May he now be found of them who sought not for him, and he shall have the glory, world without end. Oh, no, dear friends: Jesus' death is the effect of overwhelming and infinite love on the Father's part; and every blow which wounds, every infliction which occasions sorrow, and every pang which rends his heart, speaks of the Father's love as much as the joy, the everlasting triumph, which now surrounds his head. This stanza points to the glorification which God appointed for the Suffering Servant after the sufferings ended, constituting the problem that remained insoluble for the pre-Christian prophets. The fact is, that the Father as much decreed salvation, as much effected it, and as much delighted in it, as did either God the Son, or God the Holy Spirit. No beauty that we should desire Him. Well, whoever wrote that chorus doesn't have a real understanding of scripture, because they have taken it out of its context. Men forsake the faith, but God is faithful still. You see why the word "seed" is used. Doubtless 'universal,' and 'redemption,' where the greatest part of men perish, are as irreconcilable as 'Roman, and 'Catholic.' Isaiah 53:9). Christ was an offering for sin, in the sense of a substitute. An offering for sin - ( 'asham). I would have you notice this morning, first of all, the cause of Christ's death "It pleased the Lord to bruise him." Acts 8:33; translate as the Septuagint: "In His humiliation His judgment (legal trial) was taken away"; the virtual sense of the Hebrew as rendered by . I know," says he, "that Christ can not be punished in a man's stead, and the man be punished afterwards. Alas, the old nature blots and blurs the resemblance! Christ hath bought a "multitude that no man can number." The scripture nowhere says that Christ is his sufferings underwent the wrath of God; but it says here, (1.) Go and preach this in hell, and you will have quenched the fire which is forever to burn, and the worm of conscience will die. That he bruised him so as to put him to grief. (Exodus 29:15) And if a private individual offered a sacrifice, he also laid his hand upon it, as if he threw upon it his own sin. "He shall be exalted and lifted up, and be very high.". But then it follows, if we are thus of a seed, that we ought to be united, and love each other more and more. It will be a place where cattle and sheep graze."- . Worldliness has gone a long way to destroy the church of God. 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. 3 He was despised and was avoided by men, +. never indulge the idea, that Jesus died to make the Father complacent towards us. Can it possibly be conceived that there should be a redemption of men, and those men not redeemed? Why doth the Saviour suffer so? 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? There is no song of praise. 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. I recommend considering the Septuagint for the fact that it is the most oft quoted text family in the New Testament and resolved many textual issues that arose from the Latin Vulgate "fudging" of Hebrew readings which did not match the LXX, inherited in many English translations to this day. Christian life needs to have daily the baptism of the Holy Ghost. We come to him by birth: we are partakers of his life. Hearest thou the cry of his spirit, which is suffering more than his body suffers "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" ; Isaiah 53:11 Or (with Masoretic Text) 11 He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied; Isaiah 53:11 Or by knowledge of him; Isaiah 53:12 Or many; Isaiah 53:12 Or numerous Obey the precept, and the promise is yours. Christ will always have a seed to see. Think of the distance, "From the highest throne in glory To the cross of deepest woe,". IV. ". There is no divine composure there. Ed. And, last of all, by Christ's death the Father's good pleasure was effected and prospered. In short, Isaiah teaches that sins cannot be pardoned in any other way than by betaking ourselves to the death of Christ. He shall have the glory of an everlasting Father. He bore your sins. In connection with this it should be remembered that all history falls into A.D. and B.C, and that more great and beautiful buildings have been constructed and dedicated to his glory in a single century than were ever erected and dedicated to all the kings and potentates who ever lived in the previous millenniums of human history, etc. That would be distinctly true; but the text does not so read. 