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1. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?2. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground, he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.3. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.4. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.5. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with 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 hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:1-6 🙏🏻 This was written 706 years before Christ was born. It speaks of the unbelief of Christ, by people He came to save. Such is the same in our time. It speaks of Christ's suffering for the salvation of sinners. Which we all are. Christ brought the tender plant of the Gospel into this world, God in the form of man, yet He was not recognized. They could not see the beauty of His goodness, His holiness, for the carnal mind, and heart are blind. Yet the redeemed know, who stood in their place on the cross, by the regenerated spirit. The sinless Christ, substituted for sinful men. I am one of those. Taking the punishment in His own body, to set us free. Because we all have gone our own way, and that way had one destination, destruction. I thank you Lord Jesus, for your saving grace and your pardon. Amen.