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Our Savior: Suffering for Our Sin

Listen to our friend Banele tell us about Isaiah’s prophecy of the suffering Savior.

Reconciliation with God comes with a price. Isaiah 53 promised that a suffering servant would bear our sin.

Isaiah’s prophecy prepared the people of God to understand that this suffering Savior would bring with him a radical, fundamental shift in popular thinking. In the New Testament, Christ called his disciples to be prepared to suffer. He exemplified this suffering himself when he fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, suffering physical and mental abuse and an unjust trial. Condemned to death, he did not argue with the authorities about the verdict.

Jesus’s crucifixion, death, and resurrection made it possible for us to be right with God. Through his suffering, he gave us true prosperity—rescue and healing from our sin and a right relationship with God himself.

Jesus’s followers challenged society with their obedience to Christ, suffering like him. Today, his disciples still follow his example, suffering with assurance of a better reward.

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If you’d like to read more about the suffering servant, you can read all twelve verses of Isaiah 53.