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! The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. I think I might venture to assert that if you go to the most degraded race of men, you would still find, at least, some traces of this shall I call it tradition? Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 24, 1858, by the, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------. Look ye! A true husband and a true spouse are always lovers: they are always linked together by strong ties of affection; and it is so with that model husband, the Lord Christ, and his perfect church above. "To see our pastor burnt." he sings whilst the fagots are crackling and the smoke is blowing upward. (3.) Isaiah 53 1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? It was the sovereign degree of heaven which constituted Christ the great substitute for his people. Christ knew what he bought when he died; and what he bought he will have that, and no more, and no less. I am reminded, by the effect which it had upon my mind, of what was said of a certain ancient church in this city of London, which was greatly persecuted. "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that God loved us, and sent His Son to be a propitiation for our sins" ( 1 John 4:10 ). 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). The King is not off the ground yet: the battle will be won by his armies. "Rivers unknown to song, are not unknown to God." 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. He who reads Christ's life, as a mere history, traces the death of Christ to the enmity of the Jews, and to the fickle character of the Roman governor. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him - In this verse, the prediction respecting the final glory and triumph of the Messiah commences. Christ has made an atonement so complete that he never need suffer again. Isaiah's use of fire as a figure of punishment (see 1:31; 10:17; 26:11; 33:11-14; 34:9-10; 66:24), his references to the "holy mountain" of Jerusalem (see note on 2:2-4) and his mention of the highway to Jerusalem (see note on 11:16) are themes that recur throughout the book. But this is the thing of marvel, for which heaven and earth shall ring with the praises of the Mediator, that Jesus Christ died for the ungodly, that Jesus Christ gave himself for their sin; not for their righteousness, not for their good deeds. It is a sacrifice for the removal of sin. "He has no form nor comeliness." Handle him, and see if he be not flesh and bones. So you call up and you make a date. and consider the unexampled love which shines in Christ's gift of himself. I'm doing a bit of deep reading trying to pick apart Yes, bless his name, when he died he did not end his life. See likewise the Syriac. That hour of mid-day darkness was the rising of a new sun of righteousness, which shall never cease to shine upon the earth. Man was condemned to live forever in hell. 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. I want us to go back to the Old Testament and reflect on the prophecy of Isaiah 53, which tells the story of Jesus' atonement for our sins long before it happened. Many, when they see their seed, their seed's seed, wish to depart in peace; but Christ will not commit the care of his family to any other, no, he shall himself live long, and of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, for he ever lives. We are towards Christ, his seed, and thus we are heirs to all that he has heirs to his business on earth, heirs to his estate in heaven. While the world stands Christ will have a church in it, which he himself will be the life of. And you who have never prayed before, God help you to pray now. The great privilege that flows to us from the death of Christ is justification from sin, our being acquitted from that guilt which alone can ruin us, and accepted into God's favour, which alone can make us happy. Multitudes of religious persons are like waxworks, well-proportioned, and you might mistake them by candle-light for life; but in the light of God you would soon discover that there is a mighty difference, for the best that human skill can do is a poor imitation of real life. "Father, I commit my soul to thee, I deposit it in thy hands, as the life of a sacrifice and the price of pardons." 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. The 'suffering servant' song of Isaiah 52:13-53:12 is one of the most significant of Messianic prophecies that we find in the Hebrew Bible. Say that sin is not to be punished, and you have unhinged government; you have plucked up the very gate of our commonweal; you have been another Samson to another Gaza; and we shall soon have to rue the day. (Isaiah 53:10-12) Hebrew translation. First, we have THE ORIGIN OF CHRIST'S DEATH. When they come to the river which divides them from the celestial country, "he shall see his seed." 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." But Christ shall ell joy the society of his children; for he shall not die like other men, but shall obtain eternal life in himself and his children. It sometimes denotes the rational soul, regarded as the seat of affections and emotions of various kinds Genesis 34:3; Psalms 86:4; Isaiah 15:4; Isaiah 42:1; Song of Solomon 1:7; Song of Solomon 3:1-4. You are ignorant and unlettered, it may be, and your name will never shine in the roll of science, but he who is the divine Wisdom owns you as one of his seed. He shall prolong his days. he shall see his seed, and prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 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. And, mark, here is something substantial. It makes one thrill with horror as he reads of women tossed on the horns of bulls, or set in red-hot iron chairs; and men smeared with honey to be stung to death by wasps, or dragged at the heels of wild horses, or exposed to savage beasts in the amphitheatre. Christ's death hath done it. The deuterocanonical books (from the Greek meaning "belonging to the second canon") are books and passages considered by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the Assyrian Church of the East to be canonical books of the Old Testament, but which Protestant denominations regard as apocrypha.They date from 300 BC to 100 AD, mostly from 200 BC to 70 . You need not to be told, as for the first time, that God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. 