Easter and the Third Servant Song
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Isaiah 52:13-53:12
The servant of the LORD is the prepared and empowered one. He is the one who will not turn back but sets His face like flint to complete his mission. He is the one who is armed with compassion and tenderness, and who will establish justice in all of the earth. And He is the servant who will experience untold suffering. He is the suffering servant of the LORD.
When is the last time that you simply stopped to ponder the depths of the work of Jesus? That’s what I want to do with you this morning. I want to step into the gritty reality of the blood-stained cross so that we can more deeply rejoice in the empty tomb. We won’t understand the glories of passages like Romans 8:31-34 if we don’t first ponder this deeply.
Romans 8:31-34- What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
How does this happen?
The man of sorrows
Who has believed?
John 12:37-38- Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him, so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
This continues to be true even today
Romans 10:16- How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
He was despised and rejected
The Creator of the world came to us and we rejected Him
There is no greater outrage in the universe
He was acquainted with grief
He knew grief more fully than any other man
He knew more of rejection
He knew more of the hatred of others
He knew more of the spiritual anguish over the lost
He knew more of physical pain and suffering
You can trust Him in your sorrows
Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows
He has died to purchase peace for your soul in Him
You can come to Him and He will give you rest and peace and joy
By His wounds we are healed
We all like sheep have gone astray
We have turned to our own way
Romans 3:10-12- as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
He brings us to Himself
1 Peter 2:24-25- 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. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
He was pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our sin
Who’s sin?
Not His but ours
The flesh-tearing lashes of the whip should have been across our backs
The thorns should have been pushed into our scalp
The nails should have pierced our hands
The naked shame of a criminal should have been ours
And then we should have been sent into eternity to suffer forever and ever
But His drank the full cup of the wrath of God to the last drop
This is substitutionary atonement
This is the great exchange of the gospel
He took our sin upon Him
He gives us His perfect righteousness
2 Corinthians 5:21- For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
If one of these doesn’t happen you don’t get saved
Many people today hate this doctrine and will think that you are wicked for believing it
We must not become angry with them or distance ourselves from them
We must pursue them by faithfully calling them to faith and repentance
Point them to the only real hope for their eternal souls
It was the will of the LORD to put Him to death
Who killed Jesus?
Was it Pilot?
Was it the Jewish Leaders?
Was it the crowd who cried out “crucify Him”?
Was it, as some may say, us?
No, it was God
God killed His Son
It pleased the LORD to bruise Him
To put Him to grief
God was the one who put Him to grief and it pleased Him
Why?
This was always the plan and it is infinitely wise
It reflects the heinousness of sin
It reveals the fury of God’s wrath against sin
It shows the the extent of God’s everlasting love for His people
It shows His perfect righteousness- He doesn’t brush sin under the rug
It shows the infinite worth of the glory of God
It serves as the supreme example of suffer for His people to follow
He reigns forever for your eternal good and His eternal glory
Your soul was made to be satisfied in Him
Seek Him today for the satisfaction of your soul
His desire is to give you fullness of joy forever
Psalm 16:11- You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Do you trust Him?
Or have you been spending so much time and energy pursuing things that will ultimately fail you
The main truth that will resound around the throne room heaven forever and ever is the proclamation of the beauty and worthiness of the Lamb of God because He was slain for sin
This is because by His wounds we have been healed and will one day inherit all things
Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery
Verse 3
Come behold the wondrous mystery
Christ the Lord upon the tree
In the stead of ruined sinners
Hangs the Lamb in victory
See the price of our redemption
See the Father’s plan unfold
Bringing many sons to glory
Grace unmeasured, love untold
Verse 4
Come behold the wondrous mystery
Slain by death the God of life
But no grave could e’er restrain Him
Praise the Lord; He is alive!
What a foretaste of deliverance
How unwavering our hope
Christ in power resurrected
As we will be when he comes