Isaiah 53: Will Of The Lord Series

ISAIAH 53 SERIES: WILL OF THE LORD

ISAIAH 53:10 | #Isaiah53

PERSON IN THE CONGREGATION READS ISAIAH 53

READ ISAIAH 53:1-12 (ESV)

“Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 For He grew up before Him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. 4 Surely, He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was pierced for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His wounds we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on a Him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation, who considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? 9 And they made His grave with the wicked and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, and there was no deceit in His mouth. 10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush Him; He has put Him to grief; when His soul makes an offering for guilt, He shall see His offspring; He shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. 11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by His knowledge shall the Righteous One, My Servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and He shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the many, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet He bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.”

SERIES REMINDER

We are currently in a sermon series focusing on Isaiah 53.

* In verses 1-2 we saw how Jesus, though seemingly ordinary, would be the extraordinary arm of the Lord for our salvation.

* In verse 3, Isaiah predicted He would be constantly despised, often rejected, entered into sorrow, experienced grief, and was ignored. All that came true.

* In verse 4, we dove into the idea that the motivation for God saving us was His love.

* In verse 5, we talked about how sin creates a broken relationship between a Holy God and us sinful human beings. We are on opposite sides. The Suffering Servant would bring a peace treaty between God and His Creation.

* In verse 6, Isaiah talks about salvation in terms of sheep and prophesies that we like sheep go our own way and need a Savior.

* In verse 7, we noted that Jesus stayed silent so that nothing would derail His death on the cross.

* In verses 8-9, we discussed how the trials of Jesus, the suffering of Jesus on the cross, and His time in the tomb did not take very long, but impacted us for eternity.

We have this week (verse 10) and then next week (verses 11-12) and then we will be finished with our deep dive into this prophetic passage about the Suffering Servant… Whom we interpret to be Jesus Christ. There is much in this prophet’s writings that predict about Jesus. He looked forward to the cross and we look back on it.

We are focusing on one verse this morning, verse 10.

RE-READ ISAIAH 53:10 (ESV)

“Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush Him; He has put Him to grief; when His soul makes an offering for guilt, He shall see His offspring; He shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.”

ILLUSTRATION… Lyrics from “Thou Man of Sorrows, Hail!”

hymntime.com/tch/htm/t/h/o/u/m/thoumans.htm

A hymn written by Adam Thebesius (1596-1652) in German and first translated into English in 1851 says these words that help frame Isaiah 53:10:

Thou Man of Sor­rows, hail! Receive my ado­ra­tion.

On Thee the Fa­ther laid, Grief for my con­so­la­tion.

Thanks for Thy ang­uish, Lord, Bonds, stripes en­dured by Thee;