Christ - Our Creed

Q: What does the Bible say about Isaiah 53?

Isaiah 53 is a profound chapter that describes the suffering and atoning work of Christ as our Savior. Isaiah 53 is often regarded as one of the most significant prophetic passages in the Old Testament, revealing the nature of Christ's redemptive work. The chapter details how Christ suffered for our transgressions, was wounded for our iniquities, and how the chastisement for our peace was laid upon Him. The consistent emphasis on 'He' throughout this chapter points to Christ as the central figure of salvation, underscoring His role in God's plan of redemption for His people. It reassures believers of the gravity and reality of Christ's sacrifice and the purpose it serves in fulfilling God's justice and mercy.

Q: How do we know Christ's atonement is sufficient?

Christ's atonement is sufficient because He bore our sins and is identified as our substitute, fulfilling God's justice. The sufficiency of Christ's atonement is anchored in the understanding that He bore our sins and bore the punishment we deserved. According to Isaiah 53, He was wounded for our transgressions and was bruised for our iniquities, indicating that His suffering was not incidental but purposeful and effective. This concept is further supported by the New Testament, which affirms that through Christ's sacrificial death, the justice of God is satisfied. By His death, we are justified, and thus, the atonement is not merely offered but is effectual for all whom God has chosen for salvation.

Q: Why is substitutionary atonement important for Christians?

Substitutionary atonement is crucial because it illustrates how Christ took our place, satisfying God's justice on our behalf. Substitutionary atonement is foundational to the gospel message, as it emphasizes that Christ died in our place for our sins. This doctrine underscores the sacrificial love and grace of God, demonstrating that Jesus bore the weight of our transgressions and provided us with peace through His suffering. The reality that Jesus, the perfect Lamb of God, was sent to bear the iniquities of His people encapsulates the depth of God's mercy. This vital truth not only comforts believers but also affirms the doctrine of election and God's sovereign plan in salvation. Because Christ's death was representative, it assures believers that their sins have been fully paid for and that they have been reconciled to God.

And my wife Doris and I were
talking about this chapter and she said, you know, if they would just somebody take
away all the Bible from me and I was left with only one chapter,
I believe I'd select Isaiah 53. It's just that important. It's
just that great. It's just that instructive. It's
just that comforting. Believe me, Isaiah 53. And I thought about this too.
If a voice from heaven were to speak tonight, at this very moment, to my heart,
and say, this is your last message, your last sermon, The last time
you will ever stand in the pulpit of the 13th Street Baptist Church
and preach to these people whom you love and who mean so much
to you. Now, if you want to change your
message, you can. I'd say, no, I'm going with this
one. Not because I'm prepared necessarily to preach from this, I'm getting to the age where
you can prepare and prepare and prepare and prepare and forget
what you prepared when you stand up to say it. That's right. Now, I preached on this a lot
of times and went over it Saturday, went over it when I got up from
my nap from four to five-thirty and looked at it sitting up here
and forgot some of it already. I tell you, it's something, isn't
it? I like that fella about my age
was still caddying out the golf course and fella came to play
and he said, now, I'm kind of erratic in my drives. And he
said, I need a caddy that can see where the ball goes. I want
a caddy that can see where I hit the ball. And they said, well,
this old gentleman over here, he's got the best eyesight, believe
it or not, at 69. Anybody, any of the caddies have,
he can see the ball wherever it goes. So the fella hired that
old caddy and they went out there and he teed off and sure enough
it went that way. He turned to the old man and
said, did you see where it went? He said, I saw her. I saw her. Saw exactly where it went. They
started walking. Got out there in the, where in
the vicinity in the old, The golfer turned to his old caddy
and said, where is it? He said, I forgot. I can see it right there, but I
sometimes forget, don't you? All right. Isaiah 53. One man said this to an old minister. He said, is your creed in print? Is your creed in print? Can we read it somewhere? He
said, yes sir, it is. It's in print. What I believe
is written for all to read. Right here, Isaiah 53. Christ is my creed. And this
