Sermon
Series:
Five Words You Must Understand
1 Corinthians 14:19
Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with
my understanding,
that by my voice I might teach others also,
than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Part Fifteen: Isaiah 53:11
“He shall bear their iniquities.”
Introduction:
On the old Daniels and Webster program on ROCK107 we often heard from one
Walter Nepasky. He would begin his
commentary with either, “I'm Walter Nepasky and today
I wanna talk about three things.”, or “Hi. My name is Walter Nepasky. How you
doin? Today I want to talk to you about tree tings.”
What if we had a modern
Christian radio station (“The Rock of Ages 316”) with a program that began,
“Hi, I’m Paul of Tarsus, and today I want to talk about five words.”
This is
Paul’s “druthers”!
This is when
5 is better than 10,000!
Here Paul follows up his extreme
personal example with an extreme preference framed as a mathematical
proportion: 5 versus 10,000.
Here are
“Five Words” that you need to understand![1]
If Paul were here, and you could
pin him down to a literal selection of five words, what do you think he would
choose? “Gimme Five Paul!”
Review of
the first 19 messages:[2]
All 7 texts on "The Person of Christ - the Redeemer", including:
1) four statements Christ makes about Himself,
2) one Apostolic testimony to His Lordship,
3) one testimony of God the Father to His
Sonship, and
4) one testimony of John the Baptist to Him as
the Lamb of God
Part One: John 8:58 - Before Abraham was, I am.
Part Two:
Revelation 1:8 - I am Alpha and
Omega
Part Three: John 10:11 - I am the Good Shepherd
Part Four: John 15:1 - I am the true vine
Part Five: Acts 10:36 - He is Lord of all
Part Six: Matthew 3:17; 17:5 - This is My Beloved Son
Part Eleven: John 1:29, 36 – Behold,
the Lamb of God
5 of the 9 texts on "The
Work of Christ (as Prophet, Priest and King) – Redemption Accomplished"
including:
1) Christ’s substitutionary death on the Cross
2) Christ’s burial
3) Christ’s resurrection
4) Christ's intercession
Part Seven:
1 Corinthians 15:3 - Christ died for our
sins
Part Eight: 1 Corinthians 15:4
- And that He was buried
Part Ten: 1 Cor. 15:12 - He rose from the dead.
Part Twelve: John 17:17 - Sanctify
them through the truth
Part Thirteen: John 6:33 - I
have overcome the world
1 of the 12 texts on "The Salvation of
Christ – Redemption Applied"
Part
Nine: Mt. 16:23; Mk. 8:33; Lk. 4:8 - Get thee behind me, Satan
All 6 texts on "The Return
of Christ – Redemption Revealed" including:
Part Fourteen: Philippians 3:20 - we
look for the Saviour
5 messsages in the series on the Revelation:
Revelation 1:3 - Blessed is he that readeth
Revelation 1:3; 22:10 - The time is at hand
Revelation 1:7 - Behold, He cometh with clouds
Revelation 21:5 - I make all things new (“God wins in the
end!”)
Revelation 22:20 - Even so, come, Lord Jesus
Outline:
I. The Identity of the Sin Bearer - He
II. The Nature of Sin Bearing - shall bear
III. The Beneficiaries of the Sin Bearing - their
iniquities
Transition: Here are “Five
Words” that you need to understand!
He
shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:[3]
by
his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many;
for
he shall bear their iniquities.
I. The Identity
of the Sin Bearer - He
In order to correctly identify
who “He” is we must consider the “Servant Songs” of Isaiah. The four “Servant Songs” of Isaiah are: Is. 42:1-4; 49:1-6; 50:4-9; 52:13-53:12. These songs begin in Is. 42:1 - “Behold my
servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my
spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.”[4]
Observe that the beginning of
this last “Song” has been obscured for many by the chapter break. Ignoring the chapter break and beginning in
Isaiah 52:13 reveals that this “Servant Song” is composed of 5 triplets with 3
verses each. The answer to the question which must be asked, “Who is “He”?”
may be found by examining the rest of this “Song” which begins in Is.
52:13. Here in 52:13 is found the last
usage of the singular “servant” in Isaiah!
“Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and
extolled, and be very high.” He is the
Servant of the Lord, and this is the last of His “Songs” in Isaiah, and the
greatest of all of them! Is. 52:13-52:12
is the Servant Song of Servant Songs!
