Class 6 from this series was used in GCT Episode 363.<\/p>\n
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\nthe Cleckheaton, UK Ecclesia.
\nThis week’s classes theme for <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Martin’s classes is
\nParadox of Liberty, and today’s <\/p>\n
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\nclass is entitled The Form of a
\nServant. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Martin, the Paradox of
\nLiberty is moving on. <\/p>\n
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\nBrothers and sisters, we have
\nbeen in Genesis. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve seen God’s guardrails, the
\nway in which he gives his <\/p>\n
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\ncreation this broad, wide,
\nliberal opportunity to serve him<\/p>\n
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\nin in all these different kinds
\nof ways. <\/p>\n
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\nBeing in the patriarchs lives as
\nwell, seeing what’s happening <\/p>\n
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\nspecifically with Abraham and
\nwith Moses, and then in the <\/p>\n
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\nlives of the children of Israel.
\nTo the way in which God works <\/p>\n
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\nwith his people as they come out
\nof Egypt, as they come not to be<\/p>\n
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\nfree from Egypt, but as they
\ncome out of Egypt to serve on <\/p>\n
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\nthe mountain.
\nAnd we looked yesterday at <\/p>\n
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\nthose, those tricky verses in
\nExodus 21, the way in which God <\/p>\n
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\nis trying to lay the groundwork
\nfor the nation to be formed from<\/p>\n
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\nnowhere, and how they will
\ninteract with each other when <\/p>\n
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\nthings go a little bit wrong.
\nWell, as the narrative of <\/p>\n
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\nliberty moves on into the kings
\nand the prophets, things are not<\/p>\n
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\nall as they seem.
\nAnd as we begin to move forward <\/p>\n
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\nin time, Israel’s history is
\nframed repeatedly as a failure <\/p>\n
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\nto live up to their liberty, Not
\njust that they sin and fall <\/p>\n
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\nshort because we know that they
\ndo that we know you and I do <\/p>\n
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\nthat, but that the language that
\nthe prophets use is specifically<\/p>\n
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\ncouched in this language that
\nwe’ve been talking about. <\/p>\n
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\nHave a look.
\nOh, sorry, there were our our <\/p>\n
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\ncircles.
\nI’ve not not give you the title,<\/p>\n
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\nbut you can see where we’ve got
\nto with, with when liberty is <\/p>\n
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\nmoving on and going wrong.
\nThis is what happens when we get<\/p>\n
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\nto the days of the kings.
\nThink, for example, about the <\/p>\n
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\ndays of Rehoboam.
\nYou know it well and you <\/p>\n
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\nunderstand what is going on with
\nhim. <\/p>\n
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\nBut when we read of the days of
\nRehoboam and, and when Jeroboam <\/p>\n
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\ncomes onto the scene as well,
\nthey come to petition him, you <\/p>\n
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\nremember Solomon is no longer
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd, and because they’re not
\nparticularly happy with their <\/p>\n
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\nlot, they say your father made
\nour burden heavy. <\/p>\n
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\nNow lighten the hard service of
\nyour father. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they’re just dragging that
\nword, consciously or <\/p>\n
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\nunconsciously, out of Exodus
\nchapter 1, the very same hard <\/p>\n
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\nlabor that Pharaoh laid on
\nIsrael when he changed his <\/p>\n
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\nimmigration policy and realized
\nthat they were a threat to him. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you remember that Ray Bohm
\ngoes away and deliberates for a <\/p>\n
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\nwhile, and he talks to the old
\nwise heads with the long beards,<\/p>\n
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\nand he talks to the young guys
\nas well. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the young guys are the ones
\nwhose voices prevail. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he comes back and says,
\nwell, you wanted me to lighten <\/p>\n
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\nit.
\nI’m going to add to your yoke. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I know that you know the
\naccount and I know that you know<\/p>\n
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\nthe story, but isn’t it
\nsignificant not just that things<\/p>\n
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\nare going off the rails, but
\nthat we are using freedom <\/p>\n
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\nlanguage to describe that
\nhappening? <\/p>\n
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\nI think, for example, of the
\ndays of Ahaz, Second Chronicles <\/p>\n
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\n28 and verse 19, who made Judah
\nact wildly. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd again, that is an expression
\nwhich is dragged out of the Book<\/p>\n
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\nof Exodus as well.
\nIt comes from the chapter with <\/p>\n
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\nthe golden calf where the people
\nbreak loose. <\/p>\n
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\nIn other words, having had God’s
\nbroad liberty with guardrails, <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s not good enough, that’s
\nnot sufficient. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we are going to break loose.
\nWe are going to act wildly. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to run around freely
\nand do as we choose. <\/p>\n
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\nSo not only when the monarchy is
\nstill just about in one piece do<\/p>\n
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\nthings begin to go wrong, but
\nalso when we’re focusing only on<\/p>\n
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\nthe Southern Kingdom, do things
\ngo wrong or take the days of <\/p>\n
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\nZedekiah and, and brother Jesse
\nand I have had a chat and I’m <\/p>\n
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\nallowed to go into this first,
\nprovided I don’t talk about it <\/p>\n
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\nvery much.
\nSo we’ve, we’ve, we’ve had a <\/p>\n
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\nchat who of course, in Jeremiah
\n34 proclaims liberty to the <\/p>\n
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\npeople in exactly the way that
\nthe law commanded him to. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it looked great.
\nSix years shall you serve, and <\/p>\n
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\nin the 7th year you shall go
\nfree. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s what happens.
\nOnly this is not the kind of <\/p>\n
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\nking whose example you would
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\nAnd so he turns it back on
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\nwhich he gives to his people,
\nwhich of course is far worse <\/p>\n
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\nOne thing to leave somebody <\/p>\n
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\nincarcerated, another thing to
\nlet them go free. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then as they’re getting to
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\nthem and make them come back.
\nAnd as a result of that, the <\/p>\n
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\nLord in in Jeremiah 34 says,
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\nfreedom, then I will proclaim
\nfreedom to you, freedom to the <\/p>\n
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\nsword, freedom to the pestilence
\nand to the famine. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat goes around comes around.
\nI suppose you might say for all <\/p>\n
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\nof the kings of Israel and
\nJudah, just come with me to <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah chapter 2 almost sums
\nup the way in which this works. <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah chapter 2 and and the
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\nyou to a plentiful country to
\neat the fruit and the goodness <\/p>\n
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\nthereof, but you defiled my land
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\nabomination.
\nVerse 14 Is Israel a servant? <\/p>\n
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\nIs he a?
\nHomeborn slave. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the only place we had
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\nyesterday.
\nThis is the only place where the<\/p>\n
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\nAV translates that Hebrew word
\navid as the English word slave. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd as we said.
\nYesterday it it’s really just <\/p>\n
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\nfilling a gap where you need a
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\nitalics.
\nIs Israel a servant? <\/p>\n
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\nIs he a homeborn slave?
\nYou have brought this upon <\/p>\n
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\nThe Lord says verse 17 and that <\/p>\n
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\nyou’ve forsaken the Lord your
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\nverse 20 of old time I have
\nbroken your yoke and burst your <\/p>\n
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\nbands.
\nI’ve set you free. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve released you from bondage.
\nI have led you out of Egypt with<\/p>\n
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\na mighty hand and an
\noutstretched arm, and you said I<\/p>\n
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\nwe won’t transgress.
\nYes, on every high hill and <\/p>\n
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\nunder every green tree you
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\nharlots.
\nYou are nothing more the Lord, <\/p>\n
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\nsays Danny verse 23 than a a
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\nRunning here and there, you are
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\nIn other words, you are
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\nYou have been cast off.
\nYou have been given your <\/p>\n
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\nliberty, as Jeremiah 34 said.
\nYou have been proclaimed liberty<\/p>\n
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\nto the sword and the pestilence
\nand to the famine. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can go off and do what you
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\nbehave.
\nIf you don’t like my freedom, <\/p>\n
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\nthen you can go and find your
\nown. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there will be dramatic
\nconsequences as a result of <\/p>\n
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\nthat.
\nSomething has gone bad at the <\/p>\n
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\ncore of the nation.
\nWhat happens when there is <\/p>\n
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\nnobody who will serve?
\nWhat happens when liberty goes <\/p>\n
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\nwrong?
\nWell, it’s not as if God doesn’t<\/p>\n
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\nhave a solution.
\nAnd the Lord is going to raise <\/p>\n
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\nup another servant for them, who
\nwill raise up the tribe of <\/p>\n
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\nJacob, and bring it back the
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\nAnd we’re going to spend our
\nsession this morning, brothers <\/p>\n
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\nand sisters in.
\nThe prophecy of Isaiah in the <\/p>\n
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\naccount of the Servant songs,
\nwhich a number of us will have <\/p>\n
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\ntouched just briefly in our in
\nour reading groups right at the <\/p>\n
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\nbeginning of the week.
\nGoing to sit in Isaiah 40 <\/p>\n
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\nthrough 55, which is the section
\nabout the Servant prophecies. <\/p>\n
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\nJust trying to draw some
\ncontrast between those kind of <\/p>\n
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\nideas that that everything is
\ngoing wrong in the nation and <\/p>\n
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\nwhat God is doing as an
\nalternative. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, you may well know about
\nIsaiah’s Servant songs, but if <\/p>\n
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\nyou don’t and you’re not certain
\nof the references, there are 4 <\/p>\n
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\npassages in Isaiah 40 through to
\n55 which are separate from <\/p>\n
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\neverything else, and they’re
\ndescribed by by by commentators <\/p>\n
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\nand and scholars for for decades
\nabout the four servant songs of <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah.
\nThe 1st is chapter 42, verses <\/p>\n
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\none through 4.
\nThe second is chapter 49, verses<\/p>\n
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\none through 6.
\nThe third is chapter 50, verses <\/p>\n
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\n4 to 9, and the fourth and the
\nlongest and the most well known <\/p>\n
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\nof course, as well, begins in
\n5213 and runs through to the end<\/p>\n
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\nof Isaiah 53.
\nAnd in those chapters we meet 2 <\/p>\n
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\nservants. 1 is a national
\nservant who is given blessings <\/p>\n
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\nbeyond recognition, blessings
\nbeyond imagination, but who <\/p>\n
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\nturns away from the Father.
\nOne is an individual servant, <\/p>\n
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\nnot named, although we can
\nfigure out who it is fairly <\/p>\n
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\neasily, who does the will of his
\nfather, who chooses deliberately<\/p>\n
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\nto obey.
