Good evening, let's stand and
begin this evening's worship service by singing a 140 out
of your softback, 140. Behold the savior of mankind. Hold the Savior of mankind, nailed
to the shameful tree. Oh, bless the love that Him inclined
to bleed and die for me. For cow he groans while nature
shakes And earth's strong pillars bend The temple veil in thunder
breaks And solid marble rends Has done the precious ransoms
paid? Receive my soul, he cries. See how he bows his sacred head. He bows his head and dies. But soon he'll break the siren
chain, and in full glory shine. O Lamb of God, was ever pain,
was ever love like thine? Thank you. Good evening. I'm going to read from 1 Peter
chapter 2. 1 Peter chapter 2, and I'm going
to pick up in verse 18 and read to the end of the chapter. Our study tonight is looking
at Isaiah 53, and towards the end of this chapter, We see that
Peter was greatly affected by what our Lord accomplished as
described there in Isaiah chapter 53. So let's pick up in verse
18. Servants, be subject to your
masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also
to the froward. For this is thankworthy if a
man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it if when
ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? But
if when ye do well and suffer for it, ye take it patiently,
this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called,
because Christ also suffered for us. leaving us an example
that ye should follow his steps. Who did no sin, neither was guile
found in his mouth. Who when he was reviled, reviled
not again. When he suffered, he threatened
not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.
Who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree. that we being dead to sins should
live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye
were a sheep going astray, but are now returned unto the shepherd
and bishop of your souls. Let's pray. Our gracious Lord,
we thank you, Father, for your mercy and your grace to gather
us together tonight to hear your word. to see our Savior, to consider
what He did for us in laying down His life and going to the
cross for us who have no righteousness of our own, and that He went
there as our substitute, as our surety, bearing our sins to pay
our debts. Lord, we thank you that It pleased
you to bruise him. It pleased you to send your son
and to spare him not for us, that we should be made the righteousness
of God and our savior, who's faithful, holy, just and unblameable
and perfect in all his ways. Thank you, Lord. Help us to indeed
behold you and see our Savior more and more gloriously with
hearts of thankfulness and love toward him. And Lord, we thank
you for your people. We thank you for all those who've
gathered here this evening and for those who've gathered into
this body. And Lord, we pray for those who
are sick and not feeling well. Lord, we ask that your spirit
would be upon your people that You would heal their sicknesses
and their infirmities, that You would carry their griefs and
their sorrows and the burdens that they have. Lord, that we
may lean upon the breast of our Savior, that we may rest upon
You, Lord, for You are faithful and strong and mighty and gracious. And Lord, we're so weak, so little,
so puny, Lord, how desperate we are for your grace and mercy.
We ask that you would indeed pour out your spirit upon us,
that you would warm our hearts and excite our minds for the
Lord, our savior. We pray that you would be with
us tonight, that your spirit would be poured out upon us,
that you would fill our hearts with joy and love and thankfulness
for all that you've done for us. It's in the name of our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ, we pray this, amen. Let's sing 139. as on the cross of Christ, I
thought, 139. As on the cross of Christ I thought,
it seemed I heard one cry. Is all this nothing in your eyes? You knew this day passed by. Is not such suffering greater
than that which you've seen before? And was there ever any man who
grieved or suffered more? I looked again, and what I saw
I cannot fully tell. It seemed within his very bones
there raged the fire of hell. What caused you grief, I asked
the man, what crimes could you have done? That God, Jehovah,
struck you down and left you all alone. His answer cut my heart like
steel and left me void of breath. Tis for your sins this pain I
feel, for you I go to death. Your soul before my Father's
