THIS IS TABLE ROCK FELLOWSHIP – PASTOR RYAN LADEN
Message to Isaiah
In the message that the Lord gave to his prophet names Isaiah, there are many different kinds of teachings, promises, and commands. One of those messages was spoken of in the weekend services by our friend and visiting mission leader, Denford Chizanga. For today, we want to look at the incredible message given by God to all people that precedes the passage used by Denford.
Below you will find the text of Isaiah chapter 53 (yes, all of it). As you will soon find out, this is a powerful description of the work of the Messiah, the promised one of God. This description of the savior that was to come, neatly describes the work of Jesus Christ and points to the life, death, and resurrection of the Messiah.
What follows is a beautiful illustration of the truthfulness and trustworthiness of God’s word”
“Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
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 transgressions, he was crushed for our 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 to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the LORD’S will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.
After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied ; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.”
Here are just a few of the highlights from this prophesy:
The Messiah would grow up in obscurity.
- Jesus was born into an unremarkable Jewish family.
The Messiah would be rejected by men and would have a hard life.
- Jesus knew sorrow and pain in his life and was indeed forsaken.
The Messiah would take up our sin upon himself, even though it cost everything.
- Jesus bore our sin upon the cross.
The Messiah would bring healing through his own wounds.
- Jesus was pierced by the nails of the cross for our eternal healing.
The Messiah would bear up all the iniquity of human kind in his suffering.
- Jesus atones for our unjust actions toward God as he pays our price.
The Messiah would be unjustly accused and killed.
- Jesus was betrayed and lied about all the way to the cross.
The Messiah would be buried with the common sinners and criminals.
- Jesus was crucified by the Romans as a criminal and his body laid in a borrowed tomb.
The suffering of the Messiah was not an accident. It was God’s plan all along.
- Jesus suffered willingly, even forgiving those who hurt him.
The Messiah will die and yet live, seeing the glory of God for all time.
- Jesus was raised by the power of God and is our eternal hope of eternal life.
The Messiah would bear the sins of mankind.
- Jesus bore your sins and mine, and we are free thanks to his grace.
Praise God for these truths, so aptly revealed by the will and word of the Lord.
In Christ,
Ryan Laden
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