is Christ. And you'll note a significant
word all the way through this chapter. You know what it is? He. Watch it all the way through. He. He. He. It's all about Christ, our
Savior, who was sent. It's about Christ, our Savior,
who suffered. It's about Christ, our Savior,
who was willing to suffer. It's about Christ, our Savior,
who was successful in His suffering. And it begins this way. The prophet
Isaiah asked the question, who hath believed our report? There's
never lived a prophet or preacher who has not mourned and grieved
over that fact. I know what I'm preaching is
the Word of God. I know it's the Gospel. It's
the testimony of God's grace. It's the testimony of mercy in
Christ. It's the testimony and report
of free grace, eternal life in Him. It's the testimony according
to the Scriptures. It's the report not only that
I'm bringing, but it's the report that every prophet of God has
brought through all the years. Abraham saw this day. Moses wrote of him. And yet all
of us know that most of the people to whom we preach will not believe. They won't believe it. And you'll
go away saying, well, why can't they see that? You know, Bob
made a statement in his prayer that impressed me so much. He
said, Lord, thank you that we can read this text. As many as
were astonished at thee, his visage was marred more than any
man. He said, I thank you. I know
that's Christ. Do you know that 95% of this world doesn't know
that's Christ? A pastor friend of mine always
got his hair cut at this certain place. There was a young lady
in this shop that cut his hair. She knew he was a preacher. But
always they had appointments, you know, every 30 minutes or
every 20 minutes or something they had an appointment and he'd
come in and get his hair cut and leave and the next person
would get in. She told him, she said, our next appointment is
canceled. I want you to sit down with me
after I cut your hair and tell me what you believe. You're a
preacher. I want you to tell me what you believe. So she finished
cutting his hair and they went over and sat down. She said,
now I'm just going to sit here and listen. You tell me what
you believe for 20 minutes or 30 minutes. So he began. He told her all about how that
man failed. how that God determined to have
a people, how that He sent His Son to redeem them, how He elected
a people from the foundation of the world, how that Christ
died for them and paid their sin debt, enabled God to be just
and justified, redeemed them by His precious blood, and was
buried and rose again, and sent Him to heaven. He'll come again
and receive them. He said, I just preached to her for about 25
minutes. And he said, sure enough, she
did what she said, sat there with her mouth shut and listened.
He said, when I got through, I said, what do you think of
that? She said, that's the weirdest thing I ever heard in my life. That's the weirdest thing I ever
heard in my life. That's what he's saying right here. Who believes
it? Kind of discourages you, doesn't
it? Got a next door neighbor and you know if you tell him
what you believe, he's not going to believe it. If he comes to
church with you, he's going to get mad. That's just normal. Who hath believed our report?
To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? What is the arm of
the Lord? It's the power of the Lord. And the power of the Lord's
in Christ. Christ is the power of the Lord.
The power to convert and the power to redeem. Christ is the power of God. To
whom is this power revealed? This power of God. Well, Paul
said in 1 Corinthians, to the Jew, it's a stumbling block. We preach Christ is the wisdom
and power of God. Christ is the wisdom that enables
God to be just and justify. Christ is the power of God to
deliver us from the law, which curses us, and from the justice
of God, which condemns us. And Christ, effectually, by His
life and blood, delivers us from all charges. That's the wisdom
of God and the power of God to do it. Who believes that? I do. But to the Jew it's a stumbling
block, and to the Greek, what is it? Foolishness. Barney used
to say, sheer nonsense. Sheer nonsense. And I'll tell
you, you see these If they let you on one of these
talk shows, I don't know a great deal about it, but Donahue or whoever they are, some of these,
Geraldo or something, or what's her name, that black girl and
the rest of them, you know, they let you on there and let you
give this testimony who Christ is and what Christ did and why
He did it and where He is now, they'll laugh you out of that
place. They would. They would laugh you out of that
place. They would rise up in arms. I mean, all these people
are religious. Many of them are church goers. But all religions hate free grace,
sovereign grace, sovereign mercy. They hate it with a passion.
