Isaiah 53

March 20, 2022

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Reading along with us in Isaiah? Here’s today’s reading:

Isaiah 53 (NIV)

1 Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem...........Continue Reading

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  1. by his wounds we are healed….
    What pain Jesus endured for US! I think about how much we dislike pain or discomfort of any kind. Emotional or physical we see such unfairness in pain. We despise injustice and unfair treatment of people.
    And yet here we are redeemed by His blood, cleansed by His pain, saved by His death! He did something for people so undeserving and still people turn away and don’t accept the reality of what He did for them. Every time I read an account of what He endured it breaks my heart again to think He did it for me.

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  2. Finally one chapter I don’t have to go to a commentary. Hard to put words to this scripture The physical pain that our lord went through to redeem us back to him. What we deserved Our lord took upon himself. Always been curious. By his wounds we are healed. Forgiveness of sin yes. But can we claim that for physical healing. Psalm 103 vs 3. Who forgives all your sins. And heals all your diseases!! Any comments?

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    1. Mark, I think that has to refer to God’s willingness and ability to heal. Too many godly, faithful people haven’t been healed for this to mean this healing is automatic. There is also value found in suffering that the Bible speaks to. So God is able and willing to heal when it is His will to do so. For that, we trust Him to know what is best….Make sense?

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  4. Only love explains our Saviors behavior at Calvery; love for the Father and love for us. There must be something very important about this chapter, being quoted over thirty times in the new testament.

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  5. How can any reasonable person read this chapter and not see Jesus Christ of Nazareth all over it. What it depicts about His life, treatment by others and sacrifice is spot on. And how amazing that He did it on purpose. He was a willing and active participant and the Father did what He did intentionally as well. They knew this was the only way that humans like us could be made right with God. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saves a wretch like me…..

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  6. When I read prophesies about Jesus, it does seem obvious, but hindsight is 20/20. We see prophesies in the Old Testament that apply to Christ’s second coming, so we can see why they were expecting a triumphant King and not a suffering servant. Prophesies look foggy until they are fulfilled. I wonder at some of Daniel’s prophesies, some so exactly fulfilled like in Daniel 11 where we can look back at history and see, and others with a 70th week yet to be fulfilled. All the more reason to be paying close attention. The prophesies in Matthew and in Revelation….and even some from the Old Testament…may be fulfilled as we watch and not in the order we expect them to occur.

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  7. I’m here , fell behind the daily reading, finished chapter 53 this am , at this point, chapter 53 has become a Favorite

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