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No Wiggle Room Allowed - Part 1
Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted [Isaiah 53:4].
Emotions are a funny thing. If I ride the emotional roller coaster, I am up one moment and down another. Sometimes the ups and downs aren’t so far apart, in which case I appear to be “normal”, whatever that is! At other times though the ups and downs are so distant, it would take the Hubble telescope to make the two meet. Does the medical term bipolar disorder come to mind?
I’m really not a raving maniac, honest? Not even in the worst of times, if I may be so forward as to borrow from Dickens. It’s just that sometimes I realize I am not the cause of all the evils in the world, in which case I am having a good day. Then there are those times where my emotions tyrannize me into thinking everything is my fault. Those are not the good days, believe me.
You see, I suffer from the same affliction which all of us share to one extent or another. It appears in the Spiritual Dictionary of Medicine wearing a decorative three-piece suit “s-i-n”. Some of us blame self for every wrong. Sin is at the root of this malady. Others of us blame everyone else for the wrongs they encounter. Sin is also at the root of that malady.
What is so baffling about such a state is this: though we blame the world when things go wrong, we take all the bows when things go right. One side of the coin is our inability to look in the mirror and see self as the culprit. The other side of the coin is our ability to look in the same mirror and see self as the hero. “Never at fault and always in the right!” Such is the motto of sinful man.
When the Lord Jesus came on the scene circa 3 B.C., sinful man was bedecked in the same three-piece suit. The Son of God simultaneously became Jesus the Son of man. At circa 27 A.D. He went about the Promised Land sharing the Good News. He healed the sick and gave sight to the blind, restored hearing to the deaf and raised the dead. He even feed multitudes with food He called into existence by His mere Word.
Oh, no. We’re out of time once again…and just when we finally met up with Jesus too! We will continue this topic tomorrow. See you then.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Emotions are a funny thing. If I ride the emotional roller coaster, I am up one moment and down another. Sometimes the ups and downs aren’t so far apart, in which case I appear to be “normal”, whatever that is! At other times though the ups and downs are so distant, it would take the Hubble telescope to make the two meet. Does the medical term bipolar disorder come to mind?
I’m really not a raving maniac, honest? Not even in the worst of times, if I may be so forward as to borrow from Dickens. It’s just that sometimes I realize I am not the cause of all the evils in the world, in which case I am having a good day. Then there are those times where my emotions tyrannize me into thinking everything is my fault. Those are not the good days, believe me.
You see, I suffer from the same affliction which all of us share to one extent or another. It appears in the Spiritual Dictionary of Medicine wearing a decorative three-piece suit “s-i-n”. Some of us blame self for every wrong. Sin is at the root of this malady. Others of us blame everyone else for the wrongs they encounter. Sin is also at the root of that malady.
What is so baffling about such a state is this: though we blame the world when things go wrong, we take all the bows when things go right. One side of the coin is our inability to look in the mirror and see self as the culprit. The other side of the coin is our ability to look in the same mirror and see self as the hero. “Never at fault and always in the right!” Such is the motto of sinful man.
When the Lord Jesus came on the scene circa 3 B.C., sinful man was bedecked in the same three-piece suit. The Son of God simultaneously became Jesus the Son of man. At circa 27 A.D. He went about the Promised Land sharing the Good News. He healed the sick and gave sight to the blind, restored hearing to the deaf and raised the dead. He even feed multitudes with food He called into existence by His mere Word.
Oh, no. We’re out of time once again…and just when we finally met up with Jesus too! We will continue this topic tomorrow. See you then.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
No Wiggle Room Allowed - Part 2
Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted [Isaiah 53:4].
We concluded our last study by noting how Jesus came on the scene of history doing many good works. The sick were healed, the hungry fed, the naked clothed, the blind given sight. That was the good side of the coin. Now let’s take a gander at the bad side of the coin.
The bad side was that He suffered terribly from scorn, derision, persecution, and finally martyrdom. And here’s the thing, dear friends. Jesus didn’t take the bows when the good side of the coin was on the ascendant. No, but instead He gave the glory to His Father in heaven. And when the bad side of the coin had its day, He neither complained nor blamed.
