There is much to be learned from Isaiah 53 about Jesus’s replacement on the Cross for me.
Isaiah 53:4-6 NLT
“He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.”
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.”
What does Jesus’ replacement mean to me?
R eplacement (Jesus took my place on the Cross)
E nded (Jesus death on the Cross ended God’s anger over my sin)
P ierced (His body was pierced for me)
L aid (My sins were laid on Jesus at the Cross)
C rushed (He was crushed for my sin)
E nded (The Cross ended condemnation for my sin)
M eant (The Cross was my burden to bear but Jesus took it)
E nded (The Cross ended my death penalty)
N o Other Way (Jesus made a way for me, an imperfect to go to a perfect place and be with a perfect God)
T rust (Jesus is God’s Son and I am to trust in Him, His death, His resurrection, and His love for me)
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