The first effect of the Saviour's death is, "He shall see his seed." Never imagine, oh! We have our natural life, and this makes us men: we have our spiritual life, and this makes us Christians. 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. 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. But not for Himself, but for the people" ( Daniel 9:25-26 ). Dost thou see him there him whom God hath set forth? They esteemed him smitten of God for some very great sin of his own (Isaiah 53:4; Isaiah 53:4); now it was true that he was smitten of God, but it was for our sin; the Lord bruised him, for he did not spare him, but delivered him up for us all,Romans 8:32. He has set upon the strong man armed, dispossessed him, and divided the spoil. Do not try to live without the living, loving Friend of sinners. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ looks at you in just the same way. 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. Crying out the twenty-second psalm, and in the verse Isaiah 53:3 the answer is given, "For Thou art holy, O Thou that inhabitest the praises of Thy people." First, we have THE ORIGIN OF CHRIST'S DEATH. 1 The prophet, complaining of incredulity, excuseth the scandal of the cross, 4 by the benefit of his passion, 10 and the good success thereof. There is a martyr in prison: the chains are on his wrists, and yet he sings. Surely He hath borne our griefs, carried our sorrows. or, "hath put [him] to pain": suffered him to be put to pain, both in body and mind: when thou shall make his soul an offering for sin: not his soul only, but his body also, even his whole human nature, as in union with his divine Person; for it was he himself that was offered up in the room and stead of his people, to make atonement and satisfaction for their sins, Hebrews 9:14, or, "when thou shalt make his soul sin" z; so Christ was made by imputation, 2 Corinthians 5:21, and when he was so made, or had the sins of his people imputed to him, then was he bruised, and put to pain and grief, in order to finish them, and make an end of them, and make reconciliation for them: or, "when his soul shall make an offering" a "for sin", or "sin" itself; make itself an offering; for Christ offered up himself freely and voluntarily; he gave himself an offering and a sacrifice to God, for a sweetsmelling savour, Ephesians 5:2, he was altar, sacrifice, and priest. He believes with Peter "Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain." 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. Thus they have rejected him in his essential character, and there has been no effect produced upon their conduct by their cold admiration of his life. May it not be said of each of us as it was of the prodigal, "He came to himself?" 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. z "quum posueris delictum animam ejus", De Dieu. Beloved, we become, I say again, the followers of Christ by being made partakers of his life, and unless his life be in us, we may say what we will about Christ, and profess what we like about following him; but we are not in the secret. ], "The Old Testament testifies uniformly that the dead are alive, and in this sense it is no surprise to find the Servant alive after death. God help you to believe in the Lord Jesus, and so to have eternal life! It is in his hands who upholds all things. "God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." It was also for the most part the Old Testament of . 2. Standing in the Colosseum at Rome, I could not, as I looked around on the ruins of that vast house of sin, but praise God that the church of God existed, though the Colosseum is in ruins. Why through his death principally? Put your finger in My hand. 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. Do you suppose he would have ascended to the rest and to the reward of an accomplished work? This stanza points to the glorification which God appointed for the Suffering Servant after the sufferings ended, constituting the problem that remained insoluble for the pre-Christian prophets. II. God's sheriff's officer let him out of "durance vile" because the account had been discharged, and God's great Court of King's Bench sent down the mittimus to let the captive go free. 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). The Septuagint Version . He sees them when they are first born anew. 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. Even if they go to bed in the dark, they fall asleep the sooner; but in either case, their Lord will see them if they cannot see him. 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. So marred that you could not be recognized as a man, as a human being.". 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. Brenton's Septuagint Isaiah 53:10. The same mischievous experiment is being tried now, and there will be the same result; for the living Christ is still to the front. Isaiah 53:10 CSB. The blood has filled the fountain full: thou hast but to wash and be clean, and thy sins shall be gone forever. Turn you at his rebuke! 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. I wish that every house had in it a large-typed copy of the "Book of Martyrs." Interesting prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. 