Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful

that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hello, welcome to another

episode of a year in the Bible. I'm Beth and I am here with Alexa, my co-host. Hey, everyone, we are excited to talk

today more about Mark 1045 and his connection to essay 5213 through 5312 and also how both

these passages connect to Christ. So, Beth, will you start off our discussion? Yeah, of course. So I think

the thing we can focus in on today is the concept of service. We saw in Mark 1045 that Jesus came to Earth to serve rather than to be served, which might sound totally normal to us who are familiar with the gospel story, but what we really think about it, that's actually crazy. Jesus is God. He is the creator of all things. He's eternal. He's always existed. And he is king

over all. The last person who should be a servant is Jesus. We should all be serving him, obviously.

But that's not what happened. He didn't come to be served. He came, even though he was God,

he came to be human. He gave up his status, his place in the heavens, and he did all of this in order to serve us.

Yeah, it really is wild how the one we are to serve postured himself as a servant. So could you tell us more about how Jesus came to serve?

Yeah, it's not like he came to serve us in the way a soup kitchen would by working long hours and preparing us food.

He came to serve us by suffering, by being beaten, rejected, stricken, and all of those terrible things that we read and pointed out on Monday.

And he did all of this all the way up to laying down his life.

His service was the ultimate act of sacrifice.

That's so good. Thanks for helping us know more about Mark 1045, but I'm sure some of us are wanting

to know how what we see in Mark 1045 connects with Isaiah 5213 through 5312. So can you say more about Jesus' connection to the Isaiah

passage? Yeah, so we talked on Tuesday about how someone had to take on the punishment for sin

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