THE CREATOR ENTERS HIS OWN CREATION AND IS REJECTED BY HIS OWN Isaiah 53 - Josiah Shipley part 2

Well, good evening everybody, it is great to be back with you again. Hey, I told you before, every

Sunday night at 6pm we'll be here and I will give you the pre -recorded message for what

I'm teaching in person. If you're in the Memphis area, feel free to come to Witton Baptist, we're back open at 6pm and be in person for these lessons.

I wanted to continue to be able to share with you guys online what we've been doing the past six weeks going through the

Bible and continue that Bible study. For those of you who can't make it here, whether you're out of town or for any other reason,

I want to continue being able to help minister to you the best way I can. I'm just a beggar showing another beggar where to find the bread, right?

There's nothing special about me, I just open God's word and I let it speak and I try to shut up. I just try to let my light shine in that way, to use a colloquial term, but I love you guys very much and I care about you and I'm still working on reading the comments the next day after you guys post them, but I'm still going to keep trying, okay?

Again I'm Brother Josiah Shipley from Witton Baptist Church and last week we started with some background on Isaiah 53 and today we're going to start actually reading

Isaiah chapter 53. We'll probably be here for a good 30 minutes and we'll be here for a couple weeks after this, okay?

So please turn to Isaiah 53 and guys, after these videos post on Sundays at 6, please feel free to share them, share it on your private page, share it publicly, do whatever you want to do.

I'm just here to read God's word and you guys can help spread the word, okay? So what

I'm going to start by doing is I'm going to read Isaiah 53 and I'm going to go ahead and read the whole chapter, okay guys?

I want to read the whole chapter. I'd rather God's word speak to me and then we'll probably go over the first three or four verses today and call that good, okay?

So here we go. Isaiah 53. I'm going to be reading out of the ESV just so you know.

So here we go. Isaiah chapter 53, verse one. Verse four.

Verse five.

He was oppressed and he was afflicted, and yet he opened not his mouth, and like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep, silent before her shears is silent.

He did not open his mouth. No oppression and judgment he was taken away, excuse me, by oppression and judgment he was taken away, and as for his generation who considered that he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken from the transgression of my people.

Verse nine. They made his grave with the wicked, the rich man at his death. That's a really cool prophecy.

We're going to talk about that later. Although he had done no violence and there was no deceit in his mouth, yet it was the will of the

Lord to crush him severely and put him to grief. When his soul makes an offering for guilt, you shall see his offspring and prolong his days and the will of the

Lord will prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul he will see and be satisfied. By his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous.

We'll talk about that later. And shall bear their iniquities. Verse 12. Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many and he shall divide the spoiled with the strong because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors.

He bore the sin of many and makes intercession for the transgressors. Okay guys.

Last week we talked a lot about the gruesome violence and gore that was the crucifixion.

And I'm sorry, I mean this genuinely, for those of you that have children listening, but I don't want to water down what the crucifixion looks like.

Okay, so I'm going to go over that again just for a couple minutes and then if you want to mute me for a minute, I'll turn it back on.

But I just got to tell you the truth of what the Bible says. We talked, I think, if I remember right, we talked about the cat of nine tails.

When they scourged him, you can read about this in Mark 15. When they scourged him, they used a whip that had bone and metal fragments so that when they whipped

Jesus and then ripped it out, they ripped his flesh with it. That's why in Isaiah 52, 14, it says he was beaten and marred so bad he didn't even look like a human being anymore.

The crown of thorns, the Roman soldiers beating him over the head with a reed. This is all before he was even crucified.

Okay? I want you to notice that Isaiah 53 is all in the past tense, although it was written 700 years before Jesus was even born.

Now, wrap your minds around this. How is the Bible speaking of something that hasn't even happened for 700 years that will be done by Roman soldiers who are not even in power yet, haven't even conquered the world yet?

Before Alexander the Great, 400 years before he's even conquered, and prophesize about a crucifixion that would take place and speak of it in the past tense as if it's already happened.

Well, as we talked about last week, guys, that's because our God is outside of time. Though he operates in time, he's outside of time.

So in that sense, right now, God is at creation.

Jesus is coming back. He's at the cross. He's in the 1900s. He's in 2000

BC. He's in the Garden of Eden. In that sense, he's in all those places at once.

But we can't even say at once, because that's a unit of time. He is outside of time, though he intervenes and operates in time, okay?

