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Series: Sing of the Lord's Servant - Isaiah - Lenten Series
April 19, 2025
Rev. Nathan J. Rusert
Good Friday 18-April-2025 Lenten Sermon Series: “Sing of the Lord’s Servant!” Sermon Text: Isaiah 50:6-9 Sermon Theme: Sing of the Obedient Servant! I. He Sets His Face To Save You by His Suffering! (Vs.6-7) II. His Resurrection Justifies You! (Vs.8-9) by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert
Episode Notes
Good Friday 18-April-2025
Lenten Sermon Series: “Sing of the Lord’s Servant!”
Sermon Text: Isaiah 50:6-9
Sermon Theme: Sing of the Obedient Servant! I. He Sets His Face To Save You by His Suffering! (Vs.6-7) II. His Resurrection Justifies You! (Vs.8-9) by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert
I.N.R.I. “Were you there when the crucified the Lord?” The old Negro spiritual asks the question. My gut reaction is, ‘No! I didn’t exist until nearly 1930 centuries after Jesus died on a hill outside of Jerusalem!”
Reading the eyewitness historical account of John who was there at the foot of Jesus’ cross tonight - I hear the echo of another who was there when they crucified the Lord....(vs. 6-7)
Isaiah sounds like he has heard and interviewed the Suffering Servant the Obedient Servant - Jesus! He was there, but how? He lived nearly seven centuries before Jesus’ passion! How could he be there?
Listening closely I hear the echo of the prophet Elijah - He was there to hear Jesus’ still small voice bringing victory.
Listen! You’ll hear the echo of David being there and recording Jesus’ very Word, ‘My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
Listen closer! You’ll hear the voice of Moses testifying that He was there when they crucified the Lord. He saw His glory in the burning bush.
Sharpen your ears....hear Abraham standing on Moriah - Calvary - rejoicing to see Jesus’ day - Isaac spared - the thorn crowed ram is slain instead - for in the mount of the Lord it will be provided.
Hear the Holy Spirit’s promise - it echos back to our fallen father Adam in the black darkness of our sin. He is there! The Father slaughters an innocent lamb to clothe our shame. He was there when they crucified the Lord!
Were you? Listen closely as Isaiah sings (vs.8-9) Hear it? It is the triumphant song of baptismal victory!
Were you at Calvary? By God’s grace through the Holy Spirit in Jesus’ Word! Don’t you see? Romans 6:3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Baptism is never your work - it is His gift. You were there for the eternally only begotten Son - Who humbled Himself to become and remain your flesh and blood Brother - He brought you there! He so closely united you with Himself that you were there. Your sins became His own. Your guilt is His. Your shame is His clothing as naked He suffers upon the tree. You were there with all your sin, shame, death, and hell. Willingly He clothed it all upon Himself to set you free!
Hear the life giving baptismal stream gushing from His cross! Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. You were there when they laid Him in the tomb. He took your death fully into Himself. Now death cannot hold those who believe and are baptized in Him! Romans 6:5-6 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, (6) knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
Were you there? By His Word and gift. By the Holy Spirit in God’s Word. By the Father’s mercy. By the Son’s eternal love.... I was there! My sins were there! They crucified Him! I killed the Lord of Life! He did it all to save me - a poor - a miserable - a lost sinner!
Now He lives! FOR YOU! FOR ME! Hear His Holy Spirit echoing the victory of His cross and empty tombs into your ears! Romans 8:31-39 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? (32) He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? (33) Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. (34) Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. (35) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (36) As it is written: "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL DAY LONG; WE ARE ACCOUNTED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER." (37) Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. (38) For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, (39) nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Were you there?.....Is He here? Yes! With you always to the end of the earth! Amen.
Lenten Sermon Series: “Sing of the Lord’s Servant!”
Sermon Text: Isaiah 50:6-9
Sermon Theme: Sing of the Obedient Servant! I. He Sets His Face To Save You by His Suffering! (Vs.6-7) II. His Resurrection Justifies You! (Vs.8-9) by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert
I.N.R.I. “Were you there when the crucified the Lord?” The old Negro spiritual asks the question. My gut reaction is, ‘No! I didn’t exist until nearly 1930 centuries after Jesus died on a hill outside of Jerusalem!”
Reading the eyewitness historical account of John who was there at the foot of Jesus’ cross tonight - I hear the echo of another who was there when they crucified the Lord....(vs. 6-7)
Isaiah sounds like he has heard and interviewed the Suffering Servant the Obedient Servant - Jesus! He was there, but how? He lived nearly seven centuries before Jesus’ passion! How could he be there?
Listening closely I hear the echo of the prophet Elijah - He was there to hear Jesus’ still small voice bringing victory.
Listen! You’ll hear the echo of David being there and recording Jesus’ very Word, ‘My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
Listen closer! You’ll hear the voice of Moses testifying that He was there when they crucified the Lord. He saw His glory in the burning bush.
Sharpen your ears....hear Abraham standing on Moriah - Calvary - rejoicing to see Jesus’ day - Isaac spared - the thorn crowed ram is slain instead - for in the mount of the Lord it will be provided.
Hear the Holy Spirit’s promise - it echos back to our fallen father Adam in the black darkness of our sin. He is there! The Father slaughters an innocent lamb to clothe our shame. He was there when they crucified the Lord!
Were you? Listen closely as Isaiah sings (vs.8-9) Hear it? It is the triumphant song of baptismal victory!
Were you at Calvary? By God’s grace through the Holy Spirit in Jesus’ Word! Don’t you see? Romans 6:3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Baptism is never your work - it is His gift. You were there for the eternally only begotten Son - Who humbled Himself to become and remain your flesh and blood Brother - He brought you there! He so closely united you with Himself that you were there. Your sins became His own. Your guilt is His. Your shame is His clothing as naked He suffers upon the tree. You were there with all your sin, shame, death, and hell. Willingly He clothed it all upon Himself to set you free!
Hear the life giving baptismal stream gushing from His cross! Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. You were there when they laid Him in the tomb. He took your death fully into Himself. Now death cannot hold those who believe and are baptized in Him! Romans 6:5-6 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, (6) knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
Were you there? By His Word and gift. By the Holy Spirit in God’s Word. By the Father’s mercy. By the Son’s eternal love.... I was there! My sins were there! They crucified Him! I killed the Lord of Life! He did it all to save me - a poor - a miserable - a lost sinner!
Now He lives! FOR YOU! FOR ME! Hear His Holy Spirit echoing the victory of His cross and empty tombs into your ears! Romans 8:31-39 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? (32) He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? (33) Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. (34) Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. (35) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (36) As it is written: "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL DAY LONG; WE ARE ACCOUNTED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER." (37) Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. (38) For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, (39) nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Were you there?.....Is He here? Yes! With you always to the end of the earth! Amen.
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