Shawn Ryan

That passage from Isaiah has led many Jewish people to faith in Jesus, like my friend Louis Lapidus.

So, you know, that's just one of many predictions, prophecies made hundreds of years in advance of the birth of Jesus on Christmas.

Wow.

That's really cool.

Isn't it cool?

Yes, it is.

Yeah, it's a picture.

Who would have thought that the Messiah –

would suffer, really?

I mean, that didn't make sense back then.

Why?

He was paying our transgressions.

He was paying for our sin.

Oh, really?

That's what the entire Jewish sacrificial system had foretold of the sacrificing of animals for sin.

It was a foreshadowing that ultimately the Son of God, who lived the perfect life, who was fully God and fully man, would pay the penalty of death so that...

Our sins would be paid for, and he could offer forgiveness and eternal life as a free gift of his grace.

The thing about Christmas is it makes no sense without Easter.

You know, Jesus did not just come into the world so he could show us how to live a good life.

He did that.