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we have from the book of Isaiah just three verses I put there I
will read for you. Surely this is from Isaiah 53
verse 4. Surely He took up our pain and
bore our suffering, Yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our
translation. He was crushed for iniquities.
The punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his
wounds we are healed. We all like sheep have gone
astray. Each of us has turned our own
way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
I was just thinking what is the best scripture to meditate on
Good Friday? And I said Isaiah 53.
We haven't done in a many long, long time.
So I read the read through the whole of the chapter.
I said there are 12 verses there and is there anything I can
skip? But unfortunately I found that
nothing can be skipped. But can I really preach on the
whole of it? Can't because our time is a
constraint. So I thought I will just mate it
on few verses from Isaiah 53. You know, it is to understand
the whole of Isaiah 53, you have to imagine an artist who is,
let's say he has got a big table spread out and there are lots of
pieces of mosaic. You know, all kinds of small,
tiny, tiny stones and you are watching one of them who was
standing up around the table. People are gathered and looking
at what is this guy trying to do?
And you have no clue, no clue because the picture is not
finished. And until every, every single of
the mosaic pieces go into its place, which is the images in
the mind of the person who is the artist.
He has the picture in his mind. You have to wait for the picture
is until it is finished before you can say, wow, what a
beautiful work of art. Isaiah 53 is like that.
Every aspect of the of the life of Christ is portrayed in that
once chapter. That is 700 years before Christ
came into the world. He has painted a picture so
grand nobody can ever replicate it.
If you read as a 53 now when you go home and sit down and read,
you will feel How did he know? How did he know these things?
How did he write these things? Because he as a prophet has seen
the Saviour, many people try to interpret in different ways.
They say servant here stands for Israel.
No Israel it may stand for Israel.
I am not trying to say completely no, but more than
that Israel has not suffered a kind of a vicarious suffering,
The Israeli not suffering for the whole world.
They are a kind of a people like you can learn some things from
their life, the wilderness experience, how they affect this
manner, how the stone was broken to give them water.
The spiritual truths you can learn from their life, but it
cannot substitute for Jesus. Jesus stands alone as a savior
and that picture comes out when you read as a 53 he was buried,
he was raised from the dead and is ascended to the Father and
who has counted his descendants. That's the next chapter says who
has to count counted his descendants because just cut
off. There are no more children born
to Jesus because he did not marry, did not have children.
I tell you, it's a grand picture that this man of God has
painted, which you have to sit down and understand it, digest
it. And I'm telling your
appreciation to worship Jesus. Gross.
Because you understand the painting that he has given.
That's beautiful. I'm telling it's very, very
beautiful. And I was thinking about how I
can really give a very good example of what Jesus did
because we are people, we, we sometimes do not want only the
original story to inspire us. We want some other story to that
will amplify this or make it more meaningful.
So I was thinking about what is the best example, and the best
example is from a fire firefighter.
You know, even before you're recruited as a fireman, you have
to go through very strict rules, very strict standards.
You need to have a very good character.
You must be empathetic. You must be more compost in your
mind. You must have your head in the
right place. When you see the house is
burning down, you don't shout and they're right.
Stand there and cry. You can't be fit to do the job.
You need to have the heart, strong heart and strength.
If you have to carry a man on your shoulder from the first
floor down the ladder, you must be strong enough to do it from
the fire. You are rescuing somebody.
So you need to be somebody who is strong, somebody who has
character, somebody who is empathetic, somebody who is
kind. Somebody's heart goes out for
people who are being burned down in a house to rescue the people.
I tell its a big, big call. There is no such strict
requirements to become a doctor, to become any other kind of a
profession. But this profession is unique.
And there was one man by named Daniel.
He was not in a big city, he was in a small place, but he was a
good man. He was there to help somebody.
Sometimes he's standing in the grocery store to pay his bills
and there's somebody who is not able to pay the bills.
He pays for them quietly. No one knows the good he does,
and there was a call one day that the house was caught on
fire, so the team arrives there. But before the horses were
fixed, this man immediately decided, I can't wait until the
horses start operating and try to put down the fire.
He jumps into the fire and he came to know that there's a
there's a lady there in the house and two children.
So he took off his coat, put it around the children and he
hugged them and he carried them and he brought them out.
And then he went back again to bring the mother out.
And he saw that she was really in a very bad situation.
And he pushed her through the window so that she can be saved.
But as the whole thing was going on the roof and it fell on him
and he somehow managed to come out, but after he recovered he
had to limp because of the injury he suffered and his face
was burnt. And it was all in a misshapen
kind of a face. And when he walked down the
street, the children who did not know what happened to him were
making fun of him. There's a price to pay, to save
somebody is a price to pay. It changes the person.
