Charles Dickens’ masterful book, “A Tale of Two Cities” ends with intense emotion seldom seen in modern novels. Two of the characters (Carton and Darnay) looked so much alike they appeared as twins, and they both fell in love with the same woman, Lucie. In the dénouement, Darnay, now married to Lucie, is condemned to death by members of the French Revolution. Carton takes Darnay’s place so Darnay may enjoy the rest of his life with Lucie and their daughter. As Carton is led to the guillotine, a priest utters, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me, though he die, yet shall he live (John 11:25). Carton’s last words before death are, “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
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The Lord is salvation. fifth Gospel
Isaiah 53 is a message about the suffering Servant — the Lord Jesus Christ. This passage is part of Isaiah’s servant songs (Isaiah 42:1-4; 49:1-6; 50:4-11; 52:13-53:12). The servant song to which this verse belongs begins in Isaiah 52:13, and it’s an essential section of the book, for here the work of God’s Servant is defined.
Pastor Chuck Swindoll
Isaiah was a prophet of God. As such (and as true for every writer of Scripture), Isaiah penned what the Lord God inspired him to. This, the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, is all about Jesus Christ and is a theological powerhouse in its incorporation of sin and Christ’s atoning sacrifice for sin.
Our peace (reconciliation) with God comes through the punishment wrought on the servant.
Here Isaiah anticipates the sins of God’s people as being absolved through the redeeming act of God’s servant. He would stand before God as both the representative and substitute for God’s people and bear the guilt and punishment for their sin so they might have peace with God. His death from the wounds heals us spiritually. Because the servant was crushed for our sins, the healing He brings is for the sins and the spiritual death wrought by Adam and charged to every human since.
Darrell Bock
Steve Ham
The answer to this question has its roots in Genesis 3, and from it springs the Gospel. God’s creation was good, until sin entered when Adam and Eve disobeyed God. And now, we are all born sinners (Psalm 51:5), both in Adam, the first man as our representative head, and by our own personal actions (Romans 3:23; 5:12). We all deserve death, and in fact are already darkness. Not in darkness but darkness itself (Ephesians 5:8). We are utterly helpless in our sin (Romans 5:6-8), and our only way to life is from God.
a human would have to shed his blood to atone for man’s sins, cross of crucifixion
Until we as humans are exonerated from our sin, we live in a hopeless state, our only end being total separation from goodness (God). God’s perfect plan for our peace is the only solution. Because a human (Adam) sinned, a sinless man must suffer and die to atone for that sin. Jesus as fully God and fully man brought us peace through His death and resurrection. The Bible tells us the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23), therefore, His punishment for our sins required death. God cannot look upon or overlook sin because to do so would be to deny Himself (Exodus 34:6-7). Death satisfies God’s holy justice. Because our Prince of Peace lives, so do those who surrender to Him as Lord and Savior.
People who do not know the Lord Jesus exist in a world of hopelessness, which leaves them wanting for a peace they try to gain from the world. But the world is empty apart from Christ and the peace they desperately need is godly peace. The void unbelievers have in their hearts can only be filled by a Savior. An unsaved person tries everything the world says will bring them peace, including illusions of a grand self-image, dependence on self or on idols claiming to make one happy (money, sex, glory, fame, etc.). And when none of these things work, they cling to psychology, thinking a look into self will help. But the end of that road leads to a cliff. What then?
Alec Motyer
He is a cross pendant.
He is engraved with a unique Number.
He will mail it out from Jerusalem.
He will be sent to your Side.
Emmanuel
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