4 ¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. {wounded: or, tormented} {stripes: Heb. bruise} 6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. {laid…: Heb. made the iniquity of us all to meet on him} (Isaiah 53:4-6 KJV)

INTRODUCTION: The question has been ask, "Is it possible in a short sentence to present our faith?" Some have summed it up in the Apostle Creed . But that requires 4 or 5 Paragraphs. When Robert Taylor asked Spurgeon, in his last illness, if he could state his faith in a sentence, with out hesitation he gave it in four words "Jesus died for me."

Dr. Fullerton tells of a church sister who, in visiting a hospital was asked by one of the nurses to speak to a dying boy, who was as much a heathen in central London as if he had been born in Central Africa. evidently guided by the Holy Spirit, she said, "Sonny, God made you ; God loves you; God came down from Heaven and died for you ; and now He is going to take you home to be with Him forever."

"Say it again, lady," he pleaded, so she said it again twice over. Then pulling himself up by the rope hanging over the bed the boy, who seemed to have gained new vitality said; "Then thank him for me," but before she could respond he fell back lifeless, and proved it all for himself, and gave his own thanks face to face with the Eternal.

Any preaching or teaching that does not center on, and radiate from, the substitionary death of Christ, is doomed to failure, and has no gospel in it.

The scripture does sum up our faith in one sentence I Cor. 15:1-3

 “1 ¶  Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2  By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;” (1Co 15:1-3 KJV)

The gospel. . .Christ died for our sins"

If we were to outline the passage we might see five things in the text.

 1. An Assumption--"Surely He hath born our griefs, and carried our sorrows. v. 4  yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” (Isa 53:4 KJV)

 2. A Confession--"Yet we did esteem Him stricken v.4

 3. A Declaration--"But He was wounded . . . ". v. 5-6

“5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; 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 hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (Isa 53:5-6 KJV)

 4. God Burdening His people with Blessings.  "blessed be the Lord who daily loadeth us with benefits."

“Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.” (Ps 68:19 KJV)

Here in the passage God's servant is seen with a load of sins laid upon Him.

6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (Isa 53:6 KJV)

5. God Sharing His People's Burdens "blessed be the Lord who daily beareth our burden and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (Isa 53:6 KJV)

I.    Christ the Burdened One--Burdened with Compassion.

A.    "and Jesus, moved with compassion" Mark 1:41

 “And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.” (Mr 1:41 KJV)

1.    The word is strong. It is a word descriptive of the sorest of suffering .

2.    There are several kinds of –“Pathy.” a suffix meaning feeling, suffering, disease, treatment of disease

a)    apathy--No care or concern. Those who see a sight of suffering and just walk away unaffected are “apathetic.”

b)    antipathy--One who sees suffering and pain and would even fight against the idea of pain. To be against feeling.

(1)    Sympathy or Compassion --One who sees suffering and pain feels the pain, He enters into the suffering of the person. If he see a man sick he feel sick and may even have the same reaction as the sick person.

B.    This could be further illustrated by placing two harps in a room. If Both our tuned perfectly together. and place at either end of the Room and one is pluck it will set the other to vibrating.

C.    Our Lord's sympathy

1.    He is a Man of sorrows, and he carried our sorrows. We try to rid our self of sorrow--we tend to avoid that which will cause sorrow but he carried ours.

2.    See him carrying our cross to Calvary

3.    He was acquainted with grief--he knew what it was and yet he willingly bore our grief.

4.    He is feeling all of our heart's hurts and hurts with us.

5.    When we are disappointed his is disappointed.

6.    When we are discouraged by our children, our boss, our mates, our loved ones. He knows he feels with us.

D.    He is our great High Priest who know our infirmities. Hebrews 4:14-15

14  Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:14-15 KJV)

E.     He has experienced them, he suffers with us.

II.    The Burdened One, burdened with our sin.

A.    The modernist sees only the sympathy of his burden.

1.    That is why one church denomination say that a lady who has an abortion because she will not be able to care for the child is committing an act of faith.

2.    That is why these same folks will fight to stop the death penalty.

3.    that Is why the modernist, liberals, see only a god of love.

B.    The vicarious suffering of the Servant .

1.    It was not to show us how to suffer that he came to this earth, suffered, bleed and died.

2.    He was wounded--suffered torment for our transgressions. For those little thing like "stepping on the grass" we crossed the line but not very far. These were not superficial but left eternal scars that are there to remind us that he did it for us.

3.    He was bruised for our iniquities-- It is our iniquities that separate us from God. It is our regarding of iniquities that shut up the windows of heaven. Our Transgressions are but little to us, but our iniquities are those sins spelled S-I-N

4.    These wounds were not just physical--but spiritual they were so grievous that the Father forsook him.

5.    "Wounded for Me, Wounded For Me

There on the cross ,

He was wounded for me:

Gone my transgressions,

And now I can see,

All because Jesus was wounded for me."

6.    The Chastisement--The punish for sin so that there could be peace between My soul and My God could be a reality.

(1)    The chastisement include the physical punishment of the scourge, the thorns, the rod, the cross.

(2)    The chastisement had to satisfy the eternal demands of the justice, Holiness, righteousness, and wrath Of God.

(3)    I have yet to fully comprehend the thought that while he suffer for 6 hours he paid my eternal penalty.

7.    What a burden to place upon any one. yet he willing went to the cross for us.

8.    Not just the sins of one, but the weight of all the sins of us all.

a)    Some one suggested that if we as good Christian committed just one sin a day in our life we would commit 25,550 each one caring and eternal punishment.

b)    Not multiply the load by 10 billion souls and we 225 trillion sins.

c)    If we were to give sin a little tiny weight of one tear drop and we know better because our heart have felt the heavy weight of just one sin. the weight of the sin of our life would be 56# and the weight of all the sin of men would be 281 million tons.

d)    Sin requires a sacrifice-- It is estimate that each man who followed Moses out of Egypt offer one sacrifice a week and thus the average number of sacrifice animals was 11538 per day. The Israelite offered 168 million sacrifices each generation or 4 billion from the giving of the law unto the captivity. What a weight to carry to the cross and he carried it for us.

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