The First Disciple!

Isaiah 50

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, February 20.

A disciple is a person who intentionally follows the ways and teachings of the master. The third Suffering Servant Song, found in Isaiah 50:4-9, teaches us a very important lesson about the Messiah:

The Lord God has given Me the tongue of disciples, that I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple. The Lord God has opened My ear; and I was not disobedient nor did I turn back. I gave My back to those who strike Me, and My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting. For the Lord God helps Me, therefore, I am not disgraced; therefore, I have set My face like flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed. … Let him draw near to Me. Behold, the Lord God helps Me; who is he who condemns Me? ….

Before Jesus called you to be His disciple, He was the first disciple of His Father (4-5). In other words, unlike Israel (1-3), the Suffering Servant of Israel would accurately learn what God wanted Him to learn, saying and doing what had been given for Him to do. Jesus testified to this truth in John 17:4, 7-8:

I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. … Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

God bless you!

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