I'm not move hard, what I feel. I don't live by what I feel. I don't live by what I see because my God has made a way for me.

Well, we're right in that special time a year,

when a lot of things are changing.

Businesses are, or have, they've just had a big year or a little one depending on how

they ran their business and who their God is and there's a, you know, a lot of people in 2023, a lot of people went home to be with the Lord.

It's very close people to me.

And but we go into this new year

knowing who we are in Christ Jesus.

So let's go to the book of Isaiah.

And you remember now that Jesus quoted Isaiah more than any other.

And when he preached in his own synagogue in Nazareth,

he opened the book in the book of Isaiah

at the 61st chapter and quoted that. Well let us go. We could actually start in

the 12th but we won't take time to do that.

It flows all into this 14th, 12, 13, and 14.

Now, look at verse 4. Thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon and say,

how hath the oppressors ceased, the golden city ceased. The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked and the

scepter of the rulers. He who smoked the people in and wrath with a

continual stroke he that ruled the nation's in anger is persecuted and none hindered.

The whole earth is at rest and is quiet.

They break forth into singing,

yea, the fir trees rejoice and the cedars of Lebanon saying,

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