00:00 Introduction and Welcome: "I'm lonely."

00:07 Revival Week: Prayer for Revival!

02:40 Focus on Isaiah: The Servant Songs

03:01 The Messiah's Mission and Success

12:50 The Suffering Servant: Isaiah 53

17:04 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey everybody.

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And welcome back to another edition of

the daily Bible podcast eats Monday.

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And do we have a doozy of

a scripture passage today?

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Isaiah 53 is included in this, uh,

so amazing as we are going to read

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through that, but before we even

get there, it's Monday of revival

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week for our student ministry.

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So with that in mind, let me

just encourage you to remember,

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to be praying for our students.

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Even if you don't have students in

your house or know any students.

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Uh, be praying for them, if you would

pray for this to be a fruitful time

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as, as they study all about what

it means to be created in the image

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of God and how that impacts them.

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Uh, pray for our preaching down there.

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Pastor rod is preaching.

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Also our pastor down in, uh, hill country,

our youth pastor down there, pastor

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Evan is going to be preaching as well.

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So be praying for the preaching,

pray for the small group time that

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it would be a good time of applying

God's word together that the.

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The students would be quick to, uh, to

open up with their leaders, um, that

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they would be willing to be transparent.

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Uh, that they would bring their questions,

that they wouldn't just settle for

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having surface answers, but that they

would really truly wrestle with these

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things and these realities so that they

might come to know that better because

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that's, that's our ultimate goal.

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That's our desire.

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We want our students to come back

for this, from this transformed

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either the, the, the unbeliever.

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We want to see them.

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Uh, closer to faith, if not having

made a profession of faith that.

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The believing student, we want

to see their faith having been

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deepened during this time.

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So just pray for the preaching.

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Pray for the small group time.

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That it would just be

rich while they're there.

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Uh, also pray for just a fun time

for these students, pray that they

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would make good memories together.

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That relationships would be strengthened

and deepened while they're there as well.

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Pray for safety during the games

that they're going to be playing.

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I know these games at, at uh, our

summer camps are, are, uh, are it's.

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It's not chutes and ladders.

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Let me just put it that way.

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It's it's pretty intense.

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It's it's a sight to behold.

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Uh, and so they're, they're awesome.

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They're fun.

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They're great.

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But you pray for safety

and pray for our leaders.

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Uh, pray for them as

they're coming off of.

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Uh, busy week of work last week.

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And then, uh, they're, they're

here for, for revival taking

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time away from work men.

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Thank God for them, praise him for that

and in, and give thanks to the Lord for

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their selflessness in that, and being

there with the students, but pray for them

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as well for the energy in the, the mental

acuity, just to make it through the week.

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Uh, they're going to come back on

Wednesday, but just, uh, that they

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would be sustained through that time.

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So be praying for our teens as they're

down at revival, uh, in the hill country.

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For their teen summer camp

focused again on the image of God.

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What does it mean to be

created in the image of God?

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What a great theme, what a great

subject to be talking about this

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year at our revival summer camp.

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Something else that's great to

be talking about is God's word.

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So without further ado, let's jump in.

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We're going to be in Isaiah 49 all the way

through 53 today, Isaiah 49 through 53.

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So.

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Uh, chapter 49 to 52, verse 12

is a, is what we refer to as it's

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it's the second servant song.

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So we talked about the concept of

the servant in Isaiah that sometimes

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it refers to the individual.

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Sometimes it refers to the

whole people of God here.

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It's going to primarily

refer to the individual.

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It's going to be referring to the Messiah.

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Uh, and so this is laying out his mission

in ultimately the success of his mission.

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So there's a lot of high

points in this section.

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As we focus in on the messianic servant

here in Isaiah 49, all the way through

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53, but 53, as we're going to see

it takes on a much different tone.

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It's not one of success and triumph.

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It's, it's a much different one.

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And we'll talk about

that when we get there.

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But chapter 49 opens up.

