Last time we looked at the first
half of Isaiah 53.11. This time we're going to take
the second half of that verse. We read here Isaiah 53.11. It
says, By His knowledge, by Christ's knowledge, by His knowledge,
shall my righteous servant justify many. He calls Christ, My righteous
servant. And He says, He shall justify
many, for He shall bear their iniquities. He shall bear their
iniquities. The one spoken of is God's Son,
the Lord Jesus. And the one that's speaking is
God. This is God the Father who cannot lie. He's speaking of
His Son. And He said, by His knowledge,
shall My righteous servant justify many. For he shall bear their
iniquities. Now in this statement, God declares
without any degree of uncertainty that the Lord Jesus Christ shall
justify His people. He's God's righteous servant.
He bore the iniquities of His people. And Christ shall justify
His people. And He shall do it by His knowledge. That's our subject this morning.
His knowledge. By His knowledge. Now let me
say a word about that phrase, by His knowledge. There's two
ways, two senses that you can take from this phrase, by His
knowledge. The first is, in one sense, is
by knowing Him. It means by knowing Him, His
people should be justified. In other words, as His people
are made to know Christ, Christ through the Spirit quickens us,
He gives us faith, He teaches us in our heart, He brings us
to believe on Him. And it's through the knowledge
of Him, through faith, that we receive that justification that
He's already accomplished for His people. And then the other
sense of the word is, by the knowledge which Christ alone
possesses. In other words, by His own knowledge,
by His personal knowledge and skill and ability. And so, all
through Isaiah 53, this seems to fit the context better to
me, because Christ is the focus throughout the whole 11th chapter. But for other reasons, there's
a lot of commentaries say that it has the first meaning rather
than the second meaning. But I'm going to look at both
of them. I'm going to look at both of them because the whole
of Scripture bears out that both are true. So we'll look at both.
We're going to look at the first, we're going to look at the second
meaning. We'll see how that by his personal knowledge, the knowledge
he possesses, we're going to look at that in this hour and
then we'll look in the second hour at the knowledge that he
gives to his people. Christ himself, by the knowledge
he possesses in himself, is God's righteous servant in whom many
shall be justified, for he shall bear their iniquities. This is
what we'll see. First of all, when we read by his knowledge,
we can go back to eternity. And there in eternity, Christ
knew the Father. The scripture says in Proverbs
8, speaking of Christ as wisdom, as wisdom, as knowledge. It says,
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning or ever the
earth was. And then he goes on to talk about
when the earth was created. And he says, then I was by him
as one. He's one with him, brought up
with him. And I was daily his delight,
rejoicing always before him. rejoicing in the habitable part
of his earth. He walked in the garden. He's
the voice that walked in the garden in the cool of the day.
Christ is, the pre-incarnate Christ. And he said, and my delights
were with the sons of men. Even then, he had his mind on
the will of God, on serving his Father for his people. God the
Father said to Christ, back in Isaiah 49, in verse 3, He said
unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I'll be glorified. Christ is called here by the
name of those He came to save. He's the true Israel, the true
elect. He, as a prince, has prevailed
with God. He's the true Israel. And God
says, and you're the one in whom I will be glorified. I will be
glorified. He told us there in Isaiah 42.
We've seen this many times. We'll look at it now and we'll
look at it again in the next hour. He says, Behold my servant,
whom I uphold, mine elect, and whom my soul delighteth. He says,
I have put my spirit upon him, My Spirit upon Him, and this
is what He's going to do. He shall bring forth judgment
to the Gentiles. That word judgment has to do
with the justification Christ accomplished for His people,
and it has to do with bringing that knowledge to His people
and working grace in our hearts and giving us discernment and
justifying us in our experience of it. Both apply here, and it
says He will bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. So when Christ
walked this earth, look at John 7. This is what He said. And
mark your place here in John 7. I think I'm going to come
back to John a little bit later. So when Christ came to this earth,
this is what He said. He was with the Father from eternity. He knew Him. He knew the Father
in the creation of the world. The Father said, You're the one
in whom I'm going to be glorified. And so this is what He said when
He came forth. John 7 verse 29. He said, I know
Him. I know Him. By His knowledge
shall my righteous servant justify me. He said, I know Him. And
you know what this means? This means the Father knew Him.
