Alright, brethren, let's turn
to Isaiah chapter 53. Isaiah chapter 53. Now, this is a prophecy concerning
the suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ and the death that He
should accomplish on the cross. We're told in this chapter that
he was despised and he was rejected of men. We're told in this chapter
he was oppressed and afflicted by men. We're told here that
he had his judgment taken away from him by unjust men. We're told he was cut off out
of the land of the living by the hands of wicked men. But the crucifixion of the Lord
Jesus Christ was not merely by the hand of natural-born Jews. It was not merely by the hand
of Gentile Romans. It was not merely by the political
spinelessness and the flesh-pleasing work of Pilate. It was not merely
by the hand of Satan himself. Verse 10 tells us, Yet it pleased
the Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief. The Lord here is God. That's
who it's saying. It pleased Jehovah to bruise
the Lord Jesus Christ. hath put him to grief." The crucifixion
of the Lord Jesus Christ was according to the eternal counsel
of God. I want you to turn to Acts chapter
2 just a moment. The cross was foreordained of
God from eternity. Look here at Acts chapter 2 and
look at verse 23. Acts 2.23, Him being delivered
by the determinate counsel and for knowledge of God. Ye have
taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. Look at
Acts chapter 4, look at verse 26. Acts 4.26, it says, The kings
of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered together
against the Lord and against his Christ. For of a truth against
the holy child Jesus whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and
Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were
gathered together for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined
before to be done." The God of man's imagination. God is preached
from most pulpits in our day, cannot do anything unless the
little weak sinner lets him do it. He can't do a thing unless
God lets him do it. That's the God of a man's imagination. We make our gods and set them
up on the mantle. They can't move unless we move
them. They can't do anything unless we let them do what we
let them do. And that's the God of most people's
imagination. He's wanting to save everybody.
He's trying to save everybody. He just can't do it because sinners
won't let him. But that's not the God of this
book. The God of this book, the true and living God, Ephesians
111 says, He works of all things. He works all things. From the
least little minute thing to the grandest thing. He works
all things according to the counsel of His own will. There is nothing
that comes to pass in this world at any point in time that Almighty
God has not, is not after the counsel of His own will. Nothing.
The crucifixion of His own Son was after His own will. And if
the crucifixion of His Son was, you can bank on it, everything
else is. Everything else is. It was according to the determinate
counsel of God. That means the predetermined
counsel. God counseled with God, and He
predetermined that Christ would go to the cross. He predetermined
that. In that counsel, God entered
into everlasting covenant with God to save a chosen people for
Himself from their sins. God did that. Nothing God does
in salvation is by accident. Everything is according to His
determinate counsel. It's on purpose. It was by the
foreknowledge of God that Christ was slain. It was foreordained,
ordained before the foundation of the world. God predestinated
it to take place. And therefore wicked sinners
did whatsoever His hand, God's hand, and His counsel determined
before to be done. That's what men did. And somebody
will say, well, that makes God guilty of sin. No, it does not
make God guilty of sin. God can't be charged with sin
for the crucifixion of His Son, because the charge of sin lay
squarely on the shoulders of men, but not on God. God infused
no evil into those men. He did not put any evil into
those men to make them do what they did. The evil was in them
by their first birth. It was already there. God took
His restraining hand off of them and they did what was already
in their heart to do. Because the carnal mind hates
God. The carnal mind is enmity against
God. And the only reason You could
sit here today with any poise and any kind of reservation when
you hear me declare the gospel of Christ Jesus. It's because
you don't think you've got to face God right now. But if He
came here in the flesh and you had to face Him right now, and
you knew you could get your hands on God and could kill God, you'd
do the same thing if God took His hand off of you. That's right. That's true of me. That's true
of you. That's all the flesh is. God
killers. That's what the flesh is. If
God keeps His hand on us, He'll restrain that evil. If God takes
that hand off of us, all we are is evil. And you'll do anything
anybody else in the world would do. You can pick out the worst
sinner that in your mind is the worst sinner on the face of the
planet, and don't talk down about them because there's not a hair's
breadth difference between them and you, except for God's restraining
hand. Brethren, the same enmity same
wickedness abides in your heart of flesh and mine." And the man
that does not know that about himself just does not know himself. Now, God overruled them, even
though they were doing this just because they wanted to do it.
