 Right welcome back Okay, let's pick up from this point for our peace Right, so we looked at what he was wounded was pierced for our transgressions for our sins And he was bruised for our iniquities that is our evils our faults our guilt the Jastisement that means the punishment for our peace Now the word peace here is Shalom, and I'm sure you've heard this word before The Greek word for Shalom is a comprehensive word. It's a big word But to simplify it we can say Shalom means well-being in our spirit soul and body Right, so well-being in our spirit in our mind our soul in our body So when Jesus says Shalom he's saying not only peace He's not saying it's only peace that you know in the trouble. I'll give you peace. No, he's saying You will have healing in your body healing in your mind Healing in your soul You know, we can have a very strong physical body, but if we are hurt and wounded in the mind and our soul It can dry us out Right, so here he's talking about Complete wholeness Complete well-being, right? How do we know this because when we look at scriptures? We see that Jesus healed people who were Afflicted in the spirit demonized people people were demon possessed He healed them Remember that boy his mother came crying and said Please pray for my son because he's possessed he jumps into the fire We tried to save him so many times But now he jumps into the fire. There's no peace in the family Imagine that poor mom mother and Jesus says Be gone from He drives out the demons away and there was peace in that family Imagine gyros his daughter Gyros his daughter is dead. You think everyone was celebrating? Broken they were there's no peace. There was sadness Jesus rose them up rose up Jairus's daughter He's come so that you and I can walk in physical wholeness mental wholeness Emotional wholeness spiritual wholeness complete well-being is what he is offering us Right, so if you see the scriptures, right? There are many examples multitudes who touched Jesus the lunatic boy The man with drops the the ten lepers the man at the pool of Bethsaida the crippled man in acts three The Roman centurion the woman with the issue of bleeding and plenty of other miracles God the Lord Jesus brought Shalom upon their life So it's not only healing Shalom is Total wholeness, right? Then he says in 53 verse 6 And we like sheep have gone astray We have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the Iniquity of us all Look at this the Lord Isaiah's writing always remember this should be in your background. Who's writing? Isaiah Has he seen sheep and shepherds? Yes But now he's writing about a person who he has not seen He's writing about a cross which he doesn't even know about But he's trying to bring figurative language just like how she goes straight. We all go are going astray So since we go astray, what does it say the Lord God himself laid upon this person, right? Laid upon him the iniquity of us all the word laid has two of twofold meaning number one The word laid in the Hebrew paga means to to lay upon or to dump upon somebody How many of you did this in school your teacher gives you homework? Oh, man, and then you've got one subject which you don't like at all You don't like it because you don't know it You don't know anything in that subject What do you? Take that book you'll go give it to your father or your mother You do it But you have to learn no, I don't you do it. I Remember as a little boy My mother tongue is Canada. I don't know Canada My mother is a Kannada teacher for 40 years. She's a Kannada teacher So now what did I do? When I started growing up or as both steps I don't know how to read So my mother would read the Kannada and explain the story to me Because I don't know how to read so what would I do any homework cannot go straight to my mother dump it on my mother I Know the homework is gonna get done Did I understand anything zero How will you write your final exam that we'll see later? You teach me I'll go write it. No problem. I can write Reading I couldn't read it is just too difficult But I would dump all the homework and I know that she would it was laid on her. She knows That this boy will come and give me the Kannada homework and she will sit and write it The teacher also knows that it is not me who's written it because it's too correct. Everything is correct She knows What is happening here? I have dumped everything upon My mother So I'm not worried about Kannada. I'm worried about science English Social studies. Okay, I have no excuse for that My mother will say, you know English you study yourself and do it You're okay. You don't know Dump it on you get the understanding here. I've dumped everything. So go out dumped upon Jesus put everything What is an iniquity an iniquity is a sin That you know is a sin while you're committing the sin and yet God forgives that Let me give you an example become a believer But you've come out of example a boy a person was an alcoholic But God changed his life and now he's become a believer He knows that he's the temple of the Holy Spirit He has to live a holy life But some challenges happen in his workplace or he is very worried and he's tempted to Have a little drink So he goes he's struggling within himself. I