Men have offspring by life; Christ had an offspring by death. That which he purchased for us by his death, he lives to secure for us by his life. He was chosen as the covenant-head in election; he was ordained in the divine decree to stand for his people. You have a great necessity. Then shall the sheep pass again under the hand of him that telleth them, and he will count them, for he knows whom he bought with his blood, and he will see that they are there in full tale. 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. Oh, I like this, "He shall see his seed"! Yes, he would if some greater good would be served (cf. Trust Christ implicitly trust Christ; and all that he did shall cover you, while all that he suffered shall cleanse you. I do not mean anything of the kind. and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He substituted himself in the room of sinners, as a sacrifice. 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. We know that he died. 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. III. Isaiah 53:10 Hebrew though you make; Isaiah 53:11 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have the light of life. Yet all this must be made true, and innumerable other absurdities, if universal redemption be asserted. No: we preach a gospel here for sinners. It is his death that does it. Our second head must explain the first, or otherwise it is an insolvable mystery how God should bruise his Son, who was perfect innocence, while poor fallible confessors and martyrs have had no such bruising from him in the time of their trial. In the Greek Septuagint we see the true reading of Isaiah 53:10. The first is that the nations are startled. In his whole life he was numbered among the transgressors; for he was called and accounted a sabbath-breaker, a drunkard, and a friend to publicans and sinners. "Which things the angels desire to look into," said the apostle. He sits at the right hand of God, even the Father, and he reigns there for ever. He will see all his seed to the last. He shall see his seed." Psalms 21:4; Psalms 34:12; Proverbs 3:2). Beware, ye who forget God in this matter, lest he tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver you. Consequently, we must come to the death of Christ; for in no other way can satisfaction be given to God. A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. The natural relation between father and son is often transferred to spiritual subjects. You couldn't stand to look at it. And John said, "And I turned and I saw Him as a lamb that hath been slaughtered" ( Revelation 5:2-6 ). That all the world may see." That seems to me to be clear from the indefiniteness of the text. Learn from this that all who truly follow Christ, and are saved by him, have his life in them. That was the purpose of God when He created man-that God might be able to fellowship with man. But perhaps the Lord still bears the marks of His suffering for you. For He's cut off. [3.] We come now to our fourth remark, THAT CHRIST'S WORK, AND THE EFFECTS OF THAT WORK, ARE NOW COMPLETE. It does not of necessity imply that there was any positive and direct agency on the part of Yahweh in bruising him, but only that the fact of his being thus crushed and bruised was acceptable to him. Take it as it is. 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. 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. Surely it sets Him alone in history as the only man who could ever qualify to be the Messiah, the suffering servant. We are towards Christ, his seed, and thus we are heirs to all that he has heirs to his business on earth, heirs to his estate in heaven. 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 recollect how I used to turn to that boy of Brentford, who was first beaten with rods, and afterwards tied to the stake, cheerfully to burn for Christ's sake. i. Made in all points and like unto us, being a man, and standing exactly in a man's place, becoming a real Adam, as true an Adam as was the first Adam, standing quite in the first Adam's place, he is a fit person to become a substitute for us. "Yet it pleased Jehovah 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 Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. All that you can do will bring you no further: you must be born again; and this is the work of the Spirit of God. Because they have envisioned usually something far different than what I look like. I mean, just a dull evening. "Deserve it," saith he, "ay, indeed; and the wonder is that I have not suffered it. Look at him: look at his rags; how foul they are! 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. Given the explicit mention of death in Isaiah 53:9 and the fact that his life is a sacrificial offering in Isaiah 53:10, we are not speaking here of a metaphorical . 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. I do not know you, but it may be you have trodden the pavements, or you have gone further than that, and added drunkenness to shame; you have gone to the lowest vice, perhaps to robbery, who knoweth what manner of person may step into this place? The truth is that the original Hebrew language is untranslatable! You remember that Daniel prophesies, "From the time the commandment goes forth to restore and rebuild Jerusalem to the coming of the Messiah the Prince will be seven sevens and sixty-two sevens, three score and two sevens. Sinner, God will never destroy you merely to maintain his government, or for the good of others. 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. 