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To: PeterPrinciple

Isaiah 53 New International Version (NIV)

1
Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

4
Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

7
He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8
By oppression[a] and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.[b]
9
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.

10
Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
11
After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life[d] and be satisfied[e];
by his knowledge[f] my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
12
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[g]
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[h]
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.


94 posted on 06/30/2015 9:11:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger
For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Truer words were never written. But it's equally true that all those who spurn His love and die without repenting exclude themselves from His grace and face eternity in a very inhospitable place the gentle Jesus Himself called hell.

Therefore, as for the "utes" who die (or more likely killed) young and unrepentant, I'm sorry to say that their eternal abode won't be in God's heaven. And that's according to God's Word, not merely my opinion.

I don't say any of this out of hate or racism. As a born again child of God I don't hate anyone except the great deceiver Satan and his supernatural minions. Nor do I wish hell for anyone of any race, ethnicity, or religion, Christ died for sinners, not perfect human beings.(Although I have to admit that after watching the evening news I sometimes hope that all ISIS torturers and murderers suffer a rather lengthy period of excruciating physical pain just before they accept Christ. Is that a sin?)

106 posted on 06/30/2015 3:39:21 PM PDT by epow (Luke 22:36 -"if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one," (Would a Colt .45 be OK?))
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