Christ becomes a substitute for us. But he was wounded for our transgressions ( Isaiah 53:4-5 ). Christ will have you, sinner, Christ will have you. Consequently, we must come to the death of Christ; for in no other way can satisfaction be given to God. They are all discipled by being newly-created. He shall prolong his days - His life shall be long. Note, [1.] But now to go a step further, and with as much brevity as possible. God help you to believe in the Lord Jesus, and so to have eternal life! And now where is the artist that can depict the anguish of the fathers countenance, when the knife is unsheathed, and he holds it up, ready to slay his son? Be worthy of your high calling. for he was cut off ( Isaiah 53:8 ). It is in his hands who upholds all things. If there is an anxious soul, they seek to find him out. He shall see his seed." He has laid upon him heavy sufferings. No beauty that we should desire Him. Do not fear. We must also keep in view the contrast. 5 Assyria, the rod of hypocrites, for his pride shall be broken. I wish that every house had in it a large-typed copy of the "Book of Martyrs." 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. Has God, the Holy Spirit, made you feel that you are a lost sinner? [3.] (2.) None can be written in the roll of followers of Christ unless they are also written in the register of the family of God "this and that man was born there." And it so often is very shocking when you see the person that you've been listening to. JB ISAIAH Chapter 8 . Dost thou see him in proper flesh and blood fastened to that tree? Thus the whole passage will be connected, and it will be regarded as the assurance of Yahweh himself, that when his life should be made a sacrifice for sin, he would see a great multitude who should be saved as the result of his sufferings and death. Let him have this, and he has enough. So marred that you could not be recognized as a man, as a human being.". The Lord enable you to believe in Jesus now, to take him now as a complete and finished salvation for you, though you may be the most sunken and abandoned and hopeless of all characters. He shall see a great increase of them; the word is plural, He shall see his seeds, multitudes of them, so many that they cannot be numbered. The martyrs said not that: God was with them. They shouted in their fires, and praised God on their racks. The prey shall not be taken from the mighty; the lawful captive shall be delivered. There was needed, also, one of the same nature with us. 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. Let it always be our meat and drink, as it was Christ's, to do God's will. You couldn't stand to look at it. Cannot thy conscience rest on that? "He shall prolong his days " (Isaiah 53:10). 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." "'Tis done the great transaction's done.". Do you know anything about this divine life? 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. 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. His side was pierced; he was given up by the Roman authorities for burial; the imperial authorities were sure of his death. You have, shall I say? Confessors of old cried not so, when they came to die. No: we preach a gospel here for sinners. The reply was: "Indeed, you are right. Ah, well! Ah! Impossible! I heard, the other day, from one who told me that he believed we were saved by being perfect, that when we committed sin we at once fell out of God's mercy. He it was that put the bitter cup into his hand, and obliged him to drink it (John 18:11), having laid upon him our iniquity. Crying out the twenty-second psalm, and in the verse Isaiah 53:3 the answer is given, "For Thou art holy, O Thou that inhabitest the praises of Thy people." Do not think that there is a great gulf between you, a living man, and him. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ looks at you in just the same way. Do not mistake me; that same life which abides in Christ, at the right hand of God, is that everlasting life which he has bestowed upon all those who put their trust in him. The Hebrew reading of Isaiah 53 was adulterated when the Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Greek. We are his seed. Are we not beside ourselves till the Holy Spirit begins to enlighten us? He shall justify not here and there one that is eminent and remarkable, but those of the many, the despised multitude. id est, Piacula commissa propter quae expiatio debetur. Serv. Sometimes it is a question whether they are his seed or not a very great question with themselves, but none with him: he sees his seed. We are all equally responsible for His death. 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. The Septuagint (also known as the LXX) is a translation of the Hebrew Bible into the Greek language. Your mistake, Sir, is in your failure to see that Jesus Christ was in no sense whatever only one man. And that's when you get laid out of the game. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? sit at his Fathers right hand to be crowned for doing nothing, and rest until his adversaries are made his footstool, when he has not performed his Father's will! . 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. No tears of yours, no penance, no personal mortifications, nay, no good works of yours, are wanted to make yourself complete and perfect. Two views of Gods kindness are held up for our admiration in this passage; first, that he spared not his onlybegotten Son, but delivered him for us, that he might deliver us from death; and secondly, that he does not suffer his death to be useless and unprofitable, but causes it to yield very abundant, fruit; for the death of Christ would be of no avail to us, if we did not experience its fruit and efficacy. glorious doctrine! If you make a sin offering , our soul will see long-lived offspring, and the Lord is willing to remove him from the . They are the ones who have turned away from God and they are the ones for whom the servant dies. Dear friends, all the Lord's seed will be there all that were born into his house with a new birth. And so, "He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied.". Yes, my brethren, he took the cup, and. He bore your sins. A price is paid for all, yet few delivered; the redemption of all consummated, yet, few of them redeemed; the judge satisfied, the jailer conquered, and yet the prisoners inthralled! 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. Underneath the church are the ever lasting arms; but underneath Christ there were no arms at all, but his Father's hand pressed heavily against him; the upper and the nether mill-stones of divine wrath pressed and bruised him; and not one drop of joy or consolation was afforded to him. Missionaries attempt to prove that "Almah" means a "virgin" by referring to an ancient Greek translation of the Bible, called the Septuagint, which was carried out by 70 rabbis approximately 165 years before Jesus. Wilt thou now trust Christ with thy soul? "He that believeth on him is not condemned;" "There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." I do not mean anything of the kind. And God cries out. Sin must be punished. and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? +. Persons come into the church with a profession which they never carry out. But surely in that suffering, in that death. Beloved, I think that you know, in your own experience, that it was his death that really operated most upon you in the matter of your conversion. 