The Lamb That Was Slaughtered, Part 3

Insight for Living Daily Broadcast

Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living

Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Religious And Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 2 July 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	The Lamb was slaughtered so that you might live. That's not a metaphor. That's not poetry.
0:14.4	That's the beating heart of the Christian gospel. And it carries more weight for your life today
0:19.6	than any headline you'll read this morning.
0:22.6	Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall brings us back to the most stabilizing truth in all of
0:28.5	Scripture that the spotless Lamb of God took our place, paid our debt, and finished the work
0:35.1	completely. Today, he draws it all to a close with four qualities
0:39.3	shaped by the lamb himself that are worth living by.
0:47.3	Lambs, when going to slaughter, go with blind compliance regardless of the destination.
0:58.0	They go where they're led.
1:01.0	The servant's savior, however, goes with knowing submission.
1:06.0	He knew when he came that he came to this earth to die.
1:19.8	Maligned, mistreated, misunderstood, we read here, like a sheep that is silent before its shearers.
1:21.5	He did not open his mouth.
1:27.8	John, Chapter 1, includes the announcement of the baptizer.
1:38.2	His forerunner, the one who leads the way before the Savior becomes that well-known,
1:41.9	John is preparing the way for the one who is yet to come.
1:52.2	And I love his humility verse 26 John answered them saying I baptize in water but among you stands one whom you do not know it is he who comes after me the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.
2:07.6	These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan where John was baptizing. Now look closely.
2:12.6	The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
2:29.3	There he is.
2:31.3	Now, let's move ahead to right around 65, AD 65, 1 Peter chapter 1.1. First Peter
2:42.1	chapter one, love this verse of scripture, knowing that you were not, verse 18, that you were not
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