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Isaiah 52, which will be our
sermon text on the 53. Starting Isaiah 52, 13, and read to 53, 12. Isaiah 52, 13,
this is God's word. Please give careful attention
to its reading. Behold, my servant shall act
wisely. He shall be high and lifted up
and shall be exalted. As many were astonished at you,
his appearance was so marred beyond human semblance and his
form beyond that of the children of mankind. 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. Who has
believed a report what he has heard from us. And to whom has
the arm of the Lord been revealed? 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. 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. Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him, stricken, smitten
by God, and afflicted. 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. 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. He was oppressed, he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth, like a lamb that is led to the
slaughter, and like a sheep that before it cheers is silent, so
he opened not his mouth. 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, 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. 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. 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 therefore I will divide him a portion with
the many and he shall divide this foil 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
now, let's turn over to our New Testament reading Which is taken
from Hebrews chapter 4, verses 14 to 16. Hebrews chapter 4,
14 to 16. Again, this is God's Word. Since then, we have a great high
priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of
God. Let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest
who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in
every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let
us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace,
that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time. Thus ends the reading of God's
Word. May He add His blessing to it.
Please be seated. Let's pray and ask God to bless
our time in His Word. Heavenly Father, this is Your Word. We
do pray that You would bless us as we open up this text of
Scripture in Isaiah 52, Isaiah 53, that the same Spirit that
inspired this text would bring illumination, understanding,
and application Lord, that we would benefit immensely today.
If there are any here that don't yet know you, we do pray that
you would grant them new hearts, that you would grant them the
gifts of repentance and faith. And for each of us, for all of
us, that we would recognize what a great thing you have done for
your people. And how amazing, truly amazing
you are. What great lengths you've gone
to for your people. Lord, we commit ourselves to
you. We pray these things in Christ's name. Amen. Well, this afternoon, we're looking
at, to me, one of the most amazing texts in all of scripture. It's just, As I was studying
this text a few weeks ago, I'm preaching a sermon series in
Irvine in a church that I'm planning in Orange County, and we're looking
at the gospel in the Old Testament and just kind of going from one
passage to the next and just pulling the passages out where
Jesus is clearly seen in Scripture. And I just kind of sat for a
couple of days as I got to this passage and just kind of was
just thinking, like, what can I do with this text? Like, what
can I say about it? I should probably just read it
and pray and then sit down. But I worked through that. I
moved on past that. And I still think this is a mountaintop
text in the scriptures. I remember in my mid-twenties,
I was really excited about taking people to church and sharing
my faith with people around me. And I had a friend that I went
to high school with that lived down at the beach, and I was
going to church in Costa Mesa, and I was living inland a few
miles. And I'd circle, I'd go way past
church to pick him up and then drive him back to church. And
I remember I had just read through this passage Not too long before,
and I gave him my Bible in the car, and I said, read this passage. And he read it, and I said, who's
this passage about? And he said, he doesn't know
his Bible very well. He's not even a Christian, I don't think,
at that time. And he says, oh, it's about Jesus. And I said,
correct. I said, do you know when it was
written? He said, no, and when was it written? I said, it was
written 700 years. before Jesus came. This text was written 700 years
before Jesus came. Maybe you heard me read it, and
you're like, oh, that's all about Jesus. It is. And the amazing thing is that
the Spirit of God inspired this text to be written so many years before he came.
But who but God could come up with this kind of, and I hope
you'll understand even more fully once we're done with our time
in the Word, but who but God could write a text that is so
fitting. I'm convinced, by the way, that
part of the way that Jesus came to understand his own mission,
what he was supposed to do when he was here, when he became a
man and was learning and growing, we read about that. He grew in
his understanding of God and his understanding of the Bible,
his understanding of his own task by reading and studying
scripture. He wasn't just zapped. He wasn't
just born here with intimate knowledge of what he was doing.
Part of what he was learning was from studying Scripture.
I think this was a go-to text for him. I think he studied Isaiah
52 and Isaiah 53 a lot as he grew up as a young man. So I want us to think about this
glorious passage of scripture, as some commentators have said,
this isn't so much prophetic, it's not so much a prophetic
word in advance, as it is the gospel of Isaiah. I mean, he
has the ability to say, somehow, and we know it's by the Holy
Spirit, that this is the good news of Christ, his suffering,
his victory, as clearly as New Testament writers. He not only
explains what would happen in advance, but what it was about,
the what, and the why. And we'll see that as we go through.
