40 Minutes In The Old Testament - Isaiah 55:1-13 (Episode 497)

Episode Date: February 13, 2026

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and for the national event in San Diego, California. And by the time this episode comes out, you'll be right up on an event in Delray, Florida. So Chad will be there. I won't be there, but Chad will be there. And listen, what, you don't want to go to Florida in February? I mean, I don't know where you live, but right now, even Chad lives in Texas, and he's all covered in ice. I live in Arkansas. I'm buried in snow.

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We've had a lot of, you know, we got through 53, you get through 54. So 53 is the most vivid description of what your salvation exactly is going to look like. looks a little different than you would think it would. Hard to look at, hard to believe. But if you are gifted faith, well, then God's going to cause you to believe that. And then you're going to rejoice in that, which is what we heard about in chapter 54. And now in 55, it's still kind of positive here. You know, like so much of Isaiah, you know, you're going back and forth, And there's a lot of—we'll say that Isaiah is a little critical sometimes about some things. But on the heels of Isaiah 53, he's kind of in a positive mood on that.

And he's saying, hey, I know this thing was hard to look at. I know it's hard to bear. But if you can, man, it's pretty good news. Yeah, lots of good news. And this whole chapter, 55, is going to be full of more good news. Now, 56, we might get more bad news. Not right away, but he is going to kind of slip back into his prophetic critique of the believing community. But we'll save that for when we get to it.

Right now, hey, are you thirsty? You want some water? You want some wine? You want some milk? Well, Isaiah's got a pretty awesome message for you. so let me uh let's start out with these first two two verses i think everybody is probably going to recognize these words they're what a great promise come everyone i love that note too like all you folks everybody everyone who thirst come to the waters and he who has no money literally

no silver because they didn't have money back then. Cash and coins had not yet been invented, but if you don't have any silver, no money, come buy and eat. Come buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money, your money, for that which is not bread and your labor for that which does not satisfy listen diligently this is a hebrew form that means kind of like it repeats the verb twice it's uh like listen listen listen up listen diligently to me and eat what is good and delight yourselves in rich or fatty literally fatty food that's quite a promise yeah yeah you got it like everyone and then you also go like hey you got no purchasing power at all? You got none? Not a problem. Come buy it anyway. It sounds like you're just going to buy

all this with faith. Yeah. I mean, it sounds like all this stuff has been bought by somebody else already for you, doesn't it? Yeah. It's such a great follow-up to 53 and 54. At 53, it was basically the Messiah, the servant saying, hey, I got you. This is on me. I'm covering this. I'm paying the price, right? 54 expands on that, a lot of rejoicing. And you see the universal application of this in that word, everyone. So everybody.

So are you thirsty? Well, then you need water. And we got wine, we got not just water, but he even takes it up a step, right? You got wine, you got milk. Well, then come and buy without money and without price. And don't be wasting your money On that which isn't going to satisfy you

Which is not bread And don't be laboring for something Which is in the end going to be unsatisfactory It's not going to satisfy you Instead open your ears And open your mouth too Open your ears to God And then open your mouth

And eat what is good And delight yourselves in rich food in this fatty food that is, Isaiah talks about this, other prophets talk about that, where the best food is the fatty food. In other words, God has a banquet for you. He's got all the wine, He's got all the water, He's got all the milk, He's got all the food, He's got everything prepared for you. Almost sounds like a parable that Jesus told, right?

Everything is ready. So what do I need to do? Well, nothing, just eat it, right? yeah it was not it this you know i mean he's using food and drink uh as as a as a stand-in for you know like hey i mean all all good things this is sort of like when um he says hey uh you want uh you want some some living water you want to not have to go to this well all the time i got you uh you want you want bread uh that you're not gonna have to you know you're not going to get hungry again? Yeah, I gotcha. This is the thing, right? So this salvation has been

secured for you, and there is a promise then that you're going to be cared for in such a way that you're not going to have to worry about these things anymore, right? And you have to put yourself back in time a little bit. Maybe you don't really worry about where your bread's coming from, you know or where where your water is coming from because you just turn on the faucet and get some if you want some and just go to the cupboard and grab a loaf of bread and make a sandwich but um these are like the things that you spend your days trying to make sure you have access to right and he's saying you're not gonna have to do any of that like and and don't worry you don't need to be rich to secure this uh how much does it cost and never have to worry about bread or milk