God was overruling everything, overruling Satan himself so that
everything that came to pass was exactly according to the
eternal purpose of God. They fulfilled His will in thinking
that they were doing just the opposite to His will. Don't you
like that about God? I like that about God, that He
can make a man do His will when the man thinks he's doing opposite
to God's will. Who would be so foolish? Who
would be this foolish to charge God with sin when God was turning
the wickedness of men to His own glory and for the eternal
good of His people? Who would dare blame God to charge
Him with sin when that's what He was doing? And that's exactly
what He was doing. God is God. Have you not heard
that? Do you not know? Have you not
known? The One that sits on the circle
of the earth, the inhabitants of the earth like grasshoppers
to Him. This is God. This is God who held the waters
in the palm of His hand. This is God who spread out the
heavens with a span. This is God who created the heavens
and the earth. This is God who moves mountains
if He chooses. This is God. What a great peace to know that
God only permits, He only takes His restraining hand off of men
and allows men to vent wrath that is going to praise Him. And the remainder, He prevents
it. Listen to Psalm 76.10. Listen to this carefully. Surely
the wrath of man shall praise Thee. Surely the wrath of man
shall praise God. You mean the anger and the wickedness
and all the evil I see in the world shall praise God? Surely
it shall. It sure shall. And the remainder
thereof shalt thou restrain. If it's coming to pass, it's
praising God. If it's coming to pass, it's
praising God. And if it doesn't praise God, He does not let it
come to pass. That gives me a lot of peace.
That gives me great comfort to know God is ruling everything. He's ruling the heavens and the
earth. He's ruling everything. But how? Now here's my question.
How and why did it please God to bruise the Savior? How and
why did it please God to bruise the Savior? That's our subject. It pleased God. It pleased God. We don't have to look any further
than verse 10 to answer that question. It pleased the Lord
to bruise Christ, number one. I'm going to give you my outline.
Here's the number one. Number one, it pleased God to
bruise Christ because He made His soul an offering for sin. Look at verse 10. When thou shalt
make His soul an offering for sin. If you have a King James
translation, the margin reads this. His soul shall make an
offering. His soul shall make an offering.
He accomplished something by that offering. This pleasing
of God is satisfying God. It's satisfaction being made. And He did it by, Thou shalt
make His soul an offering for sin. That's why it pleased Him.
Then it pleased the Lord to bruise Christ because by Christ's offering,
now listen to this carefully, listen very carefully, all His
seed, all those given Him of the Father from before the foundation
of the world, every one of them shall be born again to eternal
life. Every single one of them. That's
why Christ was bruised. Verse 10 says, He shall see His
seed, He shall prolong days. This is why it pleased Him. And
then the third reason that it pleased the Lord to bruise Christ
is because in the hand of our resurrected Lord Jesus Christ,
in the hand of the resurrected King of Glory, in the hand of
Christ Jesus who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords, The pleasure
of the Lord shall prosper in his hand." That which God is
pleased to do in this age we live in right now and what remains
to be done to bring his kingdom together and bring all of his
elect people to himself. The remainder that remains to
be done, Christ is doing it. Look at verse 10. The pleasure
of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Now, first of all,
it pleased God to bruise Christ because He made His soul an offering
for sin. When thou shalt make His soul
an offering for sin, His soul shall make an offering. Now,
let's spend some time here. We need to spend the bulk of
our time right here. Sin. Sin. What do you think about when
you hear the word cancer? What comes to your mind when
you hear the word cancer? Sin is worse. Sin is worse. What comes to your mind when
you hear the word disease? Sin is worse. What comes to your
mind when you hear the word death? Sin is the cause. Sin is the
cause of disease. Sin is the cause of death. And
sin is what you are and sin is what I am in my flesh. In the
garden there was a representative man named Adam and he sinned. He sinned against God. He transgressed
against God. Every single person that walks
this earth would come from that man. And so that man is the head
of the whole family. He is the head of the whole human
race. He is the head of all his people. You fathers, If something
happens in your household, you're the one responsible. You're
the head of the house. Adam was the head of the house.
