Isaiah 53 this evening. And as
I said earlier, this is a glorious, glorious chapter. I'm entitling
the message from Isaiah 53, the gospel, the gospel according
to Isaiah. We did a complete study back
some years ago, all the way through every chapter, 66 chapters, every
chapter, every verse, every word, all the way through the book
of Isaiah, and it was a blessing. Now we're going back and picking
up a few lessons in Isaiah and in the Psalm. Isaiah 53 is a
whole lot like Psalm 22, all about the Lord Jesus Christ and
Him crucified. Isn't that the heartbeat of the
gospel? As Paul said, I'm determined
not to know anything among you but Jesus Christ and Him crucified. This prophecy about the coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ and his glorious saving atonement
for his people was written 700 years before the Lord Jesus Christ
actually appeared among men, before he accomplished the salvation
that was purposed and promised that he would do when he came
in the flesh, but this was written 700 years before he came. But
it's given with such accuracy and exactness that it seemed
like it was written after the fact, after he had died. And yet, it's given to us these
many years before. You see, everything that God
had purposed and decreed and promised He says, I've spoken it, I've
purposed it, I will do it. Isaiah, like all the Old Testament
prophets, wrote about the Lord Jesus Christ, his person, God
Almighty, and his priestly work. Absolutely successful. Beginning
at Moses all the way through Malachi, the Lord Jesus Christ
is declared and the gospel is set forth. Our Lord said to those
Pharisees in his day, had you believed Moses, beginning in
Genesis, had you believed Moses, you would have believed me, or
Moses wrote about me. Someone asked a preacher years
ago, this was in Charles Persons' day, The asking preacher, is
your creed in print? Your creed, your doctrine, is
it in print? He said, ah, yes it is. Isaiah 53, that is our creed
in print. But really, the whole word of
God, the whole book of God is our creed. It's our only rule
of faith and practice, as the old writers used to say. When
the church in Kingsport, were when they were in the process
of obtaining a loan from the bank on their new church building,
one of the things that the loan officers required of the church
was what they called a church constitution. Of course, they
didn't have a written church constitution. And someone called
me and asked me what I thought about it, and I said, well, we
have a church constitution. It's called the Bible. Call the
word of God. Just tell that loan officer,
right here is our constitution. Right here is our rule of faith
and practice. Of course, the bank probably
wouldn't take that. They want some kind of written
rules of men. So I don't know what happened. I know they got the loan. So. They met their requirement somehow.
Now, we'll take a few moments this evening and carefully consider
the words of the gospel found here and ask God the Holy Spirit
to bless his word to our heart. Wouldn't that be something? If
God the Holy Spirit would bless us with his word, did the Lord
speak to his people through his word, by his word? BLESS HIS
WORDS, OUR HEART, OUR UNDERSTANDING, AND REVEAL CHRIST UNTO OUR SOUL
ANEW AND AFRESH. REMEMBER THOSE TWO MEN ON THE
ROAD TO EMMAUS WHEN THE LORD BEGAN AT MOSES AND PREACHED THE
GOSPEL UNTO THEM CONCERNING HIMSELF? REMEMBER WHAT THEY SAID LATER
ON? DIDN'T OUR HEART BURN WITHIN US WHEN HE OPENED THE WORD OF
GOD UNTO US? SO, VERSE 1, WHO HAD BELIEVED,
I REPORT, and to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed? Two vital questions, pretty big
questions, important questions. This true report, who has believed
this report? A report is a testimony. We have
a newspaper. They have reporters. They report
what they know to be so, to be true. That's what they're supposed
to do. This report here is the testimony of God, the scripture
of God. Now, we know that it is certain
and true for all scripture is given of God. Who hath believed
the word of the Lord? Those who were called out of
darkness into God's marvelous light. THOSE WHO HAVE BELIEVED
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF GOD'S MIGHTY POWER." THAT'S
THE REPORT THAT I WANT TO BELIEVE. GOD'S TESTIMONY CONCERNING CHRIST.
