Isaiah 53:10-12
“Yet
it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall
prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he
shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and
was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the
sin of many, and makes intercession for the
transgressors.”
This is such an important message God the Father was willing
to crush His Son, His only Son, so that you and I could have the choice of redemption. The Holman Study Bible on page 1211 has this
to say on verses 10-11, “That God was pleased to crush the Servant sounds
mean-spirited, but His pleasure is explained by the fact that the Servant’s
suffering will justify many. What seems
harsh will turn out to be gracious. The
Servant’s pain, suffering, and death will function like a restitution offering
(Lv 5:14-6:7; 7:1-10) – a sacrifice offered when there was a “transgression
against the sacred things of the Lord” (Longman, Immanuel in Our Place, p.
99). The sin of God’s people was such a
transgression.
For years the enemy would say in a voice that sounded much
like my own, “Bob Jesus is God, and Jesus did this not as a man but as God,” it
was not true, for we are told that Jesus the God man never acted as God while
in the flesh but went to the Father for everything. He was without fault as a man, He was pure
and yet as man God the Father took His full fury of sin out on His Son, the
Servant, Isaiah is telling us about.
Many a person has been crucified but none of them for the sins of the
world. This is made clear to us in
Ephesians 1:7-10, “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our
trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in
all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery
of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things
in heaven and things on earth.”
The crucifixion without the resurrection leaves no hope, a
dead Servant but no Redeemer, no Salvation.
Or as stated in 1Corinthians 15:13, “But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ
has been raised.” In fact, the
apostle Paul goes on to state in verse 17, “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and
you are still in your sins.” I
am so glad Paul does not leave us with that as the last word, but in verse 22
states the following; “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made
alive.” It comes down to this,
will you choose life or death?
From
the Back Porch,
Bob
Rice
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