And so we'll talk about these things, that his victory is certain,
his victory comes through suffering, and that his victory secures
eternal blessing for many that believe in him. Quickly, the
book of Isaiah. As you think about the book of
Isaiah, 66 books written 700 years before Christ came, Really,
it's 39 chapters of you need to repent, Israel, because you're
in big trouble, you've committed a ton of sins, and it's about
other nations being judged, God passing judgment on other nations.
And it's just, it's really kind of a tough book, and the gospel's
sprinkled in, but as you get to chapter 40, you kind of turn
a corner, and it's really this, the rest of the book is about
hope. And as you read the book of Isaiah, There are these four
servant songs. I think it'd be a great sermon
series to think about these four servant songs that are chapters
42 and following. In Isaiah 42,
you have a chosen servant upheld by God, empowered by the Spirit
to establish justice. And he does it gently without
breaking the bruised reed or extinguishing a burning wick.
And this servant brings hope, covenant, faithfulness, and a
light to the nations. So it's for the world. But then
you go down to Isaiah 49, the servant is seen to have a divine
calling before his birth. From the womb, he's chosen to
restore Israel and to be, again, a light to the Gentiles, to the
non-Jewish people. And then you go down to Isaiah
50, the servant describes his role as faithful and obedient
teacher, enduring suffering and disgrace, but unwavering in his
trust in God, resolute in his mission and confident God will
vindicate him. And then as you get to this passage,
this fourth and final passage of the Servant Songs, Isaiah
52 and 53, the climax here is with his atoning work. He's exalted, but he suffers
rejection as he bears the sins of others. You put these four
stories together, it points unmistakably to Jesus Christ. fulfilling this
image. One last thing to say, there
are 15 verses in this passage, and there are five different
stanzas. And the center stanza is the
most important, and we'll get to that in a little bit and see
what that's all about. So first of all, his victory
is certain. In verse 13 of Isaiah 52, It says, behold, my servant
shall act wisely, God's servant. It says he'll act wisely in the
ESV, which is what I'm using. It says he shall be high and
lifted up, and he shall be exalted. But that word that's translated
wisely can also be translated in a different way, and it is
in different translations. The NASB says that he will prosper. Other translations talk about
he will be successful, he will succeed. The idea is that he
will win. This servant will win. And he'll
achieve ultimate victory. Now it could be, and I think
this is probably it, through his wise action and activity,
he will win the victory. He will ultimately succeed. It's
the way that he lives his life. It's the way he does that will
win the victory. And these words follow, that
he'll be high, lifted up, and exalted. These words mean very
similar things, but there's nuance. The idea of being high, physically
elevated in terms of status or position, prominence, superiority,
a position of authority. The servant is lifted high, right?
When you think about a servant, someone who's brought low, who
lowers himself, brought up, brought high. The second idea is that
he's lifted up, again, exalted to a position of honor by someone
else. By the father, probably, right?
Interesting. And even more interesting, when
you think of these two words together in Isaiah, high and
lifted up, Maybe if you've read Isaiah, you think of a certain
passage. In Isaiah chapter 6, it says,
in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord upon a throne. What? High and lifted up. Same language. Now we're seeing
this servant being described like Adonai, like the Lord, written
in verses two and three of that chapter. The angelic beings,
the seraphim, are covering themselves and saying, holy, holy, holy
is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his
glory. The Lord of hosts speaks of his
armies, the multitudes under his control, the heavenly, the
earthly, the whole created order all belong to this God. And yet
the servant as described using the same terminology, the servant
is high above all creation. The servant is lifted up, placed
in this exalted place, this position. The servant is equal to God because
we know that God shares his glory with no one. And then there's
this final word, he's exalted, surpassing greatness, majesty. He is majestic. It speaks of
supreme glory. You put this all together and
there's this great expectation. He's going to win. He's high
and lifted up. He's exalted. He's like the Lord. But then there's this weird thing
that happens. You go from verse 13 to verse
14. You think he's gonna be exalted,
but what's the mechanism? What's the process? What's gonna
take place? Well, it tells us that they're
gonna be astonished at him. It tells us they're gonna be
astonished, not because he's so high and exalted and lifted
up, but first, because he's so marred beyond human semblance. His form beyond that of the children
of mankind. Maybe you've never thought about
this before, but the exaltation, the lifting high of this servant
comes through humiliation and extreme suffering and sorrow. His path to victory, certain
victory, wasn't paved with ease, it wasn't paved with grandeur,
instead it led to a Roman cross. It's interesting too, one of
the things that I think about when Jesus spoke, he said, when
I am lifted up in John's gospel, I will draw all men to myself.