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 . The other idea, that sin is only to be punished for the sake of the community, involves injustice. You are of the seed of him "who only hath immortality." Do not doubt this message: God has sent it to you. Psalms 21:4; Psalms 34:12; Proverbs 3:2). And I'll go into an area to speak and all they've heard is my voice. Isaiah Chapter 2 1 . Wilt thou now trust Christ with thy soul? [Note: Oswalt, The Book . That seems to me to be clear from the indefiniteness of the text. Think you he would have returned thither with unexpiated sin red upon his garments? Well do I recollect, as a child, how man hours, how many days, I spent looking at the pictures in an old-fashioned "Book of Martyrs," and wondering how the men of God suffered, as they did, so bravely. The Gentiles had been in the habit of offering sacrifices. Though I do not think that the version is correct, it shows that still it was thought and believed that the Messiah would have a perpetual seed. It is so in pecuniary matters, but it is not so in penal matters. But there is a caveat. When you live with the living Christ, you will live indeed. Now, I am going to be as plain as I can, while I preach over again the precious doctrine of the atonement of Christ Jesus our Lord. God's living children may not seem to be quite so handsome, nor so charmingly arrayed as you are, and in their own esteem they may not be worthy to consort with you; but there is a solemn difference between the living child and the dead child, however you may try to conceal it. The text in the Septuagint is different: In that day, God shall shine in counsel with glory upon the earth, to exalt, and to glorify the remnant of Israel. Christ was put to death by the absolute foreknowledge and solemn decree of God the Father, and in this sense "it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief.". 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. II. Seeing ones offspring was a blessing on those whom God favored (cf. The idea is, that he was himself innocent, and that he gave up his soul or life in order to make an expiation for sin - as the innocent animal in sacrifice was offered to God as an acknowledgment of guilt. "Only his bodily resurrection could serve to fulfill such a prediction as this." I know," says he, "that Christ can not be punished in a man's stead, and the man be punished afterwards. But what a seed he will have to see in the morning! So cloth our prophet. Your sins have nailed Christ's hands to the cross, your sins have pierced his heart; and his heart is not pierced in vain, nor are those hands nailed there for naught. Christ becomes a substitute for us. There is no other way into the first world but by birth: and there is no other way into the second world, wherein dwelleth righteousness, but by birth, and that birth is strictly connected with the pangs of the Savior's passion, "when thou shalt make his soul an of offering for sin, he shall see his seed." 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. But men, for the sake of helping us to find scriptures and to memorize passages, divided the Bible into chapter and verses. Now Jesus when He was referring to being lifted up was referring to the death that He was to die upon the cross, as He would be lifted up upon a cross. It has been announced to him that to-morrow is his burning day. Christianity is not a natural growth: it is constantly a divine creation. It is by faith that we are justified, by our consent to Christ and the covenant of grace; in this way we are saved, because thus God is most glorified, free grace most advanced, self most abased, and our happiness most effectually secured. He shall justify not here and there one that is eminent and remarkable, but those of the many, the despised multitude. 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). Footnotes. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when he shall make his soul an offering for sin ( Isaiah 53:9-10 ). He has done so in the Saviour; and what God provides, God must and will accept. This is the gate of entrance into discipleship. O sirs! I. They shall answer, "Ay, ay, ay, we are here; we are here!" Beloved, if it had been possible to destroy the church of God on earth, it would have been destroyed long ago. He suffered so much for our redemption, that he must love us. 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. That was the purpose of God when He created man-that God might be able to fellowship with man. Here is love indeed; and here we see how it was, that it pleased the Father to bruise him. To grief - "With affliction"] For hecheli, the verb, the construction of which seems to be hard and inelegant in this place, the Vulgate reads bocholi, in infirmitate, "with infirmity.". It is an historical fact, better proved than almost any other which is commonly received as historical, that he did really rise again from the grave. The death-knell of the penalty rings in the dying words of the Saviour, "It is finished." . Righteous men know themselves to be sinners: sinners believe themselves to be righteous men. That is, with His face covered they began to hit Him. "Thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin." 