Jesus died so we could live Isaiah 53 4-6

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we have from the book of Isaiah just three verses I put there I

will read for you. Surely this is from Isaiah 53

Isaiah 53:4

verse 4. Surely He took up our pain and

bore our suffering, Yet we considered him punished by God,

stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our

translation. He was crushed for iniquities.

The punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his

wounds we are healed. We all like sheep have gone

astray. Each of us has turned our own

way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

I was just thinking what is the best scripture to meditate on

Good Friday? And I said Isaiah 53.

We haven't done in a many long, long time.

So I read the read through the whole of the chapter.

I said there are 12 verses there and is there anything I can

skip? But unfortunately I found that

nothing can be skipped. But can I really preach on the

whole of it? Can't because our time is a

constraint. So I thought I will just mate it

on few verses from Isaiah 53. You know, it is to understand

the whole of Isaiah 53, you have to imagine an artist who is,

let's say he has got a big table spread out and there are lots of

pieces of mosaic. You know, all kinds of small,

tiny, tiny stones and you are watching one of them who was

standing up around the table. People are gathered and looking

at what is this guy trying to do?

And you have no clue, no clue because the picture is not

finished. And until every, every single of

the mosaic pieces go into its place, which is the images in

the mind of the person who is the artist.

He has the picture in his mind. You have to wait for the picture

is until it is finished before you can say, wow, what a

beautiful work of art. Isaiah 53 is like that.

Every aspect of the of the life of Christ is portrayed in that

once chapter. That is 700 years before Christ

came into the world. He has painted a picture so

grand nobody can ever replicate it.

If you read as a 53 now when you go home and sit down and read,

you will feel How did he know? How did he know these things?

How did he write these things? Because he as a prophet has seen

the Saviour, many people try to interpret in different ways.

They say servant here stands for Israel.

No Israel it may stand for Israel.

I am not trying to say completely no, but more than

that Israel has not suffered a kind of a vicarious suffering,

The Israeli not suffering for the whole world.

They are a kind of a people like you can learn some things from

their life, the wilderness experience, how they affect this

manner, how the stone was broken to give them water.

The spiritual truths you can learn from their life, but it

cannot substitute for Jesus. Jesus stands alone as a savior

and that picture comes out when you read as a 53 he was buried,

he was raised from the dead and is ascended to the Father and

who has counted his descendants. That's the next chapter says who

has to count counted his descendants because just cut

off. There are no more children born

to Jesus because he did not marry, did not have children.

I tell you, it's a grand picture that this man of God has

painted, which you have to sit down and understand it, digest

it. And I'm telling your

appreciation to worship Jesus. Gross.

Because you understand the painting that he has given.

That's beautiful. I'm telling it's very, very

beautiful. And I was thinking about how I

can really give a very good example of what Jesus did

because we are people, we, we sometimes do not want only the

original story to inspire us. We want some other story to that

will amplify this or make it more meaningful.

So I was thinking about what is the best example, and the best

example is from a fire firefighter.

You know, even before you're recruited as a fireman, you have

to go through very strict rules, very strict standards.

You need to have a very good character.

You must be empathetic. You must be more compost in your

mind. You must have your head in the

right place. When you see the house is

burning down, you don't shout and they're right.

Stand there and cry. You can't be fit to do the job.

You need to have the heart, strong heart and strength.

If you have to carry a man on your shoulder from the first

floor down the ladder, you must be strong enough to do it from

the fire. You are rescuing somebody.

So you need to be somebody who is strong, somebody who has

character, somebody who is empathetic, somebody who is

kind. Somebody's heart goes out for

people who are being burned down in a house to rescue the people.

I tell its a big, big call. There is no such strict

requirements to become a doctor, to become any other kind of a

profession. But this profession is unique.

And there was one man by named Daniel.

He was not in a big city, he was in a small place, but he was a

good man. He was there to help somebody.

Sometimes he's standing in the grocery store to pay his bills

and there's somebody who is not able to pay the bills.

He pays for them quietly. No one knows the good he does,

and there was a call one day that the house was caught on

fire, so the team arrives there. But before the horses were

fixed, this man immediately decided, I can't wait until the

horses start operating and try to put down the fire.

He jumps into the fire and he came to know that there's a

there's a lady there in the house and two children.

So he took off his coat, put it around the children and he

hugged them and he carried them and he brought them out.

And then he went back again to bring the mother out.

And he saw that she was really in a very bad situation.

And he pushed her through the window so that she can be saved.

But as the whole thing was going on the roof and it fell on him

and he somehow managed to come out, but after he recovered he

had to limp because of the injury he suffered and his face

was burnt. And it was all in a misshapen

kind of a face. And when he walked down the

street, the children who did not know what happened to him were

making fun of him. There's a price to pay, to save

somebody is a price to pay. It changes the person.