He knew the Father and the Father knew Him. Everything He did,
the Father saw. Everything He did, the Father
saw Him do it for His people. Everything that Christ accomplished,
the Father saw His people accomplish in Christ. So that He looked
at Christ, He didn't look at His people. And that's good,
because we're dead, dog-rotten, no-good, sorry sinners that can't
please God. And we need to be represented
in another. But he says here, I know Him,
for I'm from Him, and He has sent me. Look over at verse 8. He says in verse 55, in John
8, 55, He said, yet you've not known
Him. There were some religious folks He was talking to and they
had an outward form of religion. But He stood there before them. This is the one that they professed
to be looking forward to. They were looking forward to
His coming. There's a whole bunch of people in our day who are
looking forward to His return. And when He comes back, Christ
said He's going to say something just like this to many. This
is what He said to them. You have not known Him. But I know Him. But I know Him. And if I should say I know Him
not, I shall be a liar like unto you. But I know Him. And I keep
His saying. I keep His saying. Now Christ
walked this earth. He said, All things are delivered
unto me of my Father. And having all things delivered
to Him of His Father, Christ knew His Father's will. By His
knowledge He'll justify many. He knew His Father's will. He
knew His Father's will was to justify people by Christ laying
down His life, being lifted up on a cross. And that's why Christ
told Nicodemus, when He spoke to him, He said, I must be lifted
up. I must be lifted up. Now, when
He came forth, Isaiah 11-2 gives us something. Look there, Isaiah
11-2. When He came forth into the earth,
this is what the Father said He would do. Now you understand,
as God, He needs none of these things. He's God, the second
person in the Trinity. But He took a human nature. And
as a human nature, in His human nature, Christ experienced everything
that His people experienced. with the exception that He went
about fulfilling all righteousness for His people. Watch this now,
Isaiah 11-2. He said, The Spirit of the Lord,
the Spirit of Jehovah, the Spirit of God, shall rest upon Him,
the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might,
the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. And so,
God the Son being one with God the Holy Spirit, when He assumed
that body, the Holy Spirit dwelled in that body, because the Holy
Spirit is one with Christ. He dwelled with Christ in that
body. And then at His baptism, the
Holy Spirit came down upon Him and dwelt upon Him, signifying
this is the Son of God, justifying Him by the Holy Spirit, saying
this is God's Son. And so his knowledge began to
appear right away. Remember when he was 12 years
old, and his mom, Mary and Joseph had left him, and they went back
to the temple. And there he says, 12 years old,
he's in the temple, and he's with these doctors of divinity,
these learned men, these studied men. And he's sitting there,
listening, and quoting scripture, and asking them questions. And
the scripture says, and all that heard him were astonished at
his understanding. and His answers. The Pharisees
kept coming. Satan would send one after another
to tempt Him, to tempt Him, to tempt Him. And God allowed them
to come and tempt Him. And they would come and they
would ask Him some ensnaring question. Pharisees are always
asking you questions, always asking you questions. And they
were trying to entangle Him in His words. But they couldn't
because His knowledge was so great. On one occasion, He shut
their mouth. And the Scripture says, and they
didn't ask Him another question the rest of the time. And then
all through his ministry we see this. And then the spirit of
counsel and might rested upon him. This is what made him the
wonderful counselor. He gave only sound words to the
sons of men. Everything he spoke was true.
We don't speak truth. You know that? I mean, even if
you're a pretty honest person as far as relatively speaking,
as far as men go, you still don't speak the truth. You still lie. You know, I gave you this illustration
a long time ago, but I remember going to a factory one time and
I was selling something and I went into the front office and the
lady said to me, the manager told me to tell you he'll be
here in just about five minutes. And I said, okay. So I sat down.
It was 10 or 15 or 20 minutes before he sent another message
saying it'll be another 10 or 15 minutes. And then he sent
another message. And he kept just being... And
I thought, we don't tell the truth. Nothing we do, we don't
tell the truth. And that's just a... You mean,
even in that small of detail, Christ was honest all the time
with men? He never said anything that was
untrue. When he said it, it was true.
Because words matter. Words are truth. And to say a
word and not be truthful, then nothing you say can be truthful.
That's why God says, don't look to men. We're not truthful. But
Christ is truthful. He's the word, and every word
he spoke was truthful. And when he speaks, it's truth. If it's not truth, he don't speak
it. And then the Pharisees, When they sent men out, all the men
went out and they listened to him and they heard him preach.