THAT IS THE TESTIMONY OF GOD CONCERNING, AND AS PAUL SAID,
DETERMINED TO KNOW NOTHING AMONG YOU FOR SALVATION AND RIGHTEOUSNESS,
BUT WHAT? JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED.
SO, WHO HATH BELIEVED OUR REPORT? Well, to those to whom God has
called out of darkness. And to whom is the arm, you know
the word arm there is the power of the Lord. What is the power
of the Lord? The power of the Lord to reveal
is Christ revealed in the gospel. The power of God to save is Christ
in the gospel. To whom is the arm, the power
of the Lord revealed? Well, certainly not to everybody. He's hid these things from the
wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes. Why'd he do
that? Even so, Father, for so it seems
good in thy sight. Salvation is a revelation of
God. As I've said to you over the
years, it takes God to reveal God. That's a good statement.
I borrowed that from somebody years ago. Salvation is made
known, that is revealed unto us by the Holy Spirit, taking
things of Christ and making them known unto us. Has to be that
way because the carnal, natural mind will not receive the things
of God. Foolishness. GOD MUST TAKE THE
THINGS OF GOD AND SHOW THEM, REVEAL THEM, GIVE US EYES TO
SEE THEM, EARS TO HEAR HIM SPEAK, AND THEN FAITH TO BELIEVE GOD. VERSE 2, WHAT IS THIS REPORT? WHAT IS REVEALED ABOUT THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST? WHAT IS REVEALED IN THE REPORT,
THE TESTIMONY OF GOD? THAT IS, THE COMING REDEEMER
SHALL GROW UP BEFORE HIM AS A TENDER PLANT. NOW, WE KNOW THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST AS THE SON OF GOD IS THE ETERNAL GOD, AND YET THIS
ONE WHO IS THE ETERNAL GOD, GOD THE SON, WAS MADE FLESH AND DWELLED
AMONG US AS A REAL MAN. THE ANCIENT OF DAYS BECAME AN
INFANT OF A DAY OLD. HE SHALL GROW UP BEFORE HIM as
a tender, tender plant, a little baby born the virgin. That's tender. That's a tender
plant. That's a tender, weak plant,
a real man, the God man, but yet a man, but also God. And as a root out of dry ground,
Mary and Joseph both could trace their lineage back to the house
of David, tribe of Judah. But Mary and Joseph both did
not look like any kind of son of David. The kingdom of Israel
was down to a root out of dry ground. He had no form. He had no comeliness. THERE'S
NO BEAUTY ABOUT HIM THAT WE SHOULD DESIRE HIM. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
AS A REAL MAN WAS A MAN, A CARPENTER WHO WORKED AND LABORED IN THE
CARPENTER SHOP, WHO HAD CALLUSES ON HIS HANDS. HE DIDN'T WALK
AROUND WITH A HALO AROUND HIS HEAD. HE WAS A REAL MAN. WHEN PEOPLE LOOKED UPON HIM,
They said, who are you? You're a winebibber. You're a
gluttonous man. He had no beauty in him, naturally
speaking. Now, spiritually, he's altogether
lovely to you who see, but naturally looking at the Lord Jesus Christ,
this Jesus of Nazareth, he looked just like any other Jewish man,
a real man. JUST LOOKING UPON HIM, HIS FEATURES,
YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW. THE PHARISEE SAID, YOU MAKE YOURSELF
GOD? HE SAID, YOU'VE SEEN ME, YOU'VE
SEEN THE FATHER. I AM MY FATHER ONCE. WE CAN'T EXPLAIN THOSE
THINGS, BUT THEY'RE SO, ARE THEY NOT? TENDER PLANT, ROOT OUT OF DRY
GROUND, AND YES, THIS ONE IS THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF
LORDS. THERE'S NO BEAUTY ABOUT HIM THAT
WE WOULD NATURALLY DESIRE HIM. IT'S ONLY BY HIS GRACE THAT ANY
MAN DESIRES THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. ANY MAN WOULD THIRST AFTER HIM.