And it's a double reference, isn't it? When I'm exalted, but
also when I'm lifted up on the cross, it's in John 3, 14 and
15. He says, as the serpent was lifted
up in the wilderness, if you know that story, a serpent, deadly
serpents came out and started biting the people. And they said
to Moses, hey Moses, tell God to take these serpents away from
us. God doesn't take them away. He has Moses craft a bronze serpent,
put it on a pole and say, anybody that looks at the bronze serpent
will be made well. That serpent was lifted up in
the air. And Jesus says in John three,
I will be like that bronze serpent. I will be lifted up and people,
the idea is that people that believe in me will be made well. And so he talks about the fact
that he's going to be elevated physically. And even in his exaltation
physically, being lifted high physically, he will be exalted
even in that. And you have to ask the question,
is this normal? You have to ask the question,
is this the way the world thinks? And the answer you know is no. See, the way the world thinks
about things is the way up for exaltation is up. And we all want, because of our
flesh, Because of the old man, we all want God to lift us up. We all want God to elevate us. We all want God to bless us in
the ways that we imagine in our own minds, in our own hearts.
We want ease. We want prestige. We want the
easy life. But what we see in the life of
Christ and what we see in our own lives is oftentimes God brings
us low before he raises us up. Oftentimes the great work God
does is in and through our suffering and hardship. And yet so often
we think, oh, we're going through this hard season. We're going
through this difficult trial. Where is God in this? Or is God
in this? Or does God know what he's doing? And the answer is absolutely
yes. Oftentimes, in fact, God's greatest victories are won through
seeming defeat. Through the darkest times, God
is often doing his greatest work. And the greatest example of that
is here in the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's in the
work of our Savior. He will be high and lifted up
and exalted, how? By being marred beyond comprehension
or recognition. I think it's interesting, it's
fascinating to me, and we're not gonna touch on all of this, obviously,
we don't have time, but we're gonna hit the bullet points of
this text of Scripture. Obviously what we're talking
about here is what we call the passion, the last few days of
Jesus' life, the suffering that He's going through when He went
through the unjust trials. when he was beaten, when he was
kept up overnight. I mean, when he was whipped and
the skin was ripped out of his back, these nails were getting
in, the bone was getting in, they're just ripping the flesh.
They're covering his face and punching him in the face. And
it's hard to take a blow when you don't know where the blow
is coming from. And he was marred beyond recognition. He was so
beat up that it was appalling I don't know if you've ever seen
maybe a MMA fight or something like that, and you see sometimes
people get beat up, and it's like, dude, his face, he doesn't
even look like a human being anymore. Like, multiply that
to some degree, but this is what Jesus would look like. And it's
so interesting to me as I think about this, because here's the
perfect man that comes into the world, as we think about it at
Christmas time, we think about Jesus coming into the world.
