By His Stripes-12

BY HIS STRIPES-XII—Isaiah 53:10-11(52:13—53:12)

OR: God’s Remedy For Sin

Attention:

Read Isaiah 53:4-12

God has provided the only foolproof REMEDY for sin...Jesus, His only-begotten Son, His Servant!

Background:

~650 years prior to the Cross of Christ Jesus, Isaiah prophesied of the substitutionary atonement which would one day come thru God’s “Servant”(52:13a). Isaiah records details of the coming Servant’s willing sacrifice for the sake of all sinners.

The prophet Isaiah declared a future time when God’s unique Servant would provide the remedy for sin.

Jesus is God’s remedy for sin.

Why/How/When is Jesus God’s remedy for sin?

We have previously found that By Jesus’ stripes we receive His...

1. WILLING ENSLAVEMENT(52:13a_a)

2. PRUDENCE(52:13a_b)

3. UNAPPROACHABLE HEIGHT Of EXALTATION(52:13b)

4. DISARMING PERPLEXITY(52:14-15--53:1a)

5. INSTRUMENTATION(53:1b)

6. ESTEEM(53:2-3)

7. SUBSTITUTION(53:4-5, 6c)

8. COURSE(53:6a-b)

9. PATIENT ENDURANCE(53:7)

10. DECLARATION(53:8)

11. RIGHTEOUSNESS/JUSTIFICATION(53:9)

12—By His stripes I receive His...

LABOR’s SATISFACTION(53:10-11)

Explanation:(53:10-11)Vicarious/Substitutionary/Labor

53:10—“Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.”

“Yet”—despite, or regardless of , or though there was NO violence found in the ways of God’s Servant, NOR any deception found in the Servant’s speaking(:9)...

“Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief.”

The political/governmental/military situation surrounding Jesus’ Cross-work was not the deciding factor in bringing about Messiah’s death. The political atmosphere was a willing instrument in the implementation of God’s decision.

•The Eternal God(YHWH) Himself, is the very One who caused His own Servant’s suffering, sickness, weakness.

We are told here that YHWH Himself found ‘delight’(“pleased”) in crushing(“bruise”) His own Arm(53:1), His own Servant(52:13).

•That the Messiah would be destined for “bruising”(break/crush/crumble) carries with it a hint that the Messiah would not be utterly destroyed even though He would physically die.

•This fact is unquestionably revealed in the New Testament account of Jesus’ death on the Cross, followed by His resurrection.

Jesus/Messiah’s promised bruising is further described by the phrase: “He has put Him to grief.”

•To be made weak, sick, rubbed, or worn.

For the Jew particularly, I would think that the sum of the descriptions in 52:13--53:12 would bring a conviction to closely examine the possibilities that God’s Messiah(Christ) has indeed already come & that He is their God-intended Savior(Jesus)!

“Pleased”—Upx khaw-fates’—Qal Perfect—1) To delight in, take pleasure in, desire, be pleased with; 1a) (Qal)--1a1) Of men—1a1a) To take pleasure in, delight in, 1a1b) To delight, desire, be pleased to do, 1a2) Of God, 1a2a) To delight in, have pleasure in, 1a2b) To be pleased to do; 2) To move, bend down—2a) (Qal)--To bend down. Strong—a primitive root; properly--To incline to; by implication (literally but rarely)--To bend; figuratively--To be pleased with, desire.

“LORD”(See 53:1, 6)—hwhy Yeh-ho-vaw’—Noun Proper Deity—Jehovah = “the existing One”—1) The proper name of the one true God—1a) unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of ynda Ad-o-noy’. Strong—from hyh[To exist, be, become, come to pass]; (the)Self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.

“Bruise/Crush”(See 53:5)—akd daw-kaw’—Piel(intensive/intentional/repeated/extended) Infinitive—1) To crush, be crushed, be contrite, be broken; 1b) (Piel)--To crush. Strong—To crumble; transitively--To bruise(literally or figuratively); a primitive root (compare hkd[to collapse(physically or mentally)]). Used 18X.

“Put...to Grief/Cause...to Suffer”—hlx khaw-law’—Hiphil(causative) Perfect—1) To be or become weak, be or become sick, be or become diseased, be or become grieved, be or become sorry—1a) (Qal)--To be weak, be sick; 1f) (Hiphil)--1f1) To make sore, 1f2) To make sick, 1f3) To show signs of sickness, become sick, 1f4) To grieve. Strong—properly--To be rubbed or worn; hence figuratively--To be weak, sick, afflicted; or causatively--To grieve, make sick; also--To stroke(in flattering), entreat.

“When You make His soul an offering for sin,...”

Either “You”(YHWH) renders His Servant’s soul as an offering; OR “He”(Himself, God’s Servant) offers Himself as the offering.

[NASB]—“If He would render Himself as a guilt offering”

[NIV]—“though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering”

•“The guilt offering may have overtones of completeness, for it involved restitution as well as an offering to God(cf.-Lev. 5)”—EBC

*“An Offering for Sin” also translates as “Guilt Offering.”

•The Guilt Offering differed from the Sin Offering in that it required that restitution or restoration be made to the one offended—whether God or man. “The offerer was to make good on any loss” incurred regarding “the holy things of the Lord & pay an additional fifth of it’s cost to the priest(Lev. 5:16).” “The Sin Offering deals with sins against God that also threaten the community.”—ISBE 1988 by T.R. Schreiner

•cf.-:11c—“...For He shall bear their iniquities.”

*So generally we as individuals of mankind, have sinned against God, & thus we’re guilty of taking that which is God’s ‘life’ generally & perverting it to our own selfish ends. Thus restitution somehow must be made to God! ‘Personal righteousness’ must be restored to produce God’s righteousness!