throne could find no place to hide. This is the way God can
be just and you'll be justified. Jehovah's mercies never fail,
each morning they are new. Great is His faithfulness, and
love therefore were not consumed. Jehovah God in Christ the Son
shall all my poor should be. My soul shall therefore wait
for Him and live eternally. Thank you. Good evening. Take your Bibles and turn with
me to Isaiah chapter 53. Isaiah 53 and I want to look
at verses 1 through 5 with you this evening. This whole chapter
of Isaiah here is a glorious testament to our gods. great ability to accomplish His
will and purpose in His Son, and that too, to save a people
whom He loves and whom He chose for Himself before the foundation
of the world. And it's His ability to glorify
the Son, to glorify His name and to glorify Him in our hearts,
to exalt Him and to extol Him in our hearts. And so when we
look at this chapter, I believe you'd readily agree that this
chapter comes behind no other chapter. If you look at all the
greatest chapters, this one comes behind none of them. It's wonderful. It's glorious. It describes our
Savior. It describes His sufferings. what He accomplished for you
who believe Him in His sufferings, in His death, and it describes
His resurrection and the glory that should follow His accomplished
salvation for His people. Our Lord here came for the purpose
of being our surety, He came to be our surety, to pay the
debt that you and I cannot pay. We ran it up, we ran it up with
our sin and our folly and our foolishness, but Christ, as a
faithful husband, faithful God, faithful Savior for you that
He loves, He came as your surety. as your substitute, and sacrificed
himself to the Father, to atone for our sins, to put away our
sin forever, that we might stand before our God, accepted of Him,
received by Him, in the blood of Jesus Christ His Son." When
the Jews saw Christ and we're speaking to him it says in John
chapter 6 verse 28 what shall we do that we might work the
works of God man is always looking to see what he can do to do that
which only God can do and that is the answer to that question
what can we do nothing nothing we can do nothing in doing the
works of God. God must do the works of God,
and he did them in Jesus Christ, our God and Savior. Christ being
the Son of God, as our Savior, willingly came and accomplished
eternal redemption for all His people scattered throughout the
world, Jew and Gentile. There's one Savior, one salvation,
it's the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's to whom our hearts are
directed. And that's to whom our hearts
are directed in this chapter. and to whom the Spirit turns
our hearts and our minds and our thoughts upon Christ, because
He alone is salvation. There is no salvation in any
other. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. And
we know that because He accomplished that in His salvation for His
people. Having accomplished our salvation
and being raised again from the dead, He received gifts ascension
gifts, which he freely gives to his people, in pouring out
the Holy Ghost, who seeks you out, you whom he loves from eternity,
and separates you unto the hearing of this gospel, making you to
hear this word, to see Christ, to be brought to his obedience,
and behold your Savior, how He loves you, His people, how He
laid down His life for you and took it up again and so took
your life as well, gave you life in Himself. And we live now in
our Lord and Savior, having a new birth, a spiritual birth that
we may know Him and believe Him and trust Him and follow Him
all the days of our lives. This is what our Savior has done
for us. I've titled this message, The Glorious Report. The Glorious
Report. Now at the end of chapter 52,
look there at verse 15. We read, So shall he sprinkle
many nations. That's the blood of our Savior,
sprinkling many nations. by his death, the nations were
sprinkled, his people in those nations were sprinkled with his
blood. The kings shall shut their mouths at him, for that which
had not been told them shall they see, and that which they
had not heard shall they consider. Now some have not been told and
have not heard, And what it's speaking of is the gospel of
Jesus Christ. They've not heard it. It's not
been told them. Yet there are some who shall
see and some who shall consider. And what that means is that salvation
is all a work of grace. Because many hear and don't see,
and many are called but don't consider and don't understand.
