The Lord's Day Bible Message Outlines
March 28, 2010
Pastor Dana Johnson
"Yet it pleased the
LORD to bruise Him."
-Isaiah
53:10
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise
Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an
offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the
pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His
hand.
1. Why would the
Father take pleasure in bruising His Son?
a. It is
unnatural for a good father to make a son suffer to the
point of death
b. It is unnatural
for a good father to ask a son to suffer and die for
those who are undeserving.
2. Yet, both God the
Father and the Son are one in their counsel.
a. It pleased
the Father to bruise the Son.
b. The Son fulfills
prosperously the pleasure of the Father.
3. So, what is the
answer? What is the cause? What is it all abut? Why would
Father and Son take pleasure and delight in something so
painful?
a.
In the
sovereignty of God He who appeared to be smitten by God
was bruised for our iniquities.
Isaiah
53:3-5 - He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of
sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it
were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not
esteem Him. 4Surely He has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted. 5But He was
wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our
iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
and by His stripes we are healed.
1) Not
smitten by God as a guilty sinner.
2) Instead,
bruised for a sin as a substitute for
sinners.
b. In the
sovereignty of God He who was condemned by human judges
for disobedience to the Law (John 19:7) was made for us a
substitutionary sacrifice to fulfill the Law.
John
19:7 - The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and
according to our law He ought to die, because He made
Himself the Son of God."
1)
Propitiation: Christ satisfied the demands of the
Law.
2)
Reconciliation: Christ removes our sin and brings us
to God.
c. In the
sovereignty of God He who died alone died to establish
His own race of many.
Isaiah
53:3 - He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of
sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it
were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not
esteem Him.
Ephesians 2:10 - For we are His workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand that we should walk in them.
1 Corinthians 15:22-23 - For as in Adam all die, even so
in Christ all shall be made alive. 23But each
one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward
those who are Christ's at His coming.
Hebrews 2:10-11 - For it was fitting for Him, for whom
are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing
many sons to glory, to make the captain of their
salvation perfect through sufferings. 11For
both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified
are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to
call them brethren.
John 17:20-22 - "I do not pray for these alone, but also
for those who will believe in Me through their word;
21that they all may be one, as You, Father,
are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us,
that the world may believe that You sent Me.
22And the glory which You gave Me I have given
them, that they may be one just as We are
one."
d. In short, the
answer to the incredible puzzle and dilemma is the
sovereign grace of God.
Ephesians
1:4-7 - Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation
of the world, that we should be holy and without blame
before Him in love, 5having predestined us to
adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to
the good pleasure of His will, 6to the praise
of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us
accepted in the Beloved. 7In Him we have
redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of His grace
(All
Scripture quoted is from the New King James
Version)
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