Suffering
Servant Series, Part 5
Isaiah 53:10-12
The Servant Satisfied
We
have come to the last Stanza in the message of Gods suffering Servant.
A) Called the MT Everest of
the OT
B) Also called the Symphony
of the Saved.
C) Tonight we come to the end
Amazing passage that depicts a great satisfaction on the Part of God the
father over the suffering of the son.
D) There is a sense of
completion mentioned here
On the part of God the
Father
Once again lets begin in
Notice v. 10 again -
Yet it pleased
the Lord to bruise Him;
He has put Him
to grief.
Verse
after verse depicting the suffering that Jesus would endure for sinners One
horrified blow
.
A) Interrupted by this statement
It pleased the Lord to bruise Him Crush Him.
B) As a Parent God the Father loved His son way more
than any of us have ever loved a child.
1) This doesnt seem
possible.
C)
God the son is on the cross sin of the world flowing from all generations
1) Flowing from unborn
generations
D) He is bearing the weight
of all of that sin
1) It pleased the Father to
Crush Him to Bruise Him
Pour out His wrath upon His
Son.
We
have all heard the Story of the
A) When He is not looking
son wanders out gets stuck in the gears of
B)
Dad notices his son is stuck But he also notices that a passenger
train is coming
1) Dilemma: He needs to
lower the draw bridge or 300 vacationers on the train are going to die
C) But if He lowers the
drawbridge he knows the gears are going to crush his young son.
1) But to save the
vacationers He does the right thing and sacrifices his son. {Good story/ pp train oblivious
D)
Courson: Changed the story: Train is full of not vacationers but
Convicts headed to the worst prison possible for the rest of their lives
E) Would you save them? He
does
F) Touching illustration
that depicts a fathers willingness to sacrifice His son to save others
But
the story is not an accurate depiction of what really happened on
A) First Jesus wasnt a
trapped little boy who accidently found himself in a life threatening situation
B) God the Father was not a reluctant Father sacrificing his Son because deep down he knew he had no other
Choice.
C) No
1)
Rescue mission that all three members of the triune Godhead were in
agreement w/ from day One
D) It pleased the Father to
bruise the Son because it was the Culmination of the
mission
1) Save Man Redeem the
world- restore order in the midst of the Chaos
E) To set in order the
restoration plan of God plan for the ages for all generations
1) Jesus was Crushed for our
transgressions
God was in Christ reconciling the world
to Himself,
God the Father wasnt
detached from the Process!
This
is the reason why God was pleased to bruise His Son. What it accomplished?
A) The rest of the message
details this for us.
V.10b When You
make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see
His seed, There is going to be
offspring from this 1st
fruits of the Resurrection First of many to encounter Resurrection life.
He shall
prolong His days, He will live past his 331/2
earthly yrs and on into eternity
B) There will be a Resurrection
the crucifixion is not the end of a perfectly lived life.
C) No it was the beginning
of a perfect work continues today Jesus working in hearts
1) Working thru hearts
And the pleasure
of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. V.11 He shall see the labor of His soul,
and be satisfied.
He shall be Satisfied! What an
amazing word to be attached to all of this - He shall be Satisfied
A) He Who? Jesus or the
Father? BOTH
B) Jesus was satisfied He
finished the work He brought glory to the Father
C) Father Satisfied The
righteous requirement of God Satisfied by the Sacrifice of his son!
What
Satisfied God?
A) Not your offerings not
your sacrifices
2) Not your attempts at good
works
B) Not you trying to clean
up your act!
Listen Sin caused a debt
that needed to be paid
1) Wages of sin is death
the only thing that would satisfy the debt was a sinless Substitute
C)) That was Jesus He
Satisfied the righteous requirement of a Holy God
D) NOTHING REPEAT NOTHING
we can do will satisfy that debt
1) Get off of the
performance treadmill
My senior year of High school I was the teachers aid for this really
cool teacher in our School!!
A) In fact she went on to become a family friend
& thru that came to Christ she attends CCCM to this day. NEAT Lady
B) Now what I thought was really cool is that she
would let me borrow her 1980 Yellow
1) I would borrow it to run errands or go to lunch
C) I remember vividly the first time that she let me
Borrow her car she asked me if I knew how to
drive a stick shift
1) Being a Big Bad Senior Varsity Baseball player I said sure thinking it couldnt be that hard
could it?
D) Well that day
I ended up stalling her car 3 times in a row in one of the busiest
intersections in
1) I learned that day if I was going to enjoy
driving that car or any other stick shift I was going to have to learn how to SHIFT GEARS!!!
Well the same
thing could be said about the Christian life If we are going to experience
all the blessings & power & resources that are available to us IN
CHRIST
A) We are going to need to learn how to SHIFT GEARS
/ from Performance to Dependence!!!!
B) From Dependence on our performance to dependence
on His Performance
Bb) Rest tonight relax in this God was satisfied
by the performance of Jesus.
C) Notice that phrase the Pleasure
of the Lord will prosper in His hand V.10
What is the Pleasure
of the Lord?
