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“REFERENCES TO MY SERVANT”

It has been well said that the Old T estament is the New T estament concealed and the New T estament is the Old T estament revealed.

“MY SERVANT” SERIES

Revelation Of My Servant – Introduction Recognition Of My Servant – 52:13-15 Rejection Of My Servant – 53:1-3 Redemption Of My Servant – 53:4-6 Resignation Of My Servant – 53:7-9 Reward Of My Servant – 53:10-12

CONNECTION OF OT WITH THE NT

• 1. Over 250 Direct Quotations From OT In NT
• 2. Over 1,000 Including Allusions Or Indirect References
• 3. Most Quoted OT Book Is The Psalms & Isaiah Is Second
• 4. One Verse Is Quoted 9 Times: Psalm 110:1
• 5. Obadiah Is Only OT Book Not Quoted In The NT
• 6. Three NT Books Not Quoted: Philemon, II John, & III John
• 7. NT Book Referenced OT

The Most: Revelation

CONCEALED – REVEALED

“It is clear that the writers of the New T estament were concerned with demonstrating the continuity between the Old T estament Scriptures and the faith they proclaimed. They were convinced that in Jesus the Old T estament promises had been fulfilled.”

LUKE 24:25-27

While every verse

• r

passage is not specifically about Jesus, all

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them collectively point to Jesus, the Redeemer.

• I. MY SERVANT IS OUR SUBSTITUTE

Propitiation: Satisfaction Of God’s Wrath Justification: Imputation Of God’s Righteousness Expiation: Atoning Reparation For The Sinner Vicarious: Taking The Place For The Sinner

• A. HE SUFFERED FOR US

“This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.” (Matthew 8:17) Leper, Centurion Servant, Peter’s Mother-In-Law, Demon Oppressed, & Healing All Who Were Sick

SUFFERING IS A CONSEQUENCE OF SIN

Adam & Eve Suffered Immediate Spiritual Death And Ultimately Physical Death. Believers T

• day Experience Immediate Spiritual

Life And Ultimately Physical Life.

I PETER 2:24

“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.”

• B. HE WAS SHAMED FOR US

“For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in me: And he was numbered with the

• transgressors. For what is written about me

has its fulfillment” (Luke 23:37).

ACTS 8:33

“In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.”

• C. HE WAS SILENT FOR US

“Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth” (Acts 8:32).

EXAMPLES OF HIS SILENCE

“But Jesus remained silent” (Matthew 26:53) “But he remained silent and made no answer” (Mark 14:61) “He gave no answer” (Matthew 27:12) “But Jesus gave him no answer” (John 19:9)

JOHN 10:17-18

“For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own

• accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have

authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”

• D. HE WAS SINLESS FOR US

“He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in in his mouth” (I Peter 2:22). “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (II Corinthians 5:21).

• II. MY SERVANT IS OUR SALVATION
• A. He Will Be Rejected (John 12:37-38)

“Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him, so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

ROMANS 10:16

“But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord who has believed what he has heard from us?” Thankful for “Not All” & “Not Many”

• B. HE WILL BE RECEIVED

“And thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation, but as it is written, those who have never been told will see, and those who have never heard will understand” (Romans 15:20-21).

JOHN MACARTHUR

“Jesus is the central figure in all the typology and prophecies of the Old T

• estament. But nowhere

is that more obvious than right here in Isaiah 53.”