Isaiah chapter 53. Is that rain? Oh my word. I thought a jet was
coming over or something. Isaiah chapter 53. Let's look
at this together. Let's just go through this together.
Let's just begin with verse 1. Isaiah 53 verse 1. Here's the
prophet Isaiah. Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed? Who hath believed our report?
The gospel is a report. That's what it is. It's a proclamation. It doesn't come telling us what
we must do. It comes telling us what's done.
It's a mere proclamation, and that's what makes it such good
news. It's what's been done. In the 52nd chapter in verse
7, look at this. This tells us what the Gospel
is. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of Him that bringeth
good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings
of good, that publishes salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God
reigneth. This is what the gospel is. It's
a proclamation of what's been done, and if you read the 53rd
chapter of Isaiah, you realize what's been done 2,000 years
ago. That's what the gospel is. What somebody outside of us has
done. But Isaiah seems to complain
here that few of these Jews believed this report. For he says, Who
hath believed our report? And the Apostle Paul complained
about the same thing in his day. I don't know of a better word
to use than complain. Maybe you could find a better
word. But he quoted this same passage here and applied it to
the Jews. In Romans 9, he was talking about
the righteousness which is of faith. In Romans 9 and Romans
chapter 10, and he said, With a heart man believeth unto righteousness,
the righteousness of faith. You don't work to be righteous,
you believe to get righteousness. and he said all who calls upon
the name of the lord shall be saved and then he says how shall
they call on him and whom they have not heard how shall they
heard without a preacher and how shall they preach except
they be sent and then he quotes verse seven that i just read
to you how beautiful are the feet of them that proclaim or
preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things
and then he quotes verse 1 of chapter 53. You'll find this
in the 10th chapter of Romans. But they have not all obeyed
the gospel, for Isaiah said, Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed? We could complain the same thing
today, couldn't we? How few believe the gospel. How
few believe the gospel of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
But listen, the Bible tells us who don't believe And the Bible
tells us why they don't believe. You know the Bible tells us that.
Lay aside now the hardness of man's heart. We know when you
look at the person's heart why they don't believe the Gospel.
Their natural heart is enmity against God. The natural heart
is hard. It loves its sin. It sees no
need of Jesus Christ and His Gospel. But there's another reason
that Jesus Christ Himself gives for why men don't believe the
gospel. Listen to John chapter 10 and listen to verse 24. Then
came the Jews round about Him and said unto Him, How long do
You make us to doubt? What a silly statement. He never
made anybody doubt, did He? If thou be the Christ, tell us
plainly. And Jesus answered and said unto
them, I told you, and you believe not. The works that I do in my
Father's name, they bear witness of me. But listen, but you believe
not. Why? Because you are not of my
sheep. Why do men live and die in unbelief? Here is the answer. because you
are not of My sheep." What a solemn awakening statement, and that
should grip every heart of those who trust in their power of the
will, and those who say, well, I'll believe when I get ready.
I'll come to the Lord when I get ready. Nobody but me has got
anything to do with it. I wouldn't be so presumptuous,
would you? I wouldn't be so presumptuous.
And I tell you this, you're never going to believe. You will not
believe and you'll never believe in Jesus Christ to the saving
of your soul if you're not one of His sheep. That's an awakening
statement, isn't it? Those Jews said, oh, we don't
need you. We ain't going to believe in
you. And He said, I tell you why. You're not one of Mine.
You're not obtaining this grace from God the Holy Spirit to believe
on Me. that my elect obtain. That's
why they believe on me. Whatever else the natural man
may do, they will never believe in Jesus Christ to the saving
of the soul if they are not one of His. You believe not because
you're not in my sheep. is not the only hope of lost
humanity. And we said that this morning,
didn't we? Not only is it the only hope of a lost humanity,
you know what election does? It strips the legs out from every
false hope. It strips the legs out from under
every false hope. Why does a man believe? Because
he's one of His. Why doesn't a man believe? Because
he's not one of His. Boy, election's something else.
Election's already been done. It's already been fixed. The
names are already in the Lamb's Book of Life. Am I one of them?
