Oh! Love is blind, they say. As a man hands down to his posterity his possessions, Christ Jesus has made over to his people all that he is, and all that he has, and all that he ever will be, that they may be with him, and behold his glory, and shine with him as the stars for ever and ever. Such is Jesus Christ. He says, "It pleased Jehovah to bruise him. The Lord will yet fetch you up from the depths of the sea. Isaiah 53:9. I am not yet an old man, as some suppose from the many years of my ministry, but I am often looking forward to that blessed morning, when all the sacred seed shall meet around the throne. Man for his sin was condemned to eternal fire; when God took Christ to be the substitute, it is true, he did not send Christ into eternal fire, but he poured upon him grief so desperate, that it was a valid payment for even an eternity of fire. (4.) His church, then, will never die out while the world standeth; and throughout eternity that seed must still exist in the endless state; for world without end our Lord Jesus shall see his seed. What a mercy to have such a Watcher! Interceding for the transgressors. The time is come; the men with the halberts precede him through the streets. he shall see his seed, and prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. That done, the victim being selected, the offerer put his hand upon the sin-offering and this indeed was the essence of the whole transaction putting his hand on the victim, he confessed his sin, and a transferrence took place, in type at least, from the offender to the victim. Ye are complete in Christ. 5 But he was wounded on account of our sins, and was bruised because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and by his bruises we were healed. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.". "What for?" Given the explicit mention of death in Isaiah 53:9 and the fact that his life is a sacrificial offering in Isaiah 53:10, we are not speaking here of a metaphorical . Some connect this with the preceding clause, "he shall see a seed that shall prolong its days" b; for Christ will never want issue, his church will never fail, his seed will endure for ever, Psalms 89:29. Remember that in pecuniary matters you must give a quid pro quo, but that in matters of penal justice no such thing is demanded. To grief - "With affliction"] For hecheli, the verb, the construction of which seems to be hard and inelegant in this place, the Vulgate reads bocholi, in infirmitate, "with infirmity.". You wonder whether you will meet with any friend who will help you spiritually. God has not cast thee out. But he who reads the Bible with the eye of faith, desiring to discover its hidden secrets, sees something more in the Saviour's death than Roman cruelty, or Jewish malice: he sees the solemn decree of God fulfilled by men, who were the ignorant, but guilty instruments of its accomplishment. So my God, when he sees a sinner long for pardon and desirous of being accepted, thinks he sees his Son in him, and accepts him for his Son's sake. The first thought suggested by this text is, that Jesus is still alive; for to see anything is the act of a living person. A man who was meant for h pains and was familiar with sickness. Now, beloved, there be many who think that God the Father is at best but an indifferent spectator of salvation. The parent's life is in the child. I wish that every house had in it a large-typed copy of the "Book of Martyrs." Are we not beside ourselves till the Holy Spirit begins to enlighten us? You guys that watch the Monday night football, you know that. All of the accusations. That He might bear my iniquities, my transgressions, my guilt, die in my place in order that through His death I can now come to God and have fellowship with God. He said, "Answerest Thou not me? Therefore [the Father says] will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ( Isaiah 53:12 ); "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and if sons, then heirs, joint-heirs with Jesus Christ" ( Romans 8:16-17 ), as He divides the spoil with the strong. You see, without any children, who's going to declare His generation? Our Lord Jesus Christ does not look to-day on emptiness: he is not bereaved of his household, but still he sees his seed. And fellowship with God who is holy and righteous cannot be restored until something is done about my sin. 6 . And that is why Jesus came that He might take the guilt of my sin. 24 Israel is comforted with promise of deliverance from Assyria. Ye have no need of shillings to pay the priests; nor is baptismal water wanted to erect the pardon: there is no willing, doing, being, or suffering of yours required to complete the task. Isaiah Chapter 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31. He had laid in Jehovah's bosom from before all worlds, eternally delighting himself in his Father, and being himself his Father's eternal joy. I do implore you, do not look upon the sacrifice of Christ as an act of mere vengeance on the Father's part. He that is himself righteous (for he could not have made atonement for our sin if he had had any sin of his own to answer for) is made of God to us righteousness, the Lord our righteousness. His soul - The word rendered here soul ( nephesh) means properly breath, spirit, the life, the vital principle Genesis 1:20-30; Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 17:11; Deuteronomy 12:23. His fellow citizens are just as heartless, and show no concern that he suffers death unjustly. Well, first of all, THE DEATH OF CHRIST AS PRODUCED A POSTERITY. 8:1 Yahweh said to me, 'Take a large seal and scratch on it in ordinary writing MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ. Many divines say that Christ did something when he died that enabled God to be just, and yet the Justifier of the ungodly. But it isn't our looks that really attract people.Now if He were one of those beautiful persons, then it would be more difficult for us to identify with Him. The cross once seen, sin is crucified: the passion of the Master once apprehended as being endured for us, we then feel that we are not our own, but are bought with a price. 