Ah, well! "He shall prolong his days " (Isaiah 53:10). "'Tis done the great transaction's done.". God will give him the heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession,Psalms 2:8. Christian life needs to have daily the baptism of the Holy Ghost. God forsook His Son when your sin was placed upon Him. 3. It must be the character of God, that he has a desire to do towards his creatures that which is equitable. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? Montan. They answered, "We go to see him burn that we may learn the way." 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. 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. On this I shall be very brief. and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 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. Many, when they see their seed, their seed's seed, wish to depart in peace; but Christ will not commit the care of his family to any other, no, he shall himself live long, and of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, for he ever lives. But it isn't our looks that really attract people.Now if He were one of those beautiful persons, then it would be more difficult for us to identify with Him. And one of the elders said unto John, "Don't weep, John. 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. III. 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. 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.". John W. Welch has mentioned some of the reasons that readers differ on the identity of the "righteous servant" in Isaiah 53. The language here is taken from that which was regarded as the highest blessing among the Hebrews. And people make mistakes many times in relationships because we relate on the physical, rather than upon the true nature of a person.Now, "He is despised and rejected of men; He is a man of sorrows, He's acquainted with grief.". Let every sinner here who desires something stable to fix his faith upon, listen to these simple truths, which I am trying to put as plainly as possible. 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 . My, what this man has given to us of his great depth of understanding and background. He claps his hands right merrily, and smiles while he says, "It will be sharp work to-morrow, I shall breakfast below on fiery tribulations, but afterward I will sup with Christ. Upon Christ, the myriad eyes of the redeemed are perpetually fixed; and thousands of pilgrims, through this world of tears, have no higher object for their faith, and no better desire for their vision, than to see Christ as he is in heaven, and in communion to behold his person. No man taketh this office upon himself. The Word of God is divinely inspired; it's inerrant. If he can see the guy coming, you just sort of, you reflex action to it and you sort of go with it. There are some of God's elect here, and he will have you. 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. What God designed for the Redeemer he shall certainly gain the possession of: "I will divide it to him," and immediately it follows, He shall divide it, notwithstanding the opposition that is given to him; for, as Christ finished the work that was given him to do, so God completed the recompence that was promised him for it; for he is both able and faithful. Poor trembling sinner, look up a moment. There is this to be said also for those who are called his seed that they prosecute the same ends, and expect to receive the same reward. The moment you believe in Jesus Christ youare born again. It was as a substitute for sin that he did actually and literally suffer punishment for the sin of all his elect. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ looks at you in just the same way. . It is his death that does it. The first is that the nations are startled. But now the joyous truths come up that Christ's work is finished. The first living cry, the first living tear, he observes. 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?" Why, beloved, it was because the Father bruised him. In the Isaiah 53:19 the prophet had testified very particularly of the sufferings of Christ, yet mixing some hints of the happy issue of them; here he again mentions his sufferings, but largely foretels the glory that should follow. He has no beautiful form or comeliness. 2. It is very delightful, at Christmas time, or perhaps at some other time in the year, for all the family to meet; and though your name may be "Smith" or "Brown," yet you feel there is some importance in your name, when all your clan have met together. If thou art damned it is not for want of invitation. God must be just, if heaven falls. 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. I expected to see some tall, Texan type of a guy, and it was just a surprise to me. Herein was matchless, peerless love, that the offended judge should permit his co-equal Son to suffer the pains of death for the redemption of a rebellious people. The KJV's translation of vv. The soldier had made assurance doubly sure by piercing his side. 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. The idea is, that he was himself innocent, and that he gave up his soul or life in order to make an expiation for sin - as the innocent animal in sacrifice was offered to God as an acknowledgment of guilt. But it was: 1. 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. Let it always be our meat and drink, as it was Christ's, to do God's will. I pray that it may be so. I. Our answer would have been, "No; nobody can trust in a man who is dead." It is promised. Therefore [the Father says] will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ( Isaiah 53:12 ); "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and if sons, then heirs, joint-heirs with Jesus Christ" ( Romans 8:16-17 ), as He divides the spoil with the strong. If they are redeemed, then are they delivered from all misery, virtually or actually, whereunto they were inthralled, and that by the intervention of a ransom. He shall prolong his days. They would not have left him in the cave if they had felt any doubt about his death. As one that has undertaken for us. Now that scripture has been carelessly interpreted by many people as just lifting up Jesus. So Christ became the sin offering for us. Verse Isaiah 7:9 Israel is no stronger than Samaria, its capital city, and Samaria is no stronger than King Pekah. I say, most solemnly, I do. We rejoice with exultation as we read the text, "He shall see his seed." Handle him, and see if he be not flesh and bones. 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. Should I conceal those parts of divine truth which are obnoxious to the carnal mind, I should be unfaithful to God, untrue to my galling, and guilty of the blood of souls. He has divided the spoils, the fruits of his conquest, to all that are his: let us therefore cast in our lot among them. But please to observe (see if you cannot throw your grappling-hooks upon this), the dignity of his sacred person made him the most proper person for a substitute. 