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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you have your Bibles, would you turn with me
to Isaiah, chapter 53?
I'll also have it on the screentonight.
So there are moments in historythat are so significant and so
sacred that words fail.
A battlefield at dawn, a flagthat's folded and handed to a
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grieving family member, ahospital room that's quiet as a
person takes their last breath.
There is something about thattime.
There is something about thosemoments that demand silence.
It's saying that the moment issaying everything, and that's
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exactly what is happening atGood Friday.
As you look to what the Son didfor you and for me.
It is amazing.
Tonight we're going to lookback at a prophecy that was
written 700 years before theLord Jesus Christ, from Isaiah,
chapter 53.
We come here to standvictorious in the Savior.
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We come to witness, through theeyes of a prophet, the passion
of the Christ 700 years beforeit actually happened.
Isaiah 53 is probably one ofthe clearest prophecies in all
of scripture about what Jesusdid and why he did it.
This is the chapter that readslike a divine biography of what
the Savior did for you and forme, and it invites us to walk
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slowly past the cross.
So I want you to walk slowlyand I want you to hear the
silence of the lamb, and I wantyou to realize what it costs to
redeem you and me, and I wantyou to realize what it costs to
redeem you and me.
So, whether you're a newfollower to the Lord Jesus
Christ, or maybe you're askeptic, you're not completely
sure, or maybe you've been inChrist for years, I pray that
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you would hear Isaiah 53 in adifferent way and I pray that
you would see the Savior thatbled and died for us, a Savior
that was pierced for ourtransgressions, he was crushed
for our iniquities and hesatisfied the justice of God so
that you could be free.
So tonight I invite you to fourmovements in this passage.
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These four movements go thisway and I want you to be awed by
the Savior.
And we see these four movements.
Why was he rejected?
That's the first one.
It's a question of perception.
Second, we're going to look atwhat did he carry?
It's a question of submission.
Third, we're going to look athow did he respond?
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It's a question of character.
And then, fourth, we'll look atwhat did he accomplish?
It's a question of purpose.
Now, my prayer is simple.
Tonight, my prayer is that you,your heart, would be stirred
anew by what Christ has done foryou.
I pray that you would have arenewed sense of worship and awe
at what Christ has done, and Ipray that tonight, as we walk
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through the sacred story, thatyou'll see a suffering servant.
But, greater than that, you'llremember what he did for you and
for us.
I pray tonight that we wouldsee a Savior who bled and died,
a Savior that rose victoriously,a Savior that, amazingly, right
now is seated at your righthand interceding for us.
So, as we go to this passage,700 years before your son was
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even born, I pray that we wouldhear your words, believe the
prophecy and believe the Saviorthat has come and rose again.
In Jesus' name, we pray Amen.
Well, I want you to considertonight this passage from Isaiah
53.
And the first view that we'regoing to look at is why was he
rejected?
Why was he rejected?
And what we see here is this InIsaiah 53, verse 1, it says
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this who has believed what hehas heard and to whom has the
arm of the Lord been revealed?
Now, what Isaiah is doing hereis he opens the scene and he
opens with two questions.
You see these two questions whohas believed what he has heard
from us and to whom has the armof the Lord been revealed?
Now Isaiah is speakingprophetically and I want you to
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think of a group of people,maybe like you and me, that are
in the viewpoint of the cross.
The cross has already happened,jesus has already died, and we
look back at the cross and thepeople are saying I don't
understand how we missed it.
Isaiah is speakingprophetically on behalf of a
future generation, one who hascome to believe in the Messiah,
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who previously rejected him.
It's a lament.
They said we didn't see it, wedidn't understand.
How could we have missed it?
This phrase the arm of the Lordhas been revealed.
That means about the sovereignhand of God In the Old Testament
.
When that phrase is used, ittalks about the power of God to
save and to deliver.
In other words, isaiah issaying that God revealed his
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salvation to us in Christ, andthe people during his time
missed it.
I wonder if people will miss itduring our times as well.
And the question is how couldyou miss the Lord, jesus Christ,
how could you miss what he wassaying?
Well, I think they missed itbecause they were looking for
someone radically different intheir viewpoint.
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They had this royal king intheir minds.
They didn't have what Jesus was, because Jesus was a seemingly
unimpressive Savior.
Watch what it says here.
It says in verse two for he grewup before him like a young
plant, like a root out of theground.
He had no form of majesty thatwe should look at him and no
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beauty that we should desire him.
See, jesus didn't arrive withsplendor.
He came here in quiet.
He came here like a tendershoot, a fragile one.
That's what the passage says.
And he's coming out of this dryground.
That is happening.
The spiritual time was dry andbroken and Jesus was breaking
through at that time.
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Now, he wasn't coming inroyalness and he wasn't coming
in the splendor.
This wasn't what the peoplewere expecting.
You see that he has no form ormajesty that we should look upon
him.
That form of majesty suggestsregalness, and they were looking
for some regal king and theydid not get it.
They didn't have a commandingpresence in Jesus.
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They did not see who theythought.
That's not Jesus.
That's not the way he waswalking.
He would actually walk throughthe streets of Nazareth and
people didn't even notice him.
And it was reasonless becausein their minds, when they were
looking for a Messiah.
They were looking for somebodywho was a very impressive person
.
They were looking for somebodywho was a warrior, not a
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wanderer.
They were looking for acommander, not a carpenter.
And they were looking for acrown, not a cross.
It wasn't just that he was anunimpressive savior, but in
verse 3, it shows this.
It says that he was despisedand rejected by men.
A man of sorrow and acquaintedwith grief, as one from whom men
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hide their faces.
He was despised and we esteemedhim.
Not Not only was he anunimpressive Savior, but he was
a sorrowful Savior.
Jesus wasn't just simplyignored.
It says he was despised.
You could see it twice.
He was despised and rejected.
Near the end, he was despisedand we had esteemed him.
Not, he was a man of sorrow,because he was crushed by that
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rejection.
The King of kings, the Lord ofLords, has come here among us.
We didn't recognize him.
We went right by him.
He wasn't the kind of personthat people gravitate to.