VERSE 3 TELLS US SOMETHING OF HIS CHARACTER AMONG MEN, WHAT
THEY THOUGHT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THIS NAZARENE FROM GALILEE
HE'S DESPISED. AND NOT ONLY THAT, HE'S REJECTED.
HE CAME INTO HIS OWN, HIS OWN SET AWAY WITH HIM. WE DON'T WANT
ANYTHING TO DO WITH HIM. WE HAVE NO KING BUT CAESAR. AND
THIS IS OUR ESTIMATION BY NATURE. THIS IS EVERY MAN'S ESTIMATION
BY NATURE. HE'S DESPISED. NOW, WE'RE NOT
TALKING ABOUT THIS false Jesus that people talking about, talking
about the God-man mediator. He is despised and rejected of
men. He is a man, a man. He's a man of sorrows. Now, we don't know anything about
sorrow. I mean, we have some heartache, we have some trials,
and we have some trouble, tribulation. We think, oh, poor me. We think,
we're tempted to think no one's suffering like me. We don't know
anything about suffering. He's the man of sorrows. He's
acquainted. He's very well acquainted with
grief, tempted and tested in all points like as we are yet
without sin. He's despised, he rejected of
men. He's a man full of sorrows, acquainted
with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces
from him. He was despised. and we esteem
him not." Now, this is every man's estimation of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He was not esteemed or honored
among men in his earthly ministry. We read in Psalm 22, he said,
I am a worm and no man of every scorn of the people, an outcast,
that the outcast cast out. This is God's Savior. This is
the anointed. This is the Messiah who came
to redeem us. And yet he's such a lowly, lowly
figure. The Lord Jesus Christ, the whole
time of his earthly pilgrimage among men, was one of sorrow
and grief. From the cradle to the grave,
a man of sorrows. Someone, I believe it was Hawker
I was reading today, Robert Hawker, said you could sum up his earthly
life with two words, Jesus wept. Man of sorrows, acquainted with
grief. And that's what he did there
in the grave of his friend, Lazarus. Our Lord had one son without
sin, that's Christ. NONE WITHOUT SORROW. WE SEE THE REASONS HERE OF HIS SORROWS, OF HIS GRIEF,
WHY HE WAS REJECTED AND DESPISED, VERSE 4 AND 5, SURELY HE HATH
BORN. SURELY, TRULY, THIS IS THE TRUE
REPORT. IT'S NOT FAKE NEWS NOW. THIS
IS THE TRUE REPORT. Surely he, God manifest in the flesh, he
is born our grief. This word, O-U-R, put your name
right there. He is born Tom's grief. He carried Tom's sorrows. Make it personal. That's exactly
what he did. Surely, truly, certainly, he
is born our grief. carried our sorrows, yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted." Why was
he smitten of God and afflicted? Because he's carrying our sin
in his own body upon the tree. That's what it says in 1 Peter 2. We see the reason
behind his sufferings and grief. And we see the heartbeat of the
gospel. He suffers for his people, carrying their burden, their
sin, their guilt, their iniquity, their transgression. Greater love hath no man than
this, that man laid down his life for his friends. He laid
down his life because of our sins. That's love. That's the love that I'd like
to know some more about. God made him to be sin for us
who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of
God in him. Christ suffered once for our
sin, the just, the just one. Remember the book of Acts, he
called the just one. Christ suffered once for our
sin, the just, for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. We're not coming any other way.
