Bisecting Isaiah 53 Evening Study Mar 19, 2024

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of our nation.

Say, Lord, he came from the mountains.

The God is mighty to save.

He is mighty to save.

For ever, of the house of salvation,

he rose and covered the plain.

Jesus conquered the grave.

Take me as you find me.

Hold my fears and favorites.

You'll real my life again.

Give my life to follow.

Everything I believe in

comes true again.

Say, Lord, he came from the mountains.

The God is mighty to save.

The word of Christ richly dwell within you,

with all wisdom, teaching, admonishing one another,

with psalms and hymns and spiritual psalms,

singing with thankfulness in your hearts for God.

And whatever you do in word or deed,

you all in the name of the Lord Jesus,

giving thanks through him to God the Father.

So you notice that in that first part of the verse there,

verse 16, it says, wisdom, teaching, admonishing one another,

with psalms and hymns and spiritual psalms.

What's that sound like?

Worship.

Worship, sounds like going to church, doesn't it?

Sounds like what we do in here on Tuesday,

what we do in here on Sunday, the very first part of it at least.

And then we talk about wisdom, teaching,

that's the second part, and oftentimes we do that inspirational moment.

We teach each other, we work together, and so on,

to learn more about what God has to say.

And then it says, and whatever you do in word or deed,

you all in the name of the Lord Jesus,

giving thanks through him to God the Father.

And so in other words, from the one we meet at 11.30 or 6.30 on Tuesday night,

11.30 on Sunday morning, beginning to end,

it should all be about God.

And that's the key.

Sometimes we come with another agenda.

There's somebody we're planning on talking to.

There's some fun we're planning on having with a friend

or with a family member that we haven't seen for a couple days

or a couple weeks sometimes if they've been sick or something.

Sometimes we're all super excited about visitors that might come.

We're grateful to talk to them, to greet them,

to invite them to come back again to worship, whatever.

Or maybe you're coming more to talk about something you experienced

to make sure somebody can pray for you.

Or something you read and repented a couple days ago,

something that you did, and you want to come and meet that public.

Sometimes we come with another agenda.

But God has an agenda in mind,

and it is encapsulated mostly in Colossians 3, 16, and 17.

It says,

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you,

with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another,

with psalms and hymns and spiritual psalms,

singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

And whatever you do in the word of God,

do all in the name of the Lord Jesus,

giving thanks through Him to God the Father.

Now some of that stuff that's in there,

giving thanks, singing, right?

It says, singing with thankfulness in your heart toward God.

Sometimes we don't feel all that qualified to do some of those things.

It doesn't matter if you feel qualified or not.

This is what God says we are supposed to do.

And it is what we do when we come together.

And that will also seem whacked out to the world as we block out time.

Make sure that God is the most important thing on Tuesday night and Sunday morning.

Sometimes it will seem whacked out to the people in the church

as you're going through something really difficult or really harsh.

And you still prioritize to make sure that this time is blocked out.

That's hard to do.

And sometimes it looks whacked out.

And sometimes it doesn't look simple.

But that's our whacked out simple stuff for today.

God says it is exactly that simple.

That's what we do at the times that the Lord has lead us to block out time.

That's what we do.

Let's pray together and then we'll sing worship via a song.

It's not the only way you can worship God.

We'll sing worship to God one more song

and then we'll let the children and their leaders go to class.

And then one more song and then we'll go to the Word

and look into some wisdom from His Word this evening.

Let's pray together.

Father in heaven, we know that lately,

and it's at every place that people might be,

there's been a number of attacks, a number of struggles, trials and tribulations

that have arisen.

It's been health issues. It's been job issues. It's been relationship issues.

It's been housing issues.

Some of us have all of it.

And some of us have the one thing that's like our Achilles heel.

It's hurting us in a way that makes it hard for us to be found faithful

or hard for us to trust you.

We talked about that on Sunday, how easy it is for us to get thinking

in the middle of our trials, in the middle of our difficulties.

We don't understand.

As you're painting a masterpiece for us to see,

we're busy seeing the things that are right in front of us,

that are struggles, that are difficulties, that are hard for us to overcome.

We can't piece it all together.

We can't get it straight in our heads.

We confess our weakness to you and our need for your wisdom.

And we ask, Lord, we need you in our circumstances right where we are.

We thank you that you do watch over us and you do remain with us

and that nothing, no matter how severe it may be, may separate us from your love.

And then we ask you, Lord, to intervene in very practical and specific ways.

Like the psalmist wrote,

unless I had seen the good of the Lord in the land of the living,

I couldn't have made it.

I would have perished. I would have been stuck.

