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Don't let the devil tell you that you can't read the Bible this year with Chadberg because you waited too long.

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just not true. You can do it. Chad, we are in Isaiah 52. You got through the first two verses,

which is, you know, God's just setting the alarm clock. It's going off. He's telling him,

hey, he's time to wake up because I got some salvation coming your way. So you need you to wake up.

You need to put on your strength.

You got to get those beautiful garments on.

And you got to shake yourself off, man.

Get the dust off you and arise because they've got to loosen some bonds around your neck.

And all of this is in service to what he's about to say, which is, I'm coming.

Yeah, all this is leading in to Isaiah 53, which really begins at the end of Isaiah 52, that

servant song. But yeah, this is, you got to kind of bear, bear that in mind as we're working

our way through these next few verses, because this is going to be the high point of Isaiah.

Of course, everybody knows Isaiah 53 is a hugely important chapter.

But it's also important to keep in mind what leads up to it, because as we're going to hear in just a minute, the whole context that

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