or wine or water again he's like it doesn't cost anything it i already paid for it all yeah it's a i'm just sitting here thinking about this storm that you referred to you know storms like this when you lose power or you lose water or thus you lose heat they remind you of all the things you take for granted that nobody else in all human history could afford to take for granted you know yeah you got to cut some wood if you're going to stay warm you got to draw water from the well you got to do all these things to make sure you're safe and warm and you got something to eat you got something to something to drink so all these things that we just most of the time never think about maybe we say our thank you prayers before the meal but uh you know once

you once you realize the state of most people throughout world history things like this then it brings it home and this is you know this is a Isaiah's way of basically preaching the same thing that Paul preached in just a different style when he talks about, you know, we're not saved by what we do. It's not by having enough money to pay for your salvation that you're going to get your thirst quenched and be able to eat. This is all because of the work of the servant in Isaiah 53. That's why it's free for you, not free for him. He paid the price in order that we could have this banquet. Yeah, I mean, this is a way of saying that everything that has to do with your salvation, even the sort of downstream benefits of your salvation, right? So it'd be

one thing to have maybe your sins forgiven. That's pretty good. And then you're going to be declared righteous, which is even better. Then you're going to be given eternal life, which is fantastic. And then in that sort of good forever, you're going to be taken care of, and you're going to have, you're going to be not lacking anything. Isaiah seems to want you to know that the initial work of salvation and all the additional downstream benefits of this salvation, it never stops being a gift. Yeah. There is no point where it's like, well, this part was free, but now this part is a little bit different. No.

Salvation and all of its benefits are, it's gift all the way down. Yeah. Because, you know, we can easily be either misled or even mislead ourselves into thinking that, oh, yeah, I mean, you're saved in this kind of punctiliar sense, this one-time moment. You're saved all by God's grace. but and that's what follows the butt that gets you in trouble but you know after that it's like come everybody who thirsts come to the waters and bring some stuff with you because you're

gonna have to pay up a little bit here i'm we're not saying you're gonna earn everything else just by your doing but you're gonna have to help god out here yeah you gotta give you two cents yeah i easily slip into that into that way of thinking yes god saved me one time by grace And then after that, it becomes grace plus my silver, my works, my doing. Nope, doesn't work that way. From beginning to end, it's all the work of Christ. All right, so verse 3. He says, incline your ear.

So we heard listen diligently in verse 2. He's going to pick up that same idea. Lend me your ear. Bend your ear in my direction. and come to me, hear that your soul may live. And I will make with you, I think I would translate that Hebrew for you instead, I will make for you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. Look, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and a commander for the peoples. behold you shall call a nation that you don't you do not know and a nation that did not know

shall run to you because of the lord your god and of the holy one of israel for he has glorified you so that in in this uh isaiah is picking up what he talked about a lot back in those first uh that first part of his book especially chapter 7 through 11 that's where we start hearing more more about David. And all of this, of course, is pushing us back to 1 and 2 Samuel, in particular to 2 Samuel chapter 7, which we've talked about times without number in the show, where God actually makes this covenant with David. You know, David wants to build a house. He's kind of got his kingdom set. Everything's looking pretty good. David's like, ah, you know what? Here I am living in a house. God's living in a tent. I bet he'd like a house. I'm going to build him a house.

And God says, thanks, but no thanks Because I'm going to build you a house And this is going to be a dynastic house I'm going to make this covenant with you And that's what he's talking about here When he mentions the everlasting covenant The steadfast, sure love for David That is like a

So you've heard us talk about the Hebrew word chesed Which means steadfast love or loving kindness Or however you want to translate that This is a plural. So this is like the sure mercies for David. I think that's the way the King James translated that. The steadfast cheseds for David, something like that. So the love that God has, the steadfast love that God has for David is exemplified in this covenant that he made with David. And that is what Isaiah is calling us to listen to. So listen up, incline your ear, that your soul may live, because everything I promised David and everything I talked about in this coming son of David kingdom in chapter 7 through 11, all of that's now been accomplished by the servant in Isaiah 53, who is also the

new and better David. So when he says in verse four, behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. What he's doing here with this him is he's merging David, the promise God made to David with the new and better David. So really this him he's talking about here is the son of David. I've made the Messiah, the son of David, the servant, a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.

