1. Celebrating the Servant-Savior
The Gospel of Isaiah
Jason S. DeRouchie, PhD
Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Theology
Bethlehem College & Seminary
Bethlehem Baptist Church, spring 2018

2. ISAIAH 52:13–53:12 The Servant’s Global Exaltation and Reward through Substitutionary Suffering
I. Yahweh Foresees His Servant’s Global Exaltation through Substitutionary Suffering (52:13–15) II. The Prophet Describes the Servant’s Substitutionary Suffering (53:1–10) III. Yahweh Promises to Reward His Servant’s Substitutionary Suffering with the Prize of a Global People (53:11–12)

3. The Prophet Describes the Servant’s Substitutionary Suffering (53:1–10)
A. The Servant’s Divine-Human Nature and Homeliness (vv. 1–2)
B. The Servant’s Experience of Suffering (53:3)
C. The Substitutionary Nature of the Servant’s Suffering (53:4–6)
B’. The Servant’s Humble Response to His Suffering (53:7)
A’. The Human and Divine Perspective on His Suffering (53:8–10)

4. The Servant’s Divine-Human Nature and Homeliness (53:1–2)
The identity of the “who” and “whom”–– the initial audience of the servant’s ministry (v. 1)?
Contrast 52:15 and compare the “we” or “our” of vv. 2, 3, 5, 6 and the “my people” of v. 8.
John 12:37–41.
Rom 10:15–21.

5. The servant’s divine nature as “the arm of the LORD”
Isa 40:10.  Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him.
Isa 52:10. The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

6. The servant’s homely human nature (v. 2)
“A young plant”: Isa 11:8–9. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den. 9 They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. (Cf. Isa 7:14; 9:6)
“A root”: Isa 11:1, 10. There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from its roots shall bear fruit…. 10 In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples––of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious. (Cf. Rom 15:12)

7. The Servant’s Experience of Suffering (53:3)
His own nation despises him.
Isa 49:7. Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
John 1:10–11. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

8. A man of sorrows (pains) and grief (suffering)
Matt 16:21. From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
Matt 26:38–39. Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.” 39 And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
Heb 5:7–8. In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. 8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.