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🗓️ 27 July 2022
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.1 | Today's chapters reiterated a lot of the themes we read about yesterday. |
0:17.0 | First, that God chose Israel to be His people and that they will continue to be His people |
0:21.2 | throughout the generations. |
0:23.0 | Second, that He is the One True God and anyone who worships idols is foolish and sinful |
0:28.5 | and wasteful because the idols they're worshiping are handmade and will ultimately be destroyed. |
0:34.4 | Third, God points out His sovereignty over all things. |
0:39.2 | While He has chosen Israel, there are some whom He has given undisturbing hearts and |
0:43.6 | closed eyes. |
0:45.2 | This is His judgment on their idolatry. |
0:47.9 | We first saw this in 6, 9, 10 and it shows up repeatedly in Isaiah and is even quoted by |
0:53.6 | Jesus in the New Testament, but part of being sovereign means that even those whose hearts |
0:58.7 | are far from Him are still used to service purposes. |
1:02.5 | We see this with King Cyrus again today. |
1:05.0 | Even though he wasn't a follower of Yahweh, God still uses him for His glory. |
1:09.4 | In 4428, God says, he shall fulfill all my purpose. |
1:14.5 | Chapter 45 starts out with a long passage about Cyrus, reminding us that we serve a God who |
1:19.2 | makes even His enemies' plans bend to His will. |
1:22.9 | God is the one who equips Cyrus, even though Cyrus doesn't know him. |
1:26.5 | God is working through Him. |
1:28.4 | God is doing the heavy lifting here, breaking the doors of bronze and cutting the bars of |
1:31.9 | iron, creating darkness and calamity, bringing rain and light and fruit, and ultimately, |
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