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“The Sovereign Lord declares — he who gathers the exiles of Israel: ‘I will gather still others to them besides those already gathered.’” — Isaiah 56:8 (NIV) There is an inevitable temptation that comes our way once we are redeemed and added to God’s Kingdom. It is the temptation to believe all the work is done….
“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me…
“‘Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,’ says the Lord, who has compassion on you.” — Isaiah 54:10 (NIV) There are just those days you need to be reminded that everything is going to be alright. Life,…
“For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is the Lord of hosts; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of all the earth.” — Isaiah 54:5 (NASB) Have you ever felt alone and powerless? Has that feeling ever sunk deep inside your soul? It is suffocating, isn’t it?…
“Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.” — Isaiah 53:12 (NIV) “For he bore the sin of…
“Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.” — Isaiah 53:10 (NIV) Once again, the Lord through the prophet Isaiah made it clear that Jesus…
“He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.” — Isaiah 53:9 (NIV) Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 5:21, “God made Him who had no sin, to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness…
“He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.” — Isaiah 53:7 (NIV) When it came to the day of the crucifixion, Jesus was strangely quiet before His…
“We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. ” (Isaiah 53:6, NIV) What is that thing in each of us that causes us to go astray? We know what we ought to do. We know what we…
“By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?” (Isaiah 53:8, NASB95) Notice the question mark at the end of this verse. Jesus was taken away…