Who Hath Believed Our Report?

Isaiah 53. I want you to take your Bibles
and open them to the 53rd chapter of Isaiah, and keep your Bible
open there in your hand because I'm going to be referring back
continually through the message to this chapter from God's Word.
The title of my message is found in the first five words of this
chapter, who hath believed our report. Who hath believed our
message? Who hath believed our report
of the grace and the love and the mercy of God in Christ? Paul said it's a true report,
it's a faithful message, it's good news to all who will hear
it, all who will believe it, all who will receive it, but
who hath believed it? Now this was so in the days of
the prophets. Jeremiah Jeremiah 9, verse 1,
said this, O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain
of tears, that I might weep day and night for my people, for
Israel. In 1 Kings 19, verse 14, Elijah
said this, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, for
the children of Israel have forsaken God's covenant. They have thrown
down God's altars, and they have slain God's prophets, and I only
am left. Who hath believed our report? It was so not only in the days
of the prophets, but it was so in the days of our Lord's incarnation,
our Lord's visit to this earth. I want you to turn to John 12. In the twelfth chapter of John,
verse 37, listen to these words carefully. In John 12, 37, John
wrote, But though he had done so many miracles before them
in their presence, yet they believed not on him. That the saying of
Isaiah, that's Isaiah, The prophet might be fulfilled when he spake,
Lord, who hath believed our report? Who hath believed our message?
Though he had done so many miracles, he said there are four witnesses.
John the Baptist came, but you didn't believe him. The Father
spake from heaven, but you didn't believe him. The works that I
do testify to my deity, but you don't believe them. And you search
the Scriptures, for in them you think you have life, but they
are they which testify of me, and you don't believe them. And
though he had done so many miracles, they believed not on him, that
the saying which is our text and topic today might be fulfilled,
Lord, who hath believed our report? It was so in the days of the
apostles. Turn to Romans Even the prophets of old wept
that the people had forsaken God's covenant and thrown down
God's altars and slain God's prophet. Jeremiah said, O that
my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might
weep day and night for my people. In Romans 10, verse 13, Paul
said, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved. But how shall they call on him in whom they have not
believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have
not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And
how shall they preach except they be sent? As it is written,
how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of
peace and bring glad tidings of good report, of good things. But they have not all obeyed
the gospel. They have not all believed the
gospel, for Isaiah said, Lord, who hath believed, I report. And then look at the second line
in Isaiah 53. He begins this way, Lord, who
hath believed, I report. And to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed. Now the arm, the word arm here
is the power of God. The power of God. or the gospel
which is the power of God. Paul said, I'm not ashamed of
the gospel, it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone
that believe it, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, but the
gospel is the power of God. Now here's the question, who
hath believed our report? And to whom is the gospel which
is the power of God, to whom is it revealed? Well, been revealed
to some. Let's take our Bibles and look
at a few examples. First of all, in Luke chapter
2, it certainly was revealed to Simeon. The gospel of substitution
was revealed to Simeon. The gospel of salvation was revealed
to Simeon. In Luke 22, verse 26, this is
what the Scripture says, and it was revealed unto him And
it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost that he should not
see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And when Mary
and Joseph brought our Lord into the temple when he was just an
infant, Simeon looked down at him and said, Lord, now let thy
servant depart in peace. I've seen thy salvation. I've
seen thy power. I've seen the arm of the Lord."
Well, it was revealed to the Apostle Paul, turn to Galatians
1, Galatians the first chapter. In verse 15, Paul said it was
revealed to him who hath believed our report, not everyone, not
all have obeyed the gospel. To whom is the arm of the Lord
revealed, the power of the Lord, the gospel of the Lord? In Galatians
1.15, Paul said, but, he talks about how religious he was before
God saved him, and then he says in verse 15, but when it pleased
God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by
His grace, to what? Reveal His Son, His arm, His
power, His gospel, His salvation, to reveal it to reveal it in
me, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among
the heathen. And if you'll turn to 1 Corinthians
2, it was revealed to some of the Corinthians. Paul, in writing
to them in 1 Corinthians 2, said this in verse 9, but as it is
written, the natural eye hath not seen The ear of man hath
not heard, neither have entered into the heart of the natural
man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
But God hath," what? "...God hath revealed them unto
us by His Spirit. For the Spirit churches all things,
yea, the deep things of God." The gospel was revealed to the
apostle Peter. Our Lord asked the disciples
one day, whom do men say that I am? And well, they said, some
say you're John the Baptist, some say you come back from the
grave, some say you're Elijah, some say you're Jeremiah, some
say you're one of the prophets. And our Lord said, but whom do
you say that I am? Who am I? And Peter said, Thou
art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And our Master said,
Peter, Flesh and blood did not reveal that to you, but my Father
which is in heaven. My Father revealed the gospel
to you. Isaiah begins, as Jeremiah, Elijah,
even the apostles, who have believed our report, and he begins, as
I begin today, who have believed our message, who have believed
our gospel. And to whom is this power of
God? To whom is this gospel of God? To whom is this grace of God? To whom is this message of God
revealed? Has it been revealed to you?
