0592. The Forty Days of Lent – Dr. John Bombaro, 2/28/24
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🗓️ 28 February 2024
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| 0:00.0 | How did God address the Gentile nations through the prophet Isaiah? |
| 0:04.0 | What is God's message to His own people regarding both judgment and consolation? |
| 0:09.0 | And how does Isaiah's divine message apply to us today. |
| 0:13.0 | Find out in the new Concordia commentary on Isaiah, Chapter 13 through 27. |
| 0:18.5 | Learn more at issues ETC.org or by calling Concordia Publishing House 1-800 325 3040 the issues etc book of the month for |
| 0:27.6 | February the Concordia commentary on Isaiah 13 through 27. Do we need Lent? Now I guess in an absolute sense we'd say no, but when you stop and look at what Lent is, where it takes us in scripture, what practices it encourages, you're going to do Lent |
| 0:56.0 | whether you want, if you're a Christian, you're going to do Lent whether you realize it or not is simply |
| 1:00.9 | the basics of the baptized life writ large for 40 days and why |
| 1:06.0 | 40 days |
| 1:07.5 | welcome back to issues etc i'm Todd Wilkin |
| 1:10.5 | joining us to talk about the 40 days of l, Dr. John Bumbaro, special project supervisor at the Naval Chaplaincy School in Newport, Rhode Island, and author of recent columns titled Lent's 40 Days and our need for Lent. John, welcome back. Thank you for welcome me Todd. How has the |
| 1:25.8 | church seen the number 40 as significant in scripture? Well because the number 40 appears all over scripture, and in fact it appears more than |
| 1:36.8 | 158 times in, well at least the King James and New King James translation. |
| 1:42.4 | So this number 40 in scripture already symbolizes |
| 1:46.9 | a period of testing of hardship, probation, trial, |
| 1:51.8 | indeed even divine judgment toward purification or divine judgment itself, which is a bit |
| 1:58.4 | antithetical to the way that we usually hear about 40 in terms of like Rick Warren's purpose-driven life such that takes you |
| 2:06.1 | through to a new levels of the best you after 40 days. The scriptural meaning is |
| 2:11.2 | it has you know stronger overtones than that. |
| 2:15.0 | Moses' life for example can be divided up into three blocks of 40. |
| 2:20.0 | He lives to 120 years and his principal ministry takes place from the age of 80 to 120. |
| 2:30.1 | We have other examples of it in scripture. For 40 years, Moses' |
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