Salvation! (2 of 4)
Series: The Message of the Cross
William Wyne
Isaiah 53:5
Isaiah 53 is without a doubt the gospel of Salvation of the New Testament that is crouched in this Old Testament book. More than likely, when you think and talk about the gospel in the Bible, we tend to refer to what is in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It is in those books that we tend to associate the gospel. The meaning of the word gospel means ''Good News.'' That being the case, then Isaiah has the gospel in his Old Testament book.
And in Isaiah 53, the good news is that a lamb would be slain, but not a lamb for the sins of one person, but a lamb would be slain for all persons that would confess him as Christ and Lord. This chapter is a chapter that points and depicts for us the atonement. Christ atoned for the sins of man that mankind be at one with God. This lamb would atone for the sins of mankind past, present, and future. Those that would believe in this lamb would do so under the covering of this lamb atoning blood.
Seven hundred years before this event that Isaiah refers to took place on Calvary, seven hundred years before it happens in Jerusalem, Isaiah gave us a picture of the Redeemer, the redemption, and the redemptive scene.
The Redeemer:
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
The Redemption:
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
This is a picture of salvation at its best!
- It's not a pretty picture, its ugly!
- It's not a sanitary picture, and it's quite unsanitary. It's a picture of both tragedy and triumph, and it's a picture of sadness and celebration.
- It's the good news of the cross!
- It's the message of the cross; salvation i ...
Series: The Message of the Cross
William Wyne
Isaiah 53:5
Isaiah 53 is without a doubt the gospel of Salvation of the New Testament that is crouched in this Old Testament book. More than likely, when you think and talk about the gospel in the Bible, we tend to refer to what is in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It is in those books that we tend to associate the gospel. The meaning of the word gospel means ''Good News.'' That being the case, then Isaiah has the gospel in his Old Testament book.
And in Isaiah 53, the good news is that a lamb would be slain, but not a lamb for the sins of one person, but a lamb would be slain for all persons that would confess him as Christ and Lord. This chapter is a chapter that points and depicts for us the atonement. Christ atoned for the sins of man that mankind be at one with God. This lamb would atone for the sins of mankind past, present, and future. Those that would believe in this lamb would do so under the covering of this lamb atoning blood.
Seven hundred years before this event that Isaiah refers to took place on Calvary, seven hundred years before it happens in Jerusalem, Isaiah gave us a picture of the Redeemer, the redemption, and the redemptive scene.
The Redeemer:
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
The Redemption:
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
This is a picture of salvation at its best!
- It's not a pretty picture, its ugly!
- It's not a sanitary picture, and it's quite unsanitary. It's a picture of both tragedy and triumph, and it's a picture of sadness and celebration.
- It's the good news of the cross!
- It's the message of the cross; salvation i ...
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