Good Friday 2020

Big Idea

Tension: How shall the servant be exalted if he is to disfigured and marred?

Resolution: Because in his suffering, he sprinkles the nations with his blood.

Exegetical Idea: God’s servant will be exalted in his disfiguration and marring because in this suffering, he sprinkles the nations with his blood.

Theological Idea: The suffering servant, Christ, is exalted because his suffering is our salvation.

Homiletical Idea: If his suffering is our salvation, then his humiliation is really his exaltation.

I. How will God exalt Christ?

vs. 13 - Christ will be exalted

vs. 14 - His suffering is beyond belief

vs. 15-52:1 - He will save the nations

II. The Suffering of the Servant (1-9)

He was a young root (2)

No particular beauty (2)

Shamed by men (3)

Irony - We thought God punished him for his own sins, but God punished him for our sins! (4)

He took the punishment for our sins (5a)

We take the reward for his actions (5b)

Like sheep we have gone astray, we have turned to our own way, but he is the one who is punished (6)

This is like unbelievable - like a silent sleep to the slaughter (7)

He was cut off and taken away - but his own generation never thought of it (8)

They shamed him in death though his life was righteous (9)

III. The exaltation of the servant

God delighted in crushing hiim (10)

God “made him sick” (he was made sin…) (10)

God’s will - the will of salvation - will prosper in his hand (10)

His suffering brings him satisfaction (11)

because he makes many righteous by taking their iniquity (11)

He will dwell with us in victory (12)

He poured out his soul - like a drink offering (12)

He was counted among the sinful - and makes transgression for them (12)

Implications

Christ is not egomaniacal if his exaltation is my salvation

Giving Christ my sins brings him the glory

Repeat the Big Idea: If Christ’s suffering is our salvation, then his humiliation is his exaltation.

Conclusion: What Wondrous Love is This