But I'm telling you, this gospel of God's grace is the power of
God unto salvation. It's the arm of the Lord. To
whom is the arm the power of God revealed? Well, this poor sinner here, brought
up in the cornfields of Alabama in the cotton fields, he revealed
it to me. These poor sinners out here, he revealed it to you. Why? Even so, Father, it seemed
good in thy sight." It says here, "...for he shall grow up before
him as a tender plant." Who is he? That's Christ. He. Christ
shall grow up before him. Who's that? That's the Father,
that's God, as a tender plant. Now He's God, and Him's God. I can't explain that. But both
of them, he and him, both are God. God the Father and God the
Son. And of him, it is said, that
the heavens declare his glory. And of he, it is said, his name
shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting
Father, the Prince of Peace. And yet it says here, he who
is equal with Him is going to grow up. He's going to grow up. He's perfect. He has the glory
of God. He's from everlasting to everlasting. He's independent of all His creatures.
How's He going to grow up? Well, He's going to become a
man before Him. Turn to Hebrews chapter 2. Listen
to this. Hebrews chapter 2, this glorious
He, this wonderful Counselor, mighty God, Prince of Peace,
Hebrews 2, is going to grow up. He's going to be born of a woman.
He's going to be made in the likeness of sinful flesh. He's
going to become for a season a man. Hebrews 2 verse 8 says,
Thou hast put all things in subjection under His feet. For in that he
put all in subjection unto him, he left nothing that's not put
unto him. But now we see not all things
yet put unto him, but we see Jesus, who was made a little
lower than the angels for the suffering of death. We see him
crowned with glory and honor, that he by the grace of God should
taste death for every man, every believer. For it became him,
for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing
many sons into glory, to make the captain of their salvation
perfect through suffering. For both he that sanctifieth
and they who are sanctified are all of one, for the which cause
he is not ashamed to call them brethren." He became one of us.
This glorious he, before him, came down to this earth. and
was made flesh and dwelt among us. And he grew up. What is a
tender plant? Well, I've got some out in my
garden, some spinach and some kale and some mustard greens
and some lettuce, and they're just about a half inch high. They're such tender plants. And
our Lord, that tender plant springs out of the ground, low in its
beginning, Frail in its beginning, slow in its growth, liable to
be crushed underfoot. And that's how our Lord grew
as a baby, born of a woman. Nothing more helpless than a
baby. Can't do one thing for itself. That's how He came into
this world, born of a woman. It says here, a root out of a
dry ground. What's that? That's Israel. Well,
look at the mighty Israel. Look at the mighty nation of
David and Solomon. Boy, when Christ came into this
world, a Jew born to the heir of the throne, David's throne,
Mary and Joseph, in the house and lineage of David. I'll tell
you how important the nation Israel was, their king. and queen had to have their baby
in a manger. That's how low. Do you know that
they were the house and lineage of David? They were in the house
and lineage of David. Mary, that little Jewish maiden,
and Joseph, her husband, were the house and lineage of David.
And when they came to Bethlehem to pay their taxes, commanded
by the Roman government, she was pregnant, nine months, having
a child any moment, And there wasn't any room for them in the
local inn, and they went down to a stable, and that's where
she had her baby. But see, that's the way He came into the world.
He didn't come in triumphantly announced. He identified with
us. Our Lord Jesus Christ identified
with the lowest, with the poorest, with the most unknown, with the
most uninfluential, with the nothings, surrounded by cattle
and shepherds. Look, he had no form, no comeliness,
no majesty, no honor, no influence. He came as a lamb. And when we
shall see him, there's no beauty. At no time in his entire earthly
pilgrimage was there anything about him that would attract
the following. Absolutely nothing. Oh, people
followed for a time, but they soon quit. The only ones who
continued to follow Him through all of this reformation and regeneration
were those whose eyes were open, who knew who He is. That's right. That time when everybody walked
off, He turned to the disciples and said, will you go away? And
Peter said, to whom shall we go? We believe that the heart
of Christ. And he said to Peter on another
occasion, flesh and blood, didn't reveal that to you. This Savior, this Savior in the eyes of men
is a nobody. And that is all in God's will
and purpose. It had to be that way. He is
the eternal somebody. But in the flesh, He's a nobody.