A) Revelation
B) Listen you do not exist for you! Get that
1) You exist for Gods pleasure.
C) In Him we live and move
. Our being!
Now that almost
sounds demeaning Is God an
Ego manic? No!
A) The question really hangs on what is His
pleasure?
B) Go back to creation. What blesses Him?
C) What is his greatest creation what is his
greatest Joy in Creation?
D) God spends five days making the World and
everything in every fish/ animal / star / galaxy
There is almost
this sigh in the heart of God as He comes to the sixth day.
A) Everything is in place When He says Now let
us make man in our image
B) Creates man different from the rest of His
creation
Creates man with this capacity to love
1) Creates man with this capacity for relationship
C) Making him unique from the rest of His creation
God rested on the 7th
day not because He was tired!
A) Not because He needed a break
B) Not because He has a six day work week
C) He rested in His satisfaction of Creation and
He rested in His fellowship with Adam
The 7th
day was the first full day of Adams existence and Adam and God are walking
together in the coolness of the garden enjoying fellowship
A) Adam was able to step into the presence of God
and God was Satisfied by that
B) Adam walking with God in the cool of the day is
what Brought God pleasure.
C) That is what brings God pleasure today!
1) Because of what Jesus did on
D) Come boldly before His throne Veil rent relationship possible.
E) We come on the basis of what Jesus did and that
brings God pleasure.
1) Seeing the redeemed resting in the work of the
son.
He is stoked in that
relationship:
A) It is not that our lives glorify God though we
should.
B) It is not that we serve God though we should.
C) Listen I didnt Marry Denise to serve me- though
she should J -
D) Didnt marry her to
complete me She does
1) Didnt Marry her to assist me She is great
I married her for
fellowship: Intimacy friendship and love
A) That is what I rejoice in all those other
things are icing on the cake -
B) I just love her heart and fellowship
As a parent dont
you love it when you kids are just resting in your love for them.
A) Not trying to impress not trying to over do it
B) Not trying to perform
for your acceptance
1) How weird Aaron Laker game chips
Wash car rub shoulders? Happy dad
C) Weird? Nice! No
hang watch game weird
1) Aaron hates sports Amy
Listen we can be
like Aaron Happy God read today drove speed limit witnessed
A) Hey God prayed over my whole prayer list
B) He would say: Just sit walk with me lets
just talk share heart {I am
C) That is what brings God pleasure
1) The Cross opened the way for that relationship to
be restored Awesome thing!
D) I am pleased w/ you because of Jesus.
God was also pleased to
bruise Him because
V.11b By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
Justification: Just as if you never
sinned!
A) Declared righteous
B) The Sacrifice of Jesus made a way for pp to be
Justified by faith
1) Simple belief in His sacrifice!
V.12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong:
A) The Messiahs glorious
work will be rewarded.
B) With the image of
dividing the spoil after a victorious battle, we see that the Messiah
ultimately triumphs.
C) Paul described this
ultimate triumph in
D) That is a glorious reward!
In
the end, the sufferings and humiliation of Jesus only bring Him more glory and majesty! I do see that out of this dunghill of sin Christ
has brought this diamond of his glory by our salvation. If there had been no
sinners, there could not have been a Savior. If no sin, no pouring out of the
soul unto death; and if no pouring out of the soul unto death, no dividing a
portion with the great. If there had been no guilt, there had been no act of
expiation. In the wondrous act of expiation by our great Substitute, the
Godhead is more gloriously revealed than in all the creations and providences
of the divine power and wisdom. (Spurgeon)
Who does the
Messiah divide the spoil with? With the strong; those strong in Him.
A)
We can share in the spoil of Jesus victory!
If children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint heirs with
Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
(Romans 8:17)
B)
He shall be rewarded -
V.12
Because He
poured out His soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors.
He
was numbered with the transgressors:
A)
Jesus could never become a sinner; He could never be a transgressor Himself.
B)
Yet willingly, loving, He was numbered with the transgressors.
1)
Is there a roll-call taken for transgressors? Jesus says, Put My name down
with them.
C)
We would be shocked if a godly woman looked at a list of prostitutes and said, Put my name down
among them.
D)
Or what if a godly man looked at a list of murderers and said, Number me among
them.
1)
But that is what Jesus did for us, only to an even greater degree.
He
bore the sin of many: Over and over again, the
prophet emphasizes the point.
A)
The Servant of the Lord, the
Messiah, suffers on behalf of and in the place of guilty sinners.
B) And made
intercession for the transgressors:
1)
Started on the Cross Father forgive
.
C)
Continues presently - Lives to make intercession for you and me High priest
Close tonight: rejoice
Great high priest opened the door of fellowship relationship come before
God
Interceding
for You
Get
off the Performance treadmill shift gears tonight
ALL
JESUS
REJOICE
JUSTIFIED
ACCEPTED
SET FREE MADE NEW
GOD
TAKES PLEASURE YOU RESTING IN HIM