should not do this. This is wrong But there's this fight inside and he's going he goes to the shop. He buys the liquor bottle and He comes home and he keeps telling himself. No, this is wrong. I should not do this. I know it's wrong I should not do this but this pressure in my mind this work That is such a big tension and the problems that I'm not able to there's a fight inside and then he goes and gets a glass And then if I know this is wrong, I don't want to do that. I know it's a sin My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. He opens the body I keep saying no, I should not do this. God has blessed me with a wife and Beautiful children. Why would I want to throw myself into this again? And he posed the drink and he's committing the sin He's committing the sin. He knows it's a sin He knows he's committing that sin and that is called an inequity even that sin Knowing it's a sin. Jesus has already forgiven How do you differentiate between sin and inequity? Yeah, so an inequity as I was explaining an inequity is It's a sin that you know it's a sin But I'm still doing it Right, I know it's wrong. See sometimes we sin unknowingly right Oh We say something unforgiveness anger Iniquity is something that is you know, it's wrong, but I purposely do it That is the inequity And and and even that sin Jesus has taken it up, but it's not like automatically that sin gets forgiven. We have to go back Even at that moment right if we go back to Jesus and say Just throw away the just this example of this man. He takes the bottle. He throws it out of his House and he just says never go to do this. This is the wrong thing that I have done But he runs back to the cross. He says Jesus. I've done this wrong. Jesus will forgive him Jesus is not going to say now you know everything. I got you out of this Five years back. What made you I the Holy Spirit is inside you. What made you do this? He's not going to do all of that He's going to forgive But the Holy Spirit is always there to correct us to exhort us That's what inequity is where he has he has laid on himself all of that You know the sins knowingly unknowingly. So there's something called his sins of Commission and sins of omission. I don't but we'll not go into that. We'll talk about that later Right. So this twofold purpose. One is to dump and the second idea is Make intercession So he has laid means to dump and now after dumping it Now many times my mother's come for the parent teacher meeting How come his homework is all Done correctly, but in the exam. He's not written anything My mother's making intercession now. I wrote it See, you should not write it because he won't learn anything Oh, I will teach him. I know because he's not able to understand how to read Kannada, but I will correct him. I will teach him Give him some time he needs to understand that but he knows how to write. He'll do when So if you ask if you tell him the story, he will write it What is my mother doing? Is she's making intercession for me First of all, I dumped all the Kannada on her To he's making intercession during parent teacher meeting. Okay, give him some time Now after that, my mother didn't say, okay, go enjoy and then you know, I'll keep doing. No, no She made me to sit and learn it Put the effort and learn how to read Kannada. So she went back to first standard Teaching me all of those things I had to learn it eventually had to get to read because I knew, you know, I was bought in fourth grade of FQ. I knew that this was going to be that little understanding I cannot escape it Yeah, I don't know but she made intercession for me That is what it means to lead upon One is dumped on Jesus Two and now Jesus is a mediator between God and man As one mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ Right Next one as a sheep before it shearers 53 Isaiah 53 and verse 7 everyone with me Yes, okay. Let's read verse 7 Read it from your notes He was oppressed and he was afflicted Yet he opened not his mouth. He was lit as a lamp to the slaughter And as a sheep before it shearers in silent. So he opened not his mouth He was oppressed. Have you seen the the cattle in plowing the field? Do you think the ox like it? He liked to be free, right? They like to be moving around You know eating grass and enjoying themselves But Jesus that when that Oppression that weight is on on that ox It's oppressed And now you see ox they have continually oppressed. They are bent Normally, they're fed. Why just for hours and hours that yoke is upon them They go up that they do the plowing the whole day Please five to six hours a day the hot sun and it's oppressed the whole time If you've noticed, you know, the neck is always down, right? It's an oppression Like and like, you know painfully abused or distressed Jesus was oppressed And he was afflicted He had to he was he was dent how do you look down upon he was treated badly To afflict is to cause injury to cause pain Right Many are the afflictions of the righteous But the Lord delivers this from them all For that verse the psalmist says Psalm 34 he delivered me from my afflictions For my troubles right Yet he opened not his mouth He was led as a lamb to the slaughter Look at the picture Isaiah is giving he opened not