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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to this edition of PowerPoint with Jack Graham. A
little later in the program, we'll tell you how you
can get a copy of doctor Graham's book Diamonds in
the Dark. But first, here's the message, the Gospel of Isaiah.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Let me ask you a question today, how many gospels
are in the Bible. Well, you might say four Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John, and you would be wrong, because there is
only one Gospel in the Bible. All sixty six books
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of the Bible proclaim the Gospel, all of it, from
beginning to end, from Genesis to Revelation. It's all about him.
Jesus is the story of the Bible, and the story
of the Bible is Jesus. One day Jesus was walking
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after his resurrection with two disciples on a road to Emmaeus.
And as they were walking, they were down trodden, they
were discouraged. They thought he was over. Christ had died
on the cross. Jesus walked beside them for a few moments,
and in Luke twenty four he says, and beginning with
Moses and the prophets, this is Jesus doing this. What
(01:26):
a bible study this must have been. Beginning with Moses
and the prophets he interpreted to them, and all the scriptures,
the things concerning himself. Peter tells us in the Book
of Acts that all of the prophets witness to Jesus,
(01:47):
all of the prophets, all of the patriarchs, all of
the apostles witness to Christ. I'm not ashamed of this gospel.
I'm not ashamed simply be a gospel preacher. I make
no apology for preaching Christ and his cross and his resurrection.
(02:14):
And you know, I don't worry that this message is
outdated or outmoded or irrelevant, especially in view of the
breakdown of our culture, the breakdown of our world, the
breakdown of the family, the breakdown of personal lives. In fact,
it is so relevant. We need a brand new burst
(02:37):
of gospel preaching in the Kingdom and across the Church
of the Lord Jesus today. And I say with the
Apostle Paul, I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
for it is the power of God at the salvation
to everyone who believes. To the jew first, and also
to the Greek. Isaiah, the Prince of the Prophets, preached
(02:59):
the gospel of Jesus. Take your bibles and turn with
me to Isaiah fifty three. What we see in Isaiah
chapter fifty three is known as a Messianic prophecy, and
it is of invaluable importance to us because it points
to Jesus as the Messiah, who he is and what
(03:21):
he came to do. It is as though, even though
it was written seven hundred and fifty years before Christ.
It is as though Isaiah himself is standing at the
foot of the cross, and he gives us a clear
picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. How So, one in
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the incarnation of Christ, who is the child who was born,
look at Isaiah fifty three, Verses one through three, who
has believed 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
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like a root out of dry ground. And 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,
(04:34):
Isaiah speaks of the incarnation, which means God in the flesh,
God becoming a man when he describes this Messiah who
would come as being a tender root in dry ground.
What does dry ground produce? Typically nothing? And in the
dry ground of a virgin's wound, God conceived his only
(04:59):
begotten So and this is an illusion. Therefore to the
virgin birth of Christ. You say, well, is that really so?
Are you taking it a bit far there? Well? Actually not.
In Isaiah seven fourteen, Isaiah has already told us that
a virgin would conceive and bring forth a son, That
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a child is born Isaiah chapter nine. A son is given,
and his names shall be called Wonderful and Counselor, and
Mighty God, and Prince of Peace and ever lasting Father. Yes,
Isaiah fall through the tunnel of time and the testimony
of God's spirit that the Savior, the Messiah would come
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and be born like a tender root in dry ground.
But of course, this passage primarily speaks of the humility
of our Lord's birth and of his life, because we
are told that he had no form or majesty or
splendor or statue about him personally, that would drawn us
to him. As a matter of fact, he was despised
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and rejected. It's always been amazing to me that, in
spite of his great love and compassion, his tenderness, that
Jesus was so hated, that he was so despised and rejected.
