A nail in a sure place

Q: What does the Bible say about Jesus being a nail in a sure place?

Jesus is described as a nail in a sure place, signifying His stable and unmovable role in God's covenant and in the salvation of His people. In Isaiah 22:23, the Lord says, 'I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place.' This metaphor illustrates Jesus' unwavering position in the Godhead and His essential role in the covenant of grace. Just as a nail must be secured into a sturdy wall to bear the weight of something valuable, Christ, as the divine Son, is firmly established in the Trinity. His unchangeable nature ensures that He remains our Savior, that His sacrifice is sufficient and secure for our salvation, and that He fulfills every promise and prophecy regarding the redemption of His people.

Q: How do we know that Christ is a type of Eliakim?

Christ is a type of Eliakim in that He carries out the will of the Father and fulfills the roles of leadership and righteousness for His people. Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, serves as a prophetic type of Jesus Christ. In Isaiah 22:20-25, Eliakim is appointed to govern the house of David and is clothed with authority, much like Christ's role as the sovereign King in God’s kingdom. Just as Eliakim was entrusted with the keys of authority, Christ holds the key of David, symbolizing His ultimate authority over life and death. This typology points to Christ's divine mission, illustrating that He was chosen and sent by the Father to secure our salvation, embody righteousness, and lead His people according to God's eternal plan.

Q: Why is understanding the burden laid on Christ important for Christians?

Recognizing the burden of sin that Christ bore is crucial because it assures believers of their redemption and the completeness of their salvation. In Isaiah 22:24, it states, 'They shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house.' This verse emphasizes that Christ bore the weight of the sins of His people, carrying their transgressions on the cross. Understanding this burden is essential for Christians, as it reflects the depth of Christ's sacrifice and its implications for salvation. When we grasp that our sins were laid upon Him, we see clearly that through His suffering and death, He has fully paid the penalty for our sins. Therefore, there is no more judgment for those who believe, and this assurance of salvation transforms our relationship with God, encouraging us to live in gratitude and obedience.

Q: What does it mean that Christ's burden was cut off?

Christ's burden being cut off signifies that He has borne the weight of sin and made atonement for His people through His death. The phrase 'the burden that was upon him shall be cut off' from Isaiah 22:25 reflects the profound truth of Christ's atoning work on the cross. This prophecy foretells that Christ would not just carry our sins but would completely remove them through His sacrifice. When He declared, 'It is finished,' He affirmed that the burden of sin was fully paid, offering complete redemption to all who believe. This act of being 'cut off' reveals the intense suffering He endured for our sake, illustrating the gravity of sin and the extent of God’s love. Thus, when we trust in Christ, it is a promise that our sins are no longer held against us, giving us peace and assurance in His saving grace.

Seeking for the help of the Lord, I direct your prayerful attention to Isaiah chapter 22 and by way of text we'll read verse 23. And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. Isaiah 22 verse 23, but really we read together from verse 20 through to the end of that chapter and it is all speaking of this person that is called Eliakim, the son of Elkiah. This was a prophecy made before the events that happened in Isaiah 36. We read in that chapter how that Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, was over the household. This is in Hezekiah's day, this is in Judah, this is when Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, had already taken the northern kingdoms and was then seeking to take Judah.

It was a Remarkable time, really, in the history of the children of Israel, of Judah, when we think of how wonderfully the Lord appeared for them. Rightly, Rabshakee had come from Sennacherib and had rightly spoken of what they had already done to the nations round about. and how that they had delivered, or those nations had been delivered into their hand. He reminds them, saying, where are the gods of Hamath and Aphad? Where are the gods of Sepharbaim? And have they delivered Samaria out of my hands? It came very close at home, and It seemed really that surely Judah must fall.

