Isaiah 53 is the final Servant Song. This passage shows us who God is, who we are, and who our Saviour is. In Christ, we see God, and we see ourselves; we how good and merciful He is and how depraved and wretched we are.
SUCCESS OF THE SERVANT
The Servant will act wisely (52:13); He will accomplish His purpose. This is setting up for one who will come with overwhelming might.
Ch. 42 – He will bring justice to the nations, bring a new creation, and be a covenant for the people 49 – He will deliver His people. 50 – He will be obedient and not turn back. 52 – He will be high and lifted up (reserved only for God)
REJECTION OF THE SERVANT
Yet God will bring this about through the most unlikely means, a suffering servant, folly to the perishing (1 Cor 1:18)
He was shunned as if a leper, a little twig in their eyes. The illness and disease is a picture of the effects of sin. He is a man of sorrows because of our sin. He became ugly because of our sins, and we rejected the One dying for our sins.
ATONEMENT OF THE SERVANT
He has carried the sorrow of us. Christ is bearing grief (v4) because of our iniquity (v11). Christ becomes sin that we might become the righteousness of God. He was crushed, pulverized. The cross shows us how wicked our sin is. The Servant takes the full force of the attack of sin that we deserved. He is like the scape goat in Leviticus. We go free because of Him. (Penal substitutionary atonement)
He succeeds by being rejected and becomes an atoning sacrifice. Only a person who owns to their share of the guilt of the cross can claim their share in the grace of the cross. We are not spectators of the crucifixion, but participants.
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Ryan Case has a passion to see the lost ushered into the Kingdom of God, as well as to see Christ's redeemed grow in all knowledge and grace. His 'heroes of the faith' include John Piper, D.A. Carson, and C.H. Spurgeon. Ryan graduated from the Toronto Baptist Seminary and was...