Now notice the plural there. This isn't for Israel, for Judah. This is for everyone. And because of that, this nation that you do not know, a nation that did not know you, they're going to come to David because of the love, because of the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, because he's glorified you. That is, he's glorified his servant. Yeah, I mean, and you have to love that it talks about here that, hey, there's going to be a nation that you don't know, some people that you've not met, right? And they're going to run to you. And so this is—if you've had any questions about sort of what God has in view as far as salvation is concerned,

Like, it is not simply this people, but it's all the nations coming into this one person. Yeah. And Isaiah's making explicit, not just here, but a lot of other places too, what was always there, right? I mean, Israel was never supposed to be just Israel. It was always supposed to be porous, you know, be open to people coming in from the outside. And we see that. I mean, we see examples of that. Everyone from Rahab in Joshua to Ruth being, you know, she's married into the people of God.

You've got people like Uriah the Hittite, you know, he's part of David's inner group. You got a lot of examples of people from outside Israel that are joined to the people of Israel. In fact, you even have Egyptians that leave with the Israelites during the Exodus. So it never was just like, Israel was never just Israel. You had sojourners who were there, you had people joining the people of God, you had intermarriage that was happening. So people were coming in, and Genesis 12 said that Abraham was going to be a blessing to all the families of the earth. But Isaiah, especially Isaiah, he takes that and he makes a huge deal out of it, as he should. He makes it clear that, okay, God's promise is not just for the people of Israel and Judah, God's promise is for all people. Now, what's amazing is despite the fact that this is so clear in the prophets, look at how often Jesus got himself in trouble because of saying these kinds of things. And I'm thinking in particular of Luke when he goes to his hometown of Nazareth and he talks about how, yeah, there were a lot of widows there in the time of Elijah. But guess what? God did not send him to an Israelite widow. He sent him out of the country.

And there were a lot of lepers in the land of Israel, but God cleansed Naaman. And their reaction was to drive him out of town and almost throw him off a cliff. So you did have this kind of, still this very insular, insider-focused, Jew good, Gentile bad kind of outlook that was rampant in the first century. Yeah, well, listen, what is the point of being a light to the nations? It's not simply just so that they have something to look at. It's not what it is. Look at that light over there. We're going to say darkness, but yeah, it's a nice light they got there. Yeah, that's not what it is. I mean, it's supposed to draw people in. It's supposed to be more like a moth to the flame, not just, hey, there's a light on that hill. It's nice to look at sometimes. You can look up there and see it. Isn't that nice? um and that's not what your porch light does um it illuminates the entrance like this is supposed to like god bring you in uh that's that's what israel is always supposed to be and uh not simply just oh that's that looks different uh and then have people not think about it anymore yeah and this shows too then that uh the davidic kingdom his reign his kingdom was always a kind

of a prototype of something bigger and greater which was to come right so we still have a davidic king the son of david we still have uh an israelite kingdom in the sense of yeah it's it's formed upon the promises of god that he made to the people of israel except now it's worldwide it's uh jews Gentiles together, as that's the way it was always intended to be. So Isaiah is already telling us that's what's going to happen. And of course, that's exactly what Jesus was getting at when he told his disciples right before he ascended to, all right, go from here to there, to there, to there. This promise is to ripple outward. So don't stay in Jerusalem, go outward and take this message with you so that all nations can hear about it. All right, so verse six is where

we find ourselves now. Seek the Lord while he may be found. Call upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord that he may have compassion on him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. I think that's the only place in the old testament where you have that combination of adverb and verb he will he won't just pardon he will as one uh one translator puts it he will act multiplyingly in pardon it's gonna he's gonna go out of the way to pardon then he goes on to verse eight to contrast uh what he said above regarding the wicked in his way and the unrighteous in his thoughts for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are my ways your ways declares the lord for as the heavens are

higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts now i think we i mean that of course that passage is quoted a lot of times a little section in fact but i was just thinking you know most of the time we hear that as kind of a general truism and it is i mean for sure god's thoughts are always higher than our thoughts and his ways are higher than our ways, for sure. But if you look at it in context, I think it even takes on kind of a richer meaning because what did he just say? I mean, when you come to me, I'm going to have compassion on you. I'm going to abundantly pardon you. And the reason I do that is because I don't think the way that you think. And my ways are not the same as your ways. I mean,

