Isaiah 53
Sunday’s Bible account in The
Gospel Project® for Kids focuses on four servant songs in the Book of Isaiah. These
songs describe the working out of God’s plan of redemption through the innocent
substitute—the Messiah—who would suffer for the sake of sinners. Through the
Messiah, God would bring sinners back to Himself.
The fourth and final Servant
song is found in Isaiah 53. Isaiah provides an answer to the question, how can
a just God justify the ungodly? How can He declare innocent those who are
guilty? How can He love people like us? A just God cannot look the other way; that’s
cheap grace. Sin against God is a big deal. God didn’t just forgive our sins,
He dealt with them. The price? God’s own Son.
Jesus fulfilled Isaiah’s
prophecies of a suffering servant. People assumed God had cursed Jesus for His
own sins, but Jesus was without sin. Isaiah’s song says, “He was pierced
because of our transgressions; crushed because of our iniquities; punishment
for our peace was on Him.”
God planned a very long time
ago that Jesus would die on the cross for our sins. Seven hundred years before
Jesus was born, the prophet Isaiah wrote that this would happen! Jesus was the
servant who suffered so that those who trust in Him could be forgiven.
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