It is as if these four songs
were the four “Gospels” of Isaiah, to be followed now by the Acts and the
Epistles in this “New Testament” portion of Isaiah!
Even as He is the King of kings,
and Lord of lords, the Priest of priests, and Prophet of prophets, even so is
He the Servant of servants,!
Phil. 2:7 - But made himself of
no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men:
II. The Nature
of Sin Bearing - shall bear
The nature of this reality of
“sin bearing” directly and necessarily involves the doctrine of substitutionary
atonement.
The heart of Christianity is the
Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the heart of that Gospel is the substitutionary
atonement of Jesus Christ the Savior for His People!
Notice how His sin bearing is
amplified in the verbs in this Song in Is. 53:4-6, 8, 10, 12 -
“….he hath borne our griefs, and carried
our sorrows….But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised
for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we
are healed…. the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all….for the
transgression of my people was he stricken…. when thou shalt make his soul an offering
for sin…. he bare
the sin of many….”
Jn. 10:14-18 - 14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. 15
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for
the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold:
them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one
fold, and one shepherd. 17 Therefore doth my Father love me,
becauseI lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 No man
taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down,
and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my
Father.
Acts 13:38-39 - 38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this
man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39 And by him all
that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be
justified by the law of Moses.
2 Cor. 5:21 - For he hath made him to be sin for us, who
knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
III. The Beneficiaries
of the Sin Bearing - their iniquities
The identity of “their”, i.e., whose iniquities He bears is clarified
in the context in Isaiah 53 as: “my people” (53:8), “the wicked” (53:9), “his
seed” (53:10), “many” (53:11-12), “the transgressors” (53:12).
Notice how the iniquities of His
People that He bears are spelled out in the language of this Song in Is.
53:4-6, 8, 10, 12 - “….he hath borne
our griefs,
and carried our sorrows….But
he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are
healed…. the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all….for the transgression of my people was he
stricken…. when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin…. he bare the sin of
many….”
The effectual nature of His atonement, His sin-bearing, is explicit in
this greatest of all “Servant Songs”! “….with his stripes we are healed….he
shall see his seed….he shall be satisfied….” (53:5, 10, 11)
Mt. 20:28 - Even as the Son of
man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a
ransom for many. (Mk. 10:45 - For even
the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his
life a ransom for many.)
Mk. 14:24 - And he said unto
them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
Rom. 5:19 - For as by one
man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall
many be made righteous.
1 Jn. 2:1-2 - 1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.
And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for
ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 Jn. 3:5 - And ye know that he
was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
Conclusion:
Here are “Five Words” that you
need to understand! He shall bear their iniquities.
That was then! This is now!
He has borne our iniquities.
How about you? Can you say this
by faith? He has borne my iniquities!
Resources:
Willis J. Beecher, "The Servant", in The
Prophets and the Promise: Being For Substance the Lectures for 1902-1903 on the
L. P. Stone Foundation in the Princeton Theological Seminary (Grand Rapids:
Baker Book House, 1969 reprint of 1905 original by Thomas Y. Crowell &
Company Publishers, New York; reprinted in 2002 by Wipf & Stock,
Eugene, OR), pp.
263-288; available as a free download on Google
Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=axsWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
[accessed 8 APR 2014]. reprinted in Walter C.
Kaiser, Jr., ed., Classical Evangelical Essays in Old Testament
Interpretation (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1972; Portland, OR: Wipf & Stock,
2008), pp. 187-206, s.v. Ch. XII:
"Messianic Terms. The Servant".
Harry Bultema, Commentary
on Isaiah, trans. Cornelius Lambregtse (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1981; from
Dutch orig., Practische Commentaar op Jesaja; Muskegon: Bereer
Publishing Co., 1923).
F. Duane Lindsey, "Isaiah's Songs of the
Servant" (series of five articles), in Bibliotheca Sacra 139:553
(JAN-MAR 1982), pp. 12-27; 139:554 (APR-JUN 1982), pp. 129-143; 139:555
(JUL-SEP 1982), pp. 216-227; 139:556 (OCT-DEC 1982), pp. 312-325; and 140:557
(JAN-MAR 1983), pp. 21-36.[5]
F. Duane Lindsey, The Servant Songs: A Study in Isaiah
(Chicago: Moody Press, 1985).