And we think about it, and it becomes this really romantic
thing, right? It's like, oh, the baby Jesus, and we just think
about This baby away in a manger or whatever we sing these little
songs but he came to suffer and die and And by the way, the thing
that people do with Jesus That by the way, the thing that you
would do with Jesus left to yourself is what they did to Jesus what
what fallen sinful man wants to do with God when God shows
up in human form and is to beat him, crucify him, kill him. Man hates God left to themselves. And we talked about it in Sunday
school, like without faith and repentance, without recognizing
God's law, like we don't really have Christianity. We have man's
form of what Christianity should look like, but we don't have
God's Christianity, the only kind that saves, the only kind
that's real and true. And so he came into the world,
and it was a sham, the way that he was treated. There was no
justice. There was nothing true that really happened. Hey, which
one should I give to you? Here's Barabbas, a murderer and
an insurrectionist, and here's the perfect, sinless God-man. What did they say? Give us Barabbas. That's what we all do. left to
ourselves. And so Barabbas went free, and
Jesus went to the cross. And I think it's interesting,
too, because as the passage goes on, as we don't have time to
get into it, this passage would actually make a really good sermon
series, maybe five sermons, three verses each, a stanza for each
sermon. But the idea is they also thought
that what Jesus was going through was the judgment of God upon
him because he was a blasphemer, because he was making himself
equal with God. And what he was going through
was the judgment of God, but it wasn't for his own sin. It
was for theirs. And so they esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted because he was, but he was going
through what he was going through for us. So the victory was certain. The victory came through suffering,
and the suffering came because of your sin and mine, so that
we could be forgiven. And I hope you understand and
realize when God decided to save a people for himself, There there
weren't like 17 different ways he could have done it and he
was like, let me see I think I'm gonna go with sending my
own son into the world taking on humanity Living a perfect
life and then dying the sinner's death And I think I'm gonna go
with that one of the 17 choices. There are there was only one
choice This was the only way possible And so God did it and
so God did it and And so, again, when we think about Jesus coming
into the world, when we think about what he did, it looks like
foolishness to the uninitiated. It looks like folly to the unconverted. It looks ridiculous to those
who don't yet believe. And unfortunately, at times,
we can get so caught up and consumed with what the uninitiated think
that we can fail to stand up boldly and say, God is on our
side. We are on the side of truth.
Truth is on our side. We have life eternal here and
now. And if God is for us, who can
successfully be against us? Paul the Apostle says, Romans
1 16, I am not ashamed of the gospel. Why? It is the power of God. It is the power, the gospel is
the power of God. This suffering servant that's
beat beyond human recognition that dies on the cross. This
is God's method. This is God's way. This is God's
only method and his only way for man to be reconciled with
him. And we must proclaim, we must share, we must call people
to faith and repentance using the entirety of the gospel message. If people are going to come to
believe in God. And by the way, this is something
that has to be at the very core and at the center of this church. And you all have to, you make
up this church. You are not only the members,
but you also make up the culture of this church. And you all have
to decide together that this message is not gonna be just
the message that goes forth from the pulpit, but it goes from
your mouths as you go to where you live, where you go to school,
where you work, where you hang out with friends. It has to be
the message that you share if this church is going to make
it. Like that's just real talk. We can't proclaim it from here
and then have it hit a wall out there. We can't even just proclaim
it from here and have it hit your hearts there and then you
go home and you're mum with the message. This is a message that
goes from here to your hearts. It changes you in your seats
and then you go out there and you pass along the good news
as those that have heard from God. as faithful messengers,
or 2 Corinthians 5, ambassadors for Christ. We plead with you,
be reconciled to God. And the only way to be reconciled
to God is through faith and repentance. Friends, think about what your
God has done for you. Think about the glory of this
passage and the glory of the gospel. Jesus is saved through, Jesus
wins the victory through his suffering. We are saved because
of his suffering, and it should transform the way we think of
our lives, of our trials, our difficulties. The gospel doesn't
just save us from our sins. One commentator says, it changes
our understanding of suffering. It shows us that God's greatest
victories often come through apparent defeat. Be encouraged
when you are defeated, when you feel beat down, when you feel
like you're losing. God is still on his throne. God
is still in control. God is still winning, ultimately,
even in your life as you go through hard things. And so he is beaten,
he's going through these different things. For us, all we like sheep
have gone astray, Isaiah 53, 6. We have turned every one to
our own ways and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us
all. And he willingly did it. It says
that he, in 53, 7, was oppressed and afflicted, yet he opened
not his mouth. Like a sheep before its shearers,
He is silent, he opened not his mouth. The passage says he's
innocent, he's done no violence, there's no deceit, there's nothing
wrong on his behalf. And yet he goes through this.
