His side was pierced; he was given up by the Roman authorities for burial; the imperial authorities were sure of his death. The dignity of the person adds a special force to the substitution; and thus one bleeding Saviour can make atonement for millions of sinful men, and the Captain of our salvation can bring multitudes unto glory. So God declares, "By his knowledge shall My righteous servant justify many.". By no other means, whatever, could it be said that of one who had poured out his soul unto death that he would "prolong his days." But it was known by those who printed the bill that they were misrepresenting our faith. But, sirs, I need not stop to prove it; it is written clearly upon the consciousness of each man, and upon the conscience of every one of us, that sin must be punished. '", "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?" he is fresh from the swine-trough! Here are you and I to-night brought into this dilemma. london : joseph masters, aldersgate street, and new bond street. Say that sin is not to be punished, and you have unhinged government; you have plucked up the very gate of our commonweal; you have been another Samson to another Gaza; and we shall soon have to rue the day. It is, at present, the caricature of a virtue; but it is well meant, and will come right, and the Lord sees it as it will be, and he rejoices in it. Blessed be the dying Christ! It means that it was by the agency, and in accordance with the design of Yahweh, that he was subjected to these great sorrows. He is lifted up in the air, and there he hangs preparatory to his death. Isaiah 53:10 . And now where is the artist that can depict the anguish of the fathers countenance, when the knife is unsheathed, and he holds it up, ready to slay his son? And yet, without seeing the physical person, it is possible to be in love with an individual and yet not be physically attracted. And, thirdly and lastly, that posterity is under his immediate eye at all times, for "He shall see his seed." That fellowship that He can bring to us with the Father. "He shall see his seed." He has divided the spoils, the fruits of his conquest, to all that are his: let us therefore cast in our lot among them. They shouted in their fires, and praised God on their racks. There are the Father's arms, and here are you, a black sinner to-night. 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. It is rendered guiltiness Genesis 26:10; sin Proverbs 14:9; trespass Numbers 5:8. Christ hath bought a "multitude that no man can number." The use of analogous expressions in the New Testament will be dear, from a comparison of Romans 3:25; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 John 2:2; Hebrews 9:14 In the case last quoted, as in that before us, Christ is represented as offering himself to God. Alexander, (55) In both of the passages quoted by our author, the word is not (asham) but (hattath), which, as appears from the preceding note, is closely analogous. But this explains it, when God accepts a sinner, he is, in fact, only accepting Christ. We have crowns infinitely more precious, and we belong to a royal house transcendently more glorious than any of yours. And when he has brought a sin-offering, he shall see a numerous posterity, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper through him. The Lord was pleased with his sufferings, not because he has delight in the sufferings of innocence; not because the sufferer was in any sense guilty or ill-deserving; and not because he was at any time displeased or dissatisfied with what the Mediator did, or taught. If Christ had been at all under the law naturally, if it had been his duty to do what it is our duty to do, it is plain he could only have lived for himself; and if he had any sin of his own, he could only have died for himself, seeing his obligations to do and to suffer would have been his just due to the righteousness and the vengeance of God. 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. He is the right person. 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. I believe the Christ will come in to see all his beloved purchased ones; and he will search to see whether we are all there. 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. A man who was meant for h pains and was familiar with sickness. Amen. When men made chapter and verse divisions, they did make mistakes. Very few beautiful people, really beautiful people. In the context, the gospel writer said, "This said He signifying the manner of death that He was going to die" ( John 12:33 ). i. Pause over the solemn words in the 1st, 2nd, 6th, and following verses. The guilt offering in Israel made reparation, compensation, and satisfaction (Leviticus 5:1-13). Some connect this with the preceding clause, "he shall see a seed that shall prolong its days" b; for Christ will never want issue, his church will never fail, his seed will endure for ever, Psalms 89:29. 