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. While he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, rags and poverty and sin and filth and all, and he did not wait till he was clean, but ran and fell upon his neck and kissed him, just as he was. "He shall see his seed." 2. The most scrupulous care was taken that it should be altogether without blemish; for this idea was always connected with a sin-offering, that it must be sinless in itself; and being without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, it was held to be a competent victim to take the offender's place. To bruise him - (See the notes at Isaiah 53:5). You need not do anything to make the atonement of Christ sufficient to pardon you. Yes, and ever afterward, wherever his seed may wander, he still sees them. And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand; the work of man's redemption, put into the hands of Christ, which he undertook to accomplish; which was with him and before him, when he came into this world, and was his meat and drink to do; this he never left till he had finished it; so that it succeeded and prospered with him: and this may well be called "the pleasure of the Lord"; it was the good pleasure of his will; it was what he purposed and resolved; what his heart was set upon, and was well pleasing to him, as effected by his Son. he sees your first desires, your humble breathings, your lowly hopes, your trembling approaches. 53:4-9 In these verses is an account of the sufferings of Christ; also of the design of his sufferings. Are we not beside ourselves till the Holy Spirit begins to enlighten us? Beloved, we shall have many with us, whilst this morning we turn our face to the Mount of Calvary. One hundred years ago or so, throughout the most of our Dissenting churches, a sort of Unitarianism was triumphant. My, what this man has given to us of his great depth of understanding and background. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him - In this verse, the prediction respecting the final glory and triumph of the Messiah commences. He made it to be in us a well of water springing up. Do you want salvation? That would be distinctly true; but the text does not so read. The work of man's redemption is in the hands of the Lord Jesus, and it is in good hands. Do not think that there is a great gulf between you, a living man, and him. The Son of God faints beneath a cross that many a criminal might have carried. Jesus Christ hath ascended up on high, and exalted he is that he may give repentance and remission of sin. ; Isaiah 53:11 Or (with Masoretic Text) 11 He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied; Isaiah 53:11 Or by knowledge of him; Isaiah 53:12 Or many; Isaiah 53:12 Or numerous No; my Saviour died, and now I am free from every demand of God's vengeance, and I can walk through this world secure; no thunderbolt can smite me, and I can die absolutely certain that for me there is no flame of hell, and no pit digged; for Christ, my ransom, suffered in my stead, and, therefore, am I clean delivered. And now, beloved, if by his death we have become his seed (and I think I speak at this time to many who can truly say they hope that it is so with them), then let us consider the fact for a minute. The other idea, that sin is only to be punished for the sake of the community, involves injustice. The Hebrew will bear either. He shall see a great increase of them; the word is plural, He shall see his seeds, multitudes of them, so many that they cannot be numbered. 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. "Rivers unknown to song, are not unknown to God." Oh! Then, my brethren, shall it be seen what Christ's death has accomplished, for "the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.". It was my sin that put Him on the cross. It was grace, and only grace which led the divine mind to say, "I will accept of a substitute. Why his seed? The guilt offering in Israel made reparation, compensation, and satisfaction (Leviticus 5:1-13). The King is not off the ground yet: the battle will be won by his armies. Well, first of all, THE DEATH OF CHRIST AS PRODUCED A POSTERITY. They went in the morning after the Sabbath to embalm him. By now, it should be clear that this chart is basically useless. I have profited greatly from R. R. Ottley, The Book of Isaiah according to the LXX (Codex Alexandrinus) (3 vols; London: Cambridge University Press, 1904-1906). There is no divine composure there. (asham) (54) denotes both sin and the sacrifice which is offered for sin, and is often used in the latter sense in the Scriptures. 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 ). "When we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.". and we didn't esteem him ( Isaiah 53:3 ). It was a great commendation of his sufferings, and redounded very much to his honour, that in his sufferings he made intercession for the transgressors, for those that reviled and crucified him; for he prayed, Father, forgive them, thereby showing, not only that he forgave them, but that he was now doing that upon which their forgiveness, and the forgiveness of all other transgressors, were to be founded. And yet, without seeing the physical person, it is possible to be in love with an individual and yet not be physically attracted. With its theater and public-house, it carries on its back two of the greatest instruments of evil yet known. He lives to carry it on. '", "Yes, sir," says such a sinner, "I feel that if God should smite me now, without hope or offer of mercy, to the lowest hell, I should only have what I justly deserve; and I feel that if I be not punished for my sins, or if there be not some plan found by which my sin can be punished in another, I cannot understand how God can be just at all: how shall he be Judge of all the earth, if he suffer offenses to go unpunished?" Come, and see how he loved us, see what he did for us. Do not let your faith be a sort of dead faith dealing with a dead man; let it be instinct with life, with warm blood in its veins. 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." Isaiah 53:11. Isaiah 53 1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? "He was numbered with the transgressors and made intercession for the transgressors" (Isaiah 53:12). 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