And of course it was at this very time that Hezekiah fell sick. Just going two more chapters on with Isaiah 38. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. You'd wonder why it is that the Lord would bring such an enemy against Judah And at the very same time, the captain of their host, their king, is sick unto death, and have almost an impossible, it is a natural impossible situation, where the king of Assyria had already proved himself, how he's able to destroy all those nations, or overtake them, all the way around. And yet the Lord wonderfully appeared for them, The angel of the Lord went forth, slew 185,000 of his army. Then he flees and goes home, and his own children rise up and kill him.

And it must have been such a witness to all the nations around, to the God of Israel, to Hezekiah trusting, which Rhapsody knew, he was saying, how that he recognized that Hezekiah was trying to get the people to trust in the Lord. As in verse 14, Thus said the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us. It said he shall not be delivered into the hand of the King of Assyria, all the time is trying to undermine and take away the hope and trust of God's people.

We need to learn that this is a method of the enemy, of the adversary, to undermine and to take away our hope. There may be those of you here hoping, trusting in the Lord, Relying upon Him, relying upon His Word, thinking what the Lord has already done for you, and there is the enemy, keep on coming in with niggling thoughts, with niggling doubts, and saying, well this shall not happen, and then showing others that this is what's happened to them, and this is what they've had to do. and implying that the same will happen to you, you won't be special, the Lord won't deal any better with you. When you have these accounts of the real history of God's people and God appearing for them, it's a lesson to us as to how the enemy acts, how God's people are to act, how we are to wait upon Him, and how the Lord delivers His people. in very remarkable ways. The enemy will all the time suggest that, well, there's nothing special about you or the church, why the Lord should ever deal with you in mercy or appear for your help. Those are very sacred times when the Lord does show that He deals with us in a way that to others he hasn't dealt with, and makes a real difference between his people and the world, between even what the worldly people will have an expectation of, and what their thoughts will be.

And this is what happened here. And the person in our text, he was a key figure, and there's some beautiful words that are spoken of him, and like him, the son of Hilkiah. He's the one that is hearing all that Rabshakee is speaking against Judah. He's the one that's bringing it to Hezekiah. He's the one with the scribe, with the recorder, and they come into Hezekiah with their clothes rent, telling him the words of Rabshakee. He was a real character, real character, in Hezekiah's kingdom, and those words were no doubt spoken of in the first place to him.

But we must, I believe, look right past, alike in the son of Hilkiah, and look and see a beautiful type of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. It's there that we should always be looking in the Word of God, It's so sad sometimes when you see commentators or see those that speak upon parts of the Word of God and they completely fail to see the Lord Jesus Christ. They're just looking at Him in a historical way, in a natural way, and not viewing that this is given us as pointing to our Lord and really more clearly showing our Lord's sufferings, his sacrifice, what he is to his people and what he has done for them.

So I want to look at four points. Firstly, like him, a type of Christ. Just to look at some of those points where we see our Lord Jesus Christ in this portion, specifically from verse 20 through to verse 25. And then secondly, Christ, a nail in a sure place. And thirdly, what was hung upon Him. And then lastly, Christ, the burden that was cut off, and when Christ lay down His life at Calvary.

Firstly, alike Him, a type of Christ. We'd always remember when we come to times that they will never follow through in every particular. We have many types of crimes throughout the Word of God. Joseph, of course, is one, how that he was sent before to preserve life. And we think of Judah in that same account, being surety for Benjamin.

We think of Jonah, three days and three nights in Wales, Berlin, but not all of Jonah's life, especially running away from the Lord, or Joseph's life, or any other time, follows through exactly. But you get just little parts of their life, or aspects of their work, and it gives us a window into what the Lord Jesus should be like. When David was told by Nathan, or by God, but through Nathan, about Solomon's kingdom, he says, as he sits before the Lord, is this the manner of man, O Lord God? And he could look right past what was being said of Solomon and see this was the manner of Christ and Christ's kingdom.