Alas, but sinful man back in the day failed to take his cue from this holy behavior by the Son of man. Instead he continued deluging Him with the blame for every wrong He faced, while portraying the good He did as bad. Sinful man redefined the good side of the coin as “bad” and the bad side as “good”. No wonder they crucified the Lord of glory!
Isaiah foretold this roughly 550 years before it occurred. Methinks even the Hubble telescope could not see that far! But Isaiah did. So how’d he do it? Simply put, the Holy Spirit revealed it to Him. The Holy Spirit is God, the third Person of the Godhead, so He knows everything always.
In the verse quoted to start this study Isaiah expressed this predilection of sinful man most incisively. On His part Jesus “bore our griefs and carried our sorrows”. Two sides are involved here:
1. Jesus
2. sinful Israel (and by extension sinful Gentiles too)
Jesus suffered and died, but it wasn’t for His own sins. It was for the sins of sinful man. This is known as substitutionary or vicarious atonement. One person suffers punishment on behalf of another.
Notwithstanding this truth, sinful Israel (and we Gentiles too) mocked and contemned Him during His sufferings, claiming He was being punished by God for His own sins. For the good He did they offered Him no appreciation. For the sufferings He bore they affixed the blame to His forehead. From their perspective Jesus could do no right, but He was adept at doing wrong.
We today are confronted with the same choice. Is Jesus never right but always wrong? Or is He always right and never wrong? Those are the only two choices, dear friends. He cannot be partially right and partially wrong. He doesn’t allow us that wiggle room. He claimed He was God. God can never be partially right and partially wrong.
This is the issue confronting every son of Adam today. Make your choice, my friends. Your eternity rides on which one you choose.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
We concluded our last study by noting how Jesus came on the scene of history doing many good works. The sick were healed, the hungry fed, the naked clothed, the blind given sight. That was the good side of the coin. Now let’s take a gander at the bad side of the coin.
The bad side was that He suffered terribly from scorn, derision, persecution, and finally martyrdom. And here’s the thing, dear friends. Jesus didn’t take the bows when the good side of the coin was on the ascendant. No, but instead He gave the glory to His Father in heaven. And when the bad side of the coin had its day, He neither complained nor blamed.
Alas, but sinful man back in the day failed to take his cue from this holy behavior by the Son of man. Instead he continued deluging Him with the blame for every wrong He faced, while portraying the good He did as bad. Sinful man redefined the good side of the coin as “bad” and the bad side as “good”. No wonder they crucified the Lord of glory!
Isaiah foretold this roughly 550 years before it occurred. Methinks even the Hubble telescope could not see that far! But Isaiah did. So how’d he do it? Simply put, the Holy Spirit revealed it to Him. The Holy Spirit is God, the third Person of the Godhead, so He knows everything always.
In the verse quoted to start this study Isaiah expressed this predilection of sinful man most incisively. On His part Jesus “bore our griefs and carried our sorrows”. Two sides are involved here:
1. Jesus
2. sinful Israel (and by extension sinful Gentiles too)
Jesus suffered and died, but it wasn’t for His own sins. It was for the sins of sinful man. This is known as substitutionary or vicarious atonement. One person suffers punishment on behalf of another.
Notwithstanding this truth, sinful Israel (and we Gentiles too) mocked and contemned Him during His sufferings, claiming He was being punished by God for His own sins. For the good He did they offered Him no appreciation. For the sufferings He bore they affixed the blame to His forehead. From their perspective Jesus could do no right, but He was adept at doing wrong.
We today are confronted with the same choice. Is Jesus never right but always wrong? Or is He always right and never wrong? Those are the only two choices, dear friends. He cannot be partially right and partially wrong. He doesn’t allow us that wiggle room. He claimed He was God. God can never be partially right and partially wrong.
This is the issue confronting every son of Adam today. Make your choice, my friends. Your eternity rides on which one you choose.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
No Wiggle Room Allowed – Part 1
Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted [Isaiah 53:4].
