Dec. 6, 2025

Advent's Suffering Servant Day 6

Send us a text Start here if your soul needs quiet. Day Six of our Advent journey lingers over Isaiah 53, reading the whole passage aloud and letting its stark beauty do the work: a Servant with no impressive form, carrying grief that isn’t His, trading His wounds for our healing. We invited Lauren to voice the text so you can simply listen, breathe, and receive what this “Man of Sorrows” still offers—wholeness for the fractured, peace for the restless, and hope that outlives the dark. We un...

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Start here if your soul needs quiet. Day Six of our Advent journey lingers over Isaiah 53, reading the whole passage aloud and letting its stark beauty do the work: a Servant with no impressive form, carrying grief that isn’t His, trading His wounds for our healing. We invited Lauren to voice the text so you can simply listen, breathe, and receive what this “Man of Sorrows” still offers—wholeness for the fractured, peace for the restless, and hope that outlives the dark.

We unpack the core movement of the chapter: a truthful diagnosis of our straying hearts, a deliberate silence in the face of violence, and a surprising outcome where suffering becomes seed for life. Instead of hot takes, we practice stillness. Instead of polished answers, we sit with a story that refuses spin: He was pierced for our rebellion, and by His stripes we are healed. That exchange shapes how we carry our own pain, how we forgive those who wound us, and how we live awake to the quiet strength of Jesus.

As we close, we point forward with expectancy. Advent is not sentimental pause; it’s training our eyes to see the King who came low and will come again in glory. If you’ve been tired, cynical, or just numb, this gentle reading is a reset. Press play, share it with someone who needs hope, and walk with us through the days ahead as we keep our minds renewed and our eyes on Jesus. Subscribe, leave a rating so others can find the show, and send this episode to a friend who could use a steady word today.

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Rick

Be An Encourager...Not A Discourager!

Chapters

01:21 - Advent Series Invitation

02:54 - Day Six Setup With Lauren

03:06 - Isaiah 53 Reading

05:29 - Brief Reflection And Wrap

06:08 - Closing Exhortation And CTA

Transcript

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Hey, welcome to Renewed Mindsets.

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I'm Rick, and I'm so glad you're here.

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But this is something special.

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For the next 25 days, we're gonna slow down, we're gonna quiet our hearts, and we're gonna turn our eyes towards Jesus as we walk through Advent together.

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Now every day we'll take a few minutes to breathe and reflect and remember the hope that came into the world and the hope that's coming again.

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Hey, we are back.

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Advent day th day six.

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What day are we on?

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Definitely day six.

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Day six.

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Not day third, whatever that was.

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I don't know what that was, but we're on day six.

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Um I know you're excited because you heard her in the background.

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We got Lauren.

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Hey everybody.

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Hey, listen.

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I'm very excited.

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Listen, we've missed you this week.

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I had to fill a slot here with Ashton, who did a great job, but she's no Lauren.

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No, she did do a very good job.

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Yeah, she did.

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But we're gonna mix it up so you all don't have to listen to everybody the same day.

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Or I mean listen to the same person every day.

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I'm just not thinking straight, but I'm not even gonna go back and re-edit this because I've been sick and my brain's just not working.

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That's fine.

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And uh you kind of need to know when I'm not feeling right so you can pray for me.

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Anyway, we are on day six, we'll be in Isaiah chapter 53, and I'm going to uh I'm gonna pass it on to Lauren and let her go.

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Take it away, Lauren.

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Who has believed our message?

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To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?

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My servant grew up in the Lord's presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground.

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There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.

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He was despised and rejected, a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.

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We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.

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He was despised and we did not care.

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Yet it was our weaknesses he carried, it was our sorrows that weighed him down, and we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins.

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But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins, he was beaten so we could be whole, he was whipped so we could be healed.

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All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.

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We have left God's paths to follow our own.

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Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.

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He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word.

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He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep is silent before the shears, he did not open his mouth.

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Unjustly condemned, he was led away.

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No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short and midstream, but he was struck down for the rebellion of my people, he had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone, but he was buried like a criminal, he was put in a rich man's grave.

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But it was the Lord's good plan to crush him and cause him grief.

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Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants, he will enjoy a long life, and the Lord's good plan will prosper in his hands.

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When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied, and because of his experience, he my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins.

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I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier, because he exposed himself to death.

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He was counted among the rebels, he bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.

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Oh I did that the other day.

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Started talking and my microphone was turned down.

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I wasn't following along, I was just listening and kind of getting caught up in it and realized it was over.

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That was Isaiah 53, verses 1 through 12.

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I don't think I said it at the beginning.

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So if you've made it this long, now you know what you just listened to.

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It's pretty much the whole chapter of um of or the whole, yeah, the whole chapter 53.

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Gosh, I just can't talk tonight.

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Lauren, you gotta speak for me.

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Listen, you fix your brain.

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Okay.

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Something.

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All right, you know what we're gonna do?

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We're gonna be back tomorrow with day seven, and we'll have Lauren back.

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I'll probably talk less so she can talk more.

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We'll see ya.

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Bye.

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All right, thanks for joining me today on Renewed Mindsets.

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As we walk through Advent, let's stay expectant.

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Let's stay watching, praying, and keeping our hearts ready for the one who came and the one who's coming again soon.

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I love you.

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Let's keep our minds renewed and our eyes on Jesus.

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The executive producer of Renewed Mindsets is Christy McCurry.

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That's all for today, but I'll be back with more unfiltered biblical truth and undeniable prophecy.

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The time to wake up is now.

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If today's episode challenged you, don't keep it to yourself.

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Tell someone, please.

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Text them a link.

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Share the truth while there's still time.

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Jesus is coming soon.

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Stay watchful.

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Stay holy.

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Stay renewed.

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Until next week, I'm Rick.

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Be an encourager, not a discourager.

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I love you.

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See ya.

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The intro and outro music for the Renewed Mindsets podcast is Are You Ready by Floodgate.

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From the album Are You Ready?

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Copyright 2002, The Off Beat Ministries Incorporated.

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Floodgate can be found on Apple Music and iTunes.

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Music used with permission.

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