They just disregard what they've heard. And so what the Lord's
saying is a man can hear the good news and not hear it, not
believe it, not receive it. But where the spirit of God is
concerned in the hearts of his people, he makes that word effectual
in our hearts. It's all a work of grace, all
the work of grace obtained for us by the Lord Jesus Christ. who gave himself for you. And
so we see then it must be grace because who believes this report? Who believes the gospel? That's what the prophet asks
in verse 1. Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the
arm of the Lord revealed? The arm is Jesus Christ. The arm of God is Jesus Christ. And what that means is He's the
servant whom God sent, whom the Father sent. He sent the Son,
the Son of God, to do this work which God has purposed to do
for His people. He sent His Son. And so He is,
as the servant, the arm of the Lord. And this report concerns
Him. concerns who he is and what he
accomplished. And the prophet asks, who hath
believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed? To who is it made known? Because
there is a people who see, they will see. And there is a people
who will consider, even though many a man has heard and not
heard and looked and not believed these things. And so this is
about the blood. This report concerns the blood
of Christ, which sprinkles the nations. That's what we're looking
at here in this chapter. And so this glorious chapter,
what it does is it provides a very detailed description of what
our Savior suffered under the mighty hand of Almighty God. It shows us what He accomplished
in His sufferings and the glory of our Savior for doing the will
of God His Father perfectly, perfectly. You know, had Isaiah
been alive I don't know that he could have described it any
more clear than if he had seen it there in the flesh in that
day which many Jews saw themselves. Isaiah saw it. He saw and understood
what the Savior was suffering, what the Savior was accomplishing. And so what we see here, the
reason why I'm going through these verses and the way that
I'm approaching it tonight is because Isaiah just takes us
right through the life of our Lord and our Savior. And he begins
with the birth, with the coming of our Lord. And we see how it's
a lowly birth, one that is not esteemed by men, not regarded
by men. Look at verse two. For he shall
grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a
dry ground, he hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall
see him there is no beauty that we should desire him. Now before
the Lord our God Jesus Christ, His Son, is precious. He's tender. He's precious to our God. And when Christ came, His beginning
in the flesh, His beginning there in the flesh, it seemed very
small and very insignificant. And when the Jews looked upon
Him, according to their own fleshly understanding, it was something
easy to disregard. But the Father sent His Son to
accomplish that fruitful work of redemption. That work that
will bear much fruit. You think of the offspring of
our Savior. How many are His children which
are born of Him. of what he's accomplished, him
being the seed that died in that ground and brought forth much
fruit, perfection, according to the will of our God. And so
Christ is most precious to his father. You know, he said back
in verse 13 of chapter 52, he said, my servant shall deal prudently,
meaning he shall prosper. He shall prosper in the thing
which I have sent him to do. And so the Lord delights to show
his glory and power in these things which man disregards and
counts as a small thing or as nothing. God delights to show
his glory and his power in that. Turn over to Luke chapter three.
Luke chapter three. And we're gonna look at verse
one and two. Just notice all the names and
their positions of authority that are mentioned here in this
verse. But then notice whom the Lord sends his word to. It says,
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius
Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being Tetrarch of Galilee,
his brother Philip is also a Tetrarch in another region, Iteria, and
then there's Lysanias the Tetrarch of Abilene. There's five men
so far that are great rulers among the people. And then we
see in verse 2, Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests. What
happened? The word of God came unto John
the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. God passed all those men of great
stature and pomp and high among the view of the people. He bypasses
all of them and sends his word to John, a man out in the wilderness,
a man wearing leather and eating locusts and honey. A man despised
by the people himself. So our Lord delights to show
his glory in the things that man despises and passes by. Now, we see another thing here
that Isaiah brings out concerning him being a root out of a dry
ground. Certainly we see the nod which
is given to David, because Christ is born of the lineage of David. This goes back to Isaiah 11 verse
1. And there shall come forth a
rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of
his roots. But what does this dry ground
mean? What does this dry ground mean? What we understand from that
and what we know is that a dry ground is a symbol of a man who
has no seed, no mobile seed, no seed to give birth to a child. And Christ comes forth out of
a dry ground, meaning that he's not born of a father, of a man. A man is not his father. He's
not born of the seed of Adam. Instead, we know that he's born
of the seed of woman, as promised there in the garden, that he
was formed in Mary's womb when she was overshadowed with the
Holy Ghost, so that what was conceived in her womb was of
the Lord by his mighty power. And so that's why what Isaiah
is saying there is he's not born, he has no earthly father. And
so even though his birth was miraculous, we find that God
hid that from the understanding of the people. So that we see
there in verse two, that Christ had no form nor comeliness, and
when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire
him. And then he says in verse three,
he's despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief. And we hid as it were our faces
from him. He was despised and we esteemed
him not. One of the reasons why Christ
is so despised by the people and why he's rejected by the
people is because when he came, he was very lowly in appearance,
very humble in appearance. He wasn't much to look at and
not that charismatic person that you would get behind. And certainly
he was opposed to all that the Jewish rulers stood for. so they're
looking at him and they're scrutinizing him and they're noticing who
does this guy have around him who are the people that the Lord
even has in his inner circle and they looked and noticed well
these are fishermen from Galilee and he has a publican that follows
along with him and look at that guy he's a zealot look at these
people and these women and one's a harlot And you look at the
people that went around with Christ and they weren't considered
people of any rank or importance. And so when men looked upon Christ,
men in the flesh, according to the flesh, they looked upon him
as a man of sorrows and one acquainted with grief. So that they looked
at him and said, that man is best to be avoided. There's gonna
be trouble with him. People are going to one day get
him to be king, and then they're going to go up against Rome,
and Rome's going to get involved, and they're going to crush this
rebellion. Just stay away from him. Don't have anything to do
with him. And we read there that we hid,
as it were, our faces from him. Now if you have a King James
Bible and you have a center reference, I think it's number four there,
it says there, it could be translated that he hid as it were his face
from us. He hid as it were his face from
us. And what would that signify? If that could be translated that
way, what does that mean? It means that He was hid from
our eyes so that we didn't see Him. We didn't recognize Him.
