Made in all points and like unto us, being a man, and standing exactly in a man's place, becoming a real Adam, as true an Adam as was the first Adam, standing quite in the first Adam's place, he is a fit person to become a substitute for us. He overlooks both Pilate and Herod, and traces it to the heavenly Father, the first Person in the Divine Trinity. Remember, too, that acceptance is finished. To this clause some supply the relative (asher,) which: A seed which shall be long lived. But I expound it in a more simple manner, Christ shall not be hindered by his death from prolonging his days, that is, from living eternally. Some persons, when departing from life, leave children, but children who shall survive them, and who shall live so as to obtain a name only when their fathers are dead. He looks upon Him and says it was worth it all because of the redemption that He is able to offer to us. Christ accommodated himself to this dispensation, and received the impressions of grief from his Father's delivering him up; and he was troubled to such a degree that it put him into an agony, and he began to be amazed and very heavy. "Only his bodily resurrection could serve to fulfill such a prediction as this." See likewise the Syriac. Being separated from God. Christ's children have a living Father, and because he lives they shall live also, for he is their life. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? But when he talks about the crucifixion, he speaks about the predetermined counsel and the foreknowledge of God. It was a great commendation of his sufferings, and redounded very much to his honour, that in his sufferings he made intercession for the transgressors, for those that reviled and crucified him; for he prayed, Father, forgive them, thereby showing, not only that he forgave them, but that he was now doing that upon which their forgiveness, and the forgiveness of all other transgressors, were to be founded. 2. I. So marred that you could not be recognized as a man, as a human being.". Remember that in pecuniary matters you must give a quid pro quo, but that in matters of penal justice no such thing is demanded. Septuagint Chronicles is quoted by Eupolemos in the middle of the 2nd century BC, and Septuagint Job by Pseudo-Aristeas in the beginning of the 1st century BC. Isaiah 53:10. Psalms 127:3-5; Psalms 128:6; Proverbs 17:6), as was living a long life (cf. and consider the unexampled love which shines in Christ's gift of himself. Christ becomes a substitute for us. They shouted in their fires, and praised God on their racks. And when your sin was placed upon Jesus Christ, He was separated from the Father. Isaiah 53:10 - But the Lord was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand. There's just the face and that's it.One of the most miserable dates I ever had in my life was with a girl with a pretty face. Throughout the New Testament the salvation of men is uniformly attributed to the death of Christ. "In the fullness of time" God did rend his Son from his bosom, his only-begotten Son, and freely delivered him up for us all. (4.) Amen. This final stanza gives the explanation for the Servants submissive suffering for sinners and so completes the song. He shall see his seed - His posterity; his descendants. Something to ponder. The pronoun "he" as well as the "we" and "our" and "thou" have all . My, what this man has given to us of his great depth of understanding and background. Look upon the whole transaction of a substitute, and of Christ becoming the second Adam, as being a matter of pure, rich, free, sovereign grace, and never indulge the atrocious thought, I pray you, that there was justice, and justice only here; but do magnify the love and pity of God in that he did devise and accomplish the great plan of salvation by an atoning sacrifice. When thou shalt make his soul an offering The word nephesh, soul, is frequently used in Hebrew to signify life. (Isaiah 53:10-12) Hebrew translation. He did, as it were, put the sin from off his own shoulders on to those of the lamb, or the bullock, or the he-goat which was now about to be slaughtered. "When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed." There is no song of praise. If there is anything in them which deserves reward, rest assured he will not rob them of it; and, on the other hand, he will do the right thing with those who have offended, and if they deserve punishment, it is according to the nature and character of a just and holy God that punishment should be inflicted. The reverse of this doctrine, that sin demands punishment, may be used to prove it; for it is highly immoral, dangerous, and opens the floodgates of licentiousness to teach that sin can go unpunished. I could not make the sermon shorter, so as to bring it into a single number, or I should have had to leave out some important point; and I think the shorter sermon is a very fitting accompaniment of it. And the wall shall be built again in troublous times, and after the three score and two sevens shall the Messiah be cut off. There is one great event, which every day attracts more admiration than do the sun, and moon, and stars, when they march in their courses. Many, many years ago, a number of persons were noticed to be going towards Smithfield, early one morning, and somebody said, "Whither are you going?" 