Redemptive Peace
I.
John 14:27-When Jesus
said my peace I give unto you it’s redemptive language
A. Galatians
3:13-14-Redemptive language has Jesus redeeming us from something by bearing
it FOR US and then giving something of His TO US
1.
Jesus
redeemed us from the curse by being made a curse FOR US so that the
blessing of Abraham could come on us
a. He wanted the blessing to
come on us so He redeemed us from the curse by being made a curse for us
b. I’m going to redeem you
by bearing what is on you and then I’m going to give you what’s mine
2.
He
became sin, we became righteous-2 Corinthians 5:21; He became poor, we became
rich-2 Corinthians 8:9; He took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses and by
his stripes we are healed-Matthew 8:17, 1 Peter 2:24
B. Jesus was our substitute
– I’m going to stand in your place and bear something I don’t want you to
bear
1.
Romans5:6-AMP-While
we were still helpless [powerless to provide for our salvation], at the right
time Christ died [as a substitute] for the ungodly; AMPC-Christ died in behalf
of the ungodly
2.
1 Corinthians 2:2 AMP-For
I determined to know nothing but Christ and Him crucified (the meaning of His
redemptive, substitutionary death)
3.
Story: A
little boy had a sister who needed a blood transfusion. The doctor explained
that she had the same disease the boy had recovered from two years earlier. Her
only chance for recovery was a transfusion from someone who had previously
conquered the disease. Since the two children had the same rare blood type, the
boy was the ideal donor. "Would you give your blood to Mary?" the
doctor asked. Johnny hesitated. His lower lip started to tremble. Then he
smiled and said, "Sure, for my sister." Soon the two children were
wheeled into the hospital room--Mary, pale and thin;
Johnny, robust and healthy. Neither spoke, but when their eyes met, Johnny
grinned. As the nurse inserted the needle into his arm, Johnny's smile faded.
He watched the blood flow through the tube. With the ordeal almost over, his
voice, slightly shaky, broke the silence. "Doctor, when do I die?' Only
then did the doctor realize why Johnny had hesitated, why his lip had trembled
when he'd agreed to donate his blood. He's thought giving his blood to his
sister meant giving up his life. In that brief moment, he'd made his great
decision.
4.
Story: The
small boy had been consistently late for dinner. One particular day his parents
had warned him to be on time, but he arrived later than ever. He found his
parents already seated at the table, about to start eating. Quickly he sat at
his place, then noticed what was set before him--a
slice of bread and a glass of water. There was silence as he sat staring at his
plate, crushed. Suddenly he saw his father's hand reach over, pick up his plate
and set it before himself. Then his dad put his own
full plate in front of his son, smiling warmly as he made the exchange. When
the boy became a man, he said, "All my life I've known what God was like
by what my father did that night."
C. Jesus is redeeming us
from torment (the mental anguish and torment of this beating) by bearing our
torment and giving us His peace
1.
Why
did he take our sin? So we could be righteous – Why did he take our
sickness? So we could be healed – Why was the beating of our peace on
him? So that we could have the peace that passes understanding
2.
John 14:27-AMP-My perfect
peace I give to you; AMPC-My own peace I now give and bequeath to you
II.
My peace is in His pain-(Chastisement-Pain inflicted for punishment)–Isaiah
53:5
A. Everything that happened
to Jesus, happened for a specific reason, nothing happened by accident,
everything was for a purpose
1.
1
Peter 2:24-He bore our sins on the cross – Why wasn’t it enough that he
just be crucified?
a. Crucifixion-An ancient instrument
of capital punishment: the method of slow and painful execution in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large
wooden beam and left to hang for
several days until eventual death from exhaustion
2.
Jesus
wasn’t just crucified, he was scourged (whip, punish)-John 19:1, Matthew 27:26
B. Isaiah 53:5-Our healing
is in his stripes, our peace was in his pain
1.
My
healing was in his stripes – His body was broken so mine wouldn’t have to
be – That’s why my healing is in his stripes
2.
My
peace was in his pain – He was beaten (which brought much mental anguish)
so that I could have peace– That’s why my peace was in his pain
a. The punishment for our
peace was upon him-(TLB-He was beaten that we might have peace; GW-He was punished so we could have peace)
b. Chastisement of my
peace-Pain was involved in obtaining peace for me
C. SEE SCOURAGING NOTE
1.