Boy, that's a serious question, isn't it? Make your calling and
election sure. Listen to Acts chapter 13 verse
48. Listen to this now. Paul was
preaching the gospel and he was preaching to the Jews. about
forgiveness of sins. Through this man is preached
unto you the forgiveness of sin. And by him all that believe are
justified. And you know what those Jews
said? We don't want to hear that. We don't want to hear that. Besides,
we've got no sins. What are you talking about forgiveness
of sin? We don't need to hear this. And
there were some Gentiles sitting over there to the side and they
heard it and they said, can you preach this to us? And Paul came
back the next Sabbath day and preached the same message to
them. And the Scripture says when they heard this, they were
glad. And as many as were ordained
to eternal life, as many as were chosen to life, as many as were
set aside to life eternal, they believed. So here we see that
they did not believe because they were not His. They did believe
because they were. I said it this morning, election
is nobody's enemy. It's a man's best friend, isn't
it? A man's best friend. And I'll tell you what it does.
You look at election in a little nutshell, and in that little
nutshell are all the blessings of God. And it's just like a
flower that comes up. And it's the pod, the big bloom
that's there, boy, it begins to open up. And there you see
the beauty. And in God's election, that nutshell,
are hid all the blessings. And the first one is repentance
and faith. And that comes to them. Who has
believed our report? I tell you who has. I tell you.
Every elect soul believes it. Every elect soul believes it. Verse 2. Look in verse 2. Here Isaiah begins to set forth
this report. He shall grow up before Him as
a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground. He hath
no farm nor kindliness, and when we shall see Him, there is no
beauty that we should desire Him." Boy, what a statement this
is! He shall grow up. He has already
told us about the birth of Christ, that He was born of a virgin,
and His name was called Immanuel, God with us. And when He's born,
His name is going to be called the Mighty God, the Everlasting
Father, the Prince of Peace. That's going to be His name.
And now He says here, He shall grow up. Oh, what a mystery that
is. The Ancient of Days? Him that
was before Abraham, He grows up? Ain't that a mystery? I remember
one of you brethren went through Luke chapter 1 and was talking
about Christ increased. Jesus increased. How can He that's
perfect increase? But that's what He did. He increased
in stature and in wisdom and in favor with God. You know that's
a representative we need, isn't it? That's a representative we
need. Every step of His life, as He
grew up in body, as He increased in wisdom in His mind, everything
He did, He pleased God in doing it. He increased in favor with
God. That's the kind of representative
we need, isn't it? And he says here that he had
no form and he has no commonness. He has no beauty. When we should
see him, there's no beauty. He was just a common man. You
know what was said of Moses when he was born, the little baby?
His mother saw something in him, didn't she? She saw he was a
goodly child. That means beautiful. He was
a beautiful child. David was said to be a little ruddy man.
Red-headed, I guess. Reddish looking. But he was good
to look at. He's a beautiful fellow. But
David's Lord, He had no beauty about him. He could get lost
in a crowd, couldn't he? When he was born, his mother
didn't look at him and said, oh, what a beautiful child. Look
how he glows. He was just common looking. He
could get lost in the crowd, hide himself. They didn't recognize
him. I love that, don't you? He just suits the common man. He looks just like us. No beauty
that we should desire in him. He had no outward beauty. I tell
you, his beauty is inward, isn't it? He's like that old tabernacle
that was clothed with all these goat skins and so on. But inside
was the brightness. Gold. Pure gold. That's the way
Christ is. Inside. And Isaiah begins here
in verse 3 and he begins to tell us some wounds. He tells us some
wounds. He had already called the Lord
Jesus the Wonderful One. His name shall be called Wonderful.
Now He's going to tell us of some wounds, wounds of the wonderful
ones. First of all, look at these social
wounds. Look at the wounds our Master suffered, brothers and
sisters, for us. He is 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. Despised and rejected of men. All classes of people despised
Him. They hated Him. The ruling class
of the day, the religious class, they hated Him. You know, His
own community hated Him. They tried to kill Him. Even
some in His own family, the Bible says His own brethren didn't
believe on Him. Almost everybody despised and rejected the Son
of God. He came unto His own and His
own refused Him not. One friend betrayed Him. The
Scripture says they all forsook Him. And Isaiah said, even we
hid our faces from Him. He was despised and we esteemed
Him not. Don't let it hurt when people
turn on you. Well, we've all had friends. We've lost friends
and turned on as heaven would. That hurts, doesn't it? Social
wound. I don't know what I would do
if the little community I lived in just turned on me. And every
time I went out my front door, you'd see a neighbor making a
face at me. I hate you. I despise you. Don't come near
my property. Wouldn't that be awful? That's
what he suffered. He was despised and rejected
of men, a man of sorrows. And here in verse 4 also he says
this, "...surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows."
