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Welcome to a Breath of Fresh Air podcast. Here with your hosts, Earl Roberts and Nikaz Ge. As a young person, Christianity can be so foggy, like smoking a mirror and so unclear. But we're here to bring you a breath of fresh air.
Thus there's the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts. I am the first and I am the last. Besides me, there is no God, and who can proclaim as I do? Then let him declare it and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people, and the things that are coming and shall come.
Let them show these to them. Do not fear, nor be afraid. Have I not told you from that time and declared it? You are my witnesses.
Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is no other rock. I know not one. Have you ever built your confidence on something that turned out to have no power at all?
In Isaiah 44, God reminds us people that idols, whether made of wood, gold, or even our own ambitions, can never save or sustain us. He declares, I am the Lord who made all things. This chapter calls us to remember who truly formed us, redeemed us, and called us by name. As always, be blessed and enjoy.
All right, welcome back to another episode of a breath of fresh air podcast with your host. The cards get. Earl Roberts, hopefully everyone will have a great week. Hopefully everyone will have a day.
You know, we wasn't too crazy. You know, we are too busy and found some solace in the chaos that is this world. How's your week man? It was long, bro.
Oh, man, long week. It's that week, it's that week where you got plenty of work and plenty of meetings and you got some serious decisions to make, you know, make or break decisions. And I just thank God to be at a place where it was a successful week. You know, I know, I don't know the long term income, but I know ain't nothing for a flat.
You know, you know, things went well. You know, it wasn't one of those things where it's like, oh, I embarced myself or big mistake. Things of that nature. It was hard even from the work life violence perspective, bro, because I still got school, schools all the way on the bar, you know, sports, sports and full effect.
So much just everything, all that everything was pulling my attention this week. I tell you, I can't worry about football and touch on football. I feel like a real I feel like a CEO this week is a skill multi tasking. I was just going to see with like people at the highest level, they got to be able to do.
You got you got four or five things that's really pending and individually these could be very worrisome, but you can't let it spill into other things. Like you can't let it consume you down too much because you still have other things to do. But yeah, man, that's thankful for the solace. I guess some rest and get back to it next week.
I feel like my week was busy, bro. See a couple hours ago, when we called me, say, I talk to you all week. I say, wait, when we I talk to myself, I'll be saying boy, just being that guy in a week, really. Yeah.
Even last night, pretty much wake up until 12 o'clock, I went around to be to take a break to go grab dinner yesterday. But just had a couple big deadlines all due at the same time. So just like I pushed to get everything in, and the obligations to the client were promised. And I didn't set those obligations.
But I'm just the one in the back and trying to fill up. Yeah. When people signed a check, they can't cash. Yeah, but you got to be the one to cash.
I got to be the one to make sure I guess. Yeah. But God is good. God is faithful.
Thank God for the Sabah Week. Relax a little bit. Unwind. Take a deep breath.
Chill. Just appreciate God and his blessings and his creations. So I love it, man. I love it.
And we are again. All right. So this week we are going to be a still a lot of first beginning things and improper. Nope.
Sam's 26. Sam's 26. Let's do this and do it and do it. Sam's 26.
Aha. Nope. I feel like that one. Yeah.
Okay. So let's do this. All right. Oh, wonderful.
It's only wonderful when it's short. All right. Findicate me, oh Lord, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted in the Lord.
I shall not slip, examine me, oh Lord. Improve me. Try my mind and my heart for your loving kindness is before my eyes and I have walked in your truth. I have not sat with idolatrous mortals, nor will I go in with hypocrites.
I have hated the assembly of the evil doers and I will not sit with the wicked. I will slash. I will wash my hands and innocence so that I will go about your altar, oh Lord. Then I may proclaim with a voice of thanksgiving and tell all of your wondrous works, Lord, I have loved the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.
Do not gather my soul, but sin is gnaw my life with bloodthirsty men in whose hands is a sinister scheme and whose right hand is full of bribes. But as for me, I will walk in integrity, redeem me and be merciful to me. My foot stands in an even place in the congregations. I will bless the Lord.
Amen. Sometimes I feel like if I was to say these things, people would think I cocky broke. If I was to, if I was to, if I was to, if I was to in a speech and I'd be like vindicate me, oh Lord, if I have walked in my integrity, I have trusted in the Lord, I shall not slip. You know, examine and prove me.
Try my mind in my heart. You know what I'm saying? Like, I live in right. I live in right.
It's almost like when someone brag about, obviously he wasn't bragging. But if someone brags about living right, that's saying as a testament that you truly ain't really living right because your heart is in the wrong place in a way. But you know, I feel like the truth is the truth. Sometimes in the Bible, like I see things that kind of like challenge the way we as Christians live, you know, it was, it was something that was like a month ago.
That was so polarizing, bro. Oh, yeah. You know, people was talking about, you know, if you were Christian and you, you know, some people was like, bro, you were Christian, you, you, you, you support Christ and you have serious beliefs, then you should be, you know, memorialized to such shit. You know, if any of you are in town, you pass them and other people feel like, you know, you, you are Christian, your fruits should reflect that.
