Good morning, everyone. I just want to welcome you to our Sunday school. All right. We're going to be in chapter 49 of the book of Isaiah today. So make sure you guys get your books or the study guide if you guys were, um, are following along in that the personal study guide is available on our church, Facebook group. Page. Um, and you can go and download that and follow along and we're session we're in session 10 today. So if you guys will get your Bibles or your study guides and flip on over to there, the title today is God comforts. And man, do we need some comforting today talking about all the stuff that is going on today? All the. I wouldn't call it craziness, just a complexities of everything. One of the things that I did not get to do yesterday, one of the things that I did not get to do yesterday was listened to, um, the assumed has it been confirmed, confirmed, but the assumed president elect, but I heard that he had some good words to say, and maybe I don't think that a lot of people are going to really hear him out. Right now, but, um, one of the things that I had heard him talk about, well, not, I heard him talk about, but one of the things that I know that he mentioned was healing our country and in today's Bible study, the, one of the, one of the, um, illustrations that the author is trying to use is a bandaid. Now we all know what bandaids are for right. Little minor cuts, scrapes or bruises. Oh, no, no, not so much a bruise. Maybe like to let you know that it's still there. Maybe. I don't know, but minor cuts and scrapes. Right? You might put a bandaid on it. Think about when you was younger and how much comfort that bandaid provided that assurance. And see if you can go back in November, remember? Yeah. You, you, all you really wanted was that bandaid, all you really wanted was that, that, that, uh, so to speak that little, um, item that. Covered your wound, right? It wasn't so much that you knew that you needed stitches or, you know, you had a really bad injury and all you was looking for was that healing to start to take place that, that removal of baby, that pain, right? Um, no matter how big or small applying that bandage seemed to make it better. And sometimes we even wanted our mom just to acknowledge that we were hurt and, you know, to do their little things. Some of them may have been kissy or someone may have been Patty. So some. Someone may have just reminded us, Hey, you're older than making a big deal about that. Go on and play. And you know, not using those kinds of words, but we get the point, right? Snap out of it. Go on. You get on in Isaiah, we see God comforting his people. It says after this is the writer speaker, he says after decades of Babylonian, captivity and exalt from their land, God promised to rescue the remnant nation. Redemption is both. Immediate and in forthcoming than forthcoming, the nation would return to their land and have it restored most significantly. The servant of the Lord would bring the message of salvation to the world. And we see that even in today, we see the comforting that the Bible can, can provide us. In that there is a better time ahead. There's going to be turmoil. There's going to be things going on. There's going to be a complex world that we live in today, but knowing God will complete what he said, that he's going to do complete, bring, bring to, to realization the promise that he's given us. We can take a little bit of comfort in that. Jesus is the ideal servant and ultimate fulfillment of God's promise as the servant Messiah. He's the light of the world. Offering salvation to the ends of the earth and the one to whom one day, every knee will bow. And I really liked that verse out of Romans 14. My phone will not unlock code on, so I want to read that real quick. Um, moving through Romans, um, you can see that was our study during the springtime, moving through Romans, you seen that there was like three separate sections in Romans and...