Emotions are a funny thing. If I ride the emotional roller coaster, I am up one moment and down another. Sometimes the ups and downs aren’t so far apart, in which case I appear to be “normal”, whatever that is! At other times though the ups and downs are so distant, it would take the Hubble telescope to make the two meet. Does the medical term bipolar disorder come to mind?
I’m really not a raving maniac, honest? Not even in the worst of times, if I may be so forward as to borrow from Dickens. It’s just that sometimes I realize I am not the cause of all the evils in the world, in which case I am having a good day. Then there are those times where my emotions tyrannize me into thinking everything is my fault. Those are not the good days, believe me.
You see, I suffer from the same affliction which all of us share to one extent or another. It appears in the Spiritual Dictionary of Medicine wearing a decorative three-piece suit “s-i-n”. Some of us blame self for every wrong. Sin is at the root of this malady. Others of us blame everyone else for the wrongs they encounter. Sin is also at the root of that malady.
What is so baffling about such a state is this: though we blame the world when things go wrong, we take all the bows when things go right. One side of the coin is our inability to look in the mirror and see self as the culprit. The other side of the coin is our ability to look in the same mirror and see self as the hero. “Never at fault and always in the right!” Such is the motto of sinful man.
When the Lord Jesus came on the scene circa 3 B.C., sinful man was bedecked in the same three-piece suit. The Son of God simultaneously became Jesus the Son of man. At circa 27 A.D. He went about the Promised Land sharing the Good News. He healed the sick and gave sight to the blind, restored hearing to the deaf and raised the dead. He even feed multitudes with food He called into existence by His mere Word.
Oh, no. We’re out of time once again…and just when we finally met up with Jesus too! We will continue this topic tomorrow. See you then.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
Emotions are a funny thing. If I ride the emotional roller coaster, I am up one moment and down another. Sometimes the ups and downs aren’t so far apart, in which case I appear to be “normal”, whatever that is! At other times though the ups and downs are so distant, it would take the Hubble telescope to make the two meet. Does the medical term bipolar disorder come to mind?
I’m really not a raving maniac, honest? Not even in the worst of times, if I may be so forward as to borrow from Dickens. It’s just that sometimes I realize I am not the cause of all the evils in the world, in which case I am having a good day. Then there are those times where my emotions tyrannize me into thinking everything is my fault. Those are not the good days, believe me.
You see, I suffer from the same affliction which all of us share to one extent or another. It appears in the Spiritual Dictionary of Medicine wearing a decorative three-piece suit “s-i-n”. Some of us blame self for every wrong. Sin is at the root of this malady. Others of us blame everyone else for the wrongs they encounter. Sin is also at the root of that malady.
What is so baffling about such a state is this: though we blame the world when things go wrong, we take all the bows when things go right. One side of the coin is our inability to look in the mirror and see self as the culprit. The other side of the coin is our ability to look in the same mirror and see self as the hero. “Never at fault and always in the right!” Such is the motto of sinful man.
When the Lord Jesus came on the scene circa 3 B.C., sinful man was bedecked in the same three-piece suit. The Son of God simultaneously became Jesus the Son of man. At circa 27 A.D. He went about the Promised Land sharing the Good News. He healed the sick and gave sight to the blind, restored hearing to the deaf and raised the dead. He even feed multitudes with food He called into existence by His mere Word.
Oh, no. We’re out of time once again…and just when we finally met up with Jesus too! We will continue this topic tomorrow. See you then.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
No Wiggle Room Allowed – Part 2
Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted [Isaiah 53:4].
We concluded our last study by noting how Jesus came on the scene of history doing many good works. The sick were healed, the hungry fed, the naked clothed, the blind given sight. That was the good side of the coin. Now let’s take a gander at the bad side of the coin.
The bad side was that He suffered terribly from scorn, derision, persecution, and finally martyrdom. And here’s the thing, dear friends. Jesus didn’t take the bows when the good side of the coin was on the ascendant. No, but instead He gave the glory to His Father in heaven. And when the bad side of the coin had its day, He neither complained nor blamed.
