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. In what sense could it be said of Ignatius or Cranmer that their souls or lives were made an offering ( 'asham or hilasmos) for sin? 3. Many, many years ago, a number of persons were noticed to be going towards Smithfield, early one morning, and somebody said, "Whither are you going?" [2.] They nail him to the tree. From the parent that life has been received. Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high. We have no weapon against this monster, with the double tower on its back, but the gospel of the grace of God. This word properly means, blame, guilt which one contracts by transgression Genesis 26:10; Jeremiah 51:5; also a sacrifice for guilt; a sin-offering; an expiatory sacrifice. Ye have no need of shillings to pay the priests; nor is baptismal water wanted to erect the pardon: there is no willing, doing, being, or suffering of yours required to complete the task. Our Lord always has a seed. They go together; and who shall paint the unutterable anguish of the father's soul, whilst he walks side by side with that beloved son, of whom he is to be the executioner? . There has been a dispute whether men have any innate ideas, but surely this idea is in us as early as anything, that virtue deserves reward, and sin deserves punishment. Take it as it is. It looked as if the living church of God would be extinguished altogether; but it was not so, for God did but stamp his foot, and, from all parts of the country, men like Mr. Wesley and Mr. Whitefield, came to the front, and hundreds of others, mighty men of valor, proclaimed the gospel with unusual power, and away went the bats and the owls back to their proper dwelling-place. 2. The salvation of souls is a great satisfaction to the Lord Jesus. Will he not sing sweeter songs than ever came from martyr's lips? Now, when a ransom is paid for the liberty of a prisoner, does not justice demand that he should have and enjoy the liberty so purchased for him by a valuable consideration? Mother, you know yourself what a pleasure it has been for you to look at your daughter, and to see her grow up. 4He bears our sins, and is pained for us: yet we accounted him to be in trouble, and in suffering, and in affliction. But now to go a step further, and with as much brevity as possible. 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. God knew it. He could not long be held a prisoner in the tomb. Wrong! This was expressed by the priests by means of the laying on of hands, as if they threw on the sacrifice the sins of the whole nation. (4.) I pray that it may be so. What! You know the difference. He has gone out of the land of tears and death. We do not read here that the Lord Christ has followers. 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'll be crucified. Look upon the whole transaction of a substitute, and of Christ becoming the second Adam, as being a matter of pure, rich, free, sovereign grace, and never indulge the atrocious thought, I pray you, that there was justice, and justice only here; but do magnify the love and pity of God in that he did devise and accomplish the great plan of salvation by an atoning sacrifice. As he was the root of the Jewish church, and the covenant was made with him and his seed, so is Christ of the universal church and with him and his spiritual seed is the covenant of grace made, which is grounded upon and grafted in the covenant of redemption, which here we have some of the glorious promises of. If earth should pass away and every creature should be lost, the justice of God must stand, it cannot by any possibility be suffered to be impugned. The sense of this verse is, he was subjected to these sufferings, not on account of any sins of his, but because, under the circumstances of the case, his sufferings would be pleasing to Yahweh. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on Jesus Christ the iniquities of us all ( Isaiah 53:6 ). Worldwide Delivery. The work of man's redemption is in the hands of the Lord Jesus, and it is in good hands. I go not beyond the limit which this word allows me, nay, I have scarcely come up to the edge of it. According to the margin, Yahweh himself speaks, and the idea is, that his soul should make an offering for sin. Something to ponder. That fellowship that He can bring to us with the Father. It has prospered hitherto, and shall prosper, whatever obstructions or difficulties have been, or may be, in the way of it. ALL of these three . According to the Letter of Aristeas, at least 72 scholars at Alexandria translated the Hebrew Bible, . He is the Bridegroom, they make up the bride; and the bridegroom's joy is not in seeing his bride for once on the wedding-day, but he takes delight in her as long as they both live. He was and is The Son of God, God manifested in the flesh; and that Holy Being's atoning sacrifice was more than sufficient to wipe out the sins of all the myriads of men who ever lived." 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). He overlooks both Pilate and Herod, and traces it to the heavenly Father, the first Person in the Divine Trinity. III. Believer, you may be a poor person, living in an obscure lane, but you are of the imperial house. Christ died because he was an offering for sin. See how this dwelt upon; for, whenever we think of the sufferings of Christ, we must see him in them bearing our sin. Do not think that I am too familiar. And the wall shall be built again in troublous times, and after the three score and two sevens shall the Messiah be cut off. Other men can get disciples for themselves by the means that are usual for such ends; but all the disciples of Christ are produced by miracle. However, many times they made the divisions in the wrong place, and in our reading we are prone to read to an end of a chapter and then quit until the next reading. God must be just, if heaven falls. Oh, but the joy we shall have in being there the delight in beholding his face; yet, if all our joys are put together, they will not equal the joy that he will have when he finds them all there for whom he shed his blood all whom the Father gave him all who gave themselves to him all who were born as his seed not one lost! 