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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>JUL
17 - ISAIAH 40-41 - JEHOVAH: SUPREME IN ATTRIBUTES</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
40:1-2 (40:1-8, ESV) MESSIAH: REDEMPTION THROUGH FIRST COMING.
<font size="3">“Comfort, comfort my people, say</font><font size="3">s</font><font size="3">
your God. </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">2 </font><font size="3">Speak
tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that
her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD’s
hand double for all her sins.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">never</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
reward our iniquity in measure, but </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">always</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
in Grace and Mercy. You remember our make-up. Mercy and judgment kiss
each other. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
by your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
40:9 (40:9-11) MESSIAH: REJOICING THROUGH SECOND COMING. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Get
you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your
voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of </span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">g</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">ood
news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, ‘Behold
your God!’” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
marvelous is Your Timing, O Father. Not even Your Son knew this day.
But He will return in Your Timing, and we will behold the wisdom of
our God! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
40:28 (40:12-28) JEHOVAH: HIS OMNISCIENCE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Have
you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow
weary; his understanding is unsearchable.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">There
is </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">nothing</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
You do not know, O Father! Marvelous is Your knowledge! Before we
ask, You have already anticipated and provided! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
40:31 (40:29-31) JEHOVAH: HIS OMNIPOTENCE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall
mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">All
our hidden springs are in You, O Great Jehovah Father. You have
provided it all in Christ! Why are we so blind and striving for
self-sufficiency? </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
41:4 (41:1-7) JEHOVAH: FOREKNOWLEDGE THROUGH CYRUS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Who
has performed and done this, calling the generations from the
beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">You
Father, provided Cyrus for Israel’s restoration before ever Daniel
perceived the timing and interceded! How awesome is Your
Fore-knowledge, O Great Jehovah Father. We humble ourselves before
You. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
41:10 (41:8-20) JEHOVAH: OMNIPOTENT PURPOSE THROUGH ISRAEL. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Fear
not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will
strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous
right hand.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">None
can say, No! to You, Father. Your purposes shall prevail. Your
salvation on our behalf and on behalf of Israel </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">shall
be</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
consummated. Satan’s opposition is puny. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
41:21 (41:21-29) JEHOVAH: ASSERTS HIS INFALLIBLE FOREKNOWLEDGE.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Set forth
your case, says the LORD; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.</span></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">You
Father, have no counselor with wisdom to instruct You. There is </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">none</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
beside You. In Christ we magnify You! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
40:29-30 (40:29-31) JEHOVAH: HIS OMNIPOTENCE. </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“He
gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases
strength. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">30
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Even
youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
give us a revelation of our transitory and feeble life! Show us that
we are but dust, and our span as but a breath! Then we will relate to
You as sons and daughters of an all-caring and all-sufficient Father!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the day: 17:3 (17) </span><span style="text-decoration:none">IN
THE SHADOW OF YOUR WINGS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“You
have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested
me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not
transgress.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Jehovah
Father, This is the day You have made; we will rejoice and be glad
in it. You instruct us in the night seasons through dreams and
visions. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">Title
and Subject: “A Prayer of David.” David would not have been a man
after God’s own heart if he had not been a man of prayer. He was a
master in the sacred art of supplication. He flew to prayer in all
times of need as a pilot speeds to the harbor in the stress of
tempest. We have in the present plaintive song “An Appeal to
Heaven” from the persecutions of earth.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">17:3
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>You have tried me,
and shall find nothing.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
Surely the Psalmist means nothing hypocritical or wicked in the
sense in which his slanderers accused him; for if the Lord should put
the best of His people into the crucible, the dross would be a
fearful sight and would make penitence open her sluices wide.
Assayers very soon detect the presence of alloy, and when the Chief
of all assayers shall, at the last, say of us that He has found
nothing, it will be a glorious hour indeed - “They are without
fault before the throne of God.” Even here, as viewed in our
covenant Head, the Lord sees no sin in Jacob nor perverseness in
Israel; even the all-detecting glance of Omniscience can see no flaw
where the great Substitute covers all with beauty and perfection.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>I am purposed that
my mouth shall not transgress</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">.
The number of diseases of the tongue is as many as the diseases of
all the rest of the man put together, and they are more inveterate.
It needs more than a purpose to keep this nimble offender within its
proper range. Lion-taming and serpent charming are not to be
mention</span><span style="text-decoration:none">ed</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
in the same day as tongue taming, for the tongue can no man
tame. David desire</span><span style="text-decoration:none">d</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
in all respects to tune his lips to the sweet and simple music of
truth. Notwithstanding all this, David was slandered, as if to show
us that the purest innocence will be bemired by malice. There is not
sunshine without a shadow, no ripe fruit unpecked by the birds.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">17:8
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Keep me as the
apple of the eye. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
all-wise Creator has placed the eye in a well-protected position; it
stands surrounded by projecting bones like Jerusalem encircled by
mountains. Moreover, its great Author has surrounded it with many
tunics of inward covering besides the hedge of the eyebrows, the
curtain of the eyelids, and the fence of the eyelashes; and, in
addition to this, he has given to every man so high a value for his
eyes and so quick an apprehension of danger that no member of the
body is more faithfully cared for than the organ of sight.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">17:14
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Whose belly You
fill with Your hid treasure. </b></span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none">A</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
generous man does not deny dogs their bones; and our generous God
gives even His enemies enough to fill them, if they were not so
unreasonable as never to be content. Gold and silver which are locked
up in the dark treasuries of the earth are given to the wicked
liberally, and they therefore roll in all manner of carnal delights.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">17:15
When a Roman conqueror had been at war and won great victories, he
would return to Rome with his soldiers, enter privately into his
house, and enjoy himself till the next day, when he would go out of
the city to re-enter it publicly in triumph. Now, the saints, as it
were, enter privately into heaven without their bodies; but on the
last day, when their bodies wake up, they will enter into their
triumphal chariots. Methinks I see that grand procession, when Jesus
Christ first of all, with many crowns on His head, with His bright,
glorious, immortal body, shall lead the way. “I shall be satisfied”
in that glorious day when all the angels of God shall come to see the
triumphs of Jesus, and when His people shall be victorious with Him.
(From “The Treasury of David” by C. H. Spurgeon, abridged by
David Otis Fuller.)</span></font></font></p>
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