The Unbelievable Truth  

Isaiah 53. Comments by the late Dr. Warren Wiersby

Who has believed our message?
     Relying on human intellect, men refuse to believe an unbelievable person.

He grew up...like a root out of dry ground.
     Earth has no spiritual aspect. Its produce is visible, explainable.

He had nothing in appearance that we should desire him.
     Joining himself to our nature, he chose not to attract us by his looks.

He was despised and rejected by men.
     His brothers, many early disciples and the nation refused to believe him. 
     "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Surely he took up our sorrows...he was pierced for our transgressions.
     He paid an unbelievable price...a crushing weight of our sins.

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way. 
     It's our nature, our choice to go our own way.

Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer. 
     Justice was satisfied. 
         Holiness was satisfied. 
             Sinners were justified.
                 God was glorified. 

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life. My servant will justify many and he will bear their iniquities. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. 
     He was unbelievable, but truth. 
          Human, but divine. 
               Humble, but exalted. 
                    Hated, but he loves.