This morning sermon comes from Isaiah chapter 53 verses 3 through 12. 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. Surely our griefs he himself bore, and our sorrows he carried.

Yet we ourselves esteemed him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

But he was pierced through for our transgressions.

He was crushed for our iniquities.

The chastening for our well-being fell upon him.

And by his scourging, we are healed.

All of us like sheep have gone astray. we are healed.

All of us like sheep have gone astray.

Each of us has turned to his own way.

But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all

to fall in him.

He was oppressed and he was afflicted,

yet he did not open his mouth,

like a lamb that is led to slaughter and like a sheep that is silent before his

shearers so he did not open his mouth.

By oppression and judgment he was taken away and as for his generation who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due.

His grave was assigned with wicked men, yet he was with a rich man in his death,

because he had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in his mouth.

But the Lord was pleased to crush him, putting him to grief, if he would render himself as a guilt offering, he will see his

offspring, he will prolong his days, and the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in his hand.

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