And so, Lord, we expect, we look for you to do amazing things in our lives

to those who are struggling, those who are trying to follow,

those of you who claim the name of Jesus.

And we know that that doesn't mean everybody who becomes a Christian becomes rich,

or everybody that becomes a Christian prospers,

or everybody that becomes a Christian overcomes all suffering, all difficulty.

In the moment, that means that you are with us,

and you are working, and you have a plan,

and you're painting a masterpiece that may include who knows how much suffering,

but at the same time comes out just looking beautiful,

as you have worked in us, and you have worked to take us where we really want to go.

Lord, each of us could raise our hands and say,

I'm praying for this person, or I'm going through this difficult being,

and the struggles are real.

I just want to lift up Charlie,

because the last few days have been really hard for her,

and she's not able to be here with us this evening because she's still sick.

I want to lift up Trina, what she's been going through,

and it's been all over the place.

She's missed out on a good opportunity,

or what might have been a good opportunity because of the difficulties.

So we just ask you, Lord, that you provide the opportunities,

you provide the ability to find the time on the clock,

to provide the strength, to provide the healing, to provide the resources.

I would pray for Brother Chris and Barb,

as they're going into testing tomorrow and Thursday,

and Barb's having her gallbladder out,

and she's a little nervous about that,

but I think she knows that you really have it,

and so we pray, Lord, that you just take care of it all.

So I pray for Sherry, she's transitioning through what she's going through at work

and looking at a new job,

and it looks like it will be a huge relief to work for a company that's stable,

functional, and cares about their employees,

but at the same time, Lord, it's another job change,

and it's dealing with the management of the current company until that's resolved.

I pray for Alicia, she's been overcoming for a couple of weeks

the pain in her back and her hip,

and then all the sign of stuff that she had, Lord,

and she's just powering through,

and I pray that you'll sustain her.

I pray for our missing members, our missing folks,

who really wanted to be here,

and we don't know what all their struggles are.

We pray, Lord, that you bless them as you see fit.

I pray that you'll take this big mess that we call life,

that we get struggled,

that we get frustrated with our struggles and whatever,

and you'll paint a beautiful picture of your people persevering in faith.

Jesus come, Jesus come.

At the same time, Lord, if there's a moment more,

let us use it to glorify you.

We pray all this in Jesus' name. Amen.

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our God. Great and mighty is he. Lift up your crown at the end of the tree. Praise

this to our King. Great and mighty is the Lord our God. Great and mighty is he.

Great and mighty is the Lord our God. Great and mighty is he. Great and mighty is the Lord our God. Great and mighty is he. Lift up your crown at the end of the tree. Praise this to our King.

Great and mighty is the Lord our God. Great and mighty is he. Great and mighty is the Lord our God. Great and mighty is he.

At this time we'll let the children and their leaders go to the classroom.

We come with expectations.

Waiting here for you.

Waiting here for you.

You're the Lord of all creation.

And still you know my heart.

You're the author of salvation.

You're gonna strong the storm.

Waiting here for you.

With our hands lifted high in praise.

And to you the author singing high.

Glory.

Glory.

Glory.

You are everything you promised.

Your faithfulness has shown.

And we're desperate for your presence.

All we need is you.

So starting on Sunday we began to look at some of the classic texts of the Old Testament and we're about out of time already.

That speak volumes about the coming Christ and how he would suffer and so on and we're gonna do that again tonight.

And so we're going to look today at Isaiah 53 and I've handed you out a worksheet.

So this worksheet is designed as a little bit of a game.

You'll see that there is a list of words that says trouble, suckling, sea light, pain, soul, wounded, peace, all those are in the middle.

Those go in the boxes running down.

The empty box is in the middle.

And then you'll see blanks with kind of a few of the verses have blanks with them and those are for us to make up as we go.

Okay, so we'll just make those ones up as we go.

I have my example of an idea up there what I kind of thought but I'm okay with it being as long as it fits with the scripture whatever we come up with together as a group.

Okay.

All right, so I have on the if you'll notice also I have underlined and bolded the words for the boxes in the middle.

Isaiah 51 53 one begins as follows.

It says, Who has believed our report and to whom as the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Now, if we could just end with the desert, if you will, who is the arm of the Lord?

Who do you think is probably talking about since this whole chapter of Isaiah 53 is about Jesus, it's probably talking about Jesus.

Okay, so there's no blank for that.

There's nowhere that that goes.

But notice that this is a reference to people talking about Jesus, the gospel, the report, the truth of what Jesus has done.

And it says, and who believes it?

Isaiah does throughout the book of Isaiah talk a lot about Jesus, the coming Messiah, how he'll be God in the flesh and that kind of thing.