He was the head of all those that would be born of him. And
he sinned in the garden. And when he did, death passed
upon all men. Sin entered the world. Death
passed upon all men. We were given a being by our
first father, Adam, when we were conceived of His seed. And when
we were conceived of Him, we were conceived in sin. We were
born dead, spiritually dead before God. We came forth speaking lies. We came forth transgressing against
God. We came forth hating God. And all the sin of Adam, my representative,
was charged to us. It was laid to our charge. And
that's all we are is sin. Every person born into this world
is a sinner due to another person. due to Adam. You are a sinner
due to Adam. A sinner due to another person.
The Scripture says, in Adam all die. In Adam all die. There are
no exceptions. Look at Psalm 14. Psalm 14. The fool hath said in his heart,
No, God. I hear you talking to me about
sin. No! No, I don't believe it. No. The fool has said that. The fool has said in his heart,
no God. Not out loud. Not speaking out loud in his
heart. No, I don't believe any of that.
I don't believe anything you say. I don't believe God's sovereign.
I don't believe He's in control. I don't believe God predetermined
everything that comes to pass. I don't believe that God... I
don't believe I'm a sinner. The fool says, no God. This is
what God said. They are corrupt. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that doeth good. The Lord looked down from heaven
upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand. Now look at this. If there was
any that did understand, if there was any that did seek God, they
are all gone aside. They are all together become
filthy. There is none that doeth good,
know not one. Let's just say for one minute,
just one minute, one minute, everybody in this room could
know every thought in your heart. Every thought in your heart that
you thought over the past week. Let's say everybody in this room
for just one minute could know every thought you thought for
the past week. Would you want that? Not hardly. Not hardly. Imagine if you could
see the thoughts of every sinner's heart in this world. Imagine
if you could see the thoughts of every sinner's heart in this
world. I wouldn't even want to see that.
I wouldn't even want to know that. There are things we see
now that turns our stomach. Imagine if you could see the
hearts of men. God sees it. God sees it. He sees yours and He sees mine.
And God says this about it. He says, we're corrupt, we're
abominable, we're filthy, there's none that does good. Not a one.
God must. Now let me tell you something
about God. God must. He must. And God shall punish
sin. He must do it. God shall and
He must punish you for your sin. And God shall and He must punish
me for my sin. It's going to happen. It's going
to happen. God must do it. Because God's
just. He will by no means clear the
guilty. By no means. God must punish
you. He must punish me. The soul that
sinneth, it shall die. For the wages of sin is death.
You're going to die. You're going to face God in judgment
one way or the other. It's going to be one way or the
other. But now hold the phone. Here's
the good news. This is the good news. Before God made this world
and before God made Adam, and Adam plunged this race into sin,
God predetermined. So what we just looked at, God
predetermined that Christ was going to the cross. Now the very
fact that God predetermined this before He made the world lets
you know that the sin in the garden was no surprise to God.
He had already provided a Savior before Adam ever sinned in the
garden. He had already provided a substitute for his people before
Adam ever sinned in the garden. The fact that he predetermined
that the cross was by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God, the very fact that so tells you that God knew before the
foundation of the world Adam would sin in the garden. It was
according to God's determinate counsel and foreknowledge. Because
God had chosen people. And He gave that, first He chose
Christ, He chose His Son, and He gave a people to His Son,
He chose a people in His Son and blessed them with all spiritual
blessings in His Son. And He gave that people to His
Son, and God the Son entered into covenant with God the Father
to save that people from their sin, to be made a man, to be
the second Adam. You see, we became sin by another,
and if we ever made righteous, and we ever have our sin put
away, if we're ever made holy to be accepted of God, it's not
going to be by us, it's going to be by another. We're either
going to come to God in Adam and be found in our sin, or we're
going to come to God in Christ and be found in Christ's righteousness.