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. There shall be a vicarious suffering; and my vengeance shall be content, and my mercy shall be gratified." And I suppose he was just as surprised to see me and to see what I look like.So we have in our mind sort of a mental image of what Jesus is going to look like and we sort of imagine just being enthralled with the physical beauty of Christ. There is a passage in Jeremiah, the forty-fourth chapter and the fourth verse, where he calls it "That abominable thing which I hate." "He is my righteous servant, and as such justifies men." "It pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief." That would be distinctly true; but the text does not so read. God forsook His Son when your sin was placed upon Him. 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! (6.) from ancient and medieval sources. 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. May we put our hand upon the head of Christ Jesus; as we see him offered up upon the cross for guilty men, may we know that our sins are transferred to him, and may we be able to cry, in the ecstasy of faith, "Great God, I am clean; through Jesus' blood I am clean." He has gone out of the land of tears and death. The time is come; the men with the halberts precede him through the streets. Yet he bears all this for the sake of those who are sinners (7-8). But then it follows, if we are thus of a seed, that we ought to be united, and love each other more and more. I hope soon to be lifting up my voice again. That a price should be paid and the ransom not consummated? Come, now, sir, wilt thou now fall flat at the foot of the cross, and rest thy soul's eternal destiny in the pierced hands of Jesus of Nazareth? These are secured to him by the covenant of redemption, which Isaiah 53:10-12 give us some idea of. Now, if we wish to return to a state of favor with him, sin must be taken away. id est, Piacula commissa propter quae expiatio debetur. Serv. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." He said, "Answerest Thou not me? "He shall prolong his days " (Isaiah 53:10). The apparent miscarriage of justice just described (Isaiah 53:9) would not be what it would appear to be. They all come into the world, of which he is King, by being born into it. We dare not impute to God the sin, but at the same time the fact, with all its marvelous effects in the world's redemption, we must ever trace to the Sacred Fountain of divine love. (1.) [3.] As one that has undertaken for us. He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied ( Isaiah 53:10-11 ): That is, He travailed in order that you might be born again. That event is, the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. no; it is an awful wail of woe that can never be imitated. 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. He lives, he feels, he sympathizes, he looks on, he is ready to help, he will help you even now. Hearest thou the cry of his spirit, which is suffering more than his body suffers "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" When thou shalt make his soul an offering The word nephesh, soul, is frequently used in Hebrew to signify life. Now all of this written 700 years before Christ was born. I mean that the seed of Christ should be of one heart; and we ought to recognize that, wherever the life and love of Jesus are to be found, there our love goes out. and we hid as it were our faces from him ( Isaiah 53:3 ); Perhaps in shock and in horror. They believe in an atonement made for every body; but then, their atonement is just this. No man taketh this office upon himself. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him - In this verse, the prediction respecting the final glory and triumph of the Messiah commences. - Isaiah 53 in the Septuagint (X-post from /r/OrthodoxChristianity) onbehalfofall.org. Trust Christ implicitly trust Christ; and all that he did shall cover you, while all that he suffered shall cleanse you. Do not think that I am too familiar. Ah! And thus the cry, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" He has divided the spoils, the fruits of his conquest, to all that are his: let us therefore cast in our lot among them. We have no weapon against this monster, with the double tower on its back, but the gospel of the grace of God. 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 ). Upon Christ, the angels in heaven perpetually gaze. 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?" 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. He made it to be in us a well of water springing up. 5 Assyria, the rod of hypocrites, for his pride shall be broken. Jesus didn't answer. And if sin deserve not to be punished, what is Tophet but injustice on a monstrous scale? Christian life needs to have daily the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Sin must be punished. In accordance with this, Paul says 2 Corinthians 5:21, that God made him to be sin for us ( hamartian), that is, a sin-offering; and he is called hilasmos and hilasterion, a propitiatory sacrifice for sins Romans 3:25; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10. The parent's life is in the child. Nay, tarry not till you go out of this house. See how the cruel iron drags through his tender hands! Let us add, however, to this, that, although Jesus Christ's dying as a substitute does give to him lawful right to all promised privileges, and does make him, as the covenant head of his people a claimant of the divine mercy, yet it does not render any of the gifts which we receive from God the less gifts from God. Faith is the knowledge of Christ, and without knowledge there can be no true faith. It's being forsaken of God. I judge it to be the worst cankerworm that assails us. Our Lord always has a seed. Men die and leave their children, and they see not their seed; Christ lives, and every day sees his seed brought into the unity of the faith. We would not touch them with a pair of tongs! And yet, it is interesting how so often today we only associate love with physical attraction, and not with the person themselves. Such is Jesus Christ. 