The
victim was stripped completely naked so his entire flesh would be open to
the beating action of the whip --- Bound
to a two-foot-high scourging post and his hands were tied over his head to a metal
ring, and his wrists were shackled to the ring to restrain his body from
movement so that he couldn’t try to avoid or dodge the lashes that were being
laid across his back --- Romans were
professionals at scourging; they took special delight in the fact that they
were the “best” at punishing a victim with this brutal act --- Once the victim was harnessed to the post and stretched over
it, the Roman soldier began to put him through unimaginable torture-The
anticipation of the first blow caused the victim’s body to grow rigid, the
muscles to knot in his stomach, the color to drain from his cheeks, his lips to
draw tight against his teeth as he waited for the first sadistic blow that
would begin the tearing open of his body ---
The scourge was a short, wooden handle with several 18-24-inch-long straps of
leather; The ends of leather had sharp, rugged pieces of metal, wire, glass,
and jagged fragments of bone; One of the most feared and deadly weapons of the
Roman world; The mere threat of scourging could calm a crowd or bend the will
of the strongest rebel. Not even the most hardened criminal wanted to be
submitted to the vicious beating of a Roman scourge --- Most often, two torturers were utilized to carry out this
punishment, simultaneously lashing the victim from both sides. Each piece of
metal, wire, bone, or glass cut deeply through the victim’s skin and into his
flesh, shredding his muscles and sinews over his entire back; Those straps of
leather curled tortuously around his torso, biting painfully and deeply into
the skin of his abdomen and upper chest. As each stroke lacerated the sufferer,
he tried to thrash about but was unable to move because his wrists were held so
firmly to the metal ring above his head. Helpless to escape the whip, he would
scream for mercy that this anguish might come to an end. --- Every time the torturers struck a victim, the straps of leather
attached to the wooden handle would cause multiple lashes as the pieces of
metal, glass, wire, and bone sank into the flesh and then raked across the
victim’s body. Then the torturer would jerk back, pulling hard in order to tear
whole pieces of human flesh from the body. The victim’s back,
buttocks, back of the legs, stomach, upper chest, and face would be disfigured
by the slashing blows of the whip. Historical records describe a
victim’s back as being so mutilated after a Roman scourging that his spine
would actually be exposed. Others recorded how the bowels of a victim would
actually spill out through the open wounds created by the whip. With so many
blood vessels sliced open by the whip, the victim would begin to experience a
profuse loss of blood and bodily fluids. The heart would pump harder and
harder, struggling to get blood to the parts of the body that were profusely
bleeding. But it was like pumping water through an open water hydrant; there
was nothing left to stop the blood from pouring through the victim’s open
wounds. This loss of blood caused the victim’s blood pressure to drop
drastically. Because of the massive loss of bodily fluids, he would experience
excruciating thirst, often fainting from the pain and eventually going into
shock. Frequently the victim’s heartbeat would become so irregular that he
would go into cardiac arrest. --- This was a Roman scourging. According to Jewish law in
Deuteronomy 25:3, the Jews were permitted to give 40 lashes to a victim, but
because the 40th lash usually proved fatal, the number of lashes
given was reduced to thirty-nine, as Paul noted in 2 Corinthians 11:24. But the
Romans had no limit to the number of lashes they could give a victim, and the
scourging Jesus experienced was at the hands of Romans, not Jews. Therefore, it
is entirely possible that when the torturer pulled out his scourge to beat
Jesus, he may have laid more than forty lashes across His body. In fact, this
is even probable in light of the explosive outrage the Jews felt for Jesus and
the terrible mocking He had already suffered at the hands of Roman soldiers. What
toll did it take on Jesus’ body? Isaiah 52:14 says,
“As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man,
and his form more than the sons of men.” If we take this scripture literally
for what it says, we can conclude that Jesus’ physical body was marred nearly
beyond recognition.
2.
Why
would Jesus go through that? It wasn’t just for my sin or my healing –
His pain was for my peace
a. Somebody said how could I
ever repay him? You can’t repay him, but you can honor what he did by receiving
it and walking in it
3.
If
Jesus hadn’t born your mental anguish and mental pain you would have had to
III.
Isaiah 53-It was not just
physical anguish and pain that Jesus bore; There was much mental anguish that Jesus
bore
A. Jesus bore our torment
and trouble on the inside
1.
3-Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief-Sorrows-physical and mental pain; Grief-sickness, disease, to be weak,
sick, diseased, grieved, sorry
2.
3-He has borne our griefs-Borne-carry; Griefs-sickness, disease, weakness, grief, sorrow
3.
3-He has carried our
sorrows-Carried-to bear, bear a load Sorrows-physical and mental pain, be
sorrowful, sad
4.
5-He was wounded for our
transgressions-Wounded-(From
same root word griefs in V3,4)-Profaned, defiled, polluted, desecrated, made
common, dishonored, pierced, to be
weak, sick, diseased, grieved, sorry; Transgressions-rebellion,
sin, trespass
5.
5-He was bruised for our
iniquities
Bruised-Crush, broken, oppressed,
bruised contrite-deeply affected
with grief and sorrow, bruise, brokenhearted, deep sorrow for sin; Iniquities-perversity, guilt,
punishment of iniquity, fault, twist, do wrong
6.