If he doesn't bring us, we're not coming. IF HE DOESN'T BRING
US THROUGH THAT SACRIFICE, WE'RE NOT COMING. GOD'S HOLY. HE MUST
BRING US TO THE HOLY GOD WITH HOLINESS. THAT'S ONLY GOING TO
HAPPEN THROUGH CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED. HE WAS SMITTEN OF
GOD AND INFLICTED BECAUSE OUR SINS WERE LAID UPON HIM. VERSE
10 SAYS, IT PLEASED THE LORD TO BRUISE HIM. THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST DIED AS OUR SUBSTITUTE. FOR HIS PEOPLE AND MADE COMPLETE
SATISFACTION FOR THEIR SIN. NOW ONE THING THIS ISAIAH 53
TEACHES US THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST DIED A DEFINITE DEATH,
A DEFINITE DEATH FOR A DEFINITE PEOPLE TO ACCOMPLISH A DEFINITE
PURPOSE, ATONEMENT FOR THE TRANSGRESSION OF MY PEOPLE. VERSE 8, HE WAS
STRICKEN. HE APPEARED ONCE IN THE END OF
THE AGE AND PUT AWAY SIN BY THE SACRIFICE OF HIMSELF. HE SHALL
SEE THE TRAVAIL OF HIS SOUL, AND SHALL BE SATISFIED." SATISFIED. ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST? BELIEVERS ARE, BUT YOU KNOW THAT'S
NOT THE ISSUE. I'M GLAD YOU ARE. YOU KNOW WHAT
THE ISSUE IS? IS GOD SATISFIED? NOW, IF GOD'S
NOT SATISFIED, WE'RE IN TROUBLE. HOW DO WE KNOW THAT HE SATISFIED
GOD? HOW DO WE KNOW THAT? DELIVERED FOR OUR OFFENSES, RAISED
AGAIN BECAUSE HE JUSTIFIED US. THAT'S HOW WE KNOW GOD'S SATISFIED.
WHEN HE BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SIN, SET DOWN. WHERE? THE THRONE OF GOD. THAT'S SATISFACTION. THAT'S ATONEMENT
FINISHED. WITH HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED. YOU SEE THAT? VERSE 6, VERSE
5, HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSION. INEQUITIES, BRUISED, BRUISED,
WOUNDED, BRUISED, CHASTISEMENT, THE HAND OF THE WRATH OF GOD'S
HOLY ANGER, STIRRED IN ACTIVITY AGAINST SIN FOUND UPON CHRIST. THAT'S WHY HE CRIED, MY GOD,
MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME? GOD CANNOT LOOK ON SIN WITH
FAVOR. THE WRATH OF GOD FELL UPON THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED AT CALVARY.
THE CHASTISEMENT OF OUR PEACE, OUR JUSTIFICATION WAS UPON HIM,
AND WITH HIS STRIFE, WITH HIS DEATH, WITH HIS BLOOD, WELL,
YOU KNOW, HE MADE SIN, HE MADE SALVATION POSSIBLE IF WE MEET CERTAIN CONDITIONS.
THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT SAYS. WITH HIS BLOOD ATONEMENT, WE
ARE HEALED. COMPLETELY MADE WHOLE. SO MUCH SO THAT GOD SAID THAT
THE LORD JESUS IS ABLE TO KEEP US FROM FALLING AND TO PRESENT
US FAULTLESS BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF GOD'S GLORY WITH EXCEEDING
JOY. I WOULD CALL THAT HEALED, WOULDN'T
YOU? HEALED. I'VE BEEN HEALED. BUT WHO HEALED
YOU? HE DID. ALL MY SINS PUT AWAY."
AND HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT PHYSICAL HEALING, HE'S TALKING ABOUT OUR
SPIRITUAL HEALTH IN HIM. THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION
TO THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST. WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD ONLY THROUGH
JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED. WHAT HE DID FOR US, NOT WHAT
WE DO FOR HIM. PEOPLE SAY, WELL, HE DID HIS
PART, NOW WE MUST DO OUR PART. WORKS. HE DID IT ALL. HE SAID, IT'S FINISHED. GOD IS
RECONCILED. GOD WAS IN CHRIST. THE DEBT'S
FULLY PAID. HE BOUGHT US WITH HIS OWN BLOOD.