(06:29):
You see, many people in his day had a big
problem with Jesus because he claimed to be God. Ultimately,
it put Jesus on the cross, this claim of deity
describing blasphemy. The death sentence for Jesus was the fact
that he dared to say I am God, I am
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the Messiah. The problem was Jesus then, and look, the
problem is Jesus. Now. You can talk about religion and
spirituality and church all you want, but you really start
nailing the message of Jesus and watch the problems develop
with your friends, your family, and others. Certainly the culture.
(07:15):
Jesus is still despised and rejected for who he claimed
to be. He would not be despised if he were
just considered a teacher or a moral authority, but the
claims of Christ set him apart and distinguish him and
(07:36):
the exclusive gospel of Jesus Christ, who said I am
the Way the truth and the life sets people apart,
and that message, therefore that Messiah is despised, says he was.
There was nothing about him that was personally attractive. People
want to know what did Jesus look like. I'm sure
(07:58):
many times in your own mind you have imagined what
he looked like then and what he looks like now.
Maybe you remember the Sunday School pictures of Jesus in
your little Quarterly or in your Bibles, and maybe you've
seen those medieval paintings of Jesus, and frankly, I think
(08:20):
most of that they get it all wrong. Certainly, not
this Jesus that looked like he just came out of
a beauty shop somewhere. He was a carpenter by trade,
growing up in the house of Joseph the Carpenter. I'm
sure he had rough hewn hands. I had a couple
of uncles who were carpenters, and to shake their hands
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was like shaking hand with a tube. Before there was
nothing about him that would have said we must follow him.
There's no beauty that we should desire him. In other words,
there was no physical thing that drew people to Jesus,
not a natural attraction. The attraction of Jesus. The appeal
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of Jesus was and is his character and of course
his compassion. God became a man, and he came into
his own. According to John chapter one, verse eleven, he
came into his own, and his own received him, not
but as many as received him. That then gave he
the right to be called the children of God. Many
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didn't understand. They were expecting a religious zealot, someone who
would overthrow the tyranny of their oppressors. The Jewish people
in particular, believe that the Messiah would deliver them physically
from their bondage. But Jesus did not come the first
time as a sovereign deliverer, but rather a spiritual deliverer
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and a healer and a savior to die the suffering servant.
We're told that he was a man of sorrows. He
wept at the tomb of his friend Lazarus. But in
Matthew chapter three, we're told as he was approaching the
cross and it set his face to die on the cross,
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he overlooked the city of Jerusalem that had rejected him,
and he sobbed. And the word picture given to us
there in Matthew's gospel is is. He heaved with deep sobs.
Within he whipt and he cried out, Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
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how awful. I would have gathered your children as a
hen would gather her chicks under her wings, but you
would not. He was rejected. He came in humiliation, he
came in incarnation. But of course, the primary thrust of
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this passage we see in his crucifixion the Lord Jesus Christ.
As I said, it is though Isaiah standing at the cross,
Jesus died for our sins, as the servant of God,
the sacrifice for our sins. Look in verses four through six.
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.
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Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was crushed
for our iniquities. And upon him was the chastisement that
brought us peace, that is, peace with God and peace within.
And with his stripes we are healed. The disease of
sin is healed by the stripes of our Lord. All we,
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like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned every one
to his own way, and the Lord has laid on
him all our iniquities.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
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Gospel of Isaiah.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
When I first began learning to share my faith, even
as a pastor young pastor, I was taught to deliver
the message of the Gospel one on one through evangelism
Explosion written by doctor D. James Kennedy. Now in Heaven,
and there's a little illustration in there that describes just
what we read. The Lord laid on him the iniquity
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of us. All you see, there is a predicament that
must be resolved in the human situation. And here is
that predicament. God loves you. He loves you with an
everlasting love. He loves you perfectly. He will never stop
loving you. And because God loves you, he wants you
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to know Him in a personal way and experience this
relationship with him. But God is also just. God is holy.
And because God is just and holy and sovereign, because
he reigns, and because he rules the universe, he must
punish sin. Sin violates the nature and the character of God.