In fact, he was the kind ofperson that people turned away
from and he bore the pain ofthis world that just didn't want
him, and I wonder if that's ustoday.
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He entered the sorrow byhimself for you if you trust in
him.
We didn't esteem him.
The passage says we didn'tvalue him.
We saw no significance in Jesus.
He was just a nobody.
In fact he was a nobody thatwas being crucified.
So he must have done somethingwrong.
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I wonder tonight, as we sit downand think about these first
three verses, I wonder about thequestion of perception for you
and me.
I wonder if in our age do wemiss him too?
You know, today Jesus isconstantly being rejected.
His name is on the lips of somany people today, but usually
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when it's on their lips, it's ontheir lips, and not in
reverence and not in worship,but in a curse and in anger.
And his name is voiced dayafter day, not in awe, not in
worship.
But I wonder if it's thatpeople are rejecting him because
they're not closely seeing whohe is.
They just don't see him at all.
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They go through life and theydon't even consider him.
And that is what happened withthese people.
But I want you to know somegood news Even though we did not
esteem him, he esteemed hisfather and he desired a
relationship with you.
He came here to be dismissedand abandoned.
He came here to be mocked sothat you could be set you.
He came here to be dismissedand abandoned.
He came here to be mocked sothat you could be set free.
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He came here to turn ones whohave turned away from him to
turn their hearts to God.
The second thing we see is thatwhat did he carry?
Now, this is huge.
Verses four through six.
In verse four it says surely hebore our griefs and carried our
sorrows.
Yet we esteemed him, stricken,smitten by God.
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Has anybody carried the weightof somebody else's guilt?
Maybe you were blamed forsomething somebody else did and
as you went through that, maybeyou went through that silently
and you carried that heavyburden.
But that's not really the wayour world works.
Our world is a world where, ifyou were mistreated, you yell
and scream.
If you're mistreated, you wantto mistreat other people.
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Well, now Isaiah is turning thisvision from the rejection of
the Savior to the redemptionthat the Savior provides.
He moves from a world'sperception of a Savior who
doesn't see him to the purposeof why God came here.
He didn't come here by mistake.
He came here to rescue hispeople.
Jesus suffered and died for usfor our sin.
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Because you say, surely he boreour griefs and carried our
sorrows, yet we esteem him,stricken, smitten by God and
afflicted.
Now you know what was happeningduring this culture, in this
time, the people that saw Jesushanging on the cross.
Crosses were not a big deal,they were lining the roads and
whenever you would see a personhanging on a cross, you would
assume that that person had donesomething wrong and that was
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the reason why they were hangingon the cross.
So when Jesus was hanging onthe cross, they would say well,
you know what?
He's just another fake Messiah.
He is nobody.
But when he hung on the cross,he was not bearing his sin, but
yours.
He says that it was his pain,our pain, that he bore there.
You see the word he bore ourgrief.
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That word, born, carries theidea of carrying something off
that somebody can't hold up forthemselves.
Jesus was lifting our pain, hewas lifting our grief, he was
lifting our heartache, he waslifting the burden of sin off of
you and me, and he carried iton his own for you.
He doesn't just sympathize withyou, he substitutes himself for
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you.
He took God's anger so that youcould be free.
He bore you, god's wrath foryou.
The irony is that.
You see this last line.
We esteemed him, stricken,smitten by God.
Most people assumed at that timethat Jesus was being punished
for his own sin, but he wasn't,because Isaiah makes it clear in
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verse 5, for this reason hetook our grief.
It says he was pierced for ourtransgression.
He was crushed for our iniquity.
Upon him was chastisement thatbrought us peace, and by his
wounds we are healed.
He bore our pain, but then hebore our punishment.
I want you to see these wordsthat Isaiah is piling on here,
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and what each phrase that hegives is more staggering than
the last one.
He says he was pierced for ourtransgressions.
His hands, his feet, his sidewere pierced so that we could be
free, and he was crushed forour iniquities.
The servant was emotionallycrushed.
He was spiritually crushed.
He was physically crushed sothat you could be free.
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The chastisement, thepunishment that brought us peace
, the punishment that securedyour reconciliation with God,
was upon him, and with hiswounds we are healed.
Do you see the negatives andthe positives?
He was pierced.
He was pierced for ourtransgressions.
He was crushed for ouriniquities.
And now look at the positivespeace and healing that are
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provided through the Lord JesusChrist for you.
This is written 700 years.
This is not a poem.
This is prophetic reality.
This actually occurred.
Jesus Christ substitutedhimself so that you could be set
free.
Jesus was punished instead ofus.
He was punished on behalf of us, if you trust him.
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That's what we callsubstitutionary atonement in
theology, and it's the idea thatJesus was punished in your
place.
The song goes in my place,condemned he stood, sealed my
pardon with his blood, and whatdoes it go?
Hallelujah, what, what a savior.
And that is what Jesus is doingfor you.
He bore our pain, he took ourpunishment.
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Now verse 6 tells us somethingdifferent.
All we, like sheep, have goneastray.
We have turned everyone,everyone, to his own way, and
the Lord has laid on him theiniquity of us all.
Now this verse summarizes ourhuman problem, our human
condition.
The astonishing grace of God isalso seen in here.
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We're stubborn, aimless sheep.
We reject him when it says thatwe've gone astray and turned
away.
This is not ignorant and thisis not a sense of innocence.
This is a willful rejection ofGod.
We turn away from him andthat's what we do.
And the shock here is this asyou and I turn away from him and
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reject him, you would thinkthat God would pour his anger
upon you, but what he did,amazingly enough, is he poured
his anger upon his son, the LordJesus Christ, to set you free.
It says that he was laid here.
The Lord laid the Hebrew wordbehind it means to strike with
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violence, to cause to meet.
It paints a picture of ahead-on collision between your
sin and Christ's body andChrist's board, for you and for
me.
So the first question we had tofigure out is why was he
rejected?
People just didn't see him.
The second thing we need tounderstand what did he carry?
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He substituted himself for you.
He's carrying your guilt.
So I wonder if you're sittinghere tonight with guilt that
gnaws at you.
