Sermon 1594B - Isaiah, Chapters Fifty-Two and Fifty-Three…..(Tue pm 11/25/97)

ISAIAH, CHAPTERS FIFTY-TWO AND FIFTY-THREE......(TUE PM 11/25/97)

(Thanksgiving Service) This message reminds us to be thankful for the Messiah’s suffering for us at Calvary. The Hebrew word for astonied in Isaiah 52:14 means to be stunned, as when a person is hit in the head, causing him to lose his balance or lose his senses, momentarily. It means to be stupefied as a drunk person who has just taken in so much liquor that he does not have his senses. This is the word that was used to describe the effect the crucifixion had upon the Visage, the Form, the Figure of our Saviour, the Messiah. His Visage was marred, ruined. The Hebrew word for marred comes from a word that has the same root letters as the Shakh-ath Pit, which is the Pit into which the LORD cast the first creation when it sinned against His Name. When we see the price our Saviour paid for us, as all the corruption and sin from the three previous creations, as well as this present one, fell upon him, we, too, will be astonished, and new gratitude and thanksgiving will be born in our heart.