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gospel ministers for a lifetime of more faithful service. For more, you should visit nine marks.org slash talk or sbts.org. My name is Alex Duke and with me and my two friends. Jim Hamilton. Sam O'Madi. All right. So, you know, if you watch this online, yeah, we're in the same clothes because we, you know.

And we're in the same seats.

And we're in the same seats because we're in the same half.

We did two episodes today. That's what I was thinking about last episode. When I was looking at your hat, I was like, that's going to be recognizable. Yeah. Yeah. I bought this hat on January 2nd, 2013, the day that the Louisville Cardinals beat the number three Florida Gators in the Sugar Bowl. Nice. I was in New Orleans, and I went to the game. First play of the game was a pick six by Terrell Floyd. Anyway, I wish I had that good memory about other things in life. So, I much prefer this seat. I'm not looking back and forth. I can just see both of you.

Great. I mean, we'll see what happens. Jim's going to claim this seat, so I'll move over there, and maybe I'll take a face seat one day and do it from off camera. I don't know. Okay. We're going to do Isaiah 7 today. And last episode we talked about Isaiah Chapter 6. we talked about, we talked about sort of Isaiah's great commissioning moment and how he's

going to be given this job to teach God's word, to share his word, which will largely

harden his audience.

And today we're going to have, we have some fun verses to get into today.

In fact, we talked about this verse way back in like 2020 when we did a special Christmas episode about Messianic prophecies. Is that the first year? First year? I think so. Maybe it's 2021, but it was early. And so Isaiah 7, I think we should just jump right into it. How's that sound? Let's do it. Sounds good. Okay.

Which of you wants to take the lead?

I did the last episode. Okay.

Yeah, Jim, why'd you take the lead for us on Isaiah Chapter 7? Hey, before we even get into this, Jim, why don't you mention your article that you wrote on this? Do you still like that article? Yeah, absolutely. I like that article. Yeah, I think it's called the Virgin will conceive the fulfillment of Isaiah 714 and Matthew 1, 18 through 23.

I think if you just put in... Jim Hamilton.info. That's right. And then type in the search bar. Do you still do that website? I don't post. Update it. I don't post on it. But I put things that are published on there. So you did a whole episode, a whole article on this. Okay. It was published in a book called Built Upon the Rock. Okay. Great. The chapter was. Very useful. Great. Yeah. Okay. So it would be great if we had a map, but we don't have a map. So I'm going to try to, I mean, we could, yeah, I'll try to... You should have told me I would have made it happen.

Really?

Yeah.

Well...

I'm here to serve you.

We'll do what we can.

I thought we're going to get tablets that... Yeah, it's complicated. I'm working on it. I have a meeting next week in which I will ask that. Okay, so verse one, in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah.

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