It has been revealed to some. Look at verse 2. Now, there are
many reasons why they didn't believe Isaiah's report. There
are many reasons why. Now, you listen to me carefully.
There are many reasons why they didn't believe Jesus Christ.
There are many reasons why they didn't believe the apostles.
And there are many reasons why intelligent, sensible, natural
men don't believe what we preach. And I'll give you some of the
reasons. Here's the first one. For he shall grow up He shall
grow up, whoever heard of God growing up. For he shall grow up before him,
before God, as a tender plant. What is that talking about? We
know what a tender plant is. I have a garden in my backyard.
Many of you have gardens. You know what a tender plant
is. You know that you put a seed in the ground and a little plant
springs up. almost without notice, it's low
in its beginning, it's slow in its growth, it's liable to be
crushed underfoot, and it's so tender and so sensitive that
if the slightest frost comesâ€”you remember back during the spring
how we'd put out our tomato plants or our other plants and we'd
Ask each other, is it going to frost tonight? We'll grab the
evening paper to check, is it going to frost tonight? Why?
Those little tender plants are so liable to be destroyed, not
only to be stepped on and crushed underfoot, but subject to frost
and disease. You know what this is saying?
He shall grow up, the Christ, the Messiah, the Savior. This
one who is our message, who is our report, he shall grow up. before his father as a tender
plant. This figure shows the simple,
unpromising appearance of Jesus Christ in his incarnation upon
this earth. He was born of a woman. Who pays
any attention to a little 7 pound, 20 inch infant who has just come
forth from the womb and lying wrapped in swaddling clothes
in a manger of hay. Who pays any attention to a sight
like that? That's that tender plan. God,
in the fullness of time, God sent his Son into this world.
How? As a strong seven-foot giant
with broad shoulders, wearing a beautiful white robe, riding
on a white stallion with armies of heaven behind him? That's
not how he came. That's how Israel looked for
him, but that's not how he came. He came into this world born
of a woman, a simple, delicate, helpless, dependent, hardly noticeable
infant lying in a mother's arm. You go and look for a Christ,
you don't go down to a cow stable and find him in a teenage Jewish
woman's arms. That's not where you look for
a king. That's not where you look for a messiah. That's not
where you look for a deliverer. That's not where you look for
a redeemer. You mean that little old infant, that hardly noticeable,
delicate, dependent, helpless infant is our king, our deliverer? Exactly. That's the reason they
didn't believe the report. Look at the next line, he shall
grow up, and that's the way he grew up, as a little old kid
who needed his nose wiped and his diapers changed. Huh? A king? That's right. A little
old barefoot boy running in and out of his mother's kitchen and
in and out of his daddy's carpenter shop, playing in the shavings,
sitting on the sidewalk. He grew up before him as a tender
plant. Now you don't pay any attention
to those little old tender plants there, they're hardly noticeable,
they're so delicate, they're so frail. And look at this next
line, and as a root out of a dry ground. What is that talking
about? This figure has reference to
his family, to his tribe and his nation, Israel, the Jews. I'll show you that if you'll
turn back to chapter 11 of Isaiah. The 11th chapter of Isaiah, verse
1. Now this is talking about his
nation, his tribe, his family. He came from the nation of Israel. Our Lord was a Jew. He came in
fulfillment of all the types which God gave to the Jews through
Moses. He came in fulfillment of all
the prophecies which God gave through the prophets to Israel.