We didn't understand who He was and why He came in the flesh
and what He was accomplishing. So that when we looked upon Him,
we didn't see the glory in Him. We didn't see what He was doing. We didn't trust Him. We didn't
believe Him. We didn't wait upon Him or call
upon Him. We didn't understand what the
Lord was doing with this man. The Jews were expecting an earthly
kingdom. And so when it became very clear
to them that there was gonna be no earthly kingdom and that
that wasn't what Christ was doing, they abandoned him and they left
him. That's the conclusion Judas came to is, what am I doing here? This ain't working out. And many
people forsook him and cried out, crucify him, crucify him,
put him to death. so men turned from Christ and
our Lord hid his face from them. Why? To accomplish his purpose
in redeeming his people. Just as we've read a few times
in 1st Corinthians 2.8 that none of the princes of this world
knew for had they known it they would not have crucified the
Lord of glory. If you knew he was Christ would you have crucified
him? If you understood that He was
the true and living God by whom you are created, would you have
crucified the Savior? No. And so He was hid from our
eyes and from our understanding that He would go by the determinate
will and counsel of God to that cross for His people. And so we see how Christ hid
himself from the people and we see how the people hid their
faces from him. Turn over to John 12 and you'll
see that. John 12 and go to verse 36. It says, John 12, 36, while ye
have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of
light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself
from them. But though he had done so many
miracles before them, yet they believed not on him, that the
saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he
spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath
the arm of the Lord been revealed. So we see Christ hiding himself
from man and we see man hiding himself from Christ. He did not
believe upon him. So with all his works and all
his miracles that he did among the people by the power of God,
doing the will of God for his people, we read that our Lord
was despised and we esteemed him not. In other words, man
frittered away the light that he had, as it says in verse 36,
while he had the light, believe in the light, believe it, and
they didn't. They hid from him. And so what
does all this confirm for us? It confirms exactly what our
God teaches us in his word, throughout his word, of our great need. How that by nature we are enmity
against the true and living God. And we hate him. And we war against
him, and we despise him and his Christ, and we won't hear him.
We won't have him to reign over us. We want to do our own thing. We want to do our own works and
follow our own will. And we want to be like God, just
like Adam. Because we're fallen and vile,
corrupt, and we come forth dead in trespasses and in sins. It's not about persuading men
with these words. It's not about trying to persuade
men to do that which a man can do in the flesh because no man
will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. We declare it and God
reveals His will and purpose in the hearts of His people by
giving them light and life and faith to look to the Lord Jesus
Christ. We preach this word, we declare
this report because it's by the grace of God that He conquers
the heart, that He subdues the wild heart of our nature, takes
out that wild heart, takes out that heart of stone and gives
a heart of flesh that hears Him. that believes Him, that loves
Him, that hungers and thirsts for His righteousness. So the
Lord's teaching us here that by nature we're not going to
save ourselves. We're not going to do what is
good and right and pleasing to the Lord because we'll never
look to Christ. and looking to Christ is what
pleases God. And he works that by his grace
in the hearts of whom he will. To look away from self and away
from the filth and the dead works that we do and to look to his
son, Jesus Christ, whom he sent to do all that work. and did
it perfectly and gloriously in himself. Our Lord said, I am
the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not
walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. That's not
of this flesh. That's all of Christ. But man
doesn't want to come to the light because why? Because his deeds
are filthy. And he doesn't want to walk into
the light where every crevice and every crack and every foul
thing will be exposed by the light of God. And he'll stand
there being reproved of God in his nakedness. And so that's
why man doesn't want to come to the Lord. And therefore man
despises Christ and esteems him not. He hides himself from him
and puts him away. But that brings us to verse four
and five. Notwithstanding what we are in
nature, notwithstanding our despising of Him and our unbelief, we read
verse four, surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem Him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted. What our Savior did was He took
upon Him our likeness, the likeness of sinful man. Yet, He Himself
is without sin, without stain, the stain and guilt of sin, the
shame of sin. Without that blemish, He's perfect. And He came in the flesh to feel
those sinless weaknesses that we have, those weaknesses that
we have that aren't sinful. He feels our pain. He knows what
it is to feel hunger and thirst. He knows what it is to be despised
and hated and shamefully treated. He knows what it is to feel sickness
and disease and horror because He took those things to Himself. unto himself as a high priest
that he might be touched with the feeling of our infirmities."
