Today’s Sermon Notes: 12-22-2024
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The Signs of Christmas
Sermon Series
Sign #4: Prophecy That Describes the Savior: Part One
Isaiah 53
Introduction
Romans 5:7 “For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Acts 8:34-35 “And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus.”
Prayer
The Promised King Would Be Rejected (vv. 1-2)
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.[1]
Romans 10:16-17 “But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”
The promised king is rejected because He enters the world in a quiet way.
John 1:45-46 “Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 46 Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” Can this Jesus really be omnipotent God?
The promised king is rejected because of how he looked.
“he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.”
Philippians 2:8 “And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross!”
Romans 10:14 “How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?3 And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!””
Whether you see Jesus and being beautiful, or someone to be despised and rejected
all depends on if you understand His purpose.
John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”[3]
The promised king is rejected because He takes on himself the pain and “suffering” of the world.
“He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”
Luke 2:52 “And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.”
Luke 23:18-19 “But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas”— 19 a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder!”
John 1:11 “He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.”
Conclusion
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[1] Isaiah 53 is mentioned three times in the NT and each time is reference to Jesus; Matthew 8:17, Acts 8:32-25, 1 Peter 2:21-35.
[2] Gary Smith, The New American Commentary, Volume 15B, Isaiah 40-66 (Nashville, Tennessee; B& H Publishing, 2009) 444.
[3] “The first-person plural pronoun occurs ten times as Isaiah describes Christ’s suffering for us.” Herbert M. Wolf, Interpreting Isaiah, The Suffering and Glory of the Messiah (Grand Rapids, Michigan; Zondervan Publishing, 1985) 216.
[4] J. Alec Motyer, The Prophecy of Isaiah, An Introduction & Commentary (Downers Grove, Illinois; IVP Academic, 1993) 429.
[5] Smith, 447.
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The Signs of Christmas
Sermon Series
Sign #4: Prophecy That Describes the Savior: Part Two
Isaiah 53
Introduction
- The Promised King Would Be Rejected (vv. 1-2)
- The promised king is rejected because He enters the world in a quiet way.
- The promised king is rejected because of how he looked.
- The promised king is rejected because He takes on himself the pain and “suffering” of the world.
The Promised King Would Save Us From Our Sins (vv. 4-12)
As A Substitute (vv. 4-6)
“Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
Romans 5:6-8 “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
As a Sacrifice (vv. 7-9)
“He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? 9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.”
Matthew 27:12-14 “But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer. 13 Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?” 14 But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed.”
Matthew 26:28 “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?” (John 18:11).
John 1:29 “The next day he (John the Baptist) saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”[5]
Matthew 27:57-60 “When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. 58 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. 59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.”
As a Complete Satisfaction (vv. 10-12)
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,10 and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,11 because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
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[1] https://www.sermonillustrations.com/a-z/s/substitution.htm
[2] Motyer, 429.
[3] Motyer, 431.
[4] George A. F. Knight, Deutero-Isaiah, A Theological Commentary on Isaiah 4-55 (New York, New York; Abingdon Press, 1965) 235.
[5] (v. 7) 1 Peter 1:18-19 “knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.”
[6] Motyer, 433.
[7] Wolf, 219.
[8] https://www.sermonillustrations.com/a-z/s/substitution.htm
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