you might think I shouldn't pardon, but I don't think that way. That's not the way that I do things i want the wicked actually to leave his dark and deadly way and i want the unrighteous man to abandon his his ungodly thoughts and instead come to me and i'm right here like it said at the beginning of that chapter giving things out for free including forgiveness well yeah i think that sometimes you hear this um and you know and i get it like oh his you know his thoughts are not like yours and his ways are not yours like they're higher you know and you and you hear this is like um um god's so big you're so small god's so great and you're so not you know which you know is true um but you don't hear it as like the gospel kind of word that it is i mean

this is like this is a gospel word that he's he's giving you here which is hey uh none of this salvation is going to work the way that you think it's going to work. It's going to be way more extravagant than you would have thought, and certainly more extravagant than you would do. Like, I'm more gracious than you. I'm more merciful than you. I'm more forgiving than you. I'm better than you, right, at this. And that's the great thing is that, yeah, he's saying, who are you? Are you someone who is thirsty? Well, that's the only qualification I'm looking for. You want to seek the Lord? I can be found. This is the whole thing. Are you wicked? Yeah, put that down. Are you unrighteous? Stop thinking that way, and you can just come to me. And there's

no reason not to, because I'm full of compassion. This reminds me of Paul saying it's the kindness of God that leads to repentance. And what he means by that is, if you have a God that is not kind, that is only bent towards the law and just, you know, everything's going to be black and white. Well, that kind of God might lead you to try to justify yourself, try to figure out why, you know, hey, it's not like you think it was, okay? God, like, I mean, I can explain. I can explain why this happened.

But a kind God actually leads you to repent because you have no reason not to. You have this invitation that's like, hey, man, you can come to me and you're just going to get compassion and mercy and abundant uh pardon so i don't need it no no you don't i don't need a defense i don't need i don't need a justification i don't need any of that and this is why his ways are not like our ways and his thoughts are not like our thoughts because that's not how we do things but that's how he does it like he said you come home anytime you want because i've only got good things for you reminds me i was sitting here thinking of sermon i heard one time a bad sermon which contrasts with what you're just saying to where

uh the sermon was basically this uh you're gonna die okay all right so obviously yes when you die you're gonna face the judgment of god okay therefore you better get ready nothing following that nothing about jesus nothing about you know what we're talking about here and i was 55 it's like so you're you're telling me okay i'm gonna die i'm gonna stand before a judge so i better get ready uh i don't have any hope if that's the case the only hope i have and it's not really a hope is to try and yeah somehow wiggle out of this or justify myself or do something i think is going to please the judge but when i'm honest with myself that that fills me with nothing more than fear and loathing. And in fact, hatred of the judge I'm at the stand before who's provided

me with no escape. Right. Whereas you get this and you're like, yeah, so this is the, this is the God. This is, this is exactly who this God is. He's merciful. He's, he's gracious. He's done everything necessary to provide us with salvation through the, through a suffering servant. So that kindness makes me want to actually run to him. Yeah. Because I, I mean, it's not like when i get there he's going to decide whether he's going to forgive me or not he already has i mean it's not up for question right that's yeah that's some boldness and confidence right there yeah i think that sometimes people get like think about the judgment they think and they get like this um they get this like weird thing in their head where it's just like like it's uh the judgment

is like god going to war or something um when what the judgment is like where it's like hey it's appointed for a man to once for a man to die and then the judgment that's that what that means is that like you're gonna die and then you're gonna get the verdict like the judgment is like the sentencing like the verdict i mean like that's what the sheep and the goats is about this is not the judgment is not about like and now i'm gonna like unleash my wrath and all this this is not like the primary thing that the judgment is it is the judgment it's like when the judge says okay here's my verdict right he's got the gavel in his hand that's what you're that's what the judgment is now that's terrifying as a sinner and the right sermon would be like yeah you're gonna go stand

before the judge and you're they say well what kind of judge is this well this is the thing about this judge he's got this reputation of being full of compassion and this guy pardons like crazy I I mean, like, he's abundant in pardons. I mean, this guy pardons everybody. You're like, oh, well, okay. Yeah, let's go stand before the judge then. That's the reputation he has. That's how he operates, just full of compassion and gives out pardons like crazy.