\nAnd those 4 passages within the <\/p>\n
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\nbroader span of chapters 40
\nthrough to 55 tell us of this, <\/p>\n
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\nthis individual servant, of his
\ncalling of his. <\/p>\n
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\nMission to the nation and to the
\nworld of his suffering at the <\/p>\n
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\nhands of others and of his death
\nand ultimate vindication that <\/p>\n
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\ncomes at the end of things and
\nhe’s. <\/p>\n
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\nPresented to us as a direct
\ncontrast from the nation. <\/p>\n
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\nFirst of all, you would meet
\nblind, deaf, unbelieving Israel,<\/p>\n
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\nthe rebellious nation given
\nphysical freedom by God, as <\/p>\n
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\nwe’ve seen in the Exodus, as
\nwe’ve seen in in Jeremiah <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 2.
\nBut who chooses spiritual <\/p>\n
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\nslavery to sin?
\nAnd it’s contrasted with a <\/p>\n
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\nfaithful individual, the humble
\nservant who freely chooses. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, I was going to say to to
\nbind himself to God’s will who <\/p>\n
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\nchooses to walk out to the cross
\nand give himself for his people.<\/p>\n
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\nSo how do we work out which is
\nwhich? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause we need to spend a bit
\nof time making sure we <\/p>\n
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\nunderstand what these verses
\ntell us. <\/p>\n
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\nCome to Isaiah’s prophecy,
\nbrothers and sisters, if you <\/p>\n
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\nhaven’t done already.
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\nwhether we can paint a broad
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\nbefore we drill down into the
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\ncouple of examples here, verses
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\nYou, Israel are my servant
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\nyou, you are my servant.
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\nand verse one, the first of
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\nThis is not talking about the
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\nBehold my servant, whom I uphold
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\ndelights.
\nRecognise those verses. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve got a hymn that that that
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\nSo the servants are chosen both
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\nLook back into 41 and verse 13.
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\ndifferent way.
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\nAgain, just contrast not with
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\nwalk through one or two of them
\nwith me. <\/p>\n
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\nspeaking now of the nation. <\/p>\n
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\nthee, inform thee from the womb,
\nwho will help thee. <\/p>\n
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\nFear not Jacob, my servant, and
\nthou Dashurin, whom I have <\/p>\n
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\nWhat does it say of the
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\nI’ll just put them up there for
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\nWell, looking to 42 and verse
\n19, just so you can see the <\/p>\n
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\nverse, who is blind but my
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\nthe Lord’s servant, seeing many
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\nBut thou observest not opening
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\nThey are formed from the womb.
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\n48 verse 8 as being a rebel from
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\nvery similar but who have
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\nAnd on each of the occasions
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\nseparate passages, who are <\/p>\n
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\ntelling us of the individual
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\nlive up to what was asked.
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\nhistory, you know your your <\/p>\n
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\nmodern history of Israel as a
\nnation as well. <\/p>\n
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\nThink about the way God has
\nworked with his people. <\/p>\n
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\nThink about the way in which he
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\nblots out their transgressions
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\nAnd yet Isaiah will make all
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\nnation, against the national
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\ncontrasts with what we’re told
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\nAnd again, it contrasts with
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\nhis, in his Father’s work, and
\nconscious of his influence. <\/p>\n
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\nobedience.
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\nverse 4 Israel are condemned for
\nnot pleasing. <\/p>\n
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\nthese different ways and in the <\/p>\n
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\nsong what the actual servant
\nbegins to understand. <\/p>\n
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\nas the songs become darker and <\/p>\n
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\nmore foreboding, the
\ncircumstances will change as we <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s not going to be all <\/p>\n
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\npressure will grow on God’s <\/p>\n
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\nThe physical abuse that will <\/p>\n
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\nchallenges. <\/p>\n
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\nsuffering comes and the <\/p>\n
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\noccurs, it seems as if <\/p>\n
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\neverything has broken down
\nagain. <\/p>\n
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\nOnly as that happens, God will
\nshow us the faith that His <\/p>\n
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\nincreasing measure. <\/p>\n
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\nsee in just a second. <\/p>\n
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\nin in song 2. <\/p>\n
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\nGod’s glory in the earth in a <\/p>\n
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\nway that the nation was never
\nable to be. <\/p>\n
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\nears open to his Master and <\/p>\n
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\nwhen we get to that song later <\/p>\n
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\nBut of glory in the future with <\/p>\n
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\nothers, which will keep him
\ngoing strong and will keep him <\/p>\n
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\nSo come to Isaiah 42, brothers <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to work our way <\/p>\n
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\nthrough all four of them at at a
\nfair old lick. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m afraid what I’m going to do
\nis just leave that on the screen<\/p>\n
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\nthere.
\nCan you? <\/p>\n
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\nYou can just about say it.
\nSorry, it’s a little bit dark. <\/p>\n
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\nAll of those are the references
\nfor the servants in these in <\/p>\n
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\nthese passages.
\nThe the N, the white text, if it<\/p>\n
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\nmakes any difference to you, is
\nthe national servant. <\/p>\n
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\nThe, the S is the the individual
\nservant. <\/p>\n
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\nawkward one that I think is <\/p>\n
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\neither, but they’re there if you
\nwant them and you can scribble <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re going to have a look at at<\/p>\n
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\nthe first song when you get
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nYou will notice something
\nsignificant because we’re not <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to hear what the servant
\nsays himself. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re we’re only going to hear
\nwhat the Lord says, what the <\/p>\n
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\nmaster says of his servant.
\nIt’s as if right at the <\/p>\n
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\nbeginning, we’re finding out
\nthat actions speak louder than <\/p>\n
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\nBehold my servant, whom I <\/p>\n
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\nuphold, mine elect, in whom my
\nsoul delights. <\/p>\n
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\nI have put my spirit upon him.
\nHe shall bring forth judgement <\/p>\n
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\nor justice to the Gentiles.
\nThere is something, something <\/p>\n
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\ntender about this servant.
\nHe’s he’s not a warrior, he’s <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s quiet and he’s gentle, but <\/p>\n
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\nhe has a character that will
\ninfluence others. <\/p>\n
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\nelect, in whom my soul delights.<\/p>\n
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\nI have put my spirit upon him.
\nThe emphasis is not on the <\/p>\n
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\nYet. <\/p>\n
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\nThe emphasis is on his master.
\nThe emphasis is on the one who <\/p>\n
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\nis calling him out.
\nIt’s almost as if the servant is<\/p>\n
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\nsurrendering to his master’s
\nwill already. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we’re going to see this as
\nit grows, as as we work our way <\/p>\n
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\nthrough.
\nHe’s the one in whom my soul <\/p>\n
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\ndelights.
\nIt’s it’s an echo. <\/p>\n
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\necho this when when we read of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Lord’s baptism.
\nYou are my son in whom I am well<\/p>\n
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\npleased.
\nYou are my son in whom I <\/p>\n
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\ndelight.
\nIt’s an identical expression, <\/p>\n
338
\n00:19:45,840 –> 00:19:48,400
\njust understanding what the
\nmaster thinks of his servant is.<\/p>\n
339
\n00:19:48,400 –> 00:19:52,040
\nIdentical to what the the Father
\nthinks of his son when he <\/p>\n
340
\n00:19:52,040 –> 00:19:53,560
\nsubmits to the waters of
\nbaptism. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:19:54,760 –> 00:19:59,080
\nYou won’t cry, you won’t lift
\nup, you won’t cause his voice to<\/p>\n
342
\n00:19:59,080 –> 00:20:03,040
\nbe heard in the street.
\nThis servant will carry on all <\/p>\n
343
\n00:20:03,040 –> 00:20:06,840
\nthe work of his master without
\nraising his voice. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:20:08,480 –> 00:20:12,440
\nHe’s not hysterical, although he
\nwill cause hysteria. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:20:13,400 –> 00:20:17,240
\nHe’s not attention seeking,
\nalthough people will spread his <\/p>\n
346
\n00:20:17,240 –> 00:20:21,320
\nname abroad.
\nHe’s not an advert for himself, <\/p>\n
347
\n00:20:22,080 –> 00:20:23,800
\nalthough attention will
\ncertainly come. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:20:24,320 –> 00:20:27,720
\nHe’s he’s not going to.
\nTo flaunt his accomplishments, <\/p>\n
349
\n00:20:27,920 –> 00:20:30,320
\nhis wealth, or his personal
\nachievements. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:20:30,320 –> 00:20:32,920
\nThis is a servant who is, as it
\nwere, going to take a step back <\/p>\n
351
\n00:20:34,160 –> 00:20:35,760
\nand leave all the focus on his
\nmaster. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:20:38,040 –> 00:20:40,160
\nVerse 3A.
\nBruised Reed shall he not break,<\/p>\n
353
\n00:20:41,040 –> 00:20:44,000
\nand the smoking flax shall he
\nnot quench. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:20:44,440 –> 00:20:47,280
\nHe shall bring forth judgement
\nunto truth. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:20:47,920 –> 00:20:50,360
\nHe shall not fail or be
\ndiscouraged until he has set <\/p>\n
356
\n00:20:50,360 –> 00:20:53,880
\njudgement in the earth, and the
\naisles will wait for his law. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:20:54,440 –> 00:20:58,320
\nThe The man who won’t break a
\nbruised Reed, the man who will <\/p>\n
358
\n00:20:58,320 –> 00:21:03,480
\nnot snuff out a faintly burning
\ncandle, is a man who fosters the<\/p>\n
359
\n00:21:03,480 –> 00:21:07,120
\ngood qualities in other people.
\nA man who is always looking for <\/p>\n
360
\n00:21:07,120 –> 00:21:09,920
\nthe positives and overlooking
\nfaults. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:21:10,520 –> 00:21:14,320
\nA man who spots the glimmering
\nideal of acceptable service and <\/p>\n
362
\n00:21:14,320 –> 00:21:17,920
\nfans it into flame and does not
\nmerely cover it over and snuff <\/p>\n
363
\n00:21:17,920 –> 00:21:21,800
\nit out.
\nThis is not a man who is a <\/p>\n
364
\n00:21:21,800 –> 00:21:24,800
\ngraduate of the Putin or the
\nTrump school of democracy. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:21:26,320 –> 00:21:27,960
\nThis is somebody altogether
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:21:27,960 –> 00:21:31,640
\nHe is so far from from smashing
\nthe mighty that he won’t break <\/p>\n
367
\n00:21:31,640 –> 00:21:33,800
\noff the Reed that is cracked,
\nbut will straighten it and <\/p>\n
368
\n00:21:33,800 –> 00:21:38,120
\nsupport it.
