The Promised One – The Savior from Sin

Appearances can be misleading. Actions can be misunderstood. Words can be mistaken. Thankfully, things are most often as they seem. Actions are usually easy to understand. Words are usually easily understood as intended.

But we can make mistakes. Did you ever:

mistake something because it didn’t appear to be the way you thought it should?

misunderstand what someone was trying to do?

misunderstand what someone had said?

As we open our Bibles to today’s passage, Isaiah 53, we’ll discover a great misunderstanding, misunderstanding of the most important person ever to walk the earth. However, in the light of subsequent events its meaning, and what it was predicting, need confuse no one.

This passage must have been mysterious to everyone up until the prophecy it contains was fulfilled. Once that happened, and the minds of Jesus’ followers had been opened to understand the scriptures, they and now we, can see just how

God’s Suffering Servant

Note the contrasts throughout this passage:

The message was clearly given, but few it, 1

When he came he seemed , 2

He came for us, but , 3

He suffered, but we thought he , 4

He was crushed and pierced through, and were the reason, 5

, but he ended up bearing our sins, 6

He was oppressed, but , 7

He died, but it was for not his own, 8

He was buried, but with , not the evil, 9

He died, yet , 10

His soul suffered, but now our souls forever, 11

He was counted as a sinner, but God , 12

CONCLUSION

Only one person’s life, and especially that one person’s death fits the prophecy God gave to us in Isaiah 53. That person is of Nazareth.

There is no reason for anyone today to misunderstand who Jesus was, what he did, or the eternal purpose for which he came.

This is how the apostle Peter put it:

1 Peter 2:21–25 (NASB95)

The question is, will you believe the message?