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Speaker 1: to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm John Stonge,

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Speaker 1: and today we're in Isaiah chapter 53, and we'll be

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Speaker 1: reading from the English Standard Version. Who has believed what

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Speaker 1: he has heard from us? And to whom has the

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Speaker 1: arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up

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Speaker 1: before him like a young plant, and like a root

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Speaker 1: out of dry ground. He had no form or majesty

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Speaker 1: that we should look at him, and no beauty that

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Speaker 1: we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men,

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Speaker 1: a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And as

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Speaker 1: one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised,

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Speaker 1: and we esteemed him not. Surely He has borne our

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Speaker 1: griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed Him stricken,

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Speaker 1: smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was pierced for

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Speaker 1: our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities. Upon Him

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Speaker 1: was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His

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Speaker 1: wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray,

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Speaker 1: we have turned every one to his own way. And

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Speaker 1: the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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Speaker 1: He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened

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Speaker 1: not his mouth. Like a lamb that is led to

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Speaker 1: the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers

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Speaker 1: is silent, so he opened not his mouth. By oppression

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Speaker 1: and judgment he was taken away. And as for his generation,

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Speaker 1: who considered that he was cut off out of the

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Speaker 1: land of the living? stricken for the transgression of my people.

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Speaker 1: And they made his grave with the wicked, and with

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Speaker 1: a rich man in his death, although he had done

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Speaker 1: no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

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Speaker 1: Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him.

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Speaker 1: He has put him to grief. When his soul makes

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Speaker 1: an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring, he

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Speaker 1: shall prolong his days. The will of the Lord shall

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Speaker 1: prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his

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Speaker 1: soul he shall see and be satisfied. By his knowledge

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Speaker 1: shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be

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Speaker 1: accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I

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Speaker 1: will divide him a portion with the many, and he

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Speaker 1: shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured

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Speaker 1: out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors.

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Speaker 1: Yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession

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Speaker 1: for the transgressors. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for

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Speaker 1: your word, and we thank you for this beautiful prophetic

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Speaker 1: portion of Scripture that points our hearts to your Son,

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, the one who came and poured out his soul,

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Speaker 1: the one who was numbered with the transgressors, the one

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Speaker 1: who bore the sin of many and makes intercession for us. Lord,

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Speaker 1: we see reference here to the fact that your son

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ was pierced, that he was wounded, that he

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Speaker 1: was given a grave with the wicked and a rich

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Speaker 1: man in his death, prophecy that we saw fulfilled after

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Speaker 1: the crucifixion of your son Jesus Christ. And yet in

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Speaker 1: this portion of scripture you speak of the resurrection of Christ,

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Speaker 1: where it speaks of his days being prolonged even after

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Speaker 1: he has been crushed. Lord, we're grateful for the crucifixion

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Speaker 1: of your son Jesus Christ that was done on our

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Speaker 1: behalf as our iniquity was placed upon him. And we're

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Speaker 1: grateful for the resurrection of Christ, knowing that sin, Satan,

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Speaker 1: and death were defeated when Christ rose from the grave.

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Speaker 1: And we're grateful, Lord, for the fact that because our

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Speaker 1: sin has been paid for by Jesus, that through faith

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Speaker 1: in your Son we can live forever, forgiven, redeemed, rescued,

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Speaker 1: welcomed into your family. Lord, thank you for such a

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Speaker 1: descriptive passage of Scripture prophesied hundreds of years before it

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Speaker 1: was fulfilled. We thank you that it pointed the hearts

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Speaker 1: of the people who originally heard it to you. We

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Speaker 1: thank you that our hearts are being pointed to Christ

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Speaker 1: as well as we read it now. We're grateful for

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Speaker 1: these blessings. We're grateful for the things that are revealed

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Speaker 1: to us here in this passage, and we're grateful for

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Speaker 1: your presence with us today. We commit this day to

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Speaker 1: your care, and we pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.