Alright brethren, let's turn
in our Bibles to Isaiah 53. Isaiah chapter 53. Let's read verse 10 together. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise
him. He hath put him to grieve. The crucifixion of the Lord Jesus
Christ appeared to be by the hands of men. But it pleased
the Lord to bruise him. The crucifixion of the Lord Jesus
Christ was men being permitted by God taking His restraining
hand off of them to do what God had determined before to be done. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him. And then we read here, when thou shalt make his soul an offering
for sin. This is the first reason it pleased
the Lord to bruise him. He made his soul an offering
for sin. Adam, along with every sinner
who fell in Adam, must and shall suffer divine justice. Every one. There are no exceptions. God is just and he will pour
out justice upon every sinner without exception. God will by
no means clear the guilty but by God's sovereign grace for
you who God sanctified in divine election by choosing you out
from among and taking you out of the people he would create
and putting you in Christ for you who shall be sanctified by
the Holy Spirit. All God's people shall be sanctified
by the Holy Spirit in the new birth. For those, Christ Jesus
made His soul an offering for sin. Instead of you bearing that
justice, it pleased the Lord to bruise Him. Instead of you
being put to grief, it pleased the Lord to put His Son to grief.
And by doing so, He satisfied God. It pleased God to bruise
Him. Christ manifests the righteousness
of God, how that God is just and He's the justifier of His
people by His death at Calvary. Christ magnified his law and
made it honorable because he totally, thoroughly fulfilled
his law in precept and in penalty laying down his life on Calvary's
tree. He did that for his people. Christ
bore the sins of his people into the grave like the scapegoat
went into a land not inhabited. And three days later the fit
man came forth without sin unto salvation. And for those that
look for him, he's going to appear a second time without sin and
bring them into glory. This is the truth of the gospel.
That's why it pleased the Lord to bruise him. By his one offering
he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Now this
is our subject today, the second point here. Verse 10 says, it
pleased the Lord to bruise him because by Christ's one offering
all his seed shall be born again and brought to glory. Verse 10
says, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days. First of all, God saw Christ. He saw his seed. God saw his
Son, his only begotten Son, Christ Jesus, and he prolonged his days. Whenever the Lord went to that
cross, that great cross work of the mediator declared the
son's preeminent desire to glorify his father and to fulfill his
father's will. It showed his desire and his
willingness for his father to have all the glory and all the
honor in salvation. It showed it because for him
to go to that cross, Christ had to come from glory. He had to
humble himself and become a man. He made himself of no reputation,
this one who is the God of glory. didn't even make, we can't go
five minutes without tootin' our horn when something good
happens. He made himself of no reputation, this one who is God.
And on that cross, he made himself the very least. There's never
been anybody go from as high as Christ was in glory to as
low as Christ went on Calvary's tree. He made himself the absolute
least. But you know what He said? He
said, He that is least among you shall be great, and Christ
shall be great. God the Father saw what His Son
did, and He pleased the Father. And He saw His seed. He said,
This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. This is My
Son who came to fulfill My law for Me. This is the only Son,
the only Son that I have, that walked from His birth to the
day He laid down His life for me to perfectly fulfill my will. This is my Son who started out
saying, I must be about my Father's business and ended His life saying,
it is finished. I have finished my Father's business. There's not another person on
this earth that can say anything remotely close to that. In every
way, this is My Son, God said, who preeminently glorified Me
by His work on the cross. And because He glorified Me,
wherefore also I'll glorify Him. And He prolonged His days. God the Father raised Him from
the dead and He raised Him to be head over all power, good
and evil, over all power, seen and unseen, and to be head over
His church that That church which is the fullness of His body that
Christ Himself might have the glory of fulfilling all in all. And Christ shall. That's exactly
what He shall do. That's what this text means secondly.
It means Christ shall see all His seed brought to faith in
Him and their days prolonged to eternal life. Because Christ
shall do it. This is what he bought the rights
to do when he shed his blood at Calvary's tree. This is why
it pleased the Lord to bruise him. Now, among the Hebrews,
it was a great honor, and it was for a long time in this country,
it's not so much in our day, but it was a great honor to have
a house full of children. And it was a great honor to see
your children's children. I'll give you an example. Israel
said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face, and, lo, God
has shown me also thy seed. He thought this was a great honor.
He saw his son and he saw his son's children. Well, first of
all, Christ Jesus shall see his seed. Now, as surety of his people,
from the foundation of the world when God the Father gave his
people unto him, Christ has always seen his seed. Now, you listen
carefully to me, because what I'm declaring here today is giving
God all the glory. It's giving Christ all the glory.