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As a matter of fact, the Bible says He is
of purer eyes than to behold he even look upon iniquity.
So God is love, but God is holy, and he
must punish sin, So how on earth can this problem
be resolved? The problem the predicament is resolved in the
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person of Christ and the plan of God that Isaiah
and the scriptures reveal, the Lord laid on him our iniquities.
So there's an illustration that shows us that let's presume
that this Bible is the record book of your life
and of your sin. That you know, the Bible tells
us that God has books and that he's keeping a record.
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And every sin that I've ever committed, every sin that
you've were committed, is in this book the record of
his sin and of my sin. Rather, all the sin
of humanity is in the record book of sin, the
sin of the world, waiting mankind down, waiting me and
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you down, because all of us have sinned. And if
I bear this sin ultimately, it will carry me to
judgment and hell. But the Bible says Isaiah's Gospel tells
us the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us.
All Jesus took it on his back at the cross.
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Who could describe the cross? Isaiah described it. He tells
us that he is so beaten and so bludgeoned he is,
he is so brutalized that his very countenance is so
marred that you don't even want to look at him.
From the beating of Christ. A Roman soldier who would
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take the Roman lictor, they would fasten the victim to
a pole, and there with long leather straps embedded with
bone and metal, a psychopathic Roman soldier would lacerate the
back of his victims, tearing the flesh from the bones,
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breaking through the arteries. It was a bloody, violent mess.
Many never even survived the beating, much less the crucifixion.
The beating in itself, the flogging, the scourging of a criminal,
as Christ was accused of being a criminal, was in
itself a functional crucifixion. But then to carry the beam
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of the cross, the cross to be fastened to it,
to be nailed in the small soft part of the hand,
or tied to a cross, to be dropped in a
jagged hole, the sockets being pulled from there from the joints,
the sockets and the joints coming apart, the breathing and
the heaving on the cross. Many times people lasted for
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days on a Roman cross. The blood, the bleeding, the insects,
the birds. Often they were hung there in nakedness to
amplify their shame. When Jesus died and hung there on
that cross, bleeding, dying for you and for me, you say,
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to what end? Who did this? Isaiah tells us that
it was the will of God to crush him. God
loved you so much and wanted to settle this issue
with you and me, so much of our sin that
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he hung his darling son that he himself, God was
in Christ, reconciling the world to himself. God, God himself
took our sin, and he took our shame up on
the cross. He absorbed the judicial wrath of God. He
is smitten by God verse four, and afflicted the Lord
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laid on him our iniquities. He did that for you
and for me, and Isaiah saw it the sin bearer.
It was a mockery of justice, of course, the trials
of Jesus. There were approximately six episodes of the trial
of Jesus, every one of them a mockery of justice.
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He was accused and falsely accused, and Isaiah tells us,
as the scripture later records, that Jesus the Messiah answered
not a word. This is the silence of the lamb.
The lamb of God, who stood there silent. And when
you read these accounts, don't you want to just say, Jesus,
do something, stop this, don't let them do this. But
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he answered them not a word, because had he answered
and justified himself and saved himself, he could not have
saved you and me. There's a lot of talk that
goes on today about Jesus and who he is and
who he's not. That there's coming a day. Romans three
tells us that every mouth is going to be stopped,
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and that's a the judgment. There'll be no more talking there,
no more fun and games, there, no more party time. There.
Every mouth will be shut in judgment unless you accept
what Jesus has done for you. He shut his mouth
in judgment and stood there and took it for us,
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so that rather than standing in silence and judgment, one
day we can stand with Haddelujah's and praises to his name,
thanking him forever for what he's done for us. By
his stripes, we are healed. The disease of sin is
now cured. God is satisfied with this sacrifice. What God
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has done for us, he is accounted unto us righteousness
we stand in the righteousness of Christ. He stood in
our sin, so that we can now stand in His
salvation and righteousness. We are justified, which means that our
standing before a holy God is accounted as to righteousness
before him. This is the gospel, This is the gospel
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of Isaiah, that when man did his worst, God did
his best. He loves you, and he has settled the
issue of sin so that you can be forever transform. Finally,
thank God, there's the exaltation of Christ. And Isaiah saw
this resurrection and exaltation. Look at Versus eight and ten.
