The Road: Who Will Believe?
February 18, 2024
Pastor Matt
Isaiah 53:1-3
Who has believed our message?
To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot,
like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.
He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
Jesus is referred to in this passage as the
v. 2 He grew up before them like a tender shoot…
Jesus is referred to in this passage as the
v. 2 …and like a root in dry ground.
Jesus is referred to in this passage as the
v. 2 There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.
Isaiah 52:14
Many were amazed when they saw him – beaten and bloodied, so disfigured one would scarcely know He was a person.
Isaiah 53:3-5
He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried: it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.