That's right. Listen, verse 3. He's despised. and rejected of men. Why? Well,
because of his nation. You think people hated the Jews
in Germany? Not like they hated them in Rome. He was despised because of his
nation, because of his birth and his parentage in his hometown.
Can anything good come out of Nazareth? He was hated because of his occupation.
They said he was just a carpenter. He was hated because of his education.
They said, do you teach us? He was hated because of his youth.
They said, you're not 50 years old. Where did you get all this
knowledge? He was hated because of his followers.
They said, are these not Galileans? He was hated because of his doctrine.
They said, why do you listen to him? He's crazy. He's devil
possessed, demon possessed. He was hated because of his death.
He died on a cross. He's despised. Barnard used to
say, everybody that was anybody turned thumbs down on this Jesus
fella. And I tell you, when preachers
try to, when they try to preach Christ as a person to be admired as
a human, They're wasting their time because this world, this
is what the world said about him. There's no beauty, there's
no comeliness. He's despised and rejected of
men. They hated his doctrine, they
hated his parents, they hated his nation, they hated his message,
they hated him. He said, the world hated me without
a cause. You know what he said? And he
said, because they hate me, if you love me, they'll hate you. If you'd be a friend of this
world, you're going to have to be the enemy of God. Now that's
a fact. You can't... The only way you
can make Jesus Christ acceptable to this world is take away his
message. Isn't that right? Take away his
gospel, take away his words, take away his message. And that's
the only way you can make him popular. If you leave him who
he is, If you leave him with what he said, and with what he
came to do, his genuine, real person and work, the only people
that will love him are those whose eyes are open to his glory.
The rest of them are going to hate him. That's not my God. A preacher told me that at Second
Baptist Church, 1952. Remember, B? That meeting, you were there.
He said, Jesus Christ died Only for the elect, he's no savior
of mine. I won't have it. Isn't that right? Won't have it. That's what I
say. If you leave him who he is and
what he did, they won't have it. He's despised. But he's a
man of solace. He was a man of solace from the
cradle to the grave. A man of solace and acquainted
with grief. But I'll tell you this, suppose
you tonight, I thought about this. I've been in some, in my
lifetime, some of you others have been in more, some miserable
places. I was with, I've been with Walter
and Milton in some places I wouldn't want to live. I've been with
Ken Wymer in Africa in a place or two. When I was preaching at Sassandra
with Bill Clark and Ken Wymer, there was a tribe of Africans
across the fence. I was staying here in a concrete
block house with Bill, and I were sleeping on two cots with the
roaches that long and flies. You had to shoo them off your
bed so you could go to bed at night, you know. But right across,
there's a fence outside this building, and across that fence
was a tribe of black Africans. who still used the dugout canoes,
who still had the smoke pots for smoking fish that were right
on the coast, who wore no clothes except just the loincloth, who
were so dirty and filthy, unimaginable. I stood there looking out my
window and watched them just, I guess, two or three hundred
of them, just a tribe that lived on the side of this hill going
down to the Atlantic Ocean. I guess it's whatever ocean that
is. Anyway, we were going down to see them fish in their dugouts
and Bill said, let's just go down. I said, we got to go down
through there? I'm a little bit afraid to go down through there.
