An Isaiah 53 Believer.

An Isaiah 53 Believer. Isaiah 53:1-6NKJV

When reading Isaiah 53 one could almost believe the prophet Isaiah lived during the days of Jesus and was at the cross when he died. However these words were written approximately 700 years before Jesus. Again, 700 years before Jesus Christ. Yet it captures Jesus’ pain and His death on the cross.

Think for a moment, the details given by the prophet Isaiah concerning the forthcoming pain and suffering of Jesus are amazingly precise. (Only the Bible).

Isaiah 53:1NKJV Who has believed our report??And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

If the arm of the Lord has been revealed to you, you my friend are very special. The Bible calls you precious.

Precious, by definition, means of great value; not to be wasted or treated carelessly. In Genesis 1:27, God created all of us in His image, male and female, thus we are all precious.

The question is, “Who has believed our report?”

Isaiah 53:1TM Who believes what we’ve heard and seen? Who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this??   

Paul writes in, Romans 10:16NKJV But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?

The question is, Who? Who hears? How well do you hear? What do you hear? What will you do with what was heard?

John 12:37-38NLT But despite all the miraculous signs Jesus had done, most of the people still did not believe in him. 38 This is exactly what Isaiah the prophet had predicted:“Lord, who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?”

The disciple, John. The apostle Paul. - Who will believe? Through out the NT there is a constant repetition of these words.

We should praise our God, because God’s arm raises the dead, God’s arm saves, God’s arm delivers, He keeps, God’s arm is mighty!

Remember this, Believer’s grow into their destiny? In other words, keep believing.

In Mark 6:30..., Jesus feeds 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fish.

Later that evening, Jesus sees His disciples boat in trouble. The wind and waves seem to bring certain destruction. Jesus proceeds to walk on the water, He attended to walk right pass them, but they cried out for help, thus Jesus rescues.

Mark 6:50-52NLT They were all terrified when they saw him. But Jesus spoke to them at once. “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “Take courage! I am here!” 51 Then he climbed into the boat, and the wind stopped. They were totally amazed, 52 for they still didn’t understand the significance of the miracle of the loaves. Their hearts were too hard to take it in.

Have you considered your past relationships with and without Jesus? Are you aware of your future?

Mark’s gospel writes, They did not consider the loaves, consider the past! Jesus will do it again! 1,2,3....

Isaiah 53:2NKJV For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.

One commentary writes, Jesus, the Messiah will spring out of the earth without notice; low in its beginning, slow in its growth, liable to be crushed with the foot, or destroyed with the frost.

No great birth place could Jesus claim. No flamboyant parent, just God’s people. That’s enough.

Isaiah predicts, Jesus wasn’t renowned, He had no political favor, He didn’t belong to any social clubs.

But yet, He was God’s only Son!

Isaiah 53:3KJV He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

No one thought a thing about Jesus. He wasn’t the who’s who. He wasn’t popular. Born in a stable. However, He grew... The Son-servant grew!

It was necessary for the man of sorrows to suffer. It was the main thing that He came to do, paying the price for our sin and rebellion, so that we could be reconciled to God, and one another, (2 Cor 5:18).

Again, Verse 3b...A man of sorrows...

Most of our sorrow is really just self-pity. It is feeling sorry for ourselves. Jesus never once felt sorry for Himself. His sorrow was for others, and for the fallen, desperate condition of humanity. (Enduring Word)

A man of sorrows. Now hear, Isaiah 53:2-3TM The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field.?There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look.?He was looked down on and passed over,?a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand.?One look at him and people turned away.?We looked down on him, thought he was scum.