I chose to share with you this message that is called comfort or comfort my people.

It's from the book of Isaiah chapter 40, verses 1 and 2.

Comfort, yes, comfort my people, says your God.

Speak comfort to Jerusalem and cry out to her that her warfare is ended, that her

iniquity is pardoned, for she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.

Father, we ask this morning, first of all, we thank you for who you are,

for the love, the mercies, the loving kindness, the amazing salvation that you have provided

2,000 years ago for all of us.

And now we come before you this morning.

As we look into your word, in fact, it's your commandment.

And we want to glean from it as much as we can

so we can not just be the readers, but the doers of your word.

We thank you this morning, and we ask this in the name of the Word of God,

in the name of Yeshua, our Messiah.

And all of God's people say amen, amen.

So we just read two verses from the book of Isaiah. And the prophet Isaiah is one of my

favorite prophets. In fact, after Ezekiel, which is now our next book. We wrote a book on

Revelation and Daniel. The coming book is Ezekiel, because I believe

we live in the days of Ezekiel, and my heart is that the whole world will connect the dots.

But it's actually Isaiah that led me to the Lord. Not only me, but I think Isaiah led some Ethiopian eunuch 2,000 years ago also to the

Lord. It was only the scroll of Isaiah that he read with Philip, the evangelist in that cart there,

and that was enough for him to know that this is it. You know, 2,000 years ago, no one got saved by reading

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