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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 said, he's finished, he's done,
that's over with. Even his disciples ran away in fear,
in terror, and they made his grave with the wicked
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and with a rich man in his death. And of
course that was fulfilled in Joseph of Aramathiada the rich
man who offered his empty tomb to the one who
had died. The rich man in his death. And although
he had done no violence, and there was no deceit
in his mouth. Yet it was the will of the
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Lord to crush him. He has put him to grief.
And when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he
shall see his offspring, referencing you and me. We are
the family of God. We are the children of God.
We all prolong his days. That references the resurrection. The
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will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Jesus
is now exalted, Raise from the dead. This is the
glorious news of the Bible. He is a lie. He
is alive. The one that Jesus Isaiah now sees is
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the same one that he saw in amazement in Isaiah six,
when he saw the Lord high and lifted up, and
his train filled the temple, and they cried out continually, Holy, Holy, Holy.
That's what they're saying in heaven this very minute. In
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his presence. He is our redeemer because only he saves.
He is our healer, because only God heals. He is
our sustainer. We pray in his name, and we are strength,
and we call upon his name. He ever lives to
make intercession for or his saints. He intercedes for the transgressors.
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He is the link between a Holy God and sinful man.
He is our victor. Even in death. We are not
afraid because He holds the keys to the grave and
to death and to Hell. So the only response to
the Gospel of Isaiah's to respond by faith and receive it,
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and then to believe it, and then to worship Him
for the rest of our days, to contemplate and live
the Gospel, to live across centered life. Our character is changed.
We are no longer bound and broken by our sin,
but we are alive in Him to spend our days
honoring Him and our future forever praising Him.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
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message the Gospel of Isaiah. Life doesn't always unfold the
way we hope. There are setbacks, losses, and seasons that
leave us asking where is God in all of this.
In his honest and encouraging book Diamonds in the Dark,
Doctor Graham shares how God is not absent in our pain,
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This message will help you find strength, clarity, and hope
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Speaker 2 (25:08):
What we see in this well known chapter of Isaiah
is a Messianic prophecy. This should be of invaluable importance
to us as believers because it points specifically as to
whom Jesus is and what he came to do. And
anytime we are describing Jesus and his mission, we are
getting right to the heart of the Gospel, the good News. Now,
anyone who studies the Bible will tell you that one
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of the most conclusive evidences of the Christian faith is
fulfilled prophecy, which is history pre written, and in Isaiah
fifty three it is as though Isaiah himself is standing
in the presence of Jesus standing at the foot of
the cross, even though he was writing this seven hundred
and fifty years before Christ. He gives us a vivid
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and enthralling picture of the Lord Jesus, who would take
our sins upon himself. Isaiah describes the incarnation, which means
God in the flesh or God becoming man. But of
course the primary theme and thrust of this passage is
the crucifixion of Christ. Verses four through six of Isaiah
fifty three presents some of the most recognizable and penetrating
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words about Jesus in the Holy Scripture. Just listen to
these words once again. Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him, not esteemed
him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. But he was
wounded for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities,
and upon him was a chastisement that brought us peace.
(26:35):
And with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep,
have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way,
and the Lord has laid on him all our iniquities.
With these extraordinary words, we have the Gospel according to Isaiah,
the proclamation of who Jesus is and what he came
to do. You see, God loved you so much that
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he hung his darling son on a cross. Jesus took
all your sin, your bitterness, your anger, your pain, your judgment,
all of it in order to give you abundant and
eternal life. If you haven't received Christ as your savior,
do it right now. Respond to the Gospel of Isaiah,
which is the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, by
receiving the eternal gift of salvation right now.
