Welcome to Data Things Unseen. And let me say, as I do only occasionally, that if this

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So this week our thoughts have turned to a very remarkable series of prophetic poems

or songs, that you can find in the second half of the prophecy of Isaiah. We call them

the servant songs. And we saw the first of them yesterday in Isaiah chapter 42. Today's

song is in Isaiah 49. And I hope perhaps later on in a day you'll read it through, because

this song is a little different. In the first song it's God, God the Father who says

behold, look at my servant. But in the second song, the servant himself begins to speak. And

at one point he even dialogues with the father who says to him, you are my servant. And

then amazingly, the servant is described as the Lord, even when he's talking about

himself as honored by the Lord, his God. Remember how in the Gospels there comes a point

at which the religious leaders try to trap Jesus by asking him trick questions, questions

they think he won't or can't answer. And at one point he challenges them and return.

He says, okay, tell me this, explain Psalm 110 verse 1. These leaders had been rightly

taught that the Messiah would be the Son of David. Well how then Jesus asks, can David say

through the Holy Spirit, the Lord said to my Lord, the Lord said to David's Lord, sit

at my right hand. If David calls the Messiah, Lord, that is God. How can he also be David's

Son? Now you can see the point Jesus is making. You don't call your Son Lord. If anything

it's the other way round. The only answer to Jesus' question was this, Psalm 110 verse

1 must mean that the Messiah would be born in David's line, but he would be himself the

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