2022-4-15, Good Friday, Isaiah:Redemption Foretold, Jesus Suffered And Died To Redeem You, Isaiah 52 & 53
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2022-4-15, Good Friday, Isaiah:Redemption Foretold, Jesus Suffered And Died To Redeem You, Isaiah 52 & 53
The Redeemer would be a Servant
13 Behold, my servant shall act wisely;
he shall be high and lifted up,
and shall be exalted.
He would be esteemed and exalted
However, First, He would suffer.
14 As many were astonished at you—
his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
Then everyone will know Him as the Great High Priest and the Conquering king
15 so shall he sprinkle many nations.
Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
for that which has not been told them they see,
and that which they have not heard they understand.
People would generally fail to recognize the Redeemer for who He is.
1 Who has believed what he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
It will be hidden from most that the Servant is the incarnate power of God.
This Servant will have humble beginnings.
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.
Unlike Saul or Absalom, the Redeemer will not be naturally handsome or stand out so as to attract attention. He will appear of common stock.
Only a few careful eyes will recognize Him according to His true identity.
He would go from unknown to hated by humanity.
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.
Despised means forsaken. The Servant will be rejected by men. His heart will grieve by wayward Israel.
37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
He will face sorrows & pain as He suffers at the hands of those whom He came to save.
Why would God send His Servant to suffer? God has a purpose in everything.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
The Redeemer would come near and touch people in their grief and sorrows. In so many cases, He healed people of their infirmities.
16 That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick. 17 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”
Yet, in return He was crucified on a cross by His people Israel and by the Gentiles.
Spiritually, He received a greater judgment from God. Isaiah says He would be smitten by God, afflicted by the wrath of the just and Holy God.
This harm done to Him physically and spiritually was originally for us. It was the punishment for our transgressions and sins.
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.
On the cross the Servant would be a wrath bearing substitute on our behalf. We deserved to be pierced and crushed. We deserved the chastisement and the wounding- because we are the ones who sinned!
Yet he bore all of these for all of us upon Himself.
In the second half we see the result of His endurance of the cross, the answer to the “why?”- that there may be peace between God and us, the healing of our souls from the effects of sin.
We all have sin. We all need redemption.
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.
Through the substitutionary atonement of the Redeemer, our sin has been transferred and paid for by Him.
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.
At times when Jesus could have defended Himself perfectly, He kept quiet.
61 But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”
In doing so, the Servant submitted to the process of redemption which the Father had planned.
He didn’t have to.
53 Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?
In the most radical way, Jesus turned the other cheek.
Even to the point of death.
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?
His death was with no honor from men.
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.
He was buried in a rich man’s tomb.
He did not deserve anything that He received.
Yet this was the Lord’s will that The Servant was offered as a guilt offering for the sins of the world.
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.
However, before this last verse ends, we remember how we began tonight.
He will be esteemed and exalted.
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.
Sunday’s coming.
How do the facts of God’s redemption plan affect you?
God sent the Redeemer to suffer and die on your behalf.
The appropriate response is to Repent and Believe and receive the peace and the healing He made possible by the cross.
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
If you’ve already been redeemed for salvation, then the appropriate response is to
Reflect on what He did.
Rejoice at this amazing grace
Respond with a life of gratitude.
15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
Jesus suffered and died to redeem you. This week you will live for Him how?