In this
second message on Isaiah 53, the suffering and death of the servant of God is
given further detail and explanation.
Isaiah reveals that the servant of God will be “assigned a grave with
the wicked” but be “with the rich in his death”. This odd combination will be fulfilled by
Jesus when he is wrongly convicted of being a blasphemer and a revolutionary
and yet still placed in the tomb of a rich man, Joseph of Arimathea. Such fulfillment of O.T. prophecies occurs
throughout the Gospel account of the death of Jesus because the entire life of
Jesus is part of the grand plan of redemption set forth by the Father before
the creation of the world.
In the end, it was the will of God and love for mankind
that held Jesus to the cross, it was our sins upon his shoulders that caused
his Father to look away until it was finished, and it was his blameless life
that kept death from being able to hold him. Isaiah also speaks of the “descendants” of
this servant, cut off from the living, yet prospering and rewarded. This seeming contradiction is fulfilled when
Jesus rises from the dead, no longer scorned, he now is due honor and glory
from the Father. No longer bereft of
those to carry on his name, he now his spiritual descendants who have joined
the family of God in his name.
As the journey to the cross through Isaiah comes to a
close the question of why has been clearly seen. Why the cross? The ultimate answer is this: there was no other
way. Sin had to be paid for, rebellion
had a cost, and only the Son of God, sinless in life, was capable of dying in
our place.
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