If you're sitting here tonightconstantly thinking about the
fact that God can't possiblyforgive you and the guilt that
gnaws at you or the grief thatoverwhelms you.
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Maybe you're sitting heretonight believing that you
cannot be saved.
Jesus Christ says I can do thisfor you.
That means that when he hung ona cross, every lie, every lust,
every ounce of rebellion thatbelievers had against God,
christ paid it.
All that believers had againstGod, christ paid it all Canceled
debt.
The cross is not a tragic pointof history.
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It is a triumph that Christ hasprovided for you.
Third phase how did he respond?
Now, this is interestingbecause if you look in verses
seven through nine, it tells ushow he responded.
It says in verse seven it saysthis he was oppressed and he was
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afflicted, yet he opened nothis mouth.
Like a lamb that is led to theslaughter, like a sheep that is
before its shearers is silent.
So he opened, not his mouth.
You know, we live in a worldtoday where every offense is
erred, every injustice isshouted from the rooftops.
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But Jesus Christ went to thiscross innocent, and he said
nothing.
And he said nothing.
He said nothing to Caiaphas.
He said nothing to Pilate.
He said nothing as those peoplewere ramming nails into his
hands and feet.
He said nothing, he was silent.
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That's not us.
When we get cut off on the road, we yell and scream.
Jesus was submitting his willto the Father and the reason why
he was silent was because hecame here on a mission.
His life was not being takenfrom him.
He was giving his life so thatyou could be set free.
I want you to see the gospelhere in verse 7.
He said he was oppressed, hewas afflicted.
Yet he opened not his mouth.
He was like a lamb that is ledto the slaughter.
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He is not dragged, he's notkicking and screaming.
He was led to the slaughterlike a sheep that is before
shears are silent.
So he opened not his mouth.
Silence was not weakness.
His silence was a submission ofstrength.
He was strength and he wassubmitting himself to the
Father's will for you.
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Verse 8 says this.
It says by oppression andjudgment he was taken away.
And as for his generation, whoconsidered that he was cut off
from the land of the living?
Stricken for the transgressionsof my people, now watch here.
The word oppression means theillegal trials that he went
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through, and the judgment is theverdict that was given.
And he was dragged away.
That taken away is the sentence.
And then he was cut off fromthe land of the living.
That's his execution.
And so, whether it's theillegal trials, the verdict, the
sentence, his execution, it allspeaks to this violent death
that Jesus bore for us.
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But look at the one phrase inthe middle who considered that
he was cut off from the land ofthe living?
Do you even consider it today?
The people in his time didn'teven consider it, they just
walked right by him.
The people in his time didn'teven consider it.
They just walked right by him.
Jesus Christ substitutedhimself so that you could be
free.
He was the perfect Lamb of God,the Messiah, the perfect Lamb
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of God.
As heaven was looking down,they were overwhelmed with what
Christ was doing for you Verse 9, and they made his grave with
the wicked and with a rich manin his death.
Although he had done no violenceand there was no deceit found
in his mouth, he was innocent.
Now his grave here.
Back then, if you were one ofthose criminals, you would have
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been thrown into this condemnedpit or you would have been
burned the body would have beenburned at the end because you're
nobody or you would have beenburned.
The body would have been burnedat the end because you're
nobody.
You're nothing.
But what's amazing here is thatIsaiah captures something here.
He is killed with wicked.
So he's got two criminals athief on his left and his right.
He's killed with criminals, buthe's buried like an honorable
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man.
He's buried in an unused tombof Joseph of Arimathea.
He's buried in an unused tombof Joseph of Arimathea.
And what we see is this Isaiahforesaw 700 years before that
Christ's innocence would bethere.
You see, he has no violence andthere was no deceit.
Jesus was perfect in word anddeed, and so even the world
would assume that he was bad andevil.
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Jesus Christ was viewed asrighteous.
There's this beautiful passagein 2 Corinthians 5 21,.
And it goes this way For oursake, god, the Father, made
Jesus Christ sin, who knew nosin, so that we might become the
righteousness of God in him.
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See, this is the gospel.
The gospel is that Jesus Christwould be condemned so that you
could be viewed as righteous inhis sight.
So I want you to think aboutthis how do you respond to
injustice, when people mistreatyou and they do something wrong?
When they say that you've donesomething wrong and you didn't
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do it, how do you handle it?
Do you yell?
Do you scream?
Do you get depressed?
Do you get overwhelmed?
What Jesus got was he trustedhis father.
He trusted that his father wasabsolutely and totally in
control.
He didn't grumble, he didn'tdespair.
He knew that God was in control.
Isaiah invites us to bow beforethis son.
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He invites us to look at thisson and say I am so overwhelmed
because you bore my grief, youcarried my pain.
You carried my problems and youdid it silently and in
submission, and you've given merighteousness.
That's what he's asking you toconsider.
So why did we miss him?
Number one what did he carry?
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He carried our weight.
How did he handle it?
How did he carry?
He carried our weight.
How did he handle it?
How did he respond?
He responded with character andsubmission.
But the last thing I want you toconsider is the fourth thing.
Why did he do this?
Why would Jesus even do this?
Look and see what it says inverse 10.
In verse 10, it says yet it wasthe will of the lord to crush
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him, for he's put him to grief.
That he may carry all of us,that he puts him to grief when
his soul makes an offering forguilt.
He shall see his offspring andshall prolong his days, and the
will of the lord was to prosperin his hand.
I want you to see that the Lordwilled this thing and Jesus
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Christ fulfilled it.
Before this world was evercreated, god looked upon you and
said you are rebels and you donot deserve eternity with me.
And God wanted to bring youinto relationship.
So his holiness demandedjustice be paid for your sin,
but his love for humanitybrought about this cross.
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So Jesus Christ was planned todo this.
Yahweh, the sovereign plan ofGod was to crush his servant.
This was not plan B, this wasplan A from all of eternity.
And why would God ordain to dothis?
He needed to condemn sin, buthe wanted to save you.
So Jesus Christ was condemnedso that you could be pardoned.
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Jesus Christ was cursed so thatyou could be blessed.