\nThis is a man who is so open to <\/p>\n
369
\n00:21:38,440 –> 00:21:41,520
\nto to fanning that flame again
\nthat rather than sniffing it <\/p>\n
370
\n00:21:41,520 –> 00:21:46,000
\nout, he will support it.
\nAnd until it’s wig his his <\/p>\n
371
\n00:21:46,000 –> 00:21:48,480
\nanswer.
\nTo the oppressors of the world. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:21:48,680 –> 00:21:52,240
\nIs not more oppression his
\nanswer to the arrogance in the <\/p>\n
373
\n00:21:52,240 –> 00:21:53,880
\nworld?
\nIs not shouting it down with <\/p>\n
374
\n00:21:53,880 –> 00:21:59,120
\nmore arrogance, but in quietness
\nand in humility and in <\/p>\n
375
\n00:21:59,120 –> 00:22:02,320
\nsimplicity.
\nHe will bear all the evil <\/p>\n
376
\n00:22:02,320 –> 00:22:08,160
\nhimself and return only grace.
\nThat’s power. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:22:09,720 –> 00:22:12,800
\nPower in a velvet glove, maybe,
\nbut that’s power. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:22:14,840 –> 00:22:16,320
\nNow with that kind of
\nintroduction, brothers and <\/p>\n
379
\n00:22:16,320 –> 00:22:18,600
\nsisters, don’t you want to hear
\nwhat the servant has to say for <\/p>\n
380
\n00:22:18,600 –> 00:22:28,950
\nhimself?
\nCome to chapter 49 because the <\/p>\n
381
\n00:22:28,950 –> 00:22:30,630
\ntone of the second song is a
\nlittle different. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:22:31,670 –> 00:22:36,390
\nIt’s more personal now, and
\nwe’re learning just almost <\/p>\n
383
\n00:22:36,710 –> 00:22:39,150
\nunconsciously, that the
\nrelationship is not just one <\/p>\n
384
\n00:22:39,150 –> 00:22:45,110
\nbetween a servant and a master,
\nbut between a son and a father. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:22:46,830 –> 00:22:49,270
\nThis no whiles unto me, and
\nhearken ye people from far. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:22:49,270 –> 00:22:52,440
\nThe Lord has called me from the
\nwomb, from the bowels of my <\/p>\n
387
\n00:22:52,440 –> 00:22:54,160
\nmother.
\nHe’s made mention of my name. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:22:54,160 –> 00:22:57,440
\nThere is a bit more personal
\nundertone to this. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:22:57,760 –> 00:23:00,160
\nWith my mouth.
\nHe’s made my mouth like a sharp <\/p>\n
390
\n00:23:00,160 –> 00:23:02,600
\nsword.
\nIn the shadow of his hand He’s <\/p>\n
391
\n00:23:02,600 –> 00:23:06,040
\nhidden me and made me a polished
\nshaft in his quiver. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:23:06,040 –> 00:23:09,680
\nHe’s hidden me and said to me,
\nYou are my servant, O Israel, in<\/p>\n
393
\n00:23:09,680 –> 00:23:13,440
\nwhom I will be glorified.
\nGod has made the servant who he <\/p>\n
394
\n00:23:13,440 –> 00:23:14,880
\nis.
\nIt’s not him. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:23:14,880 –> 00:23:16,880
\nSeeing it as his inherent
\nability. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:23:17,280 –> 00:23:20,360
\nIf I can extend this, this is
\nnot a pre existent Christ who <\/p>\n
397
\n00:23:20,360 –> 00:23:22,240
\nhas already got abilities to do
\nthings. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:23:22,240 –> 00:23:25,160
\nThis is somebody given something
\nby his master and God has <\/p>\n
399
\n00:23:25,160 –> 00:23:30,000
\nprepared him and hidden him and
\nprotected him and made him ready<\/p>\n
400
\n00:23:30,000 –> 00:23:31,640
\nfor the moment when he will come
\nforth. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:23:31,800 –> 00:23:36,920
\nHe’s an arrow in a quiver,
\nprepared and ready for that <\/p>\n
402
\n00:23:36,920 –> 00:23:41,320
\nmoment when he’s required.
\nVerse three he said to me, You <\/p>\n
403
\n00:23:41,320 –> 00:23:45,760
\nare my servant, O Israel, in
\nwhom I will be glorified in <\/p>\n
404
\n00:23:45,760 –> 00:23:48,280
\nother.
\nWords, this servant will <\/p>\n
405
\n00:23:48,280 –> 00:23:51,360
\nfunction as Israel.
\nThis isn’t a verse talking about<\/p>\n
406
\n00:23:51,360 –> 00:23:53,520
\nthe nation, it’s a verse talking
\nabout the individual servant. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:23:53,720 –> 00:23:55,360
\nThis servant will function as
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:23:55,480 –> 00:23:57,600
\nHe will be the Israel that
\nIsrael never was. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:24:00,240 –> 00:24:02,960
\nAnd Matthew’s gospel will will
\nget hold of all of these ideas <\/p>\n
410
\n00:24:02,960 –> 00:24:07,360
\nwhen he describes the Lord Jesus
\nas a new Israel, which is a <\/p>\n
411
\n00:24:07,360 –> 00:24:09,160
\nwhole of the Bible school.
\nSo we can do that in a few years<\/p>\n
412
\n00:24:09,160 –> 00:24:11,560
\ntime maybe, who knows?
\nBut what he’s talking about here<\/p>\n
413
\n00:24:11,560 –> 00:24:14,920
\nis the way in which this man
\nwill be the new Israel. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:24:15,040 –> 00:24:18,600
\nGod will not wipe out the the
\nnation because of his failure, <\/p>\n
415
\n00:24:18,760 –> 00:24:21,960
\nbut will simply introduce
\nanother way in which servanthood<\/p>\n
416
\n00:24:21,960 –> 00:24:25,040
\nwill be represented in the earth
\nthrough one who will be the <\/p>\n
417
\n00:24:25,040 –> 00:24:28,280
\nvehicle of God’s glory before
\nall people. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:24:30,360 –> 00:24:34,080
\nAnd it will bring us to our
\nknees in in admiration I’ve <\/p>\n
419
\n00:24:34,080 –> 00:24:38,160
\nlaboured in vain, he says.
\nI’ve spent my strength for <\/p>\n
420
\n00:24:38,160 –> 00:24:41,640
\nnothing and in vain.
\nThis is a servant who is. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:24:42,720 –> 00:24:46,640
\nWho is not perfect, by which I
\nmean he is not absolutely <\/p>\n
422
\n00:24:46,960 –> 00:24:48,880
\nconfident of everything that
\nwill come. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:24:49,240 –> 00:24:50,840
\nPerfect is perhaps the wrong
\nword to use. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:24:51,000 –> 00:24:54,200
\nThis is a man who is, who is
\nconscious that that he is going <\/p>\n
425
\n00:24:54,200 –> 00:24:55,480
\nto struggle, he is going to
\nsuffer. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:24:55,480 –> 00:24:58,360
\nThere will be hard nights.
\nThis is a man who will be up all<\/p>\n
427
\n00:24:58,360 –> 00:25:00,280
\nnight in prayer, worrying
\nsometimes. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:25:00,520 –> 00:25:03,000
\nWhat do I do Lord?
\nDo I stay here and heal, or do I<\/p>\n
429
\n00:25:03,000 –> 00:25:06,600
\ngo on and preach the gospel?
\nAnd we see that, don’t we, time <\/p>\n
430
\n00:25:06,600 –> 00:25:10,200
\nafter time in the Gospels where
\nthe Lord is, is almost between <\/p>\n
431
\n00:25:10,200 –> 00:25:12,920
\n2:00, between two stalls, and
\nboth are right. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:25:12,920 –> 00:25:15,760
\nStaying and healing is right.
\nGoing on and preaching is right.<\/p>\n
433
\n00:25:16,480 –> 00:25:20,840
\nWhat do I do, Lord?
\nHow do I work it out, Lord? <\/p>\n
434
\n00:25:21,160 –> 00:25:23,600
\nI’ve laboured in vain, Lord.
\nIt’s tiring, Lord. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:25:24,080 –> 00:25:29,080
\nI keep saying this stuff, Lord,
\nand they don’t listen to me. 120<\/p>\n
436
\n00:25:29,080 –> 00:25:36,120
\npeople in that upper room in
\nActs chapter. 120 people after 3<\/p>\n
437
\n00:25:36,120 –> 00:25:38,240
\n1\/2 years of the greatest
\npreaching campaign on the <\/p>\n
438
\n00:25:38,240 –> 00:25:42,520
\nhistory of the Earth.
\nI don’t listen to me, Lord, I’ve<\/p>\n
439
\n00:25:42,560 –> 00:25:45,080
\nlaboured in vain and spent my
\nstrength for nothing. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:25:46,120 –> 00:25:49,440
\nThe Lord doesn’t know.
\nSometimes I think the best way <\/p>\n
441
\n00:25:49,440 –> 00:25:52,920
\nto go on, which is why he puts
\nall of his trust in his father. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:25:53,200 –> 00:25:57,080
\nThis is a man almost overwhelmed
\nby the amount of work that is <\/p>\n
443
\n00:25:57,080 –> 00:26:01,200
\ncoming upon him, as if when he
\nsays that the fields are white <\/p>\n
444
\n00:26:01,200 –> 00:26:05,200
\nunder harvest but the labourers
\nare few, he knows exactly what <\/p>\n
445
\n00:26:05,200 –> 00:26:07,480
\nhe’s talking about.
\nAnd what’s the master’s <\/p>\n
446
\n00:26:07,480 –> 00:26:09,120
\nresponse?
\nWhat’s the Father’s response to <\/p>\n
447
\n00:26:09,120 –> 00:26:11,200
\nthis individual servant’s
\nconcern? <\/p>\n
448
\n00:26:12,080 –> 00:26:15,480
\nWell my son, you think it’s
\nhard? <\/p>\n
449
\n00:26:15,480 –> 00:26:18,640
\nNow I’m going to give you more
\nwork to do. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:26:21,840 –> 00:26:24,360
\nMiddle of verse 5.
