Kenny Grant preaches Isaiah 53, the passage behind the hymn "Man of Sorrows": the servant who was pierced for us.

Week 1 of Hymns. Philip P. Bliss drew "Man of Sorrows" from Isaiah's fourth Servant Song, written about 700 years before the cross. Kenny walks through Isaiah 52, verse 13 through Isaiah 53, verse 12, and five things about the servant's death: it was visible, violent, vicarious, voluntary and victorious. He was pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, and with his wounds we are healed. Hallelujah, what a Savior.

Chapters

0:00 Why the church sings hymns

4:22 Christian people are singing people

6:33 Man of Sorrows and Isaiah, the Bible in miniature

7:40 The four Servant Songs

9:32 Five aspects of the servant's death

12:05 Lifted up (Isaiah 52, verse 13)

15:58 Nobody is neutral about Jesus

18:53 Who has believed what he has heard from us? (Isaiah 53, verse 1)

21:25 A root out of dry ground (verse 2)

24:06 Despised and rejected, a man of sorrows (verse 3)

25:58 Pierced for our transgressions (verses 4 and 5)

29:09 All we like sheep have gone astray (verse 6)

30:43 Like a lamb to the slaughter (verses 7 and 8)

32:56 The wounds Jesus suffered

34:09 A grave with the rich (verse 9)

36:00 When man was at his worst, God was doing his best

38:16 He shall see and be satisfied (verse 11)

39:50 Numbered with the transgressors (verse 12)

41:05 Hallelujah, what a Savior

43:55 Surveying the cross

45:44 Closing prayer

Teaching Pastor Kenny Grant opens our Malachi series in Malachi 1, where God tells his people "I have loved you" and asks, "If then I am a father, where is my honor?" (1:6). Back in the land after the exile, Israel was going through the motions: questioning God's love, taking his name lightly and bringing him blemished offerings. Pastor Kenny calls us to give God our best, starting with ourselves, and to return to him in everyday devotion.

Chapters
0:00 Malachi: the last word before 400 years of silence
2:47 Lest we drift (Hebrews 2:1)
3:41 Malachi, the messenger (1:1)
5:54 "I have loved you" (1:2–5)
8:09 "Where is my honor?" (1:6)
8:55 You can say it with your life
9:35 Blind, lame and sick offerings (1:7–14)
13:05 Cold, casual, careless, calloused
13:31 From Abraham to the exile
21:20 Home again: Zerubbabel, Ezra and Nehemiah
24:15 Ingratitude, irreverence and insolence
26:36 Denying God's love (1:2–5)
31:11 Despising God's name (1:6)
32:52 Defiling God's altar (1:7–14)
34:17 The best thing to bring God is the giver
37:18 Back to Bethel: spiritual renewal (Genesis 35:1)
40:23 An everyday walk with Jesus
42:45 Prayer

Grant Troutt preaches Psalm 34, written as David fled Saul, from Gath to the cave of Adullam: God makes himself known as peace in the cave.

David had been anointed king, then spent years on the run from Saul. After fleeing Gath for the cave of Adullam, David wrote "I will bless the Lord at all times." Grant walks through the psalm: praise that doesn't wait for a feeling, boasting only in the Lord, seeking and crying out, tasting and seeing that the Lord is good, and the fear of the Lord. It ends at the cross, where the psalm's promise that not one bone would be broken was fulfilled in Jesus.

Chapters
0:00 Introducing Grant Troutt
0:45 Welcome and prayer
2:28 A cave season
3:22 Psalm 34: peace in the cave
5:37 David in Gath and the cave of Adullam
6:46 "I will bless the Lord at all times" (verse 1)
8:20 A ticket or a king?
9:21 "I never promised you a perfect reputation"
10:34 What is on your mouth?
11:25 How David's men learned to praise (verse 3)
12:49 Don't hold your praise in
14:12 "My soul makes its boast in the Lord" (verse 2)
16:52 I sought, he answered, he delivered (verses 4–6)
18:02 From a career-ending injury to new life
19:31 Treading a path to God
20:08 Glance at God or gaze at God?
21:26 "This poor man cried"
22:18 When he hasn't answered
24:50 "Don't deliver me until you've developed me"
26:04 Taste and see that the Lord is good (verses 7–8)
27:33 The fear of the Lord (verse 9)
31:48 Many are the afflictions of the righteous (verse 19)
32:20 Not one bone broken (verse 20; John 19)
34:32 Why three crosses?
36:12 An invitation to follow Jesus
40:14 Tanya Pruitt and UniteUS: never too young or too old