Well, good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study on Thursday nights.

We're going through the Bible verse by verse.

We're in Isaiah and tonight chapter 60 we left off last week in chapter 59.

Almost done, can you believe it?

Six more chapters after tonight.

And then you know what book comes after Isaiah, right?

Jeremiah, good.

See?

You guys can come up here and teach this then.

Jeremiah, wow, what a, I know I said that about Isaiah. I know I say that about every book

of the Bible, but really looking forward to Jeremiah. Very, very interesting book, very

interesting prophet, as we're going to see, if the rapture doesn't happen before, so we'll see. But what a ministry

too that he had. And he's affectionately referred to and rightfully so as the weeping

prophet for good reason. So anyway, why don't we pray and then we'll jump into our Bible

setting tonight. If you would please join with me. Father in heaven, thank you so much

for your word and for this time that we have on a Thursday night to come to this your church and open up our Bibles and open up our

hearts and our ears and our eyes to see. Lord, many of us I know come to this Bible study on a Thursday night having had one of those

weeks, maybe just one of those days, just all the stresses and pressures and especially

with everything that is happening in the world today.

And this Bible study for us represents a sanctuary, a solace, a respite even.

It's that time where we can just come here and put all of that aside and with the help of the Holy Spirit,

just give you our undivided attention with no distractions so that you can minister to us and speak into our lives in and through your

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