My, what this man has given to us of his great depth of understanding and background. THE STORY OF THE CROSS - GOOD FRIDAY . Let us try if we can see it is so. It would be the deliberate act of Yahweh. Because he willingly took the place of sinners and prayed for their forgiveness, he is now exalted to the highest place (12). 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. 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. Just as many were astonished at you, So His visagewas marred more than any man, And His form more than the sons of men; So shall He sprinkle many nations. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. Can you conceive how he stifled his emotions, and, with sobs, exclaimed, "My son, God will provide himself a lamb." 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. There is no knowing Christ except through the new birth. There are a few of the boldest of the saints gathered round the stake, and as he unrobes himself, ere he stands upon the fagots to receive his doom, he tells them that it is a joyous thing to be a soldier of Christ, to be allowed to give his body to be burned; and he shakes hands with them, and bids them "Good by" with merry cheer. 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 . Jesus said, "You don't have any power except that which My Father gives you. The punishment Christ went through on the cross was placed on him by us rather than God, and if we "give an offering for sin," that is faith in Jesus and true repentance (metanoia), our souls shall receive eternal life, or a prolonged seed, as well. There is not a child of his, born in any out-of-the-way place, but what he perceives him at once. You are of the seed of him "who only hath immortality." How is it that the Father can embrace the prodigal? God is willing to wait. They would not have left him in the cave if they had felt any doubt about his death. The word hand often denotes ministry, as the Lord proclaimed the law by the hand of Moses. (Numbers 36:13) Again, the Lord did this by the hands of David; that is, he made use of David as his minister in that matter. 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. Look ye there, and see the place where his only Son hung dead upon the cross, the bleeding victim of awakened justice! 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. The Septuagint was translated in the third and second centuries BC in Alexandria, Egypt. II. Go to your own Christ, your living Christ; make him your familiar Friend, the Acquaintance of your solitude, the Companion of your pilgrimage. Pray, ye who know how to pray, that this message may be made effective in the hand of God. If you look to him, rest you well assured that he looks to you. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim . It is rendered guiltiness Genesis 26:10; sin Proverbs 14:9; trespass Numbers 5:8. This is what is called the governmental theory, that it is necessary for the maintenance of good order that an offender should be punished, but that there is nothing in sin itself which absolutely requires a penalty. (2.) Though he died, he rose again, and left not his children orphans, but took effectual care to secure to them the spirit, the blessing, and the inheritance of sons. 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. One effect of Christ's death is the salvation of multitudes. 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. And when we speak of the Saviour of the world, we must always include in that word, if we speak in a large sense, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, for all these three, as one God, do save us from our sins. For Easter, therefore, I want to focus on three textual problems in Isaiah 52:13-53:12 or what is called Isaiah's "Fourth Servant Song" (the other three are 42:1-4, 49:1-6, and 50:4-9) to show that this text teaches and predicts the vicarious death, burial, and resurrection of the Servant, three key pillars to the gospel of Christ . Yes, the hour is coming when swords and spears shall be forgotten things when the harness of war and the pageantry of pomp shall all be laid aside for the food of the worm or the contemplation of the curious. Christ does and will see the blessed fruit of the travail of his soul in the founding and building up of his church and the eternal salvation of all that were given him. It was all, from its Alpha to its Omega, from its divine preface to its solemn finis, marked out, designed, sketched, and planned by the mind of the all-wise, all-knowing God. If Jesus is not the Messiah, there is no Messiah. An indepth study of Isaiah 53: The Suffering "Righteous Servant" By Serge Lazar. But if one reads each passage in Greek, light bulbs start turning on. I say, most solemnly, I do. What thinkest thou, man? And so Jesus said, "I came not to do My own will but the will of the One who sent Me" ( John 6:38 ). 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." 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. Now we say that Christ was the best person to be a substitute; for just consider what sort of a mediator was needed. The Word of God is divinely inspired; it's inerrant. 40-66, p. Here are you and I to-night brought into this dilemma. Isaiah 9:10 Context. It was as if his face were hidden from us. But the fact that it isn't the beauty of His form that is attractive or draws us to Him means that each of us can identify with Him, because it is that spiritual beauty and the love that just draws us so much that we care not what the form may look like. I read in one of the apocrypha books, one of the early writings, a description of Paul the apostle. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." 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." But beyond the sorrow of death is the joy of the resurrection. septuagint isaiah 53:10 "The Lord is willing to cleanse him of the injury. ALL of these three . I read the epistles of Paul and I think of him as a giant. 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. If Christ had been at all under the law naturally, if it had been his duty to do what it is our duty to do, it is plain he could only have lived for himself; and if he had any sin of his own, he could only have died for himself, seeing his obligations to do and to suffer would have been his just due to the righteousness and the vengeance of God. 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. But a little further, Christ's coming into the world to die was the effect of the Father's will and pleasure. Men have offspring by life; Christ had an offspring by death. 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. A mere man could at most only substitute for one other man. Note, (1.) But hark! 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. I hope soon to be lifting up my voice again. It was so horrible. 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. Here is heroism indeed; but God spared not his own Son, his only-begotten Son, but freely delivered him up for us all. That lip is not fit to kiss; those filthy lips cannot be permitted to touch that holy cheek of the glorious Father! And when he has brought a sin-offering, he shall see a numerous posterity, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper through him. The Lord was pleased with his sufferings, not because he has delight in the sufferings of innocence; not because the sufferer was in any sense guilty or ill-deserving; and not because he was at any time displeased or dissatisfied with what the Mediator did, or taught. I want your imaginations for one minute to picture a scene of olden times. Our Lord Jesus was in travail of soul for our redemption and salvation, in great pain, but with longing desire to be delivered, and all the pains and throes he underwent were in order to it and hastened it on. It is the very same word that Jesus used in the New Testament when talking to His disciples said, "And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me" ( John 12:32 ). He loved not his life unto the death, and his followers, the martyrs, did likewise, Revelation 12:11. This race of ours became a deicide and slew the Lord, and nailed its Saviour to a tree. Take it as it is. Thus have I expounded the first part of the subject the origin of our Saviour's worst sufferings, the Father's pleasure. Persons come into the church with a profession which they never carry out. He stands alone as the only One who has fulfilled these things. Yes, and ever afterward, wherever his seed may wander, he still sees them. You may stifle this voice, if you will, but sometimes you will hear it; and terribly and decisively will it speak in your ears to say to you, "Yes, man, God must punish you; the Judge of all the earth cannot suffer you to go scot free." Ed. That would be distinctly true; but the text does not so read. Beware, ye who forget God in this matter, lest he tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver you. The first effect of the Saviour's death is, "He shall see his seed." Surely it sets Him alone in history as the only man who could ever qualify to be the Messiah, the suffering servant. 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