Alas, but sinful man back in the day failed to take his cue from this holy behavior by the Son of man. Instead he continued deluging Him with the blame for every wrong He faced, while portraying the good He did as bad. Sinful man redefined the good side of the coin as “bad” and the bad side as “good”. No wonder they crucified the Lord of glory!
Isaiah foretold this roughly 550 years before it occurred. Methinks even the Hubble telescope could not see that far! But Isaiah did. So how’d he do it? Simply put, the Holy Spirit revealed it to Him. The Holy Spirit is God, the third Person of the Godhead, so He knows everything always.
In the verse quoted to start this study Isaiah expressed this predilection of sinful man most incisively. On His part Jesus “bore our griefs and carried our sorrows”. Two sides are involved here:
1. Jesus
2. sinful Israel (and by extension sinful Gentiles too)
Jesus suffered and died, but it wasn’t for His own sins. It was for the sins of sinful man. This is known as substitutionary or vicarious atonement. One person suffers punishment on behalf of another.
Notwithstanding this truth, sinful Israel (and we Gentiles too) mocked and contemned Him during His sufferings, claiming He was being punished by God for His own sins. For the good He did they offered Him no appreciation. For the sufferings He bore they affixed the blame to His forehead. From their perspective Jesus could do no right, but He was adept at doing wrong.
We today are confronted with the same choice. Is Jesus never right but always wrong? Or is He always right and never wrong? Those are the only two choices, dear friends. He cannot be partially right and partially wrong. He doesn’t allow us that wiggle room. He claimed He was God. God can never be partially right and partially wrong.
This is the issue confronting every son of Adam today. Make your choice, my friends. Your eternity rides on which one you choose.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
We concluded our last study by noting how Jesus came on the scene of history doing many good works. The sick were healed, the hungry fed, the naked clothed, the blind given sight. That was the good side of the coin. Now let’s take a gander at the bad side of the coin.
The bad side was that He suffered terribly from scorn, derision, persecution, and finally martyrdom. And here’s the thing, dear friends. Jesus didn’t take the bows when the good side of the coin was on the ascendant. No, but instead He gave the glory to His Father in heaven. And when the bad side of the coin had its day, He neither complained nor blamed.
Alas, but sinful man back in the day failed to take his cue from this holy behavior by the Son of man. Instead he continued deluging Him with the blame for every wrong He faced, while portraying the good He did as bad. Sinful man redefined the good side of the coin as “bad” and the bad side as “good”. No wonder they crucified the Lord of glory!
Isaiah foretold this roughly 550 years before it occurred. Methinks even the Hubble telescope could not see that far! But Isaiah did. So how’d he do it? Simply put, the Holy Spirit revealed it to Him. The Holy Spirit is God, the third Person of the Godhead, so He knows everything always.
In the verse quoted to start this study Isaiah expressed this predilection of sinful man most incisively. On His part Jesus “bore our griefs and carried our sorrows”. Two sides are involved here:
1. Jesus
2. sinful Israel (and by extension sinful Gentiles too)
Jesus suffered and died, but it wasn’t for His own sins. It was for the sins of sinful man. This is known as substitutionary or vicarious atonement. One person suffers punishment on behalf of another.
Notwithstanding this truth, sinful Israel (and we Gentiles too) mocked and contemned Him during His sufferings, claiming He was being punished by God for His own sins. For the good He did they offered Him no appreciation. For the sufferings He bore they affixed the blame to His forehead. From their perspective Jesus could do no right, but He was adept at doing wrong.
We today are confronted with the same choice. Is Jesus never right but always wrong? Or is He always right and never wrong? Those are the only two choices, dear friends. He cannot be partially right and partially wrong. He doesn’t allow us that wiggle room. He claimed He was God. God can never be partially right and partially wrong.
This is the issue confronting every son of Adam today. Make your choice, my friends. Your eternity rides on which one you choose.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
No Wiggle Room Allowed – Part 1
Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted [Isaiah 53:4].
