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So if the Son sets you free, you are free
indeed." John 8:36
Normally quoted as:
"See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you
stagger:
and from that cup, the goblet of My wrath, you will never drink again".
Verse 22
Isaiah 51:22
This is what your Sovereign LORD says, your God, who
defends his people: "See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you
stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again.
Verse 22 & 23
Isaiah 51
22 This is what your Sovereign LORD says, your God, who
defends his people: "See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you
stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again".
23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who
said to you, `Fall prostrate that we may walk over you.' And you made your back
like the ground, like a street to be walked over."
Isaiah 51 :: New International Version (NIV)
Complete Chapter
Isaiah 51
1 "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek
the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which
you were hewn;
2 look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you
birth. When I called him he was but one, and I blessed him and made him many.
3 The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with
compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands
like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving
and the sound of singing.
4 "Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: The law
will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations.
5 My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on
the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to
me and wait in hope for my arm.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth
beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a
garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever,
my righteousness will never fail.
7 "Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who
have my law in your hearts: Do not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by
their insults.
8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment; the worm
will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever, my salvation
through all generations."
9 Awake, awake! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of
the LORD; awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old. Was it not you
who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced that monster through?
10 Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the
great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed might
cross over?
11 The ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter
Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will
overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
12 "I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that
you fear mortal men, the sons of men, who are but grass,
13 that you forget the LORD your Maker, who stretched out
the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant
terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on
destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor?
14 The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; they will
not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread.
15 For I am the LORD your God, who churns up the sea so
that its waves roar-- the LORD Almighty is his name.
16 I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with
the shadow of my hand-- I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations
of the earth, and who say to Zion, `You are my people.'"
17 Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk
from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its
dregs the goblet that makes men stagger.
18 Of all the sons she bore there was none to guide her;
of all the sons she reared there was none to take her by the hand.
19 These double calamities have come upon you-- who can
comfort you?-- ruin and destruction, famine and sword-- who can console you?
20 Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every
street, like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the
LORD and the rebuke of your God.
21 Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but
not with wine.
22 This is what your Sovereign LORD says, your God, who
defends his people: "See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you
stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again".
23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who
said to you, `Fall prostrate that we may walk over you.' And you made your back
like the ground, like a street to be walked over."
I can believe that my faith in God's power can
accomplish anything.
There is no limit to what these two things can do. When we believe,
anything can happen. Saint Paul said: "I can do all things through him
who strengthens me." All walls that divide us from other human beings
can fall by our faith and God's power. These are the two essentials.
Everyone an be moved by these.
I pray that I may try to strengthen my faith day by day. I pray that I
may rely more and more on God's power
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