I asked Jesus,
"How much do You love me?"
"This Much"
He answered.
Then He stretched out His arms
and died.
Isaiah prophet of God, he prophesied about the coming Saviour, Jesus. He came to understand by the Lord's Spirit what must be.
“As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:” Is.52”14
When Jesus came and walked the earth 2000 years ago as a mere man, this is what he went through.
The word mar (marred) in this verse means --- To injure; to hurt; to impair the strength or purity of, to deform; to disfigure.
It says His visage, the visage is the face; the countenance or look of a person. Read that verse again with this understanding now, “His visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men”
Isaiah goes on to say in chapter 53:3-7
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.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
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.
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.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
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.
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.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Thing is Jesus didn't have to leave His place in heaven and come and humble himself as this as man, who knew no sin, yet became sin for us.. Yet He did, He did it out of love for the Father and out of His love for us. And all of us are like sheep that have gone astray; we have turned every one to our own ways; and the LORD hath laid on Him (His own Son) the iniquity of us all. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16
That's how much God loved us. Want to go even deeper with this. When Jesus went to the cross, first and foremost it was our sins, one can leave this world physically sick and get into heaven, but no one can not leave this world in sin and expect to get into Heaven. By Jesus taking on our sins upon Himself and taking them to the cross would become to none effect. He would have done everything He did in vain. Yet here He is He took on our sins, but here in Isaiah 53 we see so much more He took on. He also bore our griefs, and carried our sorrows, all the mental and emotional chaos that might be in our lives, He took it on. Everything we have ever been through He took it upon himself, He did this for you, for me and everyone else that truly calls on His name. He took it ALL on and He took it to the cross. Just before He went to the cross it was ordered that Jesus to be whipped, He took on 39 stripes with a whip. Now thank about it, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows, 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!
Three days later Jesus Resurrected unto Life for ever more, death could not hold Him down. He took up His life again that we through Him would have life forever more with him and with the Father.
Jesus says He knows His sheep, and it is His sheep that he laid His life down for....
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep (remember we are all like sheep gone astray).......Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” John 10:14-15, 17-18
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8
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