Be the Reed - Pt. 10 - Audio
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We're concluding our summer series, "Be the Read" today. I'm Tom, lead pastor of CoSpout Church. We're super glad you're here. And we're finishing up our summer series, "Be the Read." And the premise of this series is there's this promise in Isaiah 55, 54 and 55, which tells us that there's this way of living where God's going to win everything. God's going to do everything. We do nothing. And God just totally just makes everything right. It's crazy. And so it's a wild promise. And historically speaking, it was kind of aimed at the Jewish people who were in captivity in Babylon. They'd been taken there. And they'd been languishing in exile. And they were going to go back to their homeland. And God was explaining what that was going to be like. It wasn't going to be something that they did with their strength. It was going to be him doing it with his strength. And the way that they're called to operate, we've been called being the read. Being-- living a life absolutely surrendered in submission to what accepting what God's doing, being submitted and surrendered to it, and just watching God work. Why are we doing this? In 1973, during the end of the Vietnam War, there was an infamous prison. A lot of you who are older, who are in Vietnam, in some cases. Remember the Hanaway Hilton. The Hanaway Hilton was an infamous prison where American POWs were held, and they were beaten and tortured. Near the end of the war, the Vietnamese were running out of places to put prisoners. And so they gathered a bunch of different POWs in this place. And for one of the first times in the war, they were actually gathered together in fairly large groups. And there was a group of 43 servicemen in this prison cell in the Hanaway Hilton. And over the years, the Vietnam POWs had come up with a system of communication. You might have heard about this, where they would tap on the walls and the floor of the prison in order to kind of communicate. And so they worked out like a code of sorts, and they were able to talk to each other. Well, over the years, a lot of these prisoners had come to know one another, but only through the tapping.
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Coast Bible Church, PastorTom Bennett, San Juan Capistrano, CA, www.coastbible.org