Isaiah as he introduced the fifty-third chapter, he asked it with a question. If you look back into the fifty-second chapter you will discover that he had already stated in verse three that talking to the Jews, he said, you have sold yourselves for naught, but he said, you will be redeemed without money. They were not use to such language and he went on about how the good news of the Gospel in verse seven of chapter fifty-two and verse nine, that there would be a time of rejoicing. Just step ahead for a moment, to 1st Peter 1:18-19, that we are not redeemed with corruptible things such as silver or gold but with the precious blood of Jesus as a Lamb without spot or blemish. They were not use to such a plan but that was Gods plan from the beginning.

They were well adapted to the sacrificial method of shedding the blood of goats and sprinkling the ashes of a heifer. Lets go back to chapter fifty-two. Again, verse fourteen speaks of the marred more then any man. His vision was marred, that we might see. Now having said that in brief we will go to Isaiah chapter fifty-three.

He says in introduction to the fifty-third chapter. Who hath believed our report. What hath been said so far, who hath believed it. Well, he says, I will make it a little plainer and go to greater depths. Isaiah 11:10 says that a root shall spring forth out of Jesse, then in Isaiah 52:2 he speaks of Him as a root out of a dry ground. Jesus came when everything was pretty barren in the spiritual. There was approximately 400 years and no sound from heaven. They were waiting for the promise Messiah whom Isaiah spoke about.

When I start to write I find myself with a problem because when you begin to talk about Jesus there is no end. So I try to get to the point. I remember preaching on Isaiah 53 in 1996 I believe it was. Now don’t think I am copying because I never had it written off.

Isaiah had made reference to Him so many times at one point. Just read Isaiah 9:6. If you go to Acts 8:26-39 gives an account of a man who was reading from this chapter from a scroll not knowing exactly what or who he was reading about until Philip being led by the Holy Spirit joined him in his chariot and the Bible says he preached unto him Jesus. It is a problem to read the word without acknowledging that Jesus is represented, for Jesus said for in the volume of the Book it is written of me.

You might say, why don’t you stick to the point. Well, as you may know, I’m not a three point preacher because all things point to Him. I’ll go back to Isaiah 53 where he gave a very clear account of how Jesus would come and what He would suffer for mankind so that when he would come there would be no mistake of who He was. Make no mistake, Jesus who took my sins, sorrows, sickness and bare them in His body on a tree. God said that He hath hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes. Who hath believed this report ? Who have accepted this truth that Jesus came to save the sinner, to heal the sick etc…

Oh! I’m some glad I know who Jesus is. I don’t need some university to tell me. I’m some glad that this gospel did not originate in some university or some college. This gospel did not come out of Harvard or Oxford. It came from the throne room of God. If it came otherwise you would have more people believing it.

Friend, don’t think I a coming against universities. No, no, just that Gods word in its purity and power hath to be revealed by the Holy Spirit. I’ll close with this, with the words of the Hymn. I believed the true report. Alleluia to the Lamb! I’ve passed the outer court, oh Glory be to God. I’ve passed the inner vail where the glories never fail. I’m living in the presence of the King.

I will go into this in another part.