But you and I, we're not going to be able to stand on our own
and say anything. We're going to stand in Adam
or we're going to stand in Christ. But Christ agreed to come. He
agreed to come and to be made in the likeness of sinful flesh
and to offer His soul, Himself, His nature, that body, soul that
God prepared, that God gave Him, He agreed to come and offer Himself,
the totality of Himself, a sacrifice for sin. He agreed to do that. to put away the sin of his people,
to satisfy divine justice, to declare God just and to justify. He agreed to do that because
sin's got to be punished. It's got to be punished. Now
that's the good news, brethren. Because sin must be punished,
the good news is there is a people for whom Christ bore that punishment
and bore that wrath and bore that justice so that they do
not have to ever bear it themselves. Now, do you want to know about
that? Do you want to get in on that? Do you want to know if
your name's in that number? There's only one way you're going
to find out. God's not going to open up the Lamb's Book, the
Lamb's Slam from the foundation of the world, the Book of Life,
and let you see your name written there. God, that wouldn't be
faith. God's not going to send you some
earthly, worldly sign so that you know you're one of the elect. He's not going to do that. There's
going to be one way you're going to find out. It's going to be
you're going to hear this gospel preached and you're going to
find yourself believing every word that's spoken. That's the
only way. That's the only way. So this
is what I'm saying to you. I'd listen up. I'd pay careful
attention because this is the only way you're going to find
out if you're in on this number. It pleased God to bruise Christ
in the place of his people because Christ on that cross is God providing
himself a lamb. Thou, when thou, you see it says
there verse 10, when thou, when thou shall make his soul an offering
for sin. God did this. Look at Hebrews
10 with me just a moment. Hebrews chapter 10. Now brethren,
Abraham told Isaac, He said, My son, God shall provide himself
a lamb for burnt offering. That doesn't just mean that God
is going to send a lamb down and say, now you go do it. It means the lamb that God is
going to send is God. God providing himself a lamb.
God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing
their trespasses unto them. Christ Jesus is the express image
of the Father's person. He's the glory of the Father,
the brightness of Jehovah's glory. He created everything. He's God.
Now, the Scripture says the church of God is the church which God
purchased with His own blood. That's what the Scriptures say.
The church of God which He purchased with His own blood. Now, starting
in the garden, way back there in the garden, God started declaring
in the garden, back there in And when Adam fell, he started
declaring the only way to come to him is going to be in a sacrifice.
It's going to be in a sacrifice that dies. The blood's got to
be shed. The life's in the blood. Without
the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. There's
no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of blood. None whatsoever.
First thing God did when He found Adam hiding in the bushes, He
pulled him out of the bushes, brought him out, and He killed
an animal. And he made coats. And he covered
Adam and Eve's nakedness. He declared right there, there
is no coming to God unless somebody dies in your place. Unless you
are covered with the covering of that one who died. And then
Abel. Abel came to God. He came in
the blood of a lamb. In the blood of a lamb. And God
declared right there, when Abel came in the blood of that lamb,
He declared there is no way you are coming to God except through
the blood of a lamb. And all down through the Old
Covenant, all the way down through the Old Covenant, God is just
lamb slain, lamb slain, lamb slain, bulls, bullocks and goats,
blood, blood, blood, blood. When I see the blood, when I
see the blood, no entrance into God without life or a life. No way. What I'm saying to you
is you've got to die. How am I going to get to God?
You've got to die. Well, how can I die and live? That's what
I'm trying to tell you. That's the good news. There's
a way. How can God have mercy on me
and be just? How in the world can God forgive
me and still be just if He can't forgive a sinner? That's what
I'm trying to tell you. This is the mystery of mysteries
right here. This is the mystery that was hidden in God from the
foundation of the world. All through those ages. But let
me tell you something about those lambs. Not one of those animals
that were offered ever pleased God. Not one of them. Our text says it pleased God
to bruise Him. But not one of those animals
that were slain from the garden all the way until He did away
with it, not one of them ever pleased God. Not one. They never
propitiated God. They never satisfied God. They
never made atonement to divine justice. Never, ever, ever. Look
here, Hebrews 10. Hebrews 10.1. For the law, he's talking about
the law with all those sacrifices were offered. They had a shadow
of good things to come. There was a shadow, there was
a picture, there were types, but not the very image of the
things. They can never with those sacrifices,
never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually
make the comers there unto perfect. For then would they not have
ceased to be offered, because that the worshippers once purged
should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices
there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For
it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should
take away sins." Now God just told you what that was about.
