A Fresh Look at the Cross
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The Weight of the Word
The Weight of the Word
Who has believed what we have heard? And who has the arm of the Lord been revealed to?
The truth is that a relatively small number percentage wise would believe in Jesus, the Suffering Savior.
Jesus Himself said
“Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.
How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.
The Scorned Savior
The Scorned Savior
He grew up before Him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground. He didn’t have an impressive form or majesty that we should look at Him, no appearance that we should desire Him.
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. He was like someone people turned away from; He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.
The Suffering Savior
The Suffering Savior
Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses, and He carried our pains; but we in turn regarded Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on Him, and we are healed by His wounds.
We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished Him for the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughter and like a sheep silent before her shearers, He did not open His mouth.
He was taken away because of oppression and judgment; and who considered His fate? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was struck because of my people’s rebellion.
They made His grave with the wicked and with a rich man at His death, although He had done no violence and had not spoken deceitfully.
Contrast shows up over andover
bore sickness, carried pain- Must have been something He did
Pierced, crushed, wounded- we went astray
Quiet while he was oppressed afflicted cut off- people rebeled
grave with wicked and rich man,,, had done nothing.
The Crushed and Crucified Redeemer
The Crushed and Crucified Redeemer
Yet the Lord was pleased to crush Him severely. When You make Him a restitution offering, He will see His seed, He will prolong His days, and by His hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.
He will see it out of His anguish, and He will be satisfied with His knowledge. My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will carry their iniquities.
Therefore I will give Him the many as a portion, and He will receive the mighty as spoil, because He submitted Himself to death, and was counted among the rebels; yet He bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels.
The LORD WAS PLEASED TO CRUSH HIM.
It is not that God simply found some twisted pleasure in all that Jesus went through.
It was because of what the crushing would accomplish.
A Restitution OFFERING- This is a payment for sin offering to satisfy the guilt of the one who has sinned.
Through Jesus many sons and daughters will come to God.
Prolonged days--- Raised from the dead to live forever
Accomplishment of God’s will to save sinners.
Justification of many- Just as if I had never sinned. Declared righteous
Jesus gets the spoils— this is like a general who wins the war. The Bible says that Jesus has been given an super exalted name.
Every enemy will bow
Every soul who belongs to God will be the reward of Christ’s Suffering.