The 7 Ways Jesus Suffered For Our Sin

SEVEN WAYS JESUS SUFFERED FOR OUR SIN

Isaiah 53:3-5

INTRODUCTION

A. HUMOR

Why will all of the referees check their voicemail immediately after the Super Bowl? So they can hear someone say "no missed calls."

B. TEXT

3 “He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. 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 wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.” Isa. 53:3-5, NKJV.

C. THESIS

1. Many of us might say, “I’m a pretty good person; I haven’t sinned very much, I’m a good Christian.” But God sees every thought you have, every wrong motive, all our selfishness and pride, how impure we are, in a corrupt society. This short list should enlighten us to our guilt:

Addictions: Media, drugs...............Ingratitude

Boasting, bragging, pride...............Hypocrisy

Always needing to be right ............Impurity

Anger, self-control..........................Judging

Burying our Talents.........................Living for pleasure

Complaining....................................Lovers of self

Cowardice........................................Loving others more than Jesus

Critical spirit, find faults..................Lusting after a woman/man

Defiling our Body.............................Lying

Desiring praise................................Malice

Disobedience to parents................Presumptuous

Evil Thoughts..................................Quarrelling

Cursing, profanity...........................Sensuality

Practicing Favoritism.....................Sex outside marriage (God’s idea of)

Gossip, slander...............................Stealing- from Govt, God, Boss

Food- eating too much...................Racism

Fearfulness.....................................Stubborn, hard-hearted

Immodest Clothing.........................Questionable activities

Being a Stumbling Block................Provoking children to wrath

Greed, materialism.........................Unforgiveness

Hatred.............................................Withholding good from those it's due

We’re all sinners & need Christ!

2. The suffering of Jesus Christ wasn’t an after-thought of God to save mankind after our fall into sin, but was planned from the foundation of the world (Rev. 13:8).

3. As Robert Coleman said, “His life was ordered by His objective. Everything He did and said was part of the whole pattern...God’s strategy for world conquest. There was nothing haphazard about His life – no wasted energy, not an idle word. He lived, He died, and He rose again according to schedule. Like a general plotting his course of battle, the Son of God calculated to win. Weighing every alternative and variable factor...He conceived a plan that would not fail.” [“Master Plan of Evangelism,” p. 24.]

4. The specifics of His sufferings were prophesied 100s or 1,000s of years in advance; his rejection (Isa. 53:3), betrayal (Ps. 41:9), sold for 30 pieces of silver (Zech. 11:12), struck & spat on (Isa. 50:6), crucified with sinners (Isa. 53:12), hands & feet pierced (Ps. 22:16), mocked & insulted (Ps. 22:6-8), given vinegar to drink (Ps. 69:21), his side pierced (Zech. 12:10), his clothing divided (Ps. 22:18), buried in a borrowed grave (Isa. 53:9), and feeling separated from God (Ps. 22:1).

5. Since so many aspects of human beings had been effected by the Fall, the sufferings of Jesus were very precise and the many ways He suffered each had a purpose and provided for some aspect of our healing.

6. So we’re going to look at “The 7 Ways Jesus Suffered for our Sins” of Jesus and how these bring healing & salvation to our lives. The first way He suffered was in…

I. THE BLOODY SWEAT: HEMATYDROSIS

1. In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus prayed, "Not My will, but Yours be done." While praying, Christ experienced hematydrosis; such intense pressure was placed on the membranes of His skin and arteries that blood began to pass through His skin in the form of perspiration known as “bloody sweat.”

2. Luke the Physician recorded, “And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (22:44).

3. What caused the intense pressure that Jesus felt? Possibly, He didn't want to become the embodiment of sin! “For [God] made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2 Cor. 5:21). Imagine that Holy Being immersed in sin! Jesus had to submit His will to the Father’s.

4. We also must be willing to die out to our own will. That’s why the first prerequisite to salvation is, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow Me” Mt. 16:24. We can’t be saved if we won’t surrender all. The 2nd way He suffered…

II. THE CROWN OF THORNS

1. Before His crucifixion, the Roman soldiers, in mockery, arrayed Jesus as a king – with a scepter, a purple robe, and a crown made out of thorns (Matt. 27:29). The crown was most likely made of the Euphorbia milii plant which usually has 1.2 inch long sharp spines along its stem. This crown of thorns was thrust down on Jesus’ forehead, piercing the skin of His head all around, but especially along His forehead.