Suffering Servant Series, Part 4
Isaiah 53:7-9
The Servant Silent
I
have felt for a long time that one of the best things we can do as believers is
to spend time at the foot of the Cross.
A) To consider, remember and
to contemplate and meditate upon the Sacrifice of Christ.
B) To think about that it
was my sin that He hung on there for.
C) To think about what the
Cross accomplished for us. Peace w/ God
Love of God
1) What the cross modeled
for us.
11 "These
things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy
may be full. 12 This is My commandment,
that you love one another as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his
friends. 14 You are My friends if you do
whatever I command you.
D)
Modeled for us Life of self sacrificing love
1) Laying down our lives to
better someone else.
E) We cant spend too much
time looking at the Suffering Savior our Servant King Jesus
That
is why we have taken the time to camp out here in
A) Looking at Jesus and His
sacrifice. Given to us in great detail
B) Noted it is a message
with 5 Stanzas
1) Stanza
#1 Ch52:13-15 The Servant Exalted
C) Behold my Servant: Look
gaze/ study/ be in awe of
1) Verses that Lay out for
us the Death Rez and 2nd coming of Christ Life of Christ capsulated
Stanza
#2 Ch.53:1-3 The Servant Humbled
A) His beginnings His Character
- He came in humility concealing His glory
B) Nothing about him
outwardly that we should desire him!
1) He was despised and
rejected by men.
Then
we came to Stanza #3 v. 4-6 last time
The
Servant our substitute.
A) He was wounded for our
transgressions and Bruised for our iniquities
B) The Chastisement for our
peace was upon Him
C) He took our place our
Sin in order to give us His life His righteousness
1) Sum of the role of the
Substitute in this way:
Tonight
we come to the Stanza #4
The
Servant Silent:
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the
slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
Now
we should not take this as indication
that Jesus was a helpless victim of circumstances, and was helpless as a lamb.
A) Quite the contrary; even
in His suffering and death, Jesus was in control.
B) I love the scene in
Then Pilate said to Him, "Are You not speaking to me? Do
You not know that I have power to crucify You, and power to release You?"
Jesus answered, "You could have no power at all against Me
unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who delivered Me to
you has the greater sin."
C)
Pilate was stirred V.12 From then on Pilate sought to release him.
Pilate
is an interesting study: Definitely conflicted. A) His wife
warns him have nothing to do with this suffered many things in a dream
.
This man
B)
Pilate was moved by the way that Jesus handled himself with such strength and
dignity
1) Even in the midst of
being beaten, bloodied, beard plucked out.
C) He stood there in dignity and grace led Pilate to say, I find no fault in this man
1) Made the sign:
Behold the King of the Jews
Pilate
is a great case study in the person who chooses
Popular opinion over Choosing Christ.
A) He was more
concerned about his standing before his constituents than he was his standing
before God
B) Interesting
thing about Pilate is he ended up losing his position not long after this.
C) And we are
not sure what really happened to him after this: One report Suicide
1) Another
report Believer later martyred
D) The 2nd
idea would be cool.
Jesus was silent in His suffering. Submitted
to the fathers plan.
A) Doesnt mean didnt cry
out at the beating He was human felt the pain or didnt speak
B) Silent in the sense that
he didnt try to defend Himself He didnt make excuses
1) He didnt cast blame on
others
C)
That was the normal reaction of the criminals
1) I am innocent this is
not fair
D) The would beat a criminal
in hopes of getting a confession out of him or that he would implicate others
1) Jesus could have
implicated us! He could have started blurting out our names He didnt
E) The Soldiers mocked him
and made fun of him he was reviled, he did not revile in return and when he
suffered, he did not threaten. (1 Peter 1:23).
F) Think
about what He could have done!
1) Meekness in action
Power under control.
Jesus was in Full control!
A) Question: How do you
handle your power and authority?
B) Home husband? Father?
What about at work?
1) In a friendship
C) Being Christ like in our
sphere of influence is being willing to lay that authority down in order to
help others serve others
D) Meekness Power under
control
E) His silence was a display
of his meekness think about that the next time tempted to lash out.
Continue V.8
8
He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And
who will declare His generation?
A) He stood alone no one
stood with Him no one stood for Him. {
V.8b For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the
transgressions of My people He was stricken
A) Picture of the sin offering part Taken outside the city and burned
Aa) This is the first indication in this passage that the suffering
Servant of the Lord, the Messiah
Himself, would die.
B) Up to this point, we might have thought He would only have been
severely beaten.
1) But there is no mistaking
the point: He is to be cut off from the land of the living.
C) The suffering and the attack was meant to end in death!
9
And they made His grave with the wicked
But
with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit
in His mouth
A) Jesus died in the company of the wicked
and it was the intention of those supervising His execution to cast Him into a
common grave with the wicked.
