Sermon from December 9

Advent Week Two - Peace

Isaiah 53: 1 - 12

1. This looks like it was written after Jesus' death and resurrection. It is astonishing that it was written more than 700 years before Jesus was born.
2. This passage (along with the Gospels) is all we need to prove the Bible is true, God is real, and Jesus is the Messiah.
3. Peaces always comes at a price. The price for our peace with God was Jesus' suffering, rejection and bloodshed.
4. Now we know how costly the peace we enjoy really was.
5. If we are going to be like Jesus, we must remember he was familiar with suffering.
6. Jesus is glorified now, but it was God's will to crush him.
7. In this chapter we see how much God loves us.