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ee, My Servant shall down. And we thought His
prosper; He shall be troubles were a punishment
Shighly exalted. Yet many from God, for His own sins!
shall be amazed when they see BUT He was wounded and
Him - yes, even far-off foreign bruised for our sins. He was
nations and their kings; they beaten that we might have has been made an offering for
shall stand dumbfounded, peace; He was lashed - and we sin, then He shall have a
speechless in His presence. were healed! We - every one of multitude of children, many to save the world through a
For they shall see and us - have strayed away like heirs. He shall live again and humble, suffering Servant
understand what they had not sheep! We, who left God's God's program shall prosper in rather than a glorious King?
been told before. They shall paths to follow our own. Yet His hands. And when He sees The idea is contrary to
see My Servant beaten and God laid on Him the guilt and all that is accomplished by the humanistic pride and worldly
bloodied, so disfigured - one sins of every one of us! anguish of His soul, He shall be ways. BUT GOD often works in
would scarcely know it was a He was oppressed and He was satisfied; and because of what ways we don't expect! The
person standing there. So shall afflicted, yet He never said a He has experienced, My Messiah's strength is shown
He cleanse many nations. word. He was brought as a righteous Servant shall make by humility, suffering, and
But, oh, how few believe it? lamb to the slaughter; and as a many to be counted righteous mercy! This Man of Sorrows
Who will listen? To whom will sheep before her shearers is before God, for He shall bear all was rejected by those around
God reveal His saving power? dumb, so He stood silent their sins. Therefore I will give Him, and He is still rejected by
In God's eyes He was like a before the ones condemning Him the honours of One Who is many today! Some reject Him
tender green shoot, sprouting Him. From prison and trial they mighty and great, because He by standing against Him.
from a root in dry and sterile led Him away to His death. But has poured out His soul unto Others ignore Him and His
ground. But in our eyes there who among the people of that death. He was counted as a great gift of forgiveness. DO
was no attractiveness at all, day realized it was their sins sinner, and He bore the sins of YOU REJECT HIM, IGNORE
nothing to make us want Him. that He was dying for - that He many, and He pled with God for HIM, OR ACCEPT HIM? HAVE
We despised Him and rejected was suffering their punish- sinners. YOU GIVEN YOUR LIFE TO
Him - a Man of Sorrows, ment? He was buried like a [Isaiah 52:13-15 & 53:1-12 JESUS CHRIST, THE "GOOD
acquainted with bitterest grief. criminal, but in a rich man's Life Application Bible] SHEPHERD" (John 10:10-16),
We turned our backs on Him grave; but He had done no These verses speak of the or are you still a wandering
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