If you want to learn about Jesus from the perspective of people who don't already know about Jesus, Isaiah is a great place to go and learn all that because he didn't know about Jesus.

And so everything that he was getting was kind of a revelation to him as he learned that the Messiah would suffer, would be sacrificed and so on.

And so the question here and those blanks on 53 one is who believes?

So those two blanks are who believes?

And you can put something else there if you want, but it's the summary of Isaiah 53 one who believes that on diverse to and it says for he grew up before him like a tender shoot and like a root out of dry ground.

Okay, and shoot is underlined and bolded.

And so if you take a stab at it, just kind of look down there through the through the words that we have. Which of these words do you think?

Now, mind you, you're trying to interpret Hebrew, which I know you don't know Hebrew might also come across as a shoot.

Anybody got an idea?

Any green fingers in the room?

What a shoot is?

Shoot is like an extra growth of the plant or it's coming off the plant could be said again.

It's like a root.

Yep.

A root's not on the list in the middle there.

Okay, so say it again.

Okay, no, it's not seed.

Seed comes later.

Why?

No, not life.

Stems not on there.

Stems on the list.

So it's a suckling.

And if you think about a root or a shoot coming off of a plant, it sucks nutrients and water off the plant.

Okay, so it's a suckling.

So you could interpret verse two as, and you'd be accurate to do so, for he grew up before him like a tender suckling and like a root out of dry ground.

He has no stately form or majesty that we would look at him.

Okay, and so what can we put in the two blanks there describing Jesus?

If we use those verses, what are two words that we could use to describe Jesus?

We say that he has no stately form or majesty that we would look at him.

What would you put?

Not what?

Not what?

Okay, not visible.

You could use that.

Not visible would work or not attractive or I guess you could put not obvious.

He has no stately form or majesty that we would look at him.

Not commanding.

If he has no stately form or majesty, you could say he's not commanding.

Any of those, whatever you think, go ahead and put it there.

So, why don't you get something in there?

Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in him.

So, what would you put there?

Not attractive.

So, people like to look at pretty people, handsome people.

Jesus was neither one of those things.

In fact, he was kind of rough and rugged.

Even his teaching was rough and rugged and people might like to turn their heads and look away

because he was asking for more than they were willing to give.

Now, we're on verse 3.

He was despised and abandoned by men.

A man of great pain and familiar with sickness.

Now, this one is kind of obvious.

It's just pains.

So, pain or pains.

The only reason I put that there is because I want you to see that it was plural.

In the original Hebrew language, the word is plural.

And in modern language you say that too.

I have pain in my leg, day after day.

You wouldn't say, I have pains in my leg, day after day.

Unless you have two different pains.

Unless you have a pain in your knee and a pain in your cap.

Then you would call that pains.

Right?

I had pains in my leg two different places.

If you had pain day after day, you wouldn't say, I have pains in my legs, day after day necessarily,

unless it gives two different pains.

You would just say I have pain in my leg.

So in the Hebrew it was plural. He was a man of great pains and

familiar with sickness and

Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised and we had no regard for him

And so what big word what longer slightly longer word goes in that blank under verse 3

despised yep, if you were going to give any word to describe Jesus you're talking to somebody who doesn't know Jesus

You would not say that he's tall. We actually don't know how tall he was for sure

He would not say that he's pretty he would not you probably wouldn't say that he was Middle Eastern

Okay, although that was probably true

Right, but that's not a significant thing a significant thing about Jesus is that he was despised

You could say he was authoritative if you want to use that word about him say he did teach with authority

The problem with that is what?

What's the problem saying that Jesus was authoritative?

Say it again

Yeah, yeah, you offend people right away if you say he was authoritative and they don't agree and that's what happened in his day

There were many he was teaching authoritative street was talking as if he knew what he was talking about and that was different

They were all teaching like well rabbi so-and-so said or sometimes it was rabbi

So-and-so said that rabbi so-and-so said rabbi so-and-so quoted rabbi

So-and-so when he said and Jesus didn't just say that he'd say God says or the word says and it was very authoritative

But also that's very offensive

And so we have to realize that to some people it wasn't authority that they liked and when we think of authoritative today

We mostly think of somebody that people were willing to listen to and

A lot of folks were not willing to listen to Jesus even though he was authoritative

So those people that were not willing to listen to him despised him

Alright, so despise is a good single word to describe Jesus at least from verse 3. Okay 4

However, it was our sickness that he himself bore

Okay, so give me a summary five words

From verse 4 however, it was our sickness that he

Sickness is that he himself bore give me five words to summarize that

Fill in the blanks

Wow, that's an interesting way I said physical mental emotional spirit. That's only four that we need one more

physical mental emotional spiritual and

Okay, that could be you could do that

However, it was our sicknesses that he himself for if you want to make a sentence out of you could say he himself

Bore our sicknesses or bore our ills, right?