All right. So, yeah, it's true that, like, yeah, you're going to die, and then you're going to stand before God. uh but the but the verdict that you're going to get in christ is not one that you have to be worried about no just just the opposite right yeah the judge has like see what look closely at that judge you see those nail scars yeah in his hands and his feet yeah that's what he he's what he endured for you so of course he's gonna abundantly pardon you yeah i mean so that's that's the message we need to we need to hear yeah absolutely and this is and like i said and And this is what he means when he says, yeah, this judge, his ways are a little different.

His thoughts are a little different. They're not like yours. God's ways and his thoughts not being like yours is great news. Your ways and your thoughts are terrible. Yeah, because my ways and my thoughts fill me full of terror when I think of standing before God, right? And God's like, oh, no, no, I don't think that way. I'm the judge who died for you. That's the judge you're going to stand before.

yeah the i the isaiah 53 judge yeah i'll take that judge any day absolutely so uh verse 10 and 11 another couple of uh man all these passages like i can't tell you how many times i've heard all these passages in this in this chapter quoted so here comes some here comes some more but again think of these remember these hear these words in the context that we're we're talking about here i think that'll give them uh even a little bit different different color four as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and don't return there, but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater. So shall my word be that goes out of my mouth. It shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose and

shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. I've gone back and forth on this because you know there is no neuter in hebrew it's all masculine or feminine uh so you could you could really translate this uh so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth he shall not return to me empty but he shall accomplish that which i purpose and shall succeed in the thing for which i sent him so when you i mean when you hear this in the broader context of scripture i can't help but also So I'm not saying it exclusively that, but I certainly can't help hearing this in concert with John chapter one. Yeah. At the same time, it's about, I mean, yeah, does God's spoken word, does it fall like rain and snow from heaven and bring forth fruit and accomplish what God desires to accomplish in us?

Yeah, of course. Of course. Why does it do that? Because that word is inextricably linked to the word. The word that became flesh and dwelt among us The very word that we've been talking about in Isaiah Especially talking about most recently with the suffering word And the resurrected word and the justifying word

And the word who provides this banquet for free to the unrighteous So I think for me when I hear that It just adds a whole other dimension to it Than just thinking about this being the oral word that's proclaimed Well, I mean, you've heard the phrase empty words before, right? Well, God doesn't have any of those. And so he's like, hey, when I speak, I never speak empty words. When I speak, stuff happens.

And this particular word that I'm going to speak, well, this word is going to take on flesh. And this is definitely not going to be an empty word. right so like he shall not return empty this is not one that just like this isn't a word just like floats out there and vanishes like like your words so often do no this this word is actually going to be the word of your salvation uh and it's going to accomplish that which i and the purpose that god has for this word to accomplish is your salvation and it will be successful it's going it's going to succeed um and and it's it's funny that and i'm not even sure like i don't know uh i'm sure empty words

is something that uh we get from the bible like so many other things i mean like so uh there you have reference to that especially like wisdom literature like okay like fools have lots of vain words or empty words yeah yeah um and this this is always done in like contrast to god who doesn't have any of those right um and he's he has successful words he has like uh words that accomplish things and and this yeah this is this is great news that god doesn't miss with his words especially when that word is made flesh and and goes and accomplishes your salvation yeah such such good stuff this whole chapter is just uh just gold so let's see how it ends we got 12 and 13 next. For you, that's y'all. So now we're talking about those who are the beneficiaries

of everything that we've been discussing. So all you folks who are unrighteous and are made righteous in the Messiah, all you folks who are hungry and come to him for water and wine and milk, all of you, you're going to do this. You're going to go forth. You're going to go out in joy and be led forth in peace. The mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing and all the trees of the forest of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn, you shall come upon the cypress. Instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle and it shall make a name for the Lord, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. the first half of that uh verse 12 you shall go out y'all shall go out in joy and be led forth in

peace even though it really isn't expanded here when you hear those kind of words hear them with uh all the other parts of isaiah in mind where he talks about people leaving exile i don't think this can mean anything but that so you know you you could if you're going out from somewhere if you're being led forth from somewhere that well that means that you were in a place where god didn't want you to be. He's going to take you out of that. So you were exiled north, south, east, and west. All those places where the people of God are scattered. And you're going to be brought forth in joy and be led forth in peace. This is what you're doing. This is the work of the son of David, the Messiah, the suffering servant, the word. He's going to bring you out in joy. He's