\nThough Israel is not gathered <\/p>\n
451
\n00:26:24,360 –> 00:26:27,840
\nyet, I will be glorious in the
\neyes of my Lord, and my God will<\/p>\n
452
\n00:26:27,840 –> 00:26:30,920
\nbe my strength.
\nAnd he said, It is a light <\/p>\n
453
\n00:26:30,920 –> 00:26:33,920
\nthing, that thou should this be
\nmy servant, to raise up the <\/p>\n
454
\n00:26:33,920 –> 00:26:36,640
\ntribes of Jacob, and to restore
\nthe preserved of Israel. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:26:36,880 –> 00:26:40,760
\nI will also give thee for a
\nlight to the Gentiles, that thou<\/p>\n
456
\n00:26:40,760 –> 00:26:43,200
\nmayest be my salvation.
\nTo the ends of the earth. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:26:44,680 –> 00:26:47,920
\nYou think it’s hard now?
\nWell, this is a message which is<\/p>\n
458
\n00:26:47,920 –> 00:26:52,360
\ngoing even further, even harder.
\nAnd, and this will be the <\/p>\n
459
\n00:26:52,360 –> 00:26:55,080
\nservant who will be God’s
\nvehicle for his glory in all <\/p>\n
460
\n00:26:55,080 –> 00:26:58,720
\nways.
\nA light. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:26:58,720 –> 00:27:00,880
\nThing to do the work that he
\ndid. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:27:01,320 –> 00:27:04,080
\nBut you will be my salvation to
\nthe ends of the earth. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:27:04,080 –> 00:27:07,880
\nAnd Simeon will pick this up
\nand, and Anna will pick this up <\/p>\n
464
\n00:27:07,880 –> 00:27:10,680
\nwhen the Lord is brought to the
\ntemple, when he’s when he’s just<\/p>\n
465
\n00:27:10,680 –> 00:27:13,640
\neight days old.
\nAnd, and see in this baby boy, <\/p>\n
466
\n00:27:13,640 –> 00:27:16,360
\nthe servant that God was
\nbringing forth before his <\/p>\n
467
\n00:27:16,360 –> 00:27:19,160
\npeople.
\nPsalm #3 chapter 50. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:27:24,770 –> 00:27:29,010
\nAnd the intensity just begins to
\ndeepen and just begins to <\/p>\n
469
\n00:27:29,010 –> 00:27:31,570
\nchange.
\nBecause as the tasks of the <\/p>\n
470
\n00:27:31,570 –> 00:27:35,560
\nservant increase.
\nSo to the care of his master <\/p>\n
471
\n00:27:35,560 –> 00:27:38,600
\nincreases.
\nSong one shows us about how the <\/p>\n
472
\n00:27:38,600 –> 00:27:43,120
\nservant learns patience.
\nSong 2 shows us how he becomes <\/p>\n
473
\n00:27:43,120 –> 00:27:48,360
\nstrong Despite that weariness.
\nSong 3 is going to show us how <\/p>\n
474
\n00:27:48,360 –> 00:27:50,640
\nhe can be steadfast in the face
\nof abuse. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:27:51,720 –> 00:27:55,000
\nSong 4 will show us how he can
\nbe courageous in the face of <\/p>\n
476
\n00:27:55,000 –> 00:27:59,680
\ndeath.
\nAnd he can do it only and only <\/p>\n
477
\n00:27:59,680 –> 00:28:02,240
\nbecause his master is there
\nbeside him. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:28:02,840 –> 00:28:06,960
\nHe will uphold his servant song
\n#1, He will strengthen his <\/p>\n
479
\n00:28:06,960 –> 00:28:12,360
\nservant song #2, He will protect
\nhis servant against hostility, <\/p>\n
480
\n00:28:13,200 –> 00:28:18,840
\nsong #3, and he will redeem and
\nrestore his servant in song #4. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:28:19,440 –> 00:28:22,880
\nJust look at some of the power
\nin these words, Isaiah 50 and <\/p>\n
482
\n00:28:22,880 –> 00:28:25,320
\nverse 4.
\nThe Lord God has given me the <\/p>\n
483
\n00:28:25,320 –> 00:28:28,120
\ntongue of the learned four times
\nin this song where you’re going <\/p>\n
484
\n00:28:28,120 –> 00:28:34,000
\nto see a specific title for the
\nLord Adonai Yahweh, my Master <\/p>\n
485
\n00:28:34,200 –> 00:28:37,120
\nYahweh.
\nThis is a servant who realises <\/p>\n
486
\n00:28:37,120 –> 00:28:41,920
\nwho the master is, almost as if
\nin some sense the battle has now<\/p>\n
487
\n00:28:41,920 –> 00:28:46,560
\nbeen won, the struggle against
\nhimself has now been overcome, <\/p>\n
488
\n00:28:46,880 –> 00:28:48,760
\nthe battle that takes place in
\nGethsemane. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:28:49,240 –> 00:28:50,800
\nCan you take this cut from me,
\nLord? <\/p>\n
490
\n00:28:52,320 –> 00:28:56,080
\nNo.
\nAnd you therefore are my master <\/p>\n
491
\n00:28:57,000 –> 00:28:59,640
\nand my sovereign.
\nThe Lord God has given me the <\/p>\n
492
\n00:28:59,640 –> 00:29:01,720
\ntongue of the learned, that I
\nshould know how to speak a word <\/p>\n
493
\n00:29:01,720 –> 00:29:06,720
\nin season to him who is weary.
\nHe awakens morning by morning <\/p>\n
494
\n00:29:07,360 –> 00:29:09,480
\nawakens my ear.
\nTo the learned. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:29:09,480 –> 00:29:12,720
\nThe Lord God has opened my ear.
\nThere’s the second phrase, the <\/p>\n
496
\n00:29:12,720 –> 00:29:16,880
\nsecond time that occurs, and I
\nwas not rebellious and I didn’t <\/p>\n
497
\n00:29:16,880 –> 00:29:19,120
\nturn away my back.
\nIsn’t it interesting? <\/p>\n
498
\n00:29:19,120 –> 00:29:25,680
\nYou know he hears and then he
\nspeaks and he can only speak. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:29:26,480 –> 00:29:30,680
\nBecause he’s been listening,
\nwhich might be a little <\/p>\n
500
\n00:29:30,680 –> 00:29:34,440
\nexcitation for you and I in the
\nway we speak forth words before <\/p>\n
501
\n00:29:34,440 –> 00:29:37,880
\nGod.
\nDiscipleship needs lingering. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:29:38,520 –> 00:29:40,920
\nYou and I live in a world that
\nconnects progress with <\/p>\n
503
\n00:29:40,920 –> 00:29:44,280
\nefficiency.
\nThe quicker we get stuff done, <\/p>\n
504
\n00:29:44,720 –> 00:29:46,440
\nthe more time we have for other
\nthings. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:29:46,760 –> 00:29:50,960
\nTechnology brings more
\nefficiency, and yet efficiency <\/p>\n
506
\n00:29:50,960 –> 00:29:54,880
\nmeans slowing down is difficult.
\nOurs is a faith where we need to<\/p>\n
507
\n00:29:54,880 –> 00:29:58,080
\nlinger.
\nWe need to linger in prayer with<\/p>\n
508
\n00:29:58,080 –> 00:30:00,200
\nour Heavenly Father.
\nWe need to linger in <\/p>\n
509
\n00:30:00,200 –> 00:30:03,480
\nconversations with each other.
\nWe need to linger in fellowship <\/p>\n
510
\n00:30:03,480 –> 00:30:06,200
\nwhen our ecclesia gathers.
\nWe need to linger with our <\/p>\n
511
\n00:30:06,200 –> 00:30:09,160
\nchildren when the Word is open
\nbefore us and we talk about <\/p>\n
512
\n00:30:09,160 –> 00:30:11,720
\nthings and not just move on to
\nthe next thing. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:30:13,000 –> 00:30:15,120
\nThere are challenges there
\nbecause everything is always <\/p>\n
514
\n00:30:15,120 –> 00:30:17,600
\npulling us at every direction
\nall of the time. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:30:17,880 –> 00:30:21,040
\nAnd yet here is the one who
\nsays, come unto me, all ye who <\/p>\n
516
\n00:30:21,040 –> 00:30:23,880
\nare weary, and I will give you
\nrest. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:30:25,240 –> 00:30:29,800
\nSo the Lord God has opened his
\near, and he’s not rebellious. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:30:29,800 –> 00:30:32,440
\nThis is the servant, isn’t it,
\nof Exodus Chapter 21 that we <\/p>\n
519
\n00:30:32,440 –> 00:30:35,120
\nlooked at yesterday and some of
\nyou were going, well, he hasn’t <\/p>\n
520
\n00:30:35,120 –> 00:30:37,280
\nfinished the story here because
\nthere’s an awful lot more to be <\/p>\n
521
\n00:30:37,280 –> 00:30:38,880
\nsaid of this servant.
\nAnd here it is. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:30:39,240 –> 00:30:43,280
\nThis is the servant’s pledge of
\nloyalty, forever in his master’s<\/p>\n
523
\n00:30:43,280 –> 00:30:46,000
\nhouse.
\nThe ear of the servant is now <\/p>\n
524
\n00:30:46,000 –> 00:30:49,680
\nsymbolically open, forever
\nbecause he’s committed himself <\/p>\n
525
\n00:30:49,920 –> 00:30:52,040
\nto the work that his father
\ncalled him to do. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:30:53,320 –> 00:30:55,920
\nRemember how Exodus 21?
\nRuns when When servants love <\/p>\n
527
\n00:30:55,920 –> 00:30:59,880
\ntheir masters, they commit
\nlifelong service to them rather <\/p>\n
528
\n00:30:59,880 –> 00:31:03,080
\nthan walking away.
\nThat’s what true freedom looks <\/p>\n
529
\n00:31:03,080 –> 00:31:05,000
\nlike.
\nThat’s what that servant of <\/p>\n
530
\n00:31:05,000 –> 00:31:07,640
\nExodus 21 enacted.
\nAnd that’s what the Lord is <\/p>\n
531
\n00:31:07,640 –> 00:31:11,680
\ndoing here.
\nBut you remember how Exodus 21 <\/p>\n
532
\n00:31:11,680 –> 00:31:18,440
\nwent on to say, not just I love
\nmy master, but I love my master,<\/p>\n
533
\n00:31:19,120 –> 00:31:23,640
\nmy wife and my children, and I
\nwill not go out free. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:31:24,480 –> 00:31:26,880
\nHe doesn’t just stay in the
\nhouse because he loves his <\/p>\n
535
\n00:31:26,880 –> 00:31:30,240
\nmaster.
