Isaiah 53:4-12
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Recap last week
Recap last week
Last week, we mentioned that Jesus fit the mold of how God does things, but he didnt fit the mold of how the Jews wanted to do things.
He was despised, yet he came.
He was rejected, yet he came.
A man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, but he came.
Men hid their faces from him, but he came.
He came out of a spiritually dry and dead people, but he came.
He came as a baby, but he came.
Last week, we highlighted the fact the Messaih that Isaiah is expecting, will be a Servant. It will be an unlikely King, but he will be a King who prospers.
And as we continue through this passage today, it is important to keep in mind the very first line of the Song.
Behold my servant will prosper.
Last week we discussed WHO the Suffering Servant would be, namely He would be a despised man, a man acquainted with grief.
But today, we are going to look at what this servant did.
Look in verse 4
What will this servant do?
Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
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He will come and bear our griefs.
The idea with here with the word grief is “misery resulting from my wrong doing”
The rightful ownership of my grief is me.
Isaiah is emphasizing this, here.
Jesus is not carrying any griefs that are His.
Any pain or grief that you and I have in this life. Ultimately, we can’t call unjust.
We rightfully deserve everything we get. I know thats tough to hear, but you should realize this.
It’s only when we truly realize the depth of our sin and the justice of God in punishing our sin, that we will truly appreciate the amount of grace and mercy in the statement, “Surely our griefs He Himself bore.”
Have you come to that point yet?
Do you realize that your sin, your lying, your cheating, you cursing, your idolatry, my sin, my lying, my cursing, my idolatry it deserves the just wrath of God?
Hear me out church: Today it is a popular thing for someone to cry out “It’t not fair! That’s not fair!”
Be advised: We don’t want what would be fair to us.
You are about to find out what would be fair to you
He carried our sorrows.
There is no reason at all for the Lord of all creation to be sorrowful.
How do you know that?
Where does sorrow come from?
It comes from imperfection, which comes from sin. Sorrow is rightly associated with those who are sinful but certainly not one who is sinless.
Jesus was perfect.
He has all things.
He is self sufficient.
He never envies anything.
If God’s Son is sorrowful, it is because he took our sorrows.
All this grief and sorrow comes from sin, our sin your sin.
He was stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God.
But don’t miss the part where it says “we ourselves esteemed Him stricken.”
The idea here is that we, us, ourselves… we deserved that, but we sit by as he takes it for us.
I deserved to be stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God, but the Suffering Servant bore that.
He goes on:
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.
Look in verse 5-6
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. 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.
And here we see the heart of the Gospel.
The Servant Suffers because of me.
The heart of the Gospel is substitution.
Jesus in my place, because of me, and because of His grace.
First lets look at the negative results in verse.
He is:
Pierced
Crushed
Punishment
Wounds
He goes further here than he had before. Not only does he take the mental and spiritual anguish that is mine because of my sin (Sorrow and Grief).
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There is physical pain that is mine that he takes as well.
There is physical pain and punishment that I deserve as well.
He’s pierced for our transgressions.
He’s crushed for our iniquities.
He’s punished.
And He will be hurt deeply. Wounds imply deeps scars.
and He does all this for the positive of verse 5:
Peace and Healing- seems odd doesn’t it...
He gets grief and sorrows, I get well being and peace.
He got pierced, crushed, chastened, scourged, and I get healing.
And this is not because I have done something to merit it. It isn’t because God saw a better person in me than he saw in someone else.
In fact, we all are disqualified from peace and well being and healing in and of ourselves.
Look what he says in verse 6
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.
All of us- no exclusions!!
Every man, woman, boy and girl has gone astray.
We have walked out of the fold of God’s righteousness that leads to blessing. In fact we are born with a nature and a proclivity toward this because of Adam and His representation for us.
We gone astray. From God’s Word. From God’s design.
You have gone astray from God’s design.
I have gone astray, and our going astray cannot be undone by us. We will not find our way back in by our doing.
Not by self help or seeking to better ourselves.
Not by
Not by religiosity
Not by coming to church.
Not by giving.
There is one way we are brought back after having gone astray and its found in the last half of verse number 6.
The Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.
Paul says it this way in
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Jesus, on the cross, was my substitute and any other believer’s substitute.
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He has paid the debt I owed, and he did so as a humble servant.
Remember what we were compared to in verse 6.
We all like sheep have gone astray.
Look in verse 7.
He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth.
Jesus came as one of us.
The difference is, this sheep, this lamb never wandered, this lamb never deviated from the purposes of God.
This Lamb walked on a B line to a cross, where he would died for all His wandering scattered sheep. Never once opening his mouth to defend himself. Never once did he refuse his dying.
He was led to His slaughter for our benefit.
Verse 8
By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?
He was arrested, sentenced to die at the hands of wicked men for a crime he did not commit.
And he was killed. “cut off from the land of the living.” What’s interesting is that this is language of cursing in the Old Testament under the old covenant.
People who had broken the Law were cut off from the people.
This means two things. They were ostracized or They were killed. He clarifies here when he says he was cut off from the land of the living. Its a covenantal way of saying he became cursed for us and died.
And for what? Again we see:
For the transgression of the people to whom the stroke was due.
He took the stroke for me. for you.
verse 9
His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
Pure even to the grave.
Being with a rich man in death refers to the tomb borrowed from the rich man Jospeh of Arimethea found in
But what is the result of all of this?
Sure he can take my place, but why would that matter if he was any other man?
We hear plenty of stories of men and women jumping in front trouble for to save their children.
Is this like one of those instances or is there something greater here?
Look in verse 10-12
But the Lord was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
But the Lord was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand. As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong; Because He poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors.
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4 words I want you to pay attention to in these 3 verses.
The first is found in verse 10
Pleased- Jesus came on Christmas to please.
The Lord was pleased.
The Lord was pleased.
What is the goal of salvation?
What is the goal of salvation?
What is the goal of Christ?
What is the goal of Christ?
To please God.
To please God.
Think about this for a moment, this hasn’t been the case ever since the beginning.
Think about this for a moment, this hasn’t been the case ever since the beginning.
But God in Christ will make things right again.
But God in Christ will make things right again.
Satisfied (verse 11) Jesus came on Christmas to satisfy.
The anguish of the Suffering Servant will serve to satisfy God’s wrath that is supposed to be mine.
Justify (verse 11) Jesus came on Christmas to justify.
I am counted righteous because of Christ.
in the courtroom of God I am found guilty, but because the guiltless one took my punishment, took my wrath, and took my sin, and God in his grace has called me to himself and gave me the gift of faith, I stand before him as if I had never sin.
Interceded. Jesus came on Christmas to intercede.
Spurgeon quote of justification
He stands between me and God.
How could I ever plead my case before a Holy God?
I have no legs to stand on when I consider my sinfulness.
On the other hand though.
The one who intercedes for me is so great that Paul can say
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
This Old Testament passage gives us a picture of what Christ was going to do when he came into the world.
This Christmas, lets celebrate that he did it.
He pleased, He satisfied, He justifies, He intercedes.
Do you know that Savior?
If you do, I can’t imagine anything in this world that would keep you from celebrating His birth.
If you don’t know this Savior, but you would like to know how you can, please come see me at anytime, Trust in Christ alone for salvation today.