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Isaiah chapter 24 verses 5 and 6.

The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants, for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

Therefore a curse devours the earth and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt.

Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched and few men are left

These are in a sense depressing verses and I don't I don't mean to be overly depressing but they lead us to hope so think about what

Isaiah is talking about here he's talking about the effects of sin in the world

he's talking about the reality that comes when you have

seven billion sinners on the planet today and there's a curse that comes from that. There's brutal, horrible, painful

effects of sin all around us. I think about just this week, I think about

news I heard of someone I know who took their own life.

I just heard this morning of a terrorist attack taking many people's lives and then I look around the world at

headlines I see natural disasters in different places flooding or hurricanes I I look around at all of this and it's just

the effect of sin. You look around the world, the effects of sin are all around us in

our lives and our families and the culture around us and

and everything we see going around us in the world and so this is where we realize

okay the Bible teaches very clearly that this is the result of what's wrong with the world is we have sinned against a holy God, which means, okay, how can we then be saved from sin and its effects?

And that's where Isaiah 24 leads us, obviously, to the hope we have in Christ, the reality that God has sent His son to live

the life, we couldn't live, a life of sinless obedience to God, the only person in all history has no sin, Jesus, and then

though he had no sin for which to pay, he died the death, we deserve to die.

He paid the price for sin. He endured the curse of sin on a cross and then he rose from the dead in victory over sin so that anyone anywhere who turns from sin and trusts in Jesus

will be forgiven of all our sin and ultimately freed from the curse of sin.

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