\nHe stays in the house because he<\/p>\n
536
\n00:31:30,240 –> 00:31:33,160
\nhas family there.
\nThis is a servant who is <\/p>\n
537
\n00:31:33,160 –> 00:31:37,880
\nmotivated by other people.
\nThis is a man who is going to be<\/p>\n
538
\n00:31:37,880 –> 00:31:41,040
\nglorified, that he might bring
\nmany sons to glory. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:31:42,040 –> 00:31:44,760
\nNot just that he might be made
\nimmortal in some grand <\/p>\n
540
\n00:31:44,760 –> 00:31:48,440
\nmythological way and sit on a
\nthrone and rule the empires, but<\/p>\n
541
\n00:31:48,440 –> 00:31:53,600
\nthat he might be the head of the
\nbody and be in the Kingdom and <\/p>\n
542
\n00:31:53,600 –> 00:31:56,160
\nshare the Kingdom with those who
\nare of faith as well. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:31:57,320 –> 00:32:00,840
\nSo he says, I love my master
\nGod. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:32:01,400 –> 00:32:08,280
\nI love my work, Israel, I love
\nmy children, the Gentiles, and I<\/p>\n
545
\n00:32:08,280 –> 00:32:12,360
\nwill not go out free.
\nI will commit myself to the <\/p>\n
546
\n00:32:12,360 –> 00:32:14,320
\n’cause that my Father has given
\nme. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:32:14,320 –> 00:32:19,320
\nEven though they will smite me
\non the back, verse 6, even <\/p>\n
548
\n00:32:19,320 –> 00:32:21,800
\nthough they will pluck off my
\nbeard, even though they will <\/p>\n
549
\n00:32:21,800 –> 00:32:27,440
\nshame me and spit at me, I have
\nset my face like a Flint and I <\/p>\n
550
\n00:32:27,440 –> 00:32:29,880
\nwill not be confounded.
\nIt’s the words from Luke Chapter<\/p>\n
551
\n00:32:29,880 –> 00:32:31,480
\n9, isn’t it?
\nWhen the Lord sets his face to <\/p>\n
552
\n00:32:31,480 –> 00:32:34,880
\ngo to Jerusalem, He’s he’s, he’s
\ntelling us to go to this verse <\/p>\n
553
\n00:32:37,080 –> 00:32:39,680
\nbecause he set his face like a
\nFlint after the transfiguration <\/p>\n
554
\n00:32:39,680 –> 00:32:42,520
\nand will go like he’s carved out
\nof granite and will go to <\/p>\n
555
\n00:32:42,520 –> 00:32:45,280
\nJerusalem and offer himself.
\nCome on to the fourth song, <\/p>\n
556
\n00:32:46,520 –> 00:32:52,160
\nchapter 52 and verse 13.
\nYou understand how I say that <\/p>\n
557
\n00:32:52,160 –> 00:32:54,880
\nthings begin to get darker and
\nharder as the songs move <\/p>\n
558
\n00:32:54,880 –> 00:32:58,800
\nforward?
\nHow things just become a more <\/p>\n
559
\n00:32:58,800 –> 00:33:02,200
\ncomplicated and and more more
\nchallenging for him. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:33:02,200 –> 00:33:03,720
\nEven here the Hebrew is
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:33:03,800 –> 00:33:06,680
\nThe Hebrew is is less
\nrhythmical, it’s more wrenched. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:33:06,680 –> 00:33:08,320
\nThere are fewer words being
\nused. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:33:08,560 –> 00:33:11,600
\nIt’s almost as if somebody who
\nis under under pressure is <\/p>\n
564
\n00:33:11,600 –> 00:33:14,080
\nfalling back on a vocabulary
\nthat is very limited. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:33:14,080 –> 00:33:17,360
\nTo them, because that’s what.
\nYou and I do when we’re under <\/p>\n
566
\n00:33:17,360 –> 00:33:20,880
\npressure or the the
\nparaphernalia around the edges <\/p>\n
567
\n00:33:20,880 –> 00:33:23,160
\ndisappears and we just.
\nFall back on who we really are. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:33:24,040 –> 00:33:28,040
\nThat’s what this servant will do
\nas well. 52 and verse 13 Behold,<\/p>\n
569
\n00:33:28,040 –> 00:33:34,160
\nmy servant shall deal prudently.
\nHe will be exalted and extolled,<\/p>\n
570
\n00:33:35,040 –> 00:33:38,160
\nand be very high.
\nAs many as were astonished at <\/p>\n
571
\n00:33:38,160 –> 00:33:41,840
\nthe His visage was so marred
\nmore than any man, and He’s four<\/p>\n
572
\n00:33:41,840 –> 00:33:45,400
\nmore than the sons of men, So He
\nshall sprinkle many nations. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:33:45,400 –> 00:33:47,080
\nKings will shut their mouths at
\nhim. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:33:47,320 –> 00:33:50,120
\nFor that which had not been told
\nthem they shall see, and that <\/p>\n
575
\n00:33:50,120 –> 00:33:53,640
\nwhich they had not heard they
\nshall consider something about. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:33:53,640 –> 00:33:56,040
\nThis man that drew the eye for
\nall the wrong reasons. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:33:57,520 –> 00:34:00,240
\nWho could have believed that
\nwhen the Lord bared his holy <\/p>\n
578
\n00:34:00,240 –> 00:34:06,400
\narm, it would look like this?
\nSomeone who was scarred and <\/p>\n
579
\n00:34:06,400 –> 00:34:08,480
\nbattered by 3 1\/2 years of
\nministry. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:34:09,000 –> 00:34:12,400
\nSomebody who looked more than 50
\nwhen he was only 30 years old. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:34:12,600 –> 00:34:15,679
\nSomeone who would had all those
\nsleepless nights in prayer to <\/p>\n
582
\n00:34:15,679 –> 00:34:17,800
\nhis Father.
\nSomeone who had sweated great <\/p>\n
583
\n00:34:17,800 –> 00:34:20,679
\ndrops of blood in Gethsemane,
\nwho had been beaten by the <\/p>\n
584
\n00:34:20,679 –> 00:34:26,760
\nsoldiers, who looked not like a
\nsaviour, and who was going to be<\/p>\n
585
\n00:34:26,760 –> 00:34:28,199
\nlet out to die like a common
\ncriminal. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:34:28,199 –> 00:34:32,400
\nWho could have believed that
\nwhen God bared his holy arm, it <\/p>\n
587
\n00:34:32,400 –> 00:34:39,760
\nwould look like this servant?
\nService takes its toll on this <\/p>\n
588
\n00:34:39,760 –> 00:34:43,400
\nservant.
\nAnd when verse 14 says that his <\/p>\n
589
\n00:34:43,400 –> 00:34:47,000
\nvisage was more marred than any
\nman, it’s word that comes from <\/p>\n
590
\n00:34:47,000 –> 00:34:48,960
\nLeviticus 22.
\nYou may have a note in your <\/p>\n
591
\n00:34:48,960 –> 00:34:50,840
\nmargin.
\nIt’s it’s to describe something <\/p>\n
592
\n00:34:50,840 –> 00:34:55,159
\nrejected for sacrifice, as if to
\nsay you would not have picked <\/p>\n
593
\n00:34:55,159 –> 00:34:58,120
\nthis man to be your saviour if
\nyou looked at him on the <\/p>\n
594
\n00:34:58,120 –> 00:35:03,200
\noutside.
\nVerse 1 of chapter 53 or verse <\/p>\n
595
\n00:35:03,200 –> 00:35:07,560
\n2, He shall.
\nGrow up before him as a tender <\/p>\n
596
\n00:35:07,560 –> 00:35:09,360
\nplant and as a root out of dry
\nground. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:35:09,360 –> 00:35:12,840
\nHe’s got no formal comeliness,
\nand when we shall see him there <\/p>\n
598
\n00:35:12,840 –> 00:35:16,600
\nis no beauty that we should
\ndesire him here is. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:35:17,240 –> 00:35:21,000
\nAbraham and Isaac coming to
\nMoriah, go to the mountain and <\/p>\n
600
\n00:35:21,000 –> 00:35:22,640
\noffer him on a place I will tell
\nthee of. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:35:23,240 –> 00:35:26,640
\nHere is the vineyard mismanaged
\nby Jewish husbandmen. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:35:26,960 –> 00:35:30,240
\nWhat more could I do for my
\nvineyard, says the owner. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:35:30,480 –> 00:35:34,320
\nI will send my son.
\nHere is Hezekiah growing up in <\/p>\n
604
\n00:35:34,320 –> 00:35:38,880
\nhis father’s wicked reign.
\nHere is Moses in Egypt, with the<\/p>\n
605
\n00:35:38,880 –> 00:35:42,200
\ntemptation of all the treasures
\nand the wisdom of that land, and<\/p>\n
606
\n00:35:42,200 –> 00:35:44,320
\nchoosing to go into those
\nexoduses, out into the <\/p>\n
607
\n00:35:44,320 –> 00:35:46,600
\nwilderness, and come back to
\nlead his people. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:35:48,640 –> 00:35:53,360
\nThere is Paul in the Roman world
\nthat persecuted him, surrounded <\/p>\n
609
\n00:35:53,360 –> 00:35:55,720
\nby brothers and sisters who
\nmistrusted him. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:35:57,440 –> 00:36:03,480
\nHere is God’s care for us when
\nwe stand up for truth in a world<\/p>\n
611
\n00:36:03,480 –> 00:36:07,120
\nthat doesn’t want to hear it, in
\na world that says if you feel <\/p>\n
612
\n00:36:07,120 –> 00:36:11,480
\nit, then it must be true.
\nHere is the way the Lord looks <\/p>\n
613
\n00:36:11,480 –> 00:36:14,080
\nafter us, no?
\nForm or comeliness, that we <\/p>\n
614
\n00:36:14,080 –> 00:36:18,600
\nshould desire him no beauty, but
\nwhen we should see him no beauty<\/p>\n
615
\n00:36:18,600 –> 00:36:23,560
\nthat we should desire him.
\nWas the spiritual aura of this <\/p>\n
616
\n00:36:23,560 –> 00:36:26,960
\nman that drew the attention.
\nHe wasn’t head and shoulders <\/p>\n
617
\n00:36:26,960 –> 00:36:28,720
\nabove everybody else.
