Suffering Servant Series, Part 3
Isaiah 53:3-6
The Servant Our
Substitute
MT
Everest of the OT – incredible views of Christ
A) We are taking our time to
go thru it – allow ourselves to be moved by the views
B) 1st Stanza – Ch.52:13-15
The Servant Exalted
C) Last time we looked at
the 2nd Stanza Ch. 53:1-3
The Servant Humbled.
Tonight
we come to the 3rd Stanza of this passage and we notice right away
that it gets very personal.
A) We get inserted into the
message here:
Surely He has borne –OUR griefs
And carried OUR sorrows.
OUR
transgressions
OUR iniquities
The chastisement for OUR peace
And by His stripes WE
are healed
6 All we like
sheep have gone astray;
WE have turned,
every one, to HIS own way;
And the Lord
has laid on Him the iniquity of US ALL.
B) But in the midst of all
of that – He wants to make sure that we don’t miss JESUS
4 Surely HE
has borne our griefs
HE carried
our sorrows;
HE was Stricken
HE was afflicted
HE was wounded
HE was bruised
Our
Chastisement was upon Him
The Lord laid
on Him the iniquity of us all.
Note
this} In order for the Lord to put us and Jesus in the same Stanza of the song.
A) He must include words
like: Smitten, afflicted, sorrowful, and wounded.
B) Break this section down
in this way:
1.) V.4 Tells us of the
REALITY of these things.
2.) V.5 The REASON for these
things.
3.) V.6 The RESULT of these
things.
v.
4 Surely HE has borne our griefs
HE
carried our sorrows;
A) Borne and carried are interesting words
B) To bear something for
someone means to lift it
off of that person and to
place it on another.
C) Speaking of the Vicarious
placement of all of the ramifications of sin.
1) Hard to fathom – He felt
all– He carried all the physical and emotional pain and ramifications of sin
How many people
carry around pain - griefs and sorrows - that Jesus really carried for them?
A) He took them from us, but for it to do us
any good, we must release them.
B) The next time life’s problems seem about to overwhelm you, remember
this advice from Peter:
“Throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon Him, for you are His
personal concern.”
C) He went to the cross
because He loved you and He loved me.
V4b
Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.
A) We thought it was because
of something he did
B) The typical thought in
the Jewish mind – they linked sin and suffering
B) Job’s friends – Job there
must be sin in your life
C)
D)
So the general conscious of many at the cross – thinking he must have done
something really bad
1)
Man saw the suffering Jesus, but didn't understand the reasons why.
V.5
We are told the reason:
5 But He was
wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised
for our iniquities;
A) Wounded = to wound (fatally), bore through, to pierce.
B)
What an appropriate word to describe the One whose hands, feet, and side were
pierced.
This
passage and that passage in Psalm 22 tell us that the Messiah would not die
until there was a government in place that exercised – Crucifixion
A) This passage in Isaiah
was written over 700yrs before Christ was born –
B) And 300 yrs before Crucifixion
was even invented by the Persians – Invented in 400 BC – by the Persians –
Romans LATER perfected it
C)
Written 700 yrs before Christ was Crucified – the exact way – he would die. PIERCED
1) That is powerful pp –
Accuracy of the Bible
Wounded
for our transgressions: Bruised for our iniquities.
A) Bruised
= to be crushed, be shattered.
B) The word seems to speak of both inward and outward
pain, both mental anguish and physical pain.
C) Seems this is
something that the Lord really wants us to see and understand
1)
This was not just a Physical thing
D) Deeper was the emotional anguish – that started
the night before in the garden……drops of blood.
1)
Heart pierced – blood and water – broken heart
E) The
weight of what He was to endure – broke His heart.
F) He
endured that – Know this He can handle anything that you can throw His way
tonight.
Transgressions
= Willful disobedience
Trespass
to Cross a known line – barrier.
Something in us - Wet paint
don’t touch
Stay out of the cookie Jar –
all we are thinking of
Iniquities
= being twisted, our perversity. – the
perversion of man was put on Jesus
Every sick sin ever
committed
V5b
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
A)
Chastisement
= the discipline, chastening, correction.
