The Day Of Time and Timelessness.
Isaiah 53:1-12NLT
Our Daily Bread- The person we know as Saint Nicholas (Saint Nick) was born around AD 270 to a wealthy Grecian family. Tragically, his parents died when he was a boy, and he lived with his uncle who loved him and taught him to follow God.
When Nicholas was a young man, legend says that he heard of three sisters, who didn’t have a dowry for marriage, and would soon be destitute.
Wanting to follow Jesus‘s teaching about giving to those in need, he took his inheritance and gave each sister a bag of gold coins.
-Over the years, Nicolas gave the rest of his money away, feeding the poor and caring for others.
In the following centuries, Nicholas was honored for his lavish generosity, and he inspired the character as we know as Santa Claus.
In, Revelation, John writes several times over that God was and God is, and God is to come. -I think that makes God always relevant.
With that said, listen to ‘The Day Of Time and Timelessness.’
Isaiah 53:1-12 “Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm? 2 My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. 3 He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. 4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! 5 But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. 6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. 7 He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. 8 Unjustly condemned, he was led away. No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream. But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people. 9 He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone. But he was buried like a criminal; he was put in a rich man’s grave. 10 But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands. 11 When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins. 12 I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.”
...For He will bare all their sins. He bore the sins of us all!
In the Hebrew, For He shall grow up before him as a tender plant.
It is written in the future tense.
-What kind of plans do you have for the future?
Again verse 3, he is despised and rejected, a man of sorrow, and acquainted with grief.
What tense? -The present tense. Have you experienced rejection? -Maybe life has tried to steal your id.
Verse 3, Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.
What’s the tense? It is in the past tense.
How can that be? It was a prophecy, written before the events took place.
How could it be written in the past tense as if it already happened, before it happened?
And how can the same event be written in all three tenses, the past, the present, and the future?
Isaiah 53, Is the event of God‘s redemption…
Hear this, For the love of God is not bound by time… It is time that is bound by the love of God. P.H
Matthew 1:23 ““Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’””
The angel declares in verse 21, He will save the world from their sins.
What happened 2000 years ago on an execution steak in the land of Judea, is a mystery…
The day of time and timelessness, and yet containing all time and times in the love of God.
God created time...Isaiah 1:18NLT ““Come now, let’s settle this,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool.”
Redemption is an event in which are contained the past, the present, and the future, every moment of every sin…
In the past tense as it covers all the sins of the past…
In the present tense as it covers every present sin…
And in the future tense as it covers every present sin…that is not yet, but which will be…
Listen to these words in, 1 John 1:7NLT “But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.”
Messiah's death and redemption is the event of all times, of past, present, and future, that no sin and no event is beyond its power to touch and redeem.
Your future is already contained by your salvation ,and is covered by it. Ponder this fact, because of salvation, you can be peaceful and live in confidence.
Revelation 13:8 “And all the people who belong to this world worshiped the beast. They are the ones whose names were not written in the Book of Life that belongs to the Lamb who was slaughtered before the world was made.
For the love of God is not bound by time… It is time that is bound by the love of God. P.H
John 3:16-17NLT “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.
The salvation power of God goes through time, salvation defeats everything that is contrary, and prideful, because salvation flows through the unending love of Jesus.. God makes a way for all to hear, for all to choose. P.H
The question is, Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed His powerful arm to?
Verse 2, He had no special beauty. Like a root out of dry ground! -Never despise small beginnings.
His mission has never been, “Hey look at me!”
Matthew 1:21ASV And she shall bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for it is he that shall save his people from their sins.
-Jesus would be His name! Jesus, Joshua in Hebrew. Joshua would lead Israel out of the wilderness.
-Jesus, lead humanity out!
Isaiah 53:3, He (Jesus) was despised and rejected a man, filled with sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
Did you know that the apostle Paul identified believers with the Lord Jesus Christ in 6 ways.
In His death, Romans, 6.3, 6.
In His burial, Romans 6.4
In His resurrection, Romans 8.11
In His life, Romans 5:10-11
In His power, Ephesians 1:19-20
In His inheritance, Romans 8:16-17.
Again, Isaiah 53:4, While Jesus was being mistreated, He carried our weakness’ and sorrows...
Matthew 8:17NLT This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said, “He took our sicknesses and removed our diseases.”
-Jesus is the day of time and timelessness! P.H
Isaiah 53:5, means everything that comes to you spiritually, Jesus has already deflected it.
This is not in theory, Jesus gives those who believe His message all spiritual authority in his name.
Luke 10.19, Matthew 28:18-19.
Mark 16:15-18NLT And then he told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone. 16 Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned. 17 These miraculous signs will accompany those who believe: They will cast out demons in my name, and they will speak in new languages. 18 They will be able to handle snakes with safety, and if they drink anything poisonous, it won’t hurt them. They will be able to place their hands on the sick, and they will be healed.”
Isaiah 53:5-6 ...The Lord laid all sin upon Jesus.
Isaiah 53:6-8 He was lead as a lamb, and struck down for our rebellion.
Isaiah 53:9-12 His death will make His descendants prosper.
Isaiah 53:11-12 ...He will bare all their sins.
Isaiah 53:12AMP Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great [kings and rulers], and He shall divide the spoil with the mighty, because He poured out His life unto death, and [He let Himself] be regarded as a criminal and be numbered with the transgressors; yet He bore [and took away] the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors (the rebellious).
Colossians 2:13-14TLB You were dead in sins, and your sinful desires were not yet cut away. Then he gave you a share in the very life of Christ, for he forgave all your sins, 14 and blotted out the charges proved against you, the list of his commandments which you had not obeyed. He took this list of sins and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ’s cross.
Psalm 103:12TLB He has removed our sins as far away from us as the east is from the west.
1 John 5:13TLB I have written this to you who believe in the Son of God so that you may know you have eternal life.
Benediction. You got some rebellion? Give it to Jesus. You got some issues? Give it to Jesus. Are you carrying things you weren’t created to carry. Give it to Jesus.