\nThis wasn’t King Saul. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:36:28,720 –> 00:36:31,440
\nThis wasn’t a kingship based on
\nexternal appearances. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:36:33,040 –> 00:36:35,600
\nThis was something on the
\ninside, which of course was <\/p>\n
620
\n00:36:35,600 –> 00:36:39,840
\nwhen, why when the message got
\ntoo much, everybody turned away.<\/p>\n
621
\n00:36:41,120 –> 00:36:43,400
\nBecause he doesn’t look like a
\nleader, doesn’t look like <\/p>\n
622
\n00:36:43,400 –> 00:36:45,600
\nsomebody that could carry you
\nout and and and throw out the <\/p>\n
623
\n00:36:45,600 –> 00:36:47,640
\nRomans.
\nVerse 3. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:36:48,000 –> 00:36:50,800
\nHe is despised and rejected of
\nmen, a man of sorrows, and <\/p>\n
625
\n00:36:50,800 –> 00:36:55,200
\nacquainted with grief, and we
\nhid, as it were, our faces from <\/p>\n
626
\n00:36:55,200 –> 00:36:58,120
\nhim.
\nHere’s the greatest sacrifice <\/p>\n
627
\n00:36:58,160 –> 00:37:01,720
\nfor the Servant.
\nOf all things, because the <\/p>\n
628
\n00:37:01,720 –> 00:37:04,880
\ncondemnation on this man was
\nthat he was to be utterly, <\/p>\n
629
\n00:37:05,320 –> 00:37:13,280
\nutterly alone in a society built
\non community, his call was to be<\/p>\n
630
\n00:37:13,280 –> 00:37:17,040
\nan absolutely isolating 1.
\nThat’s why leprosy language runs<\/p>\n
631
\n00:37:17,040 –> 00:37:19,800
\nall the way through Isaiah 53,
\nbecause we’re reading about <\/p>\n
632
\n00:37:19,800 –> 00:37:22,440
\nsomebody who was cast out.
\nWe’re reading about somebody who<\/p>\n
633
\n00:37:22,440 –> 00:37:26,920
\nwas put outside the camp.
\nWe’re reading about somebody who<\/p>\n
634
\n00:37:27,600 –> 00:37:32,720
\nwas seen as being unclean in a
\nmost hideous and ironic way. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:37:33,160 –> 00:37:35,760
\nHe would have to be completely
\nisolated. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:37:37,680 –> 00:37:40,400
\nAnd it puts those parables in
\nthe Gospels into a new light, <\/p>\n
637
\n00:37:40,400 –> 00:37:43,200
\ndoesn’t it?
\nWhen the Lord heals the lepers, <\/p>\n
638
\n00:37:43,880 –> 00:37:50,520
\nwhen he sees Legion amongst the
\nrocks chained, the chains have <\/p>\n
639
\n00:37:50,520 –> 00:37:53,000
\nbeen broken and yet still he
\nneeds healing. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:37:54,160 –> 00:37:55,640
\nAnd we finish off with that
\naccount with. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:37:55,640 –> 00:37:59,080
\nLegion sat at the Lord’s feet,
\nhealed and in his right mind. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:37:59,280 –> 00:38:04,800
\nBecause the Lord looks at that
\nman and sees himself, the <\/p>\n
643
\n00:38:04,800 –> 00:38:08,920
\nservant who had a calling and
\ncan do nothing else but reach <\/p>\n
644
\n00:38:08,920 –> 00:38:13,200
\nout and heal in mark one, when
\nthe Lord does have that dilemma,<\/p>\n
645
\n00:38:13,360 –> 00:38:15,800
\nwhen he goes to his father in
\nprayer and says, what do I do, <\/p>\n
646
\n00:38:15,800 –> 00:38:16,880
\nLord?
\nDo I stay here and heal? <\/p>\n
647
\n00:38:16,880 –> 00:38:19,720
\nDo I go on and preach?
\nHe goes on and preaches because <\/p>\n
648
\n00:38:19,720 –> 00:38:22,080
\nthat’s the that’s the command
\nthat seems to come. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:38:22,080 –> 00:38:25,320
\nBut there is one person who
\nchanges his, his direction, one <\/p>\n
650
\n00:38:25,320 –> 00:38:27,520
\nat the end of mark 1, and it’s
\nthe leper who comes to him. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:38:27,840 –> 00:38:31,680
\nAnd again, the Lord sees the man
\nlike himself, the isolated man, <\/p>\n
652
\n00:38:32,200 –> 00:38:36,600
\nand turns things around, even
\nthough so many of the others <\/p>\n
653
\n00:38:36,840 –> 00:38:40,720
\nwere indifferent to their fate,
\neven though so many enslaved <\/p>\n
654
\n00:38:40,720 –> 00:38:43,560
\nsocieties over the years had
\nbeen mistreated, because the <\/p>\n
655
\n00:38:43,640 –> 00:38:45,800
\npeople were indifferent to their
\nconsequences. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:38:47,040 –> 00:38:52,400
\nAnd when Isaiah says we hid, as
\nit were, our faces from him, it <\/p>\n
657
\n00:38:52,400 –> 00:38:55,480
\nimplies that they just didn’t
\ncare. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:38:57,120 –> 00:39:00,840
\nThere is an indifference
\nunderlying that phrase. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:39:03,120 –> 00:39:05,400
\nLike we said, 120 people in that
\nupper room. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:39:06,080 –> 00:39:09,520
\nAfter all the work that the Lord
\ndid, pouring himself out day <\/p>\n
661
\n00:39:09,520 –> 00:39:13,640
\nafter day, and when verse 8 says
\nwho shall declare his <\/p>\n
662
\n00:39:13,640 –> 00:39:16,880
\ngeneration, you could read it
\nwell, who will acknowledge? <\/p>\n
663
\n00:39:16,880 –> 00:39:18,440
\nHim who’s going to bother to
\nspeak of him? <\/p>\n
664
\n00:39:19,880 –> 00:39:23,880
\nBecause so few people did that?
\nThe Lord Jesus Christ, your Lord<\/p>\n
665
\n00:39:23,880 –> 00:39:28,160
\nand Master, your King, the one
\nwho will rule all things, The <\/p>\n
666
\n00:39:28,160 –> 00:39:31,080
\none who is the Son of his Father
\nand the servant of his Master. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:39:31,320 –> 00:39:36,960
\nAs the soldiers gamble for his
\ngarments, as they crucify him <\/p>\n
668
\n00:39:36,960 –> 00:39:42,520
\nnaked, as he gives up every last
\nvestige of himself for somebody <\/p>\n
669
\n00:39:42,520 –> 00:39:46,360
\nelse, they are going to come out
\nof Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:39:47,680 –> 00:39:51,080
\nThey’re going to look at him on
\nthe cross and they’re going to <\/p>\n
671
\n00:39:51,080 –> 00:39:54,320
\nshrug their shoulders and move
\non. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:39:56,120 –> 00:39:58,040
\nWe hid, as it were, our faces
\nfrom Him. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:39:59,440 –> 00:40:05,000
\nIsaiah 53 has a centre point and
\nit looks like this. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:40:05,880 –> 00:40:10,120
\nTried to keep you away from
\nchiasms this week, but but <\/p>\n
675
\n00:40:10,120 –> 00:40:12,240
\nhere’s 1 and I and I think it
\nworks. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:40:12,600 –> 00:40:14,840
\nYou can begin to work this in
\nand I’ll make sure the slides <\/p>\n
677
\n00:40:14,840 –> 00:40:17,560
\nbecome available.
\nBut all of those phrases, one by<\/p>\n
678
\n00:40:17,560 –> 00:40:20,480
\none just track US into the
\ncentre part of this song. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:40:21,120 –> 00:40:24,920
\nYou can, if you are are
\ninterested, break the 4th song <\/p>\n
680
\n00:40:24,920 –> 00:40:29,320
\ndown into 5 sections, 3 verses
\nin each of those five sections. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:40:29,640 –> 00:40:32,920
\nBut the centre point is there in
\nverse 7 where the Lord is LED <\/p>\n
682
\n00:40:33,160 –> 00:40:36,720
\nlike a lamb to the slaughter.
\nIt takes us to the very heart, <\/p>\n
683
\n00:40:36,960 –> 00:40:39,680
\nmy brothers and sisters, of the
\nparadox of liberty. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:40:40,720 –> 00:40:43,880
\nBecause physically he is led to
\nthe cross. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:40:44,240 –> 00:40:47,000
\nWe know that.
\nIn fact there is an implication <\/p>\n
686
\n00:40:47,000 –> 00:40:49,520
\nthat they have to half carry him
\nthere because of what they’ve <\/p>\n
687
\n00:40:49,520 –> 00:40:51,600
\ndone to him.
\nAnd he can barely bear the cross<\/p>\n
688
\n00:40:51,600 –> 00:40:53,400
\nbare.
\nThat’s why Simon of Cyrene is <\/p>\n
689
\n00:40:53,400 –> 00:40:57,040
\ncalled out of the crowd, because
\nhe can’t take it by himself. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:40:57,040 –> 00:41:00,240
\nHe has to have some help
\nphysically. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:41:00,240 –> 00:41:05,720
\nThey get in there spiritually.
\nHe’s the one directing events. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:41:06,040 –> 00:41:09,040
\nI have the power to lay down my
\nlife and I will take it up <\/p>\n
693
\n00:41:09,040 –> 00:41:12,120
\nagain.
\nHe bowed his head and he gave up<\/p>\n
694
\n00:41:12,120 –> 00:41:14,560
\nthe spirit.
\nIt’s the difference between <\/p>\n
695
\n00:41:15,040 –> 00:41:19,560
\nbeing told to go to your death.
\nI’m voluntarily choosing to do <\/p>\n
696
\n00:41:19,560 –> 00:41:21,840
\nso.
\nThis is the servant who has <\/p>\n
697
\n00:41:21,840 –> 00:41:23,720
\ngiven everything over to his
\nmaster. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:41:24,520 –> 00:41:28,360
\nEverything now matters because
\nhe realises that the Lord is all<\/p>\n
699
\n00:41:28,360 –> 00:41:34,360
\nthings.