I don't know whether we'll make it or not and come back. They may not let us, but we did. Now suppose that you took me
and stripped me of all I had and all I am and sent me for
34 years to live in the middle of that field. Oh, you're talking
about a man of grief and sorrows. My Lord left the glory, the sinlessness,
the beauty, the majesty, the glory of heaven, and came down
here and wrapped Himself in this old rotten sinful flesh, likeness,
and lived on this earth. And from the time He He came
into this world. By the time he left it, he was
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Identified miserable, miserable,
miserable, miserable. Had to be. Had to be. That's what we're talking about
here. And we hid, as it were, our faces from him. You ever
see a sight that his visage was marred as no other man? Oh, hanging
on that cross, that cross, let me tell you something. Is there
any sorrow like my sorrow? Oh, all ye that pass by, and
behold the sorrows that the Lord hath afflicted me. Is there any sorrow like my sorrow? And I'll tell you, when we walk
by and see Him hanging on that cross, There's no way that an
artist could ever paint that picture and sell it. Now they
paint pictures of Christ on the cross with that little strip
of cloth, you know, and his crown of thorns, and it looks a little
bit like a martyr, you know. This book says, and Bob just
read it, he didn't even look like a human being. He had been
beaten, his beard plucked out, He had been scourged with 39
lashes. He had been spit upon. He had
been stripped naked. He had been nailed to the cross
and he was hanging there under that burning oriental sun between
heaven and earth with his tongue cleaving to his jaws and every
bone out of joint. And that's what they saw and
we hid as it were our faces from him. That's right. Here it is,
the Son of God. Why is God doing this? Why is God subjecting Him to
this? Is there no other way? There's no other way. And this
is why, verse 4, He hath borne our sicknesses and our diseases. That's what those two words are.
Sick, the whole head is sick. You think this nation is not
sick? Turn your TV on at 11 o'clock news tonight and watch the march
in Washington. You think this is not sick? Sick, sick, sick,
sick. The whole head is sick. The whole
heart is faint from the sole of the feet to the top of the
head. There's no soundness, nothing but bruises, wounds and putrefying
sores. And that's what's on this cross. Horrible. Nobody can look at it and keep
his stomach straightened out. Why is God doing this? I'll tell
you. hath borne our sicknesses and
sorrows, we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted." The songwriter put it this way,
"'Twas because my sins on him by God were laid. He himself
had never sinned, but for us sin was made." Therefore, let
all men know that God is satisfied, and all who look to Him by Him
are justified." He was stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. You know, some time ago they
had some kind of silly legal gathering, a bunch of lawyers.
Now, most of them won't even remember this, it's so many years
ago, but I remember it. that tried to absolve the Jews
of the responsibility of the death of Christ. Do you remember
that? Any of you old people remember that? They went through all kinds
of hearings and everything to try to get this monkey off the
back of the Jewish nation. Well, let me tell you something.
It didn't mean anything. It doesn't now. We did it, sons
of Adam. But it's God who smote him. It's God who smote him. It's
God who delivered him to death. It says here, we did esteem him
stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. You say God did it?
God did it. God in His justice. Now listen
to me. Hear me. Listen carefully. When a man commits a crime, and
you can fight capital punishment all you want to, But it's scriptural. If a man commits a crime that's
awful enough and dire enough and evil enough, he pays with
his life. But let me tell you something.
It's not the man that hangs him who bears the guilt of his death
or the man who pulls the switch. He killed him. He pulled the
switch. And electricity killed him. His
hand killed this man, didn't it? No, justice killed him. The law killed him. That's what
killed him. So you don't, this man that pulls
the switch that put the guilty man to death, you let him, he's
not guilty. It's the law that must be satisfied
and justice which must be honored. And when God Almighty, when the
eternal God sent His Son into this world, made His Son a body,
a body thou hast prepared me, and put Him in that body, and
put Him here as a representative and federal head of an elect
people, and then took our sins and laid every blessed one of
them on Christ, and let Him go through the torment and agony
and horror of Calvary, and bruised Him and smote Him and slew Him, God is not guilty of murder.
His justice and righteousness has been fully honored and satisfied. Is that clear what I'm saying?
That's the only way God can save a sinful bunch of people like
you and me. That's right, Christ had to die.
He didn't die as an example. He didn't die as a reformer.
