Opening Questions
1. What are you thankful for?
2. What is the biggest challenge or problem you’re facing today? How can we help?
3. Do you know someone who needs help this week? How can we help?
4. How did you do obeying and sharing what you learned last week?
1. What are you thankful for?
2. What is the biggest challenge or problem you’re facing today? How can we help?
3. Do you know someone who needs help this week? How can we help?
4. How did you do obeying and sharing what you learned last week?
Read and Retell
1. Read: Read today’s Scripture passage, not too fast.
2. Retell: Have one person retell the Scripture passage in their own words, and let others join in to help them remember.
1. Read: Read today’s Scripture passage, not too fast.
2. Retell: Have one person retell the Scripture passage in their own words, and let others join in to help them remember.
Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed what he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For 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.
3 He 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.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
6 All 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.
7 He 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.
8 By 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?
9 And 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.
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out 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.
12 Therefore 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.
1 Who has believed what he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For 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.
3 He 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.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
6 All 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.
7 He 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.
8 By 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?
9 And 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.
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out 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.
12 Therefore 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.
4 Discussion Questions
1. What does this passage teach us about God?
2. What does this passage teach us about people?
3. If this is God’s Word, what should you do?
4. Who should you share with this week?
1. What does this passage teach us about God?
IMPORTANT TRUTHS
God spoke this prophecy through Isaiah about 700 years before Jesus came. God was revealing to them that He was still committed to send a humble Servant, His own Son, to die in their place for their sins. He was telling them—and is telling us now—how much He loves them by explaining what punishments, what torture, what agony Jesus would have to suffer to accept all of the judgment against their—and our—sins.
Both Father God and the Lord Jesus love us so much for Jesus to do this for us.
2. What does this passage teach us about people?
IMPORTANT TRUTHS
Our sins deserve much more judgment than we realize.
Jesus went through much more than we realize to pay for our forgiveness and escape from eternal punishment.
3. If this is God’s Word, what should you do?
4. Who should you share with this week?