Jesus Christ was forsaken sothat you could be forgiven.
It was a costly grace and it'syours if you trust him.
Never mistake the mercy of Godfor weakness.
It was bought with blood.
And in the end of verse 10 herewe see that the servant will see
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his offspring.
What does he mean by theoffspring?
He moves from death to life.
He moves from crushing tofruitfulness.
And he says he will see hisoffspring.
And his offspring are you.
If you trust in the Lord JesusChrist, that before this world
was ever created, god lookeddown through the corridors of
time and he said that one ismine.
And Jesus says I'm going to payfor that one.
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I'm going to pay for that one.
And he prolonged his days.
Death wasn't the end of Jesus.
Death did not end Jesus.
Jesus rose again and he reignson high today and the Lord will
prosper in him in his hand.
The father planned it, but theson accomplished everything.
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Verse 11 tells us this.
It also tells us this that therighteous, out of the anguish of
his soul, he shall see and besatisfied by his knowledge of
the righteous one.
My servant, makes many to beaccounted righteous and shall
bear their iniquities.
So what did Jesus get for allhis anguish?
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What did he get for all of hispain?
He got you, if you trust in him.
He got you as his present.
He got you as his reward.
I'm going to go through thisbirth pain, but I'm going to get
this beautiful church, I'mgoing to get this beautiful
bride.
He took our iniquity and wereceive his righteousness.
But I want you to notice hesays that he makes many to be
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accounted as righteous.
He doesn't say all.
He says many.
And those that will beaccounted as righteous are those
that have bent their knee tothe Lord Jesus Christ as the
Savior, admit their sin and turnto a Savior, admit their guilt
and turn to the gospel grace.
You must admit it or you couldwalk away, like thousands of
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people did walk past this cross,thinking that he is nothing and
nobody.
Verse 12 tells us this.
To end, he says therefore, Iwill divide him a portion
interesting language with themany and divide the spoils with
the strong.
Now what would happen is when atriumphant king would come back
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in.
They would bring all the spoilsthat they would get from the
land that they conquered, andthe king would usually hold on
to that in his treasury and itwould be his money.
But what Jesus did for you andfor me was this he didn't just
simply save you from sin.
He has poured blessing uponblessing upon blessing, he says,
the spoils of war I give to you.
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You become part of his family.
He poured out his soul for you,total surrender.
He was numbered among thetransgressors for your sin.
He was crucified between twothieves.
He bore sin, not his sin, yoursin and he's now interceding,
right now, this evening.
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He is in heaven, seated by hisfather's right hand, interceding
for his believers.
So I've got a promise for youto hold on to You're not
forgotten, you're forgiven, youare free, you are favored, you
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are free, you are favored, andyou're forever secure because
Jesus Christ died in your place.
So tonight there's a tablebefore us as we walk through the
valley of Isaiah 53, what wefound is it's a sacred ground.
We see that Jesus was rejectedso that you and I could be
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accepted.
We see that Jesus bore our sin.
We see that Jesus did it insubmission to his father and we
see that you are the spoils ofvictory.
Now we look at this tablebefore us and this table is a
communion table.
On the very night that Jesuswas betrayed, he took a bread
and he broke it, and he took acup and he said this is the new
covenant in my blood, in me.
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Tonight, we're going tosymbolize that same thing.
I want you to think about this.
You have a savior who wasdespised and rejected.
You have a savior that waspierced for our transgressions.
We have a sufferer who sufferedin silence.
You have a substitute who wasvindicated and our
transgressions?
We have a sufferer who sufferedin silence.
You have a substitute who wasvindicated and is now victorious
.
And why did he do it?
It says this in Isaiah out ofthe anguish of the soul.
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He shall see and be satisfied.
Jesus saw you, if you trust inhim.
He saw your shame, he saw yourguilt, he saw your helplessness
and he says I'm going to satisfyGod's justice for them.
Will you tonight think aboutthat love?
That love is so amazing, thatlove bleeds for you, that love
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bore sin for you, that lovebreaks for you, that love died
for you, love breaks for you,that love died for you, that
love calls you tonight.
So, father, tonight, as we cometo this communion table, I pray
that you would help us to seeand to save your son, a body
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that is broken and blood thatwas shed for us.
Now, tonight, father, as wetake this communion table, we
know that Jesus Christ died oncefor sin.
He's not bleeding now, he's notbroken now.
He is forever free.
He did it once and he said itis finished and he accomplished
his work.
Now there are some in this room, father, who have never trusted
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in your Son.
I pray tonight would be thenight that they would bend their
knee to your Son and trust himagain.
For the many that are here inthis room, father, as we take
this cup and this bread, I praythat we would remind ourselves
anew of what Jesus Christ didfor us.
In your Son's name, we prayAmen, amen.
So, before we take the table,what I'd ask of you is this If
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you're a skeptic, I want you toconsider this that 700 years
before Christ was ever born,jesus came here to be rescued
for you.
If you're a believer who's weary, remind yourself that Jesus
took it all.
Your security is not found inyour strength.
Your security is found in him.
And if you're living in sintonight, don't run away in shame
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.
Run to the cross, confess andask him to turn your heart to
him.
We remember the light thoughthe darkness falls.
Surely you bore our griefs andcarried our sorrows.
Tonight we stood in the foot ofthe cross and we listened to the
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seven last words of Jesus.
We looked at a prophecy from700 years before Jesus was ever
born.
We sang songs to reverence him.
So tonight I want you to focuson that center candle.
We relight that candle toremind yourself that, even
though Jesus died, he rose again.
The light is never extinguishedforever, and that's the light
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that he wants to put into yourlife.
So tonight, as you leave thesanctuary, do me a favor and
leave the sanctuary in silence.
If you want to stay here andpray and meditate, please do so
as long as you would like to.
Would you stand with me as weclose.
It's a passage from Hebrews,chapter 12.
It says let us fix our eyes onJesus, the founder and perfecter
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of our faith, who, for the joyset before him, endured the
cross, despising the shame, andis seated at the right hand of
the throne of God.
Go in that peace tonight.
Be blessed everyone.
