{"id":508,"date":"2023-10-13T02:26:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T06:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/?p=508"},"modified":"2023-12-02T03:09:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T08:09:29","slug":"encountering-jesus-by-personalizing-isaiah-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Encountering Jesus by Personalizing Isaiah 53"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ismael-paramo-ZBNr4T_4FLE-unsplash-crown-of-thorns-11423.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-516\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6669921875;width:346px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ismael-paramo-ZBNr4T_4FLE-unsplash-crown-of-thorns-11423-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ismael-paramo-ZBNr4T_4FLE-unsplash-crown-of-thorns-11423-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ismael-paramo-ZBNr4T_4FLE-unsplash-crown-of-thorns-11423-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ismael-paramo-ZBNr4T_4FLE-unsplash-crown-of-thorns-11423-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ismael-paramo-ZBNr4T_4FLE-unsplash-crown-of-thorns-11423-scaled.jpg?w=1707&amp;ssl=1 1707w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ismael-paramo-ZBNr4T_4FLE-unsplash-crown-of-thorns-11423-scaled.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@ismaelparamo?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Ismael Paramo<\/a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/brown-concrete-building-during-night-time-ZBNr4T_4FLE?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Isaiah 53 AMPC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><sup><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">1&nbsp;<\/mark><\/sup><\/strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Who has believed (trusted in, relied upon, and clung to) our message [of that which was revealed to us]? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been disclosed?<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><sup>2\u00a0<\/sup>For <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">[the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender plant<\/span>, and like a root out of dry ground; He has no form or comeliness [royal, kingly pomp], that I should look at Him, and no beauty that I should desire Him.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>I despised and rejected\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0forsook Him, <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">a Man of sorrows\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0pains, and acquainted with grief\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces<\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> I despised Him, and I did not appreciate <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">His worth<\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">\u00a0<em>or<\/em>\u00a0have any esteem for Him.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>Surely <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">He has borne <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">my griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses)<\/span> and <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">carried<\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">my sorrows\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0pains [of punishment],<\/span> yet I [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy].<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><sup>5\u00a0<\/sup>But<\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"> He was wounded for <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">my transgressions<\/span>, <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">He was bruised for<\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">my guilt\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0iniquities<\/span>; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0well-being for me<\/span><\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"> was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him<\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I am healed\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0made whole<\/span>.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><sup>6\u00a0<\/sup>I like sheep have gone astray, I have turned to my own way; and <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">the Lord has made to light upon Him <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">my guilt\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0iniquity<\/span>.<\/mark> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><sup>7\u00a0<\/sup>He was oppressed, [yet when] He was afflicted, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He was submissive\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0opened not His mouth<\/span>; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He opened not His mouth<\/span>.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><sup>8\u00a0<\/sup>By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation, who among them considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living [stricken to His death] <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for the transgression of my [Isaiah\u2019s] people<\/span><\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">, to whom the stroke was due?<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><sup>9\u00a0<\/sup>And they assigned Him a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He had done no violence<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">neither was any deceit in His mouth<\/span>.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><sup>10\u00a0<\/sup>Yet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">it was the will of the Lord to bruise Him<\/span>; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He has put Him to grief\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0made Him sick<\/span> <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">(for my salvation, redemption, healing, deliverance, restoration)<\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">. When You\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0He make His life an offering for sin [and He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall see His [spiritual] offspring, He shall prolong His days, and the will\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><sup>11\u00a0<\/sup><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He shall see [the fruit] of the travail of His soul and be satisfied<\/span>; by His knowledge of Himself [which He possesses and imparts to others] shall My [uncompromisingly] righteous One, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">My Servant, justify many\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0make many righteous (upright and in right standing with God)<\/span>, for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He shall bear their iniquities\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0their guilt [with the consequences, says the Lord]<\/span>.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><sup>12\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great [kings and rulers], and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He shall divide the spoil with the mighty<\/span>, because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He poured out His life unto death<\/span>, and [He let Himself] be regarded as a criminal\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0be numbered with<\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> me the transgressor; <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">yet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He bore [and took away]<\/span> <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">my sin and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">made intercession for me, the transgressor (the rebellious)<\/span>.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PRAY &amp; GIVE THANKS FOR THE MANIFESTATION ON ISAIAH 53 &amp; TITUS 2:13-14<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>13<\/sup>We should live like that while we are waiting for the coming of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. He is our great hope, and he will come with glory. <sup>14<\/sup>He gave himself for us; he died to free us from all evil. He died to make us pure people who belong only to him\u2014people who are always wanting to do good things.                 <em>Titus 2:13-14 International Children\u2019s Bible<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PRAY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus, thank You for loving me through Your death, which redeemed me from the wickedness of my heart, separated me from my sin &#8211; deception, unrighteousness, pride, fear, resentment, offense, rebellion, curses, immorality, violence, unforgiveness, rejection, lack, and healed me from all forms of sicknesses, diseases &amp; infirmities even after I had despised and rejected You.  You went to hell and conquered it so I would not have to go there. Jesus, You reconciled me to Abba Father by Holy Spirit to be together forever anchored by eternal love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus, I ask that You would come and dwell permanently in my heart forever. Amen.  Please fill me with Your Holy Spirit and lead me to a body of believers so I can be discipled in You ways and walk Your path so that I will fulfill God&#8217;s perfect will for my life by Your grace through Holy Spirit in Jesus&#8217; Name I pray.  Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank You Abba Father, Thank You Jesus, Thank You Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 53 AMPC 1&nbsp;Who has believed (trusted in, relied upon, and clung to) our message [of that which was revealed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/lamb-pexels-pixabay-59821-12223-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}