Participants: Tom Shepherd & Deyvy Rodriguez
Series Code: PBOTB
Program Code: PBOTB00009B
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00:01 And we're back.
00:02 Thank you for joining us in this program "Books of the Book." 00:04 Dr. Shepherd, you were talking about Isaiah Chapter 53. Yeah. 00:07 Is there any special meaning to this chapter in Isaiah? 00:10 Yeah, Well, Isaiah Chapter 53, 00:11 it's the servant of the Lord's suffering, 00:13 the very famous passage that the New Testament takes 00:15 and applies to the sufferings of Jesus. 00:18 Now what we want to notice here is what happens 00:21 in these verses in 2 Peter Chapter 2. 00:26 I want to point out just one interesting thing about 00:28 verse 21 before we go on too much. 00:31 And that is the beautiful alliteration. 00:35 Read it in English for us, verse 21. 00:37 "For to this you were called, 00:38 because Christ also suffered for us, 00:41 leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps." 00:45 Ah, okay, "suffered for us," 00:49 because my Greek version here it says "Suffered for you," 00:53 leaving you an example. 00:55 There's a text of variant, 00:56 but probably the more original is "Suffered for you." 00:59 And it gets kind of molded and changed a bit over time. 01:02 But what I wanted to show you was that, 01:04 there are five words in a row that all start 01:06 with the same letter in Greek, in the text here. 01:10 It reads like this. 01:11 First, it's the "Apothen" that's Christ suffered, okay. 01:15 "Christon apothen" Christ suffered. 01:18 And then he says 01:24 So it's for you, to you leaving an example. 01:30 And it's all these words beginning with 01:32 the Greek letter upsilon. 01:34 He just has this beautiful way of writing 01:36 where he strings words together sometimes like that, 01:38 you know, and has a great, great facility for a good writing. 01:42 But now we come to the interesting use of Isaiah 53. 01:46 All right, read verse 22. 01:49 "Who committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth." 01:52 This is a quotation from Isaiah 53:9, okay. 01:57 Now read verse 23 and 24. 02:00 "Who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return, 02:03 when He suffered, He did not threaten, 02:06 but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously. 02:10 Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, 02:14 that we, having died to sins, 02:16 might live for righteousness by whose stripes you were healed." 02:22 Yeah, now so in verse 24, 02:24 we have a quote from Isaiah 53:4 and Isaiah 53:5. 02:28 Now read verse 25. 02:30 "For you were like sheep going astray, 02:32 but now have returned to the Shepherd 02:35 and Overseer of your souls." 02:37 All right, and that's a quote from Isaiah 53:6. 02:40 Now I don't know if you notice the pattern 02:42 that we were following. 02:44 Did he follow Isaiah 53 in order? 02:47 Uh, don't seem. Don't seem to be. He doesn't. 02:51 He first quotes from a later verse 02:53 then he goes back to earlier verses, okay. 02:56 And that's kind of interesting. 02:58 It may strike us as a little bit odd. 03:01 Why doesn't he quote Isaiah 53 03:05 in the same order as Isaiah 53 is? 03:07 Well, there's a good reason. 03:10 And the reason is, he's actually following 03:12 the path of Jesus to the cross. 03:16 He doesn't quote Isaiah 53 in the order of Isaiah 53. 03:20 He orders Isaiah 53, 03:22 in accordance with the story of Jesus, 03:25 with His suffering, with His being beaten, 03:27 with His carrying His cross, with His going to Golgotha, 03:31 with His dying on the cross there for us 03:34 to save us from our sins, okay. 03:36 So he reorders Isaiah 53 03:40 because he's creating this beautiful meditation, 03:43 on the meaning of the death of Jesus. 03:46 And that meaning seems to have 03:49 kind of a twofold pattern to it, all right. 03:55 If we want to express this, the first is the, 03:57 first, that he describes as the example 04:00 and the second he describes is the sacrifice. 04:03 The example and the sacrifice, okay. 04:06 So the example is found in verses 20. 04:12 Well, starting in verse 21, 04:15 but then going through verse 22 and 23, 04:19 where he says that firstly, 04:21 over all thing Christ suffered for you, right? 