Now, worship of God, true worship, is giving God all the glory.
And if you don't desire God to have all the glory, you don't
worship God. Now, if you do desire for God to have all the glory,
listen up, because I'm declaring a message that's going to give
man no glory, and it's going to give God all the glory. First
of all, Christ saw his seed from eternity. He saw his seed before
the foundation of the world when the Father blessed us with all
spiritual blessings according as he chose us in Christ before
the foundation of the world. Look at John chapter 1. I'll
show you this. John chapter 1. Christ has always seen His seed. Whenever a saint was born in
the Old Testament, it was Christ working it. Because He stood
as surety for His people. He would go to that cross. And
after Christ ascended, it's Christ working this in his people. The
glory of being the mediator and the head of his church belongs
to Christ. Now look here. Philip ran to go get Nathanael.
Remember that? And verse 47 says, Jesus saw
Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, an Israelite
indeed, in whom is no guile. Here's an Israelite. Here's a
true Jew. Here's a true elect child of
God. Born inwardly, circumcised in
the heart by the Holy Spirit of God, in which spirit there
is no guile. Created in righteousness and
true holiness by God. And Christ looked at him and
said, He's saying, this is my seed right here. I see one of
my seeds. And look what Nathaniel said.
He said unto him, Whence knowest thou me? They never met. Nathaniel said, How do you know
me? Jesus answered and said unto him, before that Philip called
thee, when thou was under the fig tree, I saw thee. I saw you. And what he's telling
him is, Philip telling him, Nathaniel, I've been seeing you since before
anybody saw you. I've been seeing you before you
even had a being. I've seen you since before the
foundation of the world. And he's always seen and seen.
And then he saw his seed raised in him. He saw his seed raised
in him. Hosea 6.2 says this, After two
days will he revive us. In the third day he will raise
us up and we shall live in his sight. Now how did that come
to pass? Look at Ephesians 2. Look at
Ephesians 2 and verse 5. This is how it came to pass.
This was before any of us sitting here today were born. But this
is true of every elect child for whom he died. Now look, verse
5. Even when we were dead in sins,
even when we were dead in sins, before as yet we were ever even
born, brethren, hath quickened us together with Christ. By grace
you're saved. It's by grace because me and
you had nothing to do with it. Now look, and He raised us up
together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus. Now when did He do that? He did
that when He raised Christ. When He raised Christ, He raised
all those for whom Christ died up with Him and made us all sit
together with Him in Christ in glory. Not only did God see his
seed and prolong his days, Christ saw all those for whom he died
and he prolonged their days when he came out of that grave and
sat down at the right hand of the Father. Oh, so that means
that if a man's an elect child of God and God redeemed him,
he don't ever have to hear the gospel, he'll be saved regardless. Well, if it pleased God to do
it that way, that would be true. But the Scripture does not say
it pleased God to do it that way. The Scripture says it pleased
God to save through the foolishness of preaching. It says it saved
God to save through faith. Without faith, it is impossible
to please God. You can't come to God without
faith. Christ said, drink my blood and eat my flesh, you have
no life in you, except you believe you have no life in you. The
fact of the matter is, when we're dead in our sins, brethren, even
though we have a physical life, we're the product of Adam. We
came from Adam's corruption. We were conceived from Adam's
corrupt seed. And we don't even have a being experimentally as
a child of God until we're born of God. We've got to be born
again. Then we're born of God. Then
we're born of incorruptible seed. Then that new man is the child
of God. We've got to be born again. And
Christ is the life of His seed. And He shall accomplish that
work. Look at Psalm 22. Psalm 22. Psalm 22 and look at
verse 30. A seed, that means children, a people, a seed shall serve
him. Now to serve somebody, you've
got to be alive, don't you? A seed shall serve him. It shall
be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They're going to
be his race, his chosen race, his holy nation, that chosen
generation. They shall come and shall declare
his righteousness unto a people that shall be born that he hath
done this. They're going to be born. This
is why it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He shall see his
seed. He shall prolong days. Christ
is the last Adam. Our first father Adam, we were
born of him, but he won't be the father of God's elect forever. So he's not called the everlasting
father. The last Adam, Christ Jesus in
Isaiah 9, he's called the everlasting father. Not only because he is
God, but because those that are born of his seed, he's their
father for everlasting. This relationship never ends.
He's our everlasting Father, the head and representative of
his people. So as promised by the Father, this was promised
by the Father to Abraham that this would happen, that all his
seed would be born and all his children scattered throughout
all nations would be born again and brought to faith in Christ.
This was declared to Abraham. And the same promise that was
declared to Abraham was declared to Christ Jesus by God the Father.