And Trina was saying you could list out the actual ills there the actual sicknesses

So you might have five sicknesses that you personally could list in those blanks and that'd be a good example

Especially in light of what's coming later? Okay, and our pains that he carried

That's a finish finish sense. So however, it was our sicknesses that he himself bore and our pains that he carried

Notice he had pains. He was a man of great pains, but they were not his pains

That's what the what Isaiah is trying to explain to us. They were not his pains was our pains that he carried

Yeah, we ourselves assumed that he had been afflicted

Okay, so get this we ourselves in other words the people looked at him and they assumed that he had been afflicted

So what would be a three-word summary for they assumed that he had been afflicted?

Want to take a stab at it anybody

Okay, yeah, so they made a three-word summary of what he had been afflicted

Okay, yeah, so they misjudged or judged him right so we misjudged him would be a way to say that

If you had judged him afflicted and then he would assume that he had been afflicted for a reason of his own cause

For example, then that would definitely be misjudging him

We misjudged him

So finishing the thought he says yet we ourselves assumed that he had been afflicted

Struck down by God and humiliated

See in Jesus's day the people that were mocking him laughing at him, etc

They were doing it not because they didn't think highly of God

Okay, they thought highly of God. They just had a bad misunderstanding of what God was trying to do

They didn't understand God was sending a suffering Messiah. They totally missed it in the scriptures

Especially Isaiah 53 right here. We're seeing it clearly explained

So they totally missed that but they were saying Jesus was being struck down by God

And the Old Testament says the man who was hung upon a tree is cursed

Cursed literally says cursed as he is hung upon a tree

And so Jesus being hung upon a tree they were saying he was cursed struck down by God and humiliated

But we know that's not exactly what was happening, right?

And then he goes on verse 5 to explain that he says but he was pierced for our offenses

Okay, so check the list

Which word would you use to replace pierced?

Wounded very good. So he was wounded for our offenses and the Hebrew word that is used there can be pierced or wounded

Can be translated as pierced or wounded

Wounded is kind of better in a way because he wasn't only pierced

But the reason I think they went with pierced is because elsewhere in scripture

It says that he was literally crucified to pay the price for sins, right?

So that it was the actual crucifixion being put on the cross that paid the price for our offenses

And so that I think that's part of why they chose but the word can be translated either way pierced or wounded either one

He was pierced for our offenses or wounded for our offenses

And then it says he was crushed for our wrongdoings

The punishment for our well-being was laid upon him

And then what replaces well-being?

Nope, not soul

Not life. Soul and life are very close together things

Peace, right. That's right. So well-being and in English we kind of do that too

Those are almost synonyms, well-being and peace. They're not exactly

They're almost. We kind of synonymize them almost

So it's well-being or peace and the Hebrew word that's there could be translated as peace or well-being

Interesting when you think about it then because the punishment of our peace was laid upon him

Or the punishment of our well-being was laid upon him

That adds meaning, doesn't it? What peace?

So in your life as man perceives peace have you had peace today? Did everything go right?

No conflict, no trouble, nobody said a cross word

You're not having struggles with money, not having struggles with health, not having struggles with employment

So that would be peace by man's definition, right?

So that's not the peace that it's talking about, is it?

Yeah, the peace of Christ, the peace between us and God

That's the peace that it was talking about

That's the peace that it was talking about

So that's latent with meaning

There's lots of old meaning in that to say that the punishment for our peace was laid upon him

But it also can be translated well-being and it might even be more easily understood by some folks

And so maybe that's why they chose it

The punishment for our well-being or peace was laid upon him

And so how would you summarize that in four words?

It's the whole thing, but he was pierced for our offenses, he was crushed for our wrongdoings

The punishment for our well-being was laid upon him

Give me four words

He paid our price

He paid our price, I like that, that's good

Somebody else give me one, go ahead

He carried our sins

Okay, good, I like that

Put that in your blanks there

Another would be maybe he took our punishment

He paid our way

He bought our peace

So all of those are possibilities, whatever you like the best

Or maybe whatever you can spell

It's that kind of thing

Whatever resonates with your soul

What did he do?

He took our or he bought our or he paid our

However you like it

And then of course five actually ends with and by his wounds we are healed

Then six

All of us like sheep have gone astray

Each of us has turned to his own way

But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all to fall on him

To fall on him

What do you think off the list in the middle would replace fall on?

