Sermon Tone Analysis

@PAGE NUMBER = SF374

@TITLE = THE SUFFERING KING

@LEVEL ONE = Isaiah 53:1‑12

@LEVEL ONE = INTRODUCTION

@LEVEL TWO = Series Background

@LEVEL FOUR = A King Comes

@LEVEL FOUR = Abraham ‑ A Saving King

@LEVEL FOUR = David ‑ A Redeeming King

@LEVEL FOUR = Isaiah ‑ A Suffering King

@LEVEL TWO = Sermon Background

@LEVEL THREE = This is the heart of Isaiah

@LEVEL FOUR = Has been called the John 3:16 of the OT

@LEVEL FOUR = Isaiah 53 is refered to 85 times in the NT

@LEVEL THREE = Isaiah 52:13‑15 sets the stage

@LEVEL FOUR = His position (v.13)

@LEVEL FOUR = His passion (v.14)

@LEVEL FOUR = His purpose (v.15)

@SCRIPTURE = sprinkle = startle

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 2

@LEVEL ONE = 1A.

HIS REJECTION

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

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.

They Rejected His Words

@SCRIPTURE = Isaiah 53:1 "message"

@SCRIPTURE = Isaiah 6:9‑10 (NIV)  He said, "Go and tell this people: "'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.' 10 Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes.

Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.

They Rejected His Work

@SCRIPTURE = Isaiah 53:1 "the arm of the Lord..."

@SCRIPTURE = John 12:37‑40 (NIV)  Even after Jesus had done all these miraculous signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him.

38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: "Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

39 For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere: 40 "He has blinded their eyes and deadened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn‑‑and I would heal them."

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 3

@LEVEL TWO = 3B.

They Rejected His Person

@LEVEL THREE = Because...

@LEVEL THREE = 1C.

He was humble

@SCRIPTURE = Isaiah 53:2 "tender shoot" = little bush

@LEVEL THREE = 2C.

He was human ‑ yet divine

@SCRIPTURE = Isaiah 53:2 "he grew up"

@LEVEL FOUR = This offended the Jews (Mark 6:1‑3)

@LEVEL THREE = 3C.

He was hated

@SCRIPTURE = Isaiah 53:3

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

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

@LEVEL FOUR = we esteemed Him not ‑ not valued highly

@ILL TITLE = Do Not Be Ashamed of Jesus

@ILL TEXT = A man was walking downtown of a big metropolitan city as his attention was caught by a young woman weeping at a statue.

He approached the woman and said "why are you crying?"

The woman said, "the statue is of a fireman who was killed while saving a little child."

He said "Oh, it will be alright.

Why does this statue touch you so? Do you know Him", She said, "Not really, not personally anyway."

Then the lady began to share her story:

@ILL TEXT = As a little girl, while sleeping, our house caught fire.

I was up stairs and my mother could not get to my room because of the flames and smoke.

A fireman was able to climb in my window from a ladder He then gave me to another man.

Before the fireman knew it the floor had collapsed under him and He was killed.

You see sir, I was that little girl who's life was saved.

I shall always be so grateful to him for giving his life for mine.

I will never be ashamed of this statue or the sacrifice if stands for.

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 4

@LEVEL ONE = 2A.

HIS REDEMPTION

@LEVEL TWO = He died for our sins...Because...

@SCRIPTURE = 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)  God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

@SCRIPTURE = 1 Peter 2:24 (NIV)  He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

@LEVEL TWO = Notice The Price He Paid

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.

Physically

@LEVEL THREE = 1C.

He was pierced

@SCRIPTURE = Isaiah 53:5

@LEVEL FOUR = Refers to His death on the cross

@LEVEL FOUR = Pierced by nails

@SCRIPTURE = Zechariah 12:10 (NIV)  "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication.

They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

@LEVEL THREE = 2C.

He was crushed

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

@LEVEL FOUR = He was crushed by our sin (Isaiah 53:6)

@LEVEL THREE = 3C.

He was punished

@SCRIPTURE = Isaiah 53:5

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

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 5

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.

Spiritually

@LEVEL THREE = He bore our

@LEVEL THREE = 1C.

Transgressions

Isaiah 53:5,8

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

Isaiah 53:6 "...each of us has turned to his own way..."

@LEVEL THREE = 2C.

Iniquities

Isaiah 53:5‑6