He didn't die as a martyr. He died as a substitute. You
died in Him. He bore your sins. You see that? My sin. Verse 5,
listen, He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised
for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was laid on Him. You see, He's a substitute. He's
a substitute. Is that clear? He actually was
numbered with us and became one with us and bore our sins, all
of them, and literally actually paid for them. And that's the
way God can accept me or you. With His stripes, we're healed.
We're healed. It's just like if I committed
a crime and they tried me and found me guilty and sentenced
me to die and I died, then the law has no more claim on me.
Justice has no more claim. You can't punish twice for the
same thing, can you, Ron? So I'm free now. And Jesus Christ,
my Lord, actually, here I am. And here are my sins. And there
are very many, and they're very heavy, and they're very black,
and they're between me and God. Christ came down here without
any sin. And the Scripture said God laid our sins on Him. See, He was made just like me.
Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. He won with me in the
same body. And God laid all of our sins
of all the elect on Christ. Very heavy, very heavy. Took
them off me and laid them on His Son. And when He, God, found
sin on Christ, He punished it. on Christ. And now it's gone. I don't bear the sin anymore.
And he doesn't either. Well, how could he take so many
sins of so many people and pay for them all in one day? Because
of who he is. Who he is. That's the key. Paul
said, who is he that condemns? It's Christ that died. That's
the whole thing. It's who died being who he is. makes what he did effectual.
It's not just the blood that saves, it's the blood of Christ.
You see that? It's the blood of Christ. It's
who died. It's He. Let's read this. Surely,
verse 4, He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. We did
esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He
was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was laid on Him, and by His stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep,
have gone astray. We've turned everyone to his
own way. But the Lord has literally laid on Him the iniquity of us
all. Who's us all there? Well, it's
all for whom He died. I don't know who believes on
Christ or who doesn't. I don't know who rests in Christ
and who doesn't. I don't know who's looking at
Christ and who isn't. But I do know this, all who believe
on Him and all who rest on Him and all who look to Him and all
whom the Father gave Him, they are saved. Their sins are put
away. That's true. Let's look at this
a minute more too. Verse 7, he was oppressed. Yet
he opened not his mouth. He was afflicted, yet he opened
not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, as
a sheep before her shearers is dumb. He opened not his mouth.
He didn't open his mouth against his enemies. False witnesses were raised up
against. He didn't open his mouth against
his people. He didn't open his mouth against his father. He
didn't open his mouth against the justice of God. Why did he
just stand there and take this? Why was he silent? Why didn't
he object? Why didn't God send the witness
to walk before him? He was carrying this cruel, heavy
cross, going out there to be mutilated, murdered, and crucified
on the side of a mountain. Why didn't God send somebody
down and say, he's not guilty, he's not guilty, he's innocent,
this is wrong? He was guilty. He was guilty. Old Martin Luther
said, and he said you have to be careful when you say this,
Christ was the greatest sinner who ever lived. And the justice of God exacted
its full penalty on him for every sin he bore. How was he the greatest
sinner? He bore more sins than any human
beings ever born because he bore all of our sins. By imputation. By imputation. And when he stood
there and they sentenced him to die, it's like a man standing
before a judge who has murdered a friend. And the judge said,
they found you guilty. Do you have anything to say before
I pronounce sentence? No, sir. I don't have anything
to say. He had nothing to say. Nothing
to say. I'm glad, aren't you? He said,
no man takes my life from me. I lay it down. Look at the, he
was taken from prison and from judgment. Who should declare
his generation? He suffered violence and no one
declared his innocence. He was cut off out of the land
of the living. No one to testify on his behalf, but here's the
key for the transgression of my people was he stripped. for
the transgression of my people. He was stricken. My friends,
let me say this, and I say this to all of the fellows who feel
compelled to compromise on this business of definite atonement,
particular redemption, effectual substitutionary I just do not
