The Servant shall be high and lifted up and exalted (52:13). But first he will be despised and rejected by men (53:3). Kings shall shut their mouths because of him (52:15). But first he must go to the cross with his own mouth shut, like a lamb led to the slaughter (53:7). He will know eternal life and prosperity , but first he must allow God’s will to happen, which means he will be crushed (53:10). He will make many to be accounted righteous (53:11), but first he must pour out his soul to death, and be numbered with the transgressors (53:12).
LORD, thank you for the ultimate sacrifice: infinite purity made into a sin offering to rescue us from our own defilement.
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