All right, good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study on Thursday nights. We're going through the Bible.

And we are currently in the book of Isaiah tonight, Lord willing. We're going to complete chapters 29 and 30, having completed chapter 28 last week, right? Yeah. Was I here? I think I was. It's pretty bad when you don't remember

if you were. That's, anyway, why don't we pray. We'll ask God's blessing on our time together

in his word tonight. Father in heaven, thank you so much. Lord, we love you so much.

And we're so grateful to you for this time that we have on a Thursday night to come to this,

your church, as your people, and put aside all the busyness of our lives, the cares, and the affairs of the day of the week,

and just give you our undivided attention so you can minister to us and speak into our lives,

in and through your word. Lord, that's why we're here. We're here because we want to hear you speak.

We are hungry. We are thirsty. We are a needy people. And we readily admit that to you.

And in so doing tonight, Lord, we submit ourselves to you and we commit to you this Bible study

in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. All right, so in the two chapters before us this evening,

the prophet Isaiah is prophesying to Israel and sadly he is prophesying to a people who only want to hear smooth things.

Not hard things, smooth things, positive things, good things.

Hey, don't tell us about that, I want to hear good things.

So it's just the smooth things, not the hard things.

You know it's amazing and it never ceases to amaze me.

Wherever you're at, do you find this to be true? I know you do, but wherever you're at in God's

word is where you're at in your life. We know that God's word is alive and active and sharper than any two-edged

sword as we just studied and learned in our study in Hebrews, but it is so alive and so active

that it activates and it leaps off the pages of our Bibles and comes to life because it's the word of life

and it speaks to wherever you're at in your life. And this is exactly where we're at in our

lives today. It's where we're at on Sunday mornings. Just last Sunday talking about being dull of hearing, becoming

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