Suffering Servants

Living and loving for the wellbeing of others.

“But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed.” - Isaiah 53:5

1. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him.

2. He was despised and rejected by all mankind.

3. He was a man of suffering, familiar with pain.

4. People hid their faces from Him, holding Him in low esteem.

5. He was oppressed and afflicted for our sakes.

6. He did not open His mouth for His sake.

7. He was cut off from the land of the living by those in authority.

8. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, condemned as wicked Himself.

9. Yet He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

10. After suffering and conquering for us, He divided the spoils of His victory with us - see Isaiah 53:1-12

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” - Phil. 2:5

As a Christian, You Can’t Be a Victim