1. The Great Exchange Isaiah 53:5-6

2. Isaiah 53: 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

3. Isaiah 53: 4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.

4. Isaiah 53: 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

5. Isaiah 53: 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

6. What makes it the Best Exchange? A. Fulfilled Promise

7. Isaiah 53: 5 But he was pierced (wounded) for our transgressions, he was crushed (bruised) for our iniquities; the punishment (chastisement) that brought us peace was upon him,

8. What makes it the Best Exchange? A.Fulfilled Promise  His death for my life is the best and complete exchange.

9. Hebrews 10 12 Jesus our High Priest offered one sacrifice for sins for all time. Then he sat down at the right hand of God. 14 By that one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

10. Romans 6: 3 Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, 4c we too may live a new life.

11. Romans 6: 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

12. What makes it the Best Exchange? A.Fulfilled Promise B.Fruitful Present

13. Isaiah 53: 5b...and by his wounds we are healed.

14. Romans 5 Peace and Joy 1 We have been made right with God because of our faith. Now we have peace with him because of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through faith in Jesus we have received God's grace. In that grace we stand. We are full of joy because we expect to share in God's glory.

15. What makes it the Best Exchange? A.Fulfilled Promise B.Fruitful Present  His peace and healing for my joy is the best and continuing exchange.

16. Isaiah 53: 4 Surely he took up our infirmities (grief) and carried our sorrows,

17. The Best & Great Exchange: My weariness for His strength My weariness for His strength My weakness for His power My weakness for His power My darkness for His light My darkness for His light My problems for His solutions My problems for His solutions

18. The Best & Great Exchange: My burdens for His freedom My burdens for His freedom My frustrations for His peace My frustrations for His peace My turmoil for His calm My turmoil for His calm My hopes for His promises My hopes for His promises

19. The Best & Great Exchange: My afflictions for His balm of comfort My afflictions for His balm of comfort My questions for His answers My questions for His answers My confusion for His knowledge My confusion for His knowledge My doubt for His assurance My doubt for His assurance

20. The Best & Great Exchange: My nothingness for His awesomeness My nothingness for His awesomeness The temporal for the eternal The temporal for the eternal The impossible for the possible The impossible for the possible Elizabeth George

21. The Best & Great Exchange: The uncertainties of the recession for His Sovereignty The insecurity of my job tenure for His plan, purpose and will All my lack for His abundant supply and provision

22. What makes it the Best Exchange? A.Fulfilled Promise B.Fruitful Present C.Flowing Power

23. Romans 6: 4 For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father,

24. 2 Corinthians 4: 14 We know that God raised the Lord Jesus from the dead. And he will also raise us up with Jesus. He will bring us with you to God in heaven.

25. What makes it the Best Exchange? A.Fulfilled Promise B.Fruitful Present C.Flowing Power  His life for my death to self is the best and current exchange.

26. Galatians 2 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

27. Romans 8:11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead,he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

28.  Holy life  Powerful life  Influential life  Victorious life