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Introduction
I played baseball when I was younger.
I started in t-ball and played until I was about 12.
As you get older and rise through the various leagues you go from a ball on a tee, to a pitching machine, or maybe coaches pitching, but eventually you get to where the other players are throwing the ball.
This is where it get’s dangerous.
I can vividly remember getting hit by several pitches.
One of the clearest ones was when I could see the ball coming for me and knew I wouldn’t be fast enough to get out of the way.
So I turned by body and allowed the ball to hit me in the rear.
It hit hard enough to where I wasn’t going to be able to stand and run around the bases.
In baseball for these kinds of situations they have what is called a pinch runner.
The thing about the pinch runner is that he wasn’t the one up to bat, he wasn’t the one who did the work, he wasn’t the one who let the ball hit him; but he gets to run the bases.
I deserved to run those bases!
I mean, I let myself get hit by the ball so I could run!
I earned that!
But there was no way I could run those bases.
So, I needed a pinch runner.
Christ is our pinch runner.
We are sinners.
That sin earned us the wrath of God.
The penalty for sin is death.
We deserve to face an eternity separated from God.
In order to escape God’s wrath the penalty for our sin has to be paid.
There was no way for us to redeem ourselves.
No way for us to pay the penalty for sin.
But Jesus steps in, and like a pinch runner He takes our place.
Doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves.
Our title this morning is “For Sin Not His Own”.
This is our fourth look at what the prophet Isaiah reveals concerning God’s suffering servant.
He was described in 52:13-15.
Though He will suffer more than anyone else, He will also be exalted.
In 53:1-3 we learned that he would be a man of sorrows.
He was average in appearance and would be rejected by His people.
vv. 4-6 presented that he would die in our place!
He would bear our griefs and sorrows, be crushed and abused for our transgression and iniquity; all to bring us peace with God.
We have turned from Him yet He bore the iniquity of all mankind.
In our passage today we will learn that the Suffering servant, Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, would suffer as an innocent victim.
The innocence of God’s Servant is revealed in three ways.
When we understand that the innocent suffered for the guilty it should stir us to thanksgiving and praise.
Thanksgiving and praise should result in humble service.
Here’s the question we must consider.
How should redeemed people respond to their redeemer?
The innocence of God’s Servant is first seen as Isaiah declares that…
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The Servant Shall Be Silent v. 7
Two words that benefit us when defined.
Oppressed – נגשׂ (nagaś) to spur on; to force to work; to oppress.
To be hard pressed v. — to be facing or experiencing trouble or difficulty.
Oppressed – נגשׂ (ngś)
What difficulty, trouble, and oppression did Jesus face?
Lack of prayer support - Disciples.
Betrayal - Judas.
Abandonment - Disciples.
Mockery, Beating, Spitting - Sanhedrin.
Scourging, Mocking, Beating, Crucifixion - Romans.
That’s not all.
The verse continues.
Afflicted – ענה (ahʿnah) to humiliate; to oppress; to be wretched, suffering; to do violence to.
To be caused to experience great unhappiness.
Afflicted – ענה (hʿnh)
When was Jesus humiliated, oppressed, and caused to suffer?
The Sanhedrin slapped His face and mocked His claims .
The Romans soldiers dressed Him up to humiliate Him, then they crucified Him naked.
These verses proclaim that even in the face of oppression, humiliation, and suffering, the servant would keep silent.
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Jesus only answered when put under oath by the high priest.
Mark records that Jesus was just as silent before Pilate.
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The silence of Jesus causes Pilate to marvel!
Everything that He has suffered, everything that He has endured, and yet He is still silent.
Why?
There was nothing more to say.
Would we be silent in the face of adversity?
Scripture is very clear about how we should behave toward those who mistreat us.
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Oppressed, afflicted, yet silent.
This prophecy is clear about how the Messiah would suffer in silence.
When we look at the record in the gospels we see the fulfillment of this prophecy.
Led as a lamb to the slaughter.
Jesus did not fight or plead or call a legion of angels.
He patiently, quietly, went to the Cross to pay the penalty for sin.
Like a sheep going to be sheared, he kept silent.
Sheep go to the slaughter and shearing in silence, as did our Lord.
But there the similarity ends.
Lambs go silently because they are unaware of what is taking place.
That was not the case with our redeemer.
Jesus went to the Cross knowing full well what He would suffer!
Yet He went anyway.
Innocent yet oppressed.
Silent yet afflicted.
Bearing our sin.
Yet He went anyway.
Innocent yet oppressed.
Silent yet afflicted.
Bearing my sin.
#210 “Jesus Paid It All” (v. 1)
The innocence of God’s Servant is seen secondly as Isaiah declares that…
2. The Servant Shall Be Stricken v. 8
This first phrase is a difficult one to understand.
The NASB, ESV and others translate it “By oppression and judgment he was taken away”.
Prison – עֹ֫צֶר ʿ(ōʹt·ṣěr) closure; oppression, pressure.
The act of subjugating by cruelty.
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