Jesus the Suffering
Servant of God.
“And God said: “Let Hollywood produce movies
about the Bible. And let them include
controversy which will cause people to look to Me and what the Bible says. And it was so.”
Noah believed God and built the Ark.
1. JESUS is:
1) The Great
King. John 18:37
2) The
Descendant of David. Acts 2:29-31
3) The
Suffering Servant. Isaiah 53
“For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek
after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling
block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both
Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”
1 Cor
1:22-24 (NKJV)
“And
I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to
Myself." John 12:32 (NKJV)
Christ on the Cross seems weak to the
world. Yet the FACT of the Cross &
Resurrection is God’s way of saving people.
At the same time the Cross & Resurrection is God’s judgment on the
unbelieving world of sin & evil.
“Lifted high on Your Cross, O Lord, You have
raised up Adam and the whole of fallen nature.
O You who love mankind whom You created, we ask You for Your strength
from above to fill us with Life.” (from an
old prayer.)
“Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment
came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous
act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.” Romans 5:18 (NKJV)
So the grace of Christ far exceeds our
inheritance from Adam. For by grace not
only is Adam’s offence covered and our bondage to death overthrown, but the
sins of the whole world as well. But the
saving gift of Jesus Christ must be received and grasped by a life of faith. [note Hebrews 1:1-3.]
2. Christ suffered.
“As He also says in another place:
"You are a priest forever According to the order of
Melchizedek"; who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered
up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able
to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, though He
was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.”
Heb 5:6-8
(NKJV)
“The place in the Scripture which he read
was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb
before its shearer is silent, So He opened not His mouth. In
His humiliation His justice was taken away, And who will declare His
generation? For His life is taken from the earth." So the
eunuch answered Philip and said, "I ask you, of whom does the prophet say
this, of himself or of some other man?" Then Philip opened his
mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him.” Acts 8:32-35
(NKJV)
3. We suffer.
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded
by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that
is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our
faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the
shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Heb 12:1-2 (NKJV)
“But you have carefully followed my
doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love,
perseverance, persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch
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