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The Man of Sorrows
Isaiah 53 3/63 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.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But 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.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
The World in ‘every-age’ has had many a sorrow man, but there has only been one ‘Man of Sorrows’. The sorrows of the son of man were entirely unique and have been unparalleled.
His was a sorrow of a unique…
1: Humiliation
It is something you do to another who has wronged you in some way, and made you look so Humiliated in front of those who thought goo d of you. Before you seek retribution, remember the saying “two wrongs don’t make a right”. This is something I had great difficulty grappling with when I was first saved. All that God is, poured Himself into Jesus Christ, instead all we do rebuke Him, humiliated Him, and beat him.
Remember, ‘by the grace of God there goes us’. So due to social reteric, they put on us pressure to have the latest thing. You are humiliated if don’t have these. So much so that by accident or failure, then due over stretching financially, we are now reduced to poverty and shame. No one ever had as much to give up as Christ Jesus, when He emptied Himself, and took upon Himself the form of a servant, becoming obedient unto death.
His was a sorrow of a unique…
2: Opposition
We will ‘ALL’ have face in our life time opposition. Who we deal with it defines who we are. For Jesus’ the contradiction that He suffered at the hand of sinner against Himself was so unique. He was despised and rejected by men. Here is a man, whom scripture had foretold. What did they expect? God to appear in the sky above, and tell them on what exact date His son was coming, where & how? Oh hang on God did do this, in His scriptures. So why is it we still today NOT believe the scriptures? They were more just stories from hundreds of years ago, but are our road map for our lives now and life.
Ezekiel 39:8 “..Surely it is coming, and it shall be done,” says the Lord God. “This is the day of which I have spoken..”
# The temptation in the Wilderness #
The rebuking of the wind; the same word used when dealing with ‘unclean souls’. The rebuking of Peter, and the ‘get thee behind me Satan’. He also went on to say ‘far be it from the Lord’ (referring to our Lords suffering death). Even when He (Jesus) was on the cross, they cried out and taunted him saying ‘come down, and we will believe thee’, I feel even if He had they would have just called it witchcraft, or magic.
His was a sorrow of a unique…
3 Anticipation
It’s all enough to raise your blood pressure through the roof. How many times have we strained to say “It’s good for us that don’t know what is going to happen the next day ~ week ~ month or even year”. Or as to when this event is going to happen, because, if said to you next week on your way to work you will be die in a bad car crash, you would not leave your bed let alone thr house.
Your nerves will become more and more jangled, the closer that date and time draws closer. You’ll think I’ll leave earlier, even go a different route to work, but your fate is sealed. But, these things are mercifully hidden, or else we would go mad with ‘anticipation’. But only Christ has fully seen what was ~ is ~ too happen. From a very young age, He came to minister to us, but not become just a seat warmer..
John 12:32/3 “..if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself. This He said, signifying by what death He would die..”
His was a sorrow of a unique…
4 Separation
His very nature, as Holiness and Divinity had made Him separate from sinners, this was even though he was made in the likeness of sinful flesh. No one could feel this more intensely as ‘The Son of Man’ who was also ‘The Son of God’.
1 Peter 4 1/5 “..Christ suffered for us in the flesh … should live the rest of his time in the flesh … enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles … they think it strange that you do not run with them..”
As Christ suffered in the flesh, we are called by Christ to be separate from sinners. Being a Christian will cause you to stand alone at times in you community. Some of you will no doubt think impossible that Christians are still treated in this same deplorable way, yet they still are. I once heard the story of a group of Christians buried up to their heads and were told to denounce their beliefs and God, if not each would be beaten in front of the others, yet still NO-One turned and so were left there to dye.
His was a sorrow of a unique…
5 Relationship
V4 “.. Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows..”
Now only He could do this as a fond Mother, whom is very devoted, and carries the griefs and sorrows of her beloved suffering Children. The bond of a Mother and children is a special one, one when nurtured, builds a ‘relationship’ that can last a life time.
Jesus Christ has the same devoted love and ‘relationship’ with us. Such love and devotion, even conquering death for us. Honestly, ‘who do you know would do this for you’? Let alone a total stranger. So intense was His love and sympathy for us as sinful man, that He could not refrain from bearing our griefs & sorrows. It was in this wholly devoted one act that Jehovah was pleased to lay .. (V6) “..the iniquity of us all..”. It was for us the He poured out His Holy, sorrowful, soul into death.
Lamentations 1:12 “..“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see If there is any sorrow like my sorrow, Which has been brought on me, Which the Lord has inflicted In the day of His fierce anger..”
Lamentations 1:12 “..“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see If there is any sorrow like my sorrow, Which has been brought on me, Which the Lord has inflicted In the day of His fierce anger..”