Emotions are a funny thing. If I ride the emotional roller coaster, I am up one moment and down another. Sometimes the ups and downs aren’t so far apart, in which case I appear to be “normal”, whatever that is! But at other times the ups and downs are so distant, it would take the Hubble telescope to make the two meet. Does the medical term bipolar disorder come to mind?
I’m really not a raving maniac, honest? Not even in the worst of times, if I may be so forward as to borrow from Dickens. It’s just that sometimes I realize I am not the cause of all the evils in the world, in which case I am having a good day. Then there are those times where my emotions tyrannize me into thinking everything is my fault. Those are not the good days, believe me.
You see, I suffer from the same affliction which all of us share to one extent or another. It appears in the Spiritual Dictionary of Medicine, wearing the decorative three-piece suit “s-i-n”. Some of us blame self for every wrong. Sin is at the root of this malady. Others of us blame everyone else for the wrongs they encounter. Sin is also at the root of that malady.
What is so baffling about such a state is this: though we blame the world when things go wrong, we take all the bows when things go right. One side of the coin is our inability to look in the mirror and see self as the culprit. The other side of the coin is our ability to look in the same mirror and see self as the hero. “Never at fault and always in the right!”(aka I'm all right. The world is all wrong!) Such is the motto of sinful man.
When the Lord Jesus came on the scene circa 7 B.C., sinful man was bedecked in the same three-piece suit. The Son of God simultaneously became Jesus the Son of man. At circa 23 A.D. He went about the Promised Land sharing the Good News. He healed the sick and gave sight to the blind, restored hearing to the deaf and raised the dead. He even fed multitudes with food He called into existence by His mere Word.
Oh, no. We’re out of time once again…and just when we finally met up with Jesus too! We will continue this topic tomorrow. See you then.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
Emotions are a funny thing. If I ride the emotional roller coaster, I am up one moment and down another. Sometimes the ups and downs aren’t so far apart, in which case I appear to be “normal”, whatever that is! But at other times the ups and downs are so distant, it would take the Hubble telescope to make the two meet. Does the medical term bipolar disorder come to mind?
I’m really not a raving maniac, honest? Not even in the worst of times, if I may be so forward as to borrow from Dickens. It’s just that sometimes I realize I am not the cause of all the evils in the world, in which case I am having a good day. Then there are those times where my emotions tyrannize me into thinking everything is my fault. Those are not the good days, believe me.
You see, I suffer from the same affliction which all of us share to one extent or another. It appears in the Spiritual Dictionary of Medicine, wearing the decorative three-piece suit “s-i-n”. Some of us blame self for every wrong. Sin is at the root of this malady. Others of us blame everyone else for the wrongs they encounter. Sin is also at the root of that malady.
What is so baffling about such a state is this: though we blame the world when things go wrong, we take all the bows when things go right. One side of the coin is our inability to look in the mirror and see self as the culprit. The other side of the coin is our ability to look in the same mirror and see self as the hero. “Never at fault and always in the right!”(aka I'm all right. The world is all wrong!) Such is the motto of sinful man.
When the Lord Jesus came on the scene circa 7 B.C., sinful man was bedecked in the same three-piece suit. The Son of God simultaneously became Jesus the Son of man. At circa 23 A.D. He went about the Promised Land sharing the Good News. He healed the sick and gave sight to the blind, restored hearing to the deaf and raised the dead. He even fed multitudes with food He called into existence by His mere Word.
Oh, no. We’re out of time once again…and just when we finally met up with Jesus too! We will continue this topic tomorrow. See you then.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
No Wiggle Room Allowed – Part 2
Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted [Isaiah 53:4].
We concluded our last study by noting how Jesus came on the scene of history doing many good works. The sick were healed, the hungry fed, the naked clothed, the blind given sight. That was the good side of the coin. Now let’s take a gander at the bad side of the coin.
The bad side was that He suffered terribly from scorn, derision, persecution, and finally martyrdom. And here’s the thing, dear friends. Jesus didn’t take the bows when the good side of the coin was on the ascendant. No, but instead He gave the glory to His Father in heaven. And when the bad side of the coin had its day, He neither complained nor blamed.