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. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." He looks into the sinner's eyes, and he sees his own dear Son's image there, and he takes him in. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him - In this verse, the prediction respecting the final glory and triumph of the Messiah commences. You have a great necessity. I'm in love with Paul. So cloth our prophet. It would not be worth angels singing "Glory to God in the highest" about it, I should think. Isaiah 53:9. Our sins were thrown upon Christ in such a manner that he alone bore the curse. And what was meant by a sin-offering? If you use the word claim at all, let it always be in so humble and modified a sense that you understand that you are still receiving, not of debt, but of grace. He bore our griefs, and he carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. As a man hands down to his posterity his possessions, Christ Jesus has made over to his people all that he is, and all that he has, and all that he ever will be, that they may be with him, and behold his glory, and shine with him as the stars for ever and ever. Most absolutely he must be one who had no debt of his own. They speak of the seed royal. 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. They were all persuaded that he had really died. 8In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: who shall declare his generation? 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. z "quum posueris delictum animam ejus", De Dieu. Pardon takes away our filth, but then it leaves us naked; justification puts a royal robe upon us. (2.) and we didn't esteem him ( Isaiah 53:3 ). When thou shalt make his soul - Margin, His soul shall make. According to the translation in the text, the speaker is the prophet, and it contains an address to Yahweh, and Yahweh is himself introduced as speaking in Isaiah 53:11. There is a martyr in prison: the chains are on his wrists, and yet he sings. Put your hand in My side." They look upon Him as an unloving, severe Being, who had no love to the human race, and could only be made loving by the death and agonies of our Saviour. If he had not completed his work of penalty-suffering, he would have been left in the tomb till now; our preaching would have been in vain, and your faith would have been in vain; ye would have been yet in your sins. 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. 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. It is so in pecuniary matters, but it is not so in penal matters. But who hath believed our report? Christ's children have a living Father, and because he lives they shall live also, for he is their life. There are the Father's arms, and here are you, a black sinner to-night. 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." His fellow citizens are just as heartless, and show no concern that he suffers death unjustly. Look ye there, and see the place where his only Son hung dead upon the cross, the bleeding victim of awakened justice! And then, thirdly, the effects and consequences of Christ's death. So sad is his heart, that he faints in the streets. You would not like to tell her all you have thought of her: you have looked at her with intense delight. 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." But when he talks about the crucifixion, he speaks about the predetermined counsel and the foreknowledge of God. God did not send Christ forever into hell; but he put on Christ, punishment that was equivalent for that. Isaiah 53:8). 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." 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. And if sin deserve not to be punished, what is Tophet but injustice on a monstrous scale? 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. And they shall say unto Him, "What are the meaning of these wounds in Your hands?" III. 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. A difference may be made in the penalty, when there is a difference in the person; but if the person be the same, the penalty must be precisely and exactly the same in degree and in quality. Assuredly this is not language which can be used of any martyr. Cannot thy conscience rest on that? 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. His side was pierced; he was given up by the Roman authorities for burial; the imperial authorities were sure of his death. And they should have started chapter 53 with verse Isaiah 52:13 , because the last three verses here definitely fit in with Isaiah 53:1-12 . It must be the character of God, that he has a desire to do towards his creatures that which is equitable. The second effect of Christ's death is, "He shall prolong his days." you may be as sure you are God's elect as you are sure of your own existence; for this is the infallible proof of election a sense of need and a thirst after Christ. And so the next time Jesus showed Himself to the disciples, Thomas being present, He said, "Okay, Thomas, go ahead. In the Greek Septuagint we see the true reading of Isaiah 53:10. 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. When he shall have offered his soul as a sacrifice. The Influence Of Post-Biblical Hebrew And Aramaic On The Translator Of Septuagint Isaiah (The Library Of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) by Seulgi L. Byun, 9780567672384, available at LibroWorld.com. 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." It is a common saying with the opponents of the old faith, that Mr. Spurgeon is a "pessimist," and takes gloomy views of things. 