He hath borne our griefs. Here are some wounds. Wounds
that belong to others that He tucked Himself. He has borne
our griefs. And He has carried our sorrows. And what this seems to me to
mean is the Lord Jesus so sympathized with the griefs and sorrow and
pains of others, He felt it. He felt it Himself. In all their
afflictions, He was afflicted. Oh, remember that. Could you
remember that? In your sufferings, physical sufferings, in the sufferings
of your soul, your mind, in all your afflictions, He is afflicted. He is a high priest that can
be touched with the fillings of our infirmities. And how often
as you read the Gospel do you find such statements as this,
that He healed them because He had compassion on them. Remember
that widow lady that had lost her son? That had been her only
son. And I can just see, I can see
that little funeral procession coming up through there, and
there's her dead son in that casket. And that poor woman is
just sobbing and weeping. And here comes the Lord Jesus
up to her, and He says, Woman, weep not. Weep not. And you know why the Bible says
He said that? He had compassion. Weep not. He was feeling what
she felt. And He put His hand on that son
and raised him from the dead and left her laughing. Isn't
that amazing? Left her rejoicing. But He bears,
He bears our feelings. He is so near His people, He
feels what they're feeling. I've often wondered if this is
not why He wept. when he saw Martha and Mary weeping.
Jesus wept. The shortest verse in the Bible.
He wept. Why? Because they were weeping.
So He weeps. He feels, doesn't He? He feels. Whatever you're going through,
dear child, He feels it Himself. That man was full of leprosy
in Mark chapter 1. And Jesus reached out those holy
hands and He touched him. Why in the world would He touch
him? Why would He touch him? Can you see this man? His nose,
they said, was rotted off. His ears were gone. He had an
awful fever. And standing there trembling
from disease and pain. And you're the holy Son of God. Retch out and touch that leprous
body. You know why I think He did that?
He felt that. He felt what He was going through. He hath borne our griefs, and
He carried our sorrows in His own heart. I tell you, we can't
carry much of that, can we? If you've been around people
that suffered a lot, He'll get you down. He'll get you down. You've got to take a break. But
He feels it. He feels it. He feels it. Some of you have heard of Schindler.
He was a German. You may have seen the movie Schindler's
List. If you do any study on that fellow, he saved a lot of
Jews from the time of the Holocaust during World War II. But there's
one thing that haunted that man till death. He wasn't a success
doing hardly anything. His marriage fell apart. His
businesses, two or three businesses fell apart. He never could get
over the thought, I could have saved more. He began filling
the loss of those Jews to the point. He said, here's my watch. Here's a watch. That would have
brought a Jew. And my car. I could have got
several of them and saved them with my car. And he couldn't
get over the thought. He felt the loss of those people. And
boy, that's a burden. Our Lord bore that. He has bored
our grief and carried our sorrow. Here is something else in the
last part of verse 4. Here is another wound. We did esteem Him. We looked
upon Him. We judged Him to be stricken,
smitten, and afflicted of God. They misjudged Him. They knew
that He was suffering. They looked at Him upon the cross,
and man, they knew that His suffering was obvious. But here is what
they judged. He was suffering for His own
sin. God was punishing him because he was guilty. Boy, that hurts,
doesn't it? That hurts. I had a fellow tell
me one time, God's going to get you. God's going to get you. You've done me wrong. God's going
to get you. Man, I'm glad he don't have that kind of authority
to call God's. But wouldn't it be awful to hang on a cross?
to be hanging there and everybody looking up at you said, man,
you getting what you deserve. I knew you was a devil. We told
the people all along that you were a liar and a deceiver and
God's found you out. And now He's punishing you Himself. Man, that's a wound, ain't it?
