High Thoughts and Ways High Thoughts and Ways   Why does God say His thoughts and ways are higher than ours, "as the heavens are higher than the earth" (Isa. 55:8, 9, NRSV)? What do you think that means? This passage is referring to Isaiah 55:7, and it is about how the natural man behaves might seem like Read More

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Buy Something Free? Buy Something Free? Read this text: "Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat!" (Isa. 55:1, NRSV). What contradiction do you see there? First, the text is talking about someone thirsty, and it is asking them to eat something. Suppose someone is thirsty; Read More

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A Transforming Reparation Offering A Transforming Reparation Offering What does it mean that the Servant's life is "an offering for sin" (Isa. 53:10, NRSV)? The language here references the sacrificial system. There were different types of offerings in the sacrificial system to make peace between God and His people for their sins. These offerings were typically Read More

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The Unreachable Is Us! The Unreachable Is Us! The weight, the guilt, the punishment for the sins of the whole world—every sin, by every sinner—fell upon Christ at the cross, at once, as the only means to save us! What does this tell us about how bad sin is, that such a price had to Read More

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Who Has Believed? Who Has Believed? Read through the verses for today's study and write down the places where the theme of the innocent suffering for the guilty appears. What is the essential message there for us? These verses depict the suffering that Jesus had to endure, and it contrasts it with his innocence and remarkable Read More

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The Suffering Servant Poem The Suffering Servant Poem Go back over those sections listed in the above paragraph. Review what they tell us about the Messiah, Jesus. How do they help to prepare us for what's coming in Isaiah 52 and 53? Or do they simply make what happens in Isaiah 52 and 53 more striking? The book Read More

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Isaiah's Testing Truth Isaiah's Testing Truth Read Isaiah 50:4–10. Summarize what these verses are saying. How do you see Jesus in this passage? These passages describe a different picture of this servant. While we see Him as a concurring ruler in some passages, He is now seen suffering and experiencing torture and abuse. The text tells Read More

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