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John the Baptist knew Isaiah’s prophecies. So did Jesus - the one John identified as the Lamb of God. In January, we’ll read the gospel of Luke. In Luke 4 we will find that Jesus used this passage from Isaiah as the text for a sermon he preached in his hometown synagogue. I came, Jesus said, to bring good news to the poor.
- Isaiah portrays an upside-down world. In the world we know, the poor get very little good news, the brokenhearted usually stay sad, and captors seldom set their captives and prisoners free. What power did Isaiah count on to reverse the known order of things? How appealing does Isaiah’s world sound to you?
- We know Jesus found his sense of calling, his “personal mission statement,” in this passage. To what extent do you, as Christ’s follower, also sense that these verses are speaking to you about your purpose in life? How has God equipped you to be actively involved in helping to bring about the changed world of Isaiah’s vision?
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