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Isaiah chapter 23, verse 9.

The Lord of hosts has purposed it

to defile the pompous pride of all glory,

to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

This verse is so humbling.

It's talking about prophecy against nations that have boasted in their wealth and think,

okay, we have all the honor we need or want. We have everything we need or want as if

they have earned it. And Isaiah says, the Lord of hosts has purposed to defile the pompous

pride of all glory, dishonoring all the honored of the earth.

So that which we think is honorable because it's wealthy, it looks good in the eyes of the

world.

The Lord has purpose to show that that is actually and ultimately empty.

This is a huge warning to the wealthy in this world. And when we think

about wealth, we got to be really careful because we always think about wealth in relative terms.

Like we think, oh yeah, wealthy. And we always think of people that are wealthier than us.

And we think, okay okay that's for them

the reality is for most people listening to this podcast when 90 plus percent of the world thinks

to the word wealthy they picture us so just the fact that we have technology to listen to these

podcasts that we are maybe driving in the car or at work or in a home that's in one of the likely

somebody listening to this is in one of the wealthiest places in the world.

We've got to realize there's a danger in thinking that because we have a wealth,

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