A Famine Not of Bread

Click here to listen to this sermon. "He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:3–6). Cindy, Erica, Chris, Craig, Nick, other family members and friends of Bart: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! Well, it appears that death has kept its perfect record intact. God had warned the first man and woman to not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, “for in the day that you eat of it, ...