If you have your Bibles, would you turn with me
to Isaiah, chapter 53?
I'll also have it on the screentonight.
So there are moments in historythat are so significant and so
sacred that words fail.
A battlefield at dawn, a flagthat's folded and handed to a
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grieving family member, ahospital room that's quiet as a
person takes their last breath.
There is something about thattime.
There is something about thosemoments that demand silence.
It's saying that the moment issaying everything, and that's
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exactly what is happening atGood Friday.
As you look to what the Son didfor you and for me.
It is amazing.
Tonight we're going to lookback at a prophecy that was
written 700 years before theLord Jesus Christ, from Isaiah,
chapter 53.
We come here to standvictorious in the Savior.
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We come to witness, through theeyes of a prophet, the passion
of the Christ 700 years beforeit actually happened.
Isaiah 53 is probably one ofthe clearest prophecies in all
of scripture about what Jesusdid and why he did it.
This is the chapter that readslike a divine biography of what
the Savior did for you and forme, and it invites us to walk
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slowly past the cross.
So I want you to walk slowlyand I want you to hear the
silence of the lamb, and I wantyou to realize what it costs to
redeem you and me, and I wantyou to realize what it costs to
redeem you and me.
So, whether you're a newfollower to the Lord Jesus
Christ, or maybe you're askeptic, you're not completely
sure, or maybe you've been inChrist for years, I pray that
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you would hear Isaiah 53 in adifferent way and I pray that
you would see the Savior thatbled and died for us, a Savior
that was pierced for ourtransgressions, he was crushed
for our iniquities and hesatisfied the justice of God so
that you could be free.
So tonight I invite you to fourmovements in this passage.
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These four movements go thisway and I want you to be awed by
the Savior.
And we see these four movements.
Why was he rejected?
That's the first one.
It's a question of perception.
Second, we're going to look atwhat did he carry?
It's a question of submission.
Third, we're going to look athow did he respond?
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It's a question of character.
And then, fourth, we'll look atwhat did he accomplish?
It's a question of purpose.
Now, my prayer is simple.
Tonight, my prayer is that you,your heart, would be stirred
anew by what Christ has done foryou.
I pray that you would have arenewed sense of worship and awe
at what Christ has done, and Ipray that tonight, as we walk
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through the sacred story, thatyou'll see a suffering servant.
But, greater than that, you'llremember what he did for you and
for us.
I pray tonight that we wouldsee a Savior who bled and died,
a Savior that rose victoriously,a Savior that, amazingly, right
now is seated at your righthand interceding for us.
So, as we go to this passage,700 years before your son was
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even born, I pray that we wouldhear your words, believe the
prophecy and believe the Saviorthat has come and rose again.
In Jesus' name, we pray Amen.
Well, I want you to considertonight this passage from Isaiah
53.
And the first view that we'regoing to look at is why was he
rejected?
Why was he rejected?
And what we see here is this InIsaiah 53, verse 1, it says
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this who has believed what hehas heard and to whom has the
arm of the Lord been revealed?
Now, what Isaiah is doing hereis he opens the scene and he
opens with two questions.
You see these two questions whohas believed what he has heard
from us and to whom has the armof the Lord been revealed?
Now Isaiah is speakingprophetically and I want you to
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think of a group of people,maybe like you and me, that are
in the viewpoint of the cross.
The cross has already happened,jesus has already died, and we
look back at the cross and thepeople are saying I don't
understand how we missed it.
Isaiah is speakingprophetically on behalf of a
future generation, one who hascome to believe in the Messiah,
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who previously rejected him.
It's a lament.
They said we didn't see it, wedidn't understand.
How could we have missed it?
This phrase the arm of the Lordhas been revealed.
That means about the sovereignhand of God In the Old Testament
.
When that phrase is used, ittalks about the power of God to
save and to deliver.
In other words, isaiah issaying that God revealed his
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salvation to us in Christ, andthe people during his time
missed it.
I wonder if people will miss itduring our times as well.
And the question is how couldyou miss the Lord, jesus Christ,
how could you miss what he wassaying?
Well, I think they missed itbecause they were looking for
someone radically different intheir viewpoint.
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They had this royal king intheir minds.
They didn't have what Jesus was, because Jesus was a seemingly
unimpressive Savior.
Watch what it says here.
It says in verse two for he grewup before him like a young
plant, like a root out of theground.
He had no form of majesty thatwe should look at him and no
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beauty that we should desire him.
See, jesus didn't arrive withsplendor.
He came here in quiet.
He came here like a tendershoot, a fragile one.
That's what the passage says.
And he's coming out of this dryground.
That is happening.
The spiritual time was dry andbroken and Jesus was breaking
through at that time.
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Now, he wasn't coming inroyalness and he wasn't coming
in the splendor.
This wasn't what the peoplewere expecting.
You see that he has no form ormajesty that we should look upon
him.
That form of majesty suggestsregalness, and they were looking
for some regal king and theydid not get it.
They didn't have a commandingpresence in Jesus.
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They did not see who theythought.
That's not Jesus.
That's not the way he waswalking.
He would actually walk throughthe streets of Nazareth and
people didn't even notice him.
And it was reasonless becausein their minds, when they were
looking for a Messiah.
They were looking for somebodywho was a very impressive person
.
They were looking for somebodywho was a warrior, not a
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wanderer.
They were looking for acommander, not a carpenter.
And they were looking for acrown, not a cross.
It wasn't just that he was anunimpressive savior, but in
verse 3, it shows this.
It says that he was despisedand rejected by men.
A man of sorrow and acquaintedwith grief, as one from whom men
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hide their faces.
He was despised and we esteemedhim.
Not Not only was he anunimpressive Savior, but he was
a sorrowful Savior.
Jesus wasn't just simplyignored.
It says he was despised.
You could see it twice.
He was despised and rejected.
Near the end, he was despisedand we had esteemed him.
Not, he was a man of sorrow,because he was crushed by that
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rejection.
The King of kings, the Lord ofLords, has come here among us.
We didn't recognize him.
We went right by him.
He wasn't the kind of personthat people gravitate to.
