This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.Part I (00:13 – 11:06) Commercial Opportunity Meets Temptation in Sport: Professional and Collegiate Sports Reckon with Corruption of Sports BettingNFL Suspends Five Players for Sports Gambling by Wall Street Journal (Andrew Beaton)Part II (11:06 – 17:04) A Sticky Standard Over ‘Sticky Stuff’: MLB’s Recent Rosin Controversy Highlights the Pervasiveness of Sin and Both the Necessity and Limitation of Rules in a Fallen WorldMLB Suspends Max Scherzer Over Use of ‘Sticky Stuff’ by Wall Street Journal (Lindsey Adler)Part III (17:04 – 25:19) The De-Incentivization of Work: Work is not a ‘Wacko’ Idea, Mr. President Is Work for Welfare ‘Wacko’? by Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)Sign up to receive The Briefing in your inbox every weekday morning.Follow Dr. Mohler:Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | YouTubeFor more information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to sbts.edu.For more information on Boyce College, just go to BoyceCollege.com.To write Dr. Mohler or submit a question for The Mailbox, go here.

Last week’s episode ended on gloom and judgment. Ahaz has rejected the opportunity of God to ask for any sign of His faithfulness. Rather than obeying God in requesting that sign, Ahaz chooses to put his faith in his own plan and strategy. God’s astounding response is to give him a sign anyway, the coming of Immanuel. He also pronounces judgment on Ahaz and his kingdom in the form of Assyria.
This week we move from the gloom and destruction promised in Isaiah 8 to the hope and promise of Isaiah 9. No more will Zebulun and Naphtali be seen as an area that God has abandoned. They will, with the coming of Christ be seen as glorious because of Christ dwelling there.
Here is the question for us, removed some 2,700 years from God’s deliverance of the promise and 2,000 years from His fulfillment of that promise: How do we apply this? How should these truths live in our life? John gives us some application of this passage in this week’s episode.
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