"An Old Fashioned Christmas" series begins tomorrow

I hope you will be with us at Church tomorrow. I will begin a series of messages I am calling "An Old Fashioned Christmas" We will look at prophecies of Christ birth that were written 700 years BEFORE He was born.

There are four "Servant Songs" recorded in Isaiah. The first one is in Isaiah 42. Read it today and allow the Lord to prepare your heart for tomorrow's message.

Here is a section of notes, from my study on this series, from the American Bible Society.

"Four passages in Isaiah are often identified as "the Servant Songs" because they focus on the call and work of "the Lord's servant" (or "God's servant"): 42:1-4; 49:1-6; 50:4-9; and 52:13—53:12. 

These songs (or poems) describe the servant as the one God chose to "bring justice to the nations" (42:1) and "to lead back the people of Israel" to God (49:5). But the servant will also be "a light" so that other nations will recognize God's "saving power" (49:6). 

Unlike others in the Jewish Scriptures who are called the Lord's servant (for example, Abraham, Jacob, and Moses), the servant in Isaiah suffers physical pain and humiliation (50:6; 52:14; 53:3-5,7) in the work the Lord called him to do. 

The last of these songs, however, recognizes that the suffering of the servant will help accomplish the work he was called to do. In other words, his own suffering will ultimately take away the sins and guilt of others (53:4,5,10,11), and the Lord will reward the servant for sacrificing his life for others (53:12)."

 See you tomorrow,

Pastor Mike