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And here the servant again, with the

context and the, the pronouns appears

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to be an individual as we read this.

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But when we come to Isaiah 49 3, the

Lord says you are my servant Israel.

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So wait a minute.

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How come we're interpreting

this as an individual.

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He's saying you are my

servant Israel here.

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Well, one commentator put it this

way, and I think it's helpful

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to understand the relationship.

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Between the Messiah and the nation.

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Uh, this commentator said this, this

servant is going to function as Israel.

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What was Israel's task as

indicated throughout the entire

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book from chapter two onward.

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It was to be the means whereby

the nations could come to God.

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Israel was to be a light to the

nations, but how could a nation

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that could not find its own way

to God, a blind, deaf, rebellious

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nation show anyone else the way.

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This is the dilemma that the

servant has come to solve.

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He will be for Israel and the world.

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What Israel could not be such an important

thing for us to think about church.

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We, we don't often think about

the Messiah as the perfect Israel.

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Uh, Israel was meant to be a light

to the nations that God formed them

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as a people for his own possession.

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He formed them as a kingdom of priests.

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They were to be that light amongst the

darkness in the world, around them.

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But instead they mingled with the darkness

and the light became dark because of that.

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And so Jesus, this Messiah, this servant

that's yet to come, is going to be

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the true Israel, the perfect Israel.

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And do what Israel could not do by

being that light, being that light

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and not only to Israel, but to the

nation, as we keep reading in this.

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The servant's job is not only going

to involve the regathering of Israel.

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It is that we see that in

verse five of chapter 49.

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But also, it's going to look to the

deliverance of the nations, bringing

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salvation to the ends of the earth.

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That's Isaiah 49, 6.

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He says, is it too light a thing that

you should be my servant to raise

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up the tribes or it is too light.

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I'm sorry.

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It is too light.

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Not a question.

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It is.

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It is too light.

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A thing that you should be my servant

to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to

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bring back the preserved of Israel, I

will make you as a light for the nations.

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That my salvation may

reach the end of the earth.

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So there, the, the, the father

got a saying of the servant, the

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Messiah, the son, Hey, you know what.

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It's too small a thing just for you

to bring back Israel, you are going to

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bring back Israel, but I'm also going to

have you bring in the nations as well.

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And we see this, we see this.

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Through Jesus' words in John.

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And when he talks about is the good

shepherd having sheep from another

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flock that he had to bring in.

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We also see this, uh, in, in acts one

eight, when he tells the, the, the

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disciples as they're gathered there.

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Right before he ascends,

he says, you know what?

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Uh, you're going to be my witnesses

in Jerusalem, in Judea and Samaria.

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And then he says this and to

the ends of the earth, Isaiah.

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Uh, 49, 6, I will make you the

servant, the Messiah, a light for the

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nations that my salvation may reach

to the ends of the earth and church.

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That's what we're doing right now, too.

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We're participating in that as the

body of Christ, we are filling up what

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was lacking in Christ's affliction

by still continuing to take the

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gospel to the end of the earth.

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So we.

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Are are entering into a program that's

been in place from the very beginning.

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We are, are, are in partnership

with Isaiah's prophecy in Isaiah 49.

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We're in partnership with Jesus and.

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In John 10 saying he's got sheep of

another full that he has to bring in work.

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Obeying the commission of

Matthew 28 and, and world bang.

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What he's saying in acts one eight, when

he says you need to get to the ends of

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the earth, we get to continue to do that.

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But here in Isaiah 49, again, as

it's focusing on his mission and his

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ultimate success, this servant is

going to be a light, not just for

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Israel, but also to the nations.

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Uh, the rest of the chapter verses

eight through 26, depicts the

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restoration specifically of, of the

people of Israel from the nations.

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The Lord is going to bring them back.

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And the imagery of, of is that

of the nations returning Israel's

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children to her as the exiles.

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We'll return from their captivity.

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So there's both again, the near and far

element at work here in application,

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but I do want to point out to you.

