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reading plan in today's show notes. Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect

the Bible to your life. In the time it takes to get to work. I'm Keith Simon. When we think about our

heroes, whether they're real or just fictional heroes, we usually imagine someone who is

impressive, someone with charisma and strength and confidence, someone who looks like they're

capable of saving the day. But in Isaiah 52 and 53, we find a completely different picture of what

God's hero looks like. And God's hero is not strong, at least not by human standards. He's not

striking. He's not welcomed. He's not admired. When salvation finally comes into the world,

it arrives through someone no one would have chosen. Jesus said that

he came to his own, but his own received him not. See, Jesus isn't just a surprising Savior.

He's an unlikely one. Today we're going to look at three reasons why Jesus was an unlikely

hero and why that matters for our faith and our lives. The first reason that Jesus is an

unlikely hero is because he did not appear impressive. In Isaiah 53 verse 2 it says he had no beauty or majesty

to attract us to him. Nothing in his appearance that we should desire. In other words, when God took on human

flesh, he didn't choose a

form that would turn heads. He didn't come with royalty or good looks or anything that would

have made the world take notice. Verse three goes even further. It says he was despised and

rejected by mankind, a man of suffering and familiar with pain. And Jesus didn't win people over

because of his appearance or his

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