That is what we need to do when we look at characters like this. So how do we know? In verse 20, we have, it shall come to pass in that day that I will call my servant alike in the son of Hilkiah. Well, our Lord Jesus Christ was called of God, he was sent by the Father, came into this world to do the work that the Father had appointed for him to do and what was agreed to do. So in that sense, we have a type of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In verse 21, and I will clothe him with thy robe, strengthen him with thy girdle. A girdle of strength and the robe, we think of what our Lord was to be for his people as to have a robe of righteousness, this is the name, wherewith he shall be called the Lord our righteousness. Our Lord had a righteousness of his own as God, but he needed to have a righteousness that he could give to another as part of his mission, part of his coming here, that their righteousness is of me. It had to be imparted and given. and that was then given to him. I will commit thy government into his hands. Some of those beautiful prophecies, again in Isaiah, of the coming of the Lord, as the government should be in his hand or upon his shoulders, the ordering of his people and of the church of God.

But especially we see it in verse 22, then the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder, so he shall open and none shall shut, and he shall shut and none shall open. And if we go to the Revelation, we can see there in Revelation 3 in verse 7 what is said to the angel or the pastor of the church in Philadelphia. These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth. And so that is especially applied to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He that was also set forth in the first chapter as being in the midst of the golden candlesticks, the midst of the churches, he that was holding in his hand the angels, the ministers of the churches, he that was the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, this is the Lord Jesus Christ.

So with Eliakim we have this further time that he set forth the key of the house of David. And then we have, I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place. And all that then is set forth of him, what the Lord, what God the Father will do for his dear son, and what he should be for the church of God. And we then, in looking at this, we can say here is Our Lord that has been set forth, he is the nail, he is the one that is to be fastened in a sure place. And I want to then look at this in our second point, as Christ, a nail in a sure place.

There may seem to be contradictions in this passage because in one place he is set forth as a knell in a sure place, another then he is cut down and falls. And in verse 23 our text, not only as a knell in a sure place, but he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. The way we can get this picture, perhaps just summarised quickly, when you see our Lord Jesus Christ, how that he suffered, bled and died, cut down, how that he rose again and he is now glorified in heaven. So we can see just in that brief overview, a picture of being cut down, consistent with also glorifying and to have a glorious throne in his father's house.

So in this point, the nail fastened in a short phase. Our Lord Jesus Christ as a nail. Those of you who build this, if you had a nail and you had a wall, a plaster wall, and you put the nail in that plaster wall and the plaster crumbles it wouldn't hold anything, you couldn't hang anything on it. If you wanted to, and you had a design to hang something heavy upon the nail, you wouldn't only need the nail to be strong and not bend, but you'd need what you put the nail into to be as strong as well. And you'd want to make sure it was able to bear the weight that you were going to hang up on it, especially if it was something very valuable. And so, with our Lord Jesus Christ to be fastened as a nail, or using a nail as an illustration in a sure place, what is this setting forth? Well, there's several ways of looking at this. One, I believe in this, is set forth our Lord's position in the Trinity. as truly divine God and man in one person.

There is no possibility that in any way Jesus of Nazareth, the Lord Jesus Christ, could ever be taken out of that sure place and not be part of the Godhead, cease to be God. Whatever he went through, Whatever He did, whatever happened to Him, He always remained, and always ever will be, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Satan cannot change Him. Man cannot change Him. He is placed in the Godhead. If you have seen me, you have seen my Father also. I and my Father are one. is absolutely vital for all that the Lord came to do, that it be established that He is truly in the Godhead, that He is fastened there in that sure place, and that cannot be moved.

The Jews, they rose up against this, they accused Him with blasphemy, They said, and they understood the claim the Lord was making in John 10. When he said, I am, they knew what I am, the I am that I am. When he said, I am the good shepherd, they knew what the good shepherd meant. When David says, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. And they said that thou being a man, make us thyself God.

He was God. made man, but they put it the other way around. And so they didn't see, they couldn't see, many of them did at the day of Pentecost on which this is an anniversary. And they then cut to the heart, they could see that he was what he said he was, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, the Son of the Father, one with the Father and the Spirit.