7-He was oppressed-Oppressed-press, distressed, to load or burden, to treat with
unjust severity, rigor, hardship; Lie heavy upon; Depression, misery
7.
7-He was afflicted-Afflicted-Oppress, depressed, downcast
8.
10-It pleased the Lord to
bruise him; he hath put him to grief-Bruise-Crush, broken, oppressed, bruised contrite-deeply affected with grief and sorrow,
bruise, brokenhearted, deep sorrow for sin; Grief-sickness, disease, to be weak, sick, diseased, grieved, sorry
B. I think we can get
fixated on what happened to his body and totally miss what happened to his soul
1.
10-He made his soul and
offering for sin-Soul-Mind, desire, emotion, seat of
emotions and passions, the will, the inner being of man
a. It wasn’t just his body
that bore it, it was his soul that bore it
2.
11-He shall see the
travail of his soul-Travail-trouble, toil, sorrow,
grievousness, miserable, pain
a. God was looking at the
punishment, the suffering, the pain of his soul to know when justice has been
satisfied
3.
12-He has poured out his
soul unto death
– Soul is NOT just referring to his body
a. He didn’t just die in his
body – He died for us inside
C. Isaiah 53:4-They saw his
suffering and thought God was doing it TO HIM but in reality Jesus was doing it
FOR US; OUR griefs, OUR sorrows, OUR transgressions, OUR iniquities, OUR
chastisement
1.
Matthew
27:46-Jesus is troubled and vexed and something is pressing Him because he’s
experiencing pressure, oppression and anxiety and the chastisement of our peace
was upon him – This is not to say that he got out of faith because his
last words were faith words (into your hands I commit my spirit) but he doesn’t
have peace because he’s taking our torment and giving us his peace
IV.
We have been redeemed
from the troubled life
A. They put a crown of
thorns upon his head and the thorns are cares and represent torment-Matthew
27:29
1.
Luke
8:7,14, Mark 4:19-Thorns are likened to the cares (anxiety) of this world
a. 2 Samuel 23:6-But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as
thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with the hands – Thorns like cares are to
be thrust away and not taken with the hands – If you try to take the
thorns or cares with your hands you get poked/tormented-1 Peter 5:7
2.
Numbers
33:55-Thorns are things that vex you
(distress, harass, press hard upon)
a. Thorns-Point – It’s something that pokes you, that torments
you
b. 2 Corinthians 12:7-Apparently
he wasn’t glorying (joy, rejoicing) in his infirmities before – He was
being tormented and had no joy; He wasn’t taking pleasure in them, but rather
he was being tormented and troubled by them
1)
Buffet-Strike with the fist,
maltreat, punish, chastise; Thorn-Pointed
piece of wood, splinter
c. Isaiah 32:13-Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns
and briers; yea upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city – Why reference
thorns and joy in the same verse? Because thorns represent this tormenting,
troubling, sorrow – They were joyous, but now it’s thorns
1)
TLB-For your lands will thrive with thorns and
briars; your joyous homes and happy cities will be gone.
d. Genesis 3:17-18-Sorrow
(pain, grieved, vexed, displease, wrest, torture) is connected to thorns
e. Ezekiel 28:24-Grieving
thorn (Sorrowful, pain physical and mental, make sad)
f.
Jeremiah
4:3-Sow not among thorns – Many are trying to so the word while they
yield to the torment and trouble and it doesn’t work like that
3.
Matthew
27:29-And the platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head; Jesus had
thorns on his head showing you I’m baring this hard torment and trouble for you
so that you can live a life of peace
B. Galatians 3:13-14,
Deuteronomy 28:65-67-Jesus became a curse for us and part of the curse is
mental anguish and torment
1.
Deuteronomy
28:65-67-Ease-Rest, quiet; Rest-Settle down, be quiet; Trembling-Quivering, quaking, agitated,
perturbed, disquieted, disturb;
2.
Jesus
knew what it was like to experience hopelessness and desperation and it came on
him in full force – Why is he letting this happen to him? It was for you
and me so that I never have to go day and night tormented and vexed, I never
have to go 30 minutes in desperation and fear because he took that for me and
gave me his peace
C. You got to develop then a
resistance, a doggedness, and intolerance for living this pressured and
troubled life
1.
What
you’re willing to tolerate you’ll have, what you’re willing to put up with
you’ll have
2.
The
punishment for MY peace was upon Him – I stand for my peace, the way I
would for my healing
3.
Say this: My down days are over. My
sad days are over. My worried days
are over. The price has been paid.
Torment and trouble Jesus has borne for me, and I have His Peace. Because I have His peace I never ever
Have to be troubled about anything every! I have joy! I have His peace! I have
victory over fear! I have victory over depression! I have victory over anxiety!
Jesus gave me the victory! I have
joy!