To help give you a view of this, I want you to write down this verse. I want you to read it later, okay? Acts chapter 4, verse 26, 27, and 28.

Acts chapter 4, verse 26 through 28. Let me give you the background. We may have gone over this a little bit last week.

Peter and John, through the power of Jesus, healed a lame man who was begging at the temple.

And of course, the Sanhedrin and the chief priests and the scribes are all upset. By what name do you do this?

All this stuff. And Peter and John are like, by the name of Jesus. And we won't keep silent about it.

And they were told to quit speaking about the name. And Peter and John said, we can't.

We're unable to quit speaking about Jesus Christ. They meet back together with the church.

Remember, the church is not a building, it's the people. And they pray to God. Now, they're still in Jerusalem, and this is only a couple months, a few months after Jesus has left and ascended to heaven.

Remember, after the crucifixion, Jesus stayed on earth for 40 days, 40, 50 days.

And then Pentecost happened, the Holy Spirit came and then dwelled in believers.

And we're a couple months after that. This is only a few months after Jesus left. And this is the prayer that Peter and John and the rest of the church prayed to God in Jerusalem.

They said, in this city, both Herod and Pilate, the

Jews and the Gentiles, the Romans, came together against your Messiah to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

Let me say that again. In this city, both Herod and Pilate, the Jews and the

Gentile Roman soldiers, came together against your Messiah to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

Ladies and gentlemen, nothing, nothing in this world ever happens outside the sovereign hand of God.

Now, don't misunderstand me. Pilate and Herod, the Jews and the Gentiles, did whatever their evil hearts wanted to do, and it was evil.

Okay? Because Jesus is the only innocent person ever to die, and even he at least bore our sin, but innocent of his own account.

Well, in one sense, you could say that's the most evil event to ever take place in history. Herod and Pilate, the

Jews and the Gentiles, did whatever their evil hearts wanted, but God had predestined it for good, not for evil.

They meant evil against him, Genesis 50 .20, but God meant it for good to bring about this present result, the survival of many people.

You see, Herod, Pilate, the Jews, and the Gentiles weren't intending on saving anybody.

They had evil intentions, but God had salvific intentions.

And though they meant it for evil, God had predestined it for good. Okay? Isaiah 53 is written in the past tense, because like Revelation says, the

Lamb of God was slain from the foundation of the world. Okay? Guys, God was not surprised when

Adam and Eve disobeyed. He didn't say, okay, well, let's come up with a plan to save them now.

Uh, Jesus, you're up. Guys, from creation, God already had a plan of salvation, because he already knew we would fail.

God has never been surprised. God has never learned anything. He knew all that from creation, and in love and in grace, he created us anyway, knowing we would rebel.

Let me say that again. In love and in grace, he created us anyway, knowing we would rebel. Back in Isaiah 53, verse 1.

This verse 1 is quoted by John, in John chapter 12, and by Paul in Romans 10, to try to say why some

Jews, or some people here in the gospel, specifically Jews, didn't believe. Isaiah 53 says, who's believed?

It's as if no one's believing. And then he explains, because Jesus didn't look the part, okay?

Who has the arm of the Lord been revealed to? Verse 1. The arm of the Lord is God's power being shown to Israelites, and the arm of the

Lord is whoever God gives his power to reveal himself to. So at one point, in Isaiah 40, he calls

Israel the arm of the Lord, because they're who God is revealing his power to. Then later,

Jesus is how God is demonstrating his power to the world. Isaiah 40, verse 10 and 11.

Isaiah 40, verse 10 and 11. And I know I read a lot of verses when I teach, so don't be afraid to write them down and read them later.

Isaiah 40, 10 through 11, says this. Behold, the Lord God comes with might, and his arm rules for him.

Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense is before him. That's Jesus, guys. He will tend his flock like a shepherd.

He will gather the lambs in his arms. He will carry them in his bosom, and he will gently lead those that are with young.

You remember when Jesus is called the Good Shepherd in John chapter 10? Listen again. The arm of the

Lord, that's Jesus. The arm of the Lord will tend his flock like a shepherd, and gather the lambs in his arms.

Jesus said, I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I'm going to go get them.

Those are my sheep. They hear my voice, and they obey me, because I'm the

Good Shepherd. They don't listen to the voice of a stranger. They listen to my voice. Jesus the

Good Shepherd. He didn't come up with that idea in John chapter 10. It's already here in Isaiah 700 years earlier, okay?

