#489 – Advent: Man of Sorrows (Isaiah 53:2–4)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 11 December 2018

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Summary

Jesus was smitten by God and afflicted. Humanly speaking, there was nothing that would draw us to Him. He became like us yet was without sin. He has conquered sin and death and is seated at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.0	Isaiah chapter 53 verses versus two through four
0:10.6	for he grew up before him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground.
0:16.0	He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire
0:21.6	him.
0:23.0	He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
0:29.7	And as one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised and we esteemed him not.
0:35.0	Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
0:47.0	During this Advent season, when we think about Jesus, and our hearts are drawn toward him.
0:56.0	I think it's important for us to hear these words from Isaiah 53 that basically
1:01.9	remind us that there was nothing in him
1:06.4	humanly speaking to draw us to him. Nothing in Jesus. He had no form or majesty that we should even look at him.
1:16.0	No beauty that we should desire him. This is very different than what people would be expecting or were expecting when it comes to a Messiah,
1:27.4	a king or ruler. And the reality is it's the same in our world today.
1:37.3	Like we look toward people who have forms that attract us to the majesty that that shouts splendor and grander beauty that's desirable or power that's desirable and
1:46.6	Jesus had none of that in fact the opposite was true of him he He was despised by men, rejected by men as one from whom men hide
1:57.5	their faces. Like, I don't even want to look at him. We despised him, esteemed him not. We esteemed him stricken, smitten by
2:06.8	God and afflicted. The whole picture here is Jesus had nothing in him, humanly speaking, to draw people to him.
2:17.0	Yet this is how God, the God of the universe, came in the flesh. He came as a man of sorrows acquainted with grief.
2:27.2	This is so unlike we might think and so good, so much better than we would ever think that God came to us in the form of a man.
2:41.5	This is what we anticipate in the advent season God becoming a man like us, acquainted with
2:48.8	our grief, acquainted with our sorrows, acquainted with the challenges of life in a sinful world yet without
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