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. Because he willingly took the place of sinners and prayed for their forgiveness, he is now exalted to the highest place (12). Brenton's Septuagint (LXX) - Holy Name KJV LXX . Now this is why it is so ridiculous to try to hold the Jews responsible for the death of Jesus Christ and to blame them and to persecute them as has been the history of the church; persecute them for the death of Jesus Christ. Peter called our attention to the verse in 1 Peter 2:22 "He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.". It isn't for the beautiful form that we will be attracted. The meaning here is, that the Messiah, though he should be put to death, would yet see great multitudes who should be his spiritual children. Man may put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter; darkness for light, and light for darkness; but this follows him as a dog at the heels of its master, a sense that virtue should be rewarded, and that sin must be punished. TO MY READERS AND FRIENDS, If you accept the great truths set forth in this Manifesto, please circulate it widely. [i] His thoughts on these difficulties can be summarized in the following three points: The servant is never specifically identified. It may be that that will be your first response when you see the marks of the suffering that He bore for you. Christ will always have a seed to see. Christ came not into this world unsent. None can dare to say such a thing. "The Son with joy looks down, and sees The purchase of his agonies.". The Exaltation of the Messiah; The Triumph of the Messiah. Did he suffer it all? More than that: Christ has ascended upon high. Yes, and ever afterward, wherever his seed may wander, he still sees them. Why, because everyone, who is a true follower or disciple of Christ, has been born by a new birth from him into the position of disciple. They see nothing in his appearance that is impressive or attractive. Good News Bible (Catholic edition in Septuagint order) Verse Isaiah 7:25 All the hills where crops used to grow will be so overgrown with thorns that no one will go there. and consider the unexampled love which shines in Christ's gift of himself. "We are going to Smithfield." (Isaiah 53:10-12) Hebrew translation. 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 . No," says he, "I believe in a just God, and if God be just, he will not punish Christ first, and then punish men afterwards. I say this was always the idea of a sin-offering, that of a perfect victim; without offense on its own account, taking the place of the offender; the transferrence of the offender's sin to that victim, and that expiation in the person of the victim for the sin done by another. 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. If I am to be damned for the sake of other people, I demur to it. Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled ( Isaiah 52:13 ). 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. +. II. He shall have the glory of bringing in an everlasting righteousness; for so it was foretold concerning him, Daniel 9:24. Ah, well! He that wings an angel and guides a sparrow, he that protects the hairs of our head from falling prematurely to the ground, was not likely, when he took notice of such little things, to omit in his solemn decrees the greatest wonder of earth's miracles, the death of Christ. Hark! 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. Shall prosper in his hand. But don't worry, those that turned Me over to you have the greater sin than you do. They know he has done no wrong (9).Despite the inhumanity of people, the servants death is according to Gods will. Both Jews and Gentiles knew pretty well what an offering for sin meant. Yea, he "so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. No other man can qualify. He shall see it when it is accomplished in the conversion and salvation of poor sinners. Jesus is not blind; but he does see in his people much more than they ever will see in themselves. The third day has arrived; the servants are bidden to stay at the foot of the hill, whilst they go to worship God yonder. 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. There are multitudes of religious people, very religious people; but they are as dead as door-nails. Add to this another matter; namely, that God has absolutely declared his displeasure against sin itself. He it was that made him sin and a curse for us, and turned to ashes all his burnt-offering, in token of the acceptance of it, Psalms 20:3. my brethren, I want to take you from this scene to a far greater one. I expected to see some tall, Texan type of a guy, and it was just a surprise to me. * Come, Sacred Spirit, now, whilst we attempt to speak on these matchless themes. As Christ himself stated it: "I am the first and the last and the Living one; and I was dead, and, behold, I am alive forever more, and I have the keys of death and of Hades" (Revelation 1:18). It is well for us that it is in his, for our own hands are not sufficient for us, but he is able to save to the uttermost. They are enough to kill all hope of better things. "Only his bodily resurrection could serve to fulfill such a prediction as this." He steps upon the fagots; the chain is put about his middle; and after a brief word of prayer, as soon as the fire begins to ascend, he speaks to the people with manful boldness. Now, can any mind imagine how the father's grief must overflow all the banks of his soul, when, as he walked up that hill-side, his son said to him, "Father, behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?" In that book there is nothing written by a stranger's hand. It is not as if Christ had put so much into the scale and it was quivering in the balance; but your sins, for all their gravity, utterly ceased their pressure through the tremendous weight of his atonement. london : joseph masters, aldersgate street, and new bond street. Christian life needs to have daily the baptism of the Holy Ghost. He loved not his life unto the death, and his followers, the martyrs, did likewise, Revelation 12:11. Seek his healing hand; then beg for his company; get it; keep it; and you shall find that it makes life below like heaven above. I am Orthodox, but my friends aren't. We love to talk about theology. He looks upon Him and says it was worth it all because of the redemption that He is able to offer to us. 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.
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