And I tell you, the eternal God has gone through a thorough

change. He became man and he just not

become a man, but he went through on the cross.

And those nail prints are not gone away.

Today you walk into heaven, you will see those nail prints and

you can again get an invitation like he did to Thomas.

Come and see. Put your finger here.

It is real. I suffered for you.

I saved you because I loved you with an eternal love.

That firefighter people have now might have forgotten.

But this Jesus, no one can forget.

More than 2000 years ago He died for you.

He rose again. So for your justification, He

ascended to the Father so that you can be in Him and you can

become like Him. He became like you, so you can

become like Him. And that's the gospel.

That's the gospel. So what did Jesus do for you?

There's so much to talk. We can never exhaust.

All that He did on the cross we can never, never exhaust.

So I just thought I'll just fix some few thoughts from the

Isaiah chapter 53, verses 4 onwards.

Isaiah 53:4

What does it say? Surely He took up our

infirmities and carried our sorrows.

When you look up the Hebrew word for infirmities and sorrows, it

is the word, I think macabre. I wrote it somewhere.

Yeah, macabre. That includes consequences of

sin, consequence of sin. Sometimes we commit a sin and it

just effects you. Or sometimes we commit a sin

that affects others as well. And sometimes it affects affects

the whole community. A murder is never an individual

kind of a soul sin that only affects the man who is

committing it. There is one more person who is

dying and there's a family that is grieving because that man is

dead and there's a whole community being affected because

of the man's deed. So the Mac of that Hebrew word

is stands for your infirmities and your sorrows.

Both have similar kind of a root.

Both have the same kind of a root.

And that is what He did, surely took up our infirmities, carried

our sorrows, all the consequences of sin.

And then when you see the word carried, it is the word that you

have some translation may say, He bore our sins, He bore our

sicknesses, He carried he. Basically it's like a carrying a

burden. You can never stand straight and

carry a 500 kilos of weight on your shoulder.

And when Jesus died upon the cross, he carried the sin of the

whole world, People, whoever were born before and the people

who were alive at the time and who are yet to be born.

He carried the sin of the whole world and that must have

definitely bowed Him down. He cannot be standing straight

and he had to cry out from the cross.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Because that sin has separated Him from the Father.

That is what hell is all about, separation from God.

And he went through that so that you can be free, you can be

forgiven, you can be accepted by the Father.

All of us are in the same place of ability to receive it.

We all need it. Yet we considered him stricken

by God. People looked at him and said,

made fun of him on the cross. Hey, if you can save yourself,

then you can come down and save yourself and save us.

You are saying you are a Savior, you are the Messiah.

But I am telling you, the people looked at him and said you can't

be Messiah, come down from the cross.

They made fun of him, but coming down from the cross is not the

answer. Because if we came down from the

cross, we are going to remain sinners.

So he had to let go that insult and then he had to let go the

taunt of the enemy. He when he was being tempted at

the beginning of his ministry, he gave him, he showed him a

piece of stone and said, turn this into bread and eat it

because you're hungry. You didn't eat for 40 days.

It is the same thing he's saying on the cross.

Get down from the cross. Prove that you are the Son of

God. Prove to the world that you are

Son of God by coming down from the cross.

You know, devil is always a devil.

He never changes, but Jesus, he overcame him.

He overcame him as he overcame first time.

He said it is written, man shall not leave a bread alone.

And on the cross he again shouted from there it's written

and he didn't say it is written, but he said, my God, my God, why

have you forsaken me? He was crying out from the book

of Psalms and he said I thirst from the book of Psalms.

So his scripture is what was he breathing and eating and living

and fulfilling in his life? And there's no other who can do

it for you and me. No one has done it.

No one will ever do it. He is the word of God.

That's why he could do all that. We considered him stricken by

God, smitten by him, afflicted. Basically what we are trying to

say is that he is weak. As a 10 year old, when I was

going to school, there was a Catholic Church behind the

school. Sometimes I would pass by the

church and they had a statue on the entrance of a Christ

crucified. And as a Hindu boy, when I

looked at the cross and said he can't be God, he can't be God.

If he is God, how he will allow people to allow him to crucify

him? And after 10 more or years,

almost after 10 more years, I heard the gospel fully explained

to me. And I hear that he just not

there on the cross anymore, but he's a living 1.

And I just said to him, I hear that you're a living God.

If you are living God, prove yourself, living God in my life.

And that one sentence that I prayed, he is answering it.

Even today. Every day we pray for people.

We see people healed, we pray see people being delivered, and

we see God doing miracle signs and wonders.

