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We Gets Isaiah 53:4-6 Good Friday (Mini Sermon #1) He gets; We gets Isaiah 53:4-6 Good Friday (mini sermon #1) Big Idea: He was in our place Purpose: To appreciate and love Christ Prayer: Father may our love and appreciation for your Son’s substitutionary sacrifice inhabit our hearts and change what we love, for your glory alone Amen A number of years ago we were privileged to have two days in Austria; and during our stay in Vienna we were taken to the Hofburg Palace. It is an extraordinary place. It was the winter residence of the Habsburg empire. It is now home of the Austrian crown jewels…amongst the Austrian crown jewels is a nail (reputedly) driven into Jesus on the 1 cross and a piece of wood (supposedly) from that same cross. Now Austria as you can imagine gets extremely cold in winter in fact on the days we were there it was minus 15 degrees Celsius. I remember my nose being particularly frozen in the wind. Now as we were taken around this palace it was fascinating to see that the whole palace had been designed with a maze of secret rooms and passages; And the idea behind those secret passages was that staff could walk in them and stoke the fires in each room from behind and so as they did that they would never be seen by the nobility. So they could carry the coal in and keep the fires alight by stoking them completely out of sight from the rich and famous…who were reclining in their rooms sipping their Pims. That is substitution…the rich get warmth and comfort and pleasure while the servants have to carry the coal and the work and the 2 discomfort and the dirt and the muck and the horror. Now as we lift our gaze this morning off the chaos of our country, the petty fights of politicians, the selfish and corrupt activity of the elite and we place our eyes on the cross; as we listen to God speak to us from that cross we will hear the word ‘substitute’. At its heart Easter speaks of substitution. A concept that is not difficult for us to understand - one person in the place of another. One person for another. Now for the sake of our memories I am going to use the phrase “he gets, we gets…” I know that it is not grammatically correct, the English teachers amongst us will have to forgive me but I hope it will help you to remember…the heart of Easter…’he gets, we gets…’ 3 It all starts with something called sin. A rather unpopular word, not a word you will hear used in parliament or in the press this week. Sin is an all-encompassing word; a word that speaks of corruption; it a word that includes authoritarianism and rebellion. A word that blankets greed and theft. Sin includes racism and oppression of the poor by the rich. We live in a world where husbands murder their wives; where men rape women as an expression of power. But sin at its heart is the universal human rejection of God…and so we look all around us and we see its consequences - a world of grief where actions cause hurt; a world of sorrow, and of pain and disease; a world of frustration and conflict and death. It is a world where wrongdoings and transgressions are everywhere. We live in a world of iniquity…and the worst shock of all is the moment when we realise that those things are resident right here in our own hearts - 4 there is no one that is exempt from sin…our sin manifests differently that is for certain, sometimes it is very sophisticated and even cultured, sometimes it is just downright crude…but it is there in every heart. Each of us has turned our face away from God…so that now we can even deceive ourselves. So great is our deception that we lie even to our own hearts about ourselves. So great is our blindness that we cannot see the truth about ourselves and instead of listening we lash out at those who don’t agree with us. We call them names and we insult them and we protest our innocence… And the Bible says that every human being is deserving of punishment as a result. It says that God will judge us. Punishment will come…justice is certain. We do not need to worry about political intrigue or evil men and women in power because justice is coming…and yet the problem with justice is 5 that justice is just. Justice is fair. Justice does not favour us because we are white or black. Justice does not favour us because we are rich or poor. God promises us that justice is coming for all; and then there is this moment of terror when we realise that if we are sinners we are on the wrong side of justice. There is this moment when we realise that God is angry with me, God is actually angry with me. God does not think that I am the nice guy that I think I am. God sees the truth about me. He sees deep into my heart. He sees my motives and my feelings. He sees that my heart is turned away from him. It is evil. It invents ways to get its own way. My heart does not naturally love - love is a struggle and a discipline. And my heart does not seek to forgive or find peace. My heart wants its own desires and its own way…and so does yours… And when that truth dawns on us then Easter becomes the most staggering news. When 6 that truth is appropriated to our hearts then Good Friday becomes spectacularly good. Because at the centre of Good Friday is a servant who is our substitute… Let’s read a portion of Isaiah 53 together. This morning in two mini episodes we are going to focus in on two stanzas in the famous Isaiah 53, Servant Song. Stanza 3 is now up on the screen…as we read it together can I ask you to notice the words that speak about us - they are the words ‘we’ and ‘our’ and ‘us’; but then I also want you to notice the words that speak of Jesus they are the words ‘he’ and ‘him’ Isaiah 53:4-6 - read together As we read, did you notice what…’he gets’…and what ‘we gets’…? 7 V4 as Jesus hangs on that cross he gets our infirmities; he gets our sorrows and our griefs. As Jesus dies he gets stricken by God, smitten by him and afflicted. V5 Jesus gets pierced for our transgressions. He gets punished and crushed for our iniquities. Our punishment is laid on him. The cross was terrible news for Jesus…at the cross he gets all the things we are guilty of and in return… We gets v5 peace. He gets wounds…we gets healed. He gets our iniquities laid on him…we gets forgiveness and freedom and adoption and grace and mercy and sonship and redemption and eternal life… It is the most extraordinary cosmic swap. All our stuff, all our sin, all our transgressions, all our chastisement laid on him… 8 And then laid on us is peace and forgiveness and approval and acceptance and pardon and kindness and compassion and restoration… Jesus gets my sin and we gets the reward. That is the message of Easter – it is the most extraordinary news. If you have never taken it for yourself…let’s do it together now. If you have been running from God or if your heart has grown cold or you have drifted away…let’s fix that right now. I am going to pray a prayer…pray it quietly in your heart with me. Father I have been running away from you for too long now. I realise afresh today that you did not run away from me. 9 Your son died and took all my muck. Thank you. I acknowledge my sin. I turn from it. In place of judgement you offer me friendship, forgiveness, peace and healing. All that comes about when we know you. I turn towards you and I pledge today to live my life turned towards you. Amen If you are a Christian today and you prayed that prayer many years ago…will you let your heart be warmed as you contemplate that – ‘he gets differently, to what we gets’. God challenges us to take substitution into our lives. He calls us to take evil into ourselves, to absorb it and destroy it…and in its place to return good. As you contemplate your relationships take your wife’s sin and carry it for her and return to her 10 blessing; take your husband’s stuff and carry it for him…and return to him blessing. You gets pain; you gives blessing. Do it for our country, do it for the poor, do it for our world…that is the message of Easter. God did it for you…and so you can do it for them… 11 The Silent Innocent One Isaiah 53:7-9 Good Friday (mini sermon #2) Big Idea: Jesus was innocent Purpose: to worship the innocent one who died in our place Prayer: Father you exercised considerable restraint as your innocent son died in our place. Give us restraint not anger. Grace not revenge. Peace not hatred. Meekness not arrogance. Mercy not vengeance.
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