You know what I mean? And they're saying, like, I have walked in my integrity, like, but I want you to, I want you to vindicate, like, I want you to prove me what I say. Because I know what I say in this fox, but I want you to make that, to make that evident. And people like David, even Joseph, even has a car to make it more applicable to what we just finished reading, they have challenged, I said, I said, it was my manager, they have challenged God in their righteousness.
Like they have stood and say, Hey, what is happening to me or what has happened is not does not fit that the punishment don't fit my lifestyle. They don't fit the crime, the proverbial crime, which isn't a crime here. But what I'm receiving is not a representation of who I am, you know, what is due to me because of the way I live. And I just always find that so because, bro, if I get there, I know obviously my good at my bottom, I don't know my bad as much as I think I know, but I know the good, I know the things that I really try my best.
I mean, nobody is looking not to do, you know, certain things I just do not do. And I think that could be a slippery slope. If I start to say, Hey, bro, you you you solid, bro, you you you pay your tithes, bro. You know what I'm saying?
You don't judge people in that way. You know, you try not to make people feel by like trying to spare people feeling like you try to do all these things. Like it's a part of me that made me feel like bro, I didn't humble, but like the minute you start talking like that, the minute you start to feel proud. Oh, you know, that's I think that's the slippery slope that the fire seats was on because they did so much good works.
And they felt like they were good, but it's like they allowed their heart to slip away. And so like stuff like this kind of challenges that mindset because it's obviously what's the what's the spirit behind it or like what's the intention behind it. David is trying to say God, people are looking at me. I think he's saying people are looking at me or the perception of me is that I'm one way, but you know that I'm right.
Just not vindicate me, you know. And so yeah, I also like we just asked him go out to like examine him and prove him like, you know, try like it's not just being like, Hey, I know I like it's not just saying like, yeah, I'm I'm I have integrity. He's saying, no Lord, you could test me. Test my ways, test my heart, test my mind and see that I'm walking in truth.
So I like that because like so much time, so he says, okay, I'm doing this right. But when someone starts to press you get you get all defensive, but they would say, no, I'm inviting you to know me vindicate me, but no proof. Explore me and poke a hole in my argument. If I walk in a fake shimmy, that's like a correct it.
You know what I'm saying? If I ain't if I ain't being loving like this loving and kindness, if I'm not innocent, like let me know that way I'm not even being being being what am I trying to say? I'm a being like ignorant. So what I'm doing, you know, I'm saying ignorant blindsided.
I'm like, I ain't come in ignorance. I come in arrogance. I'm like, I'm not all truth. You know what I'm saying?
Like this is how I know I am. I'm coming to you in confidence. I like it. Nice short Psalms.
No, some. Erin and cool. Yes. This is one sum of David.
One some of David. This is a sum of David. Very correct. It's not it's not Psalms.
Collectively, they are Psalms, but this is one Psalm. Shout out to my Grammy. What up, I was doing. All right, so we as I of 44, we're, I mean, this is really continuing from 42, 43 in my opinion.
of the same theme. We're going to talk about redemption again and God redeeming his people. So let's look at the beautiful sets of verses. So let's hit it.
Yet here now, Oh Jacob my servant, an Israel home I have chosen, thus say is the Lord who made you informed you from the womb who will help you. Fair not, Oh Jacob my servant and you just are on whom I have chosen, but I will pour water on him who is thirsty and floods on the dry ground. I will pour my spirit on your descendants and my blessing on your offspring that they will spring up among the grass like willows by the water courses. One will say I am the Lord.
Another will call himself by the name of Jacob. Another will write with his hand the Lord's and name himself by the name of Israel. Kind of, kind of cool. Yeah, I was looking up Shasharon because I did I did do this earlier this week and they were saying it just means the upright one.
But I thought this was the only time that it was used. He was using the army too, right? Yeah, it was used like three times in Duodalonomy. But yeah, like one of the times that it was used.
So it really just means the upright one, but you know, they utilize it to say how they utilize it to say how they grew. Basically like, let me pull up the exact exact. He's doing 32, that's 15. Where's what's in curd of kind and milk of sheep with the fat of lambs and and he goes with the kidney fat of wheat and of the blood of the grape thou drank its forming wine.
Oh, let me go back to the rest of the Lord alone did lead him and there was no strange guard with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth and he did eat the fruit of the field and he made him the succony out of the crack and oil out of the flint of the rock curd of kind and milk of sheep and the fat of lambs and the fat of lambs and the breed of bachan and he goes and the kidney fat of wheat and of the blood of grape thou drink its forming wine. But Jehasharon blocks fat and kicked thou did wax fat, thou did grow thick, thou did become gross and he forsook God who made him and contended the rock of his salvation. They roused him to jealousy with strange guard with abomination.
