DISCOURSE: 966 MEN’S NEGLECT OF THE GOSPEL Isaiah 53:1.— _Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed!_ WHEREVER we turn our eyes, we find much occasion for sorrow and lamentation. The miseries which sin has brought into the world, and which are daily multiplied by the... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 967 THE CHARACTERS AND TREATMENT OF THE MESSIAH Isaiah 53:2. _For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness: and, when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 968 THE TRUE CAUSE OF OUR LORD’S SUFFERINGS Isaiah 53:4. _Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet 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 w... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 969 THE MEANS OF MAN’S RESTORATION TO GOD Isaiah 53:6. _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._ THE lost state of man by nature, and his recovery through the blood of Christ, are the two principal... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 970 CHRIST’S BEHAVIOUR UNDER HIS SUFFERINGS Isaiah 53:7. _He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened, not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth._ THE preaching of Christ crucified has in eve... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 971 OUR LORD’S TRIAL AND EXECUTION Isaiah 53:8. _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_. IT has been generally thought, especially among heathe... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 972 THE FATHER’S CONDUCT TOWARDS THE INNOCENT JESUS EXPLAINED AND VINDICATED Isaiah 53:9. _He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to gr... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 973 CHRIST’S DEATH A CONDITION OF OUR SALVATION Isaiah 53:10. _When thou shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand._ THERE are in the Holy Scriptures many apparent contradictions, whic... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 974 CHRIST’S SATISFACTION IN HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 53:11. _He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied._ THE prospect of saving a ruined world was a strong inducement with our Lord to undertake the office of mediating between God and them, and afforded him rich consolatio... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 976 THE FRUIT OF CHRIST’S DEATH AND INTERCESSION Isaiah 53:12.—_Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, an... [ Continue Reading ]