Very good, that's right

To encounter him

Now think about the deep meaning of that

The wrongdoing of us all to encounter Jesus

See Jesus didn't have any wrongdoing of his own

So for 33 to 35 years of his life he has lived without any wrongdoing whatsoever

And now all of our, really all of mankind's wrongdoing was brought upon him

The Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all to fall on him or to encounter him

Okay and there's a lot of blanks there

And you could summarize it however you want

I got a nine word blank

They all go together

Those four on the bottom do not go with number seven

They're all together

How would you want to try to do it?

Let's see, and you can start and we can help you

So something about us, we all what?

Okay so we all sin, those are your first three blanks, that's easy

And what? We all sin and?

Fall short

We're not going to get fall short of the glory of God in the blanks

Fall short of God's glory, you could do it that way

But I think there's more because the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all to fall on him would be left off then

If we just go with and fall short of the glory of God

So we all sin and what did Jesus do for us in five blanks?

He died for our sins

He died for our sins, perfect, that fits

Take that one

Anybody else want to try one?

You could do a bunch of different things there I think

He carried the cross

And he, we all sin

How about we sin and he carried the cross to Calvary, it fits

If you take out the all, you just put we sin and he carried the cross

We sin and he carried the cross to Calvary, it fits

There you go, got it

I didn't hear that last thing you said

Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay

So we all sin and he took sins upon him

We all sin and he paid for those sins

Paid for our sins, however you want to do it

He encountered our sins

Okay, verse seven

He was oppressed and afflicted yet he did not open his mouth

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter and like a sheep that is silent before its shearers

Shearers are the ones that take the wool off the sheep, right?

And the sheep is used to it so he doesn't complain

So he did not open his mouth

Like a sheep that is silent before its shearers so he did not open his mouth

Two word summary

No objections

No objections, I like that

That's even better, I've had put no complaints but I like no objections even better

Anybody else? Two words

You could do kept quiet

Silent savior

No debate

Whatever you like

Verse eight

By oppression and judgment he was taken away

And as for his generation

Who considered that he was cut off from the land of the living

And okay so we've got a bold underlined living

What do you think?

Life, yes

Easy one

Okay, for the wrongdoing of my people to whom the blow was due

So that whole thing is a question so I'm going to go read it again as a question

By oppression and judgment he was taken away

And as for his generation

Who considered that he was cut off from the land of the living

For the wrongdoing of my people to whom the blow was due

Did you get that?

Four word summary

It's similar to what came before, four words though

Who considered that he was cut off from the land of the living

For the wrongdoing of my people to whom the blow was due

What do you think?

What did he do?

I put he took our punishment

Right, the blow was due to us

And anybody who does not allow his sacrifice to stand for them they'll still get it

And they're going to get it for eternity is what's going to happen

He took our punishment and you could do it

Any four words that works for you?

Found guilty when innocent

Okay, four words, found guilty when innocent

That would work if you like that

Found guilty when innocent

He took our guilt

Our guilt was born

That's kind of yucky

Okay, anyway, verse 9

And his grave was assigned with wicked men

And yet he was with a rich man in his debt

That's a neat prophecy about Joseph of Arimathea coming and getting a body and putting it in his own tomb

There's no way that could have been foreseen

That a rich man would come and get his body and put him in his tomb

That's interesting

And his grave was assigned with wicked men

Yet he was with a rich man in his debt

Because he had done no violence

Nor was there any deceit in his mouth

But the Lord desired to crush him causing him grief

What do you think?

Look at that center list there

What other translation could that Hebrew word give where it says causing him grief?

Say it

It's more than trouble

Anybody else got it?

It is a verb actually

So you have to have a verb to place in there

There's not too many verbs left

The Lord desired to crush him causing him grief

So it's kind of like a past, I don't know, perfect past verse, verb

He made him sick

The word means he made him sick

The Lord desired to crush him, he made him sick

What does that say?

Oh, yeah, it made him sigh

That would be different

If he renders himself as a guilt offering

And there is a different word in there from the Hebrew

If he renders himself as a guilt offering, what do you think?

He renders what?

That's true, but that's not the word

His soul, it's his soul

If he renders his soul as a guilt offering

Now there's complications there, I understand

And the reason that it's complicated is because people think when you die and go to heaven, just your soul goes to heaven

But is that true?

So much more, there is a complete resurrection that takes place

Jesus was resurrected as we will be at the new resurrection

So we get confused about soul sleep and people getting into all that kind of stuff

But really your soul is what makes you alive

And so Jesus gave his life, his soul, himself as a guilt offering

If he renders himself or his soul as a guilt offering

He will see his offspring

He will see his offspring, say it again

Seed, that's right

And that actually makes a lot of sense in an agricultural society

We kind of forget that plants drop their seed and that's where baby plants come from

But also a man's seed is semen or whatever, it's called a man's seed

But this is this, that word there, he will see his offspring

So can I ask you this then?

