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What Is The Cost Of Our Salvation? Series
Contributed by T.j. Conwell on Jun 16, 2025 (message contributor)
Summary: What kind of a Heavenly Father would delight in the suffering of His children? A God who knew the only way to save His creation would be through the sacrifice demonstrated and carried out by His Son, the Messiah, the Christ!
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)