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 53:9. He promises to make his soul an offering for sin, consents that the Father shall deliver him up, and undertakes to bear the sin of many, in consideration of which the Father promises to glorify him, not only with the glory he had, as God, before the world was (John 17:5), but with the glories of the Mediator. He who reads Christ's life, as a mere history, traces the death of Christ to the enmity of the Jews, and to the fickle character of the Roman governor. Just as many were astonished at you, So His visagewas marred more than any man, And His form more than the sons of men; So shall He sprinkle many nations. What thinkest thou, man? They will be struck dumb, as it were, as they witness a sight more glorious than they or anyone else could ever have imagined (13-15).Many people find it hard to believe that God will give his servant such power and magnificence, because when they look at the servant they see just an ordinary person of insignificant beginnings. I hear a great talk about the example of Christ having great effect upon ungodly men; but I do not believe it, and certainly have never seen it. '", "Yes, sir," says such a sinner, "I feel that if God should smite me now, without hope or offer of mercy, to the lowest hell, I should only have what I justly deserve; and I feel that if I be not punished for my sins, or if there be not some plan found by which my sin can be punished in another, I cannot understand how God can be just at all: how shall he be Judge of all the earth, if he suffer offenses to go unpunished?" The guilt offering in Israel made reparation, compensation, and satisfaction (Leviticus 5:1-13). And the pleasure of the Lord - That is, that which shall please Yahweh; the work which he desire and appoints. In trying now to expound the doctrine of Christ's being an offering for sin, we will begin by laying down one great axiom; which is, that SIN DESERVES AND DEMANDS PUNISHMENT. Now that scripture has been carelessly interpreted by many people as just lifting up Jesus. No; my Saviour died, and now I am free from every demand of God's vengeance, and I can walk through this world secure; no thunderbolt can smite me, and I can die absolutely certain that for me there is no flame of hell, and no pit digged; for Christ, my ransom, suffered in my stead, and, therefore, am I clean delivered. This is a non-controversial point that basically any scholar, including . 9And I will give the wicked for his burial, and the rich for his death; for he practised no iniquity, nor craft with his mouth. If ye can give an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed." Isaiah 53:10 Septuagint. But now to go a step further, and with as much brevity as possible. But beyond the sorrow of death is the joy of the resurrection. Yes, my brethren, he took the cup, and. [i] His thoughts on these difficulties can be summarized in the following three points: The servant is never specifically identified. Really, when men run away from the simplicities of the gospel in order to make Jehovah more kind, it is strange how unjust and unkind they make him. "He shall prolong his days " (Isaiah 53:10). He was despised, and we held him as of no account. Is this the experience of our life in Christ? They are the ones who have turned away from God and they are the ones for whom the servant dies. (3.) God is willing to wait. He bore your sins. Thus he shall bear the iniquities of the many that he designed to justify (Isaiah 53:11; Isaiah 53:11), shall take away the sin of the world by taking it upon himself, John 1:29. As many were astonished at thee; his visage [or face] was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men ( Isaiah 52:14 ): In the Hebrew this reads more literally, "His face was so marred that He could not be recognized as a man or as a human being. There are some of God's elect here, and he will have you. It will be a place where cattle and sheep graze."- . and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? When he shall have offered his soul as a sacrifice. If there be a universal redemption of all, then all men are redeemed. Although he did not give Christ to drink the actual hells of believers, yet he gave him a quid pro quo something that was equivalent thereunto. What is it but an infinite outrage against everything which is honest and right, if these creatures are punished for anything short of their own deserts. . because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors ( Isaiah 53:12 ); Two thieves on either, one on either side. The first is that the nations are startled. Hast thou piled thy sins together till they seem to provoke heaven? They were all persuaded that he had really died. The third morning came, and the conqueror, rising from his sleep burst the iron bonds of death, and came forth from his prison house, no more to die. "He shall see his seed." Then shall the sheep pass again under the hand of him that telleth them, and he will count them, for he knows whom he bought with his blood, and he will see that they are there in full tale. Isa 3:10 . "He was numbered with the transgressors.". Because they have envisioned usually something far different than what I look like. From the parent that life has been received. Ah! They are enough to kill all hope of better things. Think you he would have returned thither with unexpiated sin red upon his garments? This answer left the questioner without reply. There was no dealing with us by a just God until the atoning Sacrifice had rolled away the stone that blocked the way, namely, the necessity that sin should be punished. (3.) You need not do anything to make the atonement of Christ sufficient to pardon you. The object therefore