In fact, he was the kind ofperson that people turned away
from and he bore the pain ofthis world that just didn't want
him, and I wonder if that's ustoday.
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He entered the sorrow byhimself for you if you trust in
him.
We didn't esteem him.
The passage says we didn'tvalue him.
We saw no significance in Jesus.
He was just a nobody.
In fact he was a nobody thatwas being crucified.
So he must have done somethingwrong.
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I wonder tonight, as we sit downand think about these first
three verses, I wonder about thequestion of perception for you
and me.
I wonder if in our age do wemiss him too?
You know, today Jesus isconstantly being rejected.
His name is on the lips of somany people today, but usually
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when it's on their lips, it's ontheir lips, and not in
reverence and not in worship,but in a curse and in anger.
And his name is voiced dayafter day, not in awe, not in
worship.
But I wonder if it's thatpeople are rejecting him because
they're not closely seeing whohe is.
They just don't see him at all.
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They go through life and theydon't even consider him.
And that is what happened withthese people.
But I want you to know somegood news Even though we did not
esteem him, he esteemed hisfather and he desired a
relationship with you.
He came here to be dismissedand abandoned.
He came here to be mocked sothat you could be set you.
He came here to be dismissedand abandoned.
He came here to be mocked sothat you could be set free.
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He came here to turn ones whohave turned away from him to
turn their hearts to God.
The second thing we see is thatwhat did he carry?
Now, this is huge.
Verses four through six.
In verse four it says surely hebore our griefs and carried our
sorrows.
Yet we esteemed him, stricken,smitten by God.
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Has anybody carried the weightof somebody else's guilt?
Maybe you were blamed forsomething somebody else did and
as you went through that, maybeyou went through that silently
and you carried that heavyburden.
But that's not really the wayour world works.
Our world is a world where, ifyou were mistreated, you yell
and scream.
If you're mistreated, you wantto mistreat other people.
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Well, now Isaiah is turning thisvision from the rejection of
the Savior to the redemptionthat the Savior provides.
He moves from a world'sperception of a Savior who
doesn't see him to the purposeof why God came here.
He didn't come here by mistake.
He came here to rescue hispeople.
Jesus suffered and died for usfor our sin.
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Because you say, surely he boreour griefs and carried our
sorrows, yet we esteem him,stricken, smitten by God and
afflicted.
Now you know what was happeningduring this culture, in this
time, the people that saw Jesushanging on the cross.
Crosses were not a big deal,they were lining the roads and
whenever you would see a personhanging on a cross, you would
assume that that person had donesomething wrong and that was
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the reason why they were hangingon the cross.
So when Jesus was hanging onthe cross, they would say well,
you know what?
He's just another fake Messiah.
He is nobody.
But when he hung on the cross,he was not bearing his sin, but
yours.
He says that it was his pain,our pain, that he bore there.
You see the word he bore ourgrief.
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That word, born, carries theidea of carrying something off
that somebody can't hold up forthemselves.
Jesus was lifting our pain, hewas lifting our grief, he was
lifting our heartache, he waslifting the burden of sin off of
you and me, and he carried iton his own for you.
He doesn't just sympathize withyou, he substitutes himself for
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you.
He took God's anger so that youcould be free.
He bore you, god's wrath foryou.
The irony is that.
You see this last line.
We esteemed him, stricken,smitten by God.
Most people assumed at that timethat Jesus was being punished
for his own sin, but he wasn't,because Isaiah makes it clear in
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verse 5, for this reason hetook our grief.
It says he was pierced for ourtransgression.
He was crushed for our iniquity.
Upon him was chastisement thatbrought us peace, and by his
wounds we are healed.
He bore our pain, but then hebore our punishment.
I want you to see these wordsthat Isaiah is piling on here,
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and what each phrase that hegives is more staggering than
the last one.
He says he was pierced for ourtransgressions.
His hands, his feet, his sidewere pierced so that we could be
free, and he was crushed forour iniquities.
The servant was emotionallycrushed.
He was spiritually crushed.
He was physically crushed sothat you could be free.
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The chastisement, thepunishment that brought us peace
, the punishment that securedyour reconciliation with God,
was upon him, and with hiswounds we are healed.
Do you see the negatives andthe positives?
He was pierced.
He was pierced for ourtransgressions.
He was crushed for ouriniquities.
And now look at the positivespeace and healing that are
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provided through the Lord JesusChrist for you.
This is written 700 years.
This is not a poem.
This is prophetic reality.
This actually occurred.
Jesus Christ substitutedhimself so that you could be set
free.
Jesus was punished instead ofus.
He was punished on behalf of us, if you trust him.
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That's what we callsubstitutionary atonement in
theology, and it's the idea thatJesus was punished in your
place.
The song goes in my place,condemned he stood, sealed my
pardon with his blood, and whatdoes it go?
Hallelujah, what, what a savior.
And that is what Jesus is doingfor you.
He bore our pain, he took ourpunishment.
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Now verse 6 tells us somethingdifferent.
All we, like sheep, have goneastray.
We have turned everyone,everyone, to his own way, and
the Lord has laid on him theiniquity of us all.
Now this verse summarizes ourhuman problem, our human
condition.
The astonishing grace of God isalso seen in here.
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We're stubborn, aimless sheep.
We reject him when it says thatwe've gone astray and turned
away.
This is not ignorant and thisis not a sense of innocence.
This is a willful rejection ofGod.
We turn away from him andthat's what we do.
And the shock here is this asyou and I turn away from him and
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reject him, you would thinkthat God would pour his anger
upon you, but what he did,amazingly enough, is he poured
his anger upon his son, the LordJesus Christ, to set you free.
It says that he was laid here.
The Lord laid the Hebrew wordbehind it means to strike with
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violence, to cause to meet.
It paints a picture of ahead-on collision between your
sin and Christ's body andChrist's board, for you and for
me.
So the first question we had tofigure out is why was he
rejected?
People just didn't see him.
The second thing we need tounderstand what did he carry?
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He substituted himself for you.
He's carrying your guilt.
So I wonder if you're sittinghere tonight with guilt that
gnaws at you.
