March 24, 2019 – Isaiah 53:1-3 – Pastor Jake Susek

Pastor Jake spoke on the beginning of Isaiah 53 and the “Rejection of the Servant”.

Main Points & Outline

1. The Problem: has God failed?
2. Reasons for Rejection
   1. Personal reasons
      1. religious expectations
      2. personal disappointments
   2. Theological reasons
      1. Our minds are darkened
      2. Our wills are enslaved
      3. Our hearts are cold
3. The Cause for Belief
   1. The Father reveals
   2. The Son reveals
   3. The Spirit reveals
4. Application
   1. Deep appreciation
   2. Genuine repentance
   3. Dependent prayer

Scripture: Isaiah 53:1-3

1 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (ESV)