Peter Barnes | Isaiah 50:4-11
SERMON NOTES
The Servant Suffering Yet Vindicated
(Isaiah 50:4-11)
– most personal of the Servant Songs
1. The Servant gives instruction and comfort to the weary.
– 50:4-5; John 8:28.
– Frances Ridley Havergal: O give Thine own sweet rest to me,/ That I may speak with soothing power/ A word in season, as from Thee,/ To weary ones in needful hour.
– Matt.11:28-30; John 11:25
2. The Servant suffers willingly for His people.
– 50:6; Luke 9:51
Bearing shame and scoffing rude,
In my place condemned He stood
3. The Servant is vindicated by the Lord God.
– 50:7-9 for Himself; 50:10-11 for His people
John Bradford before his execution: ‘I am assured that though I want here, I have riches there; though I hunger here, I shall have fullness there; though I faint here, I shall be refreshed there; and though I be accounted here as a dead man, I shall there live in perpetual glory.’