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. Now, the second matter that I wish to bring under your notice is this, THAT THE PROVISION AND ACCEPTANCE OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR SINNERS IS AN ACT OF GRACE. God forsook His Son when your sin was placed upon Him. (4.) In other words, we'll not be attracted to Him by the physical beauty. (5.) and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Out of the land of the living. There could be no more explicit declaration that he who is referred to here, did not die as a martyr merely, but that his death had the high purpose of making expiation for the sins of people. he sees your first desires, your humble breathings, your lowly hopes, your trembling approaches. 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. 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 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 greater good in this case was that the Servant would be the perfect and final guilt (trespass) offering for sin thus taking away the sins of the world (John 1:29). Isaiah /. "My son," said good old Abraham, "God shall provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering." Christ has died; but still everything that we receive comes to us entirely as a gratuitous outflow of God's great heart of love. Ah! But, "He opened not His mouth.". 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. And you say, "Did Christ drink it all to its dregs?" He had laid in Jehovah's bosom from before all worlds, eternally delighting himself in his Father, and being himself his Father's eternal joy. In Christ there was no fault; why, then, was the Lord pleased that he should suffer? This we must inherit, as a son follows his father's business. Now, Jesus Christ has been made by God an offering for sin; and oh that to-night we may be able to do in reality what the Jew did in metaphor! 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. What a mercy to have such a Watcher! Thus the Servants life would not be futile after all. . Adam Clarke Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:5. The Septuagint reads it, "He shall see a long-lived seed." The first thought suggested by this text is, that Jesus is still alive; for to see anything is the act of a living person. He bore our griefs, and he carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Isaac, who might have struggled and escaped from his father, declares that he is willing to die, if God hath decreed it. As we have heard of a good woman, who, whenever a poor sailor came to her door, whoever he might be, would always make him welcome, because, she said, "I think I see my own dear son who has been these many years away, and I have never heard of him; but whenever I see a sailor, I think of him, and treat the stranger kindly for my son's sake." Even the Son of God stoopeth not to this burden uncalled. ". Take him to the fire and burn the filth! Now the black scene vanishes at the sound of a voice from heaven. Look at him: look at his rags; how foul they are! Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. This, my brethren, was the climax of the Saviour's woe, that his Father turned away from him, and put him to grief. Surely, children are like their father not all to the same degree; but still there is the evidence of their sonship in their likeness to him from whom they came. a "Ubi posuit satisfactionis pretium anima ejus", Cocceius; "si posuerit delictum sua anima", Montanus. 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!" 1. He would also prolong His days by resurrecting Him (cf. When men made chapter and verse divisions, they did make mistakes. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." The structure of Isaiah also argues for its unity. Isaiah 9:10 Context. 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 . 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. Mark the serenity of the martyrs countenance. He has no beautiful form or comeliness. Do you ask for a proof of this? There is a bearded patriarch, who rises early in the morning and awakes his son, a young man full of strength, and bids him arise and follow him. Interceding for the transgressors. "He that believeth on him is not condemned;" "There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." "I must be just," said God; "that is a necessity of my nature. He subjected himself to that which to us is the wages of sin (Isaiah 53:12; Isaiah 53:12): He has poured out his soul unto death, poured it out as water, so little account did he make of it, when the laying of it down was the appointed means of our redemption and salvation. But who hath believed our report? I pray that it may be so. Read online Bible study, search parallel bibles, cross reference verses, compare translations & post comments in bible commentaries at qBible.com. And the pleasure of the Lord To have all men saved and brought to the knowledge of the truth. We are his seed. He shall see his seed." Many of the Lord's children have a fine candle to go to bed with. This answer left the questioner without reply. 7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open . He shall see his seed; or, "a seed"; a spiritual seed and offspring; a large number of souls, that shall be born again, of incorruptible seed, as the fruit of his sufferings and death; see John 12:24, this he presently began to see after his resurrection from the dead, and ascension to heaven; when great numbers were converted among the Jews, and after that multitudes in the Gentile world, and more or less in all ages; ever since has he had a seed to serve him; and so he will in the latter day, and to the end of time: he shall prolong his days: live long, throughout all ages, to all eternity; though he was dead, he is alive, and lives for evermore; lives to see all the children that the Father gave him, and he has gathered together by his death, when scattered abroad, and see them all born again, and brought to glory.
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