He doesn't complain, he doesn't say this is unjust, he doesn't
say this is wrong. Why? Because the father and the
son are doing business on your behalf. Yes, it's unjust on behalf of
those people, but justice is being meted out through the injustice
of those people. He's taken away, unjustly arrested,
tried, and condemned. He's cut off. It speaks of abrupt
and violent, the violent nature of his death upon the cross.
He's stricken, speaking of divine Judgment. Why these things? The central section, the middle
of the five segments. Notice the repetition of 53. Start at 53.3. He was despised
and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with
grief. They didn't just ignore him,
they actively despised him, and here's why. Here's why this is
going on. They thought God was judging
him, and he was. but he was judging him for our
sins, as we said. Verse four begins with the word
surely. It's a word of contrast and emphasis. He's going through
these different things. There's no form or majesty. He
looks like a normal person. There's no beauty that we should
desire him. By the way, if I'm doing this, if I'm God, putting
myself in God's shoes, I'm thinking, if I'm gonna send my son into
the world, it's the only way to do it. I'm thinking palace. I'm
thinking wealth. I'm thinking, ease, make him tall, dark, and handsome
like Saul, head and shoulder above other people, make him
ruddy good looks like David, something like that. None of
that. You see Jesus? He's just like anybody else.
He's not floating off the ground. There's no glow over his head. He just looks like everybody
else, and people think, ah, this guy's judged by God. Despised, rejected, a man of
sorrows, acquainted with grief. People hide their faces from
him. He's despised. We didn't esteem him at all.
Surely, though, God is doing something. And here's this section,
53, four to six, these key ideas. Notice the repetition. Despised and rejected, yes, undeniable,
but on the other hand, he's doing something incredible. Surely
he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Notice the repetition
of the word our in these verses. born our griefs, verse four,
carried our sorrows, verse four, pierced for our transgressions,
five, crushed for our iniquities, five, chastised, and that chastisement
brought us peace, he's wounded, we are healed, and it's because,
again, I mentioned it, but to say it again, all we like sheep
have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his
own way, the collective guilts of mankind, the universality
of sin. This is 700 years before Christ
came. This is what we call penal substitutionary
atonement. If you don't know what that means,
if you're not familiar with that term, it means that Jesus stood
in our place. He took what belonged to us. We deserve death and damnation. And he went to the cross and
took it. By the way, he earned all the blessings that God could
bestow by living a perfect life, by obeying in word, thought,
and deed. We confess our sins, we're thought
indeed, every Lord's Day, every Sunday, sins we've committed,
things we've done, things we've left undone, right? He never had to confess. I can't
even imagine what it would be like to live a perfect life.
But he did. He earned all the covenant blessings.
He earned eternal life. And what was his reward? He went
to the cross and took the wrath of God upon himself. In the Garden
of Gethsemane, he says, Father, if there's any other way, I mean,
I see where this thing is headed. I understand my path. I understand
what's before me. If there's any other way that
this can take place, let this cup pass for me. This cup of
wrath, let me go some other way. Let me do some other thing. Nevertheless, not my will, but
yours be done." And what happened? He went through with it, because
there was no other way. By the way, I think it's important
when you think of that, it's like, oh, was he teetering with
sin? Like he didn't want to do what God was calling him to do?