Alas, but sinful man back in the day failed to take his cue from this holy behavior by the Son of Man. Instead he continued deluging Him with the blame for every wrong He faced, while portraying the good He did as bad. Sinful man redefined the good side of the coin as “bad” and the bad side as “good”. No wonder they crucified the Lord of glory!
Isaiah foretold this roughly 550 years before it occurred. Methinks even the Hubble telescope could not see that far! But Isaiah did. So how’d he do it? Simply put, the Holy Spirit revealed it to Him. The Holy Spirit is God, the third Person of the Godhead, so He knows everything always.
In the verse quoted to start this study Isaiah expressed this predilection of sinful man most incisively. On His part Jesus “bore our griefs and carried our sorrows”. Two sides are involved here:
1. Jesus
2. sinful Israel (and by extension sinful Gentiles too)
Jesus suffered and died, but it wasn’t for His own sins. It was for the sins of sinful man. This is known as substitutionary or vicarious atonement. One person suffers punishment on behalf of another.
Notwithstanding this truth, sinful Israel (and we Gentiles too) mocked and contemned Him during His sufferings, claiming He was being punished by God for His own sins. For the good He did they offered Him no appreciation. For the sufferings He bore they affixed the blame to His forehead. From their perspective Jesus could do no right, but He was adept at doing wrong.
We today are confronted with the same choice. Is Jesus never right but always wrong? Or is He always right and never wrong? Those are the only two choices, dear friends. He cannot be partially right and partially wrong. He doesn’t allow us that wiggle room. He claimed He was God. God can never be partially right and partially wrong.
This is the issue confronting every son of Adam today. Make your choice, my friends. Your eternity rides on which one you choose.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
We concluded our last study by noting how Jesus came on the scene of history doing many good works. The sick were healed, the hungry fed, the naked clothed, the blind given sight. That was the good side of the coin. Now let’s take a gander at the bad side of the coin.
The bad side was that He suffered terribly from scorn, derision, persecution, and finally martyrdom. And here’s the thing, dear friends. Jesus didn’t take the bows when the good side of the coin was on the ascendant. No, but instead He gave the glory to His Father in heaven. And when the bad side of the coin had its day, He neither complained nor blamed.
Alas, but sinful man back in the day failed to take his cue from this holy behavior by the Son of Man. Instead he continued deluging Him with the blame for every wrong He faced, while portraying the good He did as bad. Sinful man redefined the good side of the coin as “bad” and the bad side as “good”. No wonder they crucified the Lord of glory!
Isaiah foretold this roughly 550 years before it occurred. Methinks even the Hubble telescope could not see that far! But Isaiah did. So how’d he do it? Simply put, the Holy Spirit revealed it to Him. The Holy Spirit is God, the third Person of the Godhead, so He knows everything always.
In the verse quoted to start this study Isaiah expressed this predilection of sinful man most incisively. On His part Jesus “bore our griefs and carried our sorrows”. Two sides are involved here:
1. Jesus
2. sinful Israel (and by extension sinful Gentiles too)
Jesus suffered and died, but it wasn’t for His own sins. It was for the sins of sinful man. This is known as substitutionary or vicarious atonement. One person suffers punishment on behalf of another.
Notwithstanding this truth, sinful Israel (and we Gentiles too) mocked and contemned Him during His sufferings, claiming He was being punished by God for His own sins. For the good He did they offered Him no appreciation. For the sufferings He bore they affixed the blame to His forehead. From their perspective Jesus could do no right, but He was adept at doing wrong.
We today are confronted with the same choice. Is Jesus never right but always wrong? Or is He always right and never wrong? Those are the only two choices, dear friends. He cannot be partially right and partially wrong. He doesn’t allow us that wiggle room. He claimed He was God. God can never be partially right and partially wrong.
This is the issue confronting every son of Adam today. Make your choice, my friends. Your eternity rides on which one you choose.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
