More than that: Christ has ascended upon high. (4.) "To see our pastor burnt." for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. He was wounded for our transgressions. We will consider the Story of the Cross. Here is heroism indeed; but God spared not his own Son, his only-begotten Son, but freely delivered him up for us all. The context begins in Isaiah 52:13 and continues through Isaiah 53:12: They shall answer, "Ay, ay, ay, we are here; we are here!" 3. Truly it has satisfied God: is there not enough there to satisfy thee? Add to this another matter; namely, that God has absolutely declared his displeasure against sin itself. It was my sin that put Him on the cross. O sirs! 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. 1. 40-66, p. We are told here, "Thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin." Worldwide Delivery. God's purposes shall take effect, and not one iota or tittle of them shall fail. Isaiah 53:11. 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. The first living cry, the first living tear, he observes. Ye are complete in Christ. he shall see his seed, and prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 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. 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. 400.]. Now, dear friends, this grace of God is yet further magnified not only in the allowance of the principle of substitution, but in the providing of such a substitute as Christ on Christ's part that he should give up himself, the Prince of Life to die; the King of glory to be despised and rejected of men; the Lord of angels to be a servant of servants; and the Ancient of days to become an infant of a span long. No other man can qualify. Christ died because he was an offering for sin. That the Lord bruised him, not only permitted men to bruise him, but awakened his own sword against him, Zechariah 13:7. God must be just, if heaven falls. They are enough to kill all hope of better things. The King is not off the ground yet: the battle will be won by his armies. Sin must be punished. The death-knell of the penalty rings in the dying words of the Saviour, "It is finished." The stamp of the first Adam is not altogether removed; but it ought to grow fainter and fainter, while the lines of the divine portrait should grow stronger and clearer. As God now speaks about His servant, His only begotten Son, "who was in the form of God, and thought it not something to be grasped to be equal with God: and yet He humbled Himself and took on the likeness of man or the form of man and came in likeness of man. Here is love indeed; and here we see how it was, that it pleased the Father to bruise him. He shall see it beforehand (so it may be understood); he shall with the prospect of his sufferings have a prospect of the fruit, and he shall be satisfied with the bargain. You hear no shout of exultation. They believe in an atonement made for every body; but then, their atonement is just this. All that you can do will bring you no further: you must be born again; and this is the work of the Spirit of God. He stands alone as the only One who has fulfilled these things. and consider the unexampled love which shines in Christ's gift of himself. But it was: 1. It is well to know whither the age is driving. Isaiah 53:10 . That is, with His face covered they began to hit Him. Put your finger in My hand. The Fourth Servant Song Septuagint: Journal 2.53 discusses the Septuagint report of Isaiah 53:10-12.. Do not take anything to Christ. The use of analogous expressions in the New Testament will be dear, from a comparison of Romans 3:25; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 John 2:2; Hebrews 9:14 In the case last quoted, as in that before us, Christ is represented as offering himself to God. Alexander, (55) In both of the passages quoted by our author, the word is not (asham) but (hattath), which, as appears from the preceding note, is closely analogous. You are of the blood royal of heaven. He has vanquished principalities and powers, sin and Satan, death and hell, the world and the flesh; these are the strong that he has disarmed and taken the spoil of. Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405 A.D.) Isaiah 52 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Return to Index. See! Why, because it was by reason of his death for us that the Father could come and deal with us, and the Spirit could breathe upon us, and new-create us. It is in his hands who upholds all things. The church must perpetually receive fresh light and life from above, or else it would die; but still stands the promise, "He shall see his seed." . Wilt thou now trust Christ with thy soul? II. In him is light, and the light is the life of men. 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. Such language is never applied to martyrs in the Bible; such language is never applied to them in the common discourses of people. But here the curtain falls. JB ISAIAH Chapter 8 . Answer (1 of 4): Perhaps the greatest of all Messianic prophecies in the Tanakh (the Hebrew Scriptures / the Old Testament) concerning the advent of the Jewish Messiah is found in the 53rd chapter of the prophet Isaiah. It says, "He shall see his seed." No conversation, nothing. 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. Shall prosper - (See the notes at Isaiah 52:13, where the same word occurs). He submitted to the frowns of Heaven (Isaiah 53:10; Isaiah 53:10): Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, to put him to pain, or torment, or grief. "Thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin." Do not think that there is a great gulf between you, a living man, and him. When I say this, I am not to be understood as using any figure whatever, but as saying actually what I mean. The sufferer becomes the conqueror and receives a conquerors reward. But when man turned his back upon God and sinned, fellowship with God was broken. 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. 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 rejoice with exultation as we read the text, "He shall see his seed." a "Ubi posuit satisfactionis pretium anima ejus", Cocceius; "si posuerit delictum sua anima", Montanus. Distulit in seram commissa piacula mortem, Virg. Under this title he was brought into the world (Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 9:6), and he shall not fail to answer the title when he goes out of the world. That he bruised him so as to put him to grief. I mean, just a dull evening. Dost thou see him there him whom God hath set forth? Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. 