He just said there what that was about. It was a picture.
God said, let me draw you a picture. I'm going to draw you a picture.
I'm going to use a whole nation. And I'm going to use a people.
And I'm going to set forth a law and a system under this covenant
of works. And I'm going to make them bring
a lamb. And I'm going to draw you a picture and make it plain
for you so they can run and read it and can preach it to you and
say, now here's the picture. You've got to come with a lamb.
You can't come without blood. But none of those ever made... Those weren't the image. Those
weren't the real thing. That was just a picture. Now
look here. Now pay close attention to this
part. Wherefore, when He, this is God's
own Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, when He cometh into the world,
He said, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not. You weren't
pleased with those, but a body hast thou prepared me. Christ
is God providing Himself a Lamb for His people. In burnt offerings
and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. See that word
pleasure? Thou hast had no pleasure. It
pleased the Lord to bruise him. But in sacrifices and offerings
under that old covenant, he had no pleasure in those. Then said
I, Lo, I come. In the volume of the book it
is written of me. All I think prophecy is about
signs and wonders. No, it is about Christ. In the
volume of the book it is written of me. I think all those types
and shadows are to teach us moral lessons. No, they're not. In
the volume of the book it's written of me. I think the laws teach
me how hard to live. The laws teach you that you're
a sinner guilty in need of this one of whom the law is written
about. That's what this book's about. Look here. Lo, I come
to do thy will, O God. Because you couldn't do it and
I couldn't do it. He's the only one that could do it. I pre-finished
preaching, was it last week, I believe, I finished that message,
Beware, and I talked about Galatians 3, about how once you begin in
the Spirit, you don't go back to the law or whatever. I got
home, and I get this all the time, and I got home, somebody
sent me that email, and it just said one thing, antinomian. That's all it said. Anti-law. I'll tell you how far
the law I am. I'll tell you just how how in
favor of the law I am. It is holy and it is just and
it is good. And there is not a sinner on
the top side of this earth before conversion or after conversion
that has ever of themselves been able to keep that law perfectly,
in perfect righteousness and perfect holiness. God sent Christ
to do His will. If you could have kept it, He
wouldn't have sent Him. He would have sent you. he sent him to
do his will. That's right. I got one word
from whoever sent that email to me. Anti-Christ. I'd rather
be anti-law than anti-Christ. I'm for the law. I'm talking
about the only one who could fulfill it. I'm talking about
the one who did fulfill it. Fulfilled it full. Every giant
tittle. And I'm in good company because
they accused him of being against the law. That's why he made that
statement. I'm in good company. They've accused Paul of being
against the law. That's right. I don't think you can preach
the gospel until they've caused you being against the law. Ah, that first Adam sinned in
the garden. Let me tell you what this last Adam did. That first
Adam sinned in the garden. This last Adam, he did an earthly
work. He had a lot of work to do on
this earth, and the time came. And this is what he said. He
said, Now is my soul troubled. He said, Now is my soul. He made
his soul an offering for sin. He said, Now is my soul troubled.
And what shall I say? Father saved me from this hour,
but for this cause came I unto this hour. You know where he
was headed? To a garden. He was going to
a garden. The first Adam sinned in a garden.
The last Adam who knew no sin went to a garden to be made sin.
for his people. And he said, now is my soul troubled.
He made his soul an offering to God. Under the old covenant,
that sinner came with a spotless lamb. He came to the high priest
and he came with a spotless lamb. It had to be without blemish,
without spot, because the sacrifice has got to be perfect. It has
got to be a spotless lamb, a perfect lamb, one without any sin whatsoever
in him. And he came with this spotless
lamb and he confessed his sin. He confessed His sins. He confessed
His rottenness. He confessed His nothingness
because He needed to be represented in this Lamb. Christ Jesus came. He had no sin of His own to confess. He is righteous and holy, through
and through, perfectly holy. And He came there not to offer
a Lamb, to offer Himself. He came to be the Lamb. And He
came into that garden to offer himself to God without spot,
to be the Lamb, to be the spotless Lamb with a fit sacrifice to
make his soul an offering for sin. And under that old covenant
in type, in type, in picture, not the very image of the things,
in type and in picture, there was a transference that took
place. The sin of Israel was put on the Lamb of sacrifice.
