The Suffering Servant (Isaiah 52:13-53) Part 2

We continue our examination of this morning, specifically after six. ...going to cause their ears to be deaf and bring judgment upon them. I think it's... even in... I think it's important that we think...

...in history, not only... ...the fact that the apostles saw this taking place even in their own ministry... ...just expand upon this just for a moment for our sake... ...a majority... ...domination...

...I don't care where you are, I don't care how old you are... ...these things... ...proclaim his message even in the midst of judgment... ...even when we know that the majority of the people... ...that maybe even the vast majority of the people to whom we speak... ...will not only turn a cold shoulder or a deaf ear... ...they may be violent in response.

We have many brothers and sisters around the world who face this every day... ...it's called living in an Islamic country... ...in Pakistan or places like that... ...we pray for these people, but what about us?

We need to think... ...not the first one... ...found him to be faithful to them... ...in the midst of those... ...and so it starts off with... ...to whom has the arm of the Lord... ...for he grew up before him like a tender shoe... ...and like a root out of parched ground...

...he has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon him... ...nor appearance that we should be attracted to him. Jesus, unlike very many of the popular presentations of him today... ...did not glow when he walked down the city streets of Jerusalem.

There was one time that happened, but it was an unusual situation... ...it was the Mount of Transfiguration when the Son was in the presence of the Father... ...and there were only three witnesses... ...but Jesus worked in a carpenter shop...

...Jesus grew up in a small little town... ...that has hardly made any mark on history whatsoever... ...and so Jesus does not come in the form that many people expected... ...and this suffering servant... ...again shows the contrast between...

...the stately grandeur of the Messiah... ...who rules over the nations... ...and yet now we have this suffering servant... ...he is like a tender root... ...like a root out of parched ground... ...now you and I are seeing roots of noxious chemicals...

...I've sprayed on my backyard, it's amazing... ...and I think there are some of the weeds that are coming up back there... ...that like Roundup, I really think there's a tendency more... ...they grow bigger and more...

...but it's just... ...these things come up... ...at first you sort of see this little thing that's like... ...and I don't even bother squirting that one... ...and three days later it comes out and it has eaten the cat...

...I mean it's just huge, it's massive... ...amazing how... ...but when you first see it it's like... ...I won't even give it a second thought... ...that's what a root out of parched ground is... ...a little tender shoot...

...nothing... ...we're not talking about the stately cedars... ...over in California and things like that... ...just a little thing... ...he has no stately form or majesty... ...we should look upon him...

...it's not like in the Old Testament... ...where you have some of the kings that are... ...head and shoulders above the others... ...you know Saul is this... ...he's something else... ...no, that's not how Jesus came...

...that's not how this suffering servant came... ...there was no appearance that we should be attracted to him... ...but there is something plain... ...and yet... ...he was despised and forsaken of man...

...a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief... ...and like one from whom men hide their face... ...he was despised and we did not esteem him... ...now... ...in that culture... ...to treat someone like this means that...

...you were... ...convinced this was a wrongdoer... ...this was a person who had done something... ...he was not worthy... ...of the normal despise... ...well this proves it can't be Jesus... ...because he had many followers...

...there were great crowds that followed him... ...yeah, very fickle crowds... ...that wanted to see miracles... ...crowds that wanted to be entertained... ...but... ...when it came down to... ...crowds that actually understood what he was saying... ...and followed him for what he said... ...instead there would be... ...in this way...

...surely our griefs he himself bore... ...and our sorrows he carried... ...so there is... ...the suffering servant... ...somehow... ...bears... ...you've seen this so many times... ...I don't even have to explain it to you... ...though I will anyways... ...in the Hebrew language... ...in fuller color... ...what it is... ...you want to say... ...and so you repeat yourself... ...using different terms... ...and different terminology... ...so as to expand... ...on your point... ...the reason I say I don't need to explain it to you... ...is if you... ...so many times... ...in fact sometimes... ...we don't pay as close attention to it as we should... ...because of the fact... ...we've seen it so... ...and so... ...our griefs he bore... ...our sorrows he carried... ...who would this suffering servant be?

...how could any one person... ...carry our... ...there's something substitutionary... ...there's some mechanism... ...whereby this suffering servant... ...is able to... ...to enter into... ...our deficit... ...the things that we lack... ...again thinking about... ...what does it mean to bear... ...that speaks very directly to a... ...a settled conclusion... ...on the part of those who are observing him... ...God's... ...judgment is upon... ...has struck him down... ...he's been smitten of God... ...did they accept him as Messiah?

