Isaiah 53 Series: THE STARTLING SERVANT OF JEHOVAH, PART 2A

THE STARTLING SERVANT OF JEHOVAH, PART 2A (ISAIAH 52:13-15, NASB)... Now, as we come to verses 13 to 15, we’re going to be introduced to the Messiah, the King, and thus to the Lord Jesus Christ in His career. This is a remarkable prophecy. What it tells us…it introduces, by the way, the fifty-third chapter, and the fifty-third chapter expands what is just stated in a summary form in 52:13 to 15. But what it tells us about the Messiah is that He will suffer and He will be exalted. That before His glory will come His suffering. That’s what you see in the three verses that I point you to at the end of chapter 52, suffering and then glory. They should have known that. And then the suffering and the glory are spelled out in detail in chapter 53. In fact, just to give you a kind of a preview of chapter 53, we know it’s about the death of the Servant of Jehovah, the death of the Messiah.

We’re introduced to the fact that He’s a man of sorrows in verse 3. He’s acquainted with grief. We find Him stricken, smitten, pierced, crushed. And this results in, literally, His death. He is like a Lamb led to slaughter in verse 7. Verse 8, He is cut off out of the land of the living. That’s a Hebrew expression for death. We find Him in verse 9 in a grave. We find Him in verse 10 as a guilt offering. We find Him in verse 12 pouring out Himself to death. This is the Servant of Jehovah. All Jews in history, up until the time of Christ, interpreted this section of Isaiah as messianic. This is the Messiah. This is Messiah dying a horrible death, looked at from a number of angles, a crushing, bruising, chastening, scourging, slaughtering kind of death. Please share with your friends and family members. JESUS IS LORD!