Good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study on Thursday nights. We're going through

the Bible. Book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. And we are currently in the

amazing book of Isaiah. We finished chapter 41 last week. And so we're going to pick it up

chapter 42 tonight. And I would invite you at this time if you're not already there to turn there.

And once you do, if you would please join with me, let's pray.

And we'll ask God to bless our Bible study and our time together in his word tonight.

Oh Lord. Thank you so much for your word at such a time as this and for this time that

we have on Thursday nights where we can just come to this, your church.

Lord, many of us are just super stressed and just so much pressure right now and so much in the way of confusion.

We know that you're not the author of confusion.

So much in the way of anxiety and fear and uncertainty and. Lord,

we know that if faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God, then so too, conversely, fear comes by hearing and hearing

the world. And so, Lord, tonight we're here because we want to hear you as you speak into our lives in and through your word. We need to hear your

voice, Lord. There are so many voices clamming for our attention, the threatening voices out there.

Lord, we need to hear your voice tonight. We need to hear your word tonight. Lord,

speak as only you can in that still, small, refining voice of the Holy Spirit. Lord, bless our

time together. This is our time with you in your word. And so Lord bless our time

together tonight we pray in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. All right. So I made the decision to only take

chapter 42 tonight because it's one of the most magnificent

descriptions of what Jesus is like.

And as we're about to see Isaiah, by the Holy Spirit is going to paint this powerful prophetic portrait of the

coming Savior of the world.

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