Isaiah 53:1-9 (ESV) & Matthew 8:14-17 (ESV) - There are things that people are just used to, even if they aren’t really all that great. When you live near an airport or by a train yard, the noise gets to you at first. But once you’ve lived there long enough, you get used to the sound. Or consider sickness and disease. We’ve lived with the threat of these things for literally our entire lives, but we rarely think about the possibility of a world without them. And yet, from the Bible’s perspective, sickness is an intruder in God’s creation. It’s not supposed to be this way, and yet it clearly is. Sickness came into this world because of sin, along with every other misery that we experience, up to and including death. But our passage will show us that Jesus Christ came into this world in order to remove the power of sickness in the world. As we see this, we will also see that Jesus has taken away sin’s power on the cross of Calvary.