Anyone Who Is Suffering Under the Weight of Heavy Pressure, Stress, Or Burdens Is a Person Who Is Weary. But There Is Wonderful News: The Savior Was Sent into The World to Meet the Needs of The Broken and Oppressed.

The Messiah’s Mission Was to Share God’s Word with The Weary 

⁴The Lord God has given Me His words of wisdom so that I may know what I should say to all these weary ones. Morning by morning He wakens Me and opens My understanding to His will. ⁵The Lord God has spoken to Me, and I have listened; I do not rebel nor turn away. ⁶I give My back to the whip, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard. I do not hide from shame—they spit in my face.

⁷Because the Lord God helps Me, I will not be dismayed; therefore, I have set My face like flint to do His will, and I know that I will triumph. ⁸He who gives Me justice is near. Who will dare to fight against Me now? Where are My enemies? Let them appear! ⁹See, the Lord God is for Me! Who shall declare Me guilty? All My enemies shall be destroyed like old clothes eaten up by moths!^[1] (Isaiah 50:4–9) 

The Savior’s Twofold Mission to The Weary:

Reaching Out to All Who Are in Bondage to Sin & Death

The Savior was given a very special mission to the weary. This is the third of four Servant songs that predict the coming Servant or Savior of the world (chs. 42:1–7; 49:1–7; 50:4–9; 52:12–53:12). Four times in this passage the Servant refers to the Lord God, or Sovereign Lord, who sent Him on His mission. In each reference, the Servant tells how the Lord God met His every need as He carried out His assigned duties (v. 4, 5, 7, 9). As the Scripture and outline show, His mission was twofold: to preach to the weary and to suffer for the weary: 

A. First, The Messiah’s Mission Was to Share God’s Word with The Weary (V. 4). Who are the weary? They are those who are …

Ø  Tired

Ø  Exhausted

Ø  Downtrodden

Ø  unable to go on

Ø  traumatized

Ø  unhappy

Ø  discontented

Ø  disgusted

Ø  overworked

Ø  oppressed

Ø  being seduced

Ø  feeling tempted

Ø  suffering hardship

Ø  experiencing misfortune

Ø  seeking to become acceptable through works, idolatry, or false worship 

Anyone who is suffering under the weight of heavy pressure, stress, or burdens is a person who is weary. But there is wonderful news: the Savior was sent into the world to meet the needs of the broken and oppressed. The Lord God of the universe, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, gave Christ the very words to share with them. God taught His Servant the words to preach and teach so that He could help sustain them. Note the claim of the Savior, God’s Servant: every morning of His life, the Lord awakened Him and quickened His ear to hear the Word of God. The Savior then taught the Word of God. The Savior did not rebel against the Lord God or turn His ear away from God’s instructions. Everything God taught the Savior to say and do, Jesus Christ said and did for the sake of the weary. 

V  “Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise” (Jn. 5:19).

V  “I can of Mine Own Self do nothing: as I hear, I judge and My judgment is just; because I seek not Mine Own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent Me” (Jn. 5:30).

V  “For I came down from heaven, not to do Mine Own will, but the will of Him that sent Me” (Jn. 6:38).

V  “Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father hath taught Me, I speak these things” (Jn. 8:28).

V  “But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave Me commandment, even so, I do. Arise, let us go hence” (Jn. 14:31).

V  “Then said He [Christ], Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second. By the which will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (He. 10:9–10). 

B. The Savior’s Mission Was to Suffer for The Weary (Vv. 6–9). When Christ died on the cross, He willingly gave Himself up to die as the ransom for the people’s sins. He suffered as their substitute: in their place, in their stead, in their behalf. Willingly, He offered His back to be scourged, beaten until there was very little flesh left. He offered His cheek to the sinners of the world, and they pulled out His beard. Voluntarily, He offered His face to be spat upon by all who rejected Him as God’s Servant, the Savior of the world (see Mt. 26:67; 27:26, 30; Mk. 14:6; 15:16–20; Lu. 18:32; Jn. 18:22; 19:1).

Yet through all the suffering, the Savior remained obedient and steadfast to the mission given Him by God. He set His face like a stone to suffer death so that the weary of the earth could be saved. Because Christ remained faithful, and obedient to the Father’s will, God helped Him by making sure He would never be shamed or disgraced by failing in His mission! Christ would be triumphant in accomplishing His purpose. Down through the centuries, the weary of this earth turned to the Savior by the millions to be delivered from the heavy weight of sin and the stressful burdens of this earth.

In His trial on earth, the Savior and Servant of God was falsely accused. But the Savior knew this important fact: God would vindicate or prove Him right (vv. 8–9). The Lord would justify Him because He was sinless. He had always lived a righteous and just life as He shared God’s Word with the people. Therefore, God would make His mission triumphant. The weary of the earth who placed their trust in Him would be saved, but the Savior’s accusers would be like a garment that falls apart due to age or from being eaten by moths. They would not last but, rather, would face the judgment of the Lord God. 

V  “That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses” (Mt. 8:17).

V  “Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light” (Mt. 11:28–30).

V  “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised” (Lu. 4:18).

V  “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (Jn. 8:32).

V  “And He bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: Where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst” (Jn. 19:17–18).

V  “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness” (Ro. 6:16–18).

V  “But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Ro. 6:22–23).

V  “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death” (Ro. 8:1–2).

V  “Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted” (Is. 53:4).^[2]

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^[1] Taylor, Kenneth Nathaniel. 1997. The Living Bible, Paraphrased. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House.

^[2] Leadership Ministries Worldwide. 2005. Isaiah: Chapters 36–66. Vol. II. The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible. Chattanooga, TN: Leadership Ministries Worldwide.