And he preached the gospel with authority. And they said, they
marveled and they said, how does this man know letters having
never learned? And then they sent officers out
to arrest him finally. And those officers come back
and they didn't have him. And the Pharisee said, why didn't
you arrest him? They said, never a man speak like this man. They
were amazed at him. He was able to work miracles
to confirm his messages. By the spirit of knowledge and
the fear of the Lord, as a man, having the knowledge of God the
Father, having the knowledge of his mind and his will, he
reverenced his Father and he performed his will. He went about,
he said this, look at John 6. He said, verse 38, He was always doing what pleased
the Father, doing His will all the time, everything He was doing.
And He said this, verse 38, For I came down from heaven not to
do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me. And this
is the Father's will which has sent me, that of all which He
hath given me, of all which He hath given me, I should lose
nothing, but raise it up again at the last day. And this is
the will of Him that sent me. that every one which seeth the
Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life. And I'll
raise him up at the last day. When he says here, all which
the Father hath given me, it's the many that's spoken of in
our text. If it was everybody, everybody,
he would have justified everybody. Because our text says, by his
knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many. And if
Christ died for everybody, Either he's a success and he glorified
God and he justified the many, like God said he would, or God's
a liar and Christ failed and he didn't justify everybody.
But he did justify the many for whom he died. And these are the
many that are said here to be as many as the Father has given
to me. If Christ died for everybody, he wouldn't have qualified who
he was dying for by saying, I lay down my life for the sheep. And
then look me in the eye and say, and you're not my sheep. That's
what he did on one occasion. So he died for his people. This
was his father's will. And knowing that will, it's by
his knowledge God said that my righteous servant, my honest
servant, my truthful servant, my holy servant, my righteous
servant shall justify many. For he shall bear their iniquities.
He'll bear their iniquities. But that many is a great number.
It's a great number. It's a huge number. The scripture
says what God promised to Christ is what God promised to Abraham.
This is what God promised Abraham. This is what God promised Christ.
He said, I'll make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that
if man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed
also be numbered. So, sinner, why not you? Why,
if he justified many, And He shall justify many. He said,
I laid down my life for the sheep and He accomplished justification
for them. He finished the work of putting
away their sin, of purging their sin, of obtaining eternal redemption
for them. Why not you? Why not you? How do I know He justified me?
Can you believe on it? This is how we receive free justification. We believe on Him. We believe
Him. And the only way you can believe Him is God has chose
you, He's redeemed you, He's called you by His grace, He's
given you faith to believe on Him and you rest in Him. That's
the only way a man can do so. You rest in Christ fully, finally,
completely and say, I don't trust in my works, I don't trust in
my holiness, I don't trust in my... anything I do. My morality? Nothing else. I'm not looking
to that. I'm looking to Christ. I'm resting in Christ. If you
can say that, and you are one of those that he's called. God
justifies you. Christ justifies you. By his
knowledge. Before you ever knew anything
about it. By his personal knowledge. Alright, let's look at this second
thing here. By his knowledge. Christ knew. He must uphold the
righteousness of God. And he must do it by his obedience
unto death. He had to uphold the righteousness
of God. And he must do it by his obedience
unto death. And not just any death. Not just
some death where he reached an old age and gave up the ghost
and died in peaceful solitude. The death of the cross. The death
of the cross. He had to remain obedient to
God when he went through that hellacious cross that he bore
for his people. And that he did. God calls him
my righteous servant. My righteous servant. Why does
he call him my righteous servant? Well, number one, it tells us
he's fit for the work. He's righteous. He's holy. Me
and you couldn't do this work. God won't look to you and God
won't look to me. The scripture says it must be
holy to be accepted of God. And you know what the first thing
is wrong with us? We're conceived in our mother's womb by the corrupt
seed of our father, who was conceived from the corrupt seed of his
all the way back to Adam. We're sinners in our mother's
womb. You don't go 13 years and then
become a sinner. You become a sinner when you
conceive. In sin did my mother conceive me, the psalmist said. And I came forth therefore from
my mother's womb doing what sinners do. I came forth sinning. I came
forth speaking lies. So God won't look at me and you.