to fulfill all the promises which God made to Israel through his
servants. He came through the tribe of
Judah. He came through the family of
Jesse, who was David's father. He came to sit on the throne
of his father David. He was a Jew. In Isaiah 11, verse
1, And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
and a branch, capital B, a shall grow out of his roots, and the
Spirit," watch this, "...and the Spirit of the Lord shall
rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, counsel
and might, knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord." This is
Christ, this is the Messiah. He shall be a root out of, a
root out of Jesse, out of Judah. But this root came when Jesse
and Judah were a wilderness. His family had been reduced,
the family of David. We know from the genealogies
that Mary was a direct descendant of David. We know from genealogies
that Joseph, who was believed to be Christ's father, who was
not, his foster father, but Joseph came directly from David. And
if Israel had been a nation, if Israel had been recognized,
if Israel had been a people at that time, Joseph would have
been the king, because he was of the family of David. When
they went to Bethlehem by order of Caesar to be taxed, They went
there to Bethlehem, the city of David, because that was their
home city. That was where their tribe was
supposed to go. They were the family of David.
But that family of David, that mighty, majestic, kingly lineage
of David had been reduced to a carpenter and a simple maiden. That was all that was left. And
the tribe of Jesse had lost all of its glory and all but forgotten. And the nation of Israel was
a nation no more. It was in bondage to Rome. The
nation of Israel had no glory. It was a nation in name only,
and therefore the nation of Israel was a dry, barren wilderness. Now if the Messiah had been born
in Rome, if the Messiah had come forth like a king in Rome, the
world would have opened its eyes and taken notice. It would have
been a fleshly notice, a fleshly recognition, and a fleshly glory.
But the Messiah came as a little tender plant, as a little infant
child, born from parents and a tribe and a nation that was
so empty of any glory or any greenness, of any beauty, of
any flower, that it was a barren, dry wilderness, a root out of
a dry ground. Now look at the next line. He
hath no form, nor beauty, comeliness, and when we shall see him? And
when we shall see him? And who hath believed this message?
Who in all the world would believe this? To whom is the power, the
wisdom, the glory, the gospel of God revealed? Who would recognize
this child? this tender plan. Who would recognize
this King of kings and Lord of lords coming forth of a nation,
a tribe of people that now were nothing? Nobody to back him? Nobody to promote him? And when we do see him, when
he finally grows up and comes into public life, here he is and declares himself
to be the Messiah. I am he of whom Moses wrote. I am he who shall reign forever
upon an unchangeable throne. I am he, the Messiah. There is no glory about him. Who is this fellow? There's no
form, no comeliness, no glory, nothing about Him to cause us
to desire Him, to receive Him, to desire that He reign over
us, to desire that He represent us. There's nothing about Him, no
beauty, no glory, that we should desire Him. no glory in his background. He came out of a town of which
it was said, can any good thing come out of that place? He came from a family and a trade
of which it was said, is not this the carpenter, whose mother
and father we know? Isn't that Joseph's boy? That
fellow down there that's claiming to be the Messiah, claiming to
be the Christ, claiming to be the Son of God, isn't he the
son of Mary? Isn't he that fellow? There was
some question about his birth, you know, about whether or not
Mary and Joseph had been married before he was born. Isn't that
the same fellow? Isn't that the fellow that worked in the carpenter's
shop? Isn't that who that is? And listen to John 7. I want
you to turn to John 7. You need to read this. There's
no glory, there's no beauty. John 7, verse 14, that we should
desire him? Look at John 7, verse 14. Now,
about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up to the temple and
taught. And the Jews marveled, saying,
How knoweth this man letters or learning, having never learned? Where did he go to school, this
fellow? Well, he never went to school.
