The Wednesday Word
The Greatest Speech God Ever Made Part 2 by D. G. Miles McKee (For Part 1, see last week’s Wednesday Word). Before we consider Isaiah 53:1-7, let’s stir up our pure minds by way of remembrance and think of John 12:41. There we are told that the enthroned King of Isaiah 6 is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, Isaiah realizes that the despised sufferer in Isaiah 53 is the very same person he had encountered in Isaiah 6 … and he is stunned! You can tell by the way Isaiah is writing chapter 53 that he is living in the events and vividly seeing them. He is writing with a sense of shock. The One whom he sees as despised, deserted and dying in agonizing pain is the same One he saw high and lifted up in overpowering splendor. Can we be unmoved when we read this passage? Remember how in Mark 14:33 when Christ came near to Gethsemane the pressure of our sins intensified into a crushing horror. He was ‘sore amazed and very heavy.’ Literally, He was astounde...