And I tell you, the eternal God has gone through a thorough
change. He became man and he just not
become a man, but he went through on the cross.
And those nail prints are not gone away.
Today you walk into heaven, you will see those nail prints and
you can again get an invitation like he did to Thomas.
Come and see. Put your finger here.
It is real. I suffered for you.
I saved you because I loved you with an eternal love.
That firefighter people have now might have forgotten.
But this Jesus, no one can forget.
More than 2000 years ago He died for you.
He rose again. So for your justification, He
ascended to the Father so that you can be in Him and you can
become like Him. He became like you, so you can
become like Him. And that's the gospel.
That's the gospel. So what did Jesus do for you?
There's so much to talk. We can never exhaust.
All that He did on the cross we can never, never exhaust.
So I just thought I'll just fix some few thoughts from the
Isaiah chapter 53, verses 4 onwards.
What does it say? Surely He took up our
infirmities and carried our sorrows.
When you look up the Hebrew word for infirmities and sorrows, it
is the word, I think macabre. I wrote it somewhere.
Yeah, macabre. That includes consequences of
sin, consequence of sin. Sometimes we commit a sin and it
just effects you. Or sometimes we commit a sin
that affects others as well. And sometimes it affects affects
the whole community. A murder is never an individual
kind of a soul sin that only affects the man who is
committing it. There is one more person who is
dying and there's a family that is grieving because that man is
dead and there's a whole community being affected because
of the man's deed. So the Mac of that Hebrew word
is stands for your infirmities and your sorrows.
Both have similar kind of a root.
Both have the same kind of a root.
And that is what He did, surely took up our infirmities, carried
our sorrows, all the consequences of sin.
And then when you see the word carried, it is the word that you
have some translation may say, He bore our sins, He bore our
sicknesses, He carried he. Basically it's like a carrying a
burden. You can never stand straight and
carry a 500 kilos of weight on your shoulder.
And when Jesus died upon the cross, he carried the sin of the
whole world, People, whoever were born before and the people
who were alive at the time and who are yet to be born.
He carried the sin of the whole world and that must have
definitely bowed Him down. He cannot be standing straight
and he had to cry out from the cross.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Because that sin has separated Him from the Father.
That is what hell is all about, separation from God.
And he went through that so that you can be free, you can be
forgiven, you can be accepted by the Father.
All of us are in the same place of ability to receive it.
We all need it. Yet we considered him stricken
by God. People looked at him and said,
made fun of him on the cross. Hey, if you can save yourself,
then you can come down and save yourself and save us.
You are saying you are a Savior, you are the Messiah.
But I am telling you, the people looked at him and said you can't
be Messiah, come down from the cross.
They made fun of him, but coming down from the cross is not the
answer. Because if we came down from the
cross, we are going to remain sinners.
So he had to let go that insult and then he had to let go the
taunt of the enemy. He when he was being tempted at
the beginning of his ministry, he gave him, he showed him a
piece of stone and said, turn this into bread and eat it
because you're hungry. You didn't eat for 40 days.
It is the same thing he's saying on the cross.
Get down from the cross. Prove that you are the Son of
God. Prove to the world that you are
Son of God by coming down from the cross.
You know, devil is always a devil.
He never changes, but Jesus, he overcame him.
He overcame him as he overcame first time.
He said it is written, man shall not leave a bread alone.
And on the cross he again shouted from there it's written
and he didn't say it is written, but he said, my God, my God, why
have you forsaken me? He was crying out from the book
of Psalms and he said I thirst from the book of Psalms.
So his scripture is what was he breathing and eating and living
and fulfilling in his life? And there's no other who can do
it for you and me. No one has done it.
No one will ever do it. He is the word of God.
That's why he could do all that. We considered him stricken by
God, smitten by him, afflicted. Basically what we are trying to
say is that he is weak. As a 10 year old, when I was
going to school, there was a Catholic Church behind the
school. Sometimes I would pass by the
church and they had a statue on the entrance of a Christ
crucified. And as a Hindu boy, when I
looked at the cross and said he can't be God, he can't be God.
If he is God, how he will allow people to allow him to crucify
him? And after 10 more or years,
almost after 10 more years, I heard the gospel fully explained
to me. And I hear that he just not
there on the cross anymore, but he's a living 1.
And I just said to him, I hear that you're a living God.
If you are living God, prove yourself, living God in my life.
And that one sentence that I prayed, he is answering it.
Even today. Every day we pray for people.
We see people healed, we pray see people being delivered, and
we see God doing miracle signs and wonders.