his mouth How did Isaiah know he won't speak? You're not even a holy slave Pilate is asking Jesus Are you who everyone say you are? No answer Are you what you don't want to defend yourself? No answer He didn't open his mouth Tell me are you the son of son of god the son of man the Messiah who everyone are talking about? Because you're saying so you believe it. I am that He didn't talk unnecessarily Do you think Jesus could not have wiped them out? No time But he was led like a lamb to the slaughter when you take a lamb to the slaughter. You don't see them struggling Very quiet. They don't do it. No You know when Abraham would have taken that lamb From the stuck in the tickets we would have put it on that it would have struggled a little bit That's it Lambs by nature are very quiet very Yeah, they they don't They don't cause too much of a problem now You see these chickens and all you cast them. It's not flying everywhere It's not like that. Lambs are very different. They are very timid creatures Right and the sheep and as a sheep before it shearers is silent So he opened not his mouth the prophecy written He will not open his mouth. He didn't do it. He didn't speak Look at the next point From prison and from judgment 53 verse 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment and who will declare his generation and who will declare his generation For he was cut off from the land of living for the transgression of my people. He was stricken. Look at that from prison to judgment Jesus was held in prison overnight remember that They held him in prison. So if you know what happened, he was Somewhere in the afternoon, they caught Jesus. They've got him to the high priest on the previous night they they Judas betrayed Jesus And Jesus was taken in the night Right, they put him into prison Then he was no they they questioned him all of it and they put him into prison and the next day he was beat him The 30 40 minus one lashing happened by afternoon. He was crucified life gone like this the same man who raised Lazarus from the dead who Cleans the lepers there was no medicine for leprosy The same man who just said things And life came into people He said Jairus's daughter sleeping. Don't worry. Lifted him up. Lifted her up the same man who said to the storms be still the disciples are wondering who is this man who's even commanding the Sees to be still the same man who walked on the waters The same man who took five loaves of bread and two fish and fed thousands of people same man is now Here before Pilate standing he doesn't open his mouth He keeps his mouth shut He could have walked out of there But he did it for you and right With the wicked and with the rich 53 inverse nine and they made his grave with the wicked But with the rich at his death because he had done no violence There was any deceit in his mouth His he made his grave with the wicked meaning who who were there next to him when he died? Not any righteous people The two thieves next to him And I believe that they would have had more compassion on the thieves than Jesus The thieves are better than Jesus They would have felt that way But with the rich at the depth meaning Joseph of Arimat I was a rich man who went and asked for Jesus's body He had his own tomb the reason we know he's rich is because he had his own Tomb and only rich people could afford that and he had his own tomb and His body was given to Joseph of Arimat I and then it says nor was any deceit in his mouth There was no light. There was no deceit If if Jesus had opened his mouth And said okay pilot you're saying this Okay These people are saying crucify me Tell me what is the fault? If Jesus had asked On what ground are you crucifying me? But Jesus have asked that Yes On what ground as a Jew Tell me on what ground do you want to crucify me? No, you started a preaching you started. That's okay So what if I start preaching Many people preach I'm not saying anything wrong. I'm saying what I believe in Tell me on what ground are you crucifying me? Why did you say let him go? I can't crucify You would have said no Why because there's nothing there's no fault in him. You understand what I'm saying, right? But Jesus didn't defy him He didn't stand there and try to defend himself Because he knew he had to go through it If Jesus had a lawyer Right a Jewish lawyer The Jewish lawyer would have made sure Jesus was set free It would have happened in one hour One hour, okay come Barabbas you stand here Jesus you stand here the lawyer would have said stood there and said, okay This is the number one criminal Who's done so many things wrong now pull out the papers What did Jesus do? He healed the blind He cleansed the lepers He provided for people. He blessed people He did all good things. How can you crucify him? The lawyer will say yeah Barabbas you only go you're crucified. That's what would have happened If he had defended himself then the whole purpose of the cross is gone That's why he had he was silent He was silent so that they could do what they had to do to him Remember what the apostle called it? It was a roman citizen. They said Well, we'll arrest Paul and what did he say? Hey, I'm a roman citizen. Oh, let him go He paid I paid a price for my roman