasures who sit securely, who's say in your heart I am. And there is no one besides me. Notice again, that's what God has been saying and he is now confronting Babylon 'cause Babylon has been saying that. And if, if we look at Babylon and say, how could they ever be so stupid to say that again? I think you just pointed out some ways that we can. Fall prey to, to chasing after our own version of wanting to be who God is and wanting to control things the way that, that only God is able to control them. But he's gonna go after them. And he even says, notice verse six. This reminded me of Habakkuk in verse six. He said, I was angry with my people. I profaned my heritage. I gave them into your hand. And, and remember, that's what Habakkuk said. God, you can't do this. But then he says. But you showed them no mercy on the aged. You made your yoke exceedingly heavy. And so God's gonna do what? God's gonna punish them. In fact, if you look over for me, it's across the page. Maybe for you it's the next page or just underneath verse 10 11. Or you're scrolling. Or you're scrolling. He said, you said in your heart, I am. And there is no one beside me. Again, there's their claim to only what God can claim. Look at verse 11, but here it is, this threefold. Judgment coming against them. Evil shall come upon you, which you will not know how to charm away. Disaster shall fall upon you for which you will not be able to Atone and ruin shall come upon you suddenly, of which you know nothing so evil, disaster and ruin. God is gonna completely white Babylon out and there's undertones here. If you're thinking to yourself, man, isn't there another area where Babylon is gonna be judged? Yes. Book of Revelation is gonna talk about Neo Babylon or the new Babylon. And so there are some undertones here that we, again, with progressive revelation under our belts. Can see some foreshadowing of what God's gonna do in the long term. But for Isaiah's original audience, he's saying, look, Nebuchadnezzar, you're gonna go down you're gonna go down the, the Pridefulness and I, I guess it was Belt A Shaar later on or Bel Shaar. You're gonna be judged and you are going to be punished for your pride and God is gonna not be rival. Yeah, I, I think it's important to see here that God hates pride more than you do. I know that we, we hate pride and, and maybe you don't know anyone like this, who in their heart says, I'm basically God. There are people like this, though. There are people that are so arrogant and so haughty in their approach to life and their approach to other people that they, you know, railroad people just because they can assert their dominance in situations. Notice here that God pays close attention to the way that people interact with others, but also, did you catch it here in Pastor pj? Read it in verse 10, he says, you said. In your heart, which tells us again or reminds us, God has access to the secret places of your internal reasoning. It's not just what you say, and it's not just what you do, but God is o of hi. Everything is available to him. In full disclosure, when you think something in your heart, when you have a secret lust or a secret desire that you would be terrified for anyone else to learn, God knows and he's paying attention, which is why for the Christian faith we are so. We're so passionate about having a faith that is internal in addition to being external, where we're not happy when someone's just going through the motions. When we show up to worship for a Sunday morning, we don't want to just clap our hands. We don't wanna just sing. We want to say, I want to feel what I'm singing. I want to think about what I'm singing. I want to express my attention and my thoughts to the Lord in my worship, and that's true worship. Anything short of that actually is. It's false worship because we're not truly worshiping, we're thinking about food or we're angry at our spouse or something like that. God is seeing, and he has full access into with you know, 4K, eight k visibility, what's going on inside. And that really matters. And if you believe that, again, Corrum dejo, if you're living your whole life in, in. In the, in the face of God. That will change the way that you allow yourself to reason, that'll change the way that you allow yourself to, to think on the inside. And again, God has access to that. He sees that, and at, at the end of the day, he will judge that unless that sin is judged in Christ. Mm-hmm. Well, chapter 48, then it, it just reminds us again that, that what God is after is God is after his own glory. So he's telling Israel all of these things that are gonna happen and the reason he's telling Israel all the things that are gonna happen, we read about in verse four, he says, because I know that you're obstinate and your neck is as iron sinew and your forehead as brass. I declared them to you from of old and announce them to you, lest you should say, my idol did them, my carved image and my metal image commanded