JUSTICE IS SATISFIED AND WE'RE HEALED. WE'RE HEALED. PERIOD. Period now this body's
going back to the dust, but this soul been healed and I'm gonna
have a new body a Glorious resurrected body like his body For seven
says he was oppressed And he was afflicted men oppressed him
men afflicted him But that didn't get the job done He was afflicted of God. He was
oppressed of God, yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought
as a lamb to the slaughter, as a sheep before her shearers is
done, so he opened not his mouth. He never said, I'm not guilty.
He was guilty, not of his own sin that he personally committed,
But he didn't die as a private person. He died as a public head. He died as a representative man.
He died with the sin of God's people laid upon him. He said,
no man takes my life. I have power to lay it down. I have power to take it again,
this commandment have I received of my father. The Lord Jesus Christ willingly
became our sacrifice. HE IS THAT SPOTLESS LAMB OF GOD. JOHN IDENTIFIED HIM. BEHOLD THE
LAMB OF GOD THAT BEARETH AWAY OUR SIN. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
IS THE APPOINTED SACRIFICE, HIM BEING DELIVERED. DO YOU REMEMBER
THE BOOK OF ACTS? HIM BEING DELIVERED BY THE DETERMINANT
COUNCIL FOR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. OH, YOU HAVE TAKEN IN WICKED
HAND TO CRUCIFY THE LORD OF GLORY. BUT YOU ONLY DID WHAT GOD DETERMINED
BEFORE TO BE DONE. THIS IS GOD'S LAMB. THIS IS GOD'S
SACRIFICE FOR SIN. THE LORD IS THE APPOINTED SACRIFICE
FOR THE APPOINTED PEOPLE AT THE APPOINTED TIME TO REDEEM US FROM
THE CURSE OF THE LAW, BEING MADE A CURSE FOR US. THE LAW SAYS,
THE CURSE OF THE LAW SAYS WHAT? THE GUILTY MUST DIE. THAT'S WHY
HE DIED. GUILTY BECAUSE OF OUR SIN. WHEN SIN WAS FOUND UPON HIM,
THE HOLY LAW OF GOD SAID, ARISE, SMITE THE SHEPHERD. WE'RE GOING
TO SEE THAT IN A MINUTE. THE LORD DIED A VIOLENT DEATH
AT THE HANDS OF WICKED, VIOLENT MEN, VERSE 9. LET'S READ VERSE
8. HE WAS TAKEN FROM PRISON AND
FROM JUDGMENT. WHO SHALL DECLARE HIS GENERATION?
Who's going to declare his generation? Well, God's gonna send some gospel
preachers to declare this report, going to declare his generation,
declare his salvation. He was cut off out of the land
of the living. He yielded up his spirit. For the transgression of my people,
he was stricken. Now who are these people and
where did they come from? These people here are the elect
of God. GIVEN TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
IN THAT COVENANT. THE LORD OFTEN MENTIONED THOSE
PEOPLE. HE SAID, ALL THAT THE FATHER
GIVETH TO ME, THEY WILL COME TO ME, AND THOSE THAT COME TO
ME, I WILL NEVER CAST THEM OUT. JOHN 17, HIS PRIESTLY PRAYER,
FIVE OR SIX TIMES HE MENTIONED THOSE THAT THE FATHER HAD GIVEN
TO HIM. HE HAD POWER OVER ALL FLESH THAT
HE SHOULD GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO AS MANY AS THE FATHER HAD GIVEN
TO HIM. FOR THE TRANSGRESSION OF MY PEOPLE."
THAT'S WHY HE WAS STRICKEN. CALL HIS NAME JESUS. WHY? HE
SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE. HIS SHEEP, ALL WE LIKE SHEEP,
HAVE GONE ASTRAY. WHO ARE THESE SHEEP? WHO ARE
THESE PEOPLE? THE ELECTED GOD. THE CHURCH OF GOD THAT HE BOUGHT
WITH HIS OWN BLOOD. He made his grave with the wicked. He died between wicked men and
with the rich in his death. Joseph of Arimathea was a rich
man. The Lord Jesus Christ was buried
in a borrowed tomb, born in a borrowed caltroph, and laid in a borrowed
tomb. Although he had done no violence,
never man spake like that man, the perfect God-man mediator.
