The great Messianic chapter of Isaiah. Isa.53:1 The rejection of the true Messiah. The message of the Lord unheeded. He came to His own only to be cast out and refused. A word which can only be understood by the revelation of the Spirit of God. The arm of the Lord, the Lord Jesus, situated at the right hand of God. The arm of His strength. No greater power to be found anywhere in the universe. Isa.62:8 The arm of the Lord is holy. It is that which brings salvation. Isa.52:10 A call for the arm of the Lord to manifest His power and victory in the destruction of evil. It is an arm of war and will manifest its power and victory in the end of the age. Isa. 51:9 Even though they saw the miracles wrought among them by the Lord Jesus, still they refused to believe. They fulfilled the Prophecy of Isaiah. Jn.12:37 Paul like wise testified against them by saying they have not all obeyed the gospel. Rom.10:16.
He shall grow up before Him, i.e., before God. Isa.53:2 The Messiah was to be a tender shoot and a root out of dry ground. His growing years were amongst a people that were dry and without spiritual activity. They were highly steeped in ritualism. He is the root, the source of new life, new beginnings. There would be nothing striking about him. He was not a physical specimen whom all would want to imitate. There was no charismatic bearing that would attract people to Him. He was not a handsome man that would be noted. Jesus was a very common man without any physical features that would call attention to Him. Jesus was a very ordinary appearing person. Nothing physically that people should desire Him. He was just a common man that could pass unnoticed in any crowd.
He was despised. Isa.53:3 His own people disdained Him. They treated Him with contempt. They mocked Him and laughed Him to scorn. He was rejected by men. Who wants to be rejected? Yet multitudes in our day feel that they have been rejected by someone and bear the hurt of that rejection. Rejection is not an easy thing to handle, but in Christ there is release. A man of sorrows, mockery brings sorrow, rejection creates sorrow. He knew that He must bear the sorrows of sin for others. This does not mean that He spent His life as one depressed, not at all. He had a purpose for which He had come into the world and He set out to accomplish it. As He faced Calvary the burden of the sins of others for which He was to atone became exceedingly heavy. Mk.14:34 Mankind cannot comprehend the price He paid for our salvation. The love of God drove Him to the cross.