If you're sitting here tonightconstantly thinking about the
fact that God can't possiblyforgive you and the guilt that
gnaws at you or the grief thatoverwhelms you.
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Maybe you're sitting heretonight believing that you
cannot be saved.
Jesus Christ says I can do thisfor you.
That means that when he hung ona cross, every lie, every lust,
every ounce of rebellion thatbelievers had against God,
christ paid it.
All that believers had againstGod, christ paid it all Canceled
debt.
The cross is not a tragic pointof history.
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It is a triumph that Christ hasprovided for you.
Third phase how did he respond?
Now, this is interestingbecause if you look in verses
seven through nine, it tells ushow he responded.
It says in verse seven it saysthis he was oppressed and he was
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afflicted, yet he opened nothis mouth.
Like a lamb that is led to theslaughter, like a sheep that is
before its shearers is silent.
So he opened, not his mouth.
You know, we live in a worldtoday where every offense is
erred, every injustice isshouted from the rooftops.
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But Jesus Christ went to thiscross innocent, and he said
nothing.
And he said nothing.
He said nothing to Caiaphas.
He said nothing to Pilate.
He said nothing as those peoplewere ramming nails into his
hands and feet.
He said nothing, he was silent.
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That's not us.
When we get cut off on the road, we yell and scream.
Jesus was submitting his willto the Father and the reason why
he was silent was because hecame here on a mission.
His life was not being takenfrom him.
He was giving his life so thatyou could be set free.
I want you to see the gospelhere in verse 7.
He said he was oppressed, hewas afflicted.
Yet he opened not his mouth.
He was like a lamb that is ledto the slaughter.
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He is not dragged, he's notkicking and screaming.
He was led to the slaughterlike a sheep that is before
shears are silent.
So he opened not his mouth.
Silence was not weakness.
His silence was a submission ofstrength.
He was strength and he wassubmitting himself to the
Father's will for you.
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Verse 8 says this.
It says by oppression andjudgment he was taken away.
And as for his generation, whoconsidered that he was cut off
from the land of the living?
Stricken for the transgressionsof my people, now watch here.
The word oppression means theillegal trials that he went
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through, and the judgment is theverdict that was given.
And he was dragged away.
That taken away is the sentence.
And then he was cut off fromthe land of the living.
That's his execution.
And so, whether it's theillegal trials, the verdict, the
sentence, his execution, it allspeaks to this violent death
that Jesus bore for us.
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But look at the one phrase inthe middle who considered that
he was cut off from the land ofthe living?
Do you even consider it today?
The people in his time didn'teven consider it, they just
walked right by him.
The people in his time didn'teven consider it.
They just walked right by him.
Jesus Christ substitutedhimself so that you could be
free.
He was the perfect Lamb of God,the Messiah, the perfect Lamb
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of God.
As heaven was looking down,they were overwhelmed with what
Christ was doing for you Verse 9, and they made his grave with
the wicked and with a rich manin his death.
Although he had done no violenceand there was no deceit found
in his mouth, he was innocent.
Now his grave here.
Back then, if you were one ofthose criminals, you would have
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been thrown into this condemnedpit or you would have been
burned the body would have beenburned at the end because you're
nobody or you would have beenburned.
The body would have been burnedat the end because you're
nobody.
You're nothing.
But what's amazing here is thatIsaiah captures something here.
He is killed with wicked.
So he's got two criminals athief on his left and his right.
He's killed with criminals, buthe's buried like an honorable
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man.
He's buried in an unused tombof Joseph of Arimathea.
He's buried in an unused tombof Joseph of Arimathea.
And what we see is this Isaiahforesaw 700 years before that
Christ's innocence would bethere.
You see, he has no violence andthere was no deceit.
Jesus was perfect in word anddeed, and so even the world
would assume that he was bad andevil.
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Jesus Christ was viewed asrighteous.
There's this beautiful passagein 2 Corinthians 5 21,.
And it goes this way For oursake, god, the Father, made
Jesus Christ sin, who knew nosin, so that we might become the
righteousness of God in him.
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See, this is the gospel.
The gospel is that Jesus Christwould be condemned so that you
could be viewed as righteous inhis sight.
So I want you to think aboutthis how do you respond to
injustice, when people mistreatyou and they do something wrong?
When they say that you've donesomething wrong and you didn't
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do it, how do you handle it?
Do you yell?
Do you scream?
Do you get depressed?
Do you get overwhelmed?
What Jesus got was he trustedhis father.
He trusted that his father wasabsolutely and totally in
control.
He didn't grumble, he didn'tdespair.
He knew that God was in control.
Isaiah invites us to bow beforethis son.
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He invites us to look at thisson and say I am so overwhelmed
because you bore my grief, youcarried my pain.
You carried my problems and youdid it silently and in
submission, and you've given merighteousness.
That's what he's asking you toconsider.
So why did we miss him?
Number one what did he carry?
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He carried our weight.
How did he handle it?
How did he carry?
He carried our weight.
How did he handle it?
How did he respond?
He responded with character andsubmission.
But the last thing I want you toconsider is the fourth thing.
Why did he do this?
Why would Jesus even do this?
Look and see what it says inverse 10.
In verse 10, it says yet it wasthe will of the lord to crush
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him, for he's put him to grief.
That he may carry all of us,that he puts him to grief when
his soul makes an offering forguilt.
He shall see his offspring andshall prolong his days, and the
will of the lord was to prosperin his hand.
I want you to see that the Lordwilled this thing and Jesus
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Christ fulfilled it.
Before this world was evercreated, god looked upon you and
said you are rebels and you donot deserve eternity with me.
And God wanted to bring youinto relationship.
So his holiness demandedjustice be paid for your sin,
but his love for humanitybrought about this cross.
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So Jesus Christ was planned todo this.
Yahweh, the sovereign plan ofGod was to crush his servant.
This was not plan B, this wasplan A from all of eternity.
And why would God ordain to dothis?
He needed to condemn sin, buthe wanted to save you.
So Jesus Christ was condemnedso that you could be pardoned.
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Jesus Christ was cursed so thatyou could be blessed.