Look at Galatians 3. Let me show you that. Galatians
3. Look at verse 16. Now to Abraham
and his seed were the promises made. Now he said not and to
seeds as of many. I hope you're using the King
James translation because this might be butchered otherwise.
Listen now. He made this promise to his seed. He said not to seeds as of many.
He's not talking about to all his children. But as of one. And to thy seed which is Christ. So what I'm saying to you, the
same promise God the Father made to Abraham, he made to Christ
Jesus his son. The same promise. Now what promise
is that? Go back up to Galatians 3 verse
8. Here's the promise. The Scripture
foreseeing that God would justify the heathen, that is the Gentiles,
how? Through faith. Through faith. We're justified by Christ, by
His work, and we're made to receive that free justification accomplished
through faith. This is how God's going to save
all His people. Alright, watch. Seeing as how he would do that,
he preached before the gospel unto Abraham. He preached this
promise to Abraham, this gospel, this good news. He made this
promise to Abraham saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. It means in Abraham, through
Abraham, a spiritual seed is going to be born. Christ Jesus
the Lord and through Christ all his elect shall be born the first
time and all his elect shall be born again by the Holy Spirit
through the gospel and given faith to believe on Christ and
through faith they shall be justified. That's how that not all nations,
not everybody in all nations, but all his elect from among
the nations. He's called us out from among
the nations. from among the nations, from
every country, tribe, tongue, and people under the earth. He
saved us out from among them. Read Revelation, it'll tell you
that. Now look here. So then, they which be of faith,
they which be of faith. Gotta have faith. God's gotta
give us faith. They which be of faith are blessed
with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works
of the law are under the curse. For it is written, Cursed is
everyone that continueth not in all things which are written
in the book of the law to do them. You can't come to God by
your works of the law. Faith is opposite to the works.
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God,
it is evident, for the just shall live by faith. By faith. And the law is not of faith.
You can't be both. We can't claim to believe on
Christ and Christ be the end of the law for righteousness
and then yet think that by our law keeping we're going to somehow
be made righteous or a little more righteous. That's vanity. That's blasphemy. That's anti-Christ. That man that says that stands
in the temple of God speaking as though he is God and he's
anti-Christ. He can't do what he says he can
do and he's against Christ. The law is not of faith, but
the man that doeth the law shall live in the law. Anybody here
done the law? None. Not one. Now watch this. Because that promise was made
to Abraham, and because that promise was made to Christ, that
his seed would be born again, that's the very reason Christ
came and redeemed his people. That's why it pleased the Lord
to bruise him. Look at this now, verse 13. Christ hath redeemed
us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is
everyone that hangeth on a tree. Now why did he do that? That
the blessing of Abraham, that promise that was made to Abraham
might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ. That, here's it
defined more simply, that we might receive the promise of
the Holy Spirit through faith. through faith. The very reason
Christ died is because God the Father promised him, all you
shall see your seed and you shall prolong their days. And you give
them the Holy Spirit just as I promised to give it to them.
And you'll give them the promise that the Holy Spirit makes known
in the heart that we've been justified freely, that we've
been made righteous in Christ, that our sins are forgiven and
put away and God remembers them no more. And this will come to
them through faith. That was the promise God made
to the Son. That's the very reason Christ died. That's why it pleased
the Lord to bruise him. Look over at Galatians 4 verse
4. It says, when the fullness of
time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made
under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that,
for this reason, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Do you remember what the Scripture
says about that adoption of sons? Hold your place there in Galatians
4 and look two pages over to Ephesians 1. Look at this, verse
5. God predestinated us unto the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself according to
the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of
His grace wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved. He promised the Son, these children
are all going to be born again. And you're the one that's going
to do it. and I'm going to give them the adoption of sons. I'm
going to give them my spirit. They're going to be born again
and I'm going to give them faith. And that's why Christ came at
the appointed time and was made under the law and redeemed all
his people from under the law. Go back to Galatians 4, let's
read that. Galatians 4, he says, let's read it again, verse 5.
He came to redeem them that were under the law that we might receive
the adoption of son. No possibility it won't happen.
