Surely He has Done it!
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Intro:
Intro:
Have you ever been drawn bad conclusion based on your limited understanding only to find out later the decision made was for your best interest?
The trip to Oklahoma canceled so they could save money to buy a house.
Concluding my dad did not care about his appearance based on his clothing not knowing he was sacrificing his own appearance for mine.
Always: Every decision the Lord makes on our behalf is in light of eternity not this present world. He is concerned about our earthly existence but he will not make decision that affect our eternal condition to satisfy our earthly desires. He loves us to much!
I. He suffered
I. He suffered
He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
(EXP)(3) Despite the many narratives of the gospel where it looks like Jesus was “the man” generally speaking the crowd was either co-opting him just for his miracles or actively antagonistic towards his mission. Actively working against what he was trying to accomplish. John pick this up in John 1:11-12
He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,
(11) John writing as an ole man 60 years after the events happened tells us that generally speaking Jesus was rejected by his own people. We see this at the end of his life when the crowd “cried out” we want Barrabas. The same people that on the Sunday prior were shouting “Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”
When we evaluate Jesus life we must let the prophets take precedent over any grandiose views we might have about him. Jesus was well acquainted with the pain of relational rejections. Notice what Isaiah says in Isaiah 49:7
7 This is what the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, says to one who is despised, to one abhorred by people, to a servant of rulers: “Kings will see, princes will stand up, and they will all bow down because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel—and he has chosen you.”
(7) “says to one who is despised, to one abhorred by people, to a servant of rulers” This one abhorred & despised by the people is the Messiah. Our Lord was generally hated by everyone. There was no circles he could go in for solaces. This may have been why he would go to gentiles areas to pray and rest just so he could get a break for the vitriol he was enduring from his own people.
(3) “a man of suffering who knew what sickness was” the subject matter of this prophetic poem of Isaiah is the pain of rejection. The suffering here is the pain that is associated with deep rejection. Don’t forget that outside of Mary at the time of his death even his own brothers and sisters rejected him Notice John 7:5
For not even His brothers were believing in Him.
John tells us that Jesus could not even take solace at home with his family due to the nature of his ministry, and his brothers aversion to be singled out as being related to him.
Application
Saints Jesus knows the pain of relational rejection.
Saints our Lord knows what it means to be lonely. He knows what it means to have to go against the grain of the world.
Transition Statement-Our suffering Lord move past the emotional pain of rejection because he had a greater purpose in mind and that was to complete the mission his Daddy sent him on.
II. He carried
II. He carried
Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
(EXP)(4) Isaiah in this poem is trying to bring clarity to an area of confusion among the children of Israel. Jesus did not have the look of a king nor did he seek the same thing Kings do, and that is exert yourself for power. Isaiah picks up on this in this poem. Isaiah is taking us behind the veil. He is acknowledging Jesus did not look like a king, nor did he move like a king, but there was a reason and it is found in these several verses.
(4) Surely (Most definitely) he “bore” our grief and carried our sorrows.
What is the root cause of all emotional, spiritual and mental grief?
Sin is the root. Peter help us exegete this text. In 1 Peter 2:24
24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
(24) Saints He don’t need to speculate anymore are argue about what Isaiah is talking about because Peter is quoting this verse to tells us what the griefs and sickness were. Notice what it says “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree” now Peter is looking after the crucifixion he saw what Isaiah was prophesying. This tells us that Isaiah was conveying that Our Lord “bore” or was “carrying” our sins in his body on the cross via “Imputation”
(4) “Surely our griefs He Himself bore” notice Isaiah syntax. Peter also borrows the same syntax when he quotes Isaiah 53:4 this tells you that the syntax of this verse is important. If we were to word this in English we would just say “Surely our griefs he bore”
The Hebrew pronoun “He” is emphatic. And Peter understood this when he quoted this verse in another language “greek” He says “He himself”
What do you think Isaiah is trying to communicate by using the emphatic pronoun “He” in this verse?
He did it all by himself. He was the lone sacrifice.
(4) “Yet we ourselves esteemed him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted” while in our rebellious state we were not able to see that he was being smitten for our sins, we thought he was paying for his own sins.
Can you imagine the audacity of mocking or making light of the Messiah calamity thinking he is paying for something he did, but actually he is paying for your rebellion?
Lets go to the cross: Matthew 27:39-44
39 And those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads
40 and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”
41 In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking Him and saying,
42 “He saved others; He cannot save Himself. He is the King of Israel; let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in Him.
43 “He trusts in God; let God rescue Him now, if He delights in Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”
44 The robbers who had been crucified with Him were also insulting Him with the same words.
(39) The Passover crowd was clowning him
(41) The Preacher were clowning him
(44) Even the criminals were clowning him
His boys the disciples were not where to be found, scared to be associated with him.
