Messiah as Well
The two terms, “servant” and “anointed” were used to refer to the Messiah as well. As we see he was no ordinary servant, he was god’s righteous servant. Other servants make mistakes from time to time, but jesus Christ, as god’s righteous servant, never once make a mistake, making him the servant of all servants. Hence he is righteous servant to help those suffering people.
Modern Christian churches tend to be much more concerned with how humanity can be saved from a universal condition of sin and death than the question of how both Jews and Gentiles can be in God’s family. According to both Catholic and Protestant doctrine, salvation comes by Jesus’ substitutionary death and resurrection. The Catholic Church teaches that salvation does not occur without faithfulness on the part of Christians; converts must live in accordance with principles of love and ordinarily must be baptized. Martin Luther taught that baptism was necessary for salvation, but modern Lutherans and other Protestants tend to teach that salvation is a gift that comes to an individual by God’s grace, sometimes defined as “unmerited favor”, even apart from baptism.
