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Well a good Friday morning to you, hope you've had a good week thus far and looking forward to the weekend and gathering with
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God's people on the Lord's Day and just expecting to hear from the
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Lord and to give to the Lord the praise and the worship of which he is worthy on the Lord's Day.
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Well today in our Bible reading we're reading Isaiah 52, 3, and 4.
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You know yesterday we looked at this verse in Isaiah 49 where the
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prophet was looking forward to the coming of Messiah and said that he would be, as it says in
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verse 6 of chapter 49, a light to the Gentiles, where the Lord says you shall be
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my salvation to the ends of the earth.
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Well how did that light shine and how is that salvation
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shown to the ends of the earth?
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We get the answer to that in chapter 53.
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Isaiah 53 is a prophetic passage regarding the suffering
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servant and what he endured so that he might bring salvation to the ends of the earth.
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And what was it that he endured?
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Listen to some of the words that are used that he is a man
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of sorrows acquainted with grief, despised, rejected by men, in
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verse 3, despised and not esteemed, one who bears
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griefs and carries sorrows, smitten by God, afflicted, wounded,
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bruised, chastised, receiving stripes,
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and verse 7, oppressed, afflicted, led as a lamb to a slaughter,
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taken from prison, and so forth.
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These are the things that he endured.
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Again, the passage gives us clear understanding.
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He has borne our griefs, carried our
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sorrows, wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our
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It was a chastisement for our peace that was upon him, and his stripes, it's by
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those stripes that we are healed.
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And the Lord, in verse 6, laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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Verse 8, he says, he was cut off from the land of the living for the transgressions of my people.
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At the end of the chapter, it says in verse 11 that
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he, the Messiah, Jesus, shall bear their iniquities.
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And at the end of verse 12, he was numbered with the
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transgressors, and he bore the sin of many.
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He made intercession for the transgressors.
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Jesus went through everything that he went through, all of the
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despising, the sorrow, the grief, the pain, the
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agony, the bitterness expressed toward him, the mockery,
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the beatings, the affliction.
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He endured all of that for our transgression.
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Oh my, what wondrous love is this, oh my
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That was the words of a hymn that came to my mind when I was
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thinking about this, Isaiah 53.
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It's a hymn, anonymous, we don't know who wrote it, but it expresses the
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depth of awe and wonder and appreciation for this
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gracious love that our Savior would endure all of this for our transgressions.
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He says, what wondrous love is this, oh my soul, oh my soul.
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What wondrous love is this, oh my soul.
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What wondrous love is this.
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Do you think he's overwhelmed with the wondrous love of Christ?
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What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss to bear the dreadful curse
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for my soul, for my soul, to bear the dreadful curse for my soul.
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Second stanza says, when I was sinking down, sinking down, sinking down, when I was sinking
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down, oh my soul, when I was sinking down beneath God's righteous frown,
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Christ laid aside his crown for my soul, for my soul.
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Christ laid aside his crown for my soul.
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Enduring Isaiah 53, torment.
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And the song ends with this stanza.
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To God and to the Lamb, I will sing, I will sing.
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To God and to the Lamb, I will sing.
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To God and to the Lamb, who is the great I am, with millions join the
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theme, I will sing, I will sing, while millions join the theme, I will sing.
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And praise and rejoice in the Lamb who was slain for our
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transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, took the chastisement
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for our peace upon himself.
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Indeed, what wondrous love is this.
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Our Father and our God, we thank you for this wondrous love.
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We thank you that you gave the Lord Jesus to be a light to the nations that all
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might see your salvation.
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We're thankful that he took upon himself our horrific,
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horrible, wretched sin, our iniquities, and he bore the chastisement
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Thank you and praise you today for this wondrous love.
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And we thank you in Jesus' name.
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Well, listen, have a good rest of your Friday.
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Hope you have a wonderful weekend and do, do gather with God's people and worship the Lord together on the Lord's