And so when we would pin our hopes and pin everything of our souls upon Christ, we would remember the position that He is placed in, that is a sure place, that is before time, that cannot be moved by time, by your sins or mine. There He is. shore place is in the covenant, the covenant that was made between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and the subject of that covenant is His people. This is why David says, alone my house be not so with God, yet hath He made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and shore. This is all my salvation and all my desire, though I make it not to grow." That was David's home, a covenant ordered in all things and sure, a nail in a sure place. You cannot take out the Lord from that covenant of grace, a covenant of mercy, a covenant that was enacted when our Lord said, thine they were, thy fathers they were, and thou gavest them me. The Almighty says, He saw me lost and ruined in the fall, and loved me notwithstanding all, given by the Father to the Son to redeem.

Now said of Abraham in Genesis 22, Because thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me, in blessing I will bless thee, and in thee, and in thy seed shall all nations be blessed." What was his son? The son of the covenant. His son of all the promises was bound up in Isaac, and Abraham believed even if he had to kill him, God would erase him from the dead because of the promises that were in Isaac. There is a covenant. That is how Abraham saw how sure that covenant was, that even if Isaac had died, he would have raised him rather than that covenant be broken. A sure promise.

Our covenant, our covenant with death, the covenant of works that's broken, that's broken in the day that we fell in Adam, never to be repaired by us. for the covenant of grace is that our Lord should fulfill the law in our place and that He should pay our debt.

The beautiful way that we see it, enacted at Sinai, the broken tables, that's us, a broken law. The restored tables, put in the ark, that's what the Lord Jesus Christ did. And Moses made intercession for the people, and the Lord did not destroy them. He showed mercy to them there, even at Sinai, when the law was given. The law by Moses came, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Another sure place is in the scriptures of truth. Our Lord says that heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. And when it came to the crucifixion, again and again we read that it might be fulfilled that was written, the scriptures must be fulfilled. Peter is able to go back to John, but he could have gone back to Leviticus, he could have gone back to Exodus, he could have gone back to the types of the Passover, and of the way of offering, the free offerings, and of the Feast of Weeks, he could have gone to all these types, and all these shadows has been fulfilled when the Holy Spirit was given, and when Christ died. So in the Scriptures of truth, through all the Scriptures, like this one, like many others, the Lord is laid there.

He's secured there. And that word shall not pass away. It must be fulfilled. You cannot take Christ out of the Scriptures. They wouldn't be the Scriptures of truth anymore. He is the way, the truth, and the like. No man cometh unto the Father, but by man."

Another short phrase is God's divine purposes and plan. That God's purposes according to election might stand. Paul goes right back to Jacob and Esau. It was said, Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. The great mystery of election. God's sovereign choice of His people through nothing at all in themselves. But just because of His love, He didn't need to save any He said to Adam, in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. But he spared his life, and he spared the human race. Wherever the Lord spares, wherever the Lord gives life, gives time, there is mercy bound up with that.

When they refused to go into the promised land, He could have cut them all off, but He didn't. He gave them 40 years in the wilderness. When Jonah was sent to Nineveh, the message was that 40 days that the city should be destroyed. He said, where is the hope in that, in the 40 days? Because it was not immediate. Where was the hope when Sodom was destroyed? There was no time, no warning. sudden.

But God's purposes, those that are chosen, elect, foreknown by God, are chosen in Christ from the foundation of the world. So God's purposes all are bound up with this All the God purposes to do, the reason for the world's continuance, the reason for the Church of God, all God's purposes, His purposes will ripen fast, unfolding every hour.

They may have a bitter taste, but sweet will be the flower. And our Lord is fastened in those purposes. What the Lord will do, what the Lord will bring about, all to the honour and glory of God. And this is why we have here that He shall be for a glorious throne to His Father's house. The Lord God's purposes were not just to put away sin, but to bring a people, a people to be with Him forever, a blood-bought family, an immeasurable multitude with Christ in heaven. how sure a place it must be. Father, I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory.

