The Sacrificial Victor
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In October 2019, Tyler Moon took part in a 10-mile race in Minneapolis. Wanting to declare his faith openly, Moon decided to put “Jesus Saves” on his race bib hoping to inspire someone in the crowd. Instead, the bib’s message would prove to be eerily prophetic that day.
The 25-year-old had a heart attack and collapsed around mile 8 of the race. About a dozen people rushed to help him, administering CPR and calling an ambulance. Among them, a runner named Jesus Bueno, a certified registered nurse. He was one of the first to reach Moon and to help save his life.
APPLICATION
"Jesus Saves” is a popular slogan. We see it on bumper stickers and on signs at athletic events. I often wonder if people who see that phrase really know what it means.
It means that Jesus suffered and died on a cross to save us from our sins. It also means that to be saved we must accept Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior, placing our faith and trust in him alone for our salvation.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).
1 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
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, stricken for the transgression of my people?
9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
Tonight, I would like us to focus on just Isaiah 53:5.
1. Jesus was pierced for our rebellion.
1. Jesus was pierced for our rebellion.
“The verb “he was pierced, slain” is a verb that is used in the context of someone dying, often at the end of a sword”
Jesus is literally pierced.
34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.
Transgression- Crime against God
Illustration: Missionary speaking to a Cab driver, police, king assaulted.
2. Jesus was crushed for our wickedness.
2. Jesus was crushed for our wickedness.
“The second verb “was crushed” can refer either to general oppression (Isaiah 3:15) or to a fatal crushing that kills (Job 6:9).”
“This act was penal, for it involved a just punishment for rebellious acts. It was also substitutionary because the punishment that should have fallen on the Israelites who sinned were transferred instead to the Servant.”
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
3. Jesus was punished on our behalf.
3. Jesus was punished on our behalf.
“The noun “punishment” (mûsār) is a general term that refers to the “disciplining” of people (Prov 22:15; 23:13), but it can also refer to the punishment used to correct someone (Deut 11:2).”
67 Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him,
68 saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?”
Isaiah 40–66 Report of the Servant’s Suffering: 53:1–9
peace was achieved with God because the just punishment he required was suffered by the Servant
The most prolific modern serial killer is Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman, with 218 proven murders and possibly as many as 250...They discovered a pattern of his administering lethal doses of diamorphine, signing patients' death certificates, and then falsifying medical records to indicate that they had been in poor health...
Would you substitute your life for someone as wicked and vile as this man?
Jesus did!
4. Jesus was wounded so that we are healed.
4. Jesus was wounded so that we are healed.
“‘Wounds’ sometimes refers to open bruises related to injuries during a battle (1:6; Gen 4:23).”
Isaiah 40–66 Report of the Servant’s Suffering: 53:1–9
healing” is used in 19:22 to describe both the physical (from a plague) and spiritual restoration
24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Conclusion:
Why did Jesus need to be the Sacrificial Victor?
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Because Jesus was punished for our sins, He is able to take away the sins of all of us.
Before Jesus ever was battered, hung on the cross, or speared, John the baptist declared the truth about Jesus in John 1:29.
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Jesus is the redeemer who was beaten, nailed, ridiculed, and killed, so that we might not have to experience the just punishment for our sins.
Closing Illustration
A pastor received a very generous offer from a family in their church. This family was going to Disney World and they wanted to take the pastor and his family with them. In fact, they wanted to treat them to everything: hotel rooms, meals, tickets into the park, everything they could possibly need to enjoy this trip as much as the host family did.
The guy offering this trip told the pastor that he had one condition and one condition only: If you pay for anything, you pay for everything. In other words, try to pull out your wallet to pay for anything, and you are going to owe for everything. He insisted it was to be entirely his treat or none of it would be his treat.
That had the effect of keeping the pastor’s wallet in his pocket! He never tried to pay for a thing!
APPLICATION
Jesus died on the cross to pay for our sins; to pay the debt we could never pay; to earn for us what we could never earn for ourselves. And the resurrection of Jesus Christ declares that Jesus’ payment was accepted by God the Father. As a result, everyone who places their complete trust in Jesus receives eternal life – and a place in heaven with God – as a gift.
So when it comes to your salvation, it is important that we all keep our wallets in our pocket; that we place our complete confidence in Jesus' finished work on the cross. We must not attempt to add anything to the finished work of Christ, lest we empty the cross of its power. If we attempt to earn our salvation to any degree, we are obligated to earn the rest. As the Apostle Paul explained, "If it is by grace, then it (salvation) cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace" (Romans 11:6).
In other words, if you pay for anything, you pay for everything.
"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).