been disclosed?

For the Servant of God grew up before Him like a tender plant, and like

a root out of dry ground: He has no form or comeliness, that we should

look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him.

He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows

and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from

Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate

His worth or have any esteem for Him.

Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses,weaknesses, and distresses)

and carried our sorrows and pains, yet we considered Him stricken and

afflicted by God.

But He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our guilt

and iniquities; the chastisement needful to obtain peace and well-being for

us was upon Him, and with the stripes that wounded Him we are healed and

made whole.

All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way;

and the Lord has made to light upon Him the guilt and iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, yet when He was afflicted, He was submissive and opened

not His mouth; like a lamb, that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before

her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.

By oppression and judgement 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

for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?

And they assigned Him a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His

death, although He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth.

(Isaiah 53.1-9).

When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named

Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus.

He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered

that it be given to him.

And Joseph took the body and rolled it up in a clean linen cloth used for

swathing dead bodies.

And laid it in his own fresh tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he

rolled a big boulder over the door of the tomb and went away.

(Matthew 27.57-60).

He was guilty of no sin, neither was deceit ever found on His lips.

When He was reviled and insulted, He did not revile or insult in

return; when He was abused and suffered, He made no threats;

but He trusted Himself and everything to Him Who judges rightly.

He personally bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we might

die to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed.

For you were going astray like sheep, but now you have come back to the

Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

(I.Peter 2.22-25).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

culminates in Christ Jesus, the Son of Man and the Son of God.

This purpose finds fulfillment in the risen Lord Who is near to all

who call upon Him.

“He is the sole expression of the glory of God and He is the perfect

imprint and very image of God’s nature, upholding and propelling

the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering

Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He

sat down at the right hand of the divine majesty on high.”

(Hebrews 1.3).

In Him human destiny finds fulfillment. In the risen Lord we have peace,

hope and eternal life. He is the Master of human destiny. He is our healer,

provider and deliverer. He reveals Who God is and who man is.

In Him we are united to God, we are made holy and whole.

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

For this reason I bow my knees to the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
From whom the whole family in
heaven and earth is named,
That He would grant you,
according to the riches of
His glory, to be strengthened
with might through His Spirit
in the inner man,
That Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith

that you, being rooted
and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with
all the saints what is the width
and length and depth and height-
To know the love of Christ
which passes knowledge,
that you may be filled with all
the fullness of God.

Now to Him who is able to do
exceedingly abundantly above
and beyond all that we ask or
think, according to the power
that works in us,
To Him be glory in the church
by Christ Jesus to all generations,

forever and ever. Amen!

(Ephesians 3.14-21).