Put your hand in My side." We are all equally responsible for His death. Ah! 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. Christ hath bought a "multitude that no man can number." By Christina M Wilson. Take him to the bath and wash him! Hence, not even Christ's death was exempt from it. The Septuagint - the translation of the Old Testament into Greek originally made a few centuries before Jesus - has "startle." . This perception of redeeming love, in the death of our Lord Jesus, makes all the difference: this prepares us for a higher and a better life than we have ever known before. You remember that Daniel prophesies, "From the time the commandment goes forth to restore and rebuild Jerusalem to the coming of the Messiah the Prince will be seven sevens and sixty-two sevens, three score and two sevens. 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. We must also keep in view the contrast. 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. In him is light, and the light is the life of men. Christ came not into this world unsent. Verse Isaiah 7:25 All the hills where crops used to grow will be so overgrown with thorns that no one will go there. b "videbit semen quod prolongabit dies", Cocceius; "videbit semen longaevum", V. L. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. It is a loving voice which speaks to you, and that would speak, perhaps, better and more forcibly if it were not choked with love. Evidently the death of Christ was fruitful of a seed for him. The shades of death do not divide you from him. Ah! ". Blessed be the dying Christ! 3. 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. Why, because everyone, who is a true follower or disciple of Christ, has been born by a new birth from him into the position of disciple. There may be emphasis on the word see - he shall see his posterity, for it was regarded as a blessing not only to have posterity, but to be permitted to live and see them. What that something is they do not tell us. I do implore thee, sinner, come to Jesus! He determined that Christ should be born of the Virgin Mary, that he should suffer under Pontius Pilate, that he should descend into Hades, that thence he should rise again, leading captivity captive, and then should reign for ever at the right hand of the Majesty on high. How could he do that? That is why when Peter stood up on the day of Pentecost and talked to the people who were involved in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, he said unto them, "Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was proved to be of God by the signs and the wonders which He did while He was still living with you, whom you according to the predeterminate counsel and foreknowledge of God with your wicked hands have crucified and slain" ( Acts 2:22-23 ). The Exaltation of the Messiah; The Triumph of the Messiah. As he was the root of the Jewish church, and the covenant was made with him and his seed, so is Christ of the universal church and with him and his spiritual seed is the covenant of grace made, which is grounded upon and grafted in the covenant of redemption, which here we have some of the glorious promises of. Note, [1.] Now when John was in heaven and he saw the scroll in the right hand of Him who sits upon the throne, and he heard the angel proclaim with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to take the scroll and loose the seals?" You know best, brothers and sisters, whether this is true of you; but if we have not the Spirit of Christ, we are none of his. You know that you could legally and at once demand a receipt and an acquittance from any one who is your creditor, so long as his debt is discharged, though it is discharged by another, and not by you. A mere man could at most only substitute for one other man. Picture another scene. [Note: Oswalt, The Book . Isaiah means that the death of Christ not only can be no hinderance to his having a seed, but will be the cause of his having offspring; that is, because, by quickening the dead, he will procure a people for himself, whom he will afterwards multiply more and more; and there is no absurdity in giving the appellation of Christs seed to all believers, who are also brethren, because they are descended from Christ. This we must inherit, as a son follows his father's business. There are some who say that there is no reason in sin itself why it should be punished, but that God punishes offenses for the sake of society at large. The language here is taken from that which was regarded as the highest blessing among the Hebrews. may you have grace to take it as it is freely presented to you in the gospel. Our Lord's true people are like him, or they could not be styled "his seed." Isaiah{gr.Esaias} 53 > > KJV. If I am to be cast into hell merely that I am to teach to others the tremendousness of the divine holiness, I shall say there is no justice in this; but if my sin intrinsically and of itself deserves the wrath of God, and I am sent to perdition as the result of this fact, I close my lips, and have nothing to say. The meaning here is, that the Messiah, though he should be put to death, would yet see great multitudes who should be his spiritual children. