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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?
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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:
Look in verse 5-6
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- 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
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.
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