citizenship. Let him go Same thing I paid a price I pay I'm a Jewish citizen. I can I can go and I can talk in the In the temple You're saying I'm learned. You're giving me an opportunity. I'm sharing There's nothing okay. I say something wrong, but you can't put me to death for that Put me into prison for three or two years and leave me after two years Jesus could have done that He says here He was quiet because they knew that he knew that this had to happen. There was no fault in him at all That's our fulfilling scriptures He shall see his seed and prolong his days. I also have 53 10 yet It pleased the lord to bruise him He has put Him into grief When you make his soul and offering for sin He shall be his seed his he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the lord shall prosper in the land This is like a literal fulfillment and a figurative fulfillment. Okay So it pleased the lord to bruise him You know once you become a parent Will you please will you feel pleased to bruise your son and your daughter? Impossible But for god the father He looked at you and me And he looked at the end picture That after the cross You and I Will be saved through the blood of my son So for that it pleases me to put judgment upon my son It pleases me. I'm happy to do it What's god the father is not in a place saying okay, anyway, it's not me No he's The compassionate loving god He's loving How will he how would he have felt putting all the sins of the world upon his son? It pleased him Why because of you and me Because of us. He saw us He said jesus my son if you do this the entire generations The world will be saved by what you do. That's why the book of hippu says that at the name of jesus god exalted him higher Because of what he did and seated him at the right hand of the father That at the name of jesus all power all dominion belongs to jesus That at the name of jesus every knee shall bow every tongue shall confess that he alone is god See what happens Right The literal fulfillment was he he arose to see his descendants Right. He did everything the lord had planned everything that was Needed for an offering of sin When you talk about the sin offering he completed it all Right and the figure of fulfillment was life came because of his offering himself right meaning He brought life for people who are lost Right and he shall justify many Isaiah 53 11 he shall see the labor of his soul and be satisfied by his fore knowledge My righteous servant shall justify many for he shall bear their iniquities. Look at this word. Isaiah is saying talking about justify Justification would have not even been a word During that time But he's talking in terms of a literal You know like probably he's thinking about a court case He's saying jesus will justify you He will justify many through the blood And now we use the word justification What is it? Just as if We have not sinned Look at this. He shall see the labor of his soul He shall see The fruit of his work Do you think when jesus sees His hands Pierced and if jesus looks at his body with all those bruises. Do you think jesus is feeling sad? Is he feeling sad right now? He's saying oh god i went through this Oh lord i went father you made me go through this. No He's saying he shall see the labor of his soul and he'll be pleased. He'll be satisfied I thank you that i am so grateful that i did this But now that the enemy is destroyed because of one work that was done Across the entire human race has been saved And the devil has been destroyed Because of one work on the cross And he will see the labor do you think You know when god when the lord jesus sees maybe you look you think of a Criminal who's killed many people Right and through the power of the holy spirit. He changes his life and he becomes a believer He says oh the cross took all my sins. Do you know how jesus would feel? You can't think of that Oh If they'll be rejoicing even if one person comes into the kingdom of god, that's what the scriptures say But jesus will say This person Was a sinner who has been a murderer And the devil has used it for so he's murdered many people, but now he's come to the cross Now he's Righteous in my presence the devil has no say He's justified us So the sinner who's killed murdered 10 people can come and say I didn't murder anyone Who murdered I'm not sure I may have but No, I'm washed. It's just as if I'm not sin. That's what you think. No, that's what the bible says Now the consequences may be this person may be there in jail for the rest of his life But when he goes to heaven, he'll be rejoicing in heaven Jesus is not going to go back and look at the back of his life and say these are the things you did No, no, no, he's going to look at him as saved by the blood of jesus He'd be satisfied with the work that he has done What a powerful work the lord jesus has done First quarantine seven two seven through eight, but we speak the wisdom of god in a mystery The hidden wisdom which god ordained before the ages for our glory Which none of the rulers of this age knew For had they known they would not have crucified the lord of glory remember you see that If jesus had come down from the heavens all of a sudden in a golden robe in a white horse and said I