And it is necessary for what follows after that our Lord was fastened in that sure place, a nail as in a sure place. Well, no doubt there are other ways that we can view our Lord in that sure place. And I believe, by grace, he's fastened in the hearts of his dear people, but we're changeable and we change. And these sure places here is that which will endure for eternity and never, never change.

And this is to be the comfort and help of the people of God and that those things that are vital for salvation cannot be changed. I want to look then, thirdly, what was hung upon him. We have in verse 24, and they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels the vessels of flakons." Glory of His Father's house.

Really all of the people of God and what the Lord is to do for them, the glory, is what the Lord says, that His people might be with them and behold the glory. The glory that Thou gavest me before the foundation of the world and really it's the glory of salvation. that crown of salvation, that crown which all the people of God, casting their crowns before Him, they are His glory. The people of God, the church of God, shows forth God's glory. They show forth what He has done for them. And so the picture here is God's people great and small, is their sins great and small, It's their transgressions, it's their burdens, it's their whole persons that are hung upon the Lord, united to Him. There must be, for the Lord to take away the sins of His people, a bearing of those sins.

When our Lord was on earth, if He was just a mere man, Now you and I, if the Lord really showed us our sin, we couldn't bear up, aren't we? We would faint under the sight of one person's sin, our own sin. But they laid upon Him the iniquity of us all, not just some, of all. And it must be proved first that our Lord was who He said He was. He was divine. He wasn't just like fallen Adam.

So that's why immediately after his baptising, his temptation to the devil, 40 days, 40 nights, we don't read at all what those temptations were. But the very first one that is recorded for us is a direct mirror of what happened with Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve had everything in the garden but one thing. and tempted with that one thing they fell.

Our Lord had been fasting for 40 days and in the wilderness, in the desert, and He's tempted with food, with eating. Use thy ability, command these stones that they may make in thy bread. And our Lord refused, refused to do Satan's bidding and refused to go along with His agenda.

And all of the provocations, all that he went through, proved him truly to be the Son of God. And so then in the Garden of Gethsemane, that's where they hung upon him. That's where God hung upon him the sins of his people. That's why he was so amazed.

That's why he sweated great drops of blood before the man touched him. That's why the brethren could not watch even one hour. They could not understand what was being laid upon him. But he must carry those sins, he must bear those sins away to the judgment. He must be judged as having those upon him. Pilate couldn't see that. Pilate wonders why he's silent, wonders why he doesn't say anything, who claims him innocent. That's all he can see, innocence. But he cannot see what he's laid upon.

The Lord, what He is bearing, as a lamb before her shearers is done, so opened He not His mouth. The Lamb of God, before the judgment, but is bearing His people, bearing their sins, bearing their transgressions, to view them laid upon Him. It's a very important thing. that we have that view and we truly view the Lord bore our sins. When we start to know what they are, feel their bitterness, feel their sin, feel how horrendous they are, when we groan under them to remember these are what the Lord bore. These are what He carried, their judgement. You might fear sometimes as the Lord's people How shall we do before the judgment, the judgment seat of Christ? Our Lord has already been, for a believer, judged, already before the throne. Already He has endured the wrath of God for His people. There's no more wrath left for them. Their sins have been borne by Him.

But there's a further thing that is needed, and that is set forth in our first fourth point, the burden that was to be cut off. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the short place be removed and be cut down and fall. And the burden that was upon him shall be cut off, the Lord hath spoken it. In the prophecy of Daniel, Daniel chapter 9, we read of Messiah, shall we cut off, but not for himself.

It's for these people that are bound up with them. And this is the picture. A picture that in one way you won't get from the New Testament, you won't get from the events recorded at Calvary, But here you can take this picture and you can picture Calvary. And you can see the Lord Jesus Christ bearing His people and bearing their sins. And then you can see Him being cut off. I lay down my life, no man taketh it from me. I have power to lay it down, I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

And so He is cut off. he dies, he falls, and the evidence of Christ's death, the seal too, the witness of the centurion, the grief of the disciples, the reality, they saw that he was dead already, they break not his limbs, they pierce his sign, fulfilling scripture again.

