June 5

TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE

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. Isaiah 53:6
 
​Memorize this Verse: (Cover the verse text and using just the first letters of each word try to recite the entire passage.)
​6. A W L S H G A W H T E O T H O W A T L H L O H T I O U A

Notes on the verse:

“All … we have … us all”: Every person has sinned (Romans 3:9, 23), but the Servant has sufficiently shouldered the consequences of sin and the righteous wrath deserved by sinners (1 Tim 2:5-6; 4:10; 1 John 2:2). The manner in which God laid our iniquity on Him was that God treated Him as if He had committed every sin ever committed by every person who would ever believe, though He was perfectly innocent of any sin.

God did so to Him, so that wrath being spent and justice satisfied, God could then give to the account of sinners who believe, the righteousness of Christ, treating them as if they had done only the righteous acts of Christ. In both cases, this is substitution.

Jesus is the great Shepherd, and we Christians are His sheep. This is speaking of all mankind, because Jesus is the Savior of all the people of the earth, not just the Hebrews.

Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”

Just as the first Adam brought sin unto the lives of every individual, Jesus brought righteousness.

Romans 5:15 “But not as the offence, so also [is] the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, [which is] by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.”

Titus 2:14 “Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”

TODAY'S BIBLE READING

Old Testament
1 Kings 8  —  8.0 minutes
Psalms 119:33-40  —  1.5 minutes

New Testament
Luke 1:67-80  —  2.5 minutes
Ephesians 3:1-13  —  3.0 minutes

Total Average Read Time — 15.0 minutes