This is written hundreds of years before Jesus was born on Earth and yet it's the detailed theology and even the historical events that we see happening on the cross.

These prophetic songs about Jesus peppering the book of Isaiah and climaxing in this Isaiah 53 song, which we're going to read now.

These are the servant songs because Jesus is the ultimate servant who comes to save the Jews and the non-jus to bring the world to God and here's how he does it. Let me read this now and

I'm going to give you the short version of this. I have a longer explanation of

Isaiah 53 which I've already linked in the description below you guys can check that out

but this is the short version I just want to read through it and let you soak in what Christ crucified means.

Behold my servant will prosper. He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.

This makes it a servant song.

It's the way he uses the term

my servant in Isaiah.

We call it one of the servant songs.

They're all about the same person.

Oh, he's going to be high and lifted and exalted up.

Right, but the irony of this is that his exaltation and his glory is in being lifted up on the cross and dying for us.

And we'll see this throughout this chapter as well.

Just as many were astonished at you, my people, so his appearance was marred more than any man in his form more than the sons of men.

So he tells the people of Israel, when people saw your destruction and they looked at you when you're like,

oh what terrible things happened to Israel, look at how they were destroyed, look at how their

temples ruined, just as people were astonished at you, so my servant will be astonishing to them too, because he's going to be so devastated and destroyed. That's Jesus on the cross. Thus he will sprinkle many nations. Wait, he's gonna, okay, you've got to know the old

testament to get this. The idea of sprinkling people is to cover them, cover their sins.

It's a ceremonially sprinkling of water or blood to cover sins as Moses sprinkled the people

and brought them not only to cover sin but to initiate them being brought into a

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