\nIsaiah 53 or or the the the 4th <\/p>\n
700
\n00:41:34,360 –> 00:41:40,640
\nsong, as we should probably call
\nit, is quoted in all manner of <\/p>\n
701
\n00:41:40,640 –> 00:41:44,320
\nplaces in the New Testament, as
\nif to say we should focus our <\/p>\n
702
\n00:41:44,320 –> 00:41:46,920
\nattention on this perhaps more
\nthan any other place when we <\/p>\n
703
\n00:41:46,920 –> 00:41:48,080
\nthink about the Lord’s
\nsuffering. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:41:49,120 –> 00:41:53,360
\nAnd and as we break into the
\nvery heart of the song, as we <\/p>\n
705
\n00:41:53,360 –> 00:41:55,680
\nread about how he’s LED like a
\nlamb to the slaughter, the <\/p>\n
706
\n00:41:55,680 –> 00:42:00,080
\nrealization comes to.
\nUs that the servant suffering <\/p>\n
707
\n00:42:01,120 –> 00:42:04,160
\nwas for you and I.
\nYou were there when they <\/p>\n
708
\n00:42:04,160 –> 00:42:10,080
\ncrucified our Lord.
\nAnd the gospel writers and the <\/p>\n
709
\n00:42:10,080 –> 00:42:15,680
\nLord himself, and Philip in Acts
\nand Paul in his letters, and the<\/p>\n
710
\n00:42:15,680 –> 00:42:19,600
\nHebrew writers as well, all want
\nus to come back to this place <\/p>\n
711
\n00:42:20,160 –> 00:42:23,720
\nand see something remarkable
\nhappening to the place where the<\/p>\n
712
\n00:42:23,720 –> 00:42:28,160
\nLord gives everything of himself
\nfor his brothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:42:28,720 –> 00:42:30,400
\nCan I bring you to First Peter
\nchapter 1? <\/p>\n
714
\n00:42:42,960 –> 00:42:45,800
\nThe most of of all those places,
\nthe most sustained quote is the <\/p>\n
715
\n00:42:45,800 –> 00:42:48,640
\none that’s in the bottom of the
\nlist there at the end of of one <\/p>\n
716
\n00:42:48,640 –> 00:42:50,800
\nPeter chapter 2.
\nBut I want to start in one Peter<\/p>\n
717
\n00:42:50,800 –> 00:42:57,120
\n1 because if we drop in in the
\nmiddle of a in the middle of a <\/p>\n
718
\n00:42:57,120 –> 00:43:00,120
\nsentence, we can read about how
\nPeter tells us of the prophets <\/p>\n
719
\n00:43:00,120 –> 00:43:02,360
\nof old time verse 10, one Peter
\n1. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:43:02,560 –> 00:43:06,240
\nThe prophets inquired and
\nsearched diligently, prophesying<\/p>\n
721
\n00:43:06,240 –> 00:43:10,320
\nof the grace we should come to
\nyou searching what or what <\/p>\n
722
\n00:43:10,320 –> 00:43:12,480
\nmanner of time the Spirit of
\nChrist which was in them, <\/p>\n
723
\n00:43:12,480 –> 00:43:17,120
\nsignified when it testified
\nbeforehand the sufferings of <\/p>\n
724
\n00:43:17,120 –> 00:43:19,640
\nChrist and the glory that shall
\nfollow. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:43:19,640 –> 00:43:21,480
\nNow you can apply that
\nexpression to lots and lots of <\/p>\n
726
\n00:43:21,480 –> 00:43:22,720
\nOld Testament passages, but I
\nthink. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:43:22,720 –> 00:43:25,200
\nBecause of where Peter was going
\nto lead us, he’s. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:43:25,200 –> 00:43:28,480
\nSpecifically talking about the
\nfourth of those servant songs. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:43:29,040 –> 00:43:35,040
\nIt’s a letter about submission.
\nIn other words, a letter about <\/p>\n
730
\n00:43:35,040 –> 00:43:40,000
\nmaking yourself not free.
\nSo look at chapter 2 and verse <\/p>\n
731
\n00:43:40,000 –> 00:43:42,640
\n13.
\nSubmit yourselves to every <\/p>\n
732
\n00:43:42,640 –> 00:43:44,920
\nordinance of man for the Lord’s
\nsake. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:43:46,920 –> 00:43:50,240
\nSubmit yourself to the king as
\nsupreme, or to governors as unto<\/p>\n
734
\n00:43:50,240 –> 00:43:52,720
\nhim who are sent by the
\npunishment of for the punishment<\/p>\n
735
\n00:43:52,800 –> 00:43:56,280
\nof evil doers.
\nVerse 18, Servants, be subject <\/p>\n
736
\n00:43:56,280 –> 00:43:59,160
\nto your masters with all fear,
\nnot only the good and the <\/p>\n
737
\n00:43:59,160 –> 00:44:01,520
\ngentle, but also the froward.
\nAnd now we know how to read that<\/p>\n
738
\n00:44:01,520 –> 00:44:04,600
\nin light of Exodus 21.
\nSo it’s not about abusing your <\/p>\n
739
\n00:44:04,600 –> 00:44:06,520
\nemployees.
\nIt’s got a bigger context. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:44:07,360 –> 00:44:09,560
\nSo you’d be subject to the king,
\nyou’re subject to the governors,<\/p>\n
741
\n00:44:09,560 –> 00:44:13,320
\nyou’re subject to your masters.
\nChapter 3 and verse one wives be<\/p>\n
742
\n00:44:13,320 –> 00:44:17,840
\nsubject to your own husbands,
\nwhich is a verse that we tend to<\/p>\n
743
\n00:44:17,840 –> 00:44:20,640
\ntake in isolation and get all
\nfunny about. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:44:20,640 –> 00:44:23,320
\nBut actually it’s in a long line
\nof verses telling us about <\/p>\n
745
\n00:44:23,320 –> 00:44:27,040
\npeople submitting to each other
\nand chapter 5 and verse 5 <\/p>\n
746
\n00:44:27,840 –> 00:44:30,440
\nyounger submit yourselves to the
\nelder. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:44:30,440 –> 00:44:33,880
\nIt’s in light of ecclesial
\nactivities and how ecclesial <\/p>\n
748
\n00:44:33,880 –> 00:44:36,920
\nmembers are encouraged to submit
\nthemselves to ecclesial elders. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:44:37,880 –> 00:44:40,320
\nBecause God is sanctifying
\ndecisions that ecclesial elders <\/p>\n
750
\n00:44:40,320 –> 00:44:43,160
\nmake.
\nThis is a letter about making <\/p>\n
751
\n00:44:43,160 –> 00:44:47,840
\nourselves not free and and as I
\nkeep talking about the goodness <\/p>\n
752
\n00:44:47,840 –> 00:44:49,600
\nof constraints and how this is
\na. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:44:49,600 –> 00:44:53,280
\nWorld that doesn’t seem to have
\nany chapter 2 tells us why we <\/p>\n
754
\n00:44:53,280 –> 00:44:57,680
\ntry to do it 2 verse 15 so is
\nthe will of God that with well <\/p>\n
755
\n00:44:57,680 –> 00:45:02,400
\ndoing you may put to silence the
\nignorance of foolish men as free<\/p>\n
756
\n00:45:02,880 –> 00:45:05,200
\nand not using your liberty as a
\ncloak of maliciousness and we’ve<\/p>\n
757
\n00:45:05,320 –> 00:45:10,600
\npicked up that verse earlier on
\nin the week it’s done to silence<\/p>\n
758
\n00:45:10,640 –> 00:45:14,400
\nthose who don’t understand and.
\nAnd and this is a letter that <\/p>\n
759
\n00:45:14,400 –> 00:45:16,680
\nturns around that servant song.
\nYou remember the one who was <\/p>\n
760
\n00:45:16,680 –> 00:45:21,320
\nsilent.
\nWe submit, we give up our <\/p>\n
761
\n00:45:21,320 –> 00:45:23,320
\nliberty in all the ways we’ve
\nbeen talking about through <\/p>\n
762
\n00:45:23,320 –> 00:45:27,040
\nthese, through these sessions,
\nin order that we might make <\/p>\n
763
\n00:45:27,040 –> 00:45:30,320
\nothers silent, in order that
\nthey might look in awe at the <\/p>\n
764
\n00:45:30,320 –> 00:45:33,480
\nGod of all the earth.
\nNow you’re not going to. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:45:33,480 –> 00:45:35,640
\nLike this slide, it’s very tiny.
\nIt’s really just there as a <\/p>\n
766
\n00:45:35,640 –> 00:45:37,560
\nhold.
\nOK, if you want it later, but it<\/p>\n
767
\n00:45:37,560 –> 00:45:40,920
\nwill tell us about all the
\ndifferent ways in which Peter is<\/p>\n
768
\n00:45:40,920 –> 00:45:42,520
\ngoing to pick up that Servant’s
\nsong. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:45:42,760 –> 00:45:45,120
\nI’ll bring you down to verse 21
\nin chapter 2 and we’ll just read<\/p>\n
770
\n00:45:45,120 –> 00:45:48,400
\nit through for even hereunto
\nwere ye called because Christ <\/p>\n
771
\n00:45:48,400 –> 00:45:51,920
\nalso suffered for us, leaving us
\nan example that you should <\/p>\n
772
\n00:45:51,920 –> 00:45:55,360
\nfollow his steps and you can put
\nyour Isaiah 53 antenna up and we<\/p>\n
773
\n00:45:55,360 –> 00:45:57,720
\ncan just work our way through.
\nHe did no sin. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:45:58,120 –> 00:45:59,760
\nNeither was guile found in his
\nmouth. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:46:00,240 –> 00:46:03,760
\nWho when he was reviled, reviled
\nnot again when he suffered, he <\/p>\n
776
\n00:46:03,760 –> 00:46:06,640
\nthreatened not, but he committed
\nhimself to him who judges <\/p>\n
777
\n00:46:06,640 –> 00:46:11,600
\nrighteously, Who his own self
\nbear our sins in his own body on<\/p>\n
778
\n00:46:11,600 –> 00:46:14,960
\nthe tree, that we, being dead to
\nsin, should live unto <\/p>\n
779
\n00:46:14,960 –> 00:46:17,920
\nrighteousness.
\nBy whose stripes you were <\/p>\n
780
\n00:46:17,920 –> 00:46:22,320
\nhealed, For you were his sheep
\ngoing astray, but now are <\/p>\n
781
\n00:46:22,320 –> 00:46:25,320
\nrestored.