But His Son came forth, not conceived of corruptible seed, but of the
Holy Ghost. He came forth holy and righteous. And God said, Behold My righteous
servant. My righteous servant. He served
God with a holy heart, perfectly, in perfect righteousness all
his days. All his days. And Christ knew
he had to do this. He knew he had to go to that
cross. Again, he said to Nicodemus, I must be lifted up. He said,
as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. You know why
Moses lifted that serpent? The people were being bitten
by a snake. And he said, now make a snake.
make what it is, make my sacrifice, make the substitute, make the
Savior to be what it is that's killing those people. And he
made a serpent like that that was biting them. And he lifted
it up on the pole and he said, now you look to this serpent
and you'll be saved. Christ came and he said, I must
be made what's killing my people. I must be made sin for my people. I must have their iniquities
laid on me. And God said He bore their iniquities.
God took their iniquities off of them and laid them on Christ.
He was made sin for us who knew no sin. And He was lifted up
on that cross. And He said, I must do this.
Why? He said that whosoever believeth in Me should not perish but have
eternal life. So that whoever looks to Me,
like they look to that pole, they'll not perish. That's the
only way they won't perish. It's by casting all your care
onto Christ, all your hope into Christ. That's the only way you
won't perish. That's the only way you'll have
everlasting life. First and foremost, it was because
God is holy. That's why it was a must. God's
just. Everybody's talking about God's
love, and I'm thankful for God's love, but that's not God's chief
attribute. How do you know that? God won't love at the expense
of His justice. God won't love at the expense
of His holiness. God won't show mercy at the expense of His holiness. He just won't do it. God chose
to save the people. And we're unworthy sinners. There's
nothing in it. We deserve hell. It's what we
deserve. And God would show us mercy. He set His heart on showing
us mercy. And God can't be turned back.
When He's chosen the people to save Him, there's nothing about
that people that's going to change Him. If He chose us by grace,
sin didn't change His mind because He wasn't looking to us in the
first place. He's doing it by His grace. You sing Amazing Grace,
have you ever stood up in a congregation and sung Amazing Grace? Do you
have a clue what that means? Amazing Grace? It's grace whereby
God says, here's two twins in their mother's womb. They've
neither done good nor evil. that the purpose of God according
to election might stand. But they're going to come forth
and you know what both of them are going to be? Haters of God. Both of them are going to be
rebels against God. Both of them are going to hate God with every
fiber of their being as they're born from their mother's womb.
And you know what God said? I'm going to love Jacob. I'm
going to love Jacob. The question is not how could
God hate Esau. I understand that God hates sin. And He hates the sinner. Our
people go around, God hates sin, but He don't hate the sinner.
Yes, He does hate the sinner. He says, I'm angry with the wicked
every day. He abhors those that reject Him
and rebel against Him. I understand how He could hate
Esau. Here's what's amazing, amazing grace. He loved Jacob. He loved Jacob. That supplanting,
low-down, underhanded, rotten, dirty, sneaky sinner. Just like
you and just like me. He loved him. That's amazing
grace. And because he didn't look at
something in Jacob to choose Jacob, nothing about Jacob could
cause God to turn away and change his mind. But because he's holy,
before he would have mercy on me and you, he would sooner take
the sin of his people and lay it on his own son, make his own
son sin that hated, despised, It's just that horrid thing.
He would sooner make Him sin for His people than He would
let His justice be tainted. You think about that. That's
holy. And so by His knowledge, Christ
made His soul an offering for sin. This will be some review,
He went to that garden and He, through the Holy Spirit, offered
Himself as the spotless Lamb to God. Proven through and through,
put up, observed, and found to be without spot and without blemish.
He presented Himself without spot to God. And by His knowledge,
Christ submitted to the oppression that He received. He left that
garden. He said, come on now. Here they
are, the ones that are going to arrest me. Let's go. And he
walked across to Brook Kedron and he said, I'm the one you
want. And when he said, I am, they
fell on their behinds. Still, they didn't repent and
fall at his feet. Judgment won't make you repent.
I could preach hell to you till the fires are licking your heels
and you won't repent from God. No man will. They got up. He said, you came after me every
time I walked this earth. Why now? And I was with you,
I walked among you, you never laid hands on me. Why now do
you come after me with all these swords and these staves and all
this like I'm a criminal? You know why they couldn't touch
Him before? Scripture says His hour wouldn't come. He was in
control the whole time. It was His will. He was walking
about doing what God willed and He was accomplishing that will.
