Sixth Sunday in Lent, Liturgy of the Palms Isaiah 50:4-9a

Lent 2024: Do This in Remembrance

Remembering the Servant's Ascent

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The Servant of the Lord

This is the third of Isaiah’s four “Servant Songs,” which display the posture of the true and perfect Servant of the Lord. There are, of course, different perspectives on who the servant is—the prophet himself, the Messiah, or some vague other servant—but it does not take a lot of homiletical or theological gymnastics to reconcile them while still affirming that they point forward to Jesus himself.  One can still ponder how one’s own…