Neither was there any deceit in his mouth. Everything he said,
everything he spoke was absolute truth. You remember what he said?
The words that I speak unto you, they're not mine, but the Father
He gave me the words to speak. He is the prophet of God. There's
no deceit in his word. It's true. It's certain. Every promise he said, every
word he uttered, every promise he made will shall come to pass. There's no deceit in his mouth.
Remember what the scripture said, it's impossible for God to do?
THERE'S SOMETHING GOD CANNOT DO. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO
LIGHT. WHY? NO DECEIT IN HIS MOUTH. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO CHANGE.
HE SAID, I CHANGE NOT, THEREFORE YOU SONS OF JACOB, YOU'RE NOT
CONSUMED. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, ALTHOUGH
HE HAD DONE NO SIN, KNEW NO SIN, AND DID NO SIN, HAD DONE NO VIOLENCE,
yet he was manifested to take away our sins. The Lord Jesus
died a real death. for our sin, because the wages
of sin is death. He was indeed guilty of our sin
being made his own, so much so, so identified with our humanity,
bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, so identified with
our sin as a covenant head, he said, he called their iniquities,
he said, he called the iniquity of God's people, he said, their
mine iniquities. have taken hold upon me, Psalm
40, verse 12. Now, verse 10, I believe this
is the key here. What did it please the Lord to
do? What pleased the Lord to make you his people? That pleased
the Lord to bruise the Lord Jesus Christ. in our room and our stead. Yet it pleased the Lord, although
he had done no violence, there was no deceit in his mouth, yet
it pleased the Lord to bruise him. Why? Our iniquities were
laid upon him, wounded for our transgression, bruised for our
iniquity. He had put him to grief. Remember,
he's a man acquainted with grief. Grief over what? Guilt. GRIEF OVER GUILT, WHEN THOU SHALT
MAKE HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN. GOD MADE HIS SOUL, IF YOU
LOOK THIS WORD UP, OFFERING FOR SIN, GUILTY FOR SIN. HAD NOT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
BEEN ACTUALLY GUILTY OF OUR SIN BEING MADE TO BE HIS, God would
have been unjust to punish someone who was not guilty. If he was
holy, God couldn't punish him. But because he was made sin,
made guilty for our sin, therefore the wrath of God fell on him
without, as the old timers would say, without any mixture of mercy. Lamentation 112. behold and see
if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow which is done to me
wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in a day of his fierce anger. God only gets angry at sin. When
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. It's not right to say
It was as if God treated him as if he was made sin. It's much
more than that. He was actually made sin for
us. He was made, his soul was made
an offering for sin. He bear our sin in his own body
on the tree. He shall see his seed. There's
his elect again. The Lord Jehovah shall prolong
his days. He said, I'm he that liveth and
was dead. Behold, I'm alive forevermore. And the pleasure of the Lord,
the pleasure of the Lord is his will, his purpose. You remember,
he works all things after the counsel of his own will. THE
PLEASURE OF THE LORD, THE WILL OF THE LORD, THE PURPOSE OF THE
LORD SHALL PROSPER IN HIS HAND BECAUSE NO ONE COULD STOP THE
HAND OF GOD. PROSPER. EVERYTHING HE DOES,
IT SHALL PROSPER. GOD PLANNED THE CROSS, NOT THE
PHARISEES. GOD PRESIDED OVER THE CROSS,
NOT PILATE. GOD PARTICIPATED IN THE PUNISHMENT
AND THE AFFLICTION The afflictions of the cross knocked the Romans,
smitten of God and afflicted. It was not what men did that
day, that's what people think. It's not what men did that day.