A wound. A wound. Poor Job's friends. He called
them miserable comforters, didn't he? He had lost his children,
ten children. Now he had lost his health, lost
his servants and his cattle. And there he sat on a pile of
ashes. And his friends came to see him. Man. God must hate you, Job. God must
be real angry at you, Job. That's why you've gone through
this. Man, you've done something real bad. He said, you miserable
comforters. You miserable comforters! You
physicians of no value! That's the way they did the Lord
Jesus. These words here, stricken, the
word stricken, smitten, stricken of God, that means to draw near
and smite with a hand, to beat down, to punish, to defeat, to
smite. Smitten means to wound or slay
or even slaughter. Afflict means to deal severely
with. to look down upon, to browbeat,
to depress, abase. And boy, they saw the Lord Jesus
hanging on the cross and they said, God must hate you. Boy, He's come close to you and
He's smitten you and He's beaten you down. Boy, that was a wound
to the Lord Jesus. And here in verse 5, look at
his physical wounds. He begins to tell us about his
wounds, his physical wounds. 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. He shed some light on why he
was wounded, didn't he? He wasn't wounded because God
was mad at him. He wasn't wounded because he
was guilty. God wasn't smiting him because
Christ had sinned. He said He was wounded for our
transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. And the chastisement of our peace
was upon Him. And with His stripes we're healed.
Think about his physical wounds just for a minute. He said, They
pierced my feet. They pierced my feet. You started
His feet. When He raised from the dead,
He told His disciples, Look at my feet. still had the marks
of those nails through his feet. You come up just a little bit
higher, and there's his side, a big hole in his side. They
pierced him in the side, and all of his blood and water come
running out. He said to Thomas, put your hand
in my side. Put it in my side. You go around
to the back, and what do you see about his back? You see wounds
on his back. They plowed up on my back. They
made long referrals. I gave my back to the smithers.
And you could see the whites of the bones in his back. Go
around and look at his face. He tells us here in the 52nd
chapter, his face, his vestige, was marred more than any man. They plucked out his hair. I gave my cheeks to those who
plucked off the hair. His tongue was swollen. It cleaved
to his jaws. His eyes were black and blue.
His face was swollen. And you go up to his head, and
his head was pierced with many a crown. And his black locks
was mingled with his blood and his dried sweat. From the top
of his head to the sole of his feet, he was nothing but wounds
and bruises and sores and sores. Destroy this temple and in three
days I'll raise it up." And that's what they did. When they bruised Him, they crushed
Him, He just looked like a mass of flesh hanging upon that cross,
wounded. And with His stripes, by His being chastised on the
cross, He made peace on the behalf of His people. And it was said
here, with His stripes we are healed. with His stripes we're
healed. Sin is a disease, ain't it? Not
like one this generation wants to call it, you know. Drunkenness
is a disease. No, it's a sin, isn't it? Fornication. No, it's a sin. It's a sin. But
the Scripture here calls it something that can be healed. Sin is a
disease. Why is it called that? It'll
destroy you. It'll eat away at your soul and eat away at your
body. It will destroy both soul and body in hell. But here we
are told how it can be healed. This fountain that is open heals
the soul's diseases. And why is that? Why did the
Lord Jesus have to bear these wounds in His body? Well, these members are just
as guilty as the soul. This body is complicit in sinning. The mind says, let's do this.
And the members say, I'm ready, man. Let's do it. And these members
are going to perish with the soul. Fear Him that's able to
cast both soul and body into hell. So for the sin of this
body to be atoned for, somebody's body has to suffer. And that's
why we see the physical sufferings of Jesus Christ. His head was
wounded. His side was wounded, His back
was wounded, His hands were wounded, His feet were wounded. To redeem
my head, to redeem my hands, my side, my back, my feet. It took His members if my members
were going to be saved. I don't want to lose my body,
do you? This is a vital part of us and that's why we hope
for a resurrection. But the reason we have a good
hope for a resurrection is because Christ and His body suffered
for our sins. Here we see the reason. Here
we see the reason for his sufferings. Look in verse 6. All we like
sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his
own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
We've all gone astray, haven't we? Every one of us went astray
in Adam. But you know something? We've
went our own way too, haven't we? Boy, when a young person
The baby is born. It gets up a little bit and it
goes its own way. Everybody's got their own way.
And they can't blame society. They can't blame mom and dad.
They can't blame bad examples. Everybody's got their own way.
And everybody goes their own way. And the way is death. And the way is death. And if
we don't personally come right here and put ourselves here. I went astray. I went my own
way. I'm deserving of God's justice.
I'm deserving of His wrath. If we don't come here and take
our place as sinners, we've got no interest in Christ the Savior. He didn't come to suffer for
the righteous, did He? You know who the Bible says He
suffered for? The ungodly. In due time, He died for the
un... Have you ever been able to bring yourself there? Have
you ever been brought there to say, I'm ungodly? That's where we have to be brought.