\nRemember that idea of freedom, <\/p>\n
782
\n00:46:25,720 –> 00:46:29,600
\nputting people back where they
\nbelong, but now are restored to <\/p>\n
783
\n00:46:29,600 –> 00:46:32,320
\nthe Shepherd and the Overseer of
\nyour souls? <\/p>\n
784
\n00:46:32,680 –> 00:46:35,400
\nThe question that was asked in
\nMark chapter 12, when the Lord <\/p>\n
785
\n00:46:35,800 –> 00:46:38,320
\ntells the parable of the
\nvineyard, remember the owner <\/p>\n
786
\n00:46:38,320 –> 00:46:41,640
\ngoes into a far country and he
\nsends his servants 1 by 1. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:46:41,640 –> 00:46:44,800
\nAnd the first one gets beaten
\nand sent away and the second one<\/p>\n
788
\n00:46:44,800 –> 00:46:47,360
\ngets killed.
\nAnd there is a whole series of <\/p>\n
789
\n00:46:47,360 –> 00:46:49,680
\nservants going backwards and
\nforth to the to the vineyard to <\/p>\n
790
\n00:46:49,680 –> 00:46:52,440
\nwork out what’s going on.
\nAnd finally, when there are no <\/p>\n
791
\n00:46:52,440 –> 00:46:58,080
\nmore servants left, the master
\nsays, I’m going to send my son. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:47:00,440 –> 00:47:03,680
\nAnd you and I, who know what’s
\nhappening, sit there tearing <\/p>\n
793
\n00:47:03,680 –> 00:47:07,120
\nwhatever little hair I have left
\nout and saying don’t do it, <\/p>\n
794
\n00:47:07,120 –> 00:47:11,040
\nLord, because they’ve beaten the
\nother guys and Chuck rocks at <\/p>\n
795
\n00:47:11,040 –> 00:47:12,480
\nthem and thrown them out and
\nkilled them. <\/p>\n
796
\n00:47:12,480 –> 00:47:17,480
\nDon’t do it Lord.
\nDon’t send the son having yet <\/p>\n
797
\n00:47:17,480 –> 00:47:18,960
\ntherefore one son who’s well
\nbeloved. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:47:18,960 –> 00:47:22,320
\nHe sent them, lost them to them,
\nsaying they will reverence my <\/p>\n
799
\n00:47:22,320 –> 00:47:25,440
\nson.
\nAnd they just shrugged their <\/p>\n
800
\n00:47:25,440 –> 00:47:29,320
\nshoulders and moved on.
\nAnd they didn’t want to know <\/p>\n
801
\n00:47:29,320 –> 00:47:32,400
\nanything about him.
\nThat was that list. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:47:32,640 –> 00:47:35,840
\nOf references that we had all
\nthe way through Isaiah 40 to 50.<\/p>\n
803
\n00:47:35,840 –> 00:47:39,000
\nFive and if I just bring you in
\nto the bid at the end and bring <\/p>\n
804
\n00:47:39,000 –> 00:47:41,600
\nyou back please to Isaiah 53,
\nwe’re going to see something <\/p>\n
805
\n00:47:41,920 –> 00:47:43,440
\njust to round us off this
\nmorning. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:47:45,760 –> 00:47:51,080
\nCome back to Isaiah 53.
\nThere is one more thing because <\/p>\n
807
\n00:47:51,080 –> 00:47:55,000
\nall the way through the songs.
\nAll the way through these <\/p>\n
808
\n00:47:55,000 –> 00:47:57,040
\npassages that tell us of the
\nnational servant and the <\/p>\n
809
\n00:47:57,040 –> 00:47:59,640
\npassages that tell us of the
\nindividual servant, we are only <\/p>\n
810
\n00:47:59,640 –> 00:48:02,920
\never reading of an individual
\nservant in every single place <\/p>\n
811
\n00:48:04,560 –> 00:48:07,640
\nexcept for one.
\nAnd it’s the very last <\/p>\n
812
\n00:48:07,680 –> 00:48:10,600
\noccurrence that you can see
\nthere on the screen. 54 and <\/p>\n
813
\n00:48:10,600 –> 00:48:13,240
\nverse 17 where it changes.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
814
\n00:48:14,480 –> 00:48:16,760
\nWell, the answers at the end of
\nIsaiah 53 answer. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:48:16,880 –> 00:48:21,160
\nAt the end of the fourth song,
\nverse 10 of 53, it pleased the <\/p>\n
816
\n00:48:21,160 –> 00:48:23,560
\nLord to bruise him.
\nHe’s put him to grief. <\/p>\n
817
\n00:48:24,160 –> 00:48:26,080
\nWhen thou shalt make his soul an
\noffering for sin. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:48:26,080 –> 00:48:30,360
\nHe shall see his seed, He shall
\nprolong his days, and the <\/p>\n
819
\n00:48:30,360 –> 00:48:34,440
\npleasure of the Lord shall
\nprosper in his hand, healthy the<\/p>\n
820
\n00:48:34,440 –> 00:48:37,480
\ntravail of his soul, and be
\nsatisfied by his knowledge. <\/p>\n
821
\n00:48:37,480 –> 00:48:39,880
\nShall my righteous servant
\njustify many? <\/p>\n
822
\n00:48:40,240 –> 00:48:42,360
\nNow all of the focus comes back
\nto the servant. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:48:42,360 –> 00:48:44,280
\nHe’s done the work.
\nHe’s been to the cross. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:48:45,080 –> 00:48:47,600
\nHe’s been numbered with the
\ntransgressors. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:48:47,600 –> 00:48:50,360
\nVerse 12.
\nHe’s borne the sins of many. <\/p>\n
826
\n00:48:50,600 –> 00:48:52,720
\nHe’s made intercession for the
\ntransgressors. <\/p>\n
827
\n00:48:53,040 –> 00:48:55,640
\nAnd all of our focus on this
\nidea of service and liberty and <\/p>\n
828
\n00:48:55,640 –> 00:49:00,160
\nfreedom comes to this point and
\nthis moment because suddenly <\/p>\n
829
\n00:49:00,160 –> 00:49:02,840
\nhe’s described in an altogether
\ndifferent way. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:49:04,120 –> 00:49:08,680
\nHe’s not a servant now.
\nHe is a righteous servant <\/p>\n
831
\n00:49:10,120 –> 00:49:14,640
\nbecause the work has been done.
\nHe has obeyed his master. <\/p>\n
832
\n00:49:14,640 –> 00:49:16,640
\nHe has gone to the cross and.
\nEverything has been <\/p>\n
833
\n00:49:16,640 –> 00:49:19,120
\naccomplished.
\nBecause of what he does in the <\/p>\n
834
\n00:49:19,120 –> 00:49:21,680
\nfourth song, He is a righteous
\nservant. <\/p>\n
835
\n00:49:21,680 –> 00:49:24,160
\nAnd you know what, Brothers and
\nsisters, never again in the rest<\/p>\n
836
\n00:49:24,160 –> 00:49:26,880
\nof Isaiah’s prophecy.
\nWell, Isaiah describe any <\/p>\n
837
\n00:49:26,880 –> 00:49:30,280
\nindividual servant again, every
\nsingle time he’s going to talk <\/p>\n
838
\n00:49:30,280 –> 00:49:32,000
\nabout servants, plural.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
839
\n00:49:32,200 –> 00:49:34,920
\nBecause he has died, That he
\nmight bring many sons to glory. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:49:37,400 –> 00:49:40,240
\nThis is the work of the master.
\nThis is the work of the King, <\/p>\n
841
\n00:49:40,880 –> 00:49:48,720
\nthe one who came well not to be
\nserved, but to serve and to give<\/p>\n
842
\n00:49:48,720 –> 00:49:54,680
\nhis life as a ransom for many.
\nThere is only one who can fulfil<\/p>\n
843
\n00:49:54,680 –> 00:49:58,680
\ntrue freedom, and the effect of
\nhis work is that it brings us <\/p>\n
844
\n00:49:58,680 –> 00:50:03,360
\ninto the family of God.
\nFreedom principle #8 Just in <\/p>\n
845
\n00:50:03,360 –> 00:50:04,600
\ncase you thought I’d forgotten
\nthis. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:50:06,120 –> 00:50:09,840
\nWe choose service because of the
\ncharacter of God’s servant, <\/p>\n
847
\n00:50:10,760 –> 00:50:14,160
\nbecause we can do nothing else.
\nWhen we see this altogether <\/p>\n
848
\n00:50:14,160 –> 00:50:20,000
\nlovely man but fall down at his
\nfeet, we can choose no other <\/p>\n
849
\n00:50:20,000 –> 00:50:22,800
\npath other than doing as Peter
\nsays and following in his <\/p>\n
850
\n00:50:22,800 –> 00:50:26,400
\nfootsteps.
\nThe one who who becomes obedient<\/p>\n
851
\n00:50:26,400 –> 00:50:27,800
\nto death and gives up his
\nfreedom. <\/p>\n
852
\n00:50:28,480 –> 00:50:32,680
\nThe one who is bound, like the
\nsacrifice of Psalm 118. <\/p>\n
853
\n00:50:32,880 –> 00:50:36,600
\nThe one who leads captivity
\ncaptive and gets gifts for men. <\/p>\n
854
\n00:50:36,600 –> 00:50:38,840
\nThe one who leads his people in
\ntriumphant procession. <\/p>\n
855
\n00:50:40,120 –> 00:50:43,880
\nThe one who can’t be bound, held
\nin the grave, as Peter says in <\/p>\n
856
\n00:50:43,880 –> 00:50:47,520
\nActs 2.
\nThe one who causes everybody to <\/p>\n
857
\n00:50:47,520 –> 00:50:52,480
\nbow before him and give up their
\nfreedom because you and I, <\/p>\n
858
\n00:50:52,480 –> 00:50:54,920
\nbrothers and sisters, who all
\nour lifetimes were subject to <\/p>\n
859
\n00:50:54,920 –> 00:50:58,640
\nbondage, are set free by the
\nlove of our Heavenly Father. <\/p>\n
860
\n00:51:00,800 –> 00:51:05,440
\nMay it be as we continue our
\nweek, enjoy our company, enjoy <\/p>\n
861
\n00:51:05,480 –> 00:51:09,240
\nour fellowship, that God would
\nwork in our hearts and awareness<\/p>\n
862
\n00:51:09,240 –> 00:51:13,040
\nof our own sin and the
\ninsufficiency of our abilities, <\/p>\n
863
\n00:51:13,600 –> 00:51:17,160
\nand that we might put everything
\nwe have onto the Son who gave <\/p>\n
864
\n00:51:17,160 –> 00:51:18,160
\nall things for us.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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