Trinity Faith Church
Sunday Worship @ TFC, March 24, 2019
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Trinity Faith Church Adult Sunday School @ 9:30 AM Sunday Worship @ 10:30 AM Sunday Evening Prayer @ 6:00 PM
2264 S Kansas Ave, Liberal, KS 67901, USA
Sunday 10:30 AM
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Message #1: "Punishment Prophesied!" Pt. 1
Isaiah 53.4-6
Message #1: "Punishment Prophesied!" Pt. 1
Isaiah 53.4-6
I. Without question, Isaiah 53 speaks of our Lord Jesus; written over 700 years before the sacrificial death of Christ, its predictions are so specific that no mere man could It is an unquestionable proof of the inspiration of the Bible, and the Divinity of Christ.
II. The clear teaching in this stanza is that deliverance for all people comes by the substitutionary suffering of Jesus; He did not suffer because people are sinners, but suffered in the place of sinful people.
III. Notice the contrast between the words, “we” and “our”; it says that although "we" did not recognize it at first, the sufferings of the Servant were not His own fault, as "we" thought, but were in fact the result of "our" sins, and resulted in "our" healing.
IV. Various theories have been advanced to explain what happened, but Scripture teaches that the idea of “substitution” lies closest to the heart of this great mystery. Jesus, the innocent “Substitute,” bore the sins of all humanity.
V. Jesus did not suffer with His people, but for them; He takes the sicknesses (the sin!) that belongs to us upon Himself, and thus, carries them.
VI. Jesus, our Messiah, is the One who has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows! When we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior from sin, we also come to know Him as the One who can lift the burden of sadness from our shoulders.
VII. The word, “But…” emphasizes the contrast between Him and us; we had thought God was punishing this Man for His own sins and failures, but in fact He was pierced through as a result of our rebellion; He was crushed on account of our twisted-ness.
VIII. One “pierced through” usually dies; “crushed” indicates at least breaking into pieces, and in some cases, even pulverizing. In the case of Jesus, He was crushed under the weight of our sins, and the judgment of God that fell on them. Sin kills, and our sin killed Jesus!
IX. The severity of punishment of Jesus is a measure of how seriously God takes our rebellion and crookedness. We typically wish to make light of our “shortcomings,” to explain away our "mistakes”; but God will have none of that!
X. Before God could forgive, His justice had to be satisfied; He had to punish sin, so it fell upon Jesus, who knew no sin, to become sin!—and so His Father’s punishment fell upon Him!
XI. The sacrifices of bulls and goats did not deal with the eternal effects of sin, so what do they do? They dealt with the temporal effects of sin; they symbolically addressed the truth that when a soul sins, it will die; and when that bull or goat, or whatever the sacrifice was that was offered, died, it symbolically showed that there is no forgiveness for sin apart from the shedding of blood.
XII. So, what then is the meaning of the sacrificial system? Cleansing from sin by substitution!
XIII. Sometimes it’s easy for us to read the story of Jesus’ crucifixion on the Cross, and point our fingers at those who crucified Him, but it is a shocking thought that we can be as indifferent as Pilate, as scheming as Caiaphas, as calloused as the soldiers, as ruthless as the mob of people screaming for His execution, or as cowardly as the disciples. You see, it isn’t just what THEY did!—it was what THEY did, AND what WE have done, that nailed Him to that tree! We crucified Christ! We joined the mockery! It was OUR sins that put Him there! We have Jesus’ blood on our hands, too, for Christ bore the penalty of OUR sin!
XIV. Sheep are notoriously unmindful, and unaware of their circumstances; their minds are on the next clump of grass, and not much else! When they’re looking for that clump of grass, they stray in all directions, so, sheep are very prone to wander off, and get lost. We, too, are prone to stray and get lost in life; our selfishness, our lack of judgment, our poor decisions, our lusts, our temptations, our ambitions, and so much more, have caused us to go our own way.
XV. Imagine reading in the bright clear light of God’s Presence the biography of your every thought, every word, and every deed, recorded and then having them measured against the Word of God; how far short of the glory, the perfection of God, each of us has gone astray! So, what did God do to bring us back into His eternal fold? He sent Jesus, our Messiah, to bring us back to Him!
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