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I'm thinking today of Isaiah 53 .1. Isaiah 53

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.1, it says, Who has believed our message, and

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to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

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Now, this chapter of Isaiah goes on to very,

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in a very kind of detailed way, talk about the

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coming of Jesus. And so it's a great prophecy

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from hundreds of years before Jesus was even

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born about the life, death, burial, and resurrection

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of Jesus. But here is Isaiah asking the question,

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who has believed our report? And to whom has

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the arm of the Lord been revealed? Now, I have

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accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior,

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and perhaps you have too. I hope you have. And

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I know many that... profess to have accepted

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Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and they

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testify that the God of heaven did save their

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soul, that he now lives in them, his Holy Spirit

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lives in them. I understand that there are a

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lot of variations of the way people live once

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they accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

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Some of them may not look to us like they are

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even living for the Lord, that they even know

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what a Lord is. The Lord is a person who tells

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you what to do, and you do it. That being said,

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Jesus has been revealed as the arm of the Lord,

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and there are those who believe in Jesus who

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are making a report of what they have experienced

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with Jesus coming in to lead their lives. Jesus

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is leading my life, and I love him, and I want

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to follow him every day, and he leads me every

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day. And if you're sharing your report, you might

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ask this very same question. The bottom line

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is, do you believe? Have you believed in the

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report and seen the arm of the Lord revealed?

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I hope you have.