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. We cost him so much, that he must delight in us. And what was meant by a sin-offering? The martyrs said not that: God was with them. (Exodus 29:14; Ezekiel 45:22) (55) The sacrifice was offered in such a manner as to expiate sin by enduring its punishment and curse. The Fourth Servant Song Septuagint: Journal 2.53 discusses the Septuagint report of Isaiah 53:10-12.. All of the accusations. He is overwhelmed with grief. Upon Christ, the myriad eyes of the redeemed are perpetually fixed; and thousands of pilgrims, through this world of tears, have no higher object for their faith, and no better desire for their vision, than to see Christ as he is in heaven, and in communion to behold his person. "The Church of the Future," vainly so galled, threatens to overthrow the Church of the living God. ], "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. When I say this, I am not to be understood as using any figure whatever, but as saying actually what I mean. "God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." 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." He looks into the sinner's eyes, and he sees his own dear Son's image there, and he takes him in. He steps upon the fagots; the chain is put about his middle; and after a brief word of prayer, as soon as the fire begins to ascend, he speaks to the people with manful boldness. Advices to adapt it to the age are temptations to destroy its forge; and to these we can have no respect. Show the nobility of your pedigree by the magnanimity of your lives. While the world stands Christ will have a church in it, which he himself will be the life of. 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. According to the will of God because God loved us. So the Targum, paraphrasing the words of Christ and his seed, "they shall see the kingdom of their Messiah; they shall multiply sons and daughters; they shall prolong their days:''. First it is traceable in decree. He has done so in the Saviour; and what God provides, God must and will accept. The servant is satisfied when he sees the fruits of his suffering, namely, a multitude of spiritual children who are forgiven their sins and accounted righteous before God because of his death (10-11). Look at what translators of the New Revised Standard Version say on their footnotes to this verse: a. Isaiah 53:10 meaning of Hebrew uncertain b. Isaiah 53:10 Meaning of Hebrew uncertain Why, sir, it seems a marvel to me that I am out of hell, and Wesley's hymn is often on my lips, 'Tell it unto sinners, tell, I am, I am out of hell. "And I, if I be lifted up." I keep looking out from this pulpit for that small portion of them that may be born in this place; and there are many watchful brethren and sisters here, who try to speak to all that come into the place in whom there are movings of the Spirit. Dost thou see him in proper flesh and blood fastened to that tree? Do not try to live without the living, loving Friend of sinners. And here, to the same purport, By his knowledge (the knowledge of him, and faith in him) shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear the sins of many, and so lay a foundation for our justification from sin. [3.] 2. The point is moot, however, because both Yahweh and the Servant made the Servant an offering for sin. And now to the text itself, with brevity. You hear no shout of exultation. "To see our pastor burnt." They see nothing in his appearance that is impressive or attractive. He is lifted up in the air, and there he hangs preparatory to his death. He has outweighed the penalty, and given double for all your sins. But if you expect your prophecy to be believed, enlarge the number of your jails, and seek for fresh fields for transportation in the interests of society; for if any doctrine can breed villains, this will. 400.]. We have sure and infallible proofs of it. "Which things the angels desire to look into," said the apostle. He arose no more to die. Now Isaiah begins to prophesy here concerning God's servant that was to come. The death of Christ is traceable to God the Father. Here is heroism indeed; but God spared not his own Son, his only-begotten Son, but freely delivered him up for us all. Oh, but the joy we shall have in being there the delight in beholding his face; yet, if all our joys are put together, they will not equal the joy that he will have when he finds them all there for whom he shed his blood all whom the Father gave him all who gave themselves to him all who were born as his seed not one lost! The days are evil, but the Lord is good. The prophet Isaiah prophesied in the Eighth Century B.C. The sufferings of Christ are signified by his being "bruised"; ( See Gill on Isaiah 53:5 ), and as it was foretold he should have his heel bruised by the serpent, ( Genesis 3:15 ) , but here it is ascribed to the Lord: he was . Do you see, then, how it was that God the Father bruised him? They go three days, journey with their men; until they come to the Mount, of which the Lord hath spoken. But, sirs, I need not stop to prove it; it is written clearly upon the consciousness of each man, and upon the conscience of every one of us, that sin must be punished. If we are not like Christ, it is not possible that we are his seed, for the seed is like the parent. In that book there is nothing written by a stranger's hand. Be a debtor to that grace to-night. Beloved, we become, I say again, the followers of Christ by being made partakers of his life, and unless his life be in us, we may say what we will about Christ, and profess what we like about following him; but we are not in the secret. You are of the seed of him "who only hath immortality." It was so horrible. Christ's death hath done it. He says, "It pleased Jehovah to bruise him. With its theater and public-house, it carries on its back two of the greatest instruments of evil yet known. Men die and leave their children, and they see not their seed; Christ lives, and every day sees his seed brought into the unity of the faith. III. The grace and glories of his state of exaltation; and the graces he confers on us are not the least of the glories conferred on him. You have come in to the place where prayer is wont to be made, burdened and troubled, and you seek relief; let the thought that your Lord is a living Friend ease you of your burden. . Sin must be punished. If God's appointed Christ could suffer in thy stead, is it not enough? I hope soon to be lifting up my voice again. They went in the morning after the Sabbath to embalm him. Isa 53:1. . This is a non-controversial point that basically any scholar, including . 