10 Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes[ a] his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. "The faithful God of the Bible would certainly not visit bad things on innocent people, would he? A similar declaration occurs in Psalms 22:30, which is usually applied to the Messiah. Well, ask this man, who is now really in the possession of his true senses, whether he believes that sin deserves punishment; and his answer will be quick, sharp, and decisive. Men shall be saved by Christ. [i] His thoughts on these difficulties can be summarized in the following three points: The servant is never specifically identified. Has God, the Holy Spirit, made you feel that you are a lost sinner? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? We may observe, in these verses. There is a bearded patriarch, who rises early in the morning and awakes his son, a young man full of strength, and bids him arise and follow him. There is the Saviour going to his cross, all weak and wan with suffering; his soul is sick and sad within him. It was a great aggravation of his sufferings that he was numbered with transgressors, that he was not only condemned as a malefactor, but executed in company with two notorious malefactors, and he in the midst, as if he had been the worst of the three, in which circumstance of his suffering, the evangelist tells us, this prophecy was fulfilled, Mark 15:27; Mark 15:28. Do not think that I am too familiar. So may it be in your heart towards all those that belong to Christ! I want us to go back to the Old Testament and reflect on the prophecy of Isaiah 53, which tells the story of Jesus' atonement for our sins long before it happened. Nay, the vilest malefactor of all, Barabbas, who was a traitor, a thief, and a murderer, was put in election with him for the favour of the people, and carried it; for they would not have Jesus released, but Barabbas. Our Lord shall see his seed on the conquering hand yet. [Note: Oswalt, The Book . The more assured we are of his death, the more assured we feel of the life of all who are in him. In accordance with this, the idea is here, that the Messiah would sustain this relation, and that there would be multitudes who would sustain to him the relation of spiritual children. 20 A remnant of Israel shall be saved. And after all, though men call this a limited atonement, it is as effectual as their own fallacious and rotten redemptions can pretend to be. "Deserve it," saith he, "ay, indeed; and the wonder is that I have not suffered it. Evidently the death of Christ was fruitful of a seed for him. Christ was an offering for sin, in the sense of a substitute. It may be that you are sick: even now your head is aching, your heart is faint; you feel that by-and-by you will die. He shall have the glory of bringing in an everlasting righteousness; for so it was foretold concerning him, Daniel 9:24. Sinner, God will never destroy you merely to maintain his government, or for the good of others. Tomorrow is my wedding-day, the day for which I have long panted, when I shall sign the testimony of my life by a glorious deaths." Why, my brethren, if we were only so far atoned for by the death of Christ that any one of us might afterward save himself, Christ's atonement were not worth a farthing, for there is no man of us can save himself no, not under the gospel; for if I am to be saved by faith, if that faith is to be my own act, unassisted by the Holy Spirit, I am as unable to save myself by faith as to save myself by good works. And now to the text itself, with brevity. Doubtless 'universal,' and 'redemption,' where the greatest part of men perish, are as irreconcilable as 'Roman, and 'Catholic.' Why his seed? God's living children may not seem to be quite so handsome, nor so charmingly arrayed as you are, and in their own esteem they may not be worthy to consort with you; but there is a solemn difference between the living child and the dead child, however you may try to conceal it. Have we not all around us persons who say that they are Christians, and are not, but do lie. The second effect of Christ's death is, "He shall prolong his days." . "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon." Our second head must explain the first, or otherwise it is an insolvable mystery how God should bruise his Son, who was perfect innocence, while poor fallible confessors and martyrs have had no such bruising from him in the time of their trial. To bruise him, or his being bruised, was pleasing to Yahweh; that is, it was acceptable to him that he should be crushed by his many sorrows. In the Greek Septuagint we see the true reading of Isaiah 53:10. The days are evil, but the Lord is good. And when Christ dies, you are to look upon the death of Christ, not as his own dying merely, but as the dying of all those for whom he stood as the scape-goat and the substitute. And you say, "Did Christ drink it all to its dregs?" He must use his own discretion as to whether he will accept the substitute or not; and if he do so, it is an act of grace. And, to complete the sin-offering, the priest draws his knife and kills the victim which must be utterly consumed with fire. If you have a desire to be saved, a desire given you by the Holy Spirit, that desire is a token for good. A price is paid for all, yet few delivered; the redemption of all consummated, yet, few of them redeemed; the judge satisfied, the jailer conquered, and yet the prisoners inthralled! But Jesus has qualified in all 300 points of prophecy that spoke about His life, His ministry, His death. In what sense could it be said of Ignatius or Cranmer that their souls or lives were made an offering ( 'asham or hilasmos) for sin? By now, it should be clear that this chart is basically useless. But I will say no more about it. 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