The Weight Of The World Was On His Shoulders!

Isaiah 53

The weight of the world is on their shoulders!

1. We often make this statement towards people who seem to be burdened down and carrying a lot of weight.

CARRY THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD ON YOUR SHOULDERS definition: to have very many troubles or responsibilities

Many things can bring this about.

Sickness

Burden

Consequences

2. This statement we make does not do justice to what it really would be like to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders.

I mean the world is actually in a mess.

Look at all the turmoil.

Look at all the fighing, all the war.

Look at all the hatred.

Look at all the poverty.

Look at all the underpriveleged.

Look at all the sickness.

Look at all the problems.

Look at all the sin.

I mean to truly carry the weight of the world would be to carry every problem , every situation, every circumstance, every sorrow, every sin, every single thing this world has.

What if there was someone who carried the weight of the world on their shoulders.

3. You see tonight, we are here to remember and reflect upon what our Lord jesus has done for us on the cross of calvary!

4. It was a heavy weight to carry to have to go through what He had to go through.

Explain

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5. What we often don’t see is what He had to carry in the spiritual.

King James Version (Isaiah 53:3-4)

He is despised and rejected of men;

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:

And we hid as it were our faces from him;

He was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4  Surely he hath borne our griefs,

And carried our sorrows:

King James Version (Isaiah 53:5-6)

But he was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities:

The chastisement of our peace was upon him;

And swith his stripes we are healed.

6  All we like sheep have gone astray;

We have turned every one to his own way;

And the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

King James Version Chapter 53

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

Yet he opened not his mouth:

zHe is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,

And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,

So he openeth not his mouth.

8  ||He was taken from prison and from judgment:

And who shall declare his generation?

For he was cut off out of the land of the living:

For the transgression of my people was he stricken.

King James Version Chapter 53

And he made his grave with the wicked,

And with the rich in his death;

Because he had done no violence,

Neither was any deceit in his mouth.

10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:

iWhen thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin,

He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days,

And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

King James Version (Chapter 53)

He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:

By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many;

For he shall bear their iniquities.

12  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great,

And he shall divide the spoil with the strong;

Because he hath poured out his soul unto death:

And he was numbered with the transgressors;

And he bare the sin of many,

And made intercession for the transgressors.

6 times this text makes mention of a heavy weight using words like bearing , carrying, laid upon Him. But in every reference it was to sin sorrows and shame and guilt.

Surely he hath borne our griefs,

And carried our sorrows:

The chastisement of our peace was upon him;

And the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For he shall bear their iniquities.

And he bare the sin of many,

And made intercession for the transgressors.

It was not just the beating that He had to face. It was what He carried while He faced that cruel beating!

When He was in the garden.

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King James Version (Luke 22:44)

his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

King James Version (Matthew 26:36-42)

Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. 39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? 41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.

Betrayal.

As He was brought before the Sanhedrin.

As he went to pilates judgment hall.

Blasphemy.

As He went before the the people.

Barabbas

Murder, Stealing, Rejection.

As He went to the whipping post.

As He walked up Golgotha.

As He was being nailed to the Cross.

As He hung upon that Cross.

We can’t even begin to grasp. We cannot fathom what it was like to carry all the sins and sorrows of the world. Not only the sins and the sorrows but all the sickness and results of fallen mankind as well.

Illustration!

The sun ceased to shine upon the earth.

My God My God why hast thou forsaken me?

Into thine hands I commend My Spirit and He breathed the last!

King James Version (2 Corinthians 5:21)

21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

C.S. Lewis

In the Christian story God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity . . . down to the very roots and sea-bed of the Nature He has created.

But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him. One has the picture of a strong man stooping lower and lower to get himself underneath some great complicated burden. He must stoop in order to lift, he must almost disappear under the load before he incredibly straightens his back and marches off with the whole mass swaying on his shoulders.

He carried all of it! But He carried it to relieve it!

He lifted it to relieve it! He carried it so it can be taken off of you!

When He cried it is finished on the Cross and gave His life He dropped it so that you don’t have to carry it.

That’s what freedom truly is!

He came to remove it all!

All the guilt!

All the shame!

All the sin!

He came to replace it all!

Oil of gladness for the vessel filled with sadness.

Garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

King James Version (2 Corinthians 5:19-20)

God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.