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Welcome to this edition of PowerPoint with Jack Graham. A
little later in the program, we'll tell you how you
can get a copy of doctor Graham's book Diamonds in
the Dark. But first, here's the message, the Gospel of Isaiah.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Let me ask you a question today, how many gospels
are in the Bible. Well, you might say four Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John, and you would be wrong, because there is
only one Gospel in the Bible. All sixty six books
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of the Bible proclaim the Gospel, all of it, from
beginning to end, from Genesis to Revelation. It's all about him.
Jesus is the story of the Bible, and the story
of the Bible is Jesus. One day Jesus was walking
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after his resurrection with two disciples on a road to Emmaeus.
And as they were walking, they were down trodden, they
were discouraged. They thought he was over. Christ had died
on the cross. Jesus walked beside them for a few moments,
and in Luke twenty four he says, and beginning with
Moses and the prophets, this is Jesus doing this. What
(01:26):
a bible study this must have been. Beginning with Moses
and the prophets he interpreted to them, and all the scriptures,
the things concerning himself. Peter tells us in the Book
of Acts that all of the prophets witness to Jesus,
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all of the prophets, all of the patriarchs, all of
the apostles witness to Christ. I'm not ashamed of this gospel.
I'm not ashamed simply be a gospel preacher. I make
no apology for preaching Christ and his cross and his resurrection.
(02:14):
And you know, I don't worry that this message is
outdated or outmoded or irrelevant, especially in view of the
breakdown of our culture, the breakdown of our world, the
breakdown of the family, the breakdown of personal lives. In fact,
it is so relevant. We need a brand new burst
(02:37):
of gospel preaching in the Kingdom and across the Church
of the Lord Jesus today. And I say with the
Apostle Paul, I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
for it is the power of God at the salvation
to everyone who believes. To the jew first, and also
to the Greek. Isaiah, the Prince of the Prophets, preached
(02:59):
the gospel of Jesus. Take your bibles and turn with
me to Isaiah fifty three. What we see in Isaiah
chapter fifty three is known as a Messianic prophecy, and
it is of invaluable importance to us because it points
to Jesus as the Messiah, who he is and what
(03:21):
he came to do. It is as though, even though
it was written seven hundred and fifty years before Christ.
It is as though Isaiah himself is standing at the
foot of the cross, and he gives us a clear
picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. How So, one in
(03:49):
the incarnation of Christ, who is the child who was born,
look at Isaiah fifty three, Verses one through three, who
has believed 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
(04:09):
like a root out of dry ground. And 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,
(04:34):
Isaiah speaks of the incarnation, which means God in the flesh,
God becoming a man when he describes this Messiah who
would come as being a tender root in dry ground.
What does dry ground produce? Typically nothing? And in the
dry ground of a virgin's wound, God conceived his only
(04:59):
begotten So and this is an illusion. Therefore to the
virgin birth of Christ. You say, well, is that really so?
Are you taking it a bit far there? Well? Actually not.
In Isaiah seven fourteen, Isaiah has already told us that
a virgin would conceive and bring forth a son, That
(05:20):
a child is born Isaiah chapter nine. A son is given,
and his names shall be called Wonderful and Counselor, and
Mighty God, and Prince of Peace and ever lasting Father. Yes,
Isaiah fall through the tunnel of time and the testimony
of God's spirit that the Savior, the Messiah would come
(05:41):
and be born like a tender root in dry ground.
But of course, this passage primarily speaks of the humility
of our Lord's birth and of his life, because we
are told that he had no form or majesty or
splendor or statue about him personally, that would drawn us
to him. As a matter of fact, he was despised
(06:06):
and rejected. It's always been amazing to me that, in
spite of his great love and compassion, his tenderness, that
Jesus was so hated, that he was so despised and rejected.
