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. If he can see the guy coming, you just sort of, you reflex action to it and you sort of go with it. 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. "When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed." 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. You have come in to the place where prayer is wont to be made, burdened and troubled, and you seek relief; let the thought that your Lord is a living Friend ease you of your burden. This was the promise made to Abraham (who herein was a type of Christ), that he should be the father of many nations and so be the heir of the world,Romans 4:13; Romans 4:17. What is the gospel? We shall not be solitary spectators of the fearful tragedy of our Saviour's death: we shall but dart our eyes to that place which is the focus of heaven's joy and delight, the cross of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 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. 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. He will see all his seed to the last. Isaiah 53:10 Surely this can only mean that God beat Jesus up?! He said, "Answerest Thou not me? He has set upon the strong man armed, dispossessed him, and divided the spoil. And in the garden He said, "Not My will, Thy will be done" ( Luke 22:42 ), as He submitted as a servant unto the Father. It is no act of grace for a person to accept a pecuniary debt on my behalf of another person. and six editions have the word fully and regularly expressed, shelomeynu ; pacificationum nostrarum , "our pacification;" that by which we are brought into a state of peace and favor with God. I give you the gospel without mutilating it, just as I get it in the gospel by Mark, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." 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 . There is no knowing Christ except through the new birth. He is still ready to be your strong Helper, and to do for you what he did for needy ones in the days of his sojourn here below. i. 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. Well, ask this man, who is now really in the possession of his true senses, whether he believes that sin deserves punishment; and his answer will be quick, sharp, and decisive. Christ hath bought a "multitude that no man can number." The Gentiles had been in the habit of offering sacrifices. "Rivers unknown to song, are not unknown to God." [2.] This study tabulates, classifies, and analyzes the verses of the Septuagint translation of Isaiah where material is added to the Biblical Hebrew text (pluses) or omitted (minuses), and suggests many pluses and minuses are connected with an individual translators literary preferences. And, last of all, by Christ's death the Father's good pleasure was effected and prospered. 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. Verse Isaiah 7:25 All the hills where crops used to grow will be so overgrown with thorns that no one will go there. Oh," says one, "you mean that the Baptists ought to get together!" "He was numbered with the transgressors.". I read in one of the apocrypha books, one of the early writings, a description of Paul the apostle. Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled ( Isaiah 52:13 ). never indulge the idea, that Jesus died to make the Father complacent towards us. 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. He has laid upon him heavy sufferings. What can be the good of it?" With them length of days and a numerous posterity were regarded as the highest favors, and usually as the clearest proofs of the divine love. It wants no eking out. Isaiah 53:10 Context. The KJV's translation of vv. Isaiah 53:10. Why his seed? To this clause some supply the relative (asher,) which: A seed which shall be long lived. But I expound it in a more simple manner, Christ shall not be hindered by his death from prolonging his days, that is, from living eternally. Some persons, when departing from life, leave children, but children who shall survive them, and who shall live so as to obtain a name only when their fathers are dead. Amen. No beauty that we should desire Him. and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Psalms 127:3-5; Psalms 128:6; Proverbs 17:6), as was living a long life (cf. Taking our text, then, as a guide, we propose to visit Calvary, hoping to have the help of the Holy Spirit whilst we look upon him who died upon the cross. 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. Look at him: look at his rags; how foul they are! 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!" And so that we might see the relationship with 53, we will begin our study of chapter 53 with verse Isaiah 52:13 of 52. Look ye there, and see the place where his only Son hung dead upon the cross, the bleeding victim of awakened justice! Refreshed and rested, I look up to the Lord, who can nerve my arm for the conflict, which every day demands more faith and decision. His soul - The word rendered here soul ( nephesh) means properly breath, spirit, the life, the vital principle Genesis 1:20-30; Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 17:11; Deuteronomy 12:23. There are some who say that there is no reason in sin itself why it should be punished, but that God punishes offenses for the sake of society at large. They shouted in their fires, and praised God on their racks. We are glad that there is overwhelming evidence that, not in appearance, but in fact, he died. But Jesus has qualified in all 300 points of prophecy that spoke about His life, His ministry, His death. You are neither a Guelph nor a Hohenzollern, but you are a Christian; and that is a greater name than all. Isaiah 53:10-12, Part 10 Posted on December 17, 2021 by admin This is a continuation of a consideration of the differences between the Masoretic text and the Septuagint, a translation of the Hebrew before Israel rejected Jesus as Messiah. 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; 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." Some are seeking; they have hardly found; they are longing; they have scarcely realized the way of faith. Not as some tremendously physical, robust, handsome creature that we all sort of envision Jesus to be. Whatever is undertaken according to God's pleasure shall prosper, Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 46:10. One man who is drawn for the militia cannot be a substitute for another person so drawn, because he owes for himself his own personal service. That event is, the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. Come, and see how he loved us, see what he did for us. I keep looking out from this pulpit for that small portion of them that may be born in this place; and there are many watchful brethren and sisters here, who try to speak to all that come into the place in whom there are movings of the Spirit. He made his soul an offering for sin; he himself explains this (Matthew 20:28), that he came to give his life a ransom for many. He died to purchase and purify them to himself, fell to the ground as a corn of wheat, that he might bring forth much fruit,John 12:24. This, my brethren, was the climax of the Saviour's woe, that his Father turned away from him, and put him to grief. 