Dec 21, 2023
Protagonist “Jesus and Jubilee”
Series: Protagonist
Isaiah 61:1-4 
 
In Isaiah 61, the prophesized Suffering Servant speaks to his people Israel, and says that he has been anointed by God to heal, and set people free from oppression, and to proclaim the good news of God's rule; in other words, he says that he will bring everything that was supposed to come in the OT year of Jubilee. Jesus quotes these verses as he began his ministry, and he actually fulfilled it in his ministry, death, and resurrection.
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  • Dec 21, 2023Protagonist “Jesus and Jubilee”
    Dec 21, 2023
    Protagonist “Jesus and Jubilee”
    Series: Protagonist
    Isaiah 61:1-4 
     
    In Isaiah 61, the prophesized Suffering Servant speaks to his people Israel, and says that he has been anointed by God to heal, and set people free from oppression, and to proclaim the good news of God's rule; in other words, he says that he will bring everything that was supposed to come in the OT year of Jubilee. Jesus quotes these verses as he began his ministry, and he actually fulfilled it in his ministry, death, and resurrection.
  • Dec 10, 2023Protagonist “The Wilderness and the Way”
    Dec 10, 2023
    Protagonist “The Wilderness and the Way”
    Series: Protagonist
    Isaiah 40:1-5
     
    Isaiah 40 is a word of comfort to a people in exile, that their sin has been paid for and their time of suffering for their transgression is over, and their anointed King is coming soon. This has been fulfilled beyond all imagining in Jesus, who received the wages that our sin deserves, and gave to us the wages that his obedience and righteousness deserved…life. 
     
  • Dec 3, 2023Protagonist “Stepping Into The Story”
    Dec 3, 2023
    Protagonist “Stepping Into The Story”
    Series: Protagonist
    Isaiah 64:1-4
     
    Isaiah's longing that God would rend the heavens and come down to redeem His people and His creation is fulfilled in Jesus, who in taking on our humanity is like an author writing himself into his story so that his characters and creations can know what he is like.