B) Joseph of Arimathea steps forward asked for the body - Bury in his
personal tomb
/ Nicedemous
Joseph is mentioned in all four gospels
A) Told he was a just man
A man
seeking the
A member of the Sanhedrin Jewish ruling council
He didnt agree with the Sanhedrins decision to Crucify Jesus
B)
1) Josephus
notes that in the entire history of the Sanhedrin only 14 people were given
that title
C) He is also very rich Matthew
1) From Arimathea Hill country outside of
D) Beautiful garden area Where he was going to have a
tomb constructed for his entire family
E) Now
a normal rich man would just buy a cave to use for a tomb
1) A very rich man would have a cave made {carved
Visit
A)
Interesting about this site A tomb that was hand
carved out of solid rock Big enough for an
entire family
B) But
when British scientist did research on this tomb they noted some interesting
finds
C) The tomb was never completed there is only a spot
for one person. {Big enough for several pp
1) And
there are no signs of decomposition it seems that it is a tomb that was never
used
2) Very
rare such a huge expense.
D) Only
3 days
Imagine Joseph thinking about
A)
Imagine him thinking was that written about me
I am
the rich man providing his grave
B)
Imagine him determining I would rather be a part of Prophecy than the
Sanhedrin
C)
Imagine these two wealthy men climbing up a
ladder w/ a pry bar prying out the nails
1) Rich
men didnt do that sort of thing
D) Them
getting all bloody themselves
1)
Carrying his lifeless body to the tomb
E) Preparing it for burial
1) Pull
out the thorns form his head
Imagine Nicedemous lugging thru the Streets of
A)
Someone asking Nicedemous where are you going with all those spices and
fragrant herbs
B) He
responds to a Burial {Someone commenting that is enough for a King! {EXACTLY
C)
Pilate King of the Jews Joseph and Nicedemous Our King!
D) They
risked a lot to align themselves with Jesus
1) Too
bad they waited so long missed out on a lot
Dd) The Cross was the thing that finally moved these two
men to come out in the open.
1) To
express their allegiance to Christ
E)
Thinking: Our risk living here in the
1) Yet
so many are reluctant too Secret agent Christians
Time
for being Bold outspoken Now!
He was
silent He tells us to shout it out to proclaim the good news
Before
we approach the table tonight I want to consider one more thing.
You
know there is a remarkable parallel between the five stanzas of
A)
In the first chapter of Leviticus, Moses describes the burnt offering. In
chapter 2, he describes the meal offering.
B)
Ch.3 he describes the peace offering.
1)
Ch. 4 he describes the sin offering.
2)
Ch. 5-6 he describes the trespass offering.
Now
the Burnt offering was fully consumed on the altar
A)
It is an offering which presents the ministry of our Lord typically as one who
gives himself whole heartedly to do the will of God, to serve God in a
completely obedient life.
B)
Now that is surely set before us here in the first stanza - Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; accomplishing
the purpose from which He came
C)
He shall really carry out the will of God and the will of God is the work of
his death, resurrection, ascension, and 2nd coming.
The
second offering was the meal offering. Offering of fellowship
A)
Part of the offering to God part of the offering to the priest Part eaten
by the worshipper
B)
The grain offering was made with fine flour which was a beautiful picture of
the perfect humanity and character of Jesus Christ.
C) Which is presented for us
so perfectly in the 2nd Stanza!
1)
Our Lords humility His tenderness His humanness as a man of sorrows
acquainted with grief is presented before us.
D)
Speaks to us of His ability to understand our struggles that He was touched by
them.
The
third offering, was the peace offering.
A)
It was the offering that the priests brought which was designed to represent atonement
that issues in peace.
B)
In this 3rd Stanza Jesus is presented as the Substitute and we
are told in that section that chastisement that brought our peace was laid upon
him.
The
fourth offering was the sin offering.
A) That was an offering in
which the transgression of
B) Part of that offering was
taken and burnt on the altar as a sweet savor to God.
1)
And then the great majority of the animal was taken outside the camp and there
it was burned.
2)
A token of judgment.
C)
And you will remember that Jesus when he died, He did not die in
1)
He went outside the gate, outside the camp.
D) It was as if they were
typically saying to everybody we do not think that Jesus of
E) And
so they slew him outside at the
Depicted
in this 4th Stanza V.8
V.8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall
declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living
The
final offering was the trespass offering.
A) Trespass = rebellion willful disobedience
B) We read here in V.10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
C) The word used to describe the phrase an offering for sin is asham, and thats the very word that is
used of the trespass offering, the fifth of the offerings.
D) So what the offerings were meant to represent of Jesus we have
described for us here in
1. He offered himself holy
to God, the burnt
offering.
2. He was the perfect
man. Which qualified him to be
the final sacrifice. The meal offering.
3. He provides peace through
his sacrifice. The
peace offering.
4. He dies for sin, for the
failure of man - the sin
offering.
5. Trespass offering He
also died for mans
rebellion.