Isaiah 53:1 New Living Translation (NLT)

53 Who has believed our message?
    To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?

This photo was revealed me to while I was on social media and it did something to me. I believed it changed me honestly I do.

What happened to Christianity ? What happened to the understanding that he takes the foolish things of this world to confound the wise? What happened to the tax collectors and harlots entering into the kingdom of God? What happened and where did we go wrong?

We went wrong when we started talking about money more than the fact that Jesus was literally beaten, mocked, spat on, and humiliated for our sins. Our sins. You know all of that time that we fall , commit adultery, have premarital sex, and disobey His word. Us. He died for us so that we could repent and be happy. I have to ask, is it possible that so many have strayed away from the faith because we allowed it? Did we allow those who abuse and manipulate grace to teach in the pulpit while over looking the true anointed vessels because we wanted stardom? Or is it because we wanted a performance instead of the love of God?

The love of God. The love of Jesus. The love of Abba. He’s Good.

Can we just be in adoration? Can we really just love Him because He died for us and was humiliated for you? I’m tired of religion, Pharisees, and the abuse of the gospel. I just want Jesus. I love Him. I hope and pray that you encounter Him. I’m not talking about the mammon aspect. I’m talking about the fact that He is Abba.

Isaiah 53 New Living Translation (NLT)

53 Who has believed our message?
    To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
² My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot,
    like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
    nothing to attract us to him.
³ He was despised and rejected—
    a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
    He was despised, and we did not care.

⁴ Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
    it was our sorrows^[a] that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
    a punishment for his own sins!
⁵ But he was pierced for our rebellion,
    crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
    He was whipped so we could be healed.
⁶ All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
    We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
    the sins of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed and treated harshly,
    yet he never said a word.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
    And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,
    he did not open his mouth.
⁸ Unjustly condemned,
    he was led away.^[b]
No one cared that he died without descendants,
    that his life was cut short in midstream.^[c]
But he was struck down
    for the rebellion of my people.
⁹ He had done no wrong
    and had never deceived anyone.
But he was buried like a criminal;
    he was put in a rich man’s grave.

¹⁰ But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him
    and cause him grief.
Yet when his life is made an offering for sin,
    he will have many descendants.
He will enjoy a long life,
    and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands.
¹¹ When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish,
    he will be satisfied.
And because of his experience,
    my righteous servant will make it possible
for many to be counted righteous,
    for he will bear all their sins.
¹² I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier,
    because he exposed himself to death.
He was counted among the rebels.
    He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.