is, that we should consider the cause, in order to have experience of the effect; for God appoints nothing at random, and hence it follows that the cause of his death is lawful. That knowledge of Christ, and that faith in him, by which we are justified, have reference to him both as a servant to God and as a surety for us. . Take him to the bath and wash him! No," says he, "I believe in a just God, and if God be just, he will not punish Christ first, and then punish men afterwards. and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors ( Isaiah 53:11 ). If you can give an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed: 11 the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of his soul, to show him light, and to form him with . It was grace, and only grace which led the divine mind to say, "I will accept of a substitute. If I should pay a thousand pounds for a man's deliverance from bondage to him that retains him, who hath power to set him free, and is contented with the price I give, were it not injurious to me and the poor prisoner that his deliverance be not accomplished? This section of the Prophets, also known as the "Suffering Servant," has been. Once, as this writer traveled southward on the Missouri-Pacific from St. Louis to Little Rock, a Unitarian noticed my reading the New Testament; and he said: "You Christians have your arithmetic all wrong. "Hear not all these things they accuse Thee of? We must know him, and believe in him, as one that bore our iniquities--saved us from sinking under the load by taking it upon himself. [3.] Great riches are also assigned to him: He shall divide the spoil, shall have abundance of graces and comforts to bestow upon all his faithful soldiers. So cloth our prophet. Most of us are in the category of we can get by. Footnotes. The greater good in this case was that the Servant would be the perfect and final guilt (trespass) offering for sin thus taking away the sins of the world (John 1:29). But there is a caveat. In Gods case, if he had said in the infinite sovereignty of his absolute will, "I will have no substitute, but each man shall suffer for himself, he who sinneth shall die," none could have murmured. You know the patriarch. There is no other way into the first world but by birth: and there is no other way into the second world, wherein dwelleth righteousness, but by birth, and that birth is strictly connected with the pangs of the Savior's passion, "when thou shalt make his soul an of offering for sin, he shall see his seed." It is the very same word that Jesus used in the New Testament when talking to His disciples said, "And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me" ( John 12:32 ). We are his seed in this respect that he has taken us into his family, and given us the family patrimony, and made us partakers of all things in himself. "It pleased Jehovah to bruise him," saith the original; "he hath put him to grief." He believes with Peter "Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain." He shall prolong his days Or this spiritual progeny shall prolong their days, i.e., Christianity shall endure to the end of time. I would have you notice this morning, first of all, the cause of Christ's death "It pleased the Lord to bruise him." You see why the word "seed" is used. Do not think that there is a great gulf between you, a living man, and him. Now, my second point is, THAT POSTERITY OF HIS REMAINS. He waited his forty days, and then, with shouts of sacred song, he "led captivity captive, and ascended up on high." We know that he died. You have, shall I say? Faith is the knowledge of Christ, and without knowledge there can be no true faith. One effect of Christ's death is the salvation of multitudes. You don't get the full brunt of it. I notice that the word is in the plural He shall see his seeds," as though some were truly his seed, and yet for a time, at least, differed from the rest. You will have enough if you only read Foxe's "Book of Martyrs." See how fever parches his tongue, and dries his whole body like a potsherd! All that Christ has belongs to his seed. Oh, how blessedly bright is he! He bore our griefs, and he carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. God has authorized and appointed him to do it; it is according to God's will and for his honour that he does it. Some are seeking; they have hardly found; they are longing; they have scarcely realized the way of faith. Ye are complete in Christ. RESURRECTION BY GOD'S SERVANT - Vss. You have a great necessity. I wish that every house had in it a large-typed copy of the "Book of Martyrs." The most scrupulous care was taken that it should be altogether without blemish; for this idea was always connected with a sin-offering, that it must be sinless in itself; and being without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, it was held to be a competent victim to take the offender's place. That hour of mid-day darkness was the rising of a new sun of righteousness, which shall never cease to shine upon the earth. Impossible! 1. And so that we might see the relationship with 53, we will begin our study of chapter 53 with verse Isaiah 52:13 of 52. III. 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. "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." He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities. Even if they go to bed in the dark, they fall asleep the sooner; but in either case, their Lord will see them if they cannot see him.
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