So we ended the first session and that fifth look at Jesus with why he was

despised and rejected and crushed to death at the cross, namely for us, for the

many, as Isaiah says it, for those who receive him through faith. And I noted

there at the end about the joy that was set before him. That is, as Isaiah foretold

in Isaiah 53-11, out of his anguish, he shall see and be satisfied. In other

words, it pleased him to give himself for us. He delighted, in a sense, to be put

to death for what it would achieve. His willing was not an empty willing, but a

full, satisfied willing, full enough to sustain him in the horrifying agony and

suffering of the cross. But what the joy that sent him to the cross requires

is resurrection. If Jesus stays dead, there is no delight, no joy, in it for him,

in it for the Father, in it for us. There is no God honoring and no church

loving willingness if he stays dead. His joy in it, and delight in it, leans on

his being raised from it. And the resurrection is right there in Isaiah 53. So that's

where I want us to start here in this second session. In Isaiah 53 verses 10 to 12 it was

the will of the Lord to crush him. And this is literally, this is the word

delight translated elsewhere in Isaiah. Kind of hard to handle it for translators. But this

willing is not an empty willing, is if he's willing to do it, he doesn't really want to do it.

It's the kind of willing that wants it, that embraces it, even the language of delight striking.

Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him. He has put him to grief. When his soul makes

an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring. He shall prolong his days, and the will of the

Lord shall prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul, he shall see and be satisfied.

By his knowledge, shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous,

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