am the messiah And I've come to destroy the roman government Do you think they would have said crucify him? They would have said please come God made one golden chair and made him sat sit there, but that's not the point The point was sins had to be dealt with Satan had to be destroyed by sitting on the throne though satan is going to be destroyed So jesus had to come this way The cross had to happen the next second coming when we read in the book of revelations. Oh, he's not coming as a lamb He's not coming as a lamb Bible says in revelations. He's coming as the king of glory It says here ancient of days on his writing hi king of kings That's how he's going to come. He's not coming like uh, you know, uh, like a small 30 year old man A carpenter's son Everyone can spit on him. No He's coming as the king The bible says he will blow And he will destroy The armies who comes against Israel He will just blow he is coming as a glorious king But the jews expected that in the first Then who will fulfill all the sin offering guilt offering pain offering all those offerings Jesus only know But now he's not coming as a lamb. He's coming as a lion A portion with the great Therefore Isaiah 53 12 therefore Therefore because he has done all this I will divide him a portion with the great And he shall divide the spoil With the strong the word spoil means the plunder. So when armies go and fight with you know, when Countries and cities go and fight with other places in in in the old testament and in history Whatever was good in that country, they would bring it and come that's called the spoils of that country Whatever the crops or light stop you bring it and come so here Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great and he shall Divide the spoil with the strong Because he poured out a soul under death and he he was numbered with the transgressors And he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors now picture this Jesus went Into the field into the territory of the devil He destroyed the devil And he brought the spoils meaning the plunder And he what did he do? He divided it to his people So imagine we are in Jesus's team He destroyed the devil and he's giving us the spoils of the kingdom Right and it says here in we that this was Colossians 2 14 Christ triumphed on the cross And entered into a place of honor the right hand of the father Exalted over all powers right now You and I are seated with Jesus in heavenly places You may not feel so You may be feeling sleepy and cold in Kottunur Bangalore But in the spiritual realms You are seated Heavenly places. That's where you are How do I understand it? Think about this Jesus is standing there in the heavenly places. He's put one small chair for you I'm just drawing a picture for you right. I'm painting a picture. You imagine this Jesus is standing here all authority all glory Fully man fully God Nobody can come against him Right, and then he's put one small chair And you're sitting there and you're we've done that for your parents You have if you have little children, they'll be standing here. They'll keep pulling your back That I want this I want you take it, you know, if you once you become a parent to take your children to the mall. Oh Every now and then this this will come can I get ice cream? Can I go on the train ride? Can I get kfc? Everything in one day Why Father no or mother whatever Can I get it? So you are seated with Jesus All you have to do is Jesus Here's my problem. Can you help me? Yes, I'll help you now as a father If my son keeps asking for You know 10 chocolates will I give it? I'll say no sit quietly at the right time. I'll give you one So at the right time God knows what to give how to give when to give You understand what you've seated with him. He's given you authority Just because he asks for 10 chocolates doesn't mean he's not my son Just because I don't give him 10 chocolates doesn't mean I'm not his father I'm his father But he knows what to do same way The spiritual you are seated with Jesus. He has given you all the authority He said you use this authority This is the victory of the one john I forget the verse john writes and he says This is the victory In the world This is the victory of even our faith Faith is the victory Right. He has plenty of verses That the word of God speaking to us through we use it Seated with him Other you said this Jesus you said this You said you've given us authority. So I'm using this authority. You said it We use it It's it's like Jesus Is speaking on our behalf When the devil sees you and me he's seeing Jesus in us He's coming against Jesus Okay, because the spirit of the holy spirit is also the spirit of Jesus I mean, we know that Jesus is in us the devil can see through it He knows So he will try to attack where in the mind Jesus is there when the devil attacked Jesus himself try to tempt Jesus really not tempt us. It's all here But the just shall live by faith We don't visit faith Every two months we go visit faith and come back. No the just shall live by faith It's hard. I know it's hard But that's a promise that God has given us, right? Then he says a portion with it. Okay, that's done And then we see that Jesus After triumphing over us. He intercedes