The Promise of His Death and Resurrection

Isaiah 53:1-12
1 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, 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 has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.

Messiah, in the Eye of the Beholder
Christ’s Suffering: The Servant-Lamb
The OT Sacrificial System
Limitation: His Birth (53:2)
Jesus willingly embraced our frame with all its limitations.
[Isaiah 53:2; Philippians 2:7; John 4:6; Mark 11:12; Luke 2:52]
Rejection: His Life (53:3-4)
Jesus volunteered to pour himself out in ministry to people who would
reject him. (Isaiah 53:3; John 1:11; Mark 3:21; Luke 4:28-29; Matthew 23:37;
Hebrews 10:1-7)

Substitution: His Death (53:5-10a, 12b)
“He who hung the earth is hanging; He who fixed the heavens has been fixed;
He who fastened the universe has been fastened to a tree…
O unprecedented murder! Unprecedented crime!
The Sovereign has been made unrecognizable by his naked body,
And is not even allowed a garment to keep him from view.
That is why the lights of heaven turned away,
And the day was darkened.”
-Melito, Bishop of Sardis (2nd century)
Jesus drank the cup of wrath (Isaiah 51:17; John 18:11) which
we deserved so that we might drink the cup of blessing. (1 Corinthians 10:16;
11:25)

Christ’s Triumph: The Risen Lord
Vindication: His Resurrection (53:10b-12a)
Jesus’ resurrection was a demonstration that His message was
true (Acts 17:31; Romans 1:4), that His death did in fact secure
our forgiveness (1 Corinthians 15:17, 20-22), that we who believe have
life in him (Ephesians 2:5; Romans 6:1-4), and that our final resurrection
is certain. (1 Corinthians 15:20)

Thanks Matt!