Because Jesus died and he never had children before he died

And he never had children after he died

So who are his offspring?

Who is he talking about?

Say it again

Believers, that what you said? Yep, believers, right?

So the church, God's people, a faith offspring if you will

He will see his offspring

He will prolong his days

And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in his hand

Good pleasure, say it again

No, we already used peace

The will of the Lord

So that's because you're thinking of peace as good pleasure

And that could be another definition

But somebody's good pleasure is what they will

It's what they want to happen

And when you say please to somebody

I remember the Lord had me and the Holy Spirit say this in a sermon about a year and a half ago

But when you say please will you hand me a pencil

What you're really saying is

If it pleases you, will you hand me a pencil?

Or will you be pleased to hand me a pencil?

I want it to be something you want to do

So in other words, they can say no

So we've got this thing now we're teaching it all wrong to our children

Where we say, they come up and say may I have a piece of candy

And they'll say you forgot a word

And then they say please and we feel like we have to give it to them

Because now they've used their good manners

But the question is actually does it please you to give me a piece of candy

Or will you be pleased to give me a piece of candy?

So the answer could still be yes or no

So it pleases him, that's his good pleasure

It is the will of the Lord

And God's good pleasure will prosper in his hand

So let me just ask you, what is God's good pleasure?

What is the will of the Lord?

Simply put, salvation

The love of mankind through Jesus Christ

God wants to save people and through Jesus he'll do that

So that's what that verse is saying

And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in his hand

Jesus was not going to waste the good pleasure of the Lord

He was not going to go back on the plan of God to save people

Simply put, two words

Say it again, God what?

I didn't hear you

Nothing?

I didn't hear you

Okay, anybody got it? Two words?

God what?

God will, you can do that

God wills or God will or God wins

God's victory, Jesus' victory

This is about they win

The Lord desire to crush him

Even making him sick

He renders his soul as a guilt offering

He will see his offspring or his seed

That's the people that God will save

He will prolong his days

And the will of the Lord or the good pleasure of the Lord

Will prosper in his hand

He wins

Victory, victory, victory

You can just put victory twice if you wanted to

Like the old song that they used to sing

Verse 11, we're up on the right hand side now

We're almost done with the hard work

As a result of the anguish of his soul

Say it again

Trouble

It's trouble

The result of the anguish of his soul or the trouble of his soul

In fact, I would say to you that all trouble of the soul is anguish

We don't like it when we eat something that doesn't taste good

We don't like it when somebody says something to us that hurts us emotionally or whatever

But if it affects you in your soul

If it troubles your soul

That's bad, that hurts

When somebody you love and you just

They are everything to you in the world

And they tell you, get away from me, I don't want nothing to do with you

Or when you want to be with somebody that you love and you can't

That troubles your soul

That's anguish

And even to the point that psychologists will tell you that it'll make your whole body hurt

It'll make everything feel wrong

Anxiety, depression, struggle, emotional, physical

You know, you can't function, you got pain in places, you don't know why

Because if your soul is hurting

It drives everything else

And so, as a result of the anguish or the trouble of his soul

He will see it and be satisfied

This is an interesting one

See light, that's right

So the it here could be light

So the Hebrew word that is in there says he will see light or he will see it and be satisfied

So what do you think the it or the light is talking about?

Kind of sort of God, right?

It's talking about the wisdom of God

Nine times out of ten in the scripture when you see a reference to light

It's talking about wisdom or understanding in the Lord

And when you see a reference to darkness

It's talking about ignorance or a lack of understanding in the Lord

It's a lot of times in scripture it's talking about that

And so that's kind of why they didn't say he will see light

They're talking about Jesus, right?

So Jesus should know

Except what they mean is the same as what the verse says

For the joy that was set before him

The light that Jesus was seeing was that this is how God is going to save mankind

This is how God is going to do it

He knew that there was a suffering Savior coming and he was it

He knew they were going to crucify him

He knew, he understood

And so satisfied, in fact it even goes on to say he will see it and be satisfied

By his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, will justify the many

For he will bear their wrongdoings

Jesus got it

He understood that he was bearing the wrongdoings of people

So that God could have his way which was to reconcile himself with mankind

Otherwise God's justice has to be borne out and everyone will pay

So Jesus knew that that was the way, the math of it

So for the joy set before him

He was able to submit himself to death even death on a cross, Philippians 2

By his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant will justify the many

For he will bear their wrongdoings

Okay, so summarize that, simply put three words

Let me take a stab at it

Jesus will

Say it again

Okay, I like that, carry, kinda

What else?