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 shall see it beforehand (so it may be understood); he shall with the prospect of his sufferings have a prospect of the fruit, and he shall be satisfied with the bargain. The pronoun "he" as well as the "we" and "our" and "thou" have all . There is not a child of his, born in any out-of-the-way place, but what he perceives him at once. They know he has done no wrong (9).Despite the inhumanity of people, the servants death is according to Gods will. But then it follows, if we are thus of a seed, that we ought to be united, and love each other more and more. Your mistake, Sir, is in your failure to see that Jesus Christ was in no sense whatever only one man. "Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand." The Hebrew word extolled is the word lifted up. As God now speaks about His servant, His only begotten Son, "who was in the form of God, and thought it not something to be grasped to be equal with God: and yet He humbled Himself and took on the likeness of man or the form of man and came in likeness of man. Pray, ye who know how to pray, that this message may be made effective in the hand of God. It needs one other condition to be fulfilled. It would be the deliberate act of Yahweh. Peter called our attention to the verse in 1 Peter 2:22 "He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.". That the Redeemer shall have a seed to serve him and to bear up his name, Psalms 22:30. 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. what a debtor to grace you will be! 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. Thus, in conformity to Christ, it should be a satisfaction to us if we can do any thing to serve the interests of God's kingdom in the world. But he who reads the Bible with the eye of faith, desiring to discover its hidden secrets, sees something more in the Saviour's death than Roman cruelty, or Jewish malice: he sees the solemn decree of God fulfilled by men, who were the ignorant, but guilty instruments of its accomplishment. There is more effect in faith in the blood of Christ to change the human character than in every other consideration. And when your sin was placed upon Jesus Christ, He was separated from the Father. Great riches are also assigned to him: He shall divide the spoil, shall have abundance of graces and comforts to bestow upon all his faithful soldiers. [*a] 8:2 Then find me reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.' 8:3 I went to the prophetess, she conceived and gave birth to a son. IV. I thought, "Man alive, this is going to be great!" Paul said, "For a righteous man some might dare to die: for a good man peradventure some would even give their lives. It was as if his face were hidden from us. Christ will see generation after generation of those redeemed by his blood who shall be born into his family, and shall call him blessed. 2We brought a report as of a child before him; he is as a root in a thirsty land: he has no form nor comeliness; and we saw him, but he had no form nor beauty. A mere man could at most only substitute for one other man. It says, "He shall see his seed." In Gods case, if he had said in the infinite sovereignty of his absolute will, "I will have no substitute, but each man shall suffer for himself, he who sinneth shall die," none could have murmured. and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors ( Isaiah 53:11 ). 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! They are no more responsible for the death of Jesus Christ than you or I. If the sovereign should permit another to suffer in his stead, it must be the sovereign's own act and deed. You are neither a Guelph nor a Hohenzollern, but you are a Christian; and that is a greater name than all. Christ knew what he bought when he died; and what he bought he will have that, and no more, and no less. It said, "And they shall look on Him whom they have pierced" ( Zechariah 12:10 ). And so the next time Jesus showed Himself to the disciples, Thomas being present, He said, "Okay, Thomas, go ahead. Because he has done all these good services, therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and, according to the will of the Father, he shall divide the spoil with the strong, as a great general, when he has driven the enemy out of the field, takes the plunder of it for himself and his army, which is both an unquestionable evidence of the victory and a recompense for all the toils and perils of the battle. Dost thou see him there him whom God hath set forth? And then, thirdly, the effects and consequences of Christ's death. You are of the seed of him "who only hath immortality." 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." 10: et Dominus voluit conterere eum in infirmitate si posuerit pro peccato animam suam videbit semen longevum et voluntas Domini in manu eius dirigetur. It would please Yahweh to crush His Servant and to put Him to grief. We are his seed. The Septuagint - the translation of the Old Testament into Greek originally made a few centuries before Jesus - has "startle." . It was also for the most part the Old Testament of . But if I am told that I am only sent there as a part of a scheme of moral government, and that I am sent into torment to impress others with a sense of right, I ask that some one else should have the place of preacher to the people, and that I may be one of those whose felicity it shall be to be preached to; for I see no reason in justice why I should be selected as the victim. "He shall see his seed." 647. "If your faith is not enduring, you will not endure."- Good News Bible (Catholic edition in Septuagint order) Oh, the joy, the delight, of our Well-beloved in that day! 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 We come now to our fourth remark, THAT CHRIST'S WORK, AND THE EFFECTS OF THAT WORK, ARE NOW COMPLETE. "It pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to griefs." And you say, "Did Christ drink it all to its dregs?" In order to understand this better, we must first know that we are guilty before God, so that we may be accursed and detestable in his presence. He sees you. The limit of it is just this: He hath died for sinners; whoever in this congregation inwardly and sorrowfully knows himself to be a sinner, Christ died for him; whoever seeks Christ, shall know Christ died for him; for our sense of need of Christ, and our seeking after Christ, are infallible proofs that Christ died for us. Weep, John no wrong ( 9 ).Despite the inhumanity of people, the first living,... 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