God took the sin of His people and put it on the Lamb in type
and in picture. But with the express image, the
Lord hath laid on Him, the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity
of all those He put in Christ before the world began. That's
who the of us all are. He bare the sins of many. He
bare the sins of all God's elect. He bare their iniquities, Isaiah
53 says. Eric, put that Bible down just
a minute. Put that Bible on that chair
right there. I'm going to charge you with, you're bearing that
Bible. I'm going to account that you're bearing that Bible. That's
not an accurate accounting, is it? You're not bearing it. Pick
it up. Now, I account that you are bearing
that Bible. Now you're bearing it. When you're
bearing something, you're bearing the weight of it. When you're
bearing something, you're bearing it. You're holding it up. You're
bearing it. It's on you. It's on your shoulder.
And you're bearing up under it. He, his own self, bear our sins
in his own body on the tree. That's why he said he came back
today when they were praying there in the garden. He came
back and he said, my soul is exceedingly troubled. unto death. You see, unless he was God the
Son, he couldn't have bore up under, if he was just a man and
had the sin of all his people laid on him, he couldn't have
bore up under that. But he's God the Son. And even
this one who says, as powerful and as strong as he is, he says,
my soul is exceedingly sorrowful unto death. Sweat came out of his pores.
That wasn't a picture. That wasn't a figure. That wasn't
any as if. Sweat came out of his pores. And under that old covenant in
type, the lamb was then fit to be slain and its blood poured
out. That was a type. That was a picture. It was fit to be slain, to be
killed, and its blood was poured out. After Christ said that,
he came back to those apostles in the Garden of Gethsemane and
he says, Rise, let us be going. Behold, he is at hand that betrayeth
me. He was in full control of everything
that was taking place. Jesus, therefore, knowing all
things that should come upon him, went forth and said unto
them, Whom seek ye? And those wicked hands did what
God determined before to be done. And I don't care about that physical
stuff they did to him. We're not talking about that
today. We're talking about him making his soul an offering for
sin. And they did all that that they
did that God had determined before to be done. Yet, it pleased the
Lord to bruise him. Bruise. This word bruise is a
word that we can't plumb the depth of this word. Bruise. If
you try to throw a line out and just keep
letting her go down until she reached the bottom. You can't
get to the bottom on this. Bruised him. Unimaginable. Inexpressible. Unsearchable. Bruised him. He justly put him
to grief. He came to declare the righteousness
of God. And when God dealt with His Son,
He dealt with His Son justly. And God justly bruised him. He bruised him. And he cried
out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? You reckon
when God throws men into hell, you reckon he's going to treat
them as if they were guilty? He wasn't treated as if he was
the guilty one. forsaken. He bore the hail on that tree,
that living death. He bore that living death, that
worm that never dies. He bore it on the tree in the
room instead of His people. He tread the winepress of the
fury of the wrath of God all by Himself. Nobody to sympathize
with Him. Nobody to soothe Him. There was
opposition the whole time, but nobody with him. No positive,
all negative. He never in himself uttered a
vain word. He never in himself uttered a
reproachful word. He never in himself uttered an
angry word. He remained faithful to God.