They did provoke him. So I have like a Wikipedia and they mentioned I think they mentioned as being the first time Jehasharon actually was used. And it means the upright one. So when we see this using the Quran, I mean it shows like a I don't want to use the word juxtaposition, but it shows like a like a disconnect between this upright one who was so blessed and they became so complete not really complacent but they became so gluttonous that they took all the blessings for granted and they started to rebel and this around the anger of God.
And now centuries later we see where God talking about Jehasharon but he using it in context like to say like you my servant you are the upright one that I call you to be you know whom I have chosen and this is what I'll do to you. So you know I just think it speaks to like restorative power and demeanor of God whereas you might have this on and off but just because you know we fail and just because God corrects us doesn't mean that we are he holds that grudge. You know people have that assumption of God like he's this big grudge holder but when you really look at the details and even if you just put yourself in those shoes you know God is way patient like very patient. It's almost about parenthood and you know my daughter is gonna do things that upset me and I'm gonna puff the punish off and she's probably gonna be upset by being punished but it's like you just have like a you just have amnesia after that like this once it's over now we put it behind us and we don't remember I know I've been punished plenty times as a kid but I can't name them like I can't even really think like it'll have to be like a big significant punishment or something really bad that I did for it to even stick in my memory but I think I think that's a similar situation to what God like obviously there's ups and downs but I ain't holding that grudge with you forever but as a dunts when people you don't know cross you and this might be the first day I meet you and you do something select to me and I just I never forget that now like you know what I mean like I might hold that against you or I might at least judge you for it and so yeah you know just go to show the difference regardless and as people you know the thing I like is um I get re-reversed first three I will pour out my spirit I will first rest for my will pour out my what I'm who was thirsty and flood and floods on the dry ground I'll pour my spirit on your descendants and my blessings on your offspring and it shows that like God just ain't really trying to to just simply just bless them he trying to give them a over pouring of blessing that it goes even go for it as a generational blessing exactly so like goes beyond them but he's blessing their descendants and their offspring you know what I'm saying like and I think that's powerful like again like in the future like at least they see the name of what we can have asked I think and that's what God truly truly wants to do for us and his people you know what I'm saying and then it's like when you get this blessing from the Lord like in verse five right but like essentially just saying that you want to become more like God in four different ways you know what I'm saying one will say I am the Lord another will call himself by the name of Jacob another will write with his hand the Lord's another will leave himself by the name of Israel you can see the words here in italics that were like inserted right so like even like the third one other will write with his hand or with his nectalics you go back on like in the original Hebrew in this case like you like one can almost could be saying like you know one will essentially will inscribe the Lord in on your hand is and and it is powerful like you know this blessing from the Lord wants to make people identify with Christ you know what I'm saying and I think that's how it should be as well not not saying all in Christ because he's blessing me but just being one just want to take on the identity of Christ calling yourself like living the lifestyle like and actually being proud and bold about it not trying to be timid with it you know I'm saying like actually being servants of Christ and I think that's that's powerful we keep going verse six does say is the Lord the king of Israel and his redeemer the Lord of hosts I am the first and I am the last besides me there is no God and who can proclaim as I do then let him declare it and set it in order for me since I appointed the ancient people and the things that are coming and shall come let them show these things to them do not fail nor be afraid but not told you from that time I declared it you are my witnesses is there a God besides me indeed there is no other rock I know not one and again we see some of the same themes being repeated in this chapter again you are my witnesses is there other God before me show me let me know I am the beginning and the end the alphan you may get you know I'm saying like like essentially we're cleaning it like bro there is no other God who has the dominion and sovereignty over this world over you guys but me and like I began to get into the idols again but it's like these same last couple of chops I'd like the same rear-current themes you guys are mine I am the only one true God stop being a dumb worship in these idols yeah I actually love texts like this I love when God say flat out I am him there is no other I was the first there will not be any after me but like there's no there's no wiggle room yeah we're the business not because we live in a world where and they lived in the same world they live in a world where there's so many gods so many philosophies so many lifestyles right and it was it was more I think it was more tangible because they actually serve tangible God so you know it's almost like the Christians we are cross you know some people have a symbology you know Islamy they have the moon the crested moon you know simple the symbol so you know what side of the fence somebody on like when I see somebody where the onk was like the key of life in Egypt I assume that they probably aren't Christian or that they are some they you know it's just more I just you know I just make the assumption that they it's something to do with like like blackness you know in their beliefs just don't you know some people pray to ancestors and things like that who I know where so it's such symbolism and God right here saying like there's no there's none other bro I'm the only one I'm the only one you know what I'm saying and we live in a world where no nowhere I mean we live in America on this side of the world it's like if you make that sounds as long as like you send it at this at the other at the others right and I mean it should be it doesn't matter if it's at this or not but if you believe the Bible you believe that this is pure fox you know what I'm saying this is just pure fox if we believe in the Bible we believe that every other religion that is not serving Yahweh it's not serving Jehovah you know what I mean yeshua Jesus that clicked you know we ain't coming from that system is false