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Do you want salvation? God help you to believe in the Lord Jesus, and so to have eternal life! But, nevertheless, God is patient, longsuffering, and gracious. But do you know the limit of it? See Psalms 127:5; Psalms 128:6 : Yea, thou shalt see thy childrens children, and peace upon Israel. So one of the highest blessings which could be promised to Abraham was that he would be made the father of many nations Genesis 12:2; Genesis 17:5-6. And you who have never prayed before, God help you to pray now. The more assured we are of his death, the more assured we feel of the life of all who are in him. What a mercy to have such a Watcher! [10] Hebrew though you make [11] Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have the light [of life]. 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. id est, Piacula commissa propter quae expiatio debetur. Serv. We are made his seed through his death. This section of the Prophets, also known as the "Suffering Servant," has been. And to reject Him after the basis of this kind of evidence is to sin against your own conscience and to sin against the truth, which becomes even a greater evil. Christ will always have a seed to see. Here is love indeed; and here we see how it was, that it pleased the Father to bruise him. Pray, ye who know how to pray, that this message may be made effective in the hand of God. One hundred years ago or so, throughout the most of our Dissenting churches, a sort of Unitarianism was triumphant. Put your hand in My side." 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 had but one son, that son his own heart's delight: he covenanted to yield him up for our redemption, nor did he violate his promise; for, when the fullness of time was come, he sent his Son to be born of the Virgin Mary, that he might suffer for the sins of man. Pardon, full and free, is now presented in the name of Jesus, proclaimed to every creature under heaven, for sins past, for sins present, and for sins to come; for blasphemies and murders; for drunkenness and whoredom; for all manner of sin under heaven. He shall have the glory of an everlasting Father. And they shall say unto Him, "What are the meaning of these wounds in Your hands?" Isaiah 53:10New International Version. I give you the gospel without mutilating it, just as I get it in the gospel by Mark, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." What thinkest thou, man? Sinner, God will never destroy you merely to maintain his government, or for the good of others. he sings whilst the fagots are crackling and the smoke is blowing upward. Every form of torture which devils could invent was inflicted upon Christian men and women. Isaiah 53:10 (WYC) and the Lord would defoul him in sickness. 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. Blessed be the dying Christ! It was as if his face were hidden from us. Do you know anything about this new birth? The KJV's translation of vv. The Hebrew word extolled is the word lifted up. It was grace, and only grace which led the divine mind to say, "I will accept of a substitute. II. because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Sin must be punished. 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. A mere man could at most only substitute for one other man. An offering for sin - ( 'asham). "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." Here are you and I to-night brought into this dilemma. compelled him to it. Both Jews and Gentiles knew pretty well what an offering for sin meant. We do not read here that the Lord Christ has followers. There are many whom Christ justifies, not all (multitudes perish in their sins), yet many, even as many as he gave his life a ransom for, as many as the Lord our God shall call. He's with the rich in His death. Worldliness has gone a long way to destroy the church of God. What God designed for the Redeemer he shall certainly gain the possession of: "I will divide it to him," and immediately it follows, He shall divide it, notwithstanding the opposition that is given to him; for, as Christ finished the work that was given him to do, so God completed the recompence that was promised him for it; for he is both able and faithful. He sees their hopes, their desires, their aspirations; and he often takes the will for the deed, and marks that for a beauty which now may be half-developed, and therefore not all we could wish it to be. "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." No; the blood-stained page of that book, the page which makes both past and future glorious with golden words, that blood-stained page, I say, was as much written of Jehovah, as any other. And in seeing your redemption, in seeing you in fellowship with God, He's satisfied. He turns to some who look upon him, and exclaims, "I value these iron chains far more than if they had been of gold; it is a sweet thing to die for Christ. Isaiah 53:10 CSB. They are all discipled by being newly-created. 4 Truly he himself carried our sicknesses, +. . See likewise the Syriac. And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand; the work of man's redemption, put into the hands of Christ, which he undertook to accomplish; which was with him and before him, when he came into this world, and was his meat and drink to do; this he never left till he had finished it; so that it succeeded and prospered with him: and this may well be called "the pleasure of the Lord"; it was the good pleasure of his will; it was what he purposed and resolved; what his heart was set upon, and was well pleasing to him, as effected by his Son. 