believe and cannot believe the death of Christ in any way was
figurative. I believe it literally bore our
sins. I do not believe such a horrible
display of judgment and justice and the wrath of God on his beloved
Son is in any way a picture, in any way figurative, in any
way an offer. I believe it's a legal transaction. The debt was paid. The sins were
paid for and finished and put away once and for all to be remembered
no more. For whomever, I don't know who
they are, Tom. I don't have any knowledge of
who they are. I pray by God's grace this is one of them. But
don't give me this thing about there's a sense in which he died
for everybody. If he died for everybody, everybody's
going to be saved. If everybody in this world can
say, He bore my iniquities, carried my sins and sorrows, transgressions
were put on Him, by His stripes I am healed. If you can say that,
well, see you in glory. If you can be one of these people
down here for whose transgressions He was stricken and smitten,
see you in glory. And he made his grave with the
wicked. He died between two thieves. And with the rich in his death,
he laid in a tomb of a rich man, borrowed it from him. He didn't
lay there. He wasn't going to keep it very long. Though he
had done no violence, it wasn't in deceit in his mouth. Now here,
let's camp here for just a second or two. Listen. This is young
people that get your thinking caps on now and watch this. Verse
10. It pleased the Lord, God the
Father, to bruise him. What am I saying? I'm saying
God not only permitted it, He purposed it. God not only permitted
it, He predestinated it. Watch it now. Hold on. Listen.
God the Father took pleasure in the death of the son. You go back in the Old Testament
and see all those sacrifices. And our Lord Jesus said, in sacrifices and offerings, thou
hast had no pleasure. He's never pleased God. All the
sacrifices and blood ever shed on Jewish altars never pleased
the Father, never satisfied Him. When our Lord came into this
world, the Father looked at Him and said, I'm well pleased. And it says here, listen, it
pleased the Lord to bruise Him. He made His soul an offering
for sin. He shall see His seed. He shall
prolong His days. And the what? And the pleasure
of the Lord shall prosper in His hands. the pleasure of the
Lord. God's mercy and grace fully demonstrated
and exhibited in the death of his son. And there on that cross
at Calvary, the king purchased a people over whom he'll reign
for all eternity. That's where the kingdom was
formed at Calvary. And verse 11 says, And he shall
see of the travail of his soul, and he'll be satisfied. Christ
will be satisfied. Christ will be satisfied. And
by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many. What's
this knowledge? Well, his knowledge of them and
their knowledge of him. He said, I know my sheep. By
his knowledge. You see, this goes back to from
the beginning. How long you known Him, Lord?
Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee." He said to Jeremiah. Was there some you don't know?
Oh, yeah. He said to those in Matthew 7, I never knew you.
I never knew you. And it's important here. He'll
see of the travail of his soul. What's the travail of his birth
pain? He made his soul an offering for sin, not just his body. Don't
just look at the physical sufferings of Christ. The agony of soul
is much greater. You see hell at Calvary. Hell
is separation from God. And Christ was separated from
God. He made his soul an offering for sin, and he shall see of
the travail of his soul. Every child given to him will
be born into the kingdom of God. And he'll be satisfied and by
his knowledge, by his knowledge of his father's will, his knowledge
of his people, his knowledge of his father's purpose, by his
knowledge shall my servant justify many. They'll bear their iniquities. Therefore, therefore will I divide
him a portion with the great. Some people say, the next line,
he'll divide the spoil of the strong. conquer all the strong,
because He has... Why all this exultation? Lift
up your heads, oh ye gays, and the King of Glory will come in.
God has given Him a name above every name. Why? I'll tell you
why. Because He poured out His soul
unto death. Because He was numbered with
the transgressors. Because He bared the sin of many.
And because right now He makes intercession. Listen to one more
thought. In peace, let me resign my breath
and God's salvation see. My sins deserve eternal death,
but Jesus Christ died for me. And that's my hope. Is that your
hope? This is it, isn't it? This is
the gospel of substitution. satisfaction, effectual suffering,
and eternal glory. All right, Mike, come lead us
in a hymn.

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