B) Our
sins brought us into a state of war with God.
1) The thing that was required to make peace, the
chastisement for our sins, was put upon Jesus.
C) When the sin of the world was placed upon Jesus
He cried out – “My God ……. Forsaken me?”
1) The Father answered with wrath
D) {Thinking about Elijah’s
sacrifice on MT Carmel – The father fully consumed the sacrifice the
altar – the water the whole deal
1) That sacrifice like every sacrifice pointed to Christ
The
chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And
by His stripes we are healed.
A) Not only did Isaiah
prophecy that He would be crucified – but He also prophesied that He would be scourged or whipped.
B) As the blood flowed from
those stripes – healing was flowing forth.
C) I believe the context is
both physical and spiritual
Healing from sin – spiritual
{He Always does
D)
Healing from Physical and emotional pain – which He also ALWAYS DOES!
1) Might not experience it
here in this life –
E) My hip – not healed –
still pain – limited
1) But ONE DAY!
F) Basketball in Heaven – I
am there!
His stripes remind us to
Ask! James call for the elders anoint
with oil………
The Result of these things!
V.6
6 All we like
sheep have gone astray;
We have turned,
every one, to his own way;
And the Lord
has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah
now uses the image of wandering sheep as an illustration of sin.
A) Throughout the last two
stanzas the prophet has spoken in the first-person plural, "our"
sins.
B) But just in case someone
started to think – that doesn’t apply to me.
1)
He gets very specific here in v. 6
C) Isaiah says that "all of us" have gone astray.
D)
And just in case we were tempted to think – hey a little wandering is not that
big of deal.
1)
Accidental – sheep wander off / kids wander off - Boys will be boys { He
clarifies it yet again.
E) We have
turned, every one, to his own way;
1) All
of us are guilty of willful departure.
Frank
Sinatra made a song popular years ago,
“I
Did It My Way."
A) When you hear
that it sounds like something admirable, something everybody ought to emulate.
B) How proud we
feel that we did it "our way."
1) But when you turn to the record of the Scripture, you find that
that is the problem, not the solution.
C) Indictment against
Everyone is
doing things "their way," so we have a race that is in
constant conflict, forever striving with one another, unable to work anything
out, because we all did it "our way." Not HIS WAY
Paul,
describes the breadth of sin in
This
is the essence of sin—rejection of the Lord and the worship of something else. It’s idolatry.
A) It is really the worship
of self over the worship of God.
B) That is our main problem
– We turn to our own way.
1) Even now – We don’t trust our shepherd
C) He loves us and will
pursue us!
When
we were doing our own thing – Enemies of God – worshipping self – Pursuing MY
WAY.
The
Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
A) This is God’s BAIL OUT PLAN!
B) Here as it were God
balances the books of the world with two debit entries and one credit entry.
B) The two debit entries: "All we like sheep have gone astray" -
there is the whole fallen human race; "we
have turned everyone to his own way"
C) Followed by the Credit
entry that clears it all on the books if men would receive it.
"The
Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all."
D) The way to lay hold of the redemption of Jesus is to admit that
"All we like sheep have gone
astray. We have turned every one to his own way";
E)
That is me I am a sinner! – No question But then to believe the next line,”
1) But the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all."
One Christian
put his testimony in a rather quaint way. He said, "I stooped down low and went in at the first 'all,' and I stood up
straight and came out at the last all."
The first is the
acknowledgment of our deep need.
All we like sheep have gone astray" "we have
turned everyone to his own way"
The second shows how fully
that need has been met in the Cross of CHRIST.
"The
Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all."
Literally,
the Lord caused our iniquity to "meet" him.
A)
If we met our own iniquity, it would be a devastating encounter. Instead, the Servant meets with sin.
B)
It is the meeting we have been dreading our whole lives, the meeting when we
have to face into everything we’ve done. Jesus went to the meeting in our
place.
C) Now we can go to a
different meeting—a meeting with our Father, who waits with open arms.
D) Because
He rose
The
Resurrection is what makes what happened on
A) 1 Corinthians 15 If
Christ did not rise from the dead your faith is in vain.
B) He did rise –