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Isaiah chapter 4, verse 4 through 6, talk about how God will restore his people after his judgment.

And the Bible says, when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem

from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning, then the

Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her

assemblies a cloud by day and smoke in the shining of a flaming fire by night.

For over all the glory there will be a canopy.

There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

This picture is so awesome and so beautiful.

God restoring his people.

He says, I'm gonna wash away your sin.

I'm gonna cleanse you from your sin. And then'm going to set up a shelter over you.

Over all the glory there will be a canopy, a shelter from shade from the heat by day, a refuge in a hiding place from rainstorm.

Like God, he not only restores us and redeems us, but he surrounds us like a shelter, like a refuge.

He saves us from the penalty of our sin and then from the power of sin in our lives.

This is such good news.

Like when we come to faith in Christ, we are forgiven of all of our sin yes saved from the penalty of sin and

that in and of itself is glorious but then he also saves us from the power of sin in our lives from its effects in our lives.

We are free from sin.

We don't have to live in it, walk in it anymore.

We have been cleansed of sin and we have power to walk in righteousness that God is a refuge

for us on a daily basis that he helps us in the battle we have with sin on a continual moment by moment journey through

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