He didn't. What are his credentials, this
fellow claiming to be the Messiah? No glory that we should desire
him. No glory in his appearance. He
had no property. He held no public office. He
didn't have any friends. Nothing about him that looked
like a king, he was just a normal human being clothed in a simple
robe, woven without seam from top to bottom. And there was
surely no glory in his companions. Those people who surrounded him
were publicans and harlots and sinners and shepherds and fishermen. People that have followed him,
who are they? Just a bunch of nobodies. Do
any of the Pharisees believe on him, someone asks? Do any
of the rulers believe on him? Do any of the influential people
believe on him? Well, why should I believe on
him? Look at the next verse. He is
despised, hated. He said, they hated me. They
hated me without a cause. He's rejected of men, rejected
by the religious and rejected by the worldly, rejected by the
high and rejected by the low, rejected by the rulers and rejected
by the common people, rejected by his own brothers, for the
scripture said even his brethren did not believe on him. Rejected by the soldiers, rejected
by Pilate, rejected by Caiaphas the high priest, rejected by
Herod, rejected by the Jews and the people of the Gentiles. Rejected. Yes, and even by his own disciples. Despised and rejected of men. Who believes this message? He
is the Christ. He is the Messiah. He is the
Savior. He is the Redeemer. A man of sorrows, look at this
line, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Somebody wrote, his life was
one continual series of sorrows from the cradle to the grave.
In infancy he was sought by Herod to be killed, he ate his bread
in sorrow earned by the sweat of his brow. He was rejected
by his family, by his neighbors. They sought to throw him off
of a cliff. His nation he met with unbelief,
desertion, and denial from his disciples. He endured personal
temptation from Satan. His sorrow reached a peak in
Gethsemane's garden when he nearly perished under the weight and
burden of our guilt. He was taken to a cross, ridiculed
by the people, by the rulers, even by the thieves between whom
he died, and finally separated from the Father. Dying
a cruel, lonely, suffering death. No man ever experienced total
desertion. total grief, total loneliness. No man ever came from so high
a place to so low an estate. Being equal with God, he humbled
himself and took upon himself the form of a servant and became
obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. I grant Apart from divine revelation,
anybody with good sense will reject this message, because
it does not make any natural sense. It's not the way the world
does things. It's not the way to get the job
done. This is not the way that a king comes. This is not the
way that a conqueror comes. This is a way not to victory,
but to defeat. But God Almighty turns defeat
into victory. That's the reason Isaiah said,
who believes this message? Who believes this message? To
whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? He who grows up as an unnoticed
tinder plant, a root out of a dried dead nation. with no form, no
beauty, no comeliness, no glory, no background, no appearance,
no education, no people, no support, no influence. Despised and hated
of all men, rejected, a man of sorrows who follows a weeping
man. People follow a singing man,
acquainted with grief, and we hear where our face is from him. He was despised, and we esteemed
him not, a man without esteem. Who believes this report? They
have every reason not to. But I want to tell you what this
report is, which men do not believe, and this report to whom God has
been pleased to reveal it to some men, beginning with verse
4. Here is our report. There are
four things that I would point out for you. First of all, Our
report is this, this is our message. Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. We did esteem him stricken, smitten
of God, and afflicted. 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." Our message is this, number one. The griefs
and sorrows, the transgressions and sins, the suffering, the
agony, the death, all these things which he bore, with which he
was identified, were mine. They were mine. He bore our sins
in his body on the tree. He who knew no sin was made sin
for us. Christ is our substitute. That's
our message. The law of God demanded perfect
obedience from me. I haven't presented it. I haven't
produced it. So Jesus Christ left heaven's
glory as my representative, as my head, as my substitute and
came down to this earth, and he was born as a baby, just like
I was born, subject to the law of his parents, the law of the
home, the law of the nation, the moral law of God, and the
ceremonial law of his religion. And he obeyed all those laws,
every precept, every jot, every title of the holy law of God
and the law of man. He obeyed in subjection every
one of those laws in my place. That's why he was born so low.
No human being can ever come to Christ and say, I was born
lower than you were. That's why he suffered. No human
being can come to Christ and say, I suffered more than you.
He was tested in all points as we are. He hungered. He thirst. He knew what it was to hurt.
He knew what it was to be disappointed. He knew what it was to be lonely.
He was tested in every single point as we are, yet without
sin. His brethren, his children, took
flesh and blood. It was necessary that the captain
of their salvation take flesh and blood. This is our report,
that he was born low, not because he was low, but because we were
low. Our Lord suffered, not because
he deserved to suffer, but because we deserved to suffer. Our Lord
was counted as a transgressor, and the Heavenly Father turned
His back on Him, not because He was a transgressor, but He
was representing, numbered with the transgressors, you and me.