And nobody could touch Him. But He said, now this is your
hour. And because He's God's righteous servant, The scripture,
verse 7, Isaiah 53, 7 says, He was oppressed and was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth. He brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
as a sheep before shears is done, he opened not his mouth. I guarantee
if I start hitting you, you open your mouth. I guarantee if somebody
starts smacking you, you're going to say something. They start
snatching your hair out by the roots, we're going to say something.
Not him. And we're going to say it sinfully.
We're going to say it in anger. He didn't even say a word. He
didn't say a word. And we saw before, this proves
his wisdom. This proves it's by his knowledge.
Remember what we saw, James 3? James 3.13 said, Who's a wise
man? Endued with knowledge. Who's
got knowledge among you? We're looking at the One who
does. It's Christ and Him only. Who's a wise man and dude with
knowledge among you? Let Him show out of a good conversation,
out of all His conduct in the midst of men. Let Him show His
works with meekness of wisdom. In meekness of wisdom, Proverbs
17, 27 says, He that hath knowledge spareth his words. And a man
of understanding is of an excellent spirit. He's got control of his
spirit. He doesn't get angry. He doesn't
fly off the handle and throw chips across the back seat at
his sister when she gets him upset. He's a man of excellent
spirit. He's calm and he's got control
of everything and he's in control of his spirit and so he openeth
not his mouth. That's who a wise man is. That's
who has knowledge. Now, when you behold Christ in
the midst of preeminent suffering, preeminent suffering, and you
behold Him opening not His mouth, that tells you Christ is preeminent
wisdom and preeminent knowledge. It's by His knowledge that my
righteous servants shall justify many. By His knowledge Christ
submitted to bear their iniquities. He submitted to the Father to
lay the iniquities of His people upon Him. For the many He came
to save, the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. By
His knowledge Christ submitted to being numbered with the transgressors.
Verse 12 says He was numbered with the transgressors. These
are not different ways of saying the same thing. Realize that?
He had the sin of His people laid on Him. And then being made
sin, because God is a holy judge, because He takes account of His
people in holy righteousness. Because He is made sin, God then
imputed sin to Him. But He charged him with it. He
numbered him as a transgressor. And God did it justly because
He first laid the iniquities of His people on him. That's
so important, brethren, because the thing God's declaring to
us is His righteousness. And the thing He's showing us
is that He can be trusted. He's a holy and just judge. And
He can be trusted by His people because He does everything right,
righteously and justly. And so by His knowledge, with
the sin of His people on Him, being now charged with the sin
of His people, by His knowledge Christ submitted to being wounded
for our transgressions. You know, really, I should have
put Him going to the garden and presenting Himself, and Him bearing,
then He bore our iniquities, and then He was numbered with
the transgressors. And then I should have put an
order, but He opened not His mouth. Because see, if he had
opened his mouth and defended himself before men against their
unjust charges when they numbered him a transgressor, what he would
have been doing to those that God put in authority, God put
them there, God put the judge there, God put that man there
who was calling him a transgressor. And if he said to that man, I'm
not a transgressor, he'd have been saying it to God. Because
Romans 13 says, whoever rejects the power, rejects God. And so
He opened not His mouth to those men when they accused Him of
being a transgressor, because it was God who was counting Him
the transgressor. And so He opened not His mouth.
And then, with that sin and that imputation upon Him, then Christ
submitted to being wounded for our transgressions, and bruised
for our iniquities, and the chastisement of our peace was upon Him. I know that the whip with the
bones in it and the metal claws and all that ripping across his
bare flesh was horrid pain. And I realized that being beat
until he was unrecognizable in his face, I realized that was
horrid pain. And I realized that as Isaiah
52, 13 and 14 says, that his visage was marred more than any
man. More than any man. More than
any man. I realized that what men did
caused him great suffering. But that was nothing compared
to the wounding and the bruising and the chastisement he was receiving
in his very soul from his father. He was receiving what not just
one sinner deserved, he was receiving what every guilty sinner that
he was dying for deserved. The hell we deserve. That's what
he suffered from God. God removed his presence from
him. God removed himself from him. How can God forsake God? I don't
know. But great is the mystery of godliness.
I do know this. Christ doesn't ask a question.
God does not ask a question to get information for himself.
He asks a question to give me and you information. And that's
why Christ cried out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me? It wasn't to get information
for himself. It was to give me and you information that he was
forsaken. He was forsaken. And by His knowledge, Christ
remained obedient through all that, through the thick darkness,
right up until the point where He gave up the ghost and poured
out His soul unto death. That's obedience. That's righteousness. You want to come to God, beg
your law keeping? That's all you've got to do. That's all
you've got to do. And God will keep you. God will
receive you. But you got to do that. You got to do that. That's laying down your life
for God and for your brethren. That's what that is. That's the
fulfillment of the law. That's the righteousness of the law.
