SF146 - BEHOLD THE LAMB (Isaiah 53 1-12)

@PAGE NUMBER = SF146

@TITLE = BEHOLD THE LAMB

@LEVEL ONE = ISA 53:1‑12; JOH 1:29; ACT 8:32‑35

@LEVEL ONE = INTRODUCTION

@LEVEL TWO = To See The Lamb Clearly Let's Turn To Isaiah 53

@LEVEL ONE = 1A.  HIS REJECTION (vv.1‑3)

@SCRIPTURE = JOH 1:11<R>He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.  They Rejected His Words

@SCRIPTURE = "report"

@SCRIPTURE = ISA 6:9‑10<R>And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.  Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.  They Rejected His Work

@SCRIPTURE = JOH 12:37‑40

@LEVEL TWO = 3B.  They Rejected His Person

@LEVEL THREE = 1C.  He was humble (v.2a)

@SCRIPTURE = "tender plant"

@LEVEL THREE = 2C.  He was human ‑ yet divine (v.2a)

@SCRIPTURE = "he shall grow up"

@LEVEL THREE = 3C.  He was hated (v.3)

@LEVEL FOUR = Despised ‑ not wanted, looked done upon

@LEVEL FOUR = Rejected ‑ forsaken by His disciples, His nation, and His world

@LEVEL FOUR = Lightly esteemed ‑ not valued highly

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@LEVEL ONE = 2A.  HIS REDEMPTION (vv.4‑6)

@SCRIPTURE = 2CO 5:21<R>For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

@SCRIPTURE = 1PE 2:24<R>Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

@LEVEL TWO = Notice The Price He Paid

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.  Physically

@LEVEL THREE = 1C.  Wounded or pierced (v.5)

@LEVEL FOUR = Refers to His death on the cross

@LEVEL FOUR = Pierced by nails

@SCRIPTURE = ZEC 12:10<R>And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

@LEVEL THREE = 2C.  Bruised (v.5)

@LEVEL FOUR = Means to be crushed ‑ as under a burden

@LEVEL THREE = 3C.  Chastised (v.5)

@LEVEL FOUR = Punished as though He had broken the law

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.  Spiritual

@LEVEL THREE = He bore our

@LEVEL THREE = 1C.  Transgressions (vv.5,8)

@LEVEL FOUR = Rebellion ‑ deliberant breaking of the Law of God

@LEVEL THREE = 2C.  Iniquities (vv.5‑6)

@LEVEL FOUR = The crookedness of our nature

@LEVEL FOUR = We are all sinners by nature and by choice

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@LEVEL THREE = 3C.  Griefs and sorrows (v.4)

@LEVEL FOUR = Our calamities and the unhappy results of our sins.

@LEVEL ONE = 3A.  HIS RESIGNATION (vv.7‑9)

@LEVEL TWO = He Was Not Treated Justly

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.  Oppressed And Afflicted

@LEVEL THREE = harassed and treated roughly

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.  Brought As A Lamb To The Slaughter...

@LEVEL TWO = 3B.  He Was Taken Violently (v.8)

@LEVEL THREE = No one stood with him

@LEVEL THREE = Yet he never cried out or complained

@LEVEL TWO = 4B.  He Was To Be Buried In A Potter's Field (v.9)

@SCRIPTURE = Literally: "They appointed His grave with the wicked, yet He was with a rich man in His death."

@LEVEL THREE = God promised that He would have a grave in a garden.

@LEVEL THREE = Nicodemus and Joseph

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@LEVEL ONE = 4A.  HIS REWARD (vv.10‑12)

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.  He Pleased God (v.10)

@LEVEL THREE = Why?

@LEVEL THREE = 1C.  The plan of salvation was completed

@LEVEL THREE = 2C.  Sin was atoned for.

@SCRIPTURE = ACT 2:22‑24<R>Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:  Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:  Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.  He Was Raised From The Dead (v.10)

@SCRIPTURE = "he shall prolong his days..."

@LEVEL TWO = 3B.  He Was Given A Spiritual Family

@SCRIPTURE = "he shall see his seed..."

@LEVEL THREE = How? (v.11)

@LEVEL TWO = 4B.  He Receives An Inheritance From The Father (v.12)

@SCRIPTURE = EPH 4:8<R>Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

@LEVEL ONE = CONCLUSION

@LEVEL TWO = Have You Seen The Lamb?

@LEVEL TWO = Is He Your Lord?