because that's what the Bible says that's what the Bible says now you believe it or not so some people say oh you know it's good spirits bad spirits and I mean some people say um you know supposed we all worship in the same God we just call up different things call them different things we just from different cultures you believe in Christianity because that's the culture you come from I from Islamic faith that's what I believe it's the same God it's only one God that's the situation and I refute that because obviously when you get deep in the book and in the same book he highlighted serving who we were sending you know what I'm saying and all these different prophecies point up to Jesus and the things that he did and then when we get to Jesus you know people worship in Jesus God saying this is my son but then when Jesus say when God say he's the son of God say Jesus is his son but when Jesus say I am the son of God the Father says oh he's being blaspiced mind God God himself they wasn't there the baptism mind they wasn't there they wasn't there they wasn't there baptism mind I can give them that because I don't think I truly don't think some of them was they don't think they was there but I'm just like to say you the son of God and see they that wasn't recorded I mean I wasn't you know well well recorded and publicized yet you know I'm saying no they didn't know about it exactly I get them all out but we have the benefit of knowing right and so when we say son right we think that means the wreck offspring like we are the sons we are God's children so that means I'm the son of God you see what I'm saying but the titled son of God is to put yourself in the terror of God and we nowadays might not even see it like that because just the way we use our words is completely different to them but we can see by the reactions of the Pharisees because if I say I'm God son ain't nobody looking at me crazy you see what I'm saying but if I say I'm a part of the God head that that that's where everybody I got the good race red flesus is obviously false but that's all the virus he's taken because that's what Jesus was saying and then you know Jesus of text it's the record where Jesus say I and the father are one you see that's like fox you know and the word was with God and the word was God like these these things you know we see in the New Testament as well it's so many different angles to devil try to come to discredit it you know but if you believe in the Bible you should have no room for saying it for believing in any any different spirit any different way of life any different way of thinking you should hold that what God has saying because they say I as I saying it this is thus says the Lord you see it I'm saying I am the first and I am the last besides me there is no God none so God is this but I'm the only God not in our world we do have supernatural beings meaning beings that have powers beyond human control obviously angels it's a third of angels we know that just wicked that could do whatever and so we need to be a real host to the world of the original host we know the street and they still have their powers you know what I'm saying and so when you see supernatural things you can't just say oh thus God so that's where like people give room for witchcraft but the tens I say people especially black people say in regard to voodoo and old man witchcraft and things like that it is really making like they'll put it to you like bro you we improve you to this information so that's why you believe what you mean I am more learning than you that's always getting me bro yeah if you really know what's going on you wouldn't think this way and what they saying is that they know from a first-hand experience because they witness some of the divination they witness some of powers other demons you see what I'm saying but they see it as being something to marvel at or something good right but I know I know the true deception of it I know that besides God there's no God right and so anything that anything that's claiming to be supernatural but it's leading away from God it's not of God you know and I just think it's like this is so interesting bro it's a pet people mind bro it's a pet people mind when people say they read the Bible they know the Bible bro and then they say something that's like bro against the the core foundation of the Bible that's a pet people mind bro I see a lot of people within the jail where I know the Bible but like I know it's people who I talk to in a regular bro who misquote who they quote and all type of stuff that in the Bible you can tell you hey have someone say it they have not experienced this but they're like I know the Bible but I know the Bible but I know the Bible but I know the Bible but I know the Bible but I know the Bible now I know this story even a Genesis you hit the Genesis hit the dean and check them straight like hold on but what's going on here never this I never have a no minute cheers of that I never know Abraham had to go save a lot and so I might never know but these side quests these people's going on and thing in I know all of Joseph like in you know details in Joseph I was like oh and just and I mean I know that because that's the redemption story like they're easy to put in the movie bro but you know what you know what you know what you're trying to buy you know what you know what you know what I mean like yeah no these things oh goodness gracious the Bible I know what Ruben was trying to do biblical tabloids Ruben hey that's a wild family bro you can't say it like I know very wild family boy like all this stuff though sleeping he brought up with me that's what I said that's wild anyway black guys I alright that was funny before I got to ask a point to me like I'll be verse seven it's like since I pointed to ancient people and I'm like it's so wild like like people reading this this time they stop like you know a thousand years ago we read this like bro y'all ancient us but y'all read about ancient people and I'm like goodness and then we're just talking about like the whole who do and thing but I'm like bro just like it's weird right because like you know like talk this and I'll say the devil talk this up change and things have gone like more underground in like today's day right but like in Pharaoh's time where it was going back to Moses Moses and Pharaoh that part of the Bible right well Moses turned on his snake I mean throw down his role turn into a snake and Pharaoh man was like that's nothing here we go I'm like it's just calm and it's just calm in practice you know what I'm saying like it's just like calm people just cool with it I'm like what type of just a wild world back then boy that's how I was a hero like right now but someone trying to throw down a rock I try on a piece of sticking a turn into a snake buddy a fastball it's up like London like a couple hundred years ago burn up at the snake that's a witch hey that would be so good like I think if I was to see that in my eyes with my eye with my own eyes bro not on no video I don't even think I believe it bro what do you serve?
I definitely know what's going on what's happening but like I look at that now I be like bro this some type of sorcery not even sorcery because sorcery would be the literal term I try to be like figuratively speaking this is some type of like like slight of harm or something like you know what I mean yeah some type of trick it's something called illusion yeah and so if I write if I dare and I see the threat of the snake you know what I mean and this was literally a stick that I can verify was a stick then I believe it but I don't think it was a serious thing you know this is why you're in Jesus say if you had him or he had don't even go yeah oh don't go for sure don't even go bro because think about it because this thing would just say subconsciously but if I see it I can believe it and I know you've seen anything on that line but I think I'm sure people say I'm bro I see this guy perform miracles I can believe he's uh he's got he's gone you know what I'm saying like just think about that bro because you know in our day and age bro just sucks with seeing us believe it like other people don't have that deep fate where you can trust things blindly bro especially if something in your face that's blatantly telling you otherwise like yeah see I'm not supposed to fake comment but it's also the uh see that text it showed me like really damn park of the mind if I see that thing I will believe it will I trust that it is righteous it depends I can't I in theory textbook answer no I will not trust it unless I know this thing pointing me to go right but I will believe that this is real I will believe that is a this is a spiritual thing I just encountered this is a power beyond my ability I ain't got a fox but the thing the thing that's so tricky about the do not do not even go with what Jesus was saying when you hear they say that the crisis here there is that just the sensation that that you can get from this person or from this event bro I see it bro you go to a um when I watch it like Benny Hinn and like I don't watch these things but like if I see a video on it I don't think them people in the crowd fake him bro I think them people really haven't uh emotional experience I think the people going up claiming they can hear I think something I'm afraid of this but I don't think all of them are I think this is the power of mind but I just think that you feel so it's you in such a state of euphoria that you feel like you kept you feeling like what you feel like is the holy ghost but it's really the reason I'm saying that is because I see people at concerts at christian events and they so they pray isn't and they love it and they worship in right but I also see people at concerts bro non-christian events and I see people have the same experience bro some things are just so they are so um they just they're so captivating to your senses bro that you feel like you have been a spiritual experience and some people even use that analogy but it's like well I just I just just went to that restaurant but I was a spiritual experience but I feel like I leave my body eating or listening to music you know what I mean like even in sports bro like I had people say yeah bro I was on my body that game bro you know what I mean like just just not I ain't saying if they meet they have a deep I mean or not but from the surface level to me it's just like bro that was almost like a I was so euphoric was a spiritual experience I was off it you know and so I do believe that you go and you see and these people I named Benny and he's real corn artist bro imagine when it's the play imagine when it's the entire christ bro you know you have but you have a been in a situation where behind the scenes you're like bro when I get in this situation I could do that but I'm going like that bro then you get in the situation you're like you know this is alright you know like you really stick to your guns for you exactly because not a pressure on you're like oh you see the poison and poison and you're like oh this poison more intimidating than I thought already just more likeable oh I can't even put that on you like I want to do it just such a good poison whatever whatever you went to bro whatever your weaknesses that anti-Christ bro would have already mastered all of that and so when you go up that and come up they go hit you with a line they can say something they could do something that is unique for you this is the perfect pocket from the cars I've been watching the cars right with demon following and just studying and bro this one the cars and do and I'll tell you I know that for fuckers this one the cars family was into but all of them is into this and some people overcome some people ain't but I have a trend on them I see on the cars is complaining I see what he's secretly afraid of I know I know what makes him I know what he hopping we love all these things I can put together and I could give him some type of sensation and once you already captivated them like that once you calculate people like that then you know you showing powers to bro you're making fire come down from heaven how could you deny that that that that that person you believe is god bro how could someone deny that they already captivated you already star struck and then they show you the spiritual side but what would tell you that this place is evil apart from the profit the prophesied word of god telling you hey they can do great signs on this with Jesus say you know and if possible even the very lack would be deceived so that means nobody safe if you start to play around if you if you want to play ground bro you will lose and so it's best to save god yourself from that indeed indeed let's keep on going let's keep on going so verse 9 those who make an image all of them are useless and their precious things shall not profit they are their own witnesses they neither see nor know that they may be ashamed who who would who would form a god or mold an image that profits him nothing surely all his companions would be ashamed and the workmen they are mere mere men let them be gathered together let them stand up yet they shall fail they shall be ashamed together the blacksmith with the tongs works one in the colds fashions of the tamas and works with the strength of his arms even so he is that he is hungry and his strength fails he drinks in the water and is faint the craftsmen stretches out his rule he marks one out with chalk and he fashions it with a plane he marks it up with the compass and makes it like a figure of a man according to the beauty of a man that it may remain in the house he cuts down cedars from himself he takes the cypress and the oak he secures it for himself among the trees of the forest and plants a pine and and the rain norises it then it shall be for a man to burn where he will take some of it and warm himself yes he kindles it and bakes bread indeed he makes a god and worships it and he makes a carved image and falls down to it he burns half of it in the fire with this half he eats the meat he roasts the rose and is satisfied he even warms himself and says ah I am warm I have seen the fire and the rest of it he makes into a god his carved image he falls down before it and worship it prays to it and says to live with me for you oh my god just finish our dislow section they do not know nor understand for he has shut their eyes so they cannot see and they're hot so they cannot understand and no one considers in his heart nor is their knowledge nor understanding to say I have burned half of it in the fire yes I have also baked bread on its coals I roast and meat and eat in it and shall I make the rest of it an abomination shall I fall down before a block of wood he feeds on ashes and deceived I deceived heart as turned him aside and he cannot deliver his soul nor say is there not a lie in my right hand well I mean put it like that mercy that's the crazy embarse of the way I mean you broke it down ah you broke it down like you really break down the you really break it down and he say like again this is why there's no one to go up the sides me I am the beginning and the end these other things they can't they can't even compare because this thing clearly is a beginning the beginning is a tree and this tree you use multiple ways all boys say you cut down the tree part of it you use for lumba you burn part of it to keep you warm you bake bread and roast meat on the next part of it you know what I'm saying then you turn what's left and carve it into a god how that makes sense and this the same tree that you bow down and pray to fall down and worship it and say deliver me for you am I god you would just a tree who just was using it for warmth you just using it for fire yeah you know what I'm saying it it's the same thing that you make into a god the same thing yeah I mean that's okay is because god was sitting but he was saying I broke you know he'd go on to the process it's like what they call it like like an assembly line right you got a blacksmith obviously you need them to like make axes and you know things that you could sharpen and shape like shave the the craft that sculpted and something right so you got that that present god say he works a while he turns the heat he even stops in the drink room you see what I'm saying like that's how hard he worked him because we know what this fall we're gonna make a idol out we just use this we're gonna use this to make a idol then we go to the craftsman you know he sketches out the diagram or you know you render it in some type of way and then you know you mark it out you get his compass all his tools and then it's crazy all some of these tools might I grass keep going compass right I was like bro that's crazy but but then they say mine you know you you cut down you get you get your wood you got your supply you see what I'm saying you let the rain water it a little bit you see what I'm saying no I'm sorry you got your seat on then you plant a pine in the rain the rain the rain the rain or it's never is it and then off this same this same thing you have so much different uses for it but one of it is a god but how explain to me so first you go on you go on to and say how devoted you are law to making your items right but now I want you to explain to me how can this thing be holy when you just used it for regular things at the same time why you banning why you bowing down and worship in this thing that you just was using to eat bro and to keep warm and then like that like imagine you saying bro I can either turn this into my god or I could just burn it the two are pull off a sitz broke is one is like if you're a man just what's up holy and you're burning it bro this is back for the sock religious you know what I mean and so it do make sense but like it's so many times in this in the bible in the old testament specifically when they talk about idols and they just like bro it has no heirs but you but you pray to it it has no eyes but you know it can't see but it has it has eyes and that's two years but it can't hear you know what I mean like you can't talk whatever mo why why you know what I mean like you know but I just go to the people to show that people want to have faith in something I think I didn't read these two cover events me that that you have this shrine or whatever it is and it's holy not really holy but it's like powerful you know that's why people walk around with crystals and all these different things bro and all these different objects and they like bro this thing of the power to but people have dream catches and all type of thing and I know people do it for training things so I really cast and judgment and stuff right but people have all these random things and they like bro but it's the ward off spirits and x y's yeah I saw a meme like that but it was like someone laughing is like show it again and then and he's the person was boxing like he was laughing he's like show it again man and the couch was like this was this was going to be like when you get to heaven and show them and tell him which was using the ward off spirits right and he's like show it and me was like laughing like show me again show me again and the person was showing up like the thing the sage the sage that's used to burn you see what I said it's like this this would be god laughing but this would use using the ward off spirits but the Bible tell us but the whole armor of God and shins probably this bring part of the song I'm a soldier and I was talking about the whole armor of God you know that's what we do just not the Bible says Ephesians 6 verse 12 but what he was saying put on the whole armor of God so that you can stand against the wilds of the enemy that's essentially the the gist of the text right and that's it so we don't we don't rely on on on like candles and sage and and different crystals and stuff like that you know people believe in a lot of things and people are exploited because of that and God was just trying to break it down to the to keep trying to break it down to the common sense level bro even if this thing was holy you can't rationalize using it firewood using it to big bread and then using it to make a idol and pray out it just don't make it just don't make sense that this is the same thing yep the other God verse the tide if that's the case bro if you could use it for this without the third you see what I saying like one in one way you can be an element this day in