I mean, they did a lot of wicked deeds. They put nails through
his hands and feet. They put a spear through his
side. But it wasn't what men did. That's not our hope, is
it? That's what God was doing. This
is God's lamb. God made him to be sin for us. A Waco sword against my shepherd,
against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts. Smite
the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered. And they were,
Peter and John, all of them. And I'll turn my hand upon my
little ones because of that sacrifice. THE GREAT SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP.
REMEMBER HE SAID, I'M THE GOOD SHEPHERD WHO LAID DOWN MY LIFE
FOR THE SHEEP. WHY DID HE DO THAT? HAD HE LOVED
HIS OWN, HE LOVED THEM TO THE END. THE LORD JESUS SHALL SEE
HIS PEOPLE, HIS ELECT, HIS BRIDE, HIS CHURCH WASHED AND JUSTIFIED
IN HIS BLOOD. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST EVER LIVE
TO INTERCEDE FOR THEM. AND THE PLEASURE OF THE LORD
SHALL PROSPER IN HIS HAND. THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH
HATH PREVAILED. PREVAILED TO HONOR THE LAW OF
GOD. PREVAILED TO PUT AWAY SIN. PREVAILED TO CRUSH SATAN'S POWER. HEBREWS 2 14 SAID HE CRUSHED
HIS DOMINION AND IN DOING THAT DELIVERED THEM FROM THEIR SIN. prevail to put the sin of his
people away, prevail to save his people from their sin. Verse
11, he shall see of the travail of his soul, he shall see of
the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. Substitution satisfaction
shall be satisfied. Our Lord did not suffer in vain.
His death was not a defeat, victory. He said, because I live, you
shall live. The atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ is satisfying
to God to enable him to be just and justify those just and the
justifier, just God and Savior. Save sinners, not as expensive
as justice. Show mercy and honor His holy
law, shall be satisfied. By His knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many, the many, the many. By one man's disobedience,
the many were made sinners. By the obedience of another,
the many shall be made righteous. Romans 5, 19. HE SHALL BEAR THEIR
INIQUITIES. AND HE DID. AND BEARING OUR SIN,
HE BEARED THEM AWAY. AS FAR AS THE EAST IS FROM THE
WEST. THAT'S FOR PEACE. GOD SAID THEIR SIN IS GONE. I
REMEMBER THEIR INIQUITIES NO MORE. NOW DAVID SAID MY SIN'S
NEVER BEFORE ME. BUT THANK GOD IT'S NOT BEFORE
GOD. CAST BEHIND HIS BACK. HE CAN'T EVEN SEE IT BECAUSE
IT'S GONE. THE BLOOD ATONEMENT OF THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST PUTS AWAY ALL OUR SIN. THE LORD JESUS JUSTIFIED
HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SIN. WHOM HE DID PREDESTINATE THEM
HE CALLED, WHOM HE CALLED HE JUSTIFIED, WHOM HE JUSTIFIED
HE GLORIFIED. VERSE 12, THEREFORE WILL I DIVIDE
HIM A PORTION with the great, he is the heir, we are joint
heirs with him, he shall divide the spoil of the strong, because,
four things he mentions here, he poured out his soul into death.
Now notice, all the blessings we have because of this covenant,
everlasting covenant of grace, it's because, well God did his
part and I did my part. Where does it say anything about
you doing anything in this verse? Because he poured out his soul
to death. Because he was numbered with
transgressors. Because he bared the sins of
many. Because he made intercession for transgressors. Now, you can't
stick your finger in there anywhere and say, look what I've done.
Can you? See, salvation's all of his doing. THIS IS THE LORD DOING, AND IT'S
MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES. SALVATION IS OF THE LORD. HE
MAKES INTERCESSION FOR US RIGHT NOW. CHRIST IS OUR MEDIATOR,
ONE GOD, ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MEN. CHRIST IS OUR INTERCESSOR. CHRIST IS OUR ADVOCATE. WE HAVE
AN ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER. YOU NEED ONE? I DO. WHO IS IT? JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS.