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All right, guys, back at it. All week, we've been doing a deep dive into Isaiah 53.

Yesterday we did verses 4 through 6, which provide really the entire logic of the cross.

And today we're looking at verses 7 through 9. I'll read them here.

He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth.

Like a lamb that has led to the slaughter and like a sheep that before its shears is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

By oppression and judgment, he was taken away, and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people and they made his grave with the wicked

and with a rich man in his death although he had done no violence there was no deceit in his mouth

so guys this is just such a powerful image and i know that most of us don't have any experience

with slaughtering lambs but let's talk about that just a little bit. A lamb doesn't try to

get away. A lamb doesn't try to negotiate with its captors. A lamb will go wherever it is led.

And this is how Jesus, I mean, part of the Trinity, part of the godhead acted before his accusers.

I mean, it's just so incredibly powerful. And again, Isaiah wrote this 700 years

before Jesus was led to his own slaughter. He was a participant in trials that were held in the

middle of the night, right? Sham trials, really. And we see as recorded in Matthew 26, that at his trial

before the Sanhedron, Jesus remained silent. Then when he was before the Roman prefect

pilot, after the chief priests and the elders made their accusations toward him, Jesus gave no answer.

We see in Matthew 27 that pilot was caught off guard and really greatly amazed by this, as you can

imagine. And in Mark's account of this interaction in Mark 15,

Pilate kept asking Jesus, like, have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you? And amazingly, Jesus still remain silent. So was this just some form of passivity

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