the next day he's all powerful on my you know that's a Swiss army knife right there and it just shows like they they enslaved to this lie bro just like I was 20 hands nor say it's then all the lie in my right hand like you pick up this idol bachahan and you bachahan of authority and power you know especially Hebrew days that right hand was very important and you can't even realize that what you're pulling in your hand is a complete lie I can just make no sense like you just carved this from the same thing you use the same block of wood for all these other purposes but this part just because you made it into this image does make your god like rationally like just like just just taking a step back and just rationally analyzing but just happened I might have just cut down a 26 foot tree causing a 26 foot tree and only about a foot of it I'm making the design of that at 25 keeping my family warm I use an attempt to big bread I use such a rose meat I use it to all kind of the things probably bill a little shelter bill a little fence from a cow's and a sheep like I just put all that but it thinks but the whole tree in holy hey okay everyone is by this logic if this actually why does that actually holy right when you break it down like this you have a very compelling argument you know what I'm saying all right let's keep going so verse 21 remember these oh Jacob and and Israel for you are my servant I have formed you you are my servant oh Israel you will not be forgotten by me I have blotted out like a thick cloud your transgressions and like a thick cloud your sins return to me for I have redeemed you sing oh heavens for the Lord has done it shout you lower parts of the earth break forth into singing you mountains oh forest and every tree in it but the Lord has redeemed Jacob and glorified himself in Israel and again we see in the same redemption theme and again God saying I have blotted out just sins again I have blotted out your transgressions return to me for I have redeemed you and again like just the whole powerful thing about the redemption process he's the only saying but I have already paid the price for you you know I'm saying I've already gone out seeking and cleaned you as my own return to me because there's no reason you shouldn't I have already paid the place it is all gone your sins I've forgiven your sins don't even exist to make it I could go back and look if I can't find because I've already blotted them out and I think that's so powerful man that's so powerful all right I got anything who was saying that all right verse 24 that says the Lord your redeemer and he who formed you in the womb I am the Lord who makes all things who stretches out the heavens all alone who spreads abroad the earth by himself who frustrates the signs of the babbaless and drives the vineess mad who turned wise men backward and makes their knowledge foolishness who confirms the word of his servant and performs the counsel of his messengers who says to Jerusalem you shall be inhabited to the cities of Judah you shall be built I will raise up her waste places who says to the deep be dry I will dry up your rivers who says who says of Cyrus he is my shepherd and he shall perform all my pleasures saying to Jerusalem you shall be built and to the temple your foundation shall be laid amen amen and amen and even here we end with you know some forcing and prophecies right because again in context right this is saying to the people about to be or have currently been taking into captivity and in Babylon right and again this is a message of hope yeah you guys about to go through this captivity yes about to be rough yes about to be hard it's about to be grueling you know anybody read from your land you don't feel like all hope is lost but do not be afraid I have already redeemed you know what I'm saying I'm here and you see them verse 28 he starts he you know he named jof Cyrus directly who we know is the Persian king who will come after the babbaloni and empire and he calls ours he is my shepherd and he shall perform all my pleasures saying to Jerusalem you shall be built and to the temple your foundation shall be laid which we know under the Persian empire both of these things started to happen the people of Israel were allowed to return hmm they started to rebuild the city they started to rebuild the temple the temple inside rebuild the city walls shall die as running amir for chapters that we've already covered so go back and check out those episodes and see what they're doing with that but we see it like this is prophecy and like you know we when we was going through it we saw where Daniel himself like showed so it's ours and daries and when they came into the city yo this has been prophesied because again I was coupled a couple of hundred years before Daniel even you know what I'm saying it's like yo this has been prophesied see where our prophet said this was going to happen you know what I'm saying which is kind of wild yeah that's pretty good and I like I like these last couple chapters bro because sometimes we need encouragement but it's good to learn about these stories it's good to learn about prophecy but then when you see how God really when he's getting his parenting bike you know what I mean like bro you could trust me it's like when you try to teach like I taught my sister and my cousin on a ride bike you know what I'm saying he was and once I figure it out I relate that you know but you know it's a level of trust that's needed to learn how to ride a bike because nobody wants to fall we had a rose bush in our yard and if you know they're in my rose you know they got thorns you know you know when falling out bush though you can fall anywhere except I was a couple times bro but um you know it's a level of trust like bro and when you when you want to dull try to relate stuff to kids kids I'm fairs you know but they don't even understand how bro like how not in danger you actually are bro you're not in danger I see that with my nephew you know the my nephew you go into um we went to get along and my oldest nephew on the other side he's scared of the Gators but his grandfather's like you think I got you can't put you in a situation that that you could be or you could be in danger and he's saying no he's saying how I ever done that to you and he like no and it's like bro like just so you know these alligators these Gators here but they are contained you see what I'm saying which they are you know and so something so like that these things that I see in God saying that bro like yo I do this for you like this is me like like I try to affirm you mind I want you to be confident in me because I do not mess I have these I have I have the strength