Jesus Foretold- Isaiah 53

So, here we are on the first day of our "journey" together. Thirty days with Jesus. For the next thirty days as we read this together and try to understand together, before you read I want you to say this simple prayer with me:

"God show me what you want me to know;
Let me be the wise man and not the foolish man.
Allow me to not just read these word,
But give me a chance to put them into practice. Amen"

From the beginning of time, when Adam and Eve ate the fruit in the garden of Eden, God knew that he had to send Jesus to pay the price for their sin. But not just their sin, the sins of everyone who has ever lived and will ever live. Isaiah was a prophet of God, which meant that God gave him a message and he delivered it. In this case God was telling the future through Isaiah. He starts out in verse two by simply stating that Jesus was just as normal as the next guy. He was born and grew up normal. He had no glowing halo, instead he was completely human. In verses 2-9 Isaiah is talking about a Servant. Who is the Servant? Jesus! But remember, Jesus wasn't born yet. It is God talking through Isaiah. These verses are talking about the suffering that Jesus would go through in his life and why he was going to suffer. Look at verse 4 and 5. He was pierced and died because of our sins. Once this act has been completed, we receive the hope of being saved (salvation) through Jesus' death.

But as we know, the story does not end with Jesus dying. It ends with his resurrection. In verse 10 Isaiah talks about the plan of God for Jesus to die. Then he says that "he will see his offspring and prolong is days, and the LORD will prosper in his hand." Which means Jesus, after his death, will extend his days and will be rich through God. And finally in the second half of verse 12 he made a way for us to be "buddies" with God because he died and rose again.

This is going to be an interesting 30 days.

RB

Day one