for us On the cross he's still, you know on the cross. What did Jesus do? He interceded for the people He said father forgive them for they don't know what they are doing He interceding for them. What is Jesus doing now? He's interceding for you and me That's what he's doing now. We talked about this in Hebrews and then we see the uniqueness of Christ. Hebrews 7 25 Therefore, he is able to save to the uttermost Those who come to God through him Since he always lives to make intercession for us. He always lives to make it He's able to save to the uttermost It could be a person who is a complete Atheist who doesn't believe in anything about God He's able to save them God is able to do it Nobody is out of the grace of God Nobody in this world. There is no sin that the cross cannot cover There is no sickness that the cross Of Jesus Christ cannot cover Nothing, no sin It's all paid for So if we go back to the cross and ask for forgiveness, we will find forgiveness Amen? So we need to accept it and believe it in our life Chapter 17 We will not go into the verses but chapter 17 is where Jesus He talks about the cross Jesus knew He came for the cross And all these verses Luke 2 34 35 all of these verses John 17 1 Most of the time, you know in the in the times of greatest victory Where Jesus was showed his power his authority Few probably few days later. He says one day I'm going to die I think of the disciples suddenly they are up there Hey, I'm walking with Jesus There are 5,000 people but these 12 are the main So I'm first and come on Then you got Peter James and they're all thinking oh man This is going to be good But Jesus is saying hey one day I will die One day I'll be put to death not one day I'll be put to death And one day you all will go through this kind of persecution. They are wondering why this is nice. No Go to one city do one 10 miracles go to another city do another 10 thousands are following. Why you want to die? But Jesus foretells he says no I've come not to put a show here I've come for the cross. I have one purpose One goal one mission and that is why on the cross Jesus said better less tired That mission that I was born for in this world As a man has been finished That's why he says it is finished I've completed What the father asked me to do He foretells the cross do you think the disciples would have felt good when we read it, right? All through this great victory Jesus says prepare I'm going to I'm going to be put to death They're going to catch the son of man. They're going to torture him. They're going to put him to death Don't worry. He will rise again. Everything he's told I don't understand, you know, think of this Jesus is in the last supper He's saying the person who I dipped the bread And I hand it to is the one who will betray me But they're all busy the disciples. Who is it you? Is it you? Is it you? Jesus dips the bread and gives it to Judas They didn't really they didn't notice it Yes or no, it's like this If I take this take a pen and I say next semester Joseph is going to be the captain of the class I take the pen No, I'll say next semester The person I give this pen to is going to be The captain of the class Who's the next captain of the class? I go and give it to Joseph, but you'll all have missed it And then the Bible says Jesus tells Judas go do what you have to do But the disciples thought because he's the treasurer. He has all the money Right, so maybe go buy the food or go do what you have to do Jesus He told them straightforward Jesus is not hiding anything there. It is very simple He says that the person who I tip the spread and I give it to is the person who's going to betray me And that is what happened. He dipped it gave it to Judas Judas took it but they are still deciding talking about who who's going to deny and then Jesus tells Judas also go do what you have to do They still didn't get it So everywhere Jesus foretells across Remember Jesus says I am the alpha and the omega I am the beginning. I am the end revelations. He says I am the first and the last I was dead, but now I'm alive. He says Jesus knew what he did. He knew what he's going to do Even now you and I may be in a situation. He knows what he's going to do It's not like he doesn't know. He knows He knows why he brought you to a situation. He knows how to bring you through the situation He knows how to take you in the storm and how to bring you out of the storm also He knows it right and we got to trust in him Right, so we'll stop here next class we'll get into chapter 18 And we'll try to complete chapter 18 and 19 Right, we'll look at the aspects of the wisdom of the cross now Quite a few of these pointers may be a repeat of what we did in our lifestyle evangelism. So we'll go a little quick chapter 18 and 19 and then we can chapter 19 again the power and the blessings of the cross small chapter we can look at that And then chapter 20 is from the cross to the throne. So this is a very interesting chapter talking about how Jesus what he did after Jesus died after the cross and how he ascended to the father Right, okay, so thank you so much any questions any thoughts before we close Okay, thank you. Have a good weekend and I'll see you next Friday. God bless you all