(06:29):
You see, many people in his day had a big
problem with Jesus because he claimed to be God. Ultimately,
it put Jesus on the cross, this claim of deity
describing blasphemy. The death sentence for Jesus was the fact
that he dared to say I am God, I am
(06:54):
the Messiah. The problem was Jesus then, and look, the
problem is Jesus. Now. You can talk about religion and
spirituality and church all you want, but you really start
nailing the message of Jesus and watch the problems develop
with your friends, your family, and others. Certainly the culture.
(07:15):
Jesus is still despised and rejected for who he claimed
to be. He would not be despised if he were
just considered a teacher or a moral authority, but the
claims of Christ set him apart and distinguish him and
(07:36):
the exclusive gospel of Jesus Christ, who said I am
the Way the truth and the life sets people apart,
and that message, therefore that Messiah is despised, says he was.
There was nothing about him that was personally attractive. People
want to know what did Jesus look like. I'm sure
(07:58):
many times in your own mind you have imagined what
he looked like then and what he looks like now.
Maybe you remember the Sunday School pictures of Jesus in
your little Quarterly or in your Bibles, and maybe you've
seen those medieval paintings of Jesus, and frankly, I think
(08:20):
most of that they get it all wrong. Certainly, not
this Jesus that looked like he just came out of
a beauty shop somewhere. He was a carpenter by trade,
growing up in the house of Joseph the Carpenter. I'm
sure he had rough hewn hands. I had a couple
of uncles who were carpenters, and to shake their hands
(08:41):
was like shaking hand with a tube. Before there was
nothing about him that would have said we must follow him.
There's no beauty that we should desire him. In other words,
there was no physical thing that drew people to Jesus,
not a natural attraction. The attraction of Jesus. The appeal
(09:01):
of Jesus was and is his character and of course
his compassion. God became a man, and he came into
his own. According to John chapter one, verse eleven, he
came into his own, and his own received him, not
but as many as received him. That then gave he
the right to be called the children of God. Many
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didn't understand. They were expecting a religious zealot, someone who
would overthrow the tyranny of their oppressors. The Jewish people
in particular, believe that the Messiah would deliver them physically
from their bondage. But Jesus did not come the first
time as a sovereign deliverer, but rather a spiritual deliverer
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and a healer and a savior to die the suffering servant.
We're told that he was a man of sorrows. He
wept at the tomb of his friend Lazarus. But in
Matthew chapter three, we're told as he was approaching the
cross and it set his face to die on the cross,
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he overlooked the city of Jerusalem that had rejected him,
and he sobbed. And the word picture given to us
there in Matthew's gospel is is. He heaved with deep sobs.
Within he whipt and he cried out, Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
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how awful. I would have gathered your children as a
hen would gather her chicks under her wings, but you
would not. He was rejected. He came in humiliation, he
came in incarnation. But of course, the primary thrust of
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this passage we see in his crucifixion the Lord Jesus Christ.
As I said, it is though Isaiah standing at the cross,
Jesus died for our sins, as the servant of God,
the sacrifice for our sins. Look in verses four through six.
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.
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Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was crushed
for our iniquities. And upon him was the chastisement that
brought us peace, that is, peace with God and peace within.
And with his stripes we are healed. The disease of
sin is healed by the stripes of our Lord. All we,
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like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned every one
to his own way, and the Lord has laid on
him all our iniquities.
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Gospel of Isaiah.
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When I first began learning to share my faith, even
as a pastor young pastor, I was taught to deliver
the message of the Gospel one on one through evangelism
Explosion written by doctor D. James Kennedy. Now in Heaven,
and there's a little illustration in there that describes just
what we read. The Lord laid on him the iniquity
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of us. All you see, there is a predicament that
must be resolved in the human situation. And here is
that predicament. God loves you. He loves you with an
everlasting love. He loves you perfectly. He will never stop
loving you. And because God loves you, he wants you
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to know Him in a personal way and experience this
relationship with him. But God is also just. God is holy.
