Who Hath Believed Our Report? is a sermon teaching us that the purpose and the prophecy of the crucifixion is told in Isaiah Chapter 53. Written 712 years before the events actually happened, the prophecy accurately describes every detail surrounding Jesus Christ’s trial, crucifixion, and resurrection. More than 1,000 years before it happened, the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus was prophesied by David in Psalms 22. If you have no other reason to believe the Bible than this, that should be enough. If you have no other reason to believe the Bible to be saved than this, that should be enough.
It is not possible that the words we read in Psalms 22 and Isaiah 53 and the events we read about in the gospels and the Book of Acts are coincidence. It is not possible that the writers of the New Testament faked the events to coincide with the prophecies. The only way it is possible is that Jesus Christ is who he is professed to be: Emmanuel, God with Us, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
Christ died for us while we were yet sinners. He was made the transgressor for us to make intercession before God on our behalf so that we can be reconciled to God. Let us be emboldened and share the Gospel with others, for the world is lost and in need of being saved.
Who Hath Believed Our Report? sermon starts with verses from Psalms 22:1-22:
1 (To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.) My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?Ā why art thou soĀ far from helping me,Ā and fromĀ the words of my roaring?
2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But thouĀ artĀ holy,Ā O thouĀ that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6 But IĀ amĀ a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head,Ā saying,
8 He trusted on the LORDĀ thatĀ he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9 But thouĀ artĀ he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hopeĀ when I wasĀ upon my mother’s breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thouĀ artĀ my God from my mother’s belly.
11 Be not far from me; for troubleĀ isĀ near; forĀ there isĀ none to help.
12 Many bulls have compassed me: strongĀ bullsĀ of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon meĀ withĀ their mouths,Ā asĀ a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: they lookĀ andĀ stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
Also verses from Isaiah 53:1-12:
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him,Ā there isĀ no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it wereĀ ourĀ faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But heĀ wasĀ wounded for our transgressions,Ā he wasĀ bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peaceĀ wasĀ upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neitherĀ was anyĀ deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath putĀ himĀ to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall seeĀ hisĀ seed, he shall prolongĀ hisĀ days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul,Ā andĀ shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide himĀ a portionĀ with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Acts 8:26-37:
26 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
30 And Philip ran thither toĀ him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?
35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
36 And as they went onĀ theirĀ way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See,Ā here isĀ water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
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Dr. Michael L. McClure
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