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. Septuagint: Isaiah 53:10d (Tanakh) Table Isaiah 53:10d (NET) Isaiah 53:10d (NETS) Isaiah 53:11a (Elpenor English) and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand ().and the Lord's purpose will be accomplished through him (y, ).And the Lord wishes to take away ()the Lord also is pleased to take away () from +. Christ was sent into the world by his Father, as the consequence of the Father's affection for his people. Men forsake the faith, but God is faithful still. The King is not off the ground yet: the battle will be won by his armies. It wants no eking out. Footnotes. He saw they were necessary, and he was willing that he should be subjected to them. Then the victim to be offered was, on all occasions, a spotless one. God the Father has engaged to reward the services and sufferings of Christ with great glory: "I will set him among the great, highly exalt him, and give him a name above every name." The Father did not find the sufferings and death of His Son something pleasurable (or enjoyable) to behold, but they pleased (satisfied) Him because they fulfilled His great purpose of providing redemption for humankind. Oh," says one, "you mean that the Baptists ought to get together!" Oh, how blessedly bright is he! He rose again the third day. You know the patriarch. And if sin deserve not to be punished, what is Tophet but injustice on a monstrous scale? Add to this another matter; namely, that God has absolutely declared his displeasure against sin itself. And if now you can say. It has great effect upon men when they are born again, and are saved from the wrath to come, and are full of gratitude on this account; but before that happens, we have known men admire the conduct of Christ, and even write books about the beauty of his character, while, at the same time, they have denied his Godhead. Mark, not a chance salvation. None can dare to say such a thing. It is Christ's life that is in every true believer "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God; when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory." Thus have I talked with you in a very poor and feeble way, as far as my speech is concerned: but the doctrine is not feeble, the gospel is not poor. Note, (1.) Why, beloved, it was because the Father bruised him. There is more effect in faith in the blood of Christ to change the human character than in every other consideration. Our Lord Jesus died. And yet, it is interesting how so often today we only associate love with physical attraction, and not with the person themselves. The person so free from personal service, and so truly in our nature, and yet so exalted in person, should also be accepted and ordained of God. Why doth the Saviour suffer so? When they come to the river which divides them from the celestial country, "he shall see his seed." Dost thou see him there him whom God hath set forth? Isaiah /. There are some of God's elect here, and he will have you. "'Tis done the great transaction's done.". As one that has undertaken for us. The Septuagint Version . And here in Isaiah, outstanding example of clear-cut prophecy. Shall go on in a state of progressive prosperity; and so completely has this been thus far accomplished, that every succeeding century has witnessed more Christianity in the world than the preceding, or any former one. They believe that Judas was atoned for just as much as Peter; they believe that the damned in hell were as much an object of Jesus Christ's satisfaction as the saved in heaven; and though they do not say it in proper words, yet they must mean it, for it is a fair inference, that in the case of multitudes, Christ died in vain, for he died for them all, they say; and yet so ineffectual was his dying for them, that though he died for them they are damned afterward. You will have enough if you only read Foxe's "Book of Martyrs." It is for them that he bears Gods punishment (4-6).The servant is treated cruelly, but he bears it silently. 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. It was as a substitute for sin that he did actually and literally suffer punishment for the sin of all his elect. Has God, the Holy Spirit, made you feel that you are a lost sinner? Anyone standing there, when the thousands upon thousands gloated their eyes with the sufferings of Christians, would have said, "Christianity will die out; but the Colosseum, so firmly built will stand to the end of time;" but lo, the Colosseum is a ruin, and the church of God more firm, more strong, more glorious than ever! 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. 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. In the Isaiah 53:19 the prophet had testified very particularly of the sufferings of Christ, yet mixing some hints of the happy issue of them; here he again mentions his sufferings, but largely foretels the glory that should follow. Did he suffer it all? There is no beauty there that we should desire. Justification, too, is finished. 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?" Come, and see how he loved us, see what he did for us. Do you ask for a proof of this? That is, really an attractive, desirable or attracting feature. "Who shall say it was due to the Divine Father that Christ should be nailed to the accursed tree, to suffer, bleed, and die, and then be cast into the grave? 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. The translation of Isaiah contains allusions to historical situations and events that point to the years 170-150 BCE" (Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Emanuel Tov, p 131, 2012). The father takes his son, binds his hands behind his back, piles up the stones, makes an altar, lays the wood, and has his fire ready. If you look to him, rest you well assured that he looks to you. 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. "It pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to griefs." Pardon takes away our filth, but then it leaves us naked; justification puts a royal robe upon us. Christ did not make himself a sin-offering without a warrant from the Most High: God made him so. And that is why Jesus came that He might take the guilt of my sin. Man may put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter; darkness for light, and light for darkness; but this follows him as a dog at the heels of its master, a sense that virtue should be rewarded, and that sin must be punished.
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