Isaiah 42:1-9

The Old Testament was the lens through which the early church saw the life of Jesus. Holding the Old and New Testaments together offers us a kind of “binocular” vision instead of the lack of depth perception we get when we only view either by itself.

In this guide I’m going to approach Isaiah 42 squarely in light of Jesus, rather than digging deep into the context and textual difficulties of Isaiah. This will be, in essence, a canonical approach, because I suspect that it will be a more congenial angle for preaching on this passage. For great options that would go deeper into the text of Isaiah by itself, see this post from TGC.

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