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*Isaiah 53** T** Atoning Suffering and Victory of the Messiah*
 
Chapter 53
 
 This chapter is the very heart of Isa.
40–66, and it takes us to the cross.
That these verses apply to Jesus Christ is proved by John 12:38, Matt.
8:17, Acts 8:32–35, Mark 15:28, Luke 22:37, Rom.
10:16, and 1 Peter 2:24.
Isaiah 53 is quoted or referred to at least eighty-five times in the NT.
Two of the great things which the Holy Spirit in the Old-Testament prophets testified beforehand were;
1)      The sufferings of Christ.
2)      And the glory that would follow.
*1 Peter 1:11*; seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
And Jesus also spoke of the things that must happen; turn to *Luke 24:26-27*
“Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”
Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.
Can you imagine being one of those guys on the road that day as the creator of the universe explained the scriptures?
Nowhere else in all the Old-Testament are these two points so plainly and fully prophesied of as here in chapter 53, from which many passages are quoted with application to Christ in the New-Testament.
By combining faith with the prophecy of this chapter we will improve our relationship with Jesus Christ and him crucified, with Jesus Christ and Him glorified, dying for our sins and rising again for our justification.
This chapter contains Isaiah’s message describing the suffering of Messiah.
Isaiah describes in graphic detail the crucifixion of Christ almost 800 years before it actually occurs!
Isaiah 53 describes the life and ministry of Jesus Christ (vv.
1–4), His death (vv.
5–8) and burial (v.
9), and His resurrection and exaltation (vv.
10–12).
The theme that ties the chapter together is that /the Suffering Servant died in the place of the guilty (that would be you and I)./
The suffering servant
*Isaiah 53:1-3** *
* Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
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*  For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, *
*Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him. *
*  He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
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Who has believed our report or message?
Isaiah realizes his Calvary predictions are so amazing that not very many people will believe him, remember this is 800 years before Christ’s crucifixion.
Romans 10:16-17
  However, they did not all heed the *good news*; for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
People say the message of the gospel is unbelievable—that it’s too good to be true.
They think there must be more to being saved than simply believing Jesus died for our sin, rose again, and wants to live within us.
But that is the message of the gospel, the *good news.*
(Romans 10:9) Tells us that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
 
*To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?*
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Look at the contrast between “the arm of the Lord,” which speaks of the mighty power of God’s works, and “a root out of a dry ground,” which is an image of humility and weakness.
1)    When God made the universe, He used His fingers.
* (Psalm 8:3) *
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
 
2)    When God delivered Israel from Egypt, it was by His strong hand
 *(Exodus 13:3) *
  Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you went out from Egypt, from the house of slavery; for by a powerful hand the Lord brought you out from this place.
And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
3)    But to save lost sinners, He had to bare His mighty arm!
But people still refuse to believe God’s power.
*(Romans 1:16) *
  For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the *power of God* for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
(*John 12:37-40**) *
  But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him.
This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke: “Lord, who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again, “He has blinded their eyes and He hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.”
Everyone wants to see signs and wonders.
The book of Revelation tells us that the False Prophet and the anti Christ will have powers to perform signs and wonders.
Let’s let The Holy Spirit lead us.
v-2*  For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him. *
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*  *There was a three-fold rejection:
1)    They rejected His words, “His report”.
2)     They rejected His works, “the arm of the Lord”.
We saw that in John 12:37–40.
Now in verse 2 we see the rejection of His person.
Israel was not a paradise when Jesus was born; politically and spiritually, it was a wilderness of dry ground.
Until John the Baptist there had been a four hundred year period that God had been silent.
He did not come as a great tree but as a “tender plant.”
*Isaiah 11:1* tells us Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
The Jews were offended that Jesus came as a servant.
*(Mark 6:1-3) *
Jesus went out from there and came into His hometown; and His disciples followed Him.
When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue; and the many listeners were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands?
“Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon?
Are not His sisters here with us?”
And they took offense at Him.
He was born in poverty in Bethlehem and grew up in a carpenter’s shop in the despised town of Nazareth.*
(John 1:43-46)* the next day He purposed to go into Galilee, and He found Philip.
And Jesus said to him, “Follow Me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
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.”
Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?”
Philip said to him, “Come and see.
Because of His words and works, Jesus attracted great crowds; but nothing about His physical appearance made Him different from any other Jewish man.
Today we are all sold on outward beauty, all the television and billboard ads bombard us constantly, and modern society has made a religion out of physical beauty.
It is good to remember that Jesus succeeded without it.
Like the Tabernacle we are studying on Sunday morning, kind of plain looking from the outside but inside was incredible beauty.
God looks at the heart of a man or woman.
This means that when we try to attract people to Jesus through *form or comeliness*, or *beauty*, we are using methods that run counter to the nature of Jesus.
*“These days so many churches try to dress up the gospel to make it attractive.
We use methods or techniques which are entertaining, well-presented, streamlined.
There must be something about the presentation of the gospel that will appeal to people, to make them feel good.
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*  We don’t need to dress up the gospel , the good news, to make it appealing we just need to share it with others!*
I wonder if we stop to think that in our efforts to make the gospel message ‘attractive’ we are drawing a curtain across the face of Jesus in His humiliation.
The only one who can make Him attractive is the Holy Spirit.”
According to Revelation 5:6, we’ll see Him as a Lamb having been slain.
We are going to see Jesus as One who has been slaughtered and slain for our sin.
Beaten with fists, whipped with a flagellum, crucified on a cross, and attacked by the hordes of hell, Jesus Christ was reduced to quivering flesh on the cross.
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