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Intro
Group Intro
- Goal
We are to eagerly hunger for spiritual nutrition in greater degrees - Spiritually mature
Regardless of your background or where you are in your relationship with Jesus, you are called to grow
- What we do
Scripture
Prayer
Community
Lesson Intro
Last Lesson (Isaiah 49)
We saw God was preparing this Servant
He was like a sharp arrow, but hidden in a quiver
He would bring Jacob back to God, and if that wasnt enough, he would bring all the nations too
This would culminate in a relationship, that was intimate like a mother and her nursing child and permanent like tattoo on your hand
Context
God’s message for His people?
Comfort
The Gospel - Behold your God
Look at His character as creator, Why trust idols?
Look at His character as sustainer, why doubt His steadfast love?
This will be another “servant song” that will continue those themes
Yet this is kind of a crescendo
Unlike man who fickle, God’s Word will stand forever
Climax of the gospel in the OT - Motyer
NT writers recognized this - quoted/alluded to 31 times
It will resolve the main tension of the OT between a sinful people and a holy God
What is God’s word?
He builds a highway to His people.
Yahweh, Yahweh, a God merciful and gracious... forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty
Saw it in every story in Judges
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.
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Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.
How can a holy God keep His promise in remember our sins no more?
Context
How this salvation and peace that Isaiah has been preaching will come about?
NT writers recognized this - quoted/alluded to 31 times
Intro Questions
But it zeros in a bit more.
How is God able to make good on His promise?
How can a holy God declare comfort to a rebellious people?
Intro Questions
What does it mean to have a representative?
What are some examples for our world?
From the Bible?
We will be reading differently
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Structure
5 Stanzas
Inclusio pattern (bracketed)
First and last - Mystery hidden and Mystery revealed
Second and fourth - life and death of the servant
Core truth in the middle
Pray and then read
First Stanza - The Enigma - The servant will be glorified and suffer - v. 13-15
First characteristic of the servant - v. 13
He will carry out this plan
Act Wisely - Has the sense of the success or thriving that comes from acting according to the wisdom of God
There is this wise plan that the servant will accomplish - It is wise beyond our limits
This is part of the servant being glorified
Three words for being raised - High, Lifted up, Exalted
So far so good...
Second characteristic of the servant - v.14-15
A deep unexpected contrast
Another one of Isaiah’s sharp, almost jarring, transitions
Instead of being amazed at his glory, we will be appalled at his appearance
Comparison to the judgment doled out to Israel
Like the nations express horror at seeing the destruction of Israel
Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head
Similarly the world will be appalled at the judgment visited on this one man
Beyond wondering if this is the glorious servant, people will wonder if this disfingured person is even human
Notice the parties
God is speaking
The servant is the object
3rd party - the many, Kings, nations
How do they fit in to this story?
We will ask in each verse
Pay attention to how the fit into the story as the poem progresses
The enigma
How can this same servant be high and lifted up and marred beyond human form?
The stanza ends on a note of mystery, revelation- a truth that has been hidden but is now revealed
The stanza ends on a note of mystery, revelation- a truth that has been hidden but is now revealed
There is a unique, ultimate exaltation and a unique, ultimate suffering that are part of a unique, ultimate truth which we would not guess or know
Two great conjunctions in this passage - Yet, But
Second Stanza - The Servant’s life of suffering - 1-3
Bridges into details with same note of mystery and revelation - v. 1
& both use this verse to talk about people seeing the work of the servant (Jesus) but missing the reality of what is going on
The appearance of the servant - v. 2
He was weak - Like a tender bean plant grown in a cup from your 2nd grade science experiment
He was not handsome or well-built
He was not handsome or well-built
Not some majestic king
Socially undesirable - v. 3
He was an outcast who lived a lonely life - external
He was a burdened man who lived a sorrowful life - internal
Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head - Luke 9:58
How does the many react to this man?
Countering our expectations
Is this what you would expect of this servant?
He was not a rich, well groomed, or mighty man.
He was not accepted, he was defined by his grief and sorrows
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