Isaiah 53:10-12
Author: R New
I'm a 1959 Baby Boomer which has allowed me to see drastic changes in the Christian landscape. I grew up going to Church every Sunday, in those days the Bible still had strong roots in America. In my 20's, I participated with the Church in public meetings. There were about eight of us who would go out to a street corner or public park to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. There were horns, a bass drum, singing, and a short Salvation message from the Bible. Suddenly, that all changed. The city passed ordinances to prohibit that type of public "solicitation." Today, it seems almost illegal to mention the Gospel to the younger generation.
I retired at the age of 62. As a person living for the testimony of Jesus Christ, I always felt like a salmon swimming against the current. Work was always a struggle between trying to be a decent individual while dealing with "progressive" and "left wing" changes at the workplace.
It's clear that there is a force in the world that is quietly eliminating the Gospel of Jesus Christ while making Christians look like enemies of humanity. At the same time, there is a force in the world that has power over physiology and is able to form thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. It is definitely against Jesus Christ.
John 3:16 is something I always want to cling to, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." I know the suffering of spiritual assault that hinders a constructive lifestyle & when frustration & anger seems to be the sole option - I know we can survive through the Cross of Christ. We have a home in the Kingdom of Heaven waiting for us.
“He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,”
Isaiah 53:7-9
“Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.”
Isaiah 53:4-6
“He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.”
Isaiah 53:1-3
“Yet hear now, O Jacob My servant, and Israel whom I have chosen.”
Isaiah 44:1-5
Sorcerers and star watchers know the signs in the sky but cannot discern the signs of the times.
Isaiah 47:12-15
“Put Me in remembrance that you may be acquitted.”
Isaiah 43:22-28
The governing system, courts, and churches are corrupt but through Jesus Christ there is Salvation and eternal life.
Zephaniah 3.
“Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it will spring forth; Will you not know it?”
Isaiah 43:16-21
“For your sake I will send to Babylon, and bring them all down as fugitives—”
Isaiah 43:14-15