WHAT DID JESUS LOOK LIKE? (1 OF 6)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Isaiah 52:13-15
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What Did Jesus Look Like? (1 of 6)
Series: In the Shadow of the Cross: Isaiah Portrait of Jesus
Scott Maze
Isaiah 52:13-15
Do you have a friend who is upset about what God has not done? More and more people seem to be upset that God has not stopped some type of tragic event. One young lady is upset because God did not stop her father from dying at a relatively young age. Another father cannot believe in God because God hasn't stopped his child's cancer from advancing. ''I cannot believe in a god who allows so much pain and suffering in the world.'' Maybe you know someone who wonders why God doesn't seem to care. For the next 7 Sundays, I want to show you what God has done. Let me show you what God did - Christ died for you.
Nowhere in all the Old Testament does the gospel shine more brilliantly than in Isaiah 53. This one chapter is quoted seven times in the New Testament and it is alluded to another 44 times in the New Testament. This is such a remarkable and unique passage that we are going to spend the next seven weeks allowing Isaiah 53 to prepare our hearts to celebrate Easter.
One of the most surprising items for the earliest Christians was Jesus death on the cross. Yet, shortly after His resurrection, the early Christians were surprised again to discover the Old Testament had predicted Jesus but also His mysterious death for sinners. Can you imagine the impact of knowing much of Jesus' life was predicted hundreds of years before He existed?
Yes, there's a lot of pain in this world and focusing on this may convince you God doesn't care but I want to show you for the next few moments that God does care. This is a poem and it is a quotation from the very voice of God Himself.
Chapter 53 really should begin at verse 13 of Isaiah 52 and it's there we begin reading.
''Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. 14 As many were astonished at you- his appearance was so marred, beyond human ...
Series: In the Shadow of the Cross: Isaiah Portrait of Jesus
Scott Maze
Isaiah 52:13-15
Do you have a friend who is upset about what God has not done? More and more people seem to be upset that God has not stopped some type of tragic event. One young lady is upset because God did not stop her father from dying at a relatively young age. Another father cannot believe in God because God hasn't stopped his child's cancer from advancing. ''I cannot believe in a god who allows so much pain and suffering in the world.'' Maybe you know someone who wonders why God doesn't seem to care. For the next 7 Sundays, I want to show you what God has done. Let me show you what God did - Christ died for you.
Nowhere in all the Old Testament does the gospel shine more brilliantly than in Isaiah 53. This one chapter is quoted seven times in the New Testament and it is alluded to another 44 times in the New Testament. This is such a remarkable and unique passage that we are going to spend the next seven weeks allowing Isaiah 53 to prepare our hearts to celebrate Easter.
One of the most surprising items for the earliest Christians was Jesus death on the cross. Yet, shortly after His resurrection, the early Christians were surprised again to discover the Old Testament had predicted Jesus but also His mysterious death for sinners. Can you imagine the impact of knowing much of Jesus' life was predicted hundreds of years before He existed?
Yes, there's a lot of pain in this world and focusing on this may convince you God doesn't care but I want to show you for the next few moments that God does care. This is a poem and it is a quotation from the very voice of God Himself.
Chapter 53 really should begin at verse 13 of Isaiah 52 and it's there we begin reading.
''Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. 14 As many were astonished at you- his appearance was so marred, beyond human ...
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