He gives the direction, He speaks to us.

He is the Good Shepherd. He shows the way, and He is a

living one. All of us need to have that

encounter with this living Jesus.

We need that encounter. So there was the time I made fun

of Jesus, and I'm sorry for it because it was ignorance.

It is a sinful nature in which I was born, was rebelling against

the cross, and we all do it. But we can always say I'm sorry,

Lord, I didn't understand it. I was innocent and he forgives

and push that nail Pierce hand on your heart and heals the

heart. Nothing else we can do receive

from him grace upon grace and verse 5 again it begins the word

but OK, all these things are over there.

But but what he was pierced for our transgressions.

He was crushed for our iniquities.

The punishment that brought us peace was upon Him.

There's so many things that are written, these 3 verses, so many

things. First thing is that it says He

took up our infirmities, who say did not die for himself but for

us. He took our sins upon Him, our

infirmities. He carried our sorrows.

You may think, Oh, I'm suffering so much in my life and you're

crying and wetting your pillow in the night, but he says I have

taken up your sorrow. Whatever is troubling you, that

heart is being crushed. But before it crushed you, it

crushed me on the cross. I have gone through that pain

for you. So we turn to him.

Then He is going to touch you and turn that sorrow into joy.

He will do it. I am not telling you something.

Pie in the sky kind of a thing. No, I know it by experience.

And you sincerely say you alone can do it.

He will do it for you. He will do it for you.

He will turn the sorrow into joy and he, he will give you, put a

spirit in you so 2 can dance in that place.

There was only one guy known in all of the history among the

evangelist and preachers. There was one guy called Billy

Sunday who he should dance. All that he did was dance and

preach the gospel and one of the time she was away preaching the

gospel, somebody brought the news, your wife died.

He danced. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord

for taking her to be with you. People can look at him and say

crazy guy, but he knows what it means that Jesus took the sorrow

of his heart and he really understood it.

That's why he was able to dance. Even he hears the news.

It's not that wife was a very bad lady, so he feeling good

about it. Don't misunderstand me, don't

misunderstand me. But He was pierced for our

transgressions, His crush for our inequities.

Punishment that brought us peace was upon Him.

Its too much what He went for us, what He went through on the

cross for us is too much. By His wounds we are healed.

What more you want from that? We all, like sheep, are gone

astray. Each of us has turned his own

way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquities of all.

He had laid our sin upon Him. Our iniquity upon iniquity has

more than sin, it includes the consequences of our sin.

There was one guy in Africa who was in jail because of he

committed murder. And then he was in the jail.

He heard the gospel and he used to listen to some radio

broadcasts and things like that. And then he said, have you

really taken away the consequences of my sin then

bring me out of this jail and his every every year the

president pardoned some people. There's a list of people is

announced. His name is not on the list, but

he said, God, you have told me you are going to set me free

from this prison. I believe you.

My name is not on the list, but I believe you.

But a very day, on the day when presidents gives pardon, they

said there's some mistake in the making of the list.

Actually, your name should be there.

You're free now. They set him free.

Consequences also are covered by his death upon the cross.

Every every curse that is coming down by our sin is going to be

abolished and turn into a blessing.

If you believe every curse can be turned into a blessing, if

you believe that is the power of the cross, that's the power of

the cross. There's power in that blood.

There's power in that blood. There's power in the blood.

These days, whenever I am praying, I am always thinking of

one thing, that Jesus, when he was crucified, that blood from

his hands, from his brow and from his feet, everything fell

upon the ground there when that, that the rock was drenched with

his blood. He paid for your freedom and my

freedom. Everything in the earth is going

to be blessed by that blood. He redeemed the whole earth, all

that lives on it. And I said that's too much for

me to understand. That's too much for me to

understand. And that's the reason why you

can worthily worship when it goes beyond your understanding,

when the understanding goes beyond your ability, that's the

time you are humbled and you bow down and worship because you

accept what He's showing you. He is worthy of worship.

What you can understand you can't worship.

When it cannot understand, you understand and do not

understand. That is the time you say, ah, I

understand, but I still do not understand.

I do not understand and that is the time you say my Lord my God

and worship Him. Cross will never become insipid,

tasteless, unchallenging thing for you as long as you focus on

it and experience the benefit of the cross, the benefits of the

cross, healing, forgiveness to most topmost, every kind of

healing is included in it. All relationships, all your

consequences, everything is taken care.

So he says by his terms, we've been healed and that is there's

something he already did 700 years before Jesus died.

This prophet saw that healing comes through the cross.

Amazing insight, amazing prophecy and accuracy is so

accurate. There is no man, whoever lived

before after to be able to fulfill that picture, to be able

to fulfill that picture, it is just amazing.

