Welcome to another episode of 40 Minutes in the Old Testament.

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You know, I mean, this is probably going to come out after the calendar flip, but I mean, you're still really early. I mean, when this comes out,

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Swanson. They're going to be taking you through that thing this year. So hop on board with that. Whenever it is, you're listening to this in January, you can jump on

board. It's a good time. Chad, we are in Isaiah chapter 50. We are at verse 7. This is talking

about Israel's sin, that was the header, and the servant's obedience. So there's a little

contrast here about here's the sort of thing you do, and here's the sort of thing I do, largely

in response to you doing that thing. Somebody's going to have to be obedient here, okay?

And it turns out it's not you, so it's going to have to be obedient here. Okay. And it turns out it's not you,

so it's going to have to be me. This is basically what God has to say. Yeah, it's definitely not

going to be Israel. It's going to be the servant who is called Israel, who embodies exactly

who Israel was always, always supposed to be.

And in the verses leading up to this verses, so Isaiah 50 verse 4 through 6, we hear more about this servant.

He has one of these open ears, God's given him an open ear to hear his word.

And because of that, he has a taught tongue.

Means he can say exactly what needs to be said, what God gives him to say. In fact, it's like his ear has an alarm clock.

Morning by morning he awakens, he awakens my ear. So that alarm clock goes off, ear goes open,

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