Dec. 28, 2025

Saints & Sinners

Isaiah – The Servant Songs

December 27 & 28, 2025 

Primary Text: Isaiah 42:1              

1)  My Servant (Isaiah 42:1-9)  

Isaiah 42:1, 6-7 (Isaiah 42:1-9):  “Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him and he will bring justice to the nations.”…  “I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand.  I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.” 

Mark 10:42-45:  Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.  Not so with you.  Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.  For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”  

DQ 1) How did Jesus become a “covenant for the people”? 

DQ 2) In what ways did Jesus come into this world to serve?

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2)  Light for the Gentiles (Isaiah 49:1-13)

Isaiah 49:5-6:  And now the Lord says— he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord and my God has been my strength—he says: “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept.  I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.”

Luke 2:25-32:  Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout.  He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him….  When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required, Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying: “Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss your servant in peace.  For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel.”  

DQ 3) How is Jesus “a light for the Gentiles”?  

DQ 4) What is the revelation of Jesus to the world?

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3)  Suffering Servant (Isaiah 50:4-11)

Isaiah 50:5-8:  The Sovereign Lord has opened my ears, and I have not been rebellious; I have not drawn back.  I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.  Because the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced.  Therefore have I set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame.  He who vindicates me is near. 

Philippians 2:6-8:  Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, 

being made in human likeness.  And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross!  

DQ 5) Why do you suppose God allowed His son to be harshly beaten and rejected?  

DQ 6) How did Jesus humble Himself?

DQ 7) Are you a servant leader in the likeness of Christ?

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