{"id":3711,"date":"2013-05-13T09:49:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T09:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:25:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:25:54","slug":"the-suffering-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3711","title":{"rendered":"The Suffering Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin to muse today from Isaiah 52:13-15 and the theme of <strong><em>Isaiah&#8217;s Christ<\/em><\/strong>. We will begin to look today at <strong><em>the suffering Christ<\/em><\/strong>. In our text we see <strong><em>the marred face of Christ.<\/em><\/strong> In verse 13 we see Christ is in an exalted place. In verse 14 He leaves the exalted\u00a0 state and condescends to a state of humiliation seen in His face. Isaiah was\u00a0astoined when he saw the face of the crucified Christ. It was freakish and nonhuman. I first saw my father years ago after open-heart surgery and his head was swollen and freakish looking. Our Lord said\u00a0in Psalms 22 that His heart melted and ran into His bowels. Why would He do this? I cannot speak for you\u00a0but I know this He did it for me. In verse 15 He was exalted back to a king on throne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin to muse today from Isaiah 52:13-15 and the theme of Isaiah&#8217;s Christ. We will begin to look today at the suffering Christ. In our text we see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5427,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}