So clear that he is cut off, and if we see so clearly his death, Then we must see so clearly what was done by His death. And if our sins were laid upon Him, those sins also, that burden that was upon Him was cut off, was taken off. The Lord bearing the burden, the sins of His people and putting them away. And it was through His laying down His life, through His head being cut off, that this was accomplished and this was done.

This is a beautiful time that clearly sets forth what was accomplished, invisible to natural eye, but revealed to us by God through His Word. of what was done, what transaction was done there at Calvary. You might say, how does that then, how does that convey to us? How do we know that we are part of that burden laid upon him? The scriptures say, they shall look upon, who shall look? These pictured with the burdens They shall look upon him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him.

And we have a picture in Acts 2, when the church was born there, when the Holy Spirit was first given, you get a little picture of the beginning of the church, the beginning of the ministry of the Word, and the blessing upon the ministry of the Word. As Peter charges the people with the death of the Lord, with the crucifixion, and sets forth what the Scriptures had foretold of him, and they were a preach in their hearts. You see, the Spirit gave the authority and power to the ministry, what different preachers they were when the Spirit was given to them, and then, through the preach word, brought conviction.

A natural man doesn't convict himself. The devil doesn't convict. that when God convicts, He gives a ray of hope in that conviction, because those that were convicted of crucifying the Lord said, what shall we do? There was hope there. And then what was set forth was that they repent, that they turn, they turn from their sins. that they be baptised through remission of sins, not a baptising takes away sin.

And it gives a clear conscience as obedience to God and sets forth Christ's death and rising again. But it sets forth the work of the Spirit there in preaching the Gospel, raising up home those that then gladly received the Word, then they were baptized. And they continued, continued with the Apostles, continued in the Church of God. Now it's a fruit and a fact. I don't like how the Word of God does this.

You see in John 3, Our Lord insists on the new birth. In John chapter 4 he gives four examples, all different ones, of the new birth. And when our Lord would bear away His people's sin and have that sin laid upon Him, He suffered for them, rise again for their justification, He gives, as soon as the Spirit is given, what does it look like? What does it look like when Sinners received the benefit and blessing of what Christ did.

Remember on the cross, our Lord did not say, I forgive you for crucifying me. He didn't. He said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. He prayed that they might receive forgiveness. Many at that day of Pentecost did receive forgiveness of sins. and the way to it was conviction, repentance, receiving the Word gladly.

That marked them out as those for whom Christ died. We need to keep close to the pictures of the Word of God, how the Lord portrays the effect of a preacher Paul says, I determined to know nothing among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. That's what Peter preached then, 10 years later, before Cornelius, the same message. And there were those brought to believe and receive the Lord, brought to obedience and walk in His ways.

That's how we know that our sins were laid on Him That's how we know that that burden was cut off, and that we shall not suffer eternally for our own sin, because He has made atonement, He has redeemed us, He set us free, He's dealt with that burden, He's dealt with our sin, He's died in our place.

This then, is our Lord Jesus Christ set forth. I will fasten him as a nail in a short lace, and he shall be for a glorious throne to his Father's house. May King Jesus be our King. May he be precious to us. And we see in this passage, in this type who like him, the son of Hilkiah, the type of our Lord Jesus Christ, bearing our sin to us in his own body on the tree. Right.

A nail in a sure place

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What does the Bible say about Jesus being a nail in a sure place?

How do we know that Christ is a type of Eliakim?

Why is understanding the burden laid on Christ important for Christians?

What does it mean that Christ's burden was cut off?

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A nail in a sure place

Key Quotes

What does the Bible say about Jesus being a nail in a sure place?

How do we know that Christ is a type of Eliakim?

Why is understanding the burden laid on Christ important for Christians?

What does it mean that Christ's burden was cut off?

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About Rowland Wheatley

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