It's only when we're brought there, we say this, my iniquity was laid on Him.
My iniquity was taken from me. and laid on Him. That's what
His sufferings are all about. Not any that He had of Himself.
No. It was our iniquities. The iniquities
of His people. Look here at this next one. Look at these mental wounds in
verse 6 and verse 7. He was oppressed and He was afflicted. Yet he opened not his mouth.
He has brought as a lamb to the slaughter as a sheep before shears
is done, so he opened not his mouth." Here's some mental wound,
a mental wound. He was oppressed. The word means
to tax, to harass, distress, depress, to hold down, to hold
under, to burden with unreasonable imposition, to overburden. Oppressed. Oppressed. Depressed. I remember when Sue
was telling us about her mother. It's been dead now for a while,
but Sue was telling me, Sue and Larry was telling me about Sue's
mother, that she got so depressed and so oppressed that she wouldn't
talk. She would just sit there. And
we see people that way. They don't say anything. They
can't talk. They're beat down. They're overburdened and they
can't bear it. So what do they do? They withdraw
within themselves. Jesus was oppressed. Oppressed. I guess that's why
He opened up His mouth, reckon? Job's friends. It's hard for
us to grasp, but when Job's friends saw him, they sat there for seven
days and never said a word. Can you imagine that? had something,
I guess, to do with oppression. They were amazed at Him. And
I know why He didn't say anything. What would He say? Oh, I'm so... Did you ever see people just
want to get off by themselves? I'm so depressed. I don't want
to be around anybody. The Lord Jesus suffered that
wound. Here's what David said about
it. The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed. Paul Hezekiah,
the Lord told him, you're going to die and not live. He turned
his face towards the wall and started praying, trying to prepare
for death. And here's what he said, Lord,
undertake for me, for I am oppressed. Nobody undertook for him, did
they? Poor David had a refuge. Hezekiah had a refuge. You've
got a refuge in your oppression. But nobody, nobody was there
to help our Master. Nobody was there for Him to lean
upon and find help with. He said, I sought for some, but
there was none. Nobody to help me. Nobody to
help me. Oppressed. Reproach hath broken
my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity,
but there was none. All they that see me laugh me
to scorn. They shoot out the lip, and they
wag their heads, saying, He trusted in God. Let God have him now. And he was oppressed in his mind. Middle wounds. Verse 8, look
at the wounds of injustice. He was taken from prison and
from judgment. And who shall declare his generation?
For he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression
of my people. was he stricken with the wounds
of injustice. He was arrested by wicked men. He was accused by wicked men.
He was tried by wicked men. And he was crucified by wicked
men. They stripped him naked in the
judgment hall and hanged him dead and naked upon the cross
of Calvary. And Acts chapter 8 verse 33 says,
In his humiliation his judgment was taken away. In his humiliation, falsely accused,
humbled, they tried him unjustly and crucified him unjustly. And all of this suffering was
not for his own sin, but for the transgression of his people
was he stricken. I tell you, this makes me so
ashamed. Sometimes when I'm ashamed of the Lord, when I'm ashamed
to bear witness, when I'm ashamed to bear reproach for His name,
it makes me hate myself. He was humiliated and He wasn't
ashamed of us. In His humiliation, His judgment
was taken away. In verse 9, And he made his grave
with a wicked, and with a rich in his death, because he had
done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. One
version said this, And men appointed his grave with a wicked, but
he was with a rich in his death. And it seems to indicate that
God overruled their plans. The Pharisees went to the Pilate
and they said, It's about ready to keep the Sabbath. We want you to let us break their
legs and let us take them away. They wanted to bury them in a
grave together. We want to bury him with a wicked. And Pilate
said, you go break their legs. But Christ was dead already.
They took the other two away and here come this rich man.
Of all people, Joseph of Arimathea, and he took his body down. Don't
you know that grieved them to death when they saw him do that?
