You Were Spiritually Poor | Historical Books | Isaiah 42:10-25

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

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Are you blind and deaf to God? Do you walk humbly before God? Has God lifted you up? In today's episode, Patrick shares how Isaiah 42:10-25 encourages us to praise our God, who lifted us up from poverty. If you're listening on Spotify, tell us about yourself and where you're listening from! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Isaiah 42:10-25

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:08.8	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.6	I'm Patrick Miller.
0:13.1	In 2018, a homeless man named Elmer Alvarez found a $10,000 cashier's check just sitting
0:19.6	on the street. You might assume that the next thing he'd do
0:22.9	would be to go and cash the check and take the money. And here's the truth. If it had happened
0:28.5	several years earlier, that's probably what he would have done. Elmer Alvarez faced the same
0:34.7	demons many homeless people do, mental illness, addiction. But despite being on
0:40.5	the street, he'd been clean for over three years now. And as anyone who's battled addiction knows,
0:46.7	you can only stay clean if you stay honest. So Elmer did something unexpected. He tracked down the
0:53.5	person the check was meant for, and he delivered
0:55.8	it to her. Her name was Roberta Hoski, and she was a successful real estate broker in New Haven,
1:02.0	Connecticut. When he reached out and asked her to meet up, she expected to find a white collar,
1:07.5	buttoned up man delivering the check, but instead she found a homeless man.
1:12.7	She said that in that moment, when she saw him, all of her stereotypes about the homeless
1:17.5	and those in poverty, it shattered, every single one of them. She saw a man with incredible integrity
1:23.8	who had everything to lose by being honest, and yet he chose honesty instead.
1:29.5	She was so moved that she found him housing, and she paid for his housing for seven months.
1:34.7	Not just that, she paid for him to go to real estate school, and then began working on real
1:38.9	estate projects with him. Eventually, they launched a transitional home for teenagers who were
1:43.8	experiencing homelessness. Elmer could relate to them home for teenagers who were experiencing homelessness.
1:45.8	Elmer could relate to them because he knew the pain of homelessness, and in his new role at this
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