Sermon: God Speaks as well as Assures a Savior - Isaiah 53

 

With Samuel, God guaranteed to supply a child of David who would reign for life. With Isaiah, God tells that this guaranteed Savior will pass away as well as experience, not for His own sin yet for those of the people. Jesus Christ came and was obedient unto death, according to God's guaranteed plan.

 

Intro Isaiah 53

God, however, usually does points in methods that oppose earthly requirements. Guy has stopped working to stroll by belief and also follow God, resulting in spiritual fatality and also exile. God assured to send a Rescuer that would be from the seed of the female (Genesis 3); greater than Moses; and also a boy of David (2 Samuel 7).

 

I. The promised Savior as experiencing slave (vv. 1-3).

While "the arm of the Lord" indicates the Lord's power, the assured Hero from God would grow up as a "young plant" (53:2). As God reminded Samuel, nonetheless, it is not the outside look yet instead the heart with which God is worried. The only description for the performance of his ministry would certainly be his dependancy on God and also his dedication to bring out God's strategy, also in the face of suffering.

 

Enduring would undoubtedly be the experience of God's assured Messiah. Much from being applauded by men, Isaiah states He will be "abhored and declined." Further, enduring will not be a little, momentary part of His experience, yet rather the characterizing function of it. He would certainly be a "man of sadness" as well as "familiarized with pain.".

 

Wrong constantly brings concerning experiencing as well as shame. When the suffering servant came, He would experience the suffering and embarassment that was part of sin's charge, though the wrong for which He experienced was not His own.

 

Application: Do you limit God's methods of functioning in your life to those which make feeling to you? Are you prepared to comply with in obedience to the will of God, also if the result is experiencing?

 

II. The guaranteed Hero as alternative (vv. 4-12).

Through animal sacrifices, God supplied a photo of the necessity of a sin repayment - a replacement to take God's penalty for transgression. The promised Rescuer would be the "lamb of God that takes away" (not briefly keeps judgment against) "the wrong of the globe" (John 1:29). It was His unwavering obedience to the will of God, all the means to the cross, that offered the payment for our wrong God's justice required.

 

The promised Rescuer would certainly get the puncturing, squashing, and chastisement that we was worthy of. The sinless servant would certainly take upon Himself the iniquity of all. Consequently, those to whom His blood are used get His healing and also tranquility. What appropriately belonged to guy (wrong, suffering as well as fatality) was positioned upon Him. What rightly came from Him (morality and life) was provided to guy, via attrition as well as belief in Him.

 

Application: Since Christ died in your area as well as has offered you life, are you living in a manner in which shows that life? Exactly how does Christ's determination to completely follow the Father's will regardless of embarassment, fatality, and also suffering difficulty you to completely surrendering to God's will for your life, despite the cost?

 

Final thought concept.

Jesus Christ, the sinless Boy of God, was the satisfaction of God's guarantee to send out a Rescuer. He was the suffering servant as well as our substitute. He was the much better sacrifice the author of Hebrews talks about. He was the Lamb of God who removes the sin of the world, as announced by John the Baptist. He suffered in our place. He died for our wrong. He took the punishment we should have. He did all this to totally obey the will and strategy of His Papa, strolling in best obedience as well as give up to Him. Because of His perfect obedience, also to the fatality on a cross, we can be counted free.

 

As the wonderful tune "Prior to the Throne of God Above" reminds us:.

 

Not just did He pass away on the cross as our alternative, but He additionally climbed from the dead 3 days later. And in Him, we have life.

 

As God advised Samuel, however, it is not the outward look yet instead the heart with which God is worried. The only explanation for the effectiveness of his ministry would be his dependancy on God and his commitment to carry out God's strategy, also in the face of suffering.

 

Via pet sacrifices, God gave an image of the need of a wrong repayment - a substitute to take God's punishment for wrong. It was His undeviating obedience to the will of God, all the method to the cross, that gave the repayment for our transgression God's justice required.

 

Jesus Christ, the sinless Boy of God, was the fulfillment of God's guarantee to send out a Rescuer.