You go through it, Everything is taken care, including

restoration of the kingdoms to this, this Jesus is exalted to

the right hand of the Father, and His resurrection is talked

up. Everything is there in this one

chapter. You have eyes to see.

You have everything there, and the mosaic becomes more

beautiful. It's very, very beautiful.

But I don't want to go on and on and about all these things.

There's so much in the Scripture that I can talk another one hour

I can easily do because I made it on it so much.

But I want to give you another illustration to drive home the

truth of what Jesus did for us. We are all aware of how the

Jewish people were persecuted, thrown into the gas chamber and

killed during World War 26 million Jews were incarcerated.

So the people, sometimes this happened in Poland and in the in

Poland, people were initially they will be interrogated, taken

to the police station, released. It happens for your 5 or 6 times

and the 7th time you go and never come back because you're

taken to the concentration camp where you will die.

So they visited a monastery and there was a Friar and his name

was Maxmillan Cope Colby. And Colby was arrested along

with four other Friars and they were all waiting to die and they

were in the concentration camp. And there are so many other

Jewish people who one guy escaped from the prison.

He ran away somehow successfully.

So the the commander became very angry that one guy escaped.

He said pick up 10 people at random and put them in there.

Let's stall them to death because one man escaped.

He was crazy. And when the commander has given

that order, they picked up 10 people and one of them was

crying out, oh, I am never going to see my wife and my wife and

my two children. I am going to be dead in 10 or

10 or 20 days. Whatever time he takes to stop

when he heard the cry, Colby said, don't worry, I'll take

your place. Don't worry, I will take your

place. So he goes to the commandment

commander and says let that man go free, I will starve to death

in his place. He said that's not possible.

He convinced that man and let that man go free.

His name was the man was sent free, Set free.

His name, I think the Polish name, I may not be able to

pronounce it clearly. Francis Zic, Gazoni Zic.

OK, I could be right or wrong about the name, but that man, he

was allowed to go free, not really set free from the prison.

He was not put to death. He was in the prison.

And this man, Maximilian Colby, went out with other nine people.

And eyewitnesses said Colby would comfort people.

Colby would be by them, pray with them, talk to them,

encourage them. He himself was not down.

He was not cursing his captive captors.

He was not cursing the people who were troubling him.

No, he wasn't doing any of those things.

He comforted others, prayed with them, encouraged them, never

complained, never cursed the captors, never begged for mercy.

He did not say OK, OK, I'm sorry.

I in the heat of a movement emotionally I volunteered.

Now I want to regret about it. I have a regret, so please let

me go. He never begged for mercy.

He never. So the last person alive was

Colby. All the other names died by

starvation. But this man was still alive.

So they had to inject poison and kill him.

After nearly 3040 years, the Roman Catholic Church made him a

St. It takes long time in the olden

days for the Catholic Church to declare somebody a St.

So they took their own time, 40-50 years, and they said ah

St. Maxwell and Colby.

But this man who who was substituting for the other

Polish man, he lived and he said the man's he saved, Francis

Zeke, survived the war, lived to old age up to 95 years of age

and spend the rest of his life telling the world he died so I

could live. That was his testimony.

He died so I could live. I tell you, we do not have any

less testimony than that man. Jesus died so that we can.

Shall we say it? Jesus died so we can live.

Shall we border on heads in prayer?

Father God, we thank you. What you have done for us is

beyond our understanding. The more I meditate upon the

cross, the more it baffles me how the infinite God can share

in the human body like me, and how sinless Son of God can

suffer for the world and carry the burdens of the whole world.

How his death substitutes for my death, how he he died in my

place. It is beyond my understanding,

but I know, my Lord, you loved me enough to come into the world

and die for me, and I worship you Jesus, I bless your name.

I magnify your name, ask the dominion, authority, power,

glory unto your name. I thank You because you died for

me so I can live. And I pray for the children now.

Touch their heart, touch their mind.

Touch their heart. Touch their mind.

Touch their heart as their mind. So they will resolve to live for

you. Only you and no one else.

Please you and no one else. Serve you, no one else.

Proclaim your name. No one else.

In the name of Jesus, I pray for the visitation of the Holy

Spirit now upon your children. Shastre Saranubo Baste.

Sandra no Rabareni. Manestro.

Shakare. Rabareni Manasto.

Sam Manasestro. Horrible.

In the name of Jesus I declare there's no savior like Jesus,

There's no one my Lord, there's no savior like you.

I worship in my Father. I give you glory, honor and

praise. Bless your children to the glory

of your name. In Jesus mighty name we have

asked and everybody says Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.

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