He has set upon the strong man armed, dispossessed him, and divided the spoil. The Son of God faints beneath a cross that many a criminal might have carried. He waited his forty days, and then, with shouts of sacred song, he "led captivity captive, and ascended up on high." She had a beautiful face, but man, she was a dud. Christ died for me; that does not prove much. And I so love the writings of Paul that I've been drawn to him. But do you know the limit of it? 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). 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. Complete it is, dear brethren, not only in itself, but, as I said, in its effects; that is to say, that there is now complete pardon for every soul which believeth in Christ. ". 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. He's with the rich in His death. That lip is not fit to kiss; those filthy lips cannot be permitted to touch that holy cheek of the glorious Father! Likewise the setting up of the kingdom and interest of Christ in the world, and the continuance and increase of it; the ministry of the word, and the success of that as the means thereof, may be also meant; for the Gospel will be preached, and a Gospel church still continued, until all the elect of God are gathered in. The scripture nowhere says that Christ is his sufferings underwent the wrath of God; but it says here, (1.) Our Lord Jesus died. And when your sin was placed upon Jesus Christ, He was separated from the Father. 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. Jesus is no longer dead. They hurry from the house silently and noiselessly, before the mother is awake. God had planned it in order that He might demonstrate to you how much He loves you. 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. Jerome renders it, If he shall lay down his life for sin. The Septuagint renders it in the plural, If you shall give (an offering) for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived posterity. Lowth renders it, If his soul shall make a propitiatory sacrifice. Rosenmuller renders it, If his soul, that is, he himself, shall place his soul as an expiation for sin. Noyes renders it, But since he gave himself a sacrifice for sin. It seems to me that the margin is the correct rendering, and that it is to be regarded as in the third person. "He shall see his seed." Christ died because he was an offering for sin. The gift of a Saviour, such as he was, evinced boundless benevolence; his sufferings in behalf of the guilty showed the holiness of his nature and law; and all demonstrated that he was at the same time disposed to save, and yet resolved that no one should be saved by dishonoring his law, or without expiation for the evil which had been done by sin. That would be distinctly true; but the text does not so read. or is it not a part of the natural light which never was altogether eclipsed in man? 4He bears our sins, and is pained for us: yet we accounted him to be in trouble, and in suffering, and in affliction. I recommend considering the Septuagint for the fact that it is the most oft quoted text family in the New Testament and resolved many textual issues that arose from the Latin Vulgate "fudging" of Hebrew readings which did not match the LXX, inherited in many English translations to this day. Interesting prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. And it describes him as a skinny little runt about five feet tall with a horribly large hooked nose and eyes that were red, swollen and constantly running, and it gave this horrible And I was upset because that's not how I pictured Paul at all. Even the Son of God stoopeth not to this burden uncalled. Never think you have any claim to anything because Christ purchased it. Who shall venture to say that the Divine Lord, amidst the glories of heaven, owed to his father anything? Persons come into the church with a profession which they never carry out. Be worthy of your high calling. 6All we as sheep have gone astray; every one has gone astray in his way; and the Lord gave him up for our sins. Oh, what blessed eyes those are of his that can spy out beauties which only he can see! 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." It needs one other condition to be fulfilled. And so the next time Jesus showed Himself to the disciples, Thomas being present, He said, "Okay, Thomas, go ahead. In other words, we'll not be attracted to Him by the physical beauty. One hundred years ago or so, throughout the most of our Dissenting churches, a sort of Unitarianism was triumphant. In a word, the redemption wrought by Christ being the full deliverance of the persons redeemed from all misery, wherein they were inwrapped, by the price of his blood, it can not possibly be conceived to be universal unless all be saved: so that the opinion of the Universalists is unsuitable to redemption.". 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! Answer (1 of 4): Perhaps the greatest of all Messianic prophecies in the Tanakh (the Hebrew Scriptures / the Old Testament) concerning the advent of the Jewish Messiah is found in the 53rd chapter of the prophet Isaiah. 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. So you call up and you make a date. Brenton's Septuagint Isaiah 53:10. 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. Nay, tarry not till you go out of this house. It is impossible, absolutely, that sin can be forgiven without a sacrifice. I go not beyond the limit which this word allows me, nay, I have scarcely come up to the edge of it. The first is that the nations are startled. Isaiah 30:18 speaks of the compassion and mercy of God for his people. Out of the land of the living. God help you to believe in the Lord Jesus, and so to have eternal life! That he shall live to see his seed. Confessors of old cried not so, when they came to die. The reward of all his sufferings in making an offering for sin would be, that multitudes would be converted and saved; that his reign would be permanent, and that the work which Yahweh designed and desired would prosper under his administration. "Hear not all these things they accuse Thee of? And now to the text itself, with brevity. All of the accusations. We do not read here that the Lord Christ has followers. Why, my brethren, if we were only so far atoned for by the death of Christ that any one of us might afterward save himself, Christ's atonement were not worth a farthing, for there is no man of us can save himself no, not under the gospel; for if I am to be saved by faith, if that faith is to be my own act, unassisted by the Holy Spirit, I am as unable to save myself by faith as to save myself by good works. . And fellowship with God who is holy and righteous cannot be restored until something is done about my sin. Not as some tremendously physical, robust, handsome creature that we all sort of envision Jesus to be. According to the will of God because God loved us. But there is a caveat. Oh," says one, "you mean that the Baptists ought to get together!" II. . See how the cruel iron drags through his tender hands! If Jesus is not the Messiah, there is no Messiah. The text puts away every hard thought concerning the Father, by telling us that it pleased Jehovah to bruise Jesus Christ. What better testimony can we bear to the love and faithfulness of God than the testimony of a substitution eminently satisfactory for all them that believe on Christ? Just as people were startled at the sight of the servants great sufferings, so will they be startled at the sight of his great glory. 4 Truly he himself carried our sicknesses, +. O sirs! RESURRECTION BY GOD'S SERVANT - Vss. Take him to the bath and wash him! A God bowing his head, and suffering and dying, in the person of manhood, puts such a singular efficacy into every groan and every pang that it needs not that his pangs should be eternal, or that he should die a second death. He could not, I will venture to say, even then have suffered an equivalent for that eternal misery which the ungodly deserve; and if he were a mere man, he must suffer precisely the same. But somehow we always create sort of a mental image. 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. 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. (1.) We are made his seed through his death. 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. Yet, still the lukewarm can be heated: the cause is not dead. 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. 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! There is no effect of Christ's death that is left to peradventure. "He shall prolong his days " (Isaiah 53:10). Remember that Jesus Christ rose again from the dead. It has great effect upon men when they are born again, and are saved from the wrath to come, and are full of gratitude on this account; but before that happens, we have known men admire the conduct of Christ, and even write books about the beauty of his character, while, at the same time, they have denied his Godhead. It would be the deliberate act of Yahweh. "It pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to griefs." If you can give an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed: 11 the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of his soul, to show him light, and to form him with . And they shall say unto Him, "What are the meaning of these wounds in Your hands?" It says, "He shall see his seed." Isa 53:2. . It introduces to us the innocent suffering servant who would be slain for the sins of God's people. and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? But it was known by those who printed the bill that they were misrepresenting our faith. 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