Save, Jesus will save

Or justify, there is a difference between justification is a part of the salvation process, right?

Jesus will save, Jesus will justify

You could put, Jesus will understand

Right?

Jesus will submit

Any of those are possibilities

Because they fit with the, he will do this as a result of his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant will justify the many

For he will bear their wrongdoings

Okay, just one verse left

Therefore, because all of this is true

I will allot him a portion with the great

And he will divide the plunder with the strong

Because he poured out his life, and you probably already know this one by now

You haven't figured it out, he poured out his

Alternative word for life

Soul unto death

He poured out his soul unto death

So it's life or soul in that, the Hebrew word that's there could be translated either life or soul

He poured out his life or soul unto death

And was counted with wrongdoers

Yet he himself bore the sin of many

And interceded for the wrongdoers

Forward summary, and all your blanks are filled in

God willing, if it has worked

What do you got? Forward summary

He or Jesus?

Say it again

Covered their sins

Okay, that's good, I like that

What else?

He paid the price

He paid the price, good

What else?

Anybody else got one?

Stab at it, Chris you got one?

What did Jesus do? Jesus did what?

For us

Say it again

Died for us

Died for us, that's good

Good

Any of those things work for me as long as they're biblical

When you're studying your Bible the most important thing is that you

Keep in line with the Scriptures

Okay, just keep in line with what it says

If you try to interpret a verse

And you find out that it does not line up with something else in Scripture

Then you're not interpreting the verse correctly

Or you don't understand that other verse

Right, you always cross check verses of Scripture

Alright, so we're gonna, I wanna give you the piece of this

You got a little picture down here

A little pictorial representation of Isaiah 53

In the middle is the cross at Calvary

Have you ever told anyone that Jesus died on the cross for their sins?

I hope you have

If you haven't you kind of missed the point of Christianity because

You know, it becomes a ministry of our reconciliation

That we reconcile others to God

That's kind of the whole point, right?

So we explain how we came into relationship with God

So that others might do the same thing

Somehow or other you want to do that with your family, with your friends, whatever

You want to kind of explain

But understand that Jesus was a man

He was 100% man, he was also 100% God

It's called the hypostatic union

So he was totally a man

So he had all the same weaknesses that any man might have

You see that in the Garden of Gethsemane with him

So in anguish about what he was about to go through

That he was sweating so bad he started to bleed out his pores

Right?

So it was so terrible for him what he was going through

Anybody here ever want to have it handed down

That you'll be put to death tomorrow?

And know with 100% certainty that that's going to happen?

How about if it was 100% certain going to happen

You're going to be whipped with a scourge

So that your back is going to be ripped open

Until your muscles, sinews and bones showing

Then put to death

So you first have to undergo 2 to 5 to 6 hours of terrible torture

So that death will come as a release

And know that's coming?

It's a terrible torture

It's a terrible thing

Even to the point that we can say with

In our faith we can say with certainty

That we would not renounce the name of Christ

But under torture stronger people have done worse

And some have stayed the course

Probably those who were true Christians stayed the course

And they did not renounce the name of Christ

And they were crucified, burnt at the stake

Drawn and quartered

That's where they put four draw horses

One on each arm, one on each leg

And they pull you until your body comes apart

Drawn and quartered

People stayed their faith and didn't give it up

They didn't renounce the name of Jesus

But very realistically speaking

You kind of don't know what you're going to do

Until you're in that place

And if they say

We'll just end

You're whipping you in your hour two

And your back is ripped open and on fire

And you're like

If you'll just renounce the name of Jesus

We'll end it quickly

And hopefully in the Spirit in God

Because that's our salvation

Because it's the truth about Jesus

We would not renounce the name of Christ

That's the hope, right?

But the fact is

Here's Jesus with the ability to call 10,000 angels

To save him from this thing that he's about to do

Right?

It's not going to change the fact that God loves us

It's not going to change the fact that God wants to reconcile mankind

It's just the plan to get that done

Right?

And he's 100% man

When they pierce his side the next day

When they pierce his side with a spear

And it goes up and it punctures his heart

And makes you 100% sure that he's dead

Blood and water flow

That's called a plural effusion

You only get a plural effusion

Water around your heart

If you endure terrible, terrible traumatic stress

And people will die from it

Because you get water around their heart

And then their heart can't beat anymore

It will crush your heart

The water will stop your heart from being able to beat

And that had happened to Jesus

Okay?

Jesus was 100% a man

And he endured what God willing you or I will never endure

Okay?

