Redeemer Church of Oklahoma City

Isaiah prophesied that the Lord’s servant “makes intercession for the transgressors.” Over in Luke 22, on that Maundy Thursday evening, he says to Peter, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you.” There Jesus is making intercession for a transgressor. Why does [...]

Isaiah prophesied that the Lord’s servant shall “make many to be accounted righteous.” Boston University Sociologist, Peter Berger, wrote in 1987: The essence of apostasy is always the same–seeking salvation not in the grace of Christ heard with faith, but rather in what Paul calls the works of the Law. We often think of apostasy [...]

Isaiah prophesied that “out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied.” Whether it’s the cattle trough of Christ’s birth, the many escapes from people trying to kill him, the rejection, the despising, the slander and gossip, the tears, the garden of Gethsemane, the trials, the horrors of the cross or [...]

Isaiah prophesied that “it was the will of the Lord to crush him.” What a strange thing to hear! It was the will of the Father to crush the Son. Richard Niebuhr famously commented over 60 years ago that 20th Century modern Christianity preached that: A God without wrath brought men without sin into a [...]