Good Friday: Isaiah 53

Intro

Had Elders read full chapter

Could’ve started in Is 52:13

Prophesied 700 years before Christ

Jesus fulfilled all of this

Some call it the 5th Gospel

Many Rabbi’s forbid Jews to read it

Read Isaiah 53:10-11

Pleased the Lord vs. 10a

Jesus was not a martyr, nor was His death an accident.

He was God’s sacrifice for the sins of the world

Jesus was no victim of circumstance or at the mercy of political or military power.

It was the planned, ordained work of the LORD God, prophesied by Isaiah hundreds of years before it happened.

This was God’s victory, not Satan’s or man’s triumph.

2 Corinthians 5:19 ESV

that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

The Father and the Son worked together at the cross.

Even as Jesus was punished as if He were a sinner, He was performing the most holy service to God the Father ever offered.

This is why Isaiah can say, yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him (Isaiah 53:10).

In and of itself, the suffering of the Son did not please the Father. But as it accomplished the work of reconciling the world to Himself, it was completely pleasing to God the Father.

Offering for Guilt vs. 10b

The Hebrew speaks of a specific, sacrificial sin-offering as described in Leviticus 5.

The idea of a substitutionary atonement for sin cannot be more specifically stated.

Grace is love that has paid a price, and sinners are saved by grace

Labor of Soul vs. 11a

The cross was a labor of Christ’s soul

He not only endured the punishment and humiliation, but he also experienced the separation from His father

The cross was work but it satisfied God’s wrath

The death, the burial, the offering of the Messiah does not end the story. He lives on!

He lives to see His seed, His spiritual descendants. 

He shall prolong His days, and not be under the curse of death.

And the life He lives after His death and burial is glorious; His life shall be lived prospering in the pleasure of the LORD.

Make Many Righteous vs. 11b

His labor will make many righteous

Justice can only condemn the wicked and justify the righteous, but grace justifies the ungodly when they trust Jesus Christ! (Isa. 53:11; Rom. 4:5)

To justify means “to declare righteous.”

He took our sins that we might receive the gift of His righteousness

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Justification means that God declares believing sinners righteous in Christ and never again keeps a record of their sins.

Bear Their Iniquities vs 11c