He gives the direction, He speaks to us.
He is the Good Shepherd. He shows the way, and He is a
living one. All of us need to have that
encounter with this living Jesus.
We need that encounter. So there was the time I made fun
of Jesus, and I'm sorry for it because it was ignorance.
It is a sinful nature in which I was born, was rebelling against
the cross, and we all do it. But we can always say I'm sorry,
Lord, I didn't understand it. I was innocent and he forgives
and push that nail Pierce hand on your heart and heals the
heart. Nothing else we can do receive
from him grace upon grace and verse 5 again it begins the word
but OK, all these things are over there.
But but what he was pierced for our transgressions.
He was crushed for our iniquities.
The punishment that brought us peace was upon Him.
There's so many things that are written, these 3 verses, so many
things. First thing is that it says He
took up our infirmities, who say did not die for himself but for
us. He took our sins upon Him, our
infirmities. He carried our sorrows.
You may think, Oh, I'm suffering so much in my life and you're
crying and wetting your pillow in the night, but he says I have
taken up your sorrow. Whatever is troubling you, that
heart is being crushed. But before it crushed you, it
crushed me on the cross. I have gone through that pain
for you. So we turn to him.
Then He is going to touch you and turn that sorrow into joy.
He will do it. I am not telling you something.
Pie in the sky kind of a thing. No, I know it by experience.
And you sincerely say you alone can do it.
He will do it for you. He will do it for you.
He will turn the sorrow into joy and he, he will give you, put a
spirit in you so 2 can dance in that place.
There was only one guy known in all of the history among the
evangelist and preachers. There was one guy called Billy
Sunday who he should dance. All that he did was dance and
preach the gospel and one of the time she was away preaching the
gospel, somebody brought the news, your wife died.
He danced. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord
for taking her to be with you. People can look at him and say
crazy guy, but he knows what it means that Jesus took the sorrow
of his heart and he really understood it.
That's why he was able to dance. Even he hears the news.
It's not that wife was a very bad lady, so he feeling good
about it. Don't misunderstand me, don't
misunderstand me. But He was pierced for our
transgressions, His crush for our inequities.
Punishment that brought us peace was upon Him.
Its too much what He went for us, what He went through on the
cross for us is too much. By His wounds we are healed.
What more you want from that? We all, like sheep, are gone
astray. Each of us has turned his own
way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquities of all.
He had laid our sin upon Him. Our iniquity upon iniquity has
more than sin, it includes the consequences of our sin.
There was one guy in Africa who was in jail because of he
committed murder. And then he was in the jail.
He heard the gospel and he used to listen to some radio
broadcasts and things like that. And then he said, have you
really taken away the consequences of my sin then
bring me out of this jail and his every every year the
president pardoned some people. There's a list of people is
announced. His name is not on the list, but
he said, God, you have told me you are going to set me free
from this prison. I believe you.
My name is not on the list, but I believe you.
But a very day, on the day when presidents gives pardon, they
said there's some mistake in the making of the list.
Actually, your name should be there.
You're free now. They set him free.
Consequences also are covered by his death upon the cross.
Every every curse that is coming down by our sin is going to be
abolished and turn into a blessing.
If you believe every curse can be turned into a blessing, if
you believe that is the power of the cross, that's the power of
the cross. There's power in that blood.
There's power in the blood.
These days, whenever I am praying, I am always thinking of
one thing, that Jesus, when he was crucified, that blood from
his hands, from his brow and from his feet, everything fell
upon the ground there when that, that the rock was drenched with
his blood. He paid for your freedom and my
freedom. Everything in the earth is going
to be blessed by that blood. He redeemed the whole earth, all
that lives on it. And I said that's too much for
me to understand. That's too much for me to
understand. And that's the reason why you
can worthily worship when it goes beyond your understanding,
when the understanding goes beyond your ability, that's the
time you are humbled and you bow down and worship because you
accept what He's showing you. He is worthy of worship.
What you can understand you can't worship.
When it cannot understand, you understand and do not
understand. That is the time you say, ah, I
understand, but I still do not understand.
I do not understand and that is the time you say my Lord my God
and worship Him. Cross will never become insipid,
tasteless, unchallenging thing for you as long as you focus on
it and experience the benefit of the cross, the benefits of the
cross, healing, forgiveness to most topmost, every kind of
healing is included in it. All relationships, all your
consequences, everything is taken care.
So he says by his terms, we've been healed and that is there's
something he already did 700 years before Jesus died.
This prophet saw that healing comes through the cross.
Amazing insight, amazing prophecy and accuracy is so
accurate. There is no man, whoever lived
before after to be able to fulfill that picture, to be able
to fulfill that picture, it is just amazing.