That blood of that Lamb under that Old Covenant had to be completely
poured out because it was the life. And what Isaiah 53 says,
it says, He hath poured out His soul unto death. He not only
made His soul an offering for sin, He poured out His soul unto
death. He poured out every drop of blood
until there was no life in it. He poured out His life. That's
what He poured out. And He cried, It is finished. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him. What does that mean? What does
that mean, it pleased the Lord to bruise him? Look, you're still
in Hebrews 10. Here's what it means. Hebrews
10.10, By the witch will, by his will,
by his doing the will of God, we, all those for whom he died,
we, are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once. And every priest stands daily
ministering on offering oftentimes the same sacrifice, not just
one, a bunch of sacrifices which can never take away sin. But
this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever
sat down on the right hand of God from henceforth expect until
his enemies be made his footstool. For it pleased the Lord to bruise
him. For by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified." Every child of Adam that God
chose before the foundation of the world and sanctified by divine
election, every child that shall be sanctified by the Holy Spirit
in the new birth and brought to faith in Christ, every single
one of them were sanctified by Christ's one offering on the
cross. Now, brethren, now, now, by doing so, He satisfied God. And now God can say to you and
me who He's brought to believe on Him, He can say to you, I
don't remember your sin anymore. The scapegoat took all the sin
of all Israel. He took all their sins and their
trespasses. It just goes on and on about
the sin that was heaped up on the scapegoat. And He took it
away into a land not inhabited. Christ took all the sin of His
people and He went into the grave with all the sin of His people.
He went into that land not inhabited where no life lives. He went
there to that grave and took all those sins off and
left them there. And a fit man came out of that
grave. and rose to the Father. And the
high priest entered into the holiest of holies with his own blood where he sat
down to ever live to make intercession for his people. And God says,
I'm satisfied with my people. It's done. It's accomplished.
He's put away sin. He made an end of sin. He made
an end of sin. An end of sin. For everybody? Nope, just for his people. You
think God will punish one of them again? You think God's going
to pour out justice on one of them for whom Christ died after
Christ willingly did that and satisfied God and pleased God? You think God's going to pour
out wrath on one of those children for whom Christ died? Of course
He's not. Did you see how just He was in
how He put away their sins? You see how righteous he was
in the way he put away their sin? There's no way he would
unjustly turn around and charge one of them again. But they're
lost. But they're under the condemnation, the wrath of God. They're walking
around hell-deserving sinners. They're walking around rebels
against God. I won't get to it. I'm not going to be able to get
to it. But you know what the next thing says, the reason it pleased
God? He shall see his seed. He shall prolong days. God the
Father looked at His Son after He did what He did and He said,
This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. He saw His
seed. He saw Christ, His only begotten
Son. And He brought Him out of that
grave. He prolonged His days. And now the Lord Jesus Christ
shall see all His seed. Because when He arose, His seed
arose in Him. And when He sat down, they sat
down in Him. And He sees His seed. And he's
calling his seed out. And the pleasure of the Lord
shall prosper in his hand. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him, and now it pleased the Lord to call them all out, to call
them to faith, to call them to Christ's footstool and make them
bow before Christ in faith and to bring them to glory with him
forever. And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in Christ's
hand. There will not be a single child for whom Christ died that
will not be brought to faith in Christ. That's right. I believe God is able to do exceedingly
abundantly more than we can ever ask or think. I believe that
God will bring his children to himself because Christ is put
into his hand and he cannot fail. He cannot fail. If you'll go
back sometime and read Isaiah 53 and just read the shalls and
the wills in there. There's no maybes in there. It's
shall. And he shall see his seed. He shall prolong days. The pleasure
of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall see the travail
of his soul and be satisfied. For by his knowledge my righteous
servant shall justify many. For he shall bear their iniquities. I shall divide him a portion
with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong.
There are no maybes in there. He goes into Isaiah 54 and he
says, now you spread forth your tent stakes, you spread forth
your, he said, you add some extra wings on the church building,
you're about to need them because I'm fixing to call my people
in. They're not just elect people among Israel, they're elect people
among the Gentiles and I'm calling them all in. An innumerable number
that no man can even count. He told Abraham more than the
stars in the sky. And he didn't only make that
promise to Abraham, He made that promise to Christ. And you know
what He said in Galatians 3? He said this, He was made a curse
for us. He redeemed us from the curse,
being made a curse for us, that the promise of Abraham, that
same promise He made to Abraham might come on the Gentiles, that
we might receive the Spirit, the promise of the Spirit through
faith. He laid down his life because God promised him, you're
going to see your seed and prolong their days. They're going to
be brought to, regenerated and brought to faith in Christ. And
Christ said, I'm going to lay down my life for them. God's
going to bring that promise to pass. All right, brethren. Amen.