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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
19 - ISAIAH 46-48 - JEHOVAH SUPREME IN PUNISHMENT</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.
46:3-4 (46, ESV) JEHOVAH: CONTRASTS HIMSELF WITH IDOLS. <font size="3">“Listen
to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who
have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb;
</font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">4 </font><font size="3">even
to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have
made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Idols
cannot do what You do in Redemption, Father! Therefore it is only
unto </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
that we look, and unto You we pray. </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"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
47:6 (47) JEHOVAH: FORETELLS BABYLON’S DOOM. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“I
was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into
your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke
exceedingly heavy.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Pride
of man causes him to go beyond Your word, Father. Babylon’s harsh
judgment upon Israel reveals the ‘why’ of Your anger. Whatever is
righteous in Your sight, </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">do
it</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
</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.
48:3 (48:1-8) JEHOVAH’S CHARGE AGAINST JACOB. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“The
former things I declared of old; they went out from my mouth, and I
announced them; then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Jacob
let You down, Father. This You foreknew, and vindicated Yourself by
stating it ahead of time. For us too, You provide before we sense a
need. </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">4.
48:9-11 JEHOVAH’S FORBEARANCE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">For
my name’s sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I
restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">10
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Behold,
I have refined you, but not as s</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">il</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">ver;
I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">11
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">For my
own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be
profaned? My glory I will not give to another. </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Forbearance
is Your character, O Father! We can depend upon it! Your </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">are</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
a merciful and compassionate God. How we love and thank You. </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.
48:14 (48:12-15) JEHOVAH SPEAKS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Assemble,
all of you, and listen! Who among them has declared these things? The
LORD loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon, and his arm
shall be against the Chaldeans.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">You
Father, will </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">not</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
suffer us to be tempted above what we can endure. Your are merciful
and righteous. Those like Babylon who have overstepped their bounds,
You </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">will judge</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
Righteousness and Faithfulness becomes Your Name! </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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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
48:16-17 (48:16-19) JEHOVAH: ENJOINS OBEDIENCE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Draw
near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in
secret, from the time it came to be I have been there.” And now the
Lord GOD has sent me, and his Spirit. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">17
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Thus
says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the
LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way
you should go.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You are open with us; in Your Word You clearly reveal Yourself and
Your purposes. We trust You, and submit to You. </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.
48:22 (48:20-22) JEHOVAH: FORETELLS JACOB’S DEPARTURE FROM
BABYLON. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">There
is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
day of recompense for the wicked </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">always</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
comes! Though You Father, delay judgment that more repentance might
come; yet the day of reckoning finally falls! </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>:
46:9b-10a (46) JEHOVAH: WHO TELLS THE END FROM THE BEGINNING! </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
</span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">10
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">declaring</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet
done.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Consider!</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: 19:14 (19) THE LAW OF THE LORD IS PERFECT! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Let
the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in
your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
marvel at Your creation Father, and how it reflects Your power and
godhead. Your Word is yet a </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">clearer</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
revelation of Yourself. </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">He
is wisest who reads both the world-book and the Word-book as t</span><span style="text-decoration:none">w</span><span style="text-decoration:none">o
volumes of the same work and feels concerning them, “My Father
wrote them both.”</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">19:1
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The h</b></span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>e</b></span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>avens
declare the glory of God.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
The book of nature has three leaves - heaven, earth, and sea - of
which heaven is the first and the most glorious, and by its aid we
are able to see the beauties of the other two. He who begins to read
creation by studying the stars begins the book at the right place.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"> The
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">heavens</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
are plural for their variety, comprising the watery heavens with
their clouds of countless forms, the aerial heavens with their calms
and tempests, and solar heavens with all the glories of the day, and
the starry heavens with all the marvels of the night; what the heaven
of heavens must be has not entered into the heart of man, but there
in chief all things are telling the glory of God. It is not merely
glory that the heavens declare, but the </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">glory
of God</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
firmament shows His handy-work; </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">not
handy, in the vulgar use of that term, but hand-work. The expanse is
full of the works of the Lord’s skillful, creating hands. In the
expanse above us God flies, as it were, His starry flag to show that
the King is at home and hangs out his escutcheon that atheists may
see how He despises their denunciations of Him. He who looks up to
the firmament and then writes himself down an atheist brands himself
at the same moment as an idiot or a liar.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">14:7
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The law of the Lord
is perfect; </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">by
which he means not merely the law of Moses but the doctrine of God,
the whole run and rule of sacred Writ. There are no redundancies and
no omissions in the Word of God and in the plan of grace; why then do
men try to paint this lily and gild this refined gold? The gospel is
perfect in all its parts, and perfect as a whole: it is a crime to
add to it, treason to alter it, and felony to take from it.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Converting the
soul</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">. The great
means of the conversion of sinners is the Word of God, and the more
closely we keep to it in our ministry the more likely are we to be
successful. It is God’s Word rather than man’s comment on God’s
Word which is made mighty with souls.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">14:8
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The statutes of the
Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Mark
the progress; he who was converted was next made wise and is now made
happy; that truth which makes the heart right then gives joy to the
right heart.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">19:10
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>More to be desired
are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
metaphor is one which gathers force as it is brought out - gold -
fine gold- much fine gold; it is good, better, best, and therefore it
is not only to be desired with a miser’s avidity but with more than
that. Men speak of solid gold, but what is so solid as solid truth?
For love of gold pleasure is forsworn, ease renounced, and life
endangered; shall we not be ready to do as much for love of truth?</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">19:12
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Who can understand
his errors? </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">He
best knows himself who best knows the Word, but even such a one will
be in a maze of wonder as to what he does not know, rather than on
the mount of congratulation as to what he does know. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Cleanse
Thou me from secret faults.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
Secret sins, like private conspirators, must be hunted out, or they
may do deadly mischief; it is well to be much in prayer concerning
them. In the Lutheran Council of the Church of Rome, a decree was
passed that every true believer must confess his sins, all of them,
once in a year to the priest, and they affixed to it this
declaration, that there is no hope of pardon but in complying with
that decree. What can equal the absurdity of such a decree as that?
Do they suppose that they can tell their sins as easily as they can
count their fingers?</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">19:13
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Then shall I be
upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">He
shudders at the thought of the unpardonable sin. Secret sin is a
stepping-stone to presumptuous sin, and that is the vestibule of “the
sin which is unto death.” He who tempts the devil to tempt him is
in a path which will lead him from bad to worse, and from the worse
to the worst.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">19:14
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Let the words of my
mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Your sight, O
Lord, my Strength, and my Redeemer.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
Words of the mouth are </span><u>mockery</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
if the heart does not </span><u>meditate</u><span style="text-decoration:none">.</span></font></font></p>
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