Isaiah, Part 21
What is the Cost of our Salvation?
Isaiah 53:1-12
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Introduction
- Welcome to Seasons – intro – so glad you are here today; Happy Father’s Day!
- Last week (Wednesday), we saw the intro to this incredible passage (recap):
-- Read Isaiah 52:13-15 – Bible tells us that God’s Messiah …
1. Will prosper and be exalted before the Nations
2. People will be amazed at His suffering; will be unrecognizable
3. His presence will startle the nations - He will not be seen as Messiah
-- BUT! One day all will see, they’ll understand, & they’ll confess who He is!
- Today, we are going to unpack this scripture for what it is: GLORIOUS!
-- It is the incredible and timely prophecy of God’s plan to rescue humanity
- Read Isaiah 53:1-12 / PRAY
- There is no place where the price of our salvation is seen like this (prophecy)
-- For humanity (US), this is the most important message we could ever hear
Point 1 – God’s Messiah will be rejected by mankind
FACT: Very few people believe(d) in the prophecies of a Messiah (v1)
Truthfully, most denied that God would use His power (ref: ‘arm’) to save us
- Why? SEE: We dismiss the idea that we are:
• So sinful that we need a Savior to be acceptable to God (pride)
• Reality: We reject that a Savior (v3) would have to die for our sins
• Instead we believe that our good intentions are acceptable for God
- By coming to Earth the Messiah would set aside all glory, honor, & worship
• Isaiah says He will assume a position equal with humanity (v2) (humble)
• Understand: He will willingly leave the glory of Heaven to be like us
• Why? To be made to suffer, to show us true love, to give us … HOPE!
Point 2 – God’s Messiah will suffer the penalty of all sins
- LOOK: People will think He was being executed for sins He committed (v4b)
• Their thinking: Punishment is deserved when someone breaks the law
• Simple logic: He must’ve broken the Law so He deserves this!
• The truth is: ALL of us our owed this because of our rebellion
o Romans 3:23, “For everyone has sinned … (screen)
- FACT: To be redeemed by God, His Messiah would have to die (v5)
• We deserved to pay the penalty for sin: We broke the 10 Commandments!
• None of us are able to meet the conditions of living holy – amplified in:
o Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death … (screen)
- SEE: So God pronounced a verdict on each of us: Guilty!
• Guilty of sin, guilty of rebellion, guilty of purposefully choosing our ways
• So, His Messiah would have to be pierced for what we have earned
• He would have to endure pain for our sin (be crushed for it) - SUFFER
- MANY ASK: Why would God allow this to happen if He is so loving?
-- Deeper: Why would God send people to Hell? He doesn’t; we choose to deny!
- GET: This what we deserved! This is the price of our sin against God!
• We always choose ourselves; we want the blessing but not the responsibility
• TRUTH IS: Someone else had to pay for your sin because you could not
• Justice is getting what you earned; Grace is getting what you don’t deserve!
• The result is being made right with God: Romans 5:1-2 (screen)
Point 3 – God’s Messiah is the only one who could pay for your sin
- He will willingly suffer a brutal punishment (v7) but NOT because He was guilty
• SEE: He would be ridiculed, abused, treated cruelly by humanity
• Will even remain silent – APP: DID! Caiaphas, Pilate, Herod, soldiers, etc.
• Why? We refused to our sin; our need for the payment of sin to God
- He will endure an unjust arrest, a bogus trial/persecution, face execution (v8)
• FACT: God had to cut Him off - had to separate Him to represent sin
• What does this mean? He became what you and I (and all people) are!
• FREE: It is why His birth makes this: Conceived through the Holy Spirit
o Sent to be the perfect sacrifice; to be sinless; able to suffer for our sin
• Why? The only the way to forgive sin is to shed blood (1st seen in Garden)
• OT: blood was used to cleanse everything; to ask/beg God’s forgiveness!
o Heb. 9:22, (screen) “without the shedding of blood, is no forgiveness”
- Isaiah says the Messiah will be willingly ‘buried with the wicked’ (v9)
• He was buried among sinners; regular tomb reserved for the dead (Joseph)
• This means (IMP): to be buried He would have to die (death was not faked)
• He was given an ordinary burial to signifying the end to a human life (grave)
• Why? B/C when He rose He would prove who He is! Isaiah 52:15 (screen)
- Our challenge to see: What will His life mean? (vv3-9 and vv10-12)
- Understand: God knew we would need this – look at the text; see the roadmap!
• V3: He would be given no respect
• V4: He would bear our griefs (sin)
• V5: He would be wounded for our sin
• V6: He would receive the penalty for sin
• V7: He would be treated as a lamb before its slaughter
• V8: He would be pronounced guilty and suffer punishment
• V9: He would be killed and be buried to represent the finished payment
- WHY? (ref Heb 9:22) He will become the PAYOR of OUR debt for OUR sin!!
-- I need us to comprehend the impact: God was pleased by it (vv10-11)
• ASK: What kind of a Father would delight in the suffering of His children?
• A God who knew the only way to save us would be this way
• One who knew that manmade religions will not suffice! Look at result:
o Offspring indicates many will become His (will come for rescue)
o His days will be prolonged: RE: He rose from the dead (will live on)
o In His death we are justified: WE are made acceptable TO God
o This brings Him incredible Honor for His sacrifice (obedience)
BIG QUESTION
- Why is this important that we hear, know, and understand this?
-- Because from today forward you and I will have no excuse for denying Him
-- KNOW: Your Heavenly Father loves you; He gave you the greatest gift …
-- The gift of His Son to pay for what you deserved - and now He asks one thing
-- He asks us to receive it freely – would you like to receive? Invite/Pray
