Throughout Lent, we've been asking the Suffering Servant of Isaiah why he suffers and what God's promised salvation actually costs. On Good Friday, we finally answer the question: how does this Servant accomplish the salvation of the world?

Isaiah 53 gives us three answers:

1. the Servant bears our sorrows without complaint,
2. He absorbs the full weight of God's righteous wrath against sin in his body,
3. and He pours out His very life as both high priest and sacrifice so that guilty sinners could be counted righteous.

This sermon walks through each of those three movements and doesn't shy away from the hard questions. If God is the one who helps the servant, why is God also the one who leads him into suffering? Is the Father being cruel? And what does it really mean that Jesus was "numbered with the transgressors"? The answers help us understand the cross as the only way a just God could justify the wicked while remaining just Himself.

On Good Friday, Christians stand in awe of what God accomplished when Jesus refused to defend Himself, absorbed every ounce of punishment we deserved, and laid down His life so that we would never have to face God's wrath.

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