No, he was just a healthy human being. I think this is one of
those instances. I would like to point this out, because I
think a lot of people think that it looks like sin, or he's right
up against the line of sin. This is what a healthy individual
would do. When facing death on a cross and then the wrath of
God being poured out upon them, a healthy person in their right
mind would say, I don't want that. I mean, I think it's actually
a sign of fitness for Jesus to do that. I think it's in the
scriptures because it shows that he's not crazy, he's not out
of his mind, he's in his right mind and he doesn't want to go
through that. But he says, not my will but yours be done. He
submits himself, I'll do it. And he doesn't. It's interesting, the other day,
I preached this sermon at a couple of different churches, and a
man came up to me absolutely sobbing. Like uncontrollably
sobbing after the service. And he lived a hard life. And
he was coming, and was regularly coming from the homeless shelter
that we minister in. And he made such an astute observation. He
said, I'm Barabbas. We are Barabbas. That's actually
a great point, isn't it? Like the person that doesn't
deserve to be released or forgiven goes free, while the one that
deserves to go free goes to the cross. That's the substitution. That's the thing that's made
for us. Jesus says, I will pay for your
sin, and I'll give you my righteousness. 2 Corinthians 5, 21, he who knew
no sin became sin. That we might become the righteousness
of God in him. The great switcheroo, the great
exchange. And I probably say this every
time I'm here, forgive me if I do, but I love this idea. It's the worst deal that he ever
could have made. It's the worst deal that he ever could have
made. I come into the world and I live a perfect life and then I die
on the cross for sinners. But it's the best deal that he
ever could make for us. Like we sin, fail, fall short, rebel
against God, are guilty of cosmic treason, yet the Savior, the
Messiah comes to us and says, I will save you from your sins
if you will put your trust in me. Now here's what's crazy is when
people say, no thank you, I'm good on my own. I can stand
before the thrice holy God and I can tell him about the good
things that I've done. Or I can tell him about how my
good works, my good deeds outweigh my bad deeds. Or I can tell him
that I'm better than other people. And I hope you know that will
never work. I hope if you're in this room
today or you're watching or listening, you understand that you need
to throw yourself into the arms of Jesus. You need
to receive and rest upon him alone for your salvation. This
is the most serious thing you'll ever think about in your life. If you're young, hear me say
it. If you're older, hear me say
it. This is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Jesus
died to save sinners. Will you turn from your sin and
put your faith in him? Will you rest in his finished
work alone for your salvation and then live in light of that
glorious gospel? And then quickly, just as we
finish, so many times people think about Jesus, you know,
he dies in his 30s, and people say, you know, it's so sad that
he never got to be married, that he never got to have kids, you
know. But the Scriptures are so clear
that in this passage at the end, that his victory secures eternal
blessing for many that really are his own, his seed, his offspring. It's interesting as the scriptures
go and as you look at the Old Testament scriptures talking
about Jesus, in Genesis 315, the first promise of the gospel
talks about the seed of the woman that will crush Satan's head. And the ultimate seed or descendant
of Eve is Jesus Christ. But that word seed can be taken
singularly or in the plural. It's both. And so the singular
seed, Jesus, wins the victory through his horrible suffering
so we can have this massive number of descendants as fast as the
stars in the sky or the sand on the seashore. And that number
is made up of all those that God had chosen from before the
foundation of the world. But on the other side of that
coin, that number is made up of all who will repent and believe
in Him. Is that you? Are you among that
number? It was the will of the Lord,
verse 10, 5310, to crush Him, to 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 because he dies and
doesn't stay dead. He rises to live forevermore
and have a countless number of offspring. Verse 11, God will
see the anguish of his soul and be satisfied. by his knowledge,
the righteous one, my servant, the suffering servant, will make
many to be accounted righteous, justified, because he bears their
iniquities. So God divides him a portion
with the many, and he, Jesus, divides the spoil with the strong,
or better, the many, because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors. bore the sin of many, and then
he also makes intercession for good people, great people, nope,
transgressors, sinners, rebels, redeemed and reclaimed like you
and me. He ever lives to intercede for
us. Dear friend, no matter what you're
going through, no matter where you are, if you're his, he's
looking out for you. He's praying for you. And he
knows exactly where you are. He knows exactly what you're
going through. And he knows how to bring you through what you're
going through and to bring you home to glory. How does he know
that? Because he paid the price personally
for you. Let's pray. Father, thank you
so much for your word. Thank you so much for the gospel.
Thank you so much for telling us the truth about ourselves,
that we're sinners, that we are guilty. that we are deserving
of death and damnation and judgment at your hand. But thank you.
There's mercy and grace found in Jesus Christ that you sent
your own son into the world to live here, to die here, to bear
your wrath so that we could be forgiven and made new and be
with you forevermore. Oh, Lord, if there are any who
don't know you, Lord, grant them the ability
to see and hear and understand, to turn from their sin, to trust
in you alone for their salvation. And for the rest of us here who
do know you, transform us from one degree of glory to another,
bring us closer to our Savior, we pray in Christ's name, amen.
The Suffering Servant
"The Suffering Servant"
| Sermon ID | 121624447532570 |
| Duration | 43:08 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | Hebrews 4:14-16; Isaiah 52:13-53:12 |
| Language | English |
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