Isaiah 53:4-6 (ESV Strong's)
4 Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
He TOOK OUR Griefs
Imagine if someone walked up to you on the street and stated to you:
“I will take all your past and future debts, all your current pain, all your future sufferings and provide you all you could ever hope for ... right now, for free! They only requirement you have to make is to believe I can do it and love me for it. You in?”
What would you say? This is the above passage of Isaiah that the prophet is telling us. The “he” in verse 4 is Jesus Christ. He is offering to:
1. Take our griefs!
2. Take our sorrows!
3. Take our Transgressions!
4. Take our iniquities!
He wants to give us:
1. Peace!
2. Healing!
He wants to turns from:
1. Our own way to His way!
2. Put our iniquities on Him!
Paul said the same thing, shorter, this way:
2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV Strong's)
21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
This is often called the Divine Exchange. God, through His dear Son, exchanged all our bad for all His good. No man on the street would do that, could do that, would believed if they offered that. God has that offer. Rejoice that God is giving us Him and taken us to Him!!
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