The Wounded Model
Isaiah 53:2-5 - New International
Version (NIV)
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.
What did He have in His appearance “to attract us to him” (verse
2)?
How did “mankind” treat Him (verse
3)?
What did He “bear” (verse 4)?
Why was He “crushed” (verse 5)?
Where was the punishment “that brought us
peace” (verse 5)?
How are we “healed” (verse 5)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage show Jesus doing
that is important for us to see?
Luke 23:44-49 – New International Version (NIV)
44 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until
three in the afternoon, 45 for the sun stopped shining.
And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. 46 Jesus
called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my
spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.
47 The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and
said, “Surely this was a righteous man.” 48 When all the
people who had gathered to witness this sight saw what took place, they beat
their breasts and went away. 49 But all those who
knew him, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at
a distance, watching these things.
What
time was it (verse 44)?
How
long was darkness “over the whole land” (verse 44)?
What
“stopped shining” (verse 45)?
Where
was the curtain that “was torn in two” (verse 45)?
Into whose hands did Jesus “commit”
his spirit (verse 46)?
Who “praised God and said, “Surely
this was a righteous man”” (verse 47)?
What
did the “people who had gathered to witness this sight” do (verse
48)?
Where
were “all those who knew him, including the women who had followed him from
Galilee” (verse 49)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In
your opinion, what does this passage show Jesus doing that is important for us
to see?
In
your opinion, how could the servant “be despised and rejected” in Isaiah
53:2-5 but in Luke 23:44-49 the centurion could say about Him, “surely this
was a righteous man”?
Romans
6:1-8 –
New International Version (NIV)
1 What shall
we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By
no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any
longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were
baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We
were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that,
just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father,
we too may live a new life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will
certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For
we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body
ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be
slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set
free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with
him.
How does Paul answer the question “Shall we go on
sinning so that grace may increase” (verse 1)?
What were “all of us who were baptized into Christ
Jesus” baptized into (verses 2 and 3)?
Why were we “buried with him into death” (verse
4)?
What will we be united with Him in if “we have
been united with him in a death like his” (verse 5)?
Why was “our old self” crucified with Him (verse
6)?
What has happened to “anyone who has died”
(verse 7)?
What do we believe we will do “if we died with Christ”
(verse 8)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage show Jesus doing that is important for us to see?
In your opinion, how does Romans 6:1-8
help us understand how Jesus fulfills the prophecy that says “by his wounds
we are healed” in
Isaiah 53:2-5?
In
your opinion, how are the last words of Jesus in Luke 23:44-49 a model for all
who Romans 6:1-8 says are “buried with him through baptism into death”?
1
Peter 2:21-25 – New International Version (NIV)
21 To this you were
called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an
example, that you should follow in his steps.
22 “He committed no sin,
and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
23 When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate;
when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted
himself to him who judges justly. 24 “He himself bore
our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to
sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 25 For
“you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the
Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Who
did Christ suffer for (verse 21)?
How
should we respond to His suffering (verse 21)?
What
did Jesus not commit (verse 22)?
How
did Jesus respond to insults (verse 23)?
Who did Jesus entrust Himself to when He
suffered (verse 23)?
Why did Jesus bear our sins “in his
body on the cross” (verse 24)?
How have we been healed (verse 24)?
What were we like (verse 25)?
Who have we returned to (verse 25)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage show
Jesus doing that is important for us to see?
In your opinion, how
does 1 Peter 2:21-25 make it clear that Jesus is the one who Isaiah 53:2-5 said
would suffer so that “by his wounds” we would be healed?
In your opinion, how does Luke 23:44-49 affirm
that the one who 1 Peter 2:21-24 says healed us “by his wounds”, entrusted
“himself to him who judges justly”?
In your opinion, what do Romans 6:1-8 and
1 Peter 2:21-25 teach us about following “in the steps” of Jesus?
In
your opinion, what do these passages from Isaiah, Luke, Romans and 1 Peter teach
us about why Jesus, the righteous man, was punished and wounded?
In your opinion, in what ways should we model Jesus
for the world to see?
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