440.]. That is, by the knowledge of Jesus Christ. 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. Truly it has satisfied God: is there not enough there to satisfy thee? Christ's death hath done it. See how this dwelt upon; for, whenever we think of the sufferings of Christ, we must see him in them bearing our sin. No other man can qualify. 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. And many who, we hope, are Christians, are but very poverty-stricken specimens of the race, with little love, little zeal (indeed, they are afraid to be too zealous), little searching of the Word, little prayer, little consecration, little communion with God. Since he has created them, and put them there himself, he sees them. 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? 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." We may observe, in these verses. . Doubtless 'universal,' and 'redemption,' where the greatest part of men perish, are as irreconcilable as 'Roman, and 'Catholic.' Whatever is undertaken according to God's pleasure shall prosper, Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 46:10. I am not yet an old man, as some suppose from the many years of my ministry, but I am often looking forward to that blessed morning, when all the sacred seed shall meet around the throne. . According to the will of God because God loved us. Verse Isaiah 7:9 Israel is no stronger than Samaria, its capital city, and Samaria is no stronger than King Pekah. When you die you will die for yourselves; when Christ died, he died for you, if you be a believer in him. but you are of his seed who died, and rose, and is gone into glory. The Lord have mercy upon his poor church when she comes to be neither cold nor hot, so that he is ready to spue her out of his mouth! 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. How can it be done? Ye are complete in Christ. And being humbled, He came as a servant" ( Philippians 2:6-8 ). Verse 18 expresses God's infinite patience and grace. That he shall himself continue to take care of the affairs of this numerous family: He shall prolong his days. "My son," said good old Abraham, "God shall provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering." 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. It should cause us great searching of heart if there is not in us an increasing likeness to our Lord. "It pleased the Lord to bruise him, he hath put him to grief.". Mount Zion; Related Bible parts: Isaiah 3, Isaiah 11, Isaiah 53, Jeremiah 23, Jeremiah 33, Zechariah 3, Zechariah 9, Luke 1, Romans 11, Revelation 22; Notes and references He waited his forty days, and then, with shouts of sacred song, he "led captivity captive, and ascended up on high." Is there not enough there to satisfy God? 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. He has done so in the Saviour; and what God provides, God must and will accept. The days are evil, but the Lord is good. The shades of death do not divide you from him. With its theater and public-house, it carries on its back two of the greatest instruments of evil yet known. What multitudes of men lift up their eyes, and behold the starry orbs of heaven! The idea here is, clearly, that he would be made an offering, or a sacrifice for sin; that by which guilt would be expiated and an atonement made. No beauty that we should desire Him. We must know him, and believe in him, as one that bore our iniquities--saved us from sinking under the load by taking it upon himself. The eye of Christ is never off from the eye of faith. But Jesus has qualified in all 300 points of prophecy that spoke about His life, His ministry, His death. Isaiah 53:10 (WYC) and the Lord would defoul him in sickness. Any fool might know that God would accept a perfect man. It is a sharp sword with two edges, if it be preached as it was delivered at the first. Thus the name father is often given to the prophets, or to teachers, and the name sons to disciples or learners. I wish that I could say this with less need to qualify it; but the man who really believes in Jesus, and in whom the diving life is strong and powerful, is like to Jesus, and especially like to Jesus in this that, as the Christ consecrated himself wholly to God's service and glory, so has this believer done; and as the Christ founded his successes on being dead and buried, surrendering honor, and comfort, and life itself, for his work, so should the true believer be willing to give up anything and everything, that he may achieve his life-purpose, and bring glory to God. (56) This Latin word, which bore the primary meaning of an atonement for a transgression, and the secondary meaning of any wickedness that requires expiation, is strikingly analogous to the Hebrew word in question, though the transference of the senses is exactly opposite. 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