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. Faith is the knowledge of Christ, and without knowledge there can be no true faith. And if you should have to dwell quite alone in the bush, and have no Christian acquaintance, still go direct to the Son of God, for "He shall see his seed." Then shall he see his seed! (Exodus 29:14; Ezekiel 45:22) (55) The sacrifice was offered in such a manner as to expiate sin by enduring its punishment and curse. To it, the eyes of all the saints who lived before the Christian era were always directed; and backwards, through the thousand years of history, the eyes of all modern saints are looking. Nothing can be more untrue; and this sermon may help to show that I am full of hope and confidence. "As he is, so are we in this world" that is, we are bent upon the glory of God; filled with love to men, and anxious for their salvation, that God may be glorified thereby. We may observe, in these verses. You are ignorant and unlettered, it may be, and your name will never shine in the roll of science, but he who is the divine Wisdom owns you as one of his seed. Christ will see generation after generation of those redeemed by his blood who shall be born into his family, and shall call him blessed. That done, the victim being selected, the offerer put his hand upon the sin-offering and this indeed was the essence of the whole transaction putting his hand on the victim, he confessed his sin, and a transferrence took place, in type at least, from the offender to the victim. Some are seeking; they have hardly found; they are longing; they have scarcely realized the way of faith. He bore our griefs, and he carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Interesting prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. There are in the world many theories of atonement; but I can not see any atonement in any one, except in this doctrine of substitution. Nay, I know not but that I shall have Scripture for my warrant when I say, that this is the very core of predestination, and that the death of Christ is the very center and main-spring by which God did fashion all his other decrees, making this the bottom and foundation-stone upon which the sacred architecture should be builded. The design of the whole prophecy is to state, that in consequence of his great sufferings, he would be exalted to the highest honor (see the notes at Isaiah 52:13). "I must be just," said God; "that is a necessity of my nature. Do you know anything about this divine life? He must use his own discretion as to whether he will accept the substitute or not; and if he do so, it is an act of grace. He lives to carry it on. Ye are complete in Christ. 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. How could the atoning sacrifice of one man wipe out the sins of billions of men'"?. We are made his seed through his death. He suffered all the horror of hell: in one pelting shower of iron wrath it fell upon him, with hail-stones bigger than a talent; and he stood until the black cloud had emptied itself completely. Go and preach this in hell, and you will have quenched the fire which is forever to burn, and the worm of conscience will die. God the Father has engaged to reward the services and sufferings of Christ with great glory: "I will set him among the great, highly exalt him, and give him a name above every name." 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. 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? And God cries out. Christ, who purchased our justification for us, applies it to us, by his intercession made for us, his gospel preached to us, and his Spirit witnessing in us. 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. 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." We poor earthly pastors are of small use; but this great Shepherd and Bishop of souls, with an eye that never misses a single new-born lamb of grace what a mercy to have such a Shepherd to look after the whole flock!" Well, ask this man, who is now really in the possession of his true senses, whether he believes that sin deserves punishment; and his answer will be quick, sharp, and decisive. Masoretic Text. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. A mere man could at most only substitute for one other man. He has no beautiful form or comeliness. See how fever parches his tongue, and dries his whole body like a potsherd! Will he not sing sweeter songs than ever came from martyr's lips? There are some of God's elect here, and he will have you. 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. 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. "Only his bodily resurrection could serve to fulfill such a prediction as this." Isa 53:1. . Many divines say that Christ did something when he died that enabled God to be just, and yet the Justifier of the ungodly. Note, [1.] Almighty love will have you. but the great arms of the Eternal Father are ready to save you as you are, because the great work of Christ has effected all that is wanted before God for the acceptance of the vilest sinner. The birth of a son to Isaiah. 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. How no rags of yours are wanted; not a stitch of yours is needed to perfect what Christ has done. Such language is never applied to martyrs in the Bible; such language is never applied to them in the common discourses of people. He shall prolong his days - His life shall be long. THE SIMPLICITY OF THE CROSS - Vs. 2 I do implore thee, sinner, come to Jesus! It wants no eking out. 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. from ancient and medieval sources. 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. It is well to know whither the age is driving. 10The Lord also is pleased to purge him from his stroke. See! 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