Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. If you've been following us this year,

you know that we take a specific question from each week's lesson and do a little, you

know, five to ten minute discussion on it. This week's lesson is Isaiah 1 through 12.

I can just picture some of our listeners going, Isaiah, oh no, not Isaiah. So John, the question

for this week is who is Isaiah and why is he so important that we're always talking about?

Oh, what a great, that's well, how do we answer that one in just a few minutes? Isaiah, one

of the greatest Old Testament prophets, but he was such a poet and a scholar and an advisor

to kings. He was great because of where the Lord put him and when the Lord put him, but

he also wrote in such a beautiful way, but it takes a little bit of effort. And like

most things in life, you put in some effort, he will become one of your favorites. I like

to use the analogy of Hank, if I handed you a Sudoku puzzle book that I bought at Dollar

Tree and all of the puzzles were filled in, you would throw it away. But when the puzzles

are empty and you think there's an answer, there's something here. I think Jesus' parables

help us do that too. Wait, what does that mean? And what does that mean? What does he mean

there? And the reward of studying Isaiah is when you start to fill in those puzzles and

go, oh, well, now I get that. And it becomes one of your favorites. But where I like to

start is the name Isaiah, if you look it up in the Bible dictionary, it means you know

when you hear, yeah, at the end of a proper name, what is it, Hank?

Yeah, it's Jehovah. So there's a lot of names like that. And it's kind of fun to look

at them like those names that have the name of God in them. And they like to do that.

They like to put the name of God in their name or acknowledge God in their names. Isaiah

means Jehovah is salvation. Or if we were to put that bumper sticker language, Jesus saves.

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