Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering.



Hate leads to suffering, human suffering, but also the suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ, as the Good Shepherd laid down His life for His sheep (John 10:14-15).

Isaiah 53 (ESV) & "Hallelujah! What a Savior!"
1Who has believed what they heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Man of Sorrows, what a name
for the Son of God who came.
Ruined sinners to reclaim,
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
4Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
5But he was wounded for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his stripes we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Bearing shame and scoffing rude,
in my place condemned He stood.
Sealed my pardon with His blood,
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
8By 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,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
9And they made his grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
Guilty, vile, and helpless we,
Spotless Lamb of God was He.
“Full atonement!” Can it be?
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
10Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for sin,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
Lifted up was He to die,
“It is finished!” was His cry.
Now in Heav’n exalted high.
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
12Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.
When He comes, our glorious King,
All His ransomed home to bring,
Then anew His song we’ll sing:
Hallelujah! What a Savior!

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