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This abandoned hospital building looks ready for demolition. And yet, it seems to have recently had fresh tarmac laid, complete with new kerbing. Maybe someone still believes it has potential.
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The Jewish prophet Isaiah described the rejection of the Messiah more than 700 years before He came to Israel:
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes [wounds] we are healed.
(Isaiah 53:3-5)
When He first came, Jesus Christ (the Greek word for 'Messiah') was despised and rejected. Ultimately, He offered Himself as a substitutionary sacrifice to pay the price for our sins. He's coming again as Judge, and only those who believe and trust in Him will be saved:
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
(John 3:18)
d e s p i s e d • a n d • r e j e c t e d
This abandoned hospital building looks ready for demolition. And yet, it seems to have recently had fresh tarmac laid, complete with new kerbing. Maybe someone still believes it has potential.
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The Jewish prophet Isaiah described the rejection of the Messiah more than 700 years before He came to Israel:
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes [wounds] we are healed.
(Isaiah 53:3-5)
When He first came, Jesus Christ (the Greek word for 'Messiah') was despised and rejected. Ultimately, He offered Himself as a substitutionary sacrifice to pay the price for our sins. He's coming again as Judge, and only those who believe and trust in Him will be saved:
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
(John 3:18)