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Verse 15.

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And in notice this question, he says this.

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Uh, back up to verse 14, but Zion set.

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So, so Israel Jerusalem

said, Hey, you know what?

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The Lord has forsaken me.

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The Lord has forgotten me.

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And that's the personification

of Zion and exile.

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You know what the Lord's forsaken me.

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The Lord's forgotten me.

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Notice verse 15, the Lord's response

can a woman forget her nursing

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child, that she should have no

compassion on the son of her womb.

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Even these may forget yet.

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I will not forget you.

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God is telling Israel his people there.

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Even a nursing mother might

in some conceivable way.

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Forget her child.

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And fail to have compassion on her child.

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But I will never forget you.

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And so again, from our perspective of

what's coming in the future, as far as

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the end times, We are dispensationalist

because of verses like this, where it

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shows us that God is not done with Israel.

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All right.

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Chapter 50, then chapter 50, this

chapter features a call to Israel

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to trust in the Lord and the

sovereign outworking of his plan.

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It begins by questioning why Israel

hadn't yet returned to the Lord

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for salvation and deliverance.

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And I love the way it begins.

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He says.

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He says this.

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Where's your, your mother's

certificate of divorce with which I

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sent her away, or which of any of the

creditors is it to my I've sold you.

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Your Nick Woody's are why you were sold.

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Your transgressions are

why you were sent away yet.

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Look at verse two.

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Y then I came, there was

no one there I called.

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There was no one to answer is my hand

shortened that it cannot redeem or

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how have I know power to deliver.

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And so he's asking this question

that he's actually going to

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answer for us later on in Isaiah.

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He's saying is my arm too

short that I can't save.

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He says, yes, you were sold

for your sins, but that.

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Th th it doesn't mean that's the end.

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He says, I'm here to be your Redeemer.

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I'm here for you.

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I'm here to save you.

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And I love the way that he puts that

is my arm too short to save it's

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it's in the original, it's asked in

such a way as to expect the negative

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to say no, of course your arm's

not too short that it can't save.

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And so this is the servant's

confidence in spite of the

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suffering that he will endure.

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He knows he has no guilt, Isaiah 59.

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He knows the Lord is going to

help him Isaiah 50 verse seven.

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And so he's resolute in his mission and

the, and that's where it goes from here.

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The deliverance is going to come through

the servant's faithfulness to the Lord.

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And so even though.

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Uh, verse six, I gave my back to

those who strike and my cheeks

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to those who pull out the beard.

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That, that sounds a lot

like what happened to Jesus?

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Doesn't it.

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In here.

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The servant is saying, even

though that's happening, you

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know what the Lord is my helper.

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Therefore I've not been

disgraced for seven.

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Therefore I've set my face like Flint.

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And I know that I will

not be put to shame.

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And so the, the confidence there.

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Verse eight, who will contend with

me, who is my adversary verse nine.

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Who's going to declare me guilty.

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Verse 10, who among you fears the Lord

and obeys the voice of his servant.

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And so the confidence of the servant,

the Messiah comes from again, the

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very beginning, Hey, is my hand

shortened that it cannot redeem.

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He has confidence in God.

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The Redeemer, he again, has succeeded

where Israel has failed to continue to

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trust the Lord in his power to deliver.

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So Isaiah 50.

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This servant's confidence in spite of

the suffering that is going to come.

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All right.

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Chapter 51.

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Chapter 51 then.

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Uh, this chapter should help us

understand the mindset of the two

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disciples on the road to a mass.

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Uh, you remember Jesus comes upon

them after the resurrection and he

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says, Hey, why, why are you so upset?

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Why are you so sad?

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And they say, well, are you, are

you the only one who doesn't know.

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And he says, well, go on.

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And they said, because we

thought this one was the Messiah.

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Isaiah 51 helps us to understand that as

much as Isaiah 53 lends us to say, how

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can you not see that he had to suffer?

