Redemption’s Price
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Isaiah 53:10–12 (NLT)
(10) But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. 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.
(11) When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins.
(12) I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.
Introduction - The average cost today of raising a child from birth to age 18 is nearly a quarter million dollars.
Yet, there are parents that have more than one child. I’ve met some that had 6 or more.
Even though the price tag of raising children is high, most parents who love children don’t sit down and calculate the cost of having them and raising them.
In 2014 my eldest son graduated. Since I didnt know what college held for us after graduation, i made the decision to sell my motorcycle. I didnt want my pleasure riding to come between my son and what was best for him.
In our text we see our heavenly Father taking great risks in order to show us how much he loves us. God wasn’t haphazard in his decision. He had a plan.
Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.
And all the people who belong to this world worshiped the beast. They are the ones whose names were not written in the Book of Life that belongs to the Lamb who was slaughtered before the world was made.
Jesus paid the Price for our Redemption and the Divine Plan was in place before God made the world.
Isaiah 53 is about God's Plan for complete Redemption. Soul and body….no doubt redemption of the mind and heart.
I. God Had a Plan.
I. God Had a Plan.
Isaiah 53:10 (NLT)
But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. 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.
- God’s plan was…To Crush Him
- God’s Plan was… To Cause Him Grief
- God’s Plan was… To Make His Life a Offering for sin
God has a Plan.
Isaiah 53:10 (NLT)
But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. 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.
- God’s Plan is …..To Give Jesus MANY DESCENDANTS..This means you
- God’s Plan is…For Christ to enjoy a long life.
Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Since I live, you also will live.
Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.
- God’s Plan is… His plan to Prosper in the Hands of Jesus
What happened to the Hands of Jesus? They were nailed to the Cross.
Jesus was a carpenter, He knew how to work with wood. He worked the cross with His bear hands.
Colossians 2:14 (NLT)
He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.
II. God’s Plan is Perfect.
II. God’s Plan is Perfect.
Isaiah 53:11 (NLT)
When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins.
- God’s Plan is Perfect because it Accomplished
- God’s Plan is Perfect because it was Satisfied
- God’s Plan is Perfect because it made it possible for many to be counted righteous.
- Gods Plan is Perfect because Christ “Bore all our Sins”
III. God’s Plan Paid Redemption’s Price
III. God’s Plan Paid Redemption’s Price
Isaiah 53:12 (NLT)
I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.
- Christ has honor as a Victorous soldier
- Redemption’s Price was paid, because He exposed himself to death
- Redemption’s Price was paid, because Christ was counted among the rebels even though He himself was righteous
- Redemption’s Price was paid, because Christ bore the sins of many
- Redemption’s Price was paid, because Christ Interceded for us
Closing
The Sacrificial Skins
Wilfred Grenfell, famous missionary doctor to Labrador, had many hair-raising adventures, but one is told more than any of the others. On Easter Sunday in 1908, he received an urgent call to come and treat a gravely ill youth in a village sixty miles away. He harnessed his dog team and set out for the village as quickly as possible. This was the time of the Spring thaw, but to save time Grenfell decided to risk crossing the ice on the bay instead of winding around the rugged shoreline. It was an unwise decision, for the ice was breaking and shifting, and Grenfell and his dogs suddenly plunged into the icy water.
He managed to pull himself and three of his dogs onto a large chunk of ice, but the wind, bitterly cold, was driving the ice out to sea. To avoid freezing to death, Grenfell killed his three dogs and wrapped himself in their bloody skins. There he shivered through the long night. The following morning he was near death, but his friends, risking their lives, maneuvered between the surging ice chunks, to rescue him.
The story of his courage spread widely, leading many others to come serve with him in Labrador.
Even so, it was on Good Friday that we were wrapped in the righteousness of the Lamb who was slain for our salvation, and it was on Easter Sunday that we were rescued from a cold death by the sudden appearance of the Risen Lord.
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Here, we will have COMMUNION TOGETHER