Hebrews 4.15 So he felt sorrow, and he felt grief, and he bore
that which gives us sorrow, and troubles us, and grieves us,
and pains us. He took that to Himself as our
High Priest, as our sacrifice, and He, as our Great Physician,
healed our physical diseases. He healed our physical infirmities
and diseases. Matthew wrote it that way. In
Matthew 8, verses 16 and 17, We read that when evening was
come, when it was getting dark, they brought unto Christ many
that were possessed with devils, and he cast out the spirits with
his word, and he healed all that were sick. He took that infirmity
of their sickness to himself, that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, himself took our infirmities
and bear our sicknesses. That's from Isaiah 53.4. But
not only was it our bodily diseases that he took, not only did he
feel all that pain and sorrow and grief in the physical diseases
and infirmities, He also cured that deadly disease that we have
of sin and death, which we cannot cure ourselves of. And that he did by the sacrifice
of himself for our sin, and bearing our sin in his own body for his
people, the sins of his people, and made satisfaction for our
sins by his sacrifice. He made satisfaction, meaning
God forgives all our iniquities, all our trespasses, all our sins
against him who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. All his people
look to the Lord Jesus Christ and he made satisfaction for
our sins there on the tree. And so the griefs and the sorrows
that he bore was for his chosen people. for whose sin he bore
in their place, taking their punishment. And Peter writes
of it that way. It says in 1 Peter 2.24, who
his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree. And he had that Isaiah 53 verse
four right there when he wrote that. And so we see how that
Christ bore our infirmities and our diseases, not the least of
which, but was our sin, that disease and that infirmity which
we could not take away. Christ took it away and all the
while he did that we despised him and we esteemed him not.
Nevertheless, he came and did that for you who he loves, who
could not free ourselves. And so Christ was there making
satisfaction unto God as the surety of his people. And Isaiah
records that when we looked at that, we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted. We thought he was getting what
he deserved. We thought that he was, that
God had forsaken him. But in reality, he was stricken
and smitten of God and afflicted for us, for you his people that
believe him. That's why he was stricken and
smitten and afflicted. And so the prophet tells us further
in verse 5, Isaiah 53, 5. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him. And with His stripes, we are
healed. And so this is, we see in all
this suffering, this is what our Lord, as the Lamb of God,
as the sacrifice for His people, this is what He was coming, this
is what He came to accomplish, and what He accomplished for
His people. He made an atonement. He made
a covering for our sin. And he took those sins and...
went to that tree, to the cross, and there was crushed under the
weight of those sins, under the weight of the punishment, under
the vindictive wrath of God, which was our do, Christ took
it. He bore that as our substitute,
to pay that debt, to put it away, to carry it away as those sins
which were laid upon the scapegoat that took it off into the wilderness.
So our sins were laid upon Christ, and He carried them away, forever
gone, out of sight, never to be seen again. And Christ, He
accomplished that, and your sins are gone before God, because
Christ put them away, and His blood covers all our sins so
that we will not answer for our sins, Christ answered for them. We will not be punished for our
sins, Christ was punished for the sins of His people. And so
all that believe on Christ, the guilt of our sins is removed
by Him, and we go free. We go free in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Because God poured out, God was
pleased to pour out His holy justice upon His Son. That He
spared Him not, that we would be spared, and that we would
go free in Him. Now, there's one part of that
verse five that really catches my eye. It's the last phrase
where it says, and with his stripes, we are healed. That word stripes
is actually the word bruise. That really is the word bruise.