These verses, Isaiah 53, among others

Prophecy that that exact thing was going to happen

And he knew it

And he was living it out

But he was still 100% a man

And I submit to you that these verses also tell us

That as a man

The reason he could do that

Was because he understood what lie on the other side

As a man, he understood what lie on the other side

This is why you can hope to not renounce the name of Jesus

And when you get in that circumstance

Is to not renounce the name of Jesus

This is why you can do that

Because something lies on the other side

That will heal it all

All the pain will be gone

All the suffering will be gone

The scars, etc. will not affect you anymore

Your weeping, your sorrow

All that all dealt with on the other side

Whereas if by some chance you renounce the name of Jesus

And you then die thereafter

If you truly were not already a believer

If you really had not accepted Jesus

And you get there

Then it's an eternity of something that's actually worse than the crucifixion

So if you really believe in the plan of God

There's heaven and there's hell

Then you really believe that Jesus went through what he went through

To make sure people go to heaven and not hell

If you really believe that

Then you can endure just about anything on this earth

With the same ability as a man that Jesus did

Looking for what comes after

Our eyes fixed on the joy that lies before us

We can endure almost anything on this earth

The one thing that we cannot rightly endure

Would be the absence of God in our life after we're saved

That would be crushing

That would be too much

And so that's why you'll see martyrs

Who will stick their guns

They will stay

And they will right up until their last breath

Will not renounce Jesus

And you see Stephen looking to heaven and seeing Jesus standing by the throne

You see Justin the martyr saying

You know

I'm not going to renounce Jesus because I know where I'm going

I see the throne room of God and I'm being invited therein

Like the Korean pastor that they took out

It took him and his wife and his kids out in the field

Made them all dig their graves

Put his wife and kids down in there

And they were getting ready to shoot him with AK-47s

And make him watch

And that was the worst torture they could do

They knew if they just tortured him it wouldn't be that bad

They just killed him

That wouldn't be that bad

But they killed his wife and kids for him

They knew that would be really bad

So they killed his wife and kids

And as they were about to shoot his wife and kids

She looked at them and they were crying

Kids were sobbing, they were crying, scared

And she said don't worry, we're being invited to the greatest feast there ever could be

And she was not afraid

And they shot the three of them dead

And then they took him back and dumped him in his shop

To blubber in his own spit for hours

As he cried over what had just happened to his wife and children

The next morning he got up and began to share the gospel

Three weeks later one of the men that shot his wife and children came to him

And they said I don't understand what we did to you

What we put you through

Why are you still telling people about Jesus

And he said what else can I do

I know where they've gone and I know who I serve

What else am I going to do

And that man became a Christian

And then all the men except for one who were there that day that shot his family became Christians

And then they started a small group

And that small group started other small groups

And now he is the founding pastor of the largest church in the world

But he could only do that

And they'll tell you flat out

I've talked to him not personally but our meeting talked to him over Zoom

And he'll tell you that the only reason he was able to do that was as a man

The same reason that Jesus could endure what he endured

Which is he was looking at what lies beyond

So we are humans

We look at Calvary

And we do that quite often

Jesus paid the price for my sins

I'm so glad I'm saved and that's all good

We have to realize that there's something beyond Calvary that Jesus was seeing

And that's what we really need to be seeing

We really need to be seeing that which is beyond Calvary

Because your Calvary

Even if it's a death to cancer or a car accident

Or get shot in a mugging

Or die from a disease

Other kind of disease like COVID or something

Your Calvary is coming

And it may be the sum total of what your life is

You may have to endure a number of very bad hardships

A number of terrible things

Well that's summed up your Calvary

But lying beyond your Calvary

Is a glorious second eternity if you will

A life beyond death

And Jesus saw it as a man and he understood

And he understood it was God's plan to pay

Unfortunately the church continues the ministry of Jesus

When they're truly following the Lord

And we must face some of the difficulties in order to carry out

What is the good pleasure of the Lord

If you wanted to you could kind of go back through here

And you could look at how you embody as a Christian

Following the Lord each one of these things

The question is

For example

Verse 11

As a result of the anguish of RJ's soul

Right? Or the pains of RJ's soul

RJ will see the light

And be satisfied

By his knowledge

RJ who will be righteous in Christ

Not his own righteousness but righteous in Christ

My servant RJ will justify the many

For he will bear their wrongdoings

The church is the body of Christ

And we will bear their wrongdoings just as Jesus did

Assuming we can see where we're going

And we have the wisdom to continue

And it's going to suck sometimes

From a human perspective

And that's why we can consider it pure joy

When we face all men our trials and tribulations

Because it says

We will see that great joy

If we suffer with him

I close this in prayer and we'll be through

I hope you have any questions