The Lamb That Was Slaughtered, Part 1

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Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living

Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Religious And Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 30 June 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Isaiah 53:3–7 Our culture lionizes the powerful, the aggressive, and the bold. Meekness is mistaken for weakness, and silence under pressure is seen as defeat. But centuries before the cross, Isaiah described a Servant who would be despised, rejected, and silent—and through whose wounds we would be healed. Pastor Chuck Swindoll opens Isaiah 53:3–7 to show how Jesus fulfilled the portrait of the suffering Servant—the Lamb who went to slaughter in silence, bearing our griefs and carrying our sorrows as our substitute. Find your hope in the Lamb who was slain for you. True strength is not the absence of suffering but the willingness to bear it for others.

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0:00.0	When you think of power, you don't think of a lamb.
0:10.0	When you think of a conqueror, you don't think of a lamb.
0:13.0	Yet the most transformative figure in history was announced to the world, not as a king, not as a warrior, but as a lamb. Today, on Insight for Living,
0:23.6	Chuck Swindall begins a remarkable three-day journey through the Bible's most profound symbol. From
0:29.4	the very first pages of Scripture, God was weaving a single crimson thread through
0:34.5	history, pointing toward the one who would come, suffer, and surrender
0:39.1	his life.
0:43.7	If you brought a Bible with you today, you will want to locate the writing of Isaiah,
0:53.7	the prophet, chapter 53.
0:57.0	Mark that place with your finger and you may wish to put the outline of the message today
1:03.0	back at Genesis chapter 22, where we will begin in a few moments.
1:10.0	But the reading will be from Isaiah 53, beginning at verse 3 down through
1:17.1	verse 7. Isaiah 53, verse 3. He was despised and forsaken of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men hide their face, he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
1:38.3	Surely our griefs he himself bore, and our sorrowsrows he carried yet we ourselves esteemed him
1:47.8	stricken smitten of God and afflicted but he was pierced through for our transgressions
1:55.7	he was crushed for our iniquities the chastening for our well-being fell upon him and by his scourging.
2:05.6	We are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray. Each of us has turned to his own way,
2:14.4	but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him.
2:20.3	He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth like a lamb that is led to slaughter
2:28.3	and like a sheep that is silent before its shearers. So he did not open his mouth. Because this section of
2:40.9	scripture speaks of our Savior, we desire today that he be honored and magnified as we live out
2:48.8	the truth of what we have just read.
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