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Isaiah 51 is perhaps the answer

to some of that, because this is

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a chapter all about the glory.

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Of the servant, all about the

victory of the conquering.

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Messiah all about the glorious

reign of the Messiah in the future.

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It's focused on his power and

exhorts the people not to fear

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their oppressors any longer.

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The ransom shall be re-installed in

Zion with everlasting, joy and singing.

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This is a depiction of Zion

under the earthly reign of Christ

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during the millennial kingdom.

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This is not his mission

at his first coming.

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And that's why there

was so much confusion.

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And that's what proved to be

a stumbling block to the Jews.

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And even still is today.

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Uh, but, but this is going to be the

reality that is, is yet fulfilled

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at the second coming of Christ at

the millennial kingdom, Jesus is

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going to reign in this way, but,

but Isaiah 51 helps us to see, okay.

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I get it.

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Now I get why perhaps the Jews

struggled as much to understand how

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Jesus could be the Messiah as he

came, at least in the first advent.

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Chapter 52, then this opening section

of Isaiah 52, because we'll split

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it verse 12, because verse 12.

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Uh, or onward kind of goes with,

with Isaiah 53, but this opening

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section of Isaiah 52 continues

what we were just talking about.

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That God's future deliverance

of Israel and his glorious reign

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during the millennial kingdom.

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So 51.

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Th that theme kind of

courses all the way down.

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Uh, through verse 12 of chapter 52,

uh, for example, verse 10, the Lord

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has bared his holy arm before the

eyes of all nations in all the ends

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of the earth shall see the salvation

of our God, the power of God.

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Uh, verse seven is a

familiar one from Isaiah 52.

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How beautiful upon the mountains

are the feet of him who

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publishes or brings good news.

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Paul picks up on that in Romans,

as he's saying, Hey, how are people

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going to be saved unless they hear.

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How beautiful are the feet of

the one who brings good news.

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And so we're talking about there.

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Publishing piece publishing

salvation saying your God reigns.

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So this is anticipating for Israel.

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The future millennial kingdom there.

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Okay.

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Now the part that you've been waiting

for, I know pins and needles, right?

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Isaiah 53.

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This is the, or, well, 52 13

all the way down through 53.

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This is the one.

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This is the passage that we read around

good Friday or Easter every year.

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This is the one that depicts

the suffering servant.

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And this again is the Messiah.

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And this, the depictions in here, the

descriptions in here fits so well with

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the crucifixion that happens to cheeses.

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And we're about 700 years

before that give or take.

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So about 700 years before that

God is saying, this is what's

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going to happen to this servant.

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This is what's going to

happen to the Messiah.

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The deliverance that you're looking

for, the salvation that you need, it's

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going to come through the suffering

first, before the glory, verse

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14, people were astonished at you.

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His appearance was marred.

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Beyond human semblance.

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That again, that the beading

associated with the crucifixion there,

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we see verse three of chapter 53.

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He was despised rejected by men, a

man of sorrows acquainted with grief.

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And as one from whom men hid their

faces despised, we esteemed him not.

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Again, just the, the suffering,

uh, verse four, the second half,

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we esteemed him stricken smitten by

God and afflicted people thought,

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man, he's under the curse of God.

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But note the positive verse

for the first part he's born.

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Our griefs he's carried

our sorrows verse five.

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He's pierced for our transgressions

crushed for our iniquities upon

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him was the chastisement that

brought us peace chastisement word.

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That means punishment.

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That brought us peace.

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Piece with his wounds.

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We are healed, but Lord has

laid on him, the iniquity of us.

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All right.

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Eh, this is the suffering servant.

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This is substitutionary atonement.

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That is that Jesus took our place

on the cross, died for our sins.

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So that we might be forgiven and

this was all in accordance with

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the will of the Lord verse 10.

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It was the will of the Lord to crush him.

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He has put him the

suffering servant to grief.

