October 26, 2020

yellow: highlights anything to do with his physical pain or his appearance. 

Pink highlights emotional pain. 

orange highlights what people think about him or say about him. 

Green highlights the victory or the outcome of his actions.

underlined underlines his responses. 

Isaiah 53

Jesus Christ: This is before he actually physically goes to the cross. God tells us in Isaiah what will happen. 

 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

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.

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.

  Some people saw his love for them and loved him back. 

He was a man of suffering and familiar with pain. 

Surely he took up our pain

    and bore our suffering,

yet we considered him punished by God,

    stricken by him, and afflicted.

People saw him suffering and they just assumed that God was punishing him. 

 But he was pierced for our transgressions,

    he was crushed for our iniquities;

the punishment that brought us peace was on him,

    and by his wounds we are healed.

We all, like sheep, have gone astray,

    each of us has turned to our own way;

and the Lord has laid on him

    the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed and afflicted,

    yet he did not open his mouth;

he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,

    and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,

    so he did not open his mouth.

By oppression and judgment he was taken away.

    Yet who of his generation protested?

For he was cut off from the land of the living;

 No one protested. There was no justice. It was God punishing him as if he was punishing us. He was putting our sins upon him. 

    for the transgression of my people he was punished.

He was assigned a grave with the wicked,

    and with the rich in his death,

though he had done no violence,

    nor was any deceit in his mouth.

 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,

    and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,

he will see his offspring and prolong his days,

    and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.

 After he has suffered,

    he will see the light of life and be satisfied;

by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.

He saved us. 

 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,

    and he will divide the spoils with the strong,

because he poured out his life unto death,

    and was numbered with the transgressors.

For he bore the sin of many,

    and made intercession for the transgressors.

Have a great day!