Fear Not, You Worm Jacob!

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🗓️ 22 August 1982

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The good news of the Bible is not that we are not worms, but that God helps worms who trust him.

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0:00.0	Our Texas morning is found in Isaiah chapter 41 versus 8 through 16.
0:07.0	But you Israel, my servant,
0:11.0	Jacob whom I have chosen the offspring of Abraham, my friend, you whom I took from the ends of the earth and called from its farthest corners, saying to you you are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off.
0:25.0	Fear not, for I am with you.
0:28.0	Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
0:31.0	I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will uphold you with my victorious
0:38.3	right hand. Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded.
0:46.6	Those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.
0:51.2	You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them.
0:55.0	Those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.
0:59.0	For I the Lord your God, hold your right hand. It is I who say to you, fear not, I will help you.
1:08.8	Fear not, you worm, Jacob, you men of Israel. I will help you, says the Lord. Your
1:15.5	Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. Behold, I will make of you a threshing
1:20.4	sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth.
1:24.0	You shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff.
1:29.3	You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them
1:35.0	and you shall rejoice in the Lord in the Holy One of Israel,
1:40.0	you shall glory.
1:42.0	Fear not, you worm, you shall glory.
1:46.0	Fear not, you worm, Jacob. I will help you, says the Lord, your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
1:55.0	The main point of that verse is that the people of God ought not to be
2:06.2	the people of God ought not to be marked by an anxious,
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