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But out of the anguish verse 11 of

his soul, the servant soul out of

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his anguish, out of his pain, he

shall see and be satisfied by his

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knowledge shall the righteous one.

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My servant make many to be

counted righteous, and he

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shall bear their iniquities.

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And so what Isaiah is saying here

through what God is saying through

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Isaiah rather is that this servant yes.

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Is going to suffer.

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But out of that anguish and in that pain,

he's going to be satisfied because he's

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going to know that it's, that that is

going to produce salvation for so many.

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And that's how it ends.

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In verse 12.

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He bore the sin of many and makes

intercession for the transgressors.

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And that's what he's still

doing today for us church.

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That's what Hebrews seven says.

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That's why it says we will be saved

to the uttermost because he always

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lives to make intercession for us here.

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Here it is all the way back

in Isaiah 53, 700 plus years.

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Before the crucifixion gotta sink.

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This is what's going to happen.

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So there it is guys, Isaiah 49 through 53.

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I knew there was a lot of ground that

we just covered there, but so much of

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it focused on the victory of the coming.

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Of the servant of the Messiah and

that the high points and the power.

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And again, that's why the Jews

struggled so much when Jesus showed

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up, because they're like, you don't

look a whole lot, like the Isaiah

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51, Jesus that we're looking for.

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The Isaiah 51 Messiah servant.

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But then we get Isaiah 53, which we

have to take that into account too.

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You say, well, what did the

Jews do with Isaiah 53 today?

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Well, in a lot of synagogues, they will

actually skip over that passage and

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reading it because of the controversy

around it, that it creates for them.

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Because it doesn't, it doesn't fit within

their understanding, their paradigm.

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If they're pressed on it,

what they'll say is, well that

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servant in Isaiah 53 is Israel.

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This is talking about the

suffering of God's people, not

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the suffering of an individual.

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But, but guys, it doesn't

hold up to the hermeneutics.

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It doesn't hold up to

the study of scripture.

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So Isaiah 53 is one of the most.

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Uh, difficult chapters and rightly so for

a Jewish person to, to be able to answer

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as to what is this referring to, if not

Jesus, in the one that was crucified.

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So.

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Uh, pray for God's people that

pray for Israel, pray for them to,

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to wrestle with this even today.

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And, and for there to be salvation

brought to the house of Israel

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today, we know that ultimately

that's coming in the future, but.

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Mint God has used Isaiah 53 to

bring Jews to salvation a lot and

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he can continue to be to do so.

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And maybe, you know, some, some people

in your life that are Jews and this

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might be a good chapter to sit down and

read through that with them and say,

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okay, w what is this talking about?

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Who is this talking about?

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And maybe who knows what

God might do through that.

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So there you go, church.

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Uh, let me pray for us.

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And then we'll be done

with today's episode.

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God, we thank you for

the suffering servant.

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So that we will, one day know

the glorious raining servants.

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We thank you for Isaiah 53,

so that we will be able to

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reign with him and Isaiah 51.

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Uh, Lord, we thank you so much for

your kindness to us, to, uh, to put our

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iniquities, our sins on the, the, the sun.

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On your son.

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Uh, to crush him that it was

the will of the Lord to put

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him to grief, to crush him.

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Lord.

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Uh, we can't even begin to fathom

that is as much as we can try to wrap

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our minds around that a little bit.

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Now I'm confident that we will spend

all of eternity trying to fully

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grasp the weight of that and the

significance of that and that the,

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the grand your, of your love that

you showed us in doing that for us.

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And so, got to say, thank you

sounds so hollow, but thank you.

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Thank you for that reality.

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Thank you for Christ.

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Thank you for their suffering servant.

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Thank you for that.

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God bring more people to know him.

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Bring more Jews to know him and

to realize, and to bow the knee

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and faith and repentance to Jesus

Christ as their Lord and savior.

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As I pray that so many listening

to this have already done as well.

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And so we thank you for this.

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We thank you for your word in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Catch you guys tomorrow.

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Keep bring your Bibles.

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