Isaiah 53:4-6

The Savior Jesus came to suffer and die for the sins of others.

We consider Jesus deserted and forsaken by the Father  at the end of His life…but nothing is farther from the truth. He had the final say in laying down His life for us or leaving us deserted and forsaken. He chose life, eternal, and  abundant, for you and for me. He willingly laid down His righteous life in place of our sin infested one. By His sheer strength as a man He did the will of His Father. By His power as God He was raised up conquering death and sins stranglehold on His creation.

Peace sums up the Servant’s ministry of reconciliation, justification, adoption, and glorification.

Isaiah 53:4-6

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 wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes 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.

¹⁷ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses.” 

Matthew 8:17

²⁸ so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. 

Hebrews 9:28

²⁴ who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed. 

1 Peter 2:24

²⁵ who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification. 

Romans 4:25

⁴ and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 

1 Corinthians 15:4