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Isaiah 53

You know, there are certain chapters in the scriptures that are so powerful as they stand, that to add any commentary seems only to detract from the power and the sweetness of their message.

To me, Isaiah 53 about the life and the atonement of Jesus Christ is one of these kinds of chapters. If you wouldn’t mind, may I share it with you?

[1] Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

[2] For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

[3] He is despised and rejected of men; a man or sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

[4] Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

[5] But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

[6] All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

[7] He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

[8] He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression[s] of my people was he stricken.

[9] And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth.

[10] Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

[11] He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

[12] Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressor[s]; and he bear the sin[s] of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

My dear friends, I know that Jesus Christ lives, and is our Savior: He has saved us. And that though our sins may be – they may be as scarlet, indeed they can be as white as snow.