DID YOU KNOW?
In the 53rd chapter of the book of Isaiah, we are given one of the clearest prophecies of the suffering and dying Messiah:

“Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to afflict Him, and if He would make His life an offering for sin…”

In ancient times, one of the sacrifices offered in the Temple was called the Asham, the guilt offering.
But here is the paradox: Asham does not only mean guilt offering, but it also means “the guilt” itself.

The sacrifice could only remove the guilt of the one offering it by first becoming the guilt.

That is the mystery Isaiah reveals.

Isaiah describes the Messiah as wounded, pierced, and crushed for our sins. But in the original Hebrew, the prophecy goes even further, it declares that His life would become an Asham.

This is extraordinary.

The word Asham is the same word used in Leviticus for the animal sacrifices offered by the priests to redeem the guilty. Yet in Isaiah 53, the Asham is no longer an animal.

It is a Man.

Jesus is the Asham.

That means Jesus did not only die to take away your guilt, but He also became the guilt.

When you look at the cross, you are not only seeing a sacrifice, but you are also seeing your guilt nailed there.

Every failure.
Every shameful memory.
Every regret.
Every accusation.

If Jesus is the Asham,
and the Asham is the guilt,
then when the Asham died…

Your guilt died with Him.

It did not survive the cross.
It was not buried and resurrected.
It is finished, completely and forever.

As Jesus declared:
“It is finished.”

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TODAY:
Take every regret, every shame, and every guilt you have ever carried
and give it to Jesus—your Asham.

Forgive yourself.
Receive His forgiveness.
And let it go—FOREVER.

The guilt is dead.
The sacrifice has been made.
And you are free.