Sharper Iron, hosted by Rev. Timothy Appel, looks at the text of Holy Scripture both in its broad context and its narrow detail, all for the sake of proclaiming Christ crucified and risen for sinners. Two pastors engage with God’s Word to sharpen not only their own faith and knowledge, but the faith and knowledge of all who listen. Sharper Iron is underwritten by Lutheran Church Extension Fund, where your investments help support the work of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit lcef.org.
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Daniel 12:1-13: The Resurrection of the Dead
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As the heavenly messenger draws the vision to a conclusion for Daniel, He relates the time of the final judgment and the resurrection of all flesh, both the just and the unjust. The heavenly messenger then instructs Daniel to seal these words until the end. As Daniel continues to look and listen, he does not understand all that he hears. However, t…
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The heavenly messenger relates the vision to Daniel. He briefly describes the reign of the kings of Persia, which will be brought to an end by the kingdom of Greece. Yet Alexander’s rule would be quickly broken and divided among four smaller kingdoms. The heavenly messenger focuses Daniel, especially on two of these kings—those of the south (Egypt)…
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Daniel 10:1-11:1: The Heavenly Messenger Comes to Daniel
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This section introduces the vision that Daniel recounts in chapter 11. After Daniel had mourned and fasted during the time of the Passover, a man clothed in linen comes to Daniel. This man’s appearance is heavenly; He likely is the pre-incarnate Christ. Daniel’s reaction is fitting; he falls down and loses all strength. The touch and the word of th…
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The Day of Pentecost is a highlight within the Church Year, as Christians rejoice that Jesus has kept His promise to send His Holy Spirit. All the signs that accompanied the outpouring of the Spirit in Acts 2 drew the attention of those gathered in Jerusalem for the festival. Many wondered what was happening, and some mocked the disciples. Peter st…
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Daniel 9:1-27: Daniel's Prayer of Confession
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After reading the LORD’s Word concerning the exile from the prophet Jeremiah, Daniel turns to the one true God in prayer. He makes no excuses for the sins of the people, but confesses their idolatry and neglect of His Word. Daniel pleads before the LORD, not because the people are righteous, but because the LORD is righteous, merciful, and faithful…
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Daniel 8:1-27: A Ram, a Male Goat, and a Devilish Little Horn
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Daniel recounts another vision he receives, in which he sees himself in Susa near the Ulai canal. At first, a ram with two horns of different heights charges in multiple directions, and no one can stand against him. Next, a male goat with one horn between his eyes comes with great speed and tramples on the ram. However, the goat’s horn is soon brok…
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Daniel 7:1-28: The Son of Man Receives Dominion from the Ancient of Days
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The second half of the book of Daniel relates several visions that Daniel received. The first of these, recorded in Daniel 7, includes four beasts that arise out of the sea. These four beasts correspond to four coming kingdoms, just like the four metals that comprised the statue of which Nebuchadnezzar dreamed in Daniel 2. As Daniel’s vision contin…
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Daniel 6:1-28: Rescued from the Lions
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As the Persian kingdom begins its dominance over Babylon, Daniel is now an old man. Nonetheless, he is given a distinguished place in the reign of Darius. Out of jealousy toward Daniel, other officials look to oust him by means of his faithfulness to the LORD. They trick Darius into making a law requiring idolatrous prayer, and as they expect, Dani…
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Daniel 5:1-31: The Handwriting on the Wall
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King Belshazzar, co-regent of Babylon at the end of its mighty empire, hosted a party for all his lords in which he used the sacred vessels of the LORD’s temple as wine goblets in honor of idols. The appearance of a human hand, writing on the wall, filled Belshazzar with fear. When none of the wise men of Babylon could interpret the writing, the qu…
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Daniel 4:1-37: The LORD Humbles the Mighty
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King Nebuchadnezzar issues a decree concerning the way in which the one true God revealed that His dominion is the only everlasting kingdom. Nebuchadnezzar had a dream that troubled him; he saw a mighty tree that grew tall and provided shelter for many animals. Yet a watcher from heaven came down and proclaimed that this tree would be cut down and …
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Perhaps incorrectly inspired by his dream of a statue, Nebuchadnezzar builds an enormous golden statue. He issues a decree that all people must bow down to worship it at the sound of any music. The penalty for disobedience is death in a fiery furnace. Some of the king’s pagan advisors, jealous of the high standing of the Judean exiles Shadrach, Mes…
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Daniel 2:1-49: The Divine Stone Smashes the Kingly Statue
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Nebuchadnezzar has a troubling dream that he commands his pagan advisors to both tell him and interpret for him. When they admit that they cannot, he is prepared to execute them all. Daniel intercedes on their behalf and prays, along with his three friends, that the LORD will make the matter known. The LORD answers their prayer, and Daniel gives th…