them. So remember, God is telling Israel all about these things before they go into Babylon. Isaiah's writing back in the seven hundreds. So this is still over a hundred years away. And God is telling them all of these things about how Babylon's gonna fall, and here comes Cyrus and all of these. Part of the reason is, is 'cause He wants the glory. Verse nine. For my name's sake, I defer my anger for the sake of my praise. I restrain it for you that I may not cut you off. Verse 11. For my own sake. For my own sake, I do it for how should my name be profane my glory. I will not give to another. And so that is, is what God is really about here as he's telling the people about this and in, in, in chapter 48, the rest of it, he's, he's telling the people, okay, and, and when you're delivered, recognize the deliverance. Go out and, and do as you're called to do. At that point, it's remarkable how, and this is not directly related to what Reading and Isaiah, but it, it is related. He says, here, you just read it, pastor pj, for my own sake, I do it. And he says, my glory, I will not give to another. And yet in John chapter 17, Jesus says. Father glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. If that's on a claim of deity, I don't know what is. Jesus himself acknowledges, this is the glory that I shared with you. And then Isaiah says, speaking on behalf of God, I won't share my glory with another. So it's either A, Jesus is deceived and he's out of his mind, or B, he is. The incarnate deity that we believe he is, and we would land on, obviously on the second one, given the fact that it says here, my glory, I won't give. And yet God gave him his glory. Yep. Hard to deny all those things. But I, Isaiah 48 here, I, I just wanna keep on reminding you what you're, you're continuing to see, you're seeing themes in Isaiah's writing, and one of those themes that he's really concerned about is that you have a high view of God. Mm. This is why our church is distinctive. Having a high view of God is so important. We see things like this, and we want to, we want to. Make it part of our culture to say we don't wanna look lowly upon God. We don't want to ever think about him in a merely human way. It's good to say, I want to, God is approachable. He calls himself Father, and so there's a, oh man, what I just did. You didn't rip it though. Right. I did. I did rip it. Yes. I just hit my BI guys. I just hit my Bible. He just tore the Holy Bible. I ripped my page that I was, oh, that is so frustrating. That hurts my heart. Yeah. I was saying we should have a high view of God. Yeah. Even when you rip your Bible. It. You should keep eye view of God and a very low view of man apparently. 'cause our lack of coordination can sometimes betray us. You're gonna end Isaiah 48 and it is gonna say, here, there is no peace, says the Lord for the wicked. And you're gonna see that same phrase in Isaiah 57 21, which is gonna give you a sense, this is this next section that we're gonna read, not tomorrow, but the day after is part of a unit. So, 48, 22 and 57, 21. Same phrase, basically. That's a section. Yeah. The, the high view you've got, we're talking about that this morning at church. So we won't rip our Bible pages though. No, we're not gonna do that actually. That's good. That's not part of, that's, I dunno why you don't wanna do that. Yeah. Yeah. But, join us. Make sure that, that either you're on your way to church or hopefully you've already been there, but we can't wait to see you guys there and and worship with you. Yes. So lemme pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, we thank you so much for your word and it's a lot for us to, to cover five chapters. And yet again, as we talked about at the very beginning, our goals right now to read. And to do our best to, to understand as we read and, and we need you to be able to do that. That's one of the ministries of the Holy Spirit within us, to open our eyes, to enlighten us, to be able to understand these things. And so we thank you God, that, that you've given us the spirit. We thank you that your word is understandable and that it is not written in a language that nobody has ever heard or known or is not recited by only a language that the priests know and, and the rest of us are, are subject to sitting in, in the church and trusting that. They're telling us what it means, but we can actually look at it, understand it, and read it. So help us to do that with Isaiah tomorrow with Kings and and Psalms. And then as we continue in the prophets, God, just give us a, a desire to be in your Word and something, one or two things each day that we can pull out and say, I wanna focus on this, meditate on it. Apply this, see my life. Change this way so that you use your words and make us more like Jesus. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep your new Bibles tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye bye.

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