04:25 Leaving you an example so that you may follow in His steps. 04:29 Then in verse 22, he describes 22 and 23. 04:38 He describes four things that Christ did not do. 04:46 What are those four things? 04:49 No sin. He did no sin. No reviling. 04:55 Yeah, well. Yeah, no reviling is there-- 04:57 No guile. No guile. That's deceit. 04:59 No revealing, reviling, and no threatening. 05:03 No threatening. Yeah. 05:05 And so he does no sin, he has no guile. 05:11 He has no reviling, and no threatening. 05:14 No sin, in a sense you could say, 05:16 "It's like a summary of His life." 05:18 He was spotless lamb, right? 05:20 His life was a life of holiness, a life of goodness. 05:25 And there is no deceit found in His mouth. 05:27 Somebody says, "Well, why mention that in his trial? 05:30 Well, what do they do at His trial? 05:33 False witnesses, wasn't that? 05:35 And they try to, 05:37 you know, portray Him as somebody that He wasn't. 05:41 Then He fearlessly portrays Himself that He is the Messiah. 05:45 They ask Him, "Are you the Messiah?" 05:46 He says, "Yes. I'm the Messiah." 05:48 And you will see the Son of man sitting 05:49 at the right hand of power. 05:52 They say, we've heard it ourselves let's kill Him, 05:54 you know, let's send Him to the cross. 05:57 And so He has no guile, no sin 06:00 and then there is no reviling, you know. 06:05 He doesn't revile in return and He doesn't threaten. 06:11 There is an ongoing kind of pattern about this. 06:16 You know, he kept on. 06:18 In my translation, the ESV, 06:21 I think expresses some of that picture it says, 06:25 "When He was reviled, He did not revile in return, 06:28 when He suffered, He did not threaten, 06:30 but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly, okay. 06:34 So there's fourth things He didn't do. 06:37 And then there's two things that He did. 06:40 So what are the two things He did? 06:44 As you said He entrusted Himself to God. 06:47 My version says committed Himself to Him, to God. 06:51 And what would be the other one? 06:54 Well, then the other one is in the last verses 06:56 where He bore our sins. 06:58 Okay, so He entrusted Himself to God. 07:00 Now the word entrust here is a very interesting word. 07:05 The Greek word is paradidomi. 07:08 And it actually has three meanings. 07:12 Its basic meaning was to handover, you need to handover. 07:17 But it was used in three different ways. 07:20 It would be used to pass on tradition to somebody. 07:25 Paul uses it in 1 Corinthians 15 that way. 07:27 I'm handing onto you, the message that I received. 07:31 Passing on the traditions. It also means to entrust. 07:35 If I went to the bank and I entrusted the bankers 07:37 with my money, you see. 07:39 I entrust them with it. But it also meant to betray. 07:44 Now it's a little hard for people to understand 07:46 how the same word could mean entrust and betray. 07:50 But it has its basic meaning of handing over. 07:53 So now you're handing somebody over to their enemies, okay. 07:57 Now betrayal, we know when we think of Jesus 08:04 and betrayal, what do we think of? 08:07 Judas. We think of Judas. 08:10 And what did he do in the garden of Gethsemane? 08:13 He handed Him over to the authorities. 08:15 And how did he do that? 08:17 With a kiss. With a kiss. 08:19 That's very interesting 08:21 that Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss. 08:25 You know, you'd think that if he had joined 08:28 the enemies of Jesus and, 08:31 you know, just gonna do the betrayal thing. 08:32 He'd say, "There He is, that's the man right there." 08:35 He'd come up, "Come on, put the stuff on Him, 08:37 you know, tie His hands. 08:39 You know, this is the man. Take Him away. 08:41 He did say though that the man I kiss that, 08:43 you know, that's the one, didn't he? 08:45 That's right. That's right. 08:47 And you read the gospel story. Kind of like a sign. 08:49 A sign, right? He comes up and he kisses Jesus. 08:52 And Jesus says something to him. 08:54 "Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss." 08:58 The kiss was the sign of friendship. 09:01 And he was using the sign of friendship 09:03 to hand Jesus over to His enemies. 09:05 Oh, that's why nobody calls their son Judas 09:10 because, you know, I mean he betrayed the greatest. 