THE PASSION OF CHRIST
Isaiah 52:13-53:12
Part 3
THE REVELATION OF GOD’S HEART
Isaiah 53:10-12 (RSV)
Good News Christian Fellowship
March 2006
INTRODUCTION
We have learned in the last two messages the Suffering of the Servant of God and the Pleasure of God in bruising His Son. It is the Holy One who presented Jesus to SATISFY His own holy demand for full justice. And the son freely obeyed the Father, expressing his unity with the justice and mercy of the Father in the costly undertaking of our sin and God forsakenness.
So this afternoon, I invite and urge you brothers and sisters to listen carefully as I try to put before you the desire of God and the satisfaction of His Servant Jesus Christ. They have ONE HEART in this matter: what one desire satisfies the other. And what satisfies one is the desire of the other.
The Passion of Christ reveals the HEART OF GOD.
Read verses 10-12
In these verses we will see five things that reveal the HEART OF GOD.
I. “Yet, it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief.” His HEART is that His Servant- His son be crushed in our place. Those words tells us that there is nothing more that needs to be done to be paid for sins. We have a blessed statement here. That is God is to dispel all our fears. God is satisfied with the sacrifice. God is satisfied with the blood shedding of the blood of Christ.
You have mercy of God. All that stand against you, all that call for your condemnation, God is yet SATISFY to bruise His Son. He was GLAD and PLEASED to see it. That’s the HEART of God.
God bruised Him, himself? Yes indeed. It was not the hand of Roman soldier. Yes, perhaps they are the instrument of it. But it’s not in their own volition to do it. It was the HAND of God. God was PLEASED to bruised Jesus Christ.
Are you able to put words in your HEART that you are SATISFIED with Jesus Christ? God is pleased with Jesus Christ, now He is pleased with you. Are you SATISFIED with Jesus who bore our sins away?
II. “He shall see his offspring.” In other words, He see a saved seed. We do not have to guess who his seed are. His seed is the generation (Ps. 22:30) that shall serve him, the whole body of God’s elect. It says that God sees the salvation of those who belong to Christ. He see our salvation and it pleases Him. God is gladdened in His HEART to see you brothers and sisters delivered from sins.
God is delighted in His HEART to see you out of every condemnation. It PLEASES the HEART of God that you shall DWELL with Him forever in His presence.
He shall see them, everyone of them...
• Justified!
• Regenerated!
• Sanctified!
• And Glorified!
• John 12:24, 32
111. “He shall prolong his days.” The Servant rose from the dead. That simply means that, once he has by his death fully satisfied the justice of God and put away the sins of his people, he will be raised from the dead to declare in the most public, undeniable manner possible that all for whom he died are forever justified (Romans 4:25)
After the Servant faced the ultimate humiliation, God the father eventually exalted him. In God’s time exaltation eventually occur (Phil. 2:9).
Being raised from the dead, he shall then be exalted and glorified to give eternal life to all his redeemed ones.
• John 17:2
• Romans 14:9
God sees the salvation of the people of God. He knows within His own mind and HEART that we are safe and sound. Now not one of us will be lost. God is pleased to see His child brought to Him by Christ.
Are you glad that Christ saves you and say, “Heaven is mine forever”?
1V. “…my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.” - the next line of verse 11: my servant will justify many.” If he bore our sin in death, therefore sin has been punished. And if our sin has been punished, we bear it no more. And if he bears it no more, we are without guilt before the father. And if we are without guilt before God, we are justified, that is acquitted, declared righteous.
The statement is very plain. Jesus Christ is an absolute and complete perfection has fulfills every law. But more than that, every possible wish that will please the HEART of God.
Jesus Christ is not only a keeper of the Law, he was a FULFILLER of every PLEASURE of God. He do this because of His love to the Father, with perfection and fullness.
“My servant justify many” simply saying is that same fulfillment is that what He has imputed for me. God sees me now wearing the very righteousness of Christ. The same LOVE that Christ had for the Father, God sees me as my possession. He see me being love in that way. That’s the HEART of God.
You don’t need to wonder if you are forgiven. Jesus Christ had imputed to your account all that possible to do to please the Father.
Now read verse 12
V. "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, and made intercession for the transgressors."
Here is a declaration of Christ exaltation and glory.
These refer to justified sinners. They are children of God. And they are now victors with messiah in his triumph over death and the devil and all that is evil. The servant has defeated the power of sin to condemn by acquitting the guilty. He has defeated the power of sin to corrupt by making children of God out of children of wrath.
This he did “not merely in a petitionary way, but by presenting himself, his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, pleading the merits of these and calling for, in a way of justice and legal demand, all the blessings which were stipulated in the everlasting covenant, between him and the Father, to be given to his people in consequence of his sufferings and death.”
John Gill
God is satisfied with a pleading Savior. He made intercession for the transgressors. Who is that? It’s you. It’s me. All of us. Are we not? We are the transgressors. And Christ stand up for the sinners.
All that were against the Lord and breaker of His Law, Jesus Christ has and well stand up for. Amazing things! Christ stands up and owns you and me.. He stand up and when all the accounting time come forth, and Christ answer and says,” They are mine and I plead before the Father, thou you will forgive them for my sake and then allowed them indeed to come to your presence because I paid for their transgressions.”
But he does more than that. As he intercede, He intercede that a portion that was to be divided to Him among the great might given to us as well. That’s what Christ died for. That’s the HEART of God.
Read John 17:24
Christ is pleading that you and I would know a portion of that which He received for being a perfect righteous Servant of God. God is pleased to give Him all that He ask for. That is the very HEART of God. The Father is well PLEASED of the intercessory work of Jesus Christ for us. God is pleased to give Him all that He ask for.
REFLECTION
Now you see what God has been up to in this great and awful work of the Servant. He is providing for our acquittal. We have all sinned and brought reproach on the glory of the Lord. Left to ourselves we will come under His terrible wrath and everlasting judgment.
But that is not His HEART. It PLEASES the HEART of God that you shall DWELL with Him forever in His presence. This is because of the PASSION OF CHRIST. And for His GLORY.
I have to ask you.
1. Are you able to put words in your heart that you are satisfied with Jesus Christ?
2. Are you satisfied with Jesus who take your sins away?
3. Are you satisfied with the intercessory work of Christ?
4. Are you satisfied of what He is gaining for you?
Come before the Lord in prayer now, thanking God for who He is and for willingly offering His son, as a sacrifice for your sin.
Let us Pray.