bro like I am I am I am him I am God bro like you say I say like and say well you trust the most in life I weigh more than I throw you have you trust the most of life I empower him or her so that they can even be as trustworthy as they are to you in your life bro because yeah bro and and so you see you know these these texts bro like um I am the first on the last besides me there's no God you know what I'm saying like indeed there's no other rock I know not one and that's what it's like even even in Matthew I think it's Matthew 16 really like we've got people to interpret that to say Peter is the rock of the church right and it's like but I would say bro there's no rock there's no other rock you know what I'm saying I know not one I am the rock you see them since all we could build a church on Peter bro how do I can be the rock bro you see them saying how do I can be the foundation I think we need to use context a lot when we um when we go into the Bible bro you know what I mean and um and just to even um just to even even to even go back back on that right that's um Matthew 16 verse 17 Jesus replied that's how you Simon son of Jonah for this was not revealed to you by the flesh but by the Father in heaven but I tell you that you are Peter and on this rock I will build my church and on the on the gates oh I'm sorry and the gates of Hades will not overcome it right they didn't say on you come on rock even though Peter means rock it's like this bro it's like if I if I um I know um sometimes we call people based on what they know we know them eyes you see what I'm saying if I I remember one time I remember one time I was trying to tell a person joke for now but I was trying to tell now to that bro everything is funny if he was a big word not a philosophy I remember if you if you tell in a joke and you use a big word like a lot of times it's funny because you know you hit someone with the element of surprise you think I'm gonna say pence but I say but I never see such trousers before right people just get lost you see somebody wearing pants or you see someone a big hit you say bro boy that's a noggin on him you like you use a or cranium now people just laugh you see what I'm saying and everyone down now just they was talking about um music using a lot of music in school um in high school and people was talking about um I don't know what they're talking about I think they're talking about in the play box in the play pen growing up the sandbox and it's like yeah brought like boy we used to get sounding our pence and it's not an artist but I never get sounding my trousers before right and everybody laughs so hard but every time they see now they just say I never got signed in my trousers like really butch our accent and like every time they see it they just keep saying that she was going on my philosophy but it's like you use a big word or a different word you know people get laughed and so if people was to then go and call out trousers yeah trousers you know I mean that's a behemoth wave that's what we our naming conventions bro we follow that thing you say something unique enough we can call you that even if that thing ain't you even if that thing do not embody you you see exactly if Peter Mears Rock right and Peter was the one to say this foundational thing he was the one to say that and it was revealed to him from from God we can in context say oh on on the on Peter the church shall be built you see what I'm saying no but this says on this rock what is what is the what is the rock that has been established the rock that is established for a 16-month Peter said you are the Messiah the son of the living God you see what I'm saying now if Jesus had said something they applied I broke you are so profound that I have to build my church based on you bro because you was him bro you you so profound but what it's a it's a flash of blood did not reveal that to you but my father in heaven is he even beat up bro so how he could reward Peter for this thing and he really was only regurgitating my God already said that every profit is done so many people have done the Bible bro you know what I mean you're reading it now we're reading it now bro this is a prophecy from Isaiah from Isaiah and um yeah and so I just love my God just getting his affirmation by the last chapter you see what I'm saying I've called you by your name you are mine when you pass through the waters I would be with you like it's like oh this sound like a like a Psalm but it's God saying it but like I ain't gonna leave you off a sake you and and these things we can take to the bank you can take that to the bank you know God is merciful and in these chapters not only are they prophetic but they are God just just elaborate on himself I've been on interviews recently bro the first the first thing they is actually tell me about yourself and in business school they you know they kind of teach you that but when people say tell you about this they're asking which which you would like your life story and tell me your financial explain your resume explain all of the the high points that's relevant to this thing right now and God really just selling the resume bro you all need direction you all you all might be guilty and you all need assurance called sure and I am going to forgive even the last stop they say I brought these things out of my mind for my sake right this stop they say but just like a cloud to me bro like I can't even see that but you know when something get hired by the cloud it's done you know and that's why they say yeah judging this cloudy because it's blocked you know what I'm saying it's not it's not vivid it's not it's not lucid you know and I'm God God saying all of this and he's trying to affirm us and he's trying to like get through to us every day to let us know how dependable he is because he is so great in somebody and he actually cares about our feelings and our needs I have 44 reminds Israel that God alone is their creator and redeemer the one who formed them and promises to pour out his spirit upon them the prophet exposes the foolishness of idol worship showing how people trust in what their own hands have made God ends by declaring his unmatched power and assuring his people that he will restore Jerusalem through his chosen servant Cyrus we'll talk more about that prophecy on the next episode of a breath of fresh air fresh air fresh air tonight's episode included voice acting by your host the cars gay remember to go ahead and research on your own in order to get a more firm understanding of tonight's episode if you enjoyed make sure to like subscribe and share with your friends you can follow us on 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