You go through it, Everything is taken care, including
restoration of the kingdoms to this, this Jesus is exalted to
the right hand of the Father, and His resurrection is talked
up. Everything is there in this one
chapter. You have eyes to see.
You have everything there, and the mosaic becomes more
beautiful. It's very, very beautiful.
But I don't want to go on and on and about all these things.
There's so much in the Scripture that I can talk another one hour
I can easily do because I made it on it so much.
But I want to give you another illustration to drive home the
truth of what Jesus did for us. We are all aware of how the
Jewish people were persecuted, thrown into the gas chamber and
killed during World War 26 million Jews were incarcerated.
So the people, sometimes this happened in Poland and in the in
Poland, people were initially they will be interrogated, taken
to the police station, released. It happens for your 5 or 6 times
and the 7th time you go and never come back because you're
taken to the concentration camp where you will die.
So they visited a monastery and there was a Friar and his name
was Maxmillan Cope Colby. And Colby was arrested along
with four other Friars and they were all waiting to die and they
were in the concentration camp. And there are so many other
Jewish people who one guy escaped from the prison.
He ran away somehow successfully.
So the the commander became very angry that one guy escaped.
He said pick up 10 people at random and put them in there.
Let's stall them to death because one man escaped.
He was crazy. And when the commander has given
that order, they picked up 10 people and one of them was
crying out, oh, I am never going to see my wife and my wife and
my two children. I am going to be dead in 10 or
10 or 20 days. Whatever time he takes to stop
when he heard the cry, Colby said, don't worry, I'll take
your place. Don't worry, I will take your
place. So he goes to the commandment
commander and says let that man go free, I will starve to death
in his place. He said that's not possible.
He convinced that man and let that man go free.
His name was the man was sent free, Set free.
His name, I think the Polish name, I may not be able to
pronounce it clearly. Francis Zic, Gazoni Zic.
OK, I could be right or wrong about the name, but that man, he
was allowed to go free, not really set free from the prison.
He was not put to death. He was in the prison.
And this man, Maximilian Colby, went out with other nine people.
And eyewitnesses said Colby would comfort people.
Colby would be by them, pray with them, talk to them,
encourage them. He himself was not down.
He was not cursing his captive captors.
He was not cursing the people who were troubling him.
No, he wasn't doing any of those things.
He comforted others, prayed with them, encouraged them, never
complained, never cursed the captors, never begged for mercy.
He did not say OK, OK, I'm sorry.
I in the heat of a movement emotionally I volunteered.
Now I want to regret about it. I have a regret, so please let
me go. He never begged for mercy.
He never. So the last person alive was
Colby. All the other names died by
starvation. But this man was still alive.
So they had to inject poison and kill him.
After nearly 3040 years, the Roman Catholic Church made him a
St. It takes long time in the olden
days for the Catholic Church to declare somebody a St.
So they took their own time, 40-50 years, and they said ah
St. Maxwell and Colby.
But this man who who was substituting for the other
Polish man, he lived and he said the man's he saved, Francis
Zeke, survived the war, lived to old age up to 95 years of age
and spend the rest of his life telling the world he died so I
could live. That was his testimony.
He died so I could live. I tell you, we do not have any
less testimony than that man. Jesus died so that we can.
Shall we say it? Jesus died so we can live.
Shall we border on heads in prayer?
Father God, we thank you. What you have done for us is
beyond our understanding. The more I meditate upon the
cross, the more it baffles me how the infinite God can share
in the human body like me, and how sinless Son of God can
suffer for the world and carry the burdens of the whole world.
How his death substitutes for my death, how he he died in my
place. It is beyond my understanding,
but I know, my Lord, you loved me enough to come into the world
and die for me, and I worship you Jesus, I bless your name.
I magnify your name, ask the dominion, authority, power,
glory unto your name. I thank You because you died for
me so I can live. And I pray for the children now.
Touch their heart, touch their mind.
Touch their heart. Touch their mind.
Touch their heart as their mind. So they will resolve to live for
you. Only you and no one else.
Please you and no one else. Serve you, no one else.
Proclaim your name. No one else.
In the name of Jesus, I pray for the visitation of the Holy
Spirit now upon your children. Shastre Saranubo Baste.
Sandra no Rabareni. Manestro.
Shakare. Rabareni Manasto.
Sam Manasestro. Horrible.
In the name of Jesus I declare there's no savior like Jesus,
There's no one my Lord, there's no savior like you.
I worship in my Father. I give you glory, honor and
praise. Bless your children to the glory
of your name. In Jesus mighty name we have
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