By the way, little side note for you. Remember, God's name, Yahweh, Jehovah, in the

Old Testament, most of our English Bibles, that's why Lord is written in all caps, okay?

When Lord is written in all capital letters, L -O -R -D, all capital letters, that means the name Yahweh, Jehovah, was used.

If you want to see an example of this, read Psalm 110, verse 1. Psalm chapter 110, verse 1, where it says,

The Lord, all caps, said to my Lord, just capital L, little o, little r, little d, that means

Adonai, that means master, okay? Yahweh said to my master, okay? So if your

Bible has Lord in all caps, that means the personal name of God with you, okay? So just, we were in Isaiah 40, verse 10 and 11, to show you where Jesus was also called the arm of God right there, as long as, as well as in Isaiah 53.

But real quick, Isaiah 40, verse 3, is a verse that you will recognize immediately from the

Gospels. It's quoted in the Gospels, and it says this, A voice crying out in the wilderness, prepare the way of the

Lord, of Yahweh, make straight the pathway in the desert, make straight a highway for our

God. You recognize that from the

New Testament. It's in many songs. Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight a highway, a path for the Lord, right? It's in songs.

You probably are singing a song in your head right now as I say it. That's quoted in the Gospels, but here it's

Isaiah 40. But did you catch that? Prepare the way for the

Lord, for Yahweh. That quote is of John the Baptist. But Josiah, I thought

John the Baptist was preparing the way for Jesus, not the Lord. Ding, ding, remember our little deity of Christ button right here?

Isaiah says John the Baptist is preparing the way for Yahweh. The Gospels say John the Baptist was preparing the way for Jesus.

That's not a contradiction. You know why? Because Jesus is God. Guys, no other person could ever take a quote from the

Old Testament that was said of God and apply it to Jesus unless he is God. Does that make sense what I'm trying to say?

I hope so. Verse 2 of Isaiah 53, He grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground.

He had no form of majesty, no impressive form that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.

You see, Jesus physically grew up like any other human. In Luke 2 52, that's when

Jesus got left at the temple when he was 12 years old, it says he grew in both stature and wisdom. He grew up like a regular kid in that sense.

In Luke 2 51, by the way, it says he was submissive to his parents. Though he already knew at the age of 12 that he was here sent by God, he was still submissive to his parents.

Very interesting. A lot of humility in there. Some teenagers need to read that verse,

I think. Even Jesus submitted to his parents. So in that sense, he grew up in that way, but he didn't have anything impressive about him that we should look at him or desire him.

Do you remember the reason the Jews chose Saul to be king? Do you remember the reason the

Jews, the Israelites, chose Saul to be king? Because he was a head taller than everyone else.

They chose him to be the leader because he looked the part. I'm glad in America, we judge people based on their character, not their outward appearance, right?

Please note sarcasm. Guys, God is not interested in what's on the outside, but what's on the inside.

God is not any respecter of persons. He's not any. He doesn't show favoritism based on what's on the outside.

God looks at the heart. All the ways of a man are right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.

Verse three, you see, guys, when Jesus came, the Jews were looking for a military conqueror to overthrow the

Romans. Jesus was the savior of souls, but they were interested in the outside and not the inside. And don't think it was just them, okay?

We have to repent of that as well. Verse three, he, Jesus, was despised and rejected, still the past tense, because in the mind of God, it's already happened.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, there's a beautiful song with that title, but a man of sorrows, a man of pain, acquainted, acquainted with grief or knowing sickness.

As from one who men hide their face, he was despised and we esteemed him not. Thoroughly, he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows or our pains.

We esteemed him struck down by God and afflicted. What do you think about this imagery in verse four and five? He was sent by God, the triune

God. He being God, the son was sent down and humbled himself, became like us. And we looked at him and hid our face for him as if he was a leper.

And we esteemed him struck down by God. We looked at him and say, oh, God must be judging him because he's borne our pains and our grief.

He was despised, Baza in Hebrew. He was rejected, Kadeo in Hebrew.

I'm going to read John chapter one, verse 10 and 11. John chapter one, verse 10 and 11.

This idea of Jesus being rejected. There's many parables that Jesus told about himself in this way, but John chapter one, verse 10 and 11 says this.

He being Jesus was in the world and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.

Think about that. The creator of the world, the creator of the world, sorry about that, guys. The creator of the world came into the world and was rejected by the world.

