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This Man

Imagine if the sandal was on the other foot! Picture yourself in first century Israel staring into the possibility of being nailed to a cross so someone else could go free. Envision the beating, the humiliation, and certain death you would experience so the other person could live. Plus, you are innocent and the other person is guilty and they are the one who deserves to die. The authorities are going to execute him unless you take his place. What would you do? Would you take the place of that man?

Jesus was faced with that situation and decision. He was the innocent, holy Son of God. He never sinned – EVER. From a glorious position in heaven’s throne room He decided to lower Himself and become a human in order to die on the cruel cross to pay for our sins. For His own sake, in the garden, Jesus prayed that there might be another way, but He wanted to do the Father’s will above His own. Sweat poured down His face like drops of blood in His consternation and grief concerning His impending death (Luke 22:44). He could have called down angels from heaven to destroy the enemy but He didn’t; instead, He endured the cross for our sake.

What would you have done if the situation was reversed? Would you give your life for Jesus? Oh, He is going to live eternally because He is God the Son, but would you give your life to live for Him because He died for you? That’s the actual call of discipleship: And He summoned the crowd together with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.  For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? For what could a person give in exchange for his soul?” (Mark 8:34-37). Would you……?

Read Isaiah 53:1-12. Then Listen to This Man by Jeremy Camp. Then give your life to Jesus today and every day for the rest of your time on earth all the way to eternal glory.

Isaiah 53

Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
And like a root out of dry ground;
He has no stately form or majesty
That we would look at Him,
Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him.
He was despised and abandoned by men,
A man of great pain and familiar with sickness;
And like one from whom people hide their faces,
He was despised, and we had no regard for Him.

However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself bore,
And our pains that He carried;
Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted,
Struck down by God, and humiliated.
But He was pierced for our offenses,
He was crushed for our wrongdoings;
The punishment for our well-being was laid upon Him,
And by His wounds we are healed.
All of us, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all
To fall on Him.

He was oppressed and afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off from the land of the living
For the wrongdoing of my people, to whom the blow was due?
And His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

But the Lord desired
To crush Him, causing Him grief;
If He renders Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
For He will bear their wrongdoings.
Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the plunder with the strong,
Because He poured out His life unto death,
And was counted with wrongdoers;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the wrongdoers.

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