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Daniel 1:1-21: Babylonian Names Don’t Erase Christian Faith
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The book of Daniel begins in 605 BC with the first exiles Nebuchadnezzar took from Judah to Babylon. These initial exiles were from the upper echelons of Judean society, in a Babylonian effort to begin to assimilate the people under their culture and religion. Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were four young men brought into the king’s palace…
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NEW SERIES: God’s Kingdom Endures Forever
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"God’s Kingdom Endures Forever” is a series on Sharper Iron that goes through the book of Daniel. Although God’s people were exiled in Babylon, the LORD remained the true King. He strengthened His people for faithful confession in the face of idolatry, and through prophetic visions and dreams revealed that He would establish His everlasting Kingdom…
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Isaiah 66:15-24: Judgment Day Is Coming
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The prophet Isaiah’s vision is brought to glorious fulfillment as he describes Judgment Day. On that Day, the LORD’s fire will burn against those who have refused His gifts and turned to the foolishness of idolatry. Both idolatry and idolaters will meet their end. In this way, the LORD gives security and peace to His people. As He gathers the natio…
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Isaiah 66:7-14: The LORD Comforts and Nurtures His People
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Isaiah speaks in a riddle: a child is born before the labor pains begin! In this way, He describes the sudden blessing of the LORD upon His people, as He gives children to Mother Zion. This blessing comes through the male Child promised here and earlier in Isaiah and fulfilled in the birth of Jesus in the New Testament. The LORD has brought His peo…
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Isaiah 66:1-6: Tremble at the LORD’s Word
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The LORD confronts His people with the reality that He is the Creator of all things and of the new heavens and new earth. Rather than seeing their worship as something that they must do for Him (for He needs nothing from them), they must come before Him in humility, contrition, and trembling at His Word, which He speaks as His gift to them. Those w…
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Isaiah 65:17-25: The New Heavens and New Earth
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Using the same language as He did in Genesis 1, the LORD speaks about His creation of the new heavens and the new earth, which will bring great joy to His people. Here, He will give to them eternal life and fruitful labor, and no enemies will harm them. He will dwell with them to hear their prayers, and all creation will live at peace in the LORD’s…
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LSB 487: Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain
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In this beautiful hymn written especially for the 2nd Sunday of Easter, John of Damascus proclaims that the rescue that God gave to Israel through the Exodus has been fulfilled in the rescue God has given to us through the resurrection of Jesus. The winter of sin and death has come to an end; new life has risen in Christ. For this reason, the faith…
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Isaiah 65:1-16: The LORD Says to You, “Here I Am!”
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The LORD responds to His people’s prayer by reminding them that He was ready for them to seek and find Him in the ways that He had chosen to reveal Himself to them. Even as He spread His hands out to them, they engaged in all kinds of idolatrous practices that made them smoke in His nostrils. To His servants who respond to this rebuke in repentance…
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Isaiah 63:15-64:12: Rend the Heavens and Come Down
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Isaiah leads the people of Israel in prayer, lament, and confession before the LORD. They call upon the LORD as their Father, asking Him to see them as His children, even though they have strayed. They acknowledge that He has sent them into exile and made them as those who are not called upon His name. Still, they pray that He would tear open the c…
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Sharathon 2024: The Shepherd Seeks and Saves
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In Matthew 18 and Luke 15, Jesus speaks a parable about a man who owns one hundred sheep, and one becomes lost. In love for that one sheep, the shepherd seeks it out and brings it back to the flock with great joy. By this parable, Jesus teaches us the great love that He has for us sinners. He calls us to see ourselves as the lost sheep that He seek…
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Sharathon 2024: Psalm 100: Raise the King’s Victory Shout
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Psalm 100 is a psalm for giving thanks for the ongoing reign of the LORD. Because He is the true King, His people join with all creation in the song of His victory. His people are called into His presence with gladness and singing, both in the Divine Service and in their daily vocations. We know Him because He has first known us, for He is the Good…
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C.F.W. Walther’s marvelous Easter hymn invites all people to join in the praises of Christ Jesus the Lord. By His resurrection, the Word of God made flesh has freed us from the prison of sin, death, and the devil. Though the evil one and all his evil host cheered to see Jesus dead and buried, their shouts of triumph were quickly silenced by the ris…
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Isaiah 63:1-14: Why Are the LORD’s Garments Red?
