{"content":[{"text":"Reading: Isaiah 52:13-53:12 \n Theme: Three Qs. \n We are used to people speaking of town or city centre events and \n places. We mean by it the hub of activity and what goes on there \n is usually of importance. That is why roadworks in the city centre \n often cause chaos, but celebration events usually mean people can \n get there easily. If you cycle, then you know that if you have a \n wheel out of line it will cause problems. No doubt we have seen \n “clown” bikes with the hub not central, looking so funny when \n ridden!","bbox":{"left":0.064133,"top":0.042456,"width":0.872632,"height":0.274615}},{"text":"In this 4th Servant song in Isaiah, we have seen that it has 5 parts \n or stanzas, each part has 3 verses. We have looked at the first two \n parts and now we move on to the 3rd and central section which \n focuses our attention on what was really happening (v4-6). Here \n in these verses we are looking at this central and very important \n section which in the Hebrew poetry are the pivotal verses. In v1-3 \n we noted that the Servant was totally misunderstood because of \n His seeming insignificance. We noted last time: \n 1. The astonished expression at unbelief (v1); \n 2. The apparent reason for unbelief (v2); \n 3. The active evil of unbelief (v3); \n 4. The antidote presented for unbelief. \n We saw this Servant was set as nothing, esteemed, valued at zero, \n as worthless, but v4-6 show us what was really happening. Let’s \n note 3 things:","bbox":{"left":0.064133,"top":0.339819,"width":0.872138,"height":0.41007000000000005}},{"text":"1. The Question - Anticipated and Answered. \n Sadly, people through the ages, even we now can look at this \n Servant and see only a mutilated thing, a piece of meat or broken \n humanity suffering. We too can reject or neglect Him. With many \n there is still a pitiful misunderstanding and v1-3 can be true of \n them, even of someone listening to this message! \n DEC 29-3-20 ~ 1 ~","bbox":{"left":0.064133,"top":0.772815,"width":0.872214,"height":0.20761299999999994}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}