The First Gospel Part 34: The Gospel According to Isaiah | Josh Harrison

28/09/2025 41 min
The First Gospel Part 34: The Gospel According to Isaiah | Josh Harrison

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Over the past several months, we’ve walked through the Old Testament—not as a collection of moral tales or distant history, but as a living, unified story pointing toward a singular hope. In our new “First Gospel” series, we considered how, woven through the warnings of prophets and the failures of kings, God was preparing a different kind of answer: not simply a fresh set of rules, but a person. Isaiah’s vision isn’t just about a future king or an ethical teacher, but about the astonishing promise of a suffering servant—one who would not shout or crush, but who would bear our brokenness and, through compassion, change everything. This is the Gospel According to Isaiah: cycles of striving give way to grace, and the world begins anew with a quiet, gentle hope.

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