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. The marks were still there. (5.) But hark! It introduces to us the innocent suffering servant who would be slain for the sins of God's people. Distulit in seram commissa piacula mortem, Virg. Our Lord shall see his seed on the conquering hand yet. WHAT WAS THE REASON OF THE SAVIOUR'S SUFFERING? And the will of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. He hungers; he thirsts, he fears, he weeps, he rejoices, he loves, he dies. If you have a desire to be saved, a desire given you by the Holy Spirit, that desire is a token for good. Only read the story of the persecutions under Nero, and under Diocletian, in the olden times, and you will wonder that Christianity survived the cruel blows. There is more truth in the fear of the first than there can be in the faith of the second; for the faith of the second is founded on a falsehood. They went in the morning after the Sabbath to embalm him. You remember even as they were nailing Him, He said, "Father, forgive them; they know not what they do" ( Luke 23:34 ). Isaiah Chapter 2 1 . The Servant would also accomplish Yahwehs good purpose for His life (cf. RESURRECTION BY GOD'S SERVANT - Vss. Do not doubt this message: God has sent it to you. Read the 22nd Psalm, and learn how Jesus suffered. And he bore our pains. Thus the name father is often given to the prophets, or to teachers, and the name sons to disciples or learners. Some of you, perhaps, have lived long in England, but you are contemplating going far away to Australia or America. Childrens children are the crown of old men Proverbs 17:6. Take him to the bath and wash him! Of Old Testament prophecies of the birth of the Messiah, among the most famous and well-known (in part because Handel included its words in his magnum opus, "The Messiah") is Isaiah 9:6, 7 (numbered 9:5, 6 in the Masoretic Hebrew text, the Septuagint Greek version and in German and some other translations). Let this, then, be fully established in our minds. He has set upon the strong man armed, dispossessed him, and divided the spoil. There is a stern compression of his face, as if unutterable agony were tearing his heart as if over again Gethsemane were being acted on the cross as if his soul were still saying, "If it be possible let this cross pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt." The point is moot, however, because both Yahweh and the Servant made the Servant an offering for sin. WHAT myriads of eyes are casting their glances at the sun! This is a non-controversial point that basically any scholar, including . We poor earthly pastors are of small use; but this great Shepherd and Bishop of souls, with an eye that never misses a single new-born lamb of grace what a mercy to have such a Shepherd to look after the whole flock!" Our text gives this a full solution, in that it says, "He shall make his soul an offering for sin." Isaiah 53:10 (WYC) and the Lord would defoul him in sickness. Adam Clarke Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:5. Cyrus, a type of Christ, shall perform all God's pleasure (Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 44:28), and therefore, no doubt, Christ shall. If he had not completed his work of penalty-suffering, he would have been left in the tomb till now; our preaching would have been in vain, and your faith would have been in vain; ye would have been yet in your sins. Now, if we wish to return to a state of favor with him, sin must be taken away. Oh! But, "He opened not His mouth.". [Note: Oswalt, The Book . When he shall have offered his soul as a sacrifice. Now, mark: when you see Christ going up the Mount of Doom, you see man going there: when you see Christ hurled upon his back, upon the wooden cross, you see the whole company of his elect there; and when you see the nails driven through his blessed hands and feet, it is the whole body of his Church who there, in their substitute, are nailed to the tree. When they come to the river which divides them from the celestial country, "he shall see his seed." (3.) Psalms 127:3-5; Psalms 128:6; Proverbs 17:6), as was living a long life (cf. It is often rendered trespass-offering Leviticus 5:19; Leviticus 7:5; Leviticus 14:21; Leviticus 19:21; 1 Samuel 6:3, 1 Samuel 6:8, 1 Samuel 6:17). . Such language is never applied to martyrs in the Bible; such language is never applied to them in the common discourses of people. Masoretic Text. It says, "He shall see his seed." It pleased the Lord to do this. What thinkest thou, man? If you look to him, rest you well assured that he looks to you. Hast thou piled thy sins together till they seem to provoke heaven? Your mistake, Sir, is in your failure to see that Jesus Christ was in no sense whatever only one man. 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. It's being forsaken of God. Because these sufferings would tend to illustrate the divine perfections, and show the justice and mercy of God. 4. I believe the Christ will come in to see all his beloved purchased ones; and he will search to see whether we are all there. Thus they have rejected him in his essential character, and there has been no effect produced upon their conduct by their cold admiration of his life. He determined to do it; it was the result of an eternal counsel; and he delighted in it, as it was an effectual method for the salvation of man and the securing and advancing of the honour of God. The sense of this verse is, he was subjected to these sufferings, not on account of any sins of his, but because, under the circumstances of the case, his sufferings would be pleasing to Yahweh. "And I, if I be lifted up." And we shouldn't seek to blame someone else for our own guilt and to persecute someone else for that for which we are ourselves responsible. What shall I say of the seed of Christ? Do not let your faith be a sort of dead faith dealing with a dead man; let it be instinct with life, with warm blood in its veins. Is it not the old proverb that you are not to take coals to Newcastle? 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