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Introduction
Happy Easter!
Welcome!
Easter is the day that we remember the resurrection of Jesus.
We will certainly do that today, but we are going to look at a passage from the Bible that I have never used on Easter.
I hope it makes sense why we are doing this, so hang around until the end and hopefully everything will come together.
I have themed our Easter sermons this year around three verses from the book of Acts
Give some context
Jesus lived, died, resurrected, and ascended
This was the start of the new church.
Guys like Peter were carrying on the ministry Jesus left for them.
After about a chapter long sermon, Peter concludes the sermon with this sentence.
In it he makes a very important statement:
Jesus is BOTH Lord AND Messiah
He isn’t one or the other, He is both, and.
After making this point, the people understood what Peter had meant.
Here was their response:
Something had happened in their hearts.
They were cut.
They learned an important fact.
Jesus is both Lord and Messiah.
I know we talk about a personal relationship with Jesus.
Our approach to Jesus is personal.
But we don’t make Jesus Lord of our lives.
We recognize that He is Lord.
We don’t put Him in any position of authority.
He is in authority.
We either submit to it or reject it.
But the reality is, HE IS LORD!
He is also Messiah.
That is what we want to talk about today.
The people asked, “What shall we do?”
They recognized they hadn’t submitted to Jesus as Lord.
They recognized that they had killed the Messiah.
They were devastated.
Peter responded:
Last week we looked at the Kingly entry of Jesus into Jerusalem
We saw how he intentionally fulfilled the prophecies that identified Him as King.
If you missed that, it is online and I encourage you to track it down and watch it.
We saw that Jesus is Lord.
What does it mean that Jesus is Messiah?
Messiah
Most of us have heard the word “Messiah”
We sing songs about it.
We say that Jesus was the Messiah.
We all know the word, but if we are going to have to define what it means that Jesus was the Messiah, here is what the definition would look like:
Messiah- Something Jesus was called.
A really important word.
It means important things.
It is really, really…really important.
There was something about Jesus being called the Messiah that cut people to the heart.
It was important.
So I want to take some time today and break down what it means that Jesus was Messiah.
It is important.
But we need to know why it was important so we can understand who Jesus is.
Maybe understanding that Jesus is the Messiah will cut us to the heart as well.
The word Messiah comes from the Hebrew word “Messee-ah”.
It was not necessarily a name, but rather it was an identification.
Messiah means “Anointed one”
In the OT, anointing meant some really important things:
It means that someone was chosen and approved by God
This ceremony would be that the people around them had identified that they were chosen and approved by God for a certain function.
Priests
Kings
Prophets
There was prophecy that spoke of the coming Anointed One.
Not an anointed one.
But The Anointed One.
Anointed- Chosen and approved by God for a purpose
In Acts, we see that Peter says that Jesus is both Lord AND Messiah.
He identifies Jesus as the Anointed One.
The Messiah.
But the question still rests, what was Jesus anointed for?
What was his purpose?
Why was he chosen and approved by God?
We are very fortunate that the Bible gives us the answer to this question.
Now I know it is Easter, so please resist the urge to turn to the traditional Easter passages in your Bibles.
We are going to go to Isaiah 53 today.
This will be our key passage.
This is a passage that is a prophecy about the coming Messiah.
In this prophecy, we will find what the Messiah was set apart to do.
This will tell us who He was to be.
Pray
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As we dive into this, I want you to remember this.
Last week, we looked at prophecies about how a King would be raised up that would set the people free.
They misunderstood the “freedom” part of that prophecy, but they knew there would be a King.
As we read through this passage, we find that while the Kingly prophecies are powerful, the Messiah prophecies seem much different.
It is almost as if they couldn’t possibly be talking about the same person.
Let’s take a look at this passage.
Jesus is the Messiah, but what was he set apart to do?
What was his purpose?
What was his calling?
There are a few lines in this passage that give us some idea of what the Messiah was called to do.
Purpose of the Messiah:
Verse 6- “…the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Verse 8- “…for the transgression of my people he was punished.”
Verse 10- “…the Lord makes his life an offering for sin”
Verse 11- “…he will bear their iniquities.”
Verse 12- “For he bore the sin of many...”
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