Isaiah 61:01-11
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion--to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.
For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them.
I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
The unnamed voice in 61:1 is that of the Servant. The passage is sometime seen as a fifth Servant Song. Jesus announces his mission by reading these words. In 61:5-9 God's people become the nation of priests he always intended them to be, breaking into a song of praise.
Why?
Jesus Christ is the servant of the Lord, who proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.
This is character of the Lord who love justice and hate robbery and wrongdoing. In God's faithfulness he will reward his people and makes an everlasting covenant with them.
God gives us a position like bridegroom adorns his head like a priest. To serve the Lord forever.
How?
Follow Jesus Christ to be a servant of the Lord, love justice, hate robbery and wrongdoing.
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