They're going to be born again because they're predestinated
unto it. Look at this. And because your son... Because
you already were, by divine election, by blood redemption, because
you're sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son, the Spirit
of His Son, into your hearts, and now we cry, Abba, Father. You see that? So away with this
nonsense, away with this blasphemy, away with this anti-Christ doctrine
that claims that Christ redeemed do not have to hear the gospel
and do not have to be given faith to believe. I could go to a lot
of scriptures that just plainly say where Christ said except
you be born again you can't enter the kingdom of heaven. where
he said, except you be converted and become as little children,
you can't enter the kingdom of heaven. Except you eat my flesh
and drink my blood, you have no life. Without faith, it's
impossible to please God. It's written in the scriptures,
they shall all be taught of the Father. Therefore, everyone that's
been taught of Him comes to Christ. And no man can come to Christ
except the Father draw him. These scriptures plainly declare
it. But beyond that, brethren, It's the very promise God the
Father made to His Son. This is the Word of God, God
who cannot lie. So it's going to happen. It's
going to happen. The very reason Christ laid down
His life is for this. The very reason He was bruised
is for this. Therefore Christ Jesus lives
and by His own power He shall see all the souls that He has
redeemed born first to earth, and then born again the second
time to newness of life in the new birth. I gave the illustration
Thursday night, but I'm gonna give it again. A lady I know
of in Japan was living in, I don't know which one of the cities
it was, one of the cities we dropped the atomic bomb on. And
for, quote, some reason, She didn't go where she was supposed
to go that day. To a building that was thoroughly leveled.
She didn't go that day to that building. She couldn't go. She couldn't die. Because she
was going to give birth to a child that had to be born the first
time. And the reason I know this child
had to be born the first time is because God sent the gospel
to this woman's child and saved her by His grace because she
was an elect child. She was a child for whom Christ
died. She was one God made this promise to Christ about saying,
you're going to see that woman. You're going to prolong her days.
And therefore that promise couldn't be broken. And that woman is
Pastor David Edmondson's wife, Teresa Edmondson. Her mother
survived that bombing there and then gave birth to Teresa. And she, God, by His Spirit,
made her born again. It had to be. They all shall
be. Let me show you Psalm 128. This
is the spirit of what that verse means when it says, He shall
see His seed, He shall prolong days. Blessed. Let's read this whole
psalm. It's just six verses. Blessed
is everyone that feareth the Lord, that walketh in his ways. That's what Christ did. Christ
did that perfectly. No man ever did it perfectly.
Christ did it perfectly. Now listen. For thou shalt eat
the labor of thine hands. Happy shall thou be, and it shall
be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful
vine by the sides of thine house. Christ's wife is his church,
his bride. And he says she's going to be
fruitful because of what Christ did. Look at this. Thy children
like olive plants round about thy table. Just in abundance. He's going to save a multitude
no man can number. Look at this. Behold, that thus
shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. The Lord shall
bless thee out of Zion, and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem
all the days of thy life. God the Father out of heaven's
Zion raised up His Son from the dead and raised Him to Zion. And He's going to see the good
of heavenly Jerusalem of all His elect all the days of His
life. He prolonged His days to all
eternity. And He's going to prolong the
days of His children to all eternity. Yea, thou shalt see thy children's
children and peace upon Israel. That was the promise made to
Christ. That shall be fulfilled. Let me tell you something. You
may say, well, I've believed this doctrine that a man didn't
have to hear the gospel and he didn't have to have faith, that
just so he's an elect child, just so he's redeemed, he'll
be saved. I've believed that all my life. Well, stop it today. Just stop doing it today. Better to stop it today than
go to hell believing it. Stop it today. Believe God. Because the honor of Christ is
slightly more important than what any man-made of any man-made
doctrine. It's more important than, and
I'm not just picking on anybody, my whole family on the Curtis
side of my family believes that a man don't have to hear the
gospel. My grandma, my grandfather believed
it, my aunts and uncles believed it. It's just not true. It's
just not true. God's God has the power to do
what pleases Him. We're going to see that in the
next part of that verse next time. He shall say, the pleasure
of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. We're going to look
at the things that it pleased the Lord to do. And they're all
going to prosper in Christ's hand. That's why it pleased God
to bruise Him. So brethren, God entrusted everything
to Christ. Now you entrust everything to
Him. If He gives you a heart to do it, you will. And He'll
turn you. He can turn a man from that false
doctrine and bring him to believe. And He will for all His people.
Amen. Let's stand together, brethren. Father, we thank You for Your
Word. Lord, we need you to make us to hear it. What we call paying
attention is not even worth calling paying attention. We don't pay
attention except for to anything that concerns us. And we need
for you to make your gospel to concern us. Lord, only Christ our King can
grant us repentance. Turn us from falsehood and make
us bow to Him and believe Him. And we pray that You'll do that. That You'll give us forgiveness
of sins. Lord, make every heart that's
inflamed with anger right now because of this message to be
melted into submission. Pour out Your Spirit upon them
with the washing of regeneration and put out that fire. And make them, Father, to burn
within their new hearts for Christ and His glory and Your honor. We ask it in Christ's name, Lord.
Amen.