Jesus Christ was forsaken sothat you could be forgiven.
It was a costly grace and it'syours if you trust him.
Never mistake the mercy of Godfor weakness.
It was bought with blood.
And in the end of verse 10 herewe see that the servant will see
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his offspring.
What does he mean by theoffspring?
He moves from death to life.
He moves from crushing tofruitfulness.
And he says he will see hisoffspring.
And his offspring are you.
If you trust in the Lord JesusChrist, that before this world
was ever created, god lookeddown through the corridors of
time and he said that one ismine.
And Jesus says I'm going to payfor that one.
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I'm going to pay for that one.
And he prolonged his days.
Death wasn't the end of Jesus.
Death did not end Jesus.
Jesus rose again and he reignson high today and the Lord will
prosper in him in his hand.
The father planned it, but theson accomplished everything.
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Verse 11 tells us this.
It also tells us this that therighteous, out of the anguish of
his soul, he shall see and besatisfied by his knowledge of
the righteous one.
My servant, makes many to beaccounted righteous and shall
bear their iniquities.
So what did Jesus get for allhis anguish?
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What did he get for all of hispain?
He got you, if you trust in him.
He got you as his present.
He got you as his reward.
I'm going to go through thisbirth pain, but I'm going to get
this beautiful church, I'mgoing to get this beautiful
bride.
He took our iniquity and wereceive his righteousness.
But I want you to notice hesays that he makes many to be
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accounted as righteous.
He doesn't say all.
He says many.
And those that will beaccounted as righteous are those
that have bent their knee tothe Lord Jesus Christ as the
Savior, admit their sin and turnto a Savior, admit their guilt
and turn to the gospel grace.
You must admit it or you couldwalk away, like thousands of
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people did walk past this cross,thinking that he is nothing and
nobody.
Verse 12 tells us this.
To end, he says therefore, Iwill divide him a portion
interesting language with themany and divide the spoils with
the strong.
Now what would happen is when atriumphant king would come back
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in.
They would bring all the spoilsthat they would get from the
land that they conquered, andthe king would usually hold on
to that in his treasury and itwould be his money.
But what Jesus did for you andfor me was this he didn't just
simply save you from sin.
He has poured blessing uponblessing upon blessing, he says,
the spoils of war I give to you.
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You become part of his family.
He poured out his soul for you,total surrender.
He was numbered among thetransgressors for your sin.
He was crucified between twothieves.
He bore sin, not his sin, yoursin and he's now interceding,
right now, this evening.
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He is in heaven, seated by hisfather's right hand, interceding
for his believers.
So I've got a promise for youto hold on to You're not
forgotten, you're forgiven, youare free, you are favored, you
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are free, you are favored, andyou're forever secure because
Jesus Christ died in your place.
So tonight there's a tablebefore us as we walk through the
valley of Isaiah 53, what wefound is it's a sacred ground.
We see that Jesus was rejectedso that you and I could be
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accepted.
We see that Jesus bore our sin.
We see that Jesus did it insubmission to his father and we
see that you are the spoils ofvictory.
Now we look at this tablebefore us and this table is a
communion table.
On the very night that Jesuswas betrayed, he took a bread
and he broke it, and he took acup and he said this is the new
covenant in my blood, in me.
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Tonight, we're going tosymbolize that same thing.
I want you to think about this.
You have a savior who wasdespised and rejected.
You have a savior that waspierced for our transgressions.
We have a sufferer who sufferedin silence.
You have a substitute who wasvindicated and our
transgressions?
We have a sufferer who sufferedin silence.
You have a substitute who wasvindicated and is now victorious
.
And why did he do it?
It says this in Isaiah out ofthe anguish of the soul.
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He shall see and be satisfied.
Jesus saw you, if you trust inhim.
He saw your shame, he saw yourguilt, he saw your helplessness
and he says I'm going to satisfyGod's justice for them.
Will you tonight think aboutthat love?
That love is so amazing, thatlove bleeds for you, that love
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bore sin for you, that lovebreaks for you, that love died
for you, love breaks for you,that love died for you, that
love calls you tonight.
So, father, tonight, as we cometo this communion table, I pray
that you would help us to seeand to save your son, a body
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that is broken and blood thatwas shed for us.
Now, tonight, father, as wetake this communion table, we
know that Jesus Christ died oncefor sin.
He's not bleeding now, he's notbroken now.
He is forever free.
He did it once and he said itis finished and he accomplished
his work.
Now there are some in this room, father, who have never trusted
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in your Son.
I pray tonight would be thenight that they would bend their
knee to your Son and trust himagain.
For the many that are here inthis room, father, as we take
this cup and this bread, I praythat we would remind ourselves
anew of what Jesus Christ didfor us.
In your Son's name, we prayAmen, amen.
So, before we take the table,what I'd ask of you is this If
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you're a skeptic, I want you toconsider this that 700 years
before Christ was ever born,jesus came here to be rescued
for you.
If you're a believer who's weary, remind yourself that Jesus
took it all.
Your security is not found inyour strength.
Your security is found in him.
And if you're living in sintonight, don't run away in shame
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.
Run to the cross, confess andask him to turn your heart to
him.
We remember the light thoughthe darkness falls.
Surely you bore our griefs andcarried our sorrows.
Tonight we stood in the foot ofthe cross and we listened to the
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seven last words of Jesus.
We looked at a prophecy from700 years before Jesus was ever
born.
We sang songs to reverence him.
So tonight I want you to focuson that center candle.
We relight that candle toremind yourself that, even
though Jesus died, he rose again.
The light is never extinguishedforever, and that's the light
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that he wants to put into yourlife.
So tonight, as you leave thesanctuary, do me a favor and
leave the sanctuary in silence.
If you want to stay here andpray and meditate, please do so
as long as you would like to.
Would you stand with me as weclose.
It's a passage from Hebrews,chapter 12.
It says let us fix our eyes onJesus, the founder and perfecter
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of our faith, who, for the joyset before him, endured the
cross, despising the shame, andis seated at the right hand of
the throne of God.
Go in that peace tonight.
Be blessed everyone.
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