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? Add to this another matter; namely, that God has absolutely declared his displeasure against sin itself. Now, can any mind imagine how the father's grief must overflow all the banks of his soul, when, as he walked up that hill-side, his son said to him, "Father, behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?" We have sinned; we all like sheep have gone astray; and we must be punished for it. Unless he had so done the agonies of Christ could not have been an equivalent for our sufferings; for hell consists in the hiding of God's face from sinners, and if God had not hidden his face from Christ, Christ could not I see not how he could have endured any suffering that could have been accepted as an equivalent for the woes and agonies of his people. Are we not beside ourselves till the Holy Spirit begins to enlighten us? And if you should have to dwell quite alone in the bush, and have no Christian acquaintance, still go direct to the Son of God, for "He shall see his seed." Isaiah Chapter 53. Every heir of grace shall meet around the throne. And God cries out. Yes, the hour is coming when swords and spears shall be forgotten things when the harness of war and the pageantry of pomp shall all be laid aside for the food of the worm or the contemplation of the curious. He was cut off out of the land of the living ( Isaiah 53:8 ): Now that's an interesting phrase, "Cut off out of the land of the living." Religion will be promoted and extended through him. And that's when you get laid out of the game. 40-66, p. (2.) Come, now, sir, wilt thou now fall flat at the foot of the cross, and rest thy soul's eternal destiny in the pierced hands of Jesus of Nazareth? And you say, "Did Christ drink it all to its dregs?" This allows me to push my text just one point further. He shall prolong his days Or this spiritual progeny shall prolong their days, i.e., Christianity shall endure to the end of time. The King is not off the ground yet: the battle will be won by his armies. But don't worry, those that turned Me over to you have the greater sin than you do. TO MY READERS AND FRIENDS, If you accept the great truths set forth in this Manifesto, please circulate it widely. This is a non-controversial point that basically any scholar, including . All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on Jesus Christ the iniquities of us all ( Isaiah 53:6 ). Yet come, and welcome; for God has provided a sin-offering. If earth should pass away and every creature should be lost, the justice of God must stand, it cannot by any possibility be suffered to be impugned. Upon Christ, the angels in heaven perpetually gaze. And in seeing your redemption, in seeing you in fellowship with God, He's satisfied. This answer left the questioner without reply. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. he shall see his seed, and prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. ], "The Old Testament testifies uniformly that the dead are alive, and in this sense it is no surprise to find the Servant alive after death. II. 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. (54) (asham) primarily signifies a trespass or offense, and secondarily a trespassoffering. So you call up and you make a date. Jesus is no longer dead. Footnotes. God's purposes shall take effect, and not one iota or tittle of them shall fail. What faith and obedience made man do, that love constrained God himself to do. Isaiah 9:10 Context. The reward of all his sufferings in making an offering for sin would be, that multitudes would be converted and saved; that his reign would be permanent, and that the work which Yahweh designed and desired would prosper under his administration. Did he suffer it all? He loves his people no less, and he could not love them any more, than when he died for them, and so for ever "he shall see his seed." Christ was so perfectly well qualified for his undertaking, and prosecuted it with so much vigour, and it was from first to last so well devised, that it could not fail to prosper, to the honour of his Father and the salvation of all his seed. And they should have started chapter 53 with verse Isaiah 52:13 , because the last three verses here definitely fit in with Isaiah 53:1-12 . The eye of Christ is never off from the eye of faith. WHAT myriads of eyes are casting their glances at the sun! 1 The prophet, complaining of incredulity, excuseth the scandal of the cross, 4 by the benefit of his passion, 10 and the good success thereof. And I think that this is, I think that this is rather great that it will not be the beautiful form that we're attracted to. I will here quote the testimony of that pre-eminently profound divine, Dr. John Owen: "Redemption is the freeing of a man from misery by the intervention of a ransom. new york : pott and amery. We do not read here that the Lord Christ has followers. Good News Bible (Catholic edition in Septuagint order) Verse Isaiah 7:25 All the hills where crops used to grow will be so overgrown with thorns that no one will go there. It was grace, and only grace which led the divine mind to say, "I will accept of a substitute. 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. The context begins in Isaiah 52:13 and continues through Isaiah 53:12: You remember Jesus cried on the cross, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" See how fever parches his tongue, and dries his whole body like a potsherd! Instead of the fathers shall be the children, whom he will make princes in all the earth. Note, [1.] the father has communicated to his son the fact that God has demanded his life. And so the next time Jesus showed Himself to the disciples, Thomas being present, He said, "Okay, Thomas, go ahead. The truth will conquer, for God makes it his banner, and his holy arm upholds it; but the end is not yet, unless, indeed, our Lord should suddenly appear. 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