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 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. Hast thou piled thy sins together till they seem to provoke heaven? There is one great event, which every day attracts more admiration than do the sun, and moon, and stars, when they march in their courses. In him is light, and the light is the life of men. We are naturally sold under sin, and we cannot discern the spiritual and real Christ until we have a spirit created within us by the new birth, of which he said, "Ye must be born again." 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. and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? To establish this, let me appeal to the conscience I will not say to the conscience of a man who has, by years of sin, dwindled it down to the very lowest degree, but let me appeal to the conscience of an awakened sinner, a sinner under the influence of the Holy Spirit. Now when John was in heaven and he saw the scroll in the right hand of Him who sits upon the throne, and he heard the angel proclaim with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to take the scroll and loose the seals?" Doubtless 'universal,' and 'redemption,' where the greatest part of men perish, are as irreconcilable as 'Roman, and 'Catholic.' It would please Yahweh to crush His Servant and to put Him to grief. See how fever parches his tongue, and dries his whole body like a potsherd! 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. And yet, it is interesting how so often today we only associate love with physical attraction, and not with the person themselves. It is fulfilled in the reign of the Redeemer on earth and in his eternal existence and glory in heaven. Isaac, who might have struggled and escaped from his father, declares that he is willing to die, if God hath decreed it. According to the will of God because God loved us. Has God, the Holy Spirit, made you feel that you are a lost sinner? Men forsake the faith, but God is faithful still. for he was cut off ( Isaiah 53:8 ). Most of us are in the category of we can get by. We are out of the spiritual world altogether that world of which he is the Head, the Creator, the Lord. Remember that in pecuniary matters you must give a quid pro quo, but that in matters of penal justice no such thing is demanded. And it's a very convenient way to reference. There was needed, also, one of the same nature with us. He sits at the right hand of God, even the Father, and he reigns there for ever. 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. 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. To give your wealth is something, if you make yourself poor; but to give your child is something more. If thou wilt perish, it is not for want of earnest pleading with thee. What thinkest thou, man? The reverse of this doctrine, that sin demands punishment, may be used to prove it; for it is highly immoral, dangerous, and opens the floodgates of licentiousness to teach that sin can go unpunished. (2.) The word, that incorruptible see, of which they are born again, is his word; the Spirit, the great author of their regeneration, is his Spirit; and it is his image that is impressed upon them. And now I am to wind up with this third thought: THIS POSTERITY IS ALWAYS UNDER THE IMMEDIATE EYE OF CHRIST. Isaiah 53. TO MY READERS AND FRIENDS, If you accept the great truths set forth in this Manifesto, please circulate it widely. There was not so much as an atom of chance work in the Saviour's death. The prophet Isaiah prophesied in the Eighth Century B.C. 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. He overlooks both Pilate and Herod, and traces it to the heavenly Father, the first Person in the Divine Trinity. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." (Ezra 3:10) So also in the hand of Christ shall prosper the will of God; that is, the Lord will cause the ministry of Christ to yield its fruit, that it may not be thought that he exposed himself fruitlessly to such terrible sufferings. Nay, I know not but that I shall have Scripture for my warrant when I say, that this is the very core of predestination, and that the death of Christ is the very center and main-spring by which God did fashion all his other decrees, making this the bottom and foundation-stone upon which the sacred architecture should be builded. "'Tis done the great transaction's done.". He was chosen as the covenant-head in election; he was ordained in the divine decree to stand for his people. Piaculum committere means literally to commit a sacrifice, that is, to commit a crime for which a sacrifice is required. Ed. Do not take anything to Christ. Christ comes at his glory by conquest. 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. And, you that are not among his seed, see where you are! If ye can give an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed: 11the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of his soul, to shew him light, and to form him with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and he shall bear their sins. 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. [11] Or (with Masoretic Text) [11] He will see the result of the suffering of his soul and be satisfied [11] Or by knowledge of him He looks beyond the Roman spear and nail, beyond the Jewish taunt and jeer, up to the Sacred Fount, whence all things flow, and traces the crucifixion of Christ to the breast of Deity. According to the Letter of Aristeas, at least 72 scholars at Alexandria translated the Hebrew Bible, . But the man who receives the Bible as it is, he says, "Christ died for me, then my eternal life is sure. Read the 22nd Psalm, and learn how Jesus suffered. He loves his people no less, and he could not love them any more, than when he died for them, and so for ever "he shall see his seed." Beloved, if it had been possible to destroy the church of God on earth, it would have been destroyed long ago. I hope soon to be lifting up my voice again. Isaiah 53:10 . III. As to our own country, read the story of persecutions here. 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