TITLE: THE UNEXPECTED CHRIST
TEXT: ISAIAH 53
INTRODUCTION:
All of us have our own standards and preferences in all sorts of things. Because of this
fact, we tend expect God to move and to do things our way in our prayers, in our walk, as well as
in our ministry. However, God does not work in the lenses of finite human comprehension.
(Isaiah 55:9) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
God moves in the most unpredictable and sovereign way. He has His own way of doing
things afar from the corrupted understanding of men; and we should be glad because of that.
(Proverbs 14:12) There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the
ways of death.
Praise God for His ways are just and perfect. Even many times we can’t understand what
exactly He is doing, Alleluia, He knows every detail of it and we shall witness in our study just
how perfectly peculiar God’s ways are, specifically in the Person and work of the Lord Jesus
Christ when He lived on this earth.
Foremost, we see in our verses the contempt Isaiah prophesied that the children of Israel
would put on the person of Christ because He was not what they expected him to be.
The Jews expected Him to be:
1. EVERLASTING FATHER: (Isaiah 9:6) For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:
and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
2. HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL: (Isaiah 41:14) Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel;
I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
3. ELECT OF GOD: (Isaiah 42:1) Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom
my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the
Gentiles.
4. ARM OF THE LORD: (Isaiah 51:9) Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD;
awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab,
and wounded the dragon?
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5. JUDGE OF ISRAEL: (Micah 5:1) Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he
hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
6. KING: (Zechariah 9:9) Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of
Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and
riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
7. DESIRE OF THE NATIONS: (Haggai 2:7) And I will shake all nations, and the desire of
all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
8. LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH: (Revelation 5:5) And one of the elders saith unto me,
Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the
book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
However, they did not expected Him to be:
1. MAN OF SORROWS: (Isaiah 53:3) 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.
2. WORD: (John 1:1)In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.
3. LIGHT OF THE WORLD: (John 8:12) Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am
the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light
of life.
4. THE TRUTH, WAY AND LIFE: (John 14:6) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth,
and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
5. Most importantly, they did not expected Him to be the LAMB OF GOD: (John 1:29) The
next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh
away the sin of the world.
This time, let us look on some truths about Jesus Christ and His sufferings found in the
prophetic chapter 53 of Isaiah. Let us study and find sobering and yet beautiful truths about our
Lord Jesus Christ which the children of Israel at that time did not understand.
WE SEE:
I. THE SERVANT SAVIOR V. 1-2
This chapter is a continuation of Isaiah 52:13-15. God calls Christ “His servant”.
What is the job of a servant? In what ways did Christ prove himself to be a servant?
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We find the answer to this question in Philippians 2:6-8 as it tells us about Jesus being a
servant.
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: [7] But made
himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men: [8] And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became
obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
A.
We see Him as a tender plant.
-It was expected that He should make a public entry and come in pomp and with observation;
but, instead, He grew up before God, not before men. He grew up as a tender plant, silently and
without any noise, as a tender plant grows.
B.
We see Him as root out of a dry ground.
- His lineage was of the seed of David, a family that had a great name in the earth. However,
He sprang out of his royal and illustrious family when it was reduced and sunk. Joseph (who was
his supposed father), the son of David is not a king but a poor carpenter.
✓ These two picture the humanity of Jesus Christ and his servanthood to His Father to
save us from our sins.
II. THE SORROWFUL SAVIOR Vs. 3
As Jesus Jesus witnessed the corruption in the world, He can't help but be a man of
sorrows. He sees the reality of the condition of man that we are sinners waiting for God's
wrath and judgment and that we have no way of saving ourselves through religion and
good works.
He was despised and rejected of men. John 1:11 (KJV) He came unto his own, and his
own received him not.
The ones he came for were the ones who crucified him on that dreadful tree.
III. THE SUBSTITUTIONAL SAVIOR V. 4-6
Notice:
A. The carrying
Romans 6:23a "For the wages of sin is death;"
We were all dead in sin. We live sinful and unholy lives but praise God, because he bore
our sins and died for us.
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Romans 5:8 (KJV) But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
B. The chastisement
The wrath of God to the sins of the world were all poured on the Lord Jesus Christ. All
that were meant for us were laid on His body as a lamb to be slaughtered.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (KJV) For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin;
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
C. The chance
His “substitutionary atonement” brought us peace!
Our spiritual sickness were healed at the cross!
All our sins are paid in full! So when Satan tempts you or when He accuses you of your
past say unto him, "ITS PAID IN FULL!"
IV. THE SUFFERING SAVIOR V. 7-9
He suffered oppression, affliction and slaughter.
The thing I can't fully comprehend is why Christ willingly suffered for us!
We were His enemies. (James 4:4) Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the
world is the enemy of God.
We were children of disobedience. (Ephesians 2:2) Wherein in time past ye walked
according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the
spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
We were sinners (Romans 3:23) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
who deserve nothing but hell. But PRAISE GOD, His grace abounded where sin was placed.
The Bible tells us that he was cut of the land of the living, which is his ultimate death for
us, sinners.
Knowing this, consider that we are also called upon to suffer for Christ.
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(Philippians 1:29) For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him,
but also to suffer for his sake;
This may be through:
A. Temptations
B. Persecutions
C. Trials
V. THE SATISFYING SAVIOR V. 10-12
Why was God satisfied with His righteous servant?
Why was God “pleased” to pour out His wrath on the Lord Jesus?
Because:
A. We were offered eternal atonement for sins.
(Romans 5:11) And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by
whom we have now received the atonement.
B. We were offered an everlasting home in heaven.
C. We were offered justification by grace.
(Titus 3:7) That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the
hope of eternal life.
D. We were offered sanctification in our lives.
(Hebrews 10:10) By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of
Jesus Christ once for all.
CONCLUSION:
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator.
If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist.
If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist.
If our greatest need had been pleasure, God would have sent us an entertainer.
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But our greatest need was forgiveness, so God sent us a Savior.
Unfinished Business, Charles Sell, Multnomah, 1989, pp. 121ff
PRAISE GOD FOR AN UNEXPECTED SAVIOR!
(Acts 4:12) Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
May we learn to follow God's will as we have studied God's peculiar and sovereign plan
of Salvation. If you are still uncertain of your salvation, why don’t you get saved today?
o It is not your works nor your religion that would save you, it is His Grace
(Ephesians 2:8-9) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
o We cannot obtain eternal life because of anything that comes from us and we fall
short of His glory.
(Isaiah 64:6) But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,
have taken us away.
o God’s plan of salvation is simple and it is not what you have been taught of and
what you have expected it to be. (Acts 20:21) Testifying both to the Jews, and
also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus
Christ. Repent from your sins for it is your sin that puts you in a place of
condemnation. (Luke 13:3) I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all
likewise perish. Then, put your faith in Jesus and accept Him as your personal
Lord and Savior. (Acts 16:31; John 1:12)
For those who have already been saved by Grace, may we also learn to live in holiness
with surrendered lived to God in exchange of the unmerited grace we have received from
the redemptive work of Christ.
BRO. HAROLD DAVE O. CALACDAY
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