They had planned to put him in a grave with the wicked. That's
what he deserved. But here comes this rich man
and laid him in his own tomb where never a man laid, and put
all this perfume, aroma, in his grave with him. The Lord thirted
their purpose. And lastly is this, the wounds
of his soul. Look in verse 10 and look in
verse 12. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise
him. He hath put him to grief when
thou shalt make his soul and offer him for sin. He shall see
his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the
Lord shall prosper in his hand. Boy, I tell you what, it pleased
the Lord, it pleased God to bruise him. Man, that's the worst wounds
of all, isn't it? That's more than the physical
wounds, more than just the mental wounds. I tell you, God knows
how to make a man suffer. And this was soul sufferings. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? This is amazing, is it not? Through
all eternity, you have the Son with the Father. They're one
and yet they're two. And for all eternity he had enjoyed
the presence of his Father, but on the cross the Father says,
I'm going to forsake you and you're going to suffer. And he
forsook him. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? The Lord afflicted him. There's
two things about this affliction from God. You think of it in
two different ways. One, you think of it as his Father.
As his father afflicted him, that has to be somewhat comforting.
The father was well pleased when he saw his son suffering. He
offered himself a sweet savor to his father. That's one way
to look at it. Boy, another way to look at it
is this. He suffered at the hands of the
moral judge of this universe. He suffered at the hands of God
who hates sin. And when God looked upon His
Son, He saw sin. Not His own, He had none. But
He saw yours, dear child of God. Your sins was upon Him. And wherever
God sees sin, He's going to punish it. He can't behold it and receive
it and love it and embrace it. He has to punish it. So what
did He do when He saw sin upon our Savior? He punished it. Verse 6 says he laid a sin upon
him. And verse 10 says he made his
soul an offering for sin. And then verse 11. He shall see
of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge
shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their
iniquities. The travail of his soul. My soul
is exceedingly sorrowful, he said, even unto death. I'm dying. I feel the weight of this. I've
tasted this cup of death and sin and wrath, and my soul is
exceedingly sorrowful. And God saw that. God saw that
suffering. And then lastly, in verse 12,
he says this about his suffering. Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great, he shall divide the small with the strong,
because he hath poured out his soul unto death." He put our
sins upon him. He punished his soul. He saw
the travail of his soul. And he says here, I poured my
soul out like water out of a bucket. Just dumped my soul. If somebody asks why you and
I believe in a particular redemption, that Jesus Christ could never
die for a man and bear those sins like this, and that man
turn around and bear them again, because it makes no sense. Justice was satisfied. Here's three or four things.
Think about this. Number one, think of this. God's justice
is satisfied. He saw of the travail of His
soul, and what did He say? I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied. The court of heaven is satisfied
with what Jesus Christ did. Sin has been more punished. Those
three hours upon the cross, then hell could punish all of mankind
and satisfy justice for all eternity. He's satisfied. Secondly, think of this. Christ
is alive forevermore now. And he shall accomplish all God's
redeeming purpose. The pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his hand. That's verse 10. That's something
else that's come out of his suffering. God is satisfied and now Jesus
Christ lives. And he's ruling and reigning
over everything, accomplishing God's purpose. Number three,
in verse 12, He tells us this, He ever lives to make intercession
for all of those who come to God by Him. He made intercession
for the transgressors. What a plea for every sinner
to come to God. There is someone at God's right
hand to make intercession for Him. You know if Jesus pleads
for you, you accept it. God has never turned Him away.
He's not about to turn away at the request of His living. Fourthly,
in verse 11, His death secures the believing of every soul for
whom He died. By His knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many. He is going to justify many. Why? For He bear their iniquities. See that? Somebody says our believing
makes the death of Christ effectual. But that's really got it backwards.
His sufferings secured our believing. I love that, don't you? Believing doesn't make the death
of Christ effectual, but the death of Christ assures that
every soul for whom He suffered will believe. They must believe
because He has redeemed them. And fifthly and lastly, Christ
is the possessor of all things. The Father has given everything
into His hands. And verse 12 says He is going
to divide it with His people. What does Christ own? You could
go ahead and say what He doesn't own, couldn't you? Actually,
you might get at that a lot quicker. He owns everything, doesn't He?
The Father loves the Son, put everything in His. The heaven
is His. The world is His. Everything is His. And He said,
I'm going to share it with my people. How generous He is! What's
His is Yours. He shall divide the spoiled with
the strong. If Jesus Christ came to this
earth 2,000 years ago to represent you and to be your substitute,
you'll be saved at last. You'll be saved at last. And
you'll be saved to the uttermost. Therefore, trust Him. Trust Him. Cleave to Him. Believe on Him. You'll never fail. You'll never
fail. Let's sing one or two verses
of this old song in 223, if we can. Page 223.