Good Friday Sermon

BORE OUR HUMILIATION

The Lord was unrelenting majesty and glory. He deserved and existing in perpetual and eternal glory until He stepped out of heaven and came to earth.

Phil 2:7

No form or majesty: in the way that humanity judges outward appearances, Jesus had no such outward qualities of kings that we would expected him to be the promised one.

Despised: (2X) dishonor of undervalue something (2 Sam 12) David despised the Lord in his treacherous act with Bathsheba

look back to verse 2...”had no form or majesty”

c.f. - Ps 96:6

Rejected: Forsaken and isolated from society

Kings and common men were supposed to be the humble ones in comparison to glory of the Lord. But while earthly kings bore borrowed glory that belongs to King Jesus, he bore the humiliation and nothingness of those created in his image.

Similarly, the rejection from society and conflict with mankind was something man brought on himself with sin and is born into, the Lord was not born into such sin since He was born of the Holy Spirit.

While Jesus endured conflict, it belongs to us. While he was humiliated by men, humiliation is the meal we prepared and should consume.

While Jesus experienced humiliation, he deserved honor and that it is the one thing, v 3b states we did not give him. “we did not esteem him” or Honor him as the true king and Lord of glory.

BORE OUR SICKNESS

Our Sickness: HB word can mean illness or weakness. v 3 and 4 combined together give a bold understanding that the Lord Jesus did not previously possess such sickness or weakness, but that it was that which belonged to his people, which we took upon himself. That weakness or sickness is spiritual separation from God because of sin.

The Father therefore predetermined, that the sin which caused destruction and evil in the world, would be the very thing necessary to place on his Son, so that that in bearing the weakness of man, He might become all that is necessary and sufficient to pay for sin once and for all.

v. 10- “he has put him to grief” same root word used in v 3 and 4 so a more literal translation would be “he made him sick or weak.” This brings then to mind the great passage on the Lord’s substitution in 2 Cor 5:21

“he made him to be sin, who knew no sin”

The remainder of v 4 shows the state of human sin, whereby as Jesus was offering up himself sinless in every way, yet those who looked upon him considered his suffering the consequences of his own demise. “He is a product of his own making” as the idiom goes is a good summary of this verse. People saw the suffering of Christ and they thought He was receiving from God a punishment he deserved for his own sin. This is how blind people are to the true nature of Christ unless his perfections and his love are revealed to the blindness of human hearts. Let this be a warning to all of us for our need for Jesus to bear our sickness...because we are so blind to that sickness we ignorantly might think Jesus deserved to die for his own sin.

HE BORE OUR PENALTY

Vs 5 He was pierced...for our crimes

He was crushed....for our guiltiness

Notice first the crimes and guiltiness are legal terms that declare that a legal offense is pending. There is a spiritual warrant out for our offenses against the laws of God. We have violated the King’s commands and his wrath pursues us throughout our lives.

Jesus becomes our substitute. He takes on the legal demands of our punishment on himself so that we might be justified before God. Our justification rest solely on the finished work on the cross.

John Murray in Redemption Accomplished and Applied writes

“The person who is against God cannot be right with God. For if we are against God then God is against us. It could not be otherwise. God cannot be indifferent to or complacent towards that which is the contradiction of himself. His very perfection requires the recoil of righteous indignation. And that is God’s wrath. “The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men” (Rom. 1:18). This is our situation and it is our relation to God; how can we be right with him?”

“Justification is God’s gracious and full acquittal of sinners, who believe in Christ, from all sin, through the satisfaction that Christ has made; not for anything wrought in them or done by them; but on account of the obedience and satisfaction of Christ, they receiving and resting on Him and His righteousness by faith.- Boyce Abstract of Principles #11

Therfore, the crushing of the son and the piercing of the son was necessary as our Substitute so that God’s chosen people could be declared legally innocent for our crimes against God. Those crimes were not erased, they were redirected on the innocent lamb of GOd.

v 5b- The Chastisement upon him that brought us peace

Notice the final statement of v 5 and the word chastisement. In the OT, this words meaning is rooted in a Father’s love for his son and the discipline from Father to Son.

Proverbs 3:11 ESV

11 My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof,

Proverbs 13:4 ESV

4 The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 23:13 ESV

13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

The passage does not declare that the chastisement belongs to the Son by the Father. The Son is guiltless before God and man. It is our chastisement, our discipline and so bound up in this statement is a reflection of the love of God that our substitution resides. The Lord faces the strict punishment for sin and yet that chastisement which is necessary and still delivered in a preordained, eternal that the Father has for his people whom Jesus Christ came to save.

With his sacrifice, their comes peace and healing.

Looking back to the legal demands of the Just judge who cannot let sin go free, we understand that peace is needed. Sin leads His people and all mankind into war with God. Before a person becomes new in Christ, the bible describes them as “alienated and hostile in mind” (Col 1:21), “it cannot submit to God’s law”( Rom 8:7), and therefore we are “enemies of God” Romans 5:9

Jesus brings peace to our relationship with God through his wounds. His wounds came from the piercing of the cross from man and the crushing of Father with his wrath. What was broken has now been healed like the legs of the lame men who met Jesus in Jersualem. Instant healing of deformed bones points to instant healing and peace of hostility and legal retribution assigned to all people because of sin.

Jesus wounds came from his piercing and his piercing was necessary for his blood to be shed as an eternal and perfect sacrifice for sin.

Sovereign Grace Music, Stricken, smitten, and afflicted

VERSE 1 Stricken, smitten, and afflicted See Him dying on the tree! ‘Tis the Christ by man rejected Yes, my soul, ‘tis He, ‘tis He! ‘Tis the long-expected Prophet David’s son, yet David’s Lord By His Son God now has spoken ‘Tis the true and faithful Word

VERSE 2 Tell me, ye who hear Him groaning Was there ever grief like His? Friends through fear His cause disowning Foes insulting His distress Many hands were raised to wound Him None would interpose to save But the deepest stroke that pierced Him Was the stroke that Justice gave

VERSE 3 Ye who think of sin but lightly Nor suppose the evil great Here may view its nature rightly Here its guilt may estimate Mark the sacrifice appointed See who bears the awful load ‘Tis the Word, the Lord’s Anointed Son of Man and Son of God

VERSE 4 Here we have a firm foundation Here the refuge of the lost Christ, the Rock of our salvation His the name of which we boast Lamb of God, for sinners wounded Sacrifice to cancel guilt! None shall ever be confounded Who on Him their hope have built