The creator came into his own creation and was rejected by his creation. It's mind boggling.

Verse 11 of John one, he came to his own, to his own creation and his own people did not receive him, but to all who did receive him, who believed on his name, he gave the right to be children of God who were born, not of blood or the will of the flesh or the will of man, but born of God.

It's beautiful. When we say Jesus was rejected, he was rejected by the very things, the very people, by his creation.

John one, one says, in the beginning was the word, the world was with God and the word was God. And the word is Jesus. It says in verse 14, all things were created through Jesus and apart from Jesus, not one thing was created that has been created.

Jesus is the creator of all things. John one, the triune God created the world and he came into his world and was rejected by it.

But Isaiah 53, three says also that he was despised. He was despised.

I want to read another prophecy for you. Psalm 22,

Psalm 22 is one of the clearest messianic Psalms in the entire collection of Psalms.

When I say messianic, I mean about the Messiah, about Jesus. Psalm 22, I'm going to read, how about I read the first six verses?

OK, Psalm 22, I'm going to read the first six verses. OK, my God, my

God, why have you forsaken me? Does that sound familiar? Psalms was written over a long period of time.

David started writing a thousand years, nine hundred and fifty years before Jesus ever got here to earth.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me in the words of my groaning?

Oh, my God, I cry out my day, but you don't answer. By night, I can't find any rest. Verse three, yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

In you, our fathers trusted. They trusted and you delivered them. To you, they cried out were rescued and in you, they trusted and were not put to shame.

Verse six, but I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.

Verse seven, all who see me mock me. They make mouths at me or they mock me and they wag their heads at me.

They wag or shake their heads at me. That's Psalm 22. You should notice a lot of familiarities in that Psalm, especially my

God, my God, why have you forsaken me? It goes on to say in Psalm 22 that all my bones are out of joint, verse 14.

It goes on to say that I am thirsty. My tongue sticks to my mouth. Someone else said they were thirsty on the cross.

I can count all my bones. They have pierced my hands and feet. Psalm 22, 16, they have pierced my hands and my feet.

Think about how someone was crucified with the nails, right? Verse 18 of Psalm 22, they divide my garments among them and they cast lots from my clothing.

Remember what the Roman soldiers did? Guys, the Bible says the same thing from Genesis to Revelation because it wasn't authored by man, it was written by man, it was authored by God.

Read Psalm 22 and you'll see all that I'm talking about. It's very clearly a Messianic prophecy. Just to show you a couple things that we just read,

I'm going to read Mark 15. Mark 15, and let's start. Mark chapter 15,

I'm going to start in verse 16, okay? I'm going to read it for a little bit. This is Mark chapter 15, I'm going to start in verse 16.

I know we're doing a lot of reading, but the Old Testament prophesies, the New Testament quotes it, it's just, it's how the

Bible works, guys. Mark 15, verse 16, and the soldiers led him, Jesus, away inside the palace.

They called together the whole battalion, that was a few hundred men. They clothed him in a purple cloak, and they twisted a crown of thorns on him, and they began to salute him, mockingly saying,

Hail, King of Jews. They were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him, and kneeling down and paying almonds to him.

When they had mocked him, they stripped off his purple cloak, and they put his own clothes on him, and they led him out to be crucified.

This is after he's already been whipped. Verse 24, and they crucified him and divided his garments and cast lots for them.

Sound like Psalm 22 to you? Verse 29, and those who passed by derided him and wagged their heads at him.

Just like Psalm 22, verse 7, they shook their heads at him and said, ah, this part makes me so angry.

Listen, but this is me and you guys. We're not any better than Roman soldiers. Aha, you said you would destroy the temple and build it back up in three days.

Save yourselves, come down from the cross. The chief priests and the scribes also mocked him, saying, He saved others, why can't he save himself?

Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down from the cross, and we'll see and believe. Verse 34, in the ninth hour,

Jesus cried out with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama selachthani, which means, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Psalm 22, verse 1. It continues on, it keeps on going more and more with what

Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53 are speaking of, guys. It's a perfect prophecy. Back in Isaiah 53, we'll go a few more minutes and we'll call it good.

Verse 4, surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows and pains, and we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

Verse 5, but he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment for our peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

Verse 4, he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, both physically and spiritually.

