Forgiveness

Isaiah 53:5-12 New King James Version

Isaiah 53:5

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed.

This passage speaks of a Servant of the Lord who provides salvation for people through His suffering.

This prophecy was foretold over 700 years prior to Jesus and was fulfilled by Jesus.

As our Savior, Jesus provides forgiveness, peace, and forgiveness.

Over the next several weeks, we are going to look at these aspects that Jesus provides for us through salvation.

Today, we want to look at the first benefit which is forgiveness.

Isaiah 53:5

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities;

1. Our Sin (Isaiah 53:6)

a. Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray;

b. We have turned, every one, to his own way;

2. Our Substitute (Isaiah 53:6-9)

a. Isaiah 53:6 And the Lordhas laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

i. Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray;

1. Romans 3:10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one;

2. Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

b. Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

i. Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.

1. Voluntary submission

2. But this is precisely the point at which animals can only picture the substitute we require and cannot actually be that substitute: they have no consciousness of what is afoot nor of any deliberate, personal, self-submissive consent to it. Ultimately only a Person can substitute for people.[1]

c. Isaiah 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment,

i. ‘without restraint and without right’ describes victimization; ‘without restraint and without justice’ conveys injustice to which no limits were set; ‘from arrest/prison and sentence’ offers fact without comment—this is what happened.[2]

ii. And who will declare His generation?

1. But better is ‘Who of his generation considered …’ (niv mg.), i.e. to his sufferings was added the pain of total lack of sympathetic understanding from those around.[3]

d. For He was cut off from the land of the living;

e. For the transgressions of My people He wasstricken.

f. Isaiah 53:9 And they [He] made His grave with the wicked—

i. Matthew 27:38 Then two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right and another on the left.

g. But with the rich at His death,

i. Matthew 27:57 Now when evening had come, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.

ii. Matthew 27:58 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given to him.

iii. Matthew 27:59 When Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

iv. Matthew 27:60 and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.

v. Isaiah 53:9 Because He had done no violence,

vi. Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

3. Our Salvation (Isaiah 53:10-12)

a. Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the Lordto bruise Him; He has put Him to grief.

b. When You make His soul an offering for sin,

i. You

1. NIV: and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,

2. ESV: when his soul makes an offering for guilt,

a. NLT: Yet when his life is made an offering for sin,

3. NKJV: When You make His soul an offering for sin,

a. You, a person who responds in faith, to His offering for sin.

c. He shall see His seed,

d. He shall prolong His days,

e. And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.

f. Isaiah 53:11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.

i. Hebrews 12:2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

g. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,

i. For He shall bear their iniquities.

h. Isaiah 53:12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great [many (v.11)], And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,

i. Because He poured out His soul unto death,

ii. And He was numbered with the transgressors,

iii. And He bore the sin of many,

iv. And made intercession for the transgressors.

1. Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

[1] J. Alec Motyer, Isaiah: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 20, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 379. [2] J. Alec Motyer, Isaiah: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 20, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 380. niv mg.New International Version Margin. [3] J. Alec Motyer, Isaiah: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 20, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 380.