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possible. Chad, we are in Isaiah chapter 49, got through the first first bit of it and some good news in Isaiah 49.

You know, you get to have the sermon to the Lord is coming.

And despite all the good reasons that God has to not really deliver his people since, you know, they are rebellious and they

aren't faithful to him and all these things. That doesn't seem to stop him from after telling them

all the reasons that he has for not delivering them, saying, but still going to do it. Still going to, still going to send

my servants, still going to bring about restoration for you. Yeah, that's grace for sure. They don't

deserve it, but they still get the redeeming work of God. And we're hearing in typical Old Testament kind of language what this

is going to look like when God restores or redeems or ransoms his people. He starts out in

verse 8, which we talked about last time, saying that God is answering, God is helping. This is the

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