can bring out in peace. And then you, then Isaiah shifts into something that he and other prophets do too, where they, they're using the parts of creation, everything from trees to mountains and hills to describe that this is a, this is a salvation, which is so holistic, it's going to affect everything. So we're talking about kind of new creation language here. So you got mountains and you got hills that are singing. You got trees, which is kind of a funny image. Trees in the field, they're clapping their hands. I can just see all these trees swaying back and forth

and like they kick arms, they're clapping their hands. There's one other part of scripture. It's Psalm 98, which has rivers clapping their hands. So you got rivers clapping their hands. You got trees here clapping their hands. And there's a switch. So where before you had the thorn, now you're going to have the cypress.

where before you had the briar, now you're going to have the myrtle. And all of this is going to result in renown. It's going to make a name for the Lord in the sense of all of this is a way that the renown, the name, basically the reality of everything that God is is going to be proclaimed by this.

It's going to be a sign that doesn't fade. It doesn't change. It doesn't end. It's everlasting that will not be cut off. And you know, I don't know about you, Chad, But the older I get, the more going out in joy and being led forth in peace, the more like joy and peace sound like really great promises, like where it's like, that sounds awesome. There's just nothing but joy, just walking around in complete peace. That sounds pretty good.

And yeah, the sort of all of creation being restored. you get glimpses of this i mean we're in winter right now and every every i always say the january and february are the worst because you're like past the holidays and now it's just cold for no reason you know it's not like festive or anything just it's just like terrible right so yeah so it's just like oh ice is there anything good coming up no like oh snow but there's you know it's not like it's christmas or anything you feel like you're in narnia uh you're just like dude i don't need snow in february like i don't need this it's i'm over it and uh you know before then it's kind of nice you're like who's chilling the air and you know that's fine for thanksgiving and christmas

and all that but yeah once you once you get to this part of the year man you're just like all right i'm i'm over it and then you have spring happen and uh this is nice spring is very gospel thing right and you have all this new life and so that that can get kind of exciting and i remember last spring i was we had like it had been warm for a couple days and we were like man let's go out and everything was like blooming like we're gonna go to this this there's this like state park it's like a forest that's a little ways from us we drove out there and you're you're sort of getting this like glimpse of like everything's like coming back to life and you know you start to think like this is kind of like new creation kind of stuff here like everything is going back

to the way it should be uh which is nice and it is that we were hiking around and stuff then we get back to the car and i and i look down and i'm just my legs are covered in seed ticks and that's when i realized that not yet right so like like the the thorn is still there the briar is still there like you have this little glimpse but not quite yet man uh it's not quite yet the case like Now you've got to drive to the Dollar General, which is the closest place, and get some duct tape and then rip all the hair off your legs trying to get these things off. And this is good promises, man. I didn't have joy or peace in that moment. I had a moment of it that was then shattered by apparently trouncing around in a pile of CTA.

And if you guys don't know what that is, if you're just like, I don't even know what that is, good for you. but it's like because at that point chad i don't know if you've ever i'm sure you have i mean once you have them all off you're just ruined though like until you get a shower like you feel nothing but c-ticks on your body whether they're there or not that's such a great story too uh which i mean it fits so many so many aspects of life you know you'll have a great day and think man i am on cloud nine but then the next day sucks it's like yeah everything can be great uh but it never lasts right i mean you can be like oh man i'm just kind of at a good spot everything's peaceful and then you know something else happens you know

it's it's always short-lived uh it's a reminder to us yeah of the the good things that are that are still to come that yeah i mean it's great the wonderful things that we enjoy here but what we're going to enjoy when actual new creation gets here oh yes nothing nothing will compare to that And that's a good way to end. And we're actually starting a whole new section here tomorrow with tomorrow, next episode with 56. So 55 brings us to a good end. We've got all the servant songs behind us, all the promises that God makes that are fulfilled by the Messiah. And we'll enter this next section, next episode, 56 through the end of the book.

and we'll see what else Isaiah has to tell us. Yeah, looking forward to it. I'll see you then. See you then.