Allan A. MacRae, Studies
in Isaiah, ed. Stephen E. Michaels (Hatfield, PA: Interdisciplinary
Biblical Research Institute, 1995).
W. E. Vine, Isaiah:
Prophecies, Promises, Warnings (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing
House, 1971).
C. von Orelli, The
Prophecies of Isaiah, trans. J. S. Banks, in Clark's Foreign Theological
Library, New Series, Vol. XXXVIII (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1889);
available online and as a downloadable PDF on the Hathi Trust Digital Library at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89094598943;view=1up;seq=5 [accessed 8 APR
2014].
E. J. Young, The
Book of Isaiah: The English Text, with Introduction, Exposition, and Notes,
3 vols., in The New International
Commentary on the Old Testament, series ed. R. K. Harrison (Grand Rapids:
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1965, 1969, 1972).
Appendix: “Five
Words” Sermon Series Listing
The Person of Christ – The Redeemer:
The Work of Christ (as Prophet, Priest and
King) – Redemption Accomplished:
“He called His
Name Jesus.” (Mt. 1:25)
“He shall bear
their iniquities.” (Is. 53:11)
"And that He
was buried" (1 Cor. 15:4)[14]
“He shall prolong
His days.” (Is. 53:10)
“He shall see
His seed.” (Is. 53:10)
The Salvation of Christ – Redemption
Applied:
“He shall save His people.” (Mt. 1:21)
“Ye have not chosen Me.” (Jn.
15:16)
“Peace I leave with you.” (Jn.
14:27)
“By grace ye are saved.” (Eph.
2:5)
“Ye must be born again.” (Jn.
3:7)
“We have peace with God.” (Rom.
5:1)
“My sheep hear My voice.” (Jn.
10:27)
“Continue ye in My love.” (Jn.
15:9)
"I am crucified with Christ."
(Gal. 2:20)
"Buried with Him in baptism"
(Rom. 6:4; Col. 2:12)
"Ye are risen with Him" (Col.
2:12)
The Return of Christ – Redemption Revealed:
as of 11 JUN 2013
KEY:
Red = preached
Green = Incarnation
Blue = Resurrection
Purple = Revelation
Green/Blue/Purple and footnoted = preached
[1] The five word statements
from Scripture that follow may not be five word statements in the either the
Hebrew or Greek originals, nor are they necessarily complete sentences or
verses in the English language translations from the Hebrew and Greek,
including the King James Version, from which these statements are drawn. Nevertheless, they were selected for the
fundamental truths and span of doctrine that they present. This list of 34 examples is not intended to
be comprehensive, and may easily be expanded or consolidated.
[2] See the Appendix to this
sermon for the full list of sermons in this series both preached and planned.
[3] NKJV - “He shall see the
labor of His soul, and be satisfied”; note “So with MT, Tg., Vg.; DSS LXX From the labor of His sould He shall see
light”.
[4] See the resources listed
following the conclusion for further study on these “Servant Songs”.
[5] Note: the pages numbers
from the articles as posted to Galaxie Software's Theological Journal Library do not correspond to those listed by
the author himself in his footnotes.
[6] Part 1, 20 MAR 2011.
[7] Part 2, 27 MAR 2011.
[8] Part 3, 3 APR 2011.
[9] Part 4, 19 JUN 2011.
[10] Part 5, 26 JUN 2011.
[11] Part 6, 17 JUL 2011.
[12] Part 11, 15 APR 2012.
[13] Part 7, 21 AUG 2011.
[14] Part 8, 28 AUG 2011.
[15] Part 10, 8 APR 2012.
[16] Part 13, 13 MAY 2012.
[17] Part 12, 22 APR 2012.
[18] Part 9, 18 MAR 2012.
[19] Part 14, 21 APR 2013.
[20] 20 MAY 2012, Revelation
Sermon Series, Part 1.
[21] Ibid.; also 10 MAR 2013,
Revelation Sermon Series, Part 39, and 17 MAR 2013, Revelation Sermon Series,
Part 40.
[22] 27 MAY 2012, Revelation
Sermon Series, Part 2.
[23] 20 JAN 2013, Revelation
Sermon Series, Part 33, and 27 JAN 2013, Revelation Sermon Series, Part 34.
[24] 14 APR 2013, Revelation
Sermon Series, Part 43.
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