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Sunday Night
Sept 8th, 2002
The Book of Isaiah
Text: Isaiah 53:4-12
Subject: “What Christ Did For Us”
Intro: I do not believe that it has ever entered into my mind the wonderful and profound things that our Lord has done for us. The thinking Christian will meditate on what Christ has done, and yet even then we will fall short of absorbing the great work that Christ has done at the cross.
Books have been written to try to explain it, Sermons are preached each week literally all over the world, songs are written and song of it that stir our hearts, and yet somehow we loose site of it.
Of all that has been said about it in a sermon, of all that is written about in books, of all that is song about in hymns nothing can replace the wonder of this particular chapter of the Bible concerning it...
This whole chapter is about substitute and victory, it about sin and the saviour, it is about rejection and reception. It is about satisfaction and service, it is about character and no character, it is about honor and no honor, it is about life and it is about death. It is about JESUS CHRIST..
This whole chapter can be summarized into about three words:
I.... “ SUBSTITUTION”....
We shall endeavor to show the truth of substitution by showing the many things that Christ hath done...
1st. He hath borne our grief and carried our sorrows...vs 4
The word “borne” means literally to pick up and carry away. What a privilege it is to know that the saviour did that. Christ did this one time never having to do it again...
Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
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2nd.. He was wounded for transgressions...vs 5-6
Note the three words that really spell out without a doubt what sufferings Christ went through:
a. Wounded... “which means he was pierced” John 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
b. Bruised.. “which means they crushed him, in fact it really means he allowed them to crush him.
c. He was chastened .. Which means that he was punished for our sins and transgressions..
Mark 15:15 And [so] Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged [him], to be crucified.
d. He silently suffered for us: vs 7
The fact that Christ did not try to defend himself and would not speak out shows he knew exactly what he was doing, he was fulfilling scriptures.. John 19:9 And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
Again
Matthew 27:12‑14 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.
e. He was buried in a borrowed tomb...vs 9 Matt 27:59‑60 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
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Here is the real test if this was all that Christ did then it would not have been sufficient for our sins.
II.... “ THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST”..VS 10
This is a great mystery here what GOD hath done to his only begotten son. I don’t believe we grasp the magnitude of this sacrifice. Picture if you can tonight all the sins of all the people of God of all ages was laid upon Christ and he was charged with them. He became to legal sacrifice for our sins..
1st. This is the sparing not of his own son: Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
2nd. This is the opening up of the fountain..Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
3rd. This is Christ being made a curse for us: Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that hangeth on a tree:
4th. This is an expression of the Love the Father hath toward us: 1 John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
5th. This is in order that we might be righteous: 2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
6th. This is an expression of how much Christ loved us: Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
7th. This was in order that we might serve GOD acceptably:
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Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
III... “ SATISFACTION” ...VS 11-12
This meant that he was totally please with what his son had done, the work was finished and the offering had been accepted by the Father. The vail in the Temple was rent from top to bottom, sin had been paid for..
The proof of this is seen in the text also:
1st. He shall justify many:
Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all nations be blessed.
2nd. The summation of it all: vs 12
Philippians 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Philippians 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
3rd. Made intercession for us: vs 12
Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
Romans 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.