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. Oh! We come now to our fourth remark, THAT CHRIST'S WORK, AND THE EFFECTS OF THAT WORK, ARE NOW COMPLETE. We are truly of the seed of Jesus, even as the Jews are of the seed of Israel not born after the flesh, for he had none born to him in that way; but born after the Spirit, wherein his seed is as the stars of heaven. And, thirdly and lastly, that posterity is under his immediate eye at all times, for "He shall see his seed." The gift of a Saviour, such as he was, evinced boundless benevolence; his sufferings in behalf of the guilty showed the holiness of his nature and law; and all demonstrated that he was at the same time disposed to save, and yet resolved that no one should be saved by dishonoring his law, or without expiation for the evil which had been done by sin. It is for them that he bears Gods punishment (4-6).The servant is treated cruelly, but he bears it silently. He shall justify not here and there one that is eminent and remarkable, but those of the many, the despised multitude. 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. Every heir of grace shall meet around the throne. There is no knowing Christ except through the new birth. You do understand me, I trust, that God must punish sin; that he must punish you for sin unless some one else will suffer in your stead; that Jesus Christ is the person who did suffer in the room and place of all those who ever have believed on him who do believe in him, or ever shall believe in him, making for those who believe on him a complete atonement by his substitution in their place. Put your hand in My side." (2.) Christ knew what he bought when he died; and what he bought he will have that, and no more, and no less. So God declares, "By his knowledge shall My righteous servant justify many.". Because he has done all these good services, therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and, according to the will of the Father, he shall divide the spoil with the strong, as a great general, when he has driven the enemy out of the field, takes the plunder of it for himself and his army, which is both an unquestionable evidence of the victory and a recompense for all the toils and perils of the battle. I wish to-night that I had power to deal with this doctrine as I would. Psalms 21:4; Psalms 34:12; Proverbs 3:2). It does not say that he shall see his seed for so long, and then no longer; but it stands as a prophecy fulfilled, always fulfilling, and always to be fulfilled: "He shall see his seed." And as he observed that no one was found worthy in heaven and earth to take the scroll or to loose the seals, he began to weep. 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." The stream that flowed from his side on Calvary shall cleanse the world from all its blackness. "Only his bodily resurrection could serve to fulfill such a prediction as this." Pardon takes away our filth, but then it leaves us naked; justification puts a royal robe upon us. 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. "He shall see his seed." Then shall he 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. He shall prolong his days - His life shall be long. 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." The guilt offering in Israel made reparation, compensation, and satisfaction (Leviticus 5:1-13). It is, at present, the caricature of a virtue; but it is well meant, and will come right, and the Lord sees it as it will be, and he rejoices in it. "What for?" 2. The first drops of that living spring, the whole outcome of the spring, and the spring itself, came from him. Now, this is a foul libel upon the fair and glorious grace of God the Father, to whom for ever be honor: for Jesus Christ did not die to make God loving, but he died because God was loving. 12Therefore he shall inherit many, and he shall divide the spoils of the mighty; because his soul was delivered to death: and he was numbered among the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and was delivered because of their iniquities. 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. No, sir: if I am to be punished, Justice says; at any rate, that it shall be for my own sins, but if I am to be eternally a castaway from God's presence merely as a sort of trick of government to maintain the dignity of his law, I cannot understand the justice of this. 24 Israel is comforted with promise of deliverance from Assyria. There are in the world many theories of atonement; but I can not see any atonement in any one, except in this doctrine of substitution. I know you're troubled, Pilate." ; 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 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. But surely in that suffering, in that death. The language here is taken from that which was regarded as the highest blessing among the Hebrews. "He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand." God help you to believe in the Lord Jesus, and so to have eternal life! In both the Septuagint and Abinadi's discourse, a singular word is changed to a plural word three times, each when translating a word describing iniquity or sin. 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. Remember, too, that acceptance is finished. If I owe a man twenty pounds, it is no matter to him whatever who shall pay the twenty pounds so long as it is duly paid. Dear friends, all the Lord's seed will be there all that were born into his house with a new birth. How could he do that? Right? Footnotes. But the Father gives the Son. He bore your iniquities. Jehovah has declared his decree, "Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion." Hence, not even Christ's death was exempt from it. There was not only a colliquation of his body in his sufferings (Psalms 22:14, I am poured out like water), but a surrender of his spirit; he poured out that, even unto death, though he is the Lord of life. Much of the glory with which Christ is recompensed, and the spoil which he has divided, consists in the vast multitudes of willing, faithful, loyal subjects, that shall be brought in to him; for so some read it: I will give many to him, and he shall obtain many for a spoil. He is himself perfectly free, and therefore can he undertake for others. 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. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. He whom God the Father hath accepted as a sin offering hath perfected forever thou who are set apart. There is no song of praise. The parent's life is in the child. 5But 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. Was God "Pleased to Punish" Christ? They shouted in their fires, and praised God on their racks. 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. Are we not beside ourselves till the Holy Spirit begins to enlighten us? Why, beloved, it was because the Father bruised him. "The Church of the Future," vainly so galled, threatens to overthrow the Church of the living God. His dominion shall be from sea to sea. 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