See, this verse is quoted in Matthew 8, 17, after Jesus physically heals people, and says, this fulfills the prophet

Isaiah when it says he's borne our griefs and our sicknesses and carried our pains. See, Jesus physically healed, and Matthew 8, 17 says that fulfills

Isaiah 53, 4. Verse 5 shows us that there's also a spiritual healing, but I do want to point out that it says

Jesus was a man of sorrows, a man of sickness, who knew what grief and pain was. Not just because he bore ours, but he had his own.

Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 4, I just want to read a couple little verses out of Hebrews 4. Hebrews 4 says this,

I'll start in verse 14, Hebrews 4, 14. Since then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens,

Jesus the son of God. Let us hold fast our confession. Verse 15, for we don't have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but one who has been tested as we are in every way, yet without sin.

Let us then draw confidence near to the throne of grace, and we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in the time of need at the proper time.

You see, guys, the high priest would make a sacrifice for the sins of others, but we don't have a high priest who makes sacrifice and doesn't experience what we're going through.

Jesus lived a full life for 33 years, and he was tested in every single way as we are, guys.

He was tested and never sinned. He was tested to be selfish. He was tested by sickness.

He was tested through every trial and tribulation, yet he did it without sin. So that, his righteousness can be imputed on us.

We're going to talk about imputation next week, okay? We're going to talk about imputation, but I want to define it.

I want to end here by defining what imputation means. I want you to take notes. I want you to think about it, and I'm going to give scripture for it next week.

So we're going to end here, and we're going to start here next week on verse 5. Imputation means to be charged to someone else's account.

There are three types of imputation in the Bible. That's all it means, to be charged to someone else's account. Three types are

Adam's sin imputed on us, and I'll just give you some references so you can read these for yourself and be prepared for next week.

Adam's sin imputed on us, okay? I want you to read Romans 5 .12, Romans chapter 5, verse 12.

See, when Adam sinned, we were all born in the sin. Jeremiah, Isaiah, and David said we were sinful in our mother's womb, okay?

The second stage of imputation is our sin imputed on Christ. We're going to read that here next week in Isaiah 53.

And the third stage is Christ's righteousness imputed on believers, and that's in verse 11 of Isaiah 53.

And in Genesis 15 with Abraham. So another way to think about this is 2

Corinthians 5, verse 21, I believe it is, where it says Jesus became sin, though he knew no sin.

He became sin. Our sin was put on him so that we could become his righteousness, so his righteousness would be imputed on us.

So we're going to talk about imputation next week. It's a beautiful doctrine, one of the most beautiful in the Bible, in my opinion.

So let me summarize where we're at today. We know Isaiah was written 700 years before Jesus, and Psalm 22 was written 900, 1 ,000 years before Jesus.

They both prophesy in detail the events of the crucifixion we read in Mark 15.

And we know that all that happened, and according to Acts 4, 26 and 27, all that happened, those sinful intentions of man had a good purpose predestined by God, and he was never surprised by any of it.

That's how he could prophesy about it almost a millennium before it happened. Guys, this is one of the most beautiful chapters in the

Bible. I want you to read those references. I want you to be ready to talk about imputation next week. We're going to be on that for a while.

And as we slowly go through this, I want you to see the beauty of what Christ did for all who would believe in him, for what

Christ did for sin. Guys, this is not about praying

Jesus Christ into your heart and living however you want the rest of your life. Jesus said, if you love me, you'll obey me.

You'll keep my commands. This is not about growing up in a church. This is not about being a

Baptist or a Catholic or a Presbyterian. This is not about praying a prayer.

Guys, this is about a life -altering repentance to God. When you see what

God has done for you and how sinful we are, we all, like sheep, have gone astray. The shepherd lays down his life for us, and we turn and run the other way.

But God, in his mercy, goes and finds that lost sheep. Guys, we're going to continue every

Sunday night at 6 p .m. to keep meeting here. We're going to keep going through Isaiah 53, and then we'll find out what's next.

If you like it, put it in the comments, but many people have asked me to do an overview of the life of the apostles.

So that may be what we do after we finish Isaiah 53. I hope this is helpful. If there's any ways we can make it better, put it in the comments, and I will try my best.

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I want to keep helping you guys as much as I can, especially those of you who I'm not going to see in person at 6 p .m.

I want to continue this. I don't want this to fade off because I'm back in person at church.

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I hope I'm not too scatterbrained. I hope I'm helping. I hope I'm making sense. I just want to show you the glory and beauty of what

I see when I read Isaiah 53. Next week, we're going to pick up on verse 5, imputation.

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