FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD.

TEXT: ISAIAH 53:1-12.

The son of man came to seek and save that which was lost in the Garden of Eden. The relationship between man and God. The first Adam sold the human race to sin and damnation, the second Adam Jesus Christ became a life giving spirit. Adam brought death to humanity, Jesus Christ brought life.

The purpose of God in bringing his only begotten son to the world was to rescue and restore man from the fallen state of sin.

The journey of salvation was not easy, Jesus went through misery, rejection, e.t.c to bring us back to God.

Our Lord, the Messiah chose the difficult path that finally culminated in our salvation. The journey of our salvation:-

WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?-Isaiah 53:1.

The expectation of the Jew concerning the future Messiah is contrary to the suffering one explained about in this text. Due to this scenario of a Messiah who would go through suffering and chastisement, the majority of Israel have rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah-John 1:11.
A suffering Messiah would not seem to be the person to bring salvation and cleansing to the nations, so many “would not believe the report.”

JESUS GREW UP AS A TENDER PLANT-Isaiah 53:2.

The Lord Jesus Christ did grow up, but all the while He was a tender plant-of seeming weakness and insignificance, not like a mighty tree. A tender plant is weak and vulnerable unless it is “before Him,” that is before God the father.
A root of dry ground; where Jesus grew was like a dry ground. One disciple asked of the ground Jesus grew, “can anything good come from Nazareth?”-John 1:46.
He had no form of comeliness/beauty; Jesus was not a man of remarkable physical attractiveness/comeliness. He did not appeal through good looks.

JESUS WAS DISPLEASED AND REJECTED OF MEN-Isaiah 53:3.

Jesus Christ was not esteemed, He was not given honor, He was a man of sorrows and acquinted of with suffering/grief. He knew grief so intimately that He could be called a “man of sorrows.” This, among other reasons made Him despised and rejected by men.
Surely He has borne our grief’s and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed Him afflicted, smitten of God. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him and by His stripes we are healed.
The Messiah made our grief his own and our sorrow as if they were his. The image is that He loaded them up and carried them on His back, so we wouldn’t have to.

HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS.

“Wounded” is literally “pierce through.” The Messiah would be beaten with many stripes –Mark 15:15. The prophet announces that provision for healing is found in the suffering of Jesus.
Luke 2:35, Simeon prophesies “a sword will pierce through thine own soul, that thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

GOD BROUGHT SALVATION IN THE FULNESSS OF TIME-Gal. 4:4-7.