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Isaiah 45:7 · BSB
45:7 I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
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…determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings. He controls the day of your death. Who ordains the days of war and peace?Isaiah 45:7. I form the light and I create a darkness. I make peace and I create calamity. I the Lord do all these things. Lamentations 3:37-38. Who is he who…
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…ruler came to the throne. And if you want that reference where you can actually see his name in your Bible, it's Isaiah 44:28, and then againIsaiah 45:1-7, where you can actually read the name of someone who was not born and did not exist yet. Pretty, pretty amazing. Okay, and then my favorite,…
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…and when you read about what he actually did, it's horrifying. There's no other word for it. It's a terrible thing to be under God's judgment. InIsaiah 45, verse 7, God says through the prophets, I form light and create darkness. I make well-being and create calamity. There is part of the suffering that is…
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…through a usable vessel. Are you being usable? I want you to turn your Bibles today to Isaiah chapter 45. And I want you to see a passage.Isaiah 45, verses 6 through 9. God's talking about the instruments that he uses. In verse 6, he says that they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is…
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…this is where you just turn your own interpretation on you ask the holy spirit is this true is this what I believe from this chapter is going to beIsaiah 45 verse 7and I'll have it up too so you can turn there in your Bibles I'm reading from the ESV Bible by the way um which I think is a faithful translation H…
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…Thank God for the church. Thank God for the life of the church, the framework of the church. Thank God for the church fathers, even evil. InIsaiah chapter 45 verse 7, we read, for He formed light and he created darkness. Now listen, He formed light and created darkness. So because he formed light, darkness was…
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…accounted for you lose dozens of hair every day and that's all accounted for it's all you can rest assured that God is still sovereign God says inIsaiah 45 verse 7I form light and create darkness I make well being and create calamity I am the Lord who does all these things God is in sovereign control over…
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…I want to say the scripture has much to say to us about this topic. And the scripture appears to cut in a different direction than that statement.Isaiah 45, verse 7, The same God who is good, in which there is no darkness, says to the people, I form the light and create darkness. I bring prosperity and create…
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…he himself is being ruled by something. And so we see this truth resounding throughout the book of Isaiah about God's sovereignty. If we look atIsaiah 45, verse 7, it says this, I form the light and create darkness. I bring prosperity and create disaster. I, the Lord, do all these things. And so if we think…
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…the Medo-Persian Empire, and then it became consolidated under the leader of one person, Cyrus. Cyrus is named by God before he was born. That'sIsaiah 45, verses 1 through 7. 150 years before this, Cyrus is already named by God. So God's prophetic power here is unquestioned. And Daniel's not getting, Isaiah got the…
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…belief doesn't fit with what God says about Himself. For example, in one of the, in my opinion, one of the most astounding verses in Scripture,Isaiah 45, verse 7, God says, I form light and create darkness. Wonderful. Paraphrasing Genesis 1, right? We understand that, we get that, but then he goes on to say,…
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…and just stay away from most of the time? There are not many places in the Bible clearer on this issue than Isaiah 45, exactly who this God is.Isaiah 45, verses 5 to 7, It says, I, the Lord, do all of these things. Is that your God? That is the God of the Bible. A God who, as you see in, for instance, the book of…
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