Well, good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study on Thursday nights. We're going through the Bible book by book and chapter by chapter and

verse by verse. And tonight we find ourselves in the book of Isaiah. We finished chapter 9 last week. And tonight, Lord willing, we're going to make it through to chapter 10.

And then because it's the first of the month we are at the conclusion of our time

going to partake together of the communion table we encourage you those of you that

are joining us online if you want to take this time to get the elements ready so

you can partake with us as we know many of you do what. What a blessing to us to know that. And so we welcome

you. We're glad that you're joining with us. So why don't we pray before we get started tonight,

really looking forward to our time together in God's word. Amazing chapter. I know I say that every week, but this is a really

interesting chapter. So let's pray. We'll ask God to bless our time.

Loving Heavenly Father, we're needing for you now to just settle our hearts and quiet our minds as only you can.

And just enable us to focus and concentrate and really listen to what it is that the Spirit would

say to us your church. Lord, we want to have ears to hear.

And Lord, when you speak, we don't want to just be hearers of your word. We want to be doers, too.

And so, Lord, tonight I know that you're going to speak. You always do. It's not a question

of if you're speaking or not. The question is are we hearing and taking heed to your word?

So Lord bless our time together tonight and speak.

Your servants are listening.

We ask you for this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

All right.

I want to talk to you tonight about both why it is and how it is that God is the only one who gets the glory. How cliche,

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