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The prophet sees a Mighty Warrior coming; He identifies Himself as the LORD. The prophet has questions concerning the Warrior’s stained garments; the LORD says that they are red from the blood of His enemies, whom He has conquered on the day of His vengeance for the year of His favor. Upon seeing the LORD in this way, Isaiah leads the people in pra…
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Isaiah 62:1-12: The LORD Gives New Names
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The LORD promises to speak for the sake of His beloved people to bring them His righteousness and salvation. Nations will see this light and come to the people of God, who are His crowning jewel. Though their sin and idolatry had left them forsaken and desolate, the LORD bestows the names “My Delight Is in Her” and “Married” upon His people now bec…
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Isaiah 61:1-11: The LORD’s Anointed Servant Brings Joy
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The Servant of the LORD speaks as the One anointed by the Spirit. He comes to preach good news, to comfort, and to give God’s good gifts. Through the work of the LORD’s Servant, His people are established securely in righteousness. No longer will they be found in shame, but they will serve the LORD according to His Word. The people of God rejoice e…
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Isaiah 60:1-22: Arise, Shine, for Your Light Has Come
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Because the LORD has caused His glory to come to His people, they rise and shine so that nations are drawn to worship the LORD. All the wealth of the world is put into the service of the LORD as He calls sinners to His salvation because He loves people as His treasured possession. The safety of the LORD’s kingdom is complete; no enemy shall threate…
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LSB 467: Awake, My Heart, with Gladness
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Paul Gerhardt’s Easter hymn fits perfectly as the first words sung by Christians gathered for an Easter sunrise service. The reality of the empty tomb on Easter banishes sadness and fills us with gladness. Though the foe thought he had won the victory when Jesus lay dead and buried, in fact, the Savior has routed his enemy. Jesus’ complete victory …
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Isaiah 59:1-21: Unrighteous Sinners Need the Righteous Savior
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The LORD tells His people with vivid imagery that they have separated themselves from Him. He speaks of their defilement in their words and actions. He condemns their deceitful plots and plans. In response, the people confess their rebellion, their idolatry, and their complete lack of justice and righteousness, and they throw themselves upon God’s …
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Isaiah 58:1-14: The LORD’s Chosen Fast
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The people of Israel were guilty of hypocritical worship. Although they went through the motions of fasting and praying, they did so without faith in the LORD’s Word. When they complained to Him that He wasn’t listening, the LORD called them to task for abstaining from food only to quarrel with each other. Rather, the LORD desired His people to fas…
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Isaiah 57:1-21: Contrition Is Better than Idolatry
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No one on earth may regard the LORD’s righteous one, but the LORD sees and knows. He will not fail to judge the idolatry of His people, particularly among the leaders. Those who follow idolatry only fall into all kinds of perversion and wickedness. Although they look to their idols for help, their idols will not save them. Those who are contrite an…
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Isaiah 56:1-12: A House of Prayer for All Peoples
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Because of the work of the Servant of the LORD for His people, they are called into a life according to His justice and righteousness. Those who worship Him from a true heart and love His Word will be brought to the LORD’s holy mountain—even eunuchs and foreigners. This is a part of the LORD’s mission to gather people to Himself. He speaks words of…
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This joyous Easter hymn resounds with Alleluias at what our Lord Jesus has done in His resurrection. His victory over death and the grave is made ours by His grace. His suffering on the cross has redeemed us from all that we lost under sin. His sufferings, death, and resurrection have won our salvation, which is ours eternally because He reigns for…
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The LORD calls all people to come and receive His great salvation, won by the Suffering Servant. The gifts of His Word come without cost to those who hear it, and those gifts bring greater blessings than any earthly food or money. Now is the time for people to seek the LORD and forsake their own wickedness, for the LORD is compassionate. His ways a…
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Isaiah 54:1-17: The Heritage of the Servants of the LORD
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Because of the work of the Suffering Servant, the LORD’s people sing for joy. Though His people were as a barren woman in the exile, the LORD has increased her children beyond what the current borders can hold. He has done this as a faithful husband to His people, who has called His bride back to Himself in joy. His steadfast love for His people wi…
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Isaiah 52:13-53:12: With His Stripes We Are Healed
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The LORD calls His people to behold His Servant high and lifted up on the cross in divine glory. Although His appearance did not attract us to Him, His suffering has sprinkled us with His cleansing blood so that we can truly see the only God. Men despised and rejected Jesus and hid their faces from Him. He suffered this willingly; all our sin and s…
