Title: Distress, Debt and Discontent
Topic: Salvation
Summary: The first part in us to turn toward the Lord is the part that has known spiritual distress, debt, and discontent.
References:
1 Samuel 22:1-2
Deuteronomy 4:30-31; 28:53-57
Judges 9:4; 11:1-3, 6-7
1 Samuel 1:9-11, 13, 15; 30:21-22
2 Samuel 24:13-14
Job 3:20-26; 20:22; 36:15-16
Psalms 18:1, 4-6, 16, 19; 118:5-6
Isaiah 29:5-8; 38:15-19; 42:3
Matthew 9:10-13; 11:28-30
Luke 15:1-7
Hebrews 12:1
This video is a part of the Spirit and Life Bible Study series, whose purpose is to look at the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible through a Swedenborgian lens.
319 - Distress, Debt and Discontent
By Jonathan S. Rose
Spirit and Life Bible Study broadcast from 10/11/2017. The complete series is available at: www.spiritandlifebiblestudy.com
Isaiah 38:15-19
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What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
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Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.
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Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
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For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.
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The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
Isaiah 29:5-8
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But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.
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She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.
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The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.
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It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.