09:12 This was an evil name that goes down through history. 09:15 Betraying Jesus, okay. 09:18 The problem is, here's the interesting thing. 09:22 Peter uses the same word here in 1 Peter 2. 09:26 But it's not Judas this time, it's Jesus. 09:30 Now what Jesus did was to hand Himself over to God. 09:36 He entrusted Himself to God. 09:39 So there were really two handing over's 09:41 that took place in the garden of Gethsemane. 09:44 The first one happened with Jesus 09:46 on His knees, on the ground. 09:48 When He said, "Father not My will, but Your's be done." 09:51 That was the first handing over. 09:54 And when Judas came to betray Him to His enemies, 09:58 he had no power over Jesus 10:00 because Jesus had already handed His life over to His Father. 10:05 So the enemies could do whatever they wanted 10:09 and Jesus was safe. 10:11 Now here is the secret. 10:13 You see people look at this, in example of Jesus, 10:15 they read these words and say, "How could He do this? 10:18 How--they're hitting Him, they're crucifying Him, 10:20 they're spitting on Him? Why doesn't He respond?" 10:24 Because He entrusted Himself to God, 10:29 that's the secret of the example of Jesus. 10:31 He entrusted Himself to God. 10:33 If you and I entrust ourselves to God 10:36 in the midst of suffering, 10:37 in the midst of being mistreated, 10:39 our life is in the hands of God. 10:42 We are no longer in the hands of these people, okay. 10:46 Now let me say a few words about abuse. 10:49 I must speak about abuse. 10:50 'Cause some people misunderstand this passage 10:52 and misinterpret it. 10:54 If you are in an abusive situation 10:56 and you can get out of it. 10:58 Get out of it. That's the duty that you have. 11:01 You are not a doormat. 11:02 If you can get out of that situation, 11:05 get out, if you're being abused. 11:08 You can also resist evil. You can call it what it is. 11:12 But here's a message for those who are abused, 11:15 who cannot get out. 11:17 I'm not talking about people who don't report 11:20 or something like that. 11:21 I'm talking about, where you're definitely trapped physically 11:25 and there's no way out, okay. 11:28 If you are silent under your abuse, 11:31 it does not make you bad. 11:34 If you are silent under abuse, it is not make you bad. 11:39 That's an important message to those who are abused 11:41 because they often think of themselves 11:43 as bad in some ways. 11:46 Well, Dr. Shepherd, why is it that in verse 24, 11:50 does Peter shift to talking about our sins? 11:53 Yeah, I know. 11:54 We don't have much time to talk about this right now. 11:56 But he talks about Christ being the sin bearer. 12:01 It's interesting because he talked about us 12:03 following the example of Jesus before. 12:04 And now he suddenly turns to talk about us 12:07 as the bad people, you know. 12:09 Here's the key to this whole thing. 12:12 He talks about dying to sin, right. 12:15 And what happens is when you let Jesus bare your sins, 12:21 it makes it possible for you to follow His example, okay. 12:26 There are three of our problems 12:27 that are answered by Christ in this passage. 12:30 He bore our sins on the tree, that's the first one. 12:34 We were sick and we are healed by His wound. 12:39 And then we were like sheep going astray, 12:41 and He's brought us, we've been brought back 12:43 to the shepherd and the guardian of our souls. 12:46 Here's this beautiful illustration 12:49 of our deepest problems, 12:51 being solved by the death of Jesus. 12:54 So that we can follow the wonderful example of Jesus, 12:58 that He left us. 12:59 That we can actually bear up, 13:01 under these terrible things that people will do sometimes, 13:05 to those who follow the Master. 13:07 Well, Dr. Shepherd, I too, would like to follow 13:10 the example of Jesus. 13:12 And that way my surrounding neighbors and friends 13:14 could see that indeed, Jesus lives in me. 13:17 And I invite you too friend, 13:19 that if you want Jesus to dwell in your heart, 13:22 just call upon His name. 13:23 And God would give you His strength 13:26 so that you too can live a godly life. 13:29 We want to thank Dr. Shepherd till next time. |
Revised 2014-12-17