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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.
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.
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?
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
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