And what it has in mind there is that black and blue mark. The black and blue mark that
you get when you get a bruise. And what's happening there in
that bruise? That's where all the blood is being gathered together. That's where the blood is gathered
together and settles, right there. And what is that a picture of?
Every mark, every stroke, every beating that our Savior took
by the punishment of God for our sins, His blood gathers there
and covers it and protects you. So that you don't feel the stroke
and you don't feel the punishment. Because His blood is gathered
together at the mark where our sin is and covers it. So that
we go free from the punishment of our God. Do you see how precious
the blood of Christ is? Do you see how precious and gracious
and loving and kind our Savior is? We're off just thumbing our
nose at Him and despising Him. How He did all that work while
we were yet enemies of God. And gave His life while we were
undeserving sinners. And had no thought of Him. Yet
Christ laid down His life in such love and mercy. When you
read 1 Peter 2.24, the whole of that verse, he says it again,
who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
that we being dead to sin should live under righteousness. And
look, by whose stripes or whose bruises ye were healed. So every time you see those words,
just remember the blood. The blood was gathered there.
to cover your sins and rejoice. Give glory to God for what your
Savior, the great, wonderful physician did who heals our infirmities
by taking them to himself to put them all away, to put them
all away that we might have forgiveness in him and now have life in him. So the prophet asks, who hath
believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed? It's revealed to you that are
sinners, that you who have no righteousness and no means of
obtaining any righteousness for yourselves, who have no atonement,
no covering that you've made, but it's for you that look to
Christ, that look to the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Savior
of your sins, who is the Savior of you who put away your sins,
because He came for sinners. And so his people know I'm the
sinner. I'm the guilty vile one deserving
of hell. But Christ took that punishment.
He bore that wrath of God that I might go free in him. His blood
has sprinkled upon me and covers me and sets me free in him. And so we hear that report and
we believe it and say, what a glorious report. Thank you, Lord Jesus
Christ. And we know that because of the
Spirit, that ascension gift which He received for His people and
pours it out upon you whereby you hear the report and it's
more than just silly words to you, it's life, it's joy, it's
peace and gladness with our God. And so you that believe Him and
look to the Savior, bless the name of your God, bless your
Lord, be thankful to Him and rejoice in Him evermore. Look to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Look to Him, for God is merciful to all who come to Him in the
blood of Christ, trusting Christ and Christ alone. Not for what
you've done, trusting the Lord Jesus Christ. And He receives
and forgives them for Christ's sake. That, brethren, is the
glorious report. Amen. Let's close in prayer. Our gracious Lord, we thank you,
Father, for such a wonderful, glorious report of what our Savior
has done for us. Lord, we see how humble you are,
how you came in lowliness and took the despising of the people
and the rejection of the people, hiding yourself for some greater
purpose. Rather than justifying yourselves
to those men there in that day, you hid your face that you should
go to the cross as the sacrifice to save many, to forgive many,
that many should be justified by your blood and your righteousness.
Lord, help us every time we read this chapter, every time we see
those words that with your stripes, with your bruise, Lord, we are
healed, that we would remember the blood of our Savior who took
it and bore those stripes that you would cover us with your
blood. Thank you, Lord. We thank you
so much, Lord. We fail to give sufficient thanks,
but we thank you that your grace is sufficient for us. Lord, bless
your people. It's in the name of our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Let's stand and sing a closing
hymn, 105. He surrendered all, 105. All for me Christ did surrender,
all for me he freely gave. Only one made sin for sinners,
by his death my soul he saved. ? He surrendered all ? He surrendered
all ? All to be my blessed Savior ? He surrendered all Coming from his throne in heaven,
Jesus laid his glory by. Thus the sinner is forgiven,
and shall soon be glorified. ? He surrendered all ? He surrendered
all ? All to be my blessed Savior ? He surrendered all Into death Christ did surrender,
even death upon the cross. All to save the worst offender,
mind the gain, his all the loss. He surrendered all. He surrendered all. All to be my blessed Saviour,
He surrendered all. that the cross, the Father's
pleasure, prospered well in Jesus' hands. Now he's honored without
measure, so the fathers will demand. He surrendered all. He surrendered all. All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
He surrendered all. Thank you.