...they don't know... ...tree? Cursed of God? ...the Jews say he was... ...they saw the blind man... ...who sinned? This man or his parents? He'd be born blind... ...what was Jesus' response? ...neither one... ...you see the mindset was... ...if you experience this... ...if you experience the rejection of men... ...you experience... ...these kinds of things... ...God must be against you... ...but he was... ...for our... ...separate them... ...from our New Testament... ...yeah, there's something substitutionary going on here... ...these are our... ...they are our iniquities... ...and he is... ...there is a substitution... ...he's pierced... ...he's crushed... ...for our transgressions and our iniquities... ...and then the second half of the verse... ...the chastening for our well-being... ...fell upon... ...the chastening for our... ...the chastening for our... ...what happens to him in regards to sin... ...second two lines... ...the positive benefit to us... ...shalom... ...the chastening and scourging... ...necessary for those things... ...we can't bear that... ...the penalty of the law... ...how... ...what is being said... ...about the nature of this suffering servant... ...that he can undergo these things... ...in our place... ...so that his suffering results in our shalom... ...and in our healing... ...who must the suffering servant be... ...what must his character... ...sheep always need a shepherd... ...sheep do not have... ...locked together... ...but each of us has turned... ...it's real iniquity... ...and yet somehow... ...do as so many would... ...what you're doing is wrong... ...stop this... ...bring judgment to bear... ...angels but... ...seven hundred years before Christ... ...can we talk about substitution... ...question of judgment... ...he was taken... ...question of judgment... ...the abuse of... ...found amongst the Jewish leaders... ...and amongst the Romans... ...who considered that he was cut... ...keep that in mind... ...some element of... ...he was cut off... ...somehow... ...his being cut off... ...this is obviously a singular individual... ...the suffering servant... ...this suffering servant's death... ...and so we see... ...in his fullness... ...spoken and think about... ...it's easy for us to stand back... ...and look backwards and go... ...oh they should have seen this... ...you know... ...reactions of... ...creatures... ...and the fusion... ...this... ...seven hundred years... ...assigned with wicked men... ...yet he was with the rich... ...think about all the different decisions... ...that came together... ...to have Jesus dying... ...with wicked men... ...on either side of him... ...and yet Joseph of Arimathea... ...comes along... ...and they use his... ...his death... ...a sovereign decree... ...anything... ...not exhaustive in its detail... ...how do you get this?

...his grave was assigned... ...with wicked men... ...one of the objections... ...in this sense... ...so he's done no vile... ...deceit in his mouth... ...himself as an asham... ...there's something about... ...he will see his offspring... ...he will prolong his days... ...wait a minute... ...he will see his offspring... ...he renders himself... ...means he has borne... ...our iniquities... ...our griefs... ...our sorrows... ...our transgressions... ...given life... ...he sees... ...Gethsemane and Calvary... ...fully sad... ...he will see it... ...my best job... ...too bad he couldn't get that done... ...that's normally how we... ...he will bear their iniquities... ...what you don't see in that is... ...partly because of the way... ...we translate English... ...it doesn't come out... ...his knowledge... .Ziddik... ...Zadik... ...Zedekai... ...so it is the... ...Zaddik... ...Servant... ...who will... ...justify... ...make righteous... ...so, my righteous servant will... ...make righteous... ...different words... ...so we sort of miss... ...the play on words that is there...

By his knowledge... ...the righteous servant... ...my righteous one... will righteous make righteous many. Will the suffering servant, the righteous one, justify and make righteous many? He will bear.

There is a major movement of quasi-evangelical groups to question the validity and reality of substitutionary atonement categories in the Bible. Does justification take place? Scriptures announcing the coming work of Christ.

The righteous one. Not simply make justification a possibility. He is the one who will justify. What do we see in the New Testament? Because he humbled himself, became obedient to death, death on a cross, therefore also God highly exalted him.

That's always the pathway. Humility. Because he poured out himself to death. Yet he himself bore the sin of many, and interceded for the transgressors. I said this morning, it's like one of the apostles sat down, correction in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, there in that first year, looking back with the vivid memory of the crucifixion in his mind.

This exalted position. Why? Because he poured out himself to death. Humble himself. He did not consider equality with God something to be held on to at all costs, but made himself of no reputation. He humbled himself.

He poured out himself to death. He was numbered with the transgressors. Crucified between two thieves. Crucifixion only for the worst of transgressors. He was hung upon a tree. Yet he himself bore the sin of many.

Of the full work of Christ, even in the sense of the intercession that we've been seeing the fullness of in Hebrews. The scriptures could have concluded forever the issue of the extent of the atonement.

The specific purpose of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit in the death of Christ in regards to the specific redemption of sins. He himself bore the sin. Have we not seen? My priest, together, same audience, same effect.

Here it is, 700 years. But to me, there is something so on the other side of the earth. I do so thousands of years later, and yet I possess the very words that were written down almost 3 ,000 years ago, about 2 ,700 years ago.

I possess them not only in my language, I possess them in the original language. I possess these words, and I have the rest of scripture which allows me to see the fulfillment of these things. And all of this is brought right down and applied.

What I'm told in the New Testament, yes, it's true. His disciples, in the reality that the Law and the Prophets had all, while that would have been peace, that He, by His work, He brought about my justification.

He brought about, He bore my transgressions. He bore my iniquities. He brought me peace. The sovereignty of God. To display your voice, a few words I have shared. Christ, it was great. And serve you heartily.