You see our report? That's our message, that's our
report, that's the good news. What the law could not do because
of the weakness of the flesh, Jesus Christ came into the world,
God sent his only Son in the likeness of flesh to condemn
sin in the flesh. Everything the Father demanded
of me as a baby, as a boy, as a teenager, as a young man, as
a middle-aged man, as an old man, as a human being, as a son
of Adam, everything God demanded of me, Christ performed as a
man in the flesh. That's our message. Secondly,
here's our message. Verse 6. All we like sheep have gone astray. We're guilty sinners. That's our message. Guilt, guilt,
guilt. It is not my purpose here to
to make you feel good. I know people say, well, I go
to church to feel good. I go to church to be built up,
not to be torn down. It is not our purpose to build
up sinners, to fill them with the pride of life. It is our
purpose to be honest with sinners. And this scripture tells us that
Every one of us have, like sheep, gone astray. You know one chief
characteristic of a sheep? You know what it is? I don't
know much about sheep. I have to read what I find out
about things like this, but they say that the chief characteristic
of a sheep is his foolish determination to go astray. If there's a hole
in the fence, a sheep will find it. If there's a way to wander,
a sheep will find it. And the amazing thing about a
sheep is this. The ox knows his owner, and he'll
come home. The ash knows his master's crib,
and the old dumb donkey will come to eat. The pig may wander
in the daytime, but he'll come home at night. The dog will search
for days to find his master's home. And the cat, you can put
a cat out miles from home and he'll come back home, but not
a sheep. And that's what it says here.
All we generally, like sheep, have gone astray. We've wandered
away from God. Now watch this next line. We
have turned everyone to his own way. That's particularly All
have seen and come short of the glory of God, but we all have
different personalities, we all have different constitutions,
we all have different backgrounds, and therefore we reveal and display
diversities of transgression. One turns to the right, another
turns to the left, but each goes his own way. There was a publican who stood
in the temple and would not so much as lift his eyes to heaven
but smote on his breast and cried, God, be merciful to me, the sinner. He was a man who possibly had
never read God's word and never gone to God's house, probably
a man who drank heavily and cheated and stole, gambled, lied and
cursed. But there was a Pharisee named
Saul of Tarsus who was brought up in religion who was of the
tribe of Benjamin, who was a Hebrew of Hebrews, who probably never
cursed in his life and probably never took God's name in vain
willingly or knowingly, who probably was in the synagogue every Sabbath
day, who knew the scriptures from Genesis to Malachi. But oh, what a rebel, what a
sinner. But there you have two different
sinners. David's sin was not Jacob's sin. Lot's sin was not Abraham's sin,
but all were sinners. And so here's what he's saying,
this is our message, all we like sheep have gone astray, all have
sinned and come short of God's holiness and God's glory, but
each in his own way, each in his own particular way, But thank God the Lord laid on
him the iniquity of us all. Now that's two points of our
message, our report. Number one, he bore our sins. In his life he bore human flesh
and obeyed the law. In his death he bore our transgressions. because all we like sheep had
gone astray, each one his own particular evil way. You pick
your route and I pick mine, but we picked our way. And then the
third, verse 10. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise
him. Now listen to me. This is our
message. His death, his life, his death
was no accident. His birth, his life, all this
sorrow and suffering and this desertion and this hatred, this
was no accident. His death was no failure, no
wasted effort. Everything that Christ did, he
came to do. Everything he said, he came to
say. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him. He was God's lamb from all eternity. His death was prophesied, it
was typified from all eternity. He died not as a martyr, he died
not as a frustrated reformer, he died not as an example, he
died as a substitute. He died as a sin offering. He died as a sacrifice. Just like that high priest of
old went out and picked the lamb from the flock without spot or
blemish. and kept it aside for four or
five days, and then deliberately on the Day of Atonement went
out there and got that spotless lamb, brought it in and slid
its throat, and caught its blood in a basin, and crawled under
the veil into the Holy of Holies and on the mercy seat which covered
the broken law in the Ark of the Covenant. He put that blood
before the Father as a sacrifice, as an atonement, as a sin offering,
deliberately Even so, the Heavenly Father
sent His Son into this world, born of Mary, born of the house
and lineage of David. Our Lord fulfilled every promise,
every type, every prophecy. He showed Himself to be who He
was. And then just as deliberately
God used humanistimus, they nailed Him to a cross. But in nailing
him to a cross, they did what God determined before to be done. Him being delivered, the apostles
said, by the determinate counsel of God, you with wicked hands
have crucified and slain. Herod and Pontius Pilate were
the children of Israel, and the people of the Gentiles were gathered
together against the Lord and against his Christ to determine
what his hand and his counsel determined before to be done.