And because God is just and holy and sovereign, because
he reigns, and because he rules the universe, he must
punish sin. Sin violates the nature and the character of God.
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As a matter of fact, the Bible says He is
of purer eyes than to behold he even look upon iniquity.
So God is love, but God is holy, and he
must punish sin, So how on earth can this problem
be resolved? The problem the predicament is resolved in the
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person of Christ and the plan of God that Isaiah
and the scriptures reveal, the Lord laid on him our iniquities.
So there's an illustration that shows us that let's presume
that this Bible is the record book of your life
and of your sin. That you know, the Bible tells
us that God has books and that he's keeping a record.
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And every sin that I've ever committed, every sin that
you've were committed, is in this book the record of
his sin and of my sin. Rather, all the sin
of humanity is in the record book of sin, the
sin of the world, waiting mankind down, waiting me and
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you down, because all of us have sinned. And if
I bear this sin ultimately, it will carry me to
judgment and hell. But the Bible says Isaiah's Gospel tells
us the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us.
All Jesus took it on his back at the cross.
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Who could describe the cross? Isaiah described it. He tells
us that he is so beaten and so bludgeoned he is,
he is so brutalized that his very countenance is so
marred that you don't even want to look at him.
From the beating of Christ. A Roman soldier who would
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take the Roman lictor, they would fasten the victim to
a pole, and there with long leather straps embedded with
bone and metal, a psychopathic Roman soldier would lacerate the
back of his victims, tearing the flesh from the bones,
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breaking through the arteries. It was a bloody, violent mess.
Many never even survived the beating, much less the crucifixion.
The beating in itself, the flogging, the scourging of a criminal,
as Christ was accused of being a criminal, was in
itself a functional crucifixion. But then to carry the beam
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of the cross, the cross to be fastened to it,
to be nailed in the small soft part of the hand,
or tied to a cross, to be dropped in a
jagged hole, the sockets being pulled from there from the joints,
the sockets and the joints coming apart, the breathing and
the heaving on the cross. Many times people lasted for
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days on a Roman cross. The blood, the bleeding, the insects,
the birds. Often they were hung there in nakedness to
amplify their shame. When Jesus died and hung there on
that cross, bleeding, dying for you and for me, you say,
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to what end? Who did this? Isaiah tells us that
it was the will of God to crush him. God
loved you so much and wanted to settle this issue
with you and me, so much of our sin that
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he hung his darling son that he himself, God was
in Christ, reconciling the world to himself. God, God himself
took our sin, and he took our shame up on
the cross. He absorbed the judicial wrath of God. He
is smitten by God verse four, and afflicted the Lord
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laid on him our iniquities. He did that for you
and for me, and Isaiah saw it the sin bearer.
It was a mockery of justice, of course, the trials
of Jesus. There were approximately six episodes of the trial
of Jesus, every one of them a mockery of justice.
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He was accused and falsely accused, and Isaiah tells us,
as the scripture later records, that Jesus the Messiah answered
not a word. This is the silence of the lamb.
The lamb of God, who stood there silent. And when
you read these accounts, don't you want to just say, Jesus,
do something, stop this, don't let them do this. But
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he answered them not a word, because had he answered
and justified himself and saved himself, he could not have
saved you and me. There's a lot of talk that
goes on today about Jesus and who he is and
who he's not. That there's coming a day. Romans three
tells us that every mouth is going to be stopped,
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and that's a the judgment. There'll be no more talking there,
no more fun and games, there, no more party time. There.
