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Welcome back. This week, we've been digging into Isaiah 53. In order to

understand what is being prophesied in that chapter, we established what was written in the first 52

chapters of the book. And yesterday we got into the first three verses of Isaiah 53. And with those first

three verses, we see that humanity was disabused of their notion of what a

savior king would look like and be like.

And now the rubber really starts to meet the road with the next three verses.

So Isaiah 53 verses 4 through 6.

I mean, guys, these can accurately be called the theological center of gravity for the entire

Bible.

And I swear, I'm not being hyperbolic at all. And

you've probably heard of substitutionary atonement at this point, right? And nowhere is that

theological concept, that reality described in more plain language and with more surgical

precision than with these three verses. So we're going to go and read them here

again, Isaiah 53 verses 4 through 6. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed

him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions,

he was crushed for our iniquities. Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray.

We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

So again, the prophet Isaiah wrote this under divine inspiration, and the structure here is not accidental.

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