ABOUT ME

Text: Isaiah 53:1-9

1Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

² For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

³ He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁴ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

⁵ 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.

⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

⁸ He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

⁹ And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Christ was crucified because we have sinned and are guilty before God,

 in Psalms 22:16 For dogs have compassed me: The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: They pierced my hands and my feet.

The Messiah, Who suffers for our sin.

He is the finale of all Isaiah ‘s messianic prophecies. He is the miraculously born son of the Virgin in Immanuel- God with us. Isaiah 7:14. Matthew 1:23.

He is the branch. Isaiah 11:1 . Who spring up out of the thump of David line.

He is the new David according to Isaiah 9 :7, who will bring I knew. Exodus and a new redemption for the people of Israel.

Further. He is the one who deserves to rule the world because he is the one who suffer redemptively for all humanity.

He will not Remain in humiliation, which is described here but will rise above it. Philippian. 2: 9-11.  Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

¹⁰ That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

¹¹ And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

He came to earth at a time of great spiritual drought.

There is no beauty that we should desire him.

The messiah would lack earthly grandeur and physical attractiveness.

God greatest concern is always a person’s character, godliness, and obedience, not earthly status or physical beauty , 1Samuel 16:7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

All will stand speechless in awe of him.

He was despised/scorn and rejected /abandoned of men.

He is further described as a man of sorrows /severe pains and acquainted with grief/ injuries, because of his personal suffering we hid as it were our faces from him.

The description of Christ’s suffering in the N.T Gospels clearly indicates the brutality of His physical suffering.

The agony in the garden, his battered face, the severe scourging, and the torture of the crucifixion itself.

The substitutionary atonement is clearly taught. He hath borne our griefs, spiritual sickness.

The N.T says that he himself bare our sins in his own body on the tree,

 1Peter 2:24  Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

• He was stricken, smitten, and afflicted. He was wounded for our transgressions /sin .

• He was utterly crushed,

• Our iniquities/moral evil,

• With his stripes or wounds we are healed

• We are cure/ it refers to our spiritual condition being made whole,

• We are spiritual healing and for forgiveness.

• We all like sheep, gone astray ,

• we were in a desperate condition,

• lost without a shepherd,

Matthew 9:36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.

The scripture said :(he was A man of sorrows

The mission of Jesus Christ involve great pain, suffering, disappointment and grief because of the sins of humanity

All and every are used in parallel, emphasizing the totality of sinful humanity,

Laid on him, meaning to strike violently, Christ resolves the violent wrath of God for us.

• The fact that he opened not his mouth is illustrated by a lamb being brought to the slaughter, John 1:29 Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Thanks for taking the time out with this study, any question, feel free to communicate with us. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, that God will grant you all wisdom, knowledge and understanding to know him and you will be save from the wrath which is to come.

Blessing and Thanks.

Pastor C. Salmon (M.F.C Mission)