They were determined to do what they wanted to, but in carrying
out their determination, they carried out the Father's will.
And look at that last line, and the pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his hands, in his nail-pierced hands. In his bleeding
hand, in his wounded hands, the pleasure, the purpose of God
is not frustrated, but it shall prosper in his hand. The Heavenly Father has not put
his purpose into the hands of frail ministers. The Heavenly
Father has not put his eternal purpose in the hands of failing
churches. And Heavenly Father has not put
his purpose and his plans into the hands of even his prophets. He put it all in the hands of
his Son, all of it. And it shall prosper in his hands. Don't feel sorry for God. When
our Lord was on his way to the cross and the people weeped and
lamented, he turned and said to them, Don't weep for me. Weep
for yourselves and for your children. If you have any sympathy this
morning, any weeping, any pity, don't pity the cure. Pity the
disease. Don't weep over the cure. Don't
weep over the remedy. Weep over the disease. Don't
weep over the king! Weep over those who shall hear
him say, I never knew you. I never knew you. is, look at
verse 11, what is our message? Fourthly, his death is an effectual
offering. Look at verse 11, he shall see
of the travail of his soul. What is travail? If you, I'm
not a Greek student, don't claim to be. But I'll tell you this,
anybody can buy them a Greek lexicon, look up words, And this
word here is birth pain, that's what it is, the travail of a
woman with child. That's what he's talking about
here. He shall see the travail of his soul. You see, he made
his soul an offering for sin. It was his soul that suffered. Our Lord's body suffered too.
He died. He shed real blood. But his soul
was exceeding sorrowful unto death. His soul was made an offering
for sin. That's what it says there in
verse 10, I shall make his soul. Our Lord had to suffer in soul
because you and I in hell without Christ shall suffer body and
soul. And so when the Lord Jesus, just
like a mother bears a child for nine months, goes in the delivery
room, goes through travail, through birth pains, and then they take
her in a room, and in a few moments the nurse comes in, puts a little
baby in her arms, and she sees the travail of her body, and
she's satisfied. Satisfied. And our Lord Jesus
Christ went through birth pains to bring forth children. He went
through travail of soul to give birth to you and me, spiritual
birth, eternal life. And I'll tell you this, he got
no dead children. There's no miscarriages in his
travail, and no stillborn children. He shall see the travail of his
soul and be happy. And be happy. Can you imagine
a doctor coming in to a mother and said, I'm sorry my dear,
but all that suffering was in vain. Your baby's dead. All of those months of sacrifice
and suffering, all in vain. And all of those pains and agonies
that you've gone through through the past hours, I'm sorry that
you failed. Can you imagine the Heavenly
Father saying to him who came down here on purpose, took our
place, bore our sins and sorrows, went to the cross and gave himself,
went through the agonies and travail of soul, the suffering
of which you and I could never even comprehend, and then to
hear the Heavenly Father say when it's all over, I'm sorry
my son, you died in vain. Don't give me that. I know better
than that. he shall see the travail of his
soul and be satisfied. And by his knowledge shall my
righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities." Therefore, verse 12, he's not
a tender plant now, he's a reigning I'll divide him a portion with
the great, the greatest of great, the King of kings, the Lord of
lords. And he shall divide the spoil with the strong." Why? Because he poured out his soul
to death. He was numbered, identified with
the transgressors. He bared the sin of many, and
right now he's our mediator. And don't you let anybody take
that away from you. Yes, you come boldly before God's
Son of Grace, but you come through Christ, because everything you
have is in Christ. Everything you'll ever receive
from the Father is in Christ. Everything you know is in Christ.
The robe of righteousness with which you're clothed is Christ.
The blood which is upon the mercy seat of glow is not yours, but
his. His. Thank God he intercedes for us.
He makes our prayers acceptable. They're so full of sin. Our Father,
bless the message. I will thank Thee for Thy precious
Word, how enlightening, how enriching, how illuminating, how satisfying,
how comforting, what great joy Thy Word brings to our hearts.
We can rest in Christ. We thank You that You revealed

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