Today we read through Isaiah 53. This passage is called in many of our Bibles and by many theologians, the Suffering Servant song. This chapter of the Isaiah might not only be the clearest passage of the Old Testament on the death of Jesus Christ, but it might be one of the clearest and most defined passage in all of the Bible of what Jesus went through in His death. Thinking about the passion of Jesus Christ and all that was intended by His death, makes a Christian grateful, humble, more forgiving, and give a deeper love for the Suffering Servant. Did you know there is at least 50 reasons Jesus came, gave His life, and went through all that Isaiah describes in chapter 53? Here is a list of at least 50 reasons Jesus came to die. This list comes from John Piper’s book, “The passion of Jesus Christ”.
-to absorb the wrath of God
-to please His heavenly Father
-to learn obedience and be perfected
-to achieve His own resurrection from the dead
-to show the wealth of God’s love and grace for sinners
-to show His own love for us
-to cancel the legal demands of the law against us
-to become a ransom for many
-for the forgiveness of sins
-to provide the basis for our justification
-to complete the obedience that becomes righteousness
-to take away our condemnation
-to abolish circumcision and all the rituals as the basis of salvation
-to bring us to faith and keep us faithful
-to make us holy, blameless, and perfect
-to give us a clear conscience
-to obtain all things that are good for us
-to heal us from moral and physical sickness
-to give eternal life to all who believe
-to deliver us from the present evil age
-to reconcile us to God
-to bring us back to God
-to give us confident access to the Holiest Place
-to become for us the place where we meet God
-to bring the Old Testament priesthood to an end and become an eternal High priest for us
-to become a sympathetic and helpful priest
-to free us from the futility of our ancestry
-to free us from the slavery of sin
-that we might dies to sin and live to righteousness
-so we could die to the Law and bear fruit for God
-to enable us to live for Christ and not ourselves
-to make His cross the only ground for our boasting
-to enable us to live by faith alone in Him
-to give marriage its deepest meaning
-to create a people passionate for good works
-to call us to follow His example of lowliness and costly love
-to create a band of crucified followers
-to free us from bondage to the fear of death
-so that we might be with Him immediately after death
-to secure our resurrection from the dead
-to disarm the rulers and authorities
-to unleash the power of God in the Gospel
-to destroy the hostility between races
-to ransom people from every tribe, language, people, and nation
-to gather all His sheep from around the world
-to rescue us from the final judgment
-to gain His joy and ours
-so that we might be crowned with glory and honor
-to show that the worst evil is mean by God for good
-to absorb the wrath of God
-to please His heavenly Father
-to learn obedience and be perfected
-to achieve His own resurrection from the dead
-to show the wealth of God’s love and grace for sinners
-to show His own love for us
-to cancel the legal demands of the law against us
-to become a ransom for many
-for the forgiveness of sins
-to provide the basis for our justification
-to complete the obedience that becomes righteousness
-to take away our condemnation
-to abolish circumcision and all the rituals as the basis of salvation
-to bring us to faith and keep us faithful
-to make us holy, blameless, and perfect
-to give us a clear conscience
-to obtain all things that are good for us
-to heal us from moral and physical sickness
-to give eternal life to all who believe
-to deliver us from the present evil age
-to reconcile us to God
-to bring us back to God
-to give us confident access to the Holiest Place
-to become for us the place where we meet God
-to bring the Old Testament priesthood to an end and become an eternal High priest for us
-to become a sympathetic and helpful priest
-to free us from the futility of our ancestry
-to free us from the slavery of sin
-that we might dies to sin and live to righteousness
-so we could die to the Law and bear fruit for God
-to enable us to live for Christ and not ourselves
-to make His cross the only ground for our boasting
-to enable us to live by faith alone in Him
-to give marriage its deepest meaning
-to create a people passionate for good works
-to call us to follow His example of lowliness and costly love
-to create a band of crucified followers
-to free us from bondage to the fear of death
-so that we might be with Him immediately after death
-to secure our resurrection from the dead
-to disarm the rulers and authorities
-to unleash the power of God in the Gospel
-to destroy the hostility between races
-to ransom people from every tribe, language, people, and nation
-to gather all His sheep from around the world
-to rescue us from the final judgment
-to gain His joy and ours
-so that we might be crowned with glory and honor
-to show that the worst evil is mean by God for good
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