So believer, adore the wisdom of God. We see God's wisdom,
we see His knowledge in everything that's created. We see it in
the universe, we see it in the earth, we see it in the human
body, we see it in all the things He created, even the little microbes
and whatnot that we can't even see. But brethren, there is no
wisdom and no knowledge displayed like it is at the cross. At the
cross we see those attributes of God that appear to us to be
contradictory to one another. We see those attributes of God
fitting together in perfect harmony. What do you mean by His attributes
being contradictory? How can God keep mercy for thousands
and by no means clear the guilty? Would you tell me that? How can
He kill you and save you? How can He kill you and make
you alive? How can He send you to hell and send you to heaven?
How can that happen? Only in Christ. Only by Christ
becoming what you are and bearing what you deserve. Declaring God
to be just. He poured out the sentence in
full. And on that cross we see the wisdom of God. He's keeping
mercy for thousands. He's forgiving iniquity and transgression
and sin and at the same time by no means clearing the guilty. That's wisdom. That's wisdom.
Now, by His knowledge, Christ has justified many because He's
born our iniquities. He's born our iniquities. And
He said in Isaiah 45, 25, in the Lord shall all the seed of
Israel be justified and shall glory. He said they're going
to all be justified in the Lord. We're justified one way. We're
justified by what Christ did. He said much more than being
now justified by His blood. By His blood. We shall be saved
from wrath through Him. For as by one man's disobedience
many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many
be made righteous. And every elect child of God
is going to be justified freely by grace, not by any merit in
us. Romans 3.24 says being justified
freely. That means we didn't pay anything.
We didn't pay one drop of sweat. Not one drop. Justified freely
by His grace through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus. He paid
it all. I don't have to pay anything.
They shall all receive justification by being born of the Spirit of
God. Titus 3 verse 5 says, Not by works of righteousness which
we have done. But according to His mercy, He
saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy
Ghost, which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
that being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according
to the hope of eternal life. They're going to all be born
of the Spirit of God. You see, what you are as you're
born from your mother's womb is the product of Adam, rotten,
dirty sinner under the curse that's going back to the dust.
But what I am in the new man, created of God, born of the Holy
Spirit, is created in righteousness and true holiness. And when this
shell of death falls off of me, off of me, the real me, the real
me is going to go and be with God. The flesh is not me. The old nature is not me. So
we've got to be born of God. And then they're going to all
receive justification through God-given faith in Christ. God's
got to give it. and to whom it shall be imputed
if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead
who was delivered for our offenses and raised again for our justification.
So for you who know him, adore the justice of God, sit at his
feet and cry, like the angels do. You know what they cry? They
don't cry love, love, love is the Lord God Almighty. They don't
cry that. We don't stand up here and sing love, love, love. We don't sing that. We sing holy,
holy, holy. Holy, holy, holy. And why do we sing that? Because
that same holiness, that justice demands now that those for whom
Christ died must be given an eternal inheritance. God's not
unjust. He won't punish a sinner in Christ
and then turn around and punish that sinner in himself. That's
double jeopardy. A judge that does that in this
land, we'd kick him off the bench and never let him serve again. God won't do it. The judge of
the earth should do right. He's judged his people in Christ.
And when he does it, When He makes you to see that, He makes
you see now justice is your friend, the justice of God. And so we
praise Him for His justice and we do so praising Him for His
wisdom, for His knowledge, because by His knowledge, by the knowledge
Christ possessed in Himself, He justified many. He bore their
iniquities. Cease looking to your own wisdom.
Whenever Christ is formed in us, you know the first thing
He's made to us? Wisdom. Wisdom. We see God's wisdom.
And we see that we're righteous in Christ. We're sanctified in
Christ. We're redeemed in Christ. Of God are you in Christ. Who
of God is made unto us. Wisdom. Righteousness. Sanctification. Redemption. That as it is written,
He that glories, let him glory one place. In the Lord, by His
knowledge, shall my righteous servant justify many, for he
shall bear their iniquity. And the next hour we'll look
at that wisdom that he exercises toward us. Amen. Let's stand
together, brethren.