Embracing Grace: Jesus' Sacrifice and Our Readiness

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"Jesus is actually quoting from Isaiah chapter 53. It's one of the might even be the only explicit use of Isaiah chapter 53 in the New Testament. It's referred to tangentially but in terms of it being an exact quote and certainly on the part of Jesus, I'm not sure if it happens anywhere else." [00:00:22]

"Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed." [00:01:15]

"Jesus said, remember the words I spoke to you, no servant is greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. I've told you that I'm going up to Jerusalem, I will suffer at the hands of cruel men, I will be crucified, I will die, I will rise on the third day." [00:16:22]

"Jesus at the beginning of Luke in chapter four, he's there in the synagogue, remembering in Capernaum and he reads, you know, the spirit of the Lord is upon me and he has sent me to preach good news to the poor and so on and then he rolls up the scroll and he gives it back to the attendant." [00:17:32]

"It is the doctrine of substitutionary atonement for those of you who either know and care about the phrase, and for those of you who don't know and maybe as yet, since you don't know have no real care, I want to tell you this now because you need to know, and when you understand then you will really care." [00:18:28]

"Jesus came to save and therefore he allowed himself to be numbered with those who are the transgressors although him, he himself was no transgressor. He acted in doing so as the mediator. He acted as the one who would create intercession between man and all of his sin and God in all of his holiness." [00:20:32]

"God says do not fear for I am with you and do not be dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand and some of you are here tonight you're saying I don't know how I'm going to get through it, whatever it is I don't know what it is." [00:28:09]

"Think about this wonderful picture of the hand of God, his righteous right hand working on our behalf, for I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you do not fear, I'm going to help you. Holding hands is fun isn't it? I asked somebody the other day if they would hold my hand because I was afraid." [00:29:18]

"Here the promise of God's word is that he comes, he comes into our circumstances and he takes hold of our right hand and he says to you hang on now I'm going to help you through this. That was the word for the disciples in their days the word they needed it's the word that many of us need tonight." [00:29:53]

"Father I pray that you will help us as we break bread together now to do so in a way that acknowledges the wonder of your sacrifice and that you will help us as we contemplate the wonder of your grace and as we meditate upon these things so to eat and drink in such a way that we may express our deep gratitude to you and our unity in the Lord Jesus Christ." [00:30:21]

"Jesus knowingly and voluntarily steps forward and becomes the sacrificial lamb becomes the Passover lamb and because of that his death possesses eternal significance and is sufficient for our sins. When we began this little study I began with the phrase I said to the group that was gathered I said just think about the hands for a moment." [00:27:34]

"Through it all grace I mentioned this in part in the morning verse 28 you are those who have stood by me in my trials look at how he describes them ignoring their many character defects, character defects which they have sadly exhibited to the full, the merciful high priest praises them for the faithfulness they've shown him in their many trials." [00:23:50]

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