I can hear some of yall, if I was there I would have been worshipping Jesus?
I can’t get some of yall to come to bible study consistently but you were going to stand up for Jesus while he is bleeding out on the cross with the Religious leaders scanning the crowd looking for Jesus worshippers.
When I was helping the local boys and girls club bible study in Kalamazoo and the young girls said those Roman Soldiers were in big trouble for what they did to Jesus. It was in that moment I had an epiphany as a young bible student it was use who put him on the cross. The Roman Soldiers were simple the vessel of execution. The direct cause was our sin.
Transition Statement: Saints we need some healing
III. He healed
III. He healed
But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed.
(EXP)(5) Notice the grammar in the poem from Isaiah. Let do a little work. It’s called find the pronoun.
Isaiah: A Covenant to Be Kept for the Sake of the Church c. A Substitute for Sinners (53:4–6)
He
(EXP)(5) The poet/prophet Isaiah is trying to convey something. In theological terms he is describing “the divine exchange” this is called Imputation.
Define Imputation: In the Bible, imputation refers to the legal act of God crediting something to someone's account, or reckoning it as if it belonged to them.
In the garden Adam’s Sin was imputed to us. or added to our spiritual bank account.
At the cross our sin was imputed to Christ
At the Resurrection his Righteousness was imputed to us
Analogy
When Cori married me I put her on my bank account. This made her a legal recipient of all that was in my account. Although she did not earn the money in my account she had all the rights and privileges of what was there simple because we are in a marital relationship.
Also I am now on the hook for any and all debt she has accumulated because her financial obligations were now imputed back to me as well.
When Jesus save you He added you to his eternal bank account and he took on all of your debts as his own. And he did this because you were willing to come into a covenant relationship with him. Everyone does not get this benefit. One must choose to to marry him to get this benefit.
Justification is God’s act of remitting the sins of guilty men, and accounting them righteous, freely, by his grace, through faith in Christ, on the ground, not of their own works, but of the representative lawkeeping and redemptive blood-shedding of the Lord Jesus Christ on their behalf.
J. I. Packer
(5) “and we are healed by his wounds” In 1 Peter 2:24
24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
Peter helps us to see that Jesus death on the cross provided instantaneous healing spiritual. Listen to Paul in Colossians 2:13-14
When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,
having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
Paul tells us you were once dead in your sin and he made you alive. This was instant. The minute you accepted Christ your spirit was quickened and you came to life.
But this text is also promising something else.
(5) “and we healed by his wounds” This text promises physical healing. Notice who else quotes this text. Matthew 8:17
When evening came, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill.
This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: “He Himself took our infirmities and carried away our diseases.”
(16-17) Matthew quoted Isaiah 53 in relation to Jesus earthly healing ministry, and Peter quoted related to Spiritual Healing. Matthew focused on the physical and Peter focus on the Spiritual healing of this beautiful Poem in Isaiah.
How do we reconcile this divergent interpretation of the prophesy in Isaiah?
Isaiah promises both Physical and Spiritual in this text.
Spiritual healing is instant and Physical healing is future. Both are guaranteed.
When Jesus healed on earth everyone of the people he healed eventually died. Thier healing was temporary. The prophecy promises something far better than temporary healing it promises eternal physical healing from all infirmities. Listen to Paul talk about this body in 1 Corinthians 15:51-55
Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory.
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
In justification, the sinner is not only pardoned, he is promoted.
John Blanchard
Transition statement-Here is the Gospel in the book of Isaiah
IV. He payed
IV. He payed
All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.
(6) All of us like sheep have gone astray. The universality of sin. Romans 3:10-11
as it is written:
There is no one righteous, not even one.
There is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.
“But the Lord” Thank the Lord today for this coordinating conjunction. The “but” conjunction is used to connect two independant clauses that contrast each other.
First Clause: Each of us has turned to his own way;
Second Clause: But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The First Clause is “Our sin” and the Second Clause is “grace”
Saints this is the Gospel in the book of Isaiah!!!!
V. He was raised
V. He was raised
11 After his anguish, he will see light and be satisfied. By his knowledge, my righteous servant will justify many, and he will carry their iniquities.
(EXP)(11) After his anguish(When he is suffering) when yelled out “it is finished” and gave up his spirit. His anguished ended.
(11) “He will see light and be satisfied” Saints Isaiah is describing Sunday morning right here. Sometime during the twilight of the morning he rose from the grave!!!!
(11) By his knowledge My righteous servant will justify many!!!
Are you part of the “many”?
Well today you can be
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