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." Interceding for the transgressors. She had a beautiful face, but man, she was a dud. That He might bring me into fellowship with God. It may be that that will be your first response when you see the marks of the suffering that He bore for you. . Why this? We come to him by birth: we are partakers of his life. He suffered so much for our redemption, that he must love us. These few words contain a very rich doctrine, which every reader may draw from them; but we are satisfied with giving a simple exposition of the text. He has no beautiful form or comeliness. We have sure and infallible proofs of it. He took the cup of Christ's agony, and he put in there, suffering, misery, and anguish such as only God can imagine or dream of, that was the exact equivalent for all the suffering, all the woe, and all the eternal tortures of every one that shall at last stand in heaven, bought with the blood of Christ. 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). 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. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. Because the Messiah had voluntarily submitted himself to those sorrows which were necessary to show the evil of sin; and in view of the great object to be gained, the eternal redemption of his people, he was pleased that he would subject himself to so great sorrows to save them. Since he has created them, and put them there himself, he sees them. [Note: Oswalt, The Book . The structure of Isaiah also argues for its unity. (1.) Look at him: look at his rags; how foul they are! He shall have the glory of bringing in an everlasting righteousness; for so it was foretold concerning him, Daniel 9:24. If thou art damned it is not for want of invitation. 7 And he, because of his affliction, opens not his mouth: he was . Many of the Lord's children have a fine candle to go to bed with. Let every sinner here who desires something stable to fix his faith upon, listen to these simple truths, which I am trying to put as plainly as possible. 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. It will be a place where cattle and sheep graze."- . 6 . 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. John's first glimpse of Christ in heaven, he saw Him as a lamb that had been slaughtered. Isaiah 53:10 Surely this can only mean that God beat Jesus up?! 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. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." You see why the word "seed" is used. But if one reads each passage in Greek, light bulbs start turning on. 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? 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. Even the Son of God stoopeth not to this burden uncalled. When thou shalt make his soul - "If his soul shall make"] For tasim, a MS. has tasem, which may be taken passively, "If his soul shall be made - "agreeably to some copies of the Septuagint, which have . The Son of man had power even on earth to forgive sin. And if now you can say. 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. And then, in Deuteronomy, the twenty-fifth chapter, at the sixteenth verse, he speaks of it as the thing which is an abomination to him. 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. if your eyes could see to-night the terrible justice of God which a being executed now, if these ears could but hear it, if ye could be appalled for a moment with, " The sullen groans and hollow moans And shrieks of tortured ghosts,", you would soon perceive that God is punishing sin! If you have a desire to be saved, a desire given you by the Holy Spirit, that desire is a token for good. He waited his forty days, and then, with shouts of sacred song, he "led captivity captive, and ascended up on high." 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. 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. On this I shall be very brief. 10 Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes[ a] his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. According to the Letter of Aristeas, at least 72 scholars at Alexandria translated the Hebrew Bible, . (2.) 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. Mark the serenity of the martyrs countenance. I mean, just a dull evening. That's sheer unscriptural idiocy. They were all persuaded that he had really died. He was despised, and we held him as of no account. Secondly, the reason of Christ's death "When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin." The scripture nowhere says that Christ is his sufferings underwent the wrath of God; but it says here, (1.) 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. Adam Clarke Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:5. 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 . If thou wilt, then God has made him to be a sin-offering for thee; but if thou wilt not, beware, lest he whom thou wouldst not have to be thy Saviour should become thy Judge, and say, "Depart, thou cursed one, into everlasting fire in hell!" There is no song of praise. It has prospered hitherto, and shall prosper, whatever obstructions or difficulties have been, or may be, in the way of it. What can you do? Every form of torture which devils could invent was inflicted upon Christian men and women. 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." Those blindsides are the really thing that will put you out.Now with Jesus as they covered His face and began to buffet Him, no way to feign or to give with the blow, and thus His face must have been horribly disfigured. The point is moot, however, because both Yahweh and the Servant made the Servant an offering for sin. (3.) One hundred years ago or so, throughout the most of our Dissenting churches, a sort of Unitarianism was triumphant. When you pass through the gates of the grave, you go there solitary and alone; you are not the representative of a body of men, but you pass through the gates of death as an individual; but, remember, when Christ went through the sufferings of death, he was the representative Head of all his people. In accordance with this, the idea is here, that the Messiah would sustain this relation, and that there would be multitudes who would sustain to him the relation of spiritual children. Stop sir! The death of Christ is traceable to God the Father. If ye can give an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed: Jump to: Bible Study Tools; Parallel Bible Verse; Bible Contextual Overview; The spoil which God divided to Christ he divides (it is the same word), he distributes, among his followers; for, when he led captivity captive, he received gifts for men, that he might give gifts to men; for as he has told us (Acts 20:35) he did himself reckon it more blessed and honourable to give than to receive. I pause once more; for I hear some timid soul say "But, sir, I am afraid I am not elect, and if so, Christ did not die for me." 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. Pardon takes away our filth, but then it leaves us naked; justification puts a royal robe upon us. That he shall live to see his seed. 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