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And you watch videos.

It's just it just makes me smile, right?

There is contemporary, pop music witches.

Yeah, the way it is.

And then there's this, which is very straight-laced.

Looking people seeing very seriously, 300 years ago, Charles has compiled some scripture passages selected, a few of them to tell the story of the Messiah.

And he, because he was wealthy guy hired, the one of the genius, musicians of the day, Georg Friedrich Handel to put those Bible passages to music and that created this body of work called Messiah, or we collect the Messiah.

And even though it's 300 years old, you'll still find that is being performed around the area to this day.

2, interesting things about the Messiah.

One is, there's nothing in the way of text except Bible, it's all Bible put to music and the second thing is, it's interesting.

Then ask a question while how would somebody who is just going to take some texts and string them together?

What would that person pay to tell the story of the Messiah or more?

Particularly how would that person who's taking these texts choose to tell the Christmas story?

And that's, that's the inspiration I had.

When I was thinking about Christmas this year, until what we're doing is we're studying.

The Bible passages that are in the Messiah intending to tell the story of The birth of Jesus until we started with this one Comfort.

My people and God said, there's going to be a king coming and the glory of the Lord is going to be revealed.

And everybody will see it.

The mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

And then last Sunday, we looked at the second installment in the telling of the story, this is Malachi chapter 2, it ask a question but when that came comes, who can endure the day of his coming, who can stand when he appears, because he's going to be like a Refiner's Fire and a launderer soap.

So we pondered the meaning of Jesus saying about himself, I am the way and the truth and the life.

No one comes to the father, except through me.

And now we've got two more Sundays in this.

And as the Messiah moves on it, there are two excerpts which tells the story of a child, this one.

And next Sunday's, this one is from the Old Testament, still from the book of Isaiah chapter 9 and we were just hearing it set to music for unto us.

A child is born to us.

A son is given.

I want to read those verses but I'm going to read a couple more versus than just versus six and seven.

We're going to read Isaiah 9 verses 1 through 7. Nevertheless, there will be no more Gloom for those who were in distress in the past.

He handled the land of zebulun and the land of NAFTA lie.

But in the future, he will honor Galilee of the nation's, by the way, of the sea, beyond the Jordan And then what Isaiah does next is he starts talking about a future day but he use that Skype uses the present tense as if he's there right now.

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light on those living.

In the land of deep Darkness, a light has dawned.

You have enlarged, the nation and increase their Joy.

They Rejoice before you as people Rejoice at the Harvest as Warriors rejoice when dividing the plunder Four as in the day of Midian defeat, you have shattered, the Yoke that bergan's them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor every Warriors boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning will be fuel for the fire for to us.

A child, is born to us.

A son is given and the government will be on his shoulders.

And he will be called, wonderful, counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting father, Prince of Peace.

Of the greatness of his government and peace.

There will be no end.

He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom establishing and upholding it with Justice.

And righteousness from that time on and forever.

The Zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this

Yeah, Hallelujah.

This is Jeff.

I agree.

Whenever we're studying the Bible, we're asking the same questions who wrote this.

Who was?

What did I do?

Who wrote this, who were the first people to hear it and as much as we can tell about those questions, what is it that the first people to hear this would have, would have understood?

That's where we start, so that we can ask the next question.

Well, okay, then then, what is it say to us?

So it's helpful to have a little bit of context.

So let's do a little quick.

Check in about the context of the book of Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 1. Verse 1 says that Isaiah live during the reign of Four Kings.

Isaiah jotham ahaz and Hezekiah.

So they're all up there on a timeline.

If you read Isaiah chapter 6, you get the impression that he started his.

His ministry of being gods profit at the end of azaleas rain, and it seems so maybe somewhere near 74739 no 87401 742.

And he goes, he's a prophet into the reign of Hezekiah.

So a pretty big fan of yours.

And those are all Kings of Judah, which is the southern portion of the people of Israel.

Israel had divided into two groups each with its own King.

The northern portion of Israel in this other in person.

So Isaiah is a prophet to the southern tribes of Israel.

And those are the kings of the Southern tribes of Israel.

But what was happening with the northern tribes of Israel was obvious to them until the important thing that happens during Isaiah's time in the northern part of Israel is that in 722 BC Assyria, just obliterated, the northern kingdom, and carried away.

All of its leaders and and just destroyed things.

And so their cousins, the southern Kingdom.

People were watching that and that was a part of the drama and the trauma of Isaiah's day and Isaiah has some themes related to that.

One of his themes is coming consequences.

He's talking to the southern tribes.

That haven't been taken over yet.

They are eventually taken over by different people.

The Babylonian.

But he's telling his people.

Look, if you don't turn back toward God, if you keep stringing away from him, what happened to your cousins in the north is going to happen to you. a second theme, is these beautiful hopeful passages about God, making everything right about God's Redemption and then a third Theme of the book of Isaiah is the beauty of its language.

This, this poetic Beauty.

So let me give us an example of that hears chapter 1 verses 18 through 20.

Come now, let us settle the matter, says the Lord though, your sins are like Scarlet.

They shall be as white as snow though.

They are red.

As Crimson.

They shall be like wool.

If you are willing and obedient you will eat the good things of the land, but if you resist and ribelle, you will be devoured by the sword for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

You you get a a little glimpse of the Poetry though.

Your sins are as Scarlet.

They should be as wool.

You get a glimpse of the coming consequences if you don't.

Listen, this is what's going to happen to you.

And of course, you're getting a glimpse of the hopeful Redemption.

This this forgiveness that God's going to bring.

So the whole book of Isaiah is like that in the part, we're reading this morning.

We're in one of those hopeful Redemption Parts where Isaiah is talking about this child, who's going to be born.

So let's get into that.

They're two points.

I want to make about

For unto us.

A child is born to us.

A son is given that conversation by Isaiah.