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Isaiah 52:1-12: Beautiful Feet Bring Good News
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Once more, the LORD calls His people to wake up. He calls them out of their distress and despair, for He is redeeming them out of their captivity according to His powerful Word. The messenger who proclaims this good news to God’s people runs to Zion on his beautiful feet so that they will know that their God is truly King. This Gospel message bring…
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LSB 438: A Lamb Goes Uncomplaining Forth
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Paul Gerhardt’s marvelous hymn text is fitting both for Lent and Holy Week. We sing of Jesus as the Lamb of God who goes willingly into sacrifice to bear our sin and be our Savior. He gives His spotless life in place of our sinful lives gladly, treating us as His friends. Jesus does this as the true Son of God at the command of His Father, who desi…
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Isaiah 51:1-23: The Arm of the LORD Wakes His People
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The LORD calls His people to look to the rock from which they were hewn, recalling how the LORD their Rock brought a great nation from the dead rock Abraham. Therefore, Israel must listen to the LORD’s Word, as His righteousness and salvation come near to them. He works this salvation through His holy arm, which is awakened to deliver His people ye…
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Isaiah 50:4-11: The Obedient Suffering Servant
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The LORD’s Servant speaks again; He does so as One whose tongue and ear have been taught by the LORD. As the Servant speaks faithfully, His Word sustains those who are weary. As the Servant remains faithful to the LORD, He begins to suffer physical pain and public shame. Because He knows that the LORD will vindicate Him, the Servant does not fear. …
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Isaiah 49:14-50:3: The LORD Will Not Forget or Forsake
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When the LORD’s people claim that He has forgotten them, He proclaims that His memory of them is even greater than that of a mother for her child. He has even engraved them on the palms of His hands. He promises to enlarge the people of Israel so that they will need more room for everyone; this is His doing to draw the nations to Himself through th…
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Isaiah 49:1-13: The LORD’s Servant to Israel and the Nations
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The Servant of the LORD speaks to the ends of the earth, for He is the One set apart by the LORD from the womb to speak His Word faithfully. Even as He laments in the midst of the suffering He endures, the Servant trusts the LORD to vindicate Him. The LORD commissions His servant not only to bring back the lost sheep of the house of Israel, but als…
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This glorious Palm Sunday hymn places us in the procession of palms to sing praises to Jesus, who entered into Jerusalem as the King of Israel. As we worship Him on earth, we join in the worship of the angels in heaven and the song of all creation that is offered to Christ as the Redeemer of all. As we sing the same songs as the Palm Sunday crowds …
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Isaiah 48:1-22: Go Out From Babylon, O Israel!
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The LORD again calls His people to listen. Although Israel has not lived up to her name, the LORD has lived up to His; He is faithful to His promises. No idols can do what He has done. Although His people have not heard in the past, He speaks to them again so that they will listen. The LORD promises that He will bring a deliverer to rescue Israel f…
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Isaiah 47:1-15: Arrogant Babylon Will Be Brought Low
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Babylon will receive the same judgment as its idols; Babylon will be brought low. Their earthly glory will be turned to shame at the hand of the LORD, who is the Redeemer of His people Israel. Though the LORD had made use of Babylon to carry out His righteous anger against His people, Babylon went too far. Babylon became proud and considered hersel…
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Isaiah 46:1-13: Babylonian Idols Bow Before the LORD
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The idols of Babylon are powerless to deliver anyone from their burdens. Instead, the idols of Babylon must be carried around as burdens themselves. Therefore, the LORD calls to His people to listen to Him who has carried them from their beginning to their end. No god can be compared to the LORD; idols cannot move or answer any prayer. Therefore, I…
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Isaiah 44:24-45:25: The LORD Names Cyrus
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The LORD has repeatedly declared that He alone knows and accomplishes what will come in the future. He provides further evidence of that reality by naming the Persian king, Cyrus, over one hundred years ahead of time. Through Cyrus, the LORD will deliver His people from Babylon, so that all would know that the LORD alone is God. He is the One who g…
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This marvelous hymn helps us to rejoice in the reality of God's love for us sinners. Through Christ's death, God loves us to the uttermost, even though we were loveless and undeserving. The hymn traces the way that Jesus humbled Himself by taking on our humanity and suffering at the hands of the very people He had come to save. Though Jesus did not…
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The LORD tells His people to listen, for He has formed them from the womb. They need not fear, as the LORD brings even Gentiles to faith in Him so that they see along with Israel that the LORD is the only God who declares and accomplishes what is to come. Isaiah exposes the foolishness of idolatry, as if a statue fashioned by a man could ever be wo…
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