Every mouth will be shut in judgment unless you accept
what Jesus has done for you. He shut his mouth
in judgment and stood there and took it for us,
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so that rather than standing in silence and judgment, one
day we can stand with Haddelujah's and praises to his name,
thanking him forever for what he's done for us. By
his stripes, we are healed. The disease of sin is
now cured. God is satisfied with this sacrifice. What God
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has done for us, he is accounted unto us righteousness
we stand in the righteousness of Christ. He stood in
our sin, so that we can now stand in His
salvation and righteousness. We are justified, which means that our
standing before a holy God is accounted as to righteousness
before him. This is the gospel, This is the gospel
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of Isaiah, that when man did his worst, God did
his best. He loves you, and he has settled the
issue of sin so that you can be forever transform. Finally,
thank God, there's the exaltation of Christ. And Isaiah saw
this resurrection and exaltation. Look at Versus eight and ten.
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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 said, he's finished, he's done,
that's over with. Even his disciples ran away in fear,
in terror, and they made his grave with the wicked
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and with a rich man in his death. And of
course that was fulfilled in Joseph of Aramathiada the rich
man who offered his empty tomb to the one who
had died. The rich man in his death. And although
he had done no violence, and there was no deceit
in his mouth. Yet it was the will of the
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Lord to crush him. He has put him to grief.
And when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he
shall see his offspring, referencing you and me. We are
the family of God. We are the children of God.
We all prolong his days. That references the resurrection. The
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will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Jesus
is now exalted, Raise from the dead. This is the
glorious news of the Bible. He is a lie. He
is alive. The one that Jesus Isaiah now sees is
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the same one that he saw in amazement in Isaiah six,
when he saw the Lord high and lifted up, and
his train filled the temple, and they cried out continually, Holy, Holy, Holy.
That's what they're saying in heaven this very minute. In
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his presence. He is our redeemer because only he saves.
He is our healer, because only God heals. He is
our sustainer. We pray in his name, and we are strength,
and we call upon his name. He ever lives to
make intercession for or his saints. He intercedes for the transgressors.
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He is the link between a Holy God and sinful man.
He is our victor. Even in death. We are not
afraid because He holds the keys to the grave and
to death and to Hell. So the only response to
the Gospel of Isaiah's to respond by faith and receive it,
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and then to believe it, and then to worship Him
for the rest of our days, to contemplate and live
the Gospel, to live across centered life. Our character is changed.
We are no longer bound and broken by our sin,
but we are alive in Him to spend our days
honoring Him and our future forever praising Him.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
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What we see in this well known chapter of Isaiah
is a Messianic prophecy. This should be of invaluable importance
to us as believers because it points specifically as to
whom Jesus is and what he came to do. And
anytime we are describing Jesus and his mission, we are
getting right to the heart of the Gospel, the good News. Now,
anyone who studies the Bible will tell you that one
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of the most conclusive evidences of the Christian faith is
fulfilled prophecy, which is history pre written, and in Isaiah
fifty three it is as though Isaiah himself is standing
in the presence of Jesus standing at the foot of
the cross, even though he was writing this seven hundred
and fifty years before Christ. He gives us a vivid
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and enthralling picture of the Lord Jesus, who would take
our sins upon himself. Isaiah describes the incarnation, which means
God in the flesh or God becoming man. But of
course the primary theme and thrust of this passage is
the crucifixion of Christ. Verses four through six of Isaiah
fifty three presents some of the most recognizable and penetrating
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words about Jesus in the Holy Scripture. Just listen to
these words once again. Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him, not esteemed
him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. But he was
wounded for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities,
and upon him was a chastisement that brought us peace.
(26:35):
And with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep,
have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way,
and the Lord has laid on him all our iniquities.
With these extraordinary words, we have the Gospel according to Isaiah,
the proclamation of who Jesus is and what he came
to do. You see, God loved you so much that
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he hung his darling son on a cross. Jesus took
all your sin, your bitterness, your anger, your pain, your judgment,
all of it in order to give you abundant and
eternal life. If you haven't received Christ as your savior,
do it right now. Respond to the Gospel of Isaiah,
which is the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, by
receiving the eternal gift of salvation right now.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
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