WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:27.600 In the light of thy love, on every shore, 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:27.600 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:37.000 O Lord Jesus, I find my home. 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:45.000 The Lord's guilty sinner, the dead of God, 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:55.000 Yet redeem our glory love. 00:00:55.000 --> 00:01:04.000 Glory love, glory love, 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:14.000 The love of my Savior come heaven above. 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:23.000 Glory love, glory love, 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:29.000 I long to be worthy of 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:36.000 My Father's guilty sinner, the dead of God, 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:40.000 The love of my Savior come heaven above. 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:44.000 The love of my Savior come heaven above. 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:53.000 In the light of thy love, on every shore, 00:01:53.000 --> 00:02:01.000 My Father is found in humility. 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:08.000 In sin and in pride and in shame, 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:20.000 I see in the light of Calvary love. 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:27.000 Calvary love, 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:29.000 Calvary love, 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.000 Calvary love, 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:33.000 Calvary love, 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:35.000 In the light of thy love, on Calvary, 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.000 Calvary love, on every shore, 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:42.000 In the light of thy love, on Calvary, 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:44.000 The holy of all things of earth I see, 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:46.000 O Lord, precious Lord, for thy pure and deep, 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:56.000 To be told us by Calvary love. 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:01.000 Calvary love, 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:04.000 Calvary love, 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:09.000 Calvary love, 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:25.000 Calvary love, 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:29.000 Calvary love, 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:36.000 My Savior from heaven afar. 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:47.000 Calvary love, Calvary love, 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:59.000 I long to be worthy of Calvary love. 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:15.000 Calvary love, Calvary love, 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:24.000 Calvary love. 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:45.000 Calvary love, Calvary love, Calvary love. 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:52.000 Show me the cross of Calvary. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:59.000 Open my eyes to see. 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:06.000 Thy dying form in agony, 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:14.000 Lord, make it real to me. 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:25.000 Lord, make Calvary real to me. 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:34.000 Jesus, dying in agony, 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:45.000 Thy great sacrifice let me see. 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:58.000 Lord, make Calvary real to me. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:05.000 Show me the cross of Calvary. 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:13.000 Open my ears to thy plea. 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:23.000 Father, forgive them, can it be? 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:28.000 Lord, make it real to me. 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:43.000 Lord, make Calvary real to me. 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:53.000 Jesus, dying in agony, 00:06:53.000 --> 00:07:04.000 Thy great sacrifice let me see. 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:19.000 Lord, make Calvary real to me. 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.000 Lord, make it real to me. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:26.000 Lord, make it real to me. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:33.000 Lo, at the cross of Calvary, 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:40.000 Bald is my heart as I see. 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:43.000 Grace that can save me. 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.000 Grace that can save eternally. 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:55.000 Lord, make it real to me. 00:07:55.000 --> 00:08:05.000 Lord, make Calvary real to me. 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:16.000 Jesus, dying in agony, 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:26.000 Thy great sacrifice let me see. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:43.000 Lord, make Calvary real to me. 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:08.000 Lord, make Calvary real to me. 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:11.000 We come this morning to the last lesson 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:14.000 from the 53rd chapter of Isaiah. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:47.000 The prophecy of the 53rd chapter by the Holy Spirit was so different for the Jew to listen to 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:48.000 Isaiah. 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.000 And Isaiah had to say, 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:58.000 You're not going to believe this. 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:06.000 We very calmly accept the cross of Christ 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:12.000 in its reality because we look back. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:17.000 If you had never heard of crucifixion, 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:21.000 if in all of your religious teaching you were looking for a Messiah, 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:26.000 you certainly wouldn't look one to come to die 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:31.000 and to go through what Isaiah prophesied. 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:33.000 Who hath believed our report? 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:38.000 Nobody is going to. 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.000 To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:46.000 Is this the kind of salvation that's going to get us out of this mess? 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:50.000 Then he describes him. 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:58.000 I would remind you he describes him in the insignificance of his coming, 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:02.000 in the obscurity of his growth, 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:08.000 and in the amazement of his revelation. 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:11.000 For when he does come on the scene in about his 30th year, 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:16.000 he is not accepted as the arm of the Lord, the deliverer. 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:19.000 He is despised. 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:21.000 He is rejected. 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:26.000 A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:34.000 And God deals with him as one who has leprosy. 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:38.000 For the sixth Sunday, I repeat my statement. 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:47.000 I do not believe that when the Lord Jesus Christ walked this earth as the Son of Man without blemish, 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:51.000 having laid aside his deity, 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:57.000 that he literally knew when he was going to die. 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:09.000 For the prophecy of Isaiah 53 picks up a word which gives us some consideration when it says he was smitten of God. 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:13.000 The word smitten is the leprosy word. 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:19.000 And it means before that time he never realized when it was going to take place. 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:22.000 When the burden of sin was going to be put on his back. 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:28.000 When he would be led to the cross which was divinely planned before the ages even began. 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:34.000 But I personally believe sometime just before Gethsemane, 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:40.000 the Lord Jesus Christ through the word of the Father was told, 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:43.000 you are now going to die. 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:48.000 Smitten of God. 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:55.000 The prophet gives man's explanation for the death of Christ to the Israelites. 00:12:55.000 --> 00:13:02.000 But he also gives us God's explanation beginning at verse 5 and verse 6. 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:09.000 And he gives us Christ's part in verse 7 and in verse 8 and in verse 9. 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:15.000 In verse 10, he gives us God's part in the crucifixion. 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:20.000 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.000 He hath put him to grief when thou shalt make a soul an offering for sin. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.000 We covered that last Sunday morning. 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:32.000 The body of Christ is important because that is what was crucified. 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:38.000 But it is the soul of Christ in the heavenly altar that was slain for the sin offering. 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:42.000 Pictured in the Old Testament sacrifices. 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:45.000 Let me stop this morning. 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:50.000 Christ died for all sin. 00:13:50.000 --> 00:14:00.000 While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:01.000 Christ died for us. 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.000 It doesn't say selective sinners. 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.000 It doesn't say selective sinners. 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:11.000 He became the sin offering typed in the Old Testament sacrifices on the Day of Atonement. 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:15.000 He needed no bullock for his own atonement. 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:20.000 He was only the goat and the scapegoat of the sin offering that went into the Holy of Holies. 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:35.000 But as Christ hung on Calvary and as his soul and his body were dead, the Father in Heaven was crucifying the soul as a lamb or a sang goat for the sin offering of the world. 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.000 And he treated him that way. 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:43.000 Now beginning at verse 10, we come this morning to the last part. 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:48.000 The prophet tells us the results of Calvary. 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.000 The triumph of Calvary. 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:56.000 What good was it all? 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.000 We have covered three phrases. 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:02.000 He shall see a seed. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:06.000 Before, the question was, who's going to declare his generation? 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:09.000 He died at a magnificent age. 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:13.000 What he had done in his career was going to be left undone. 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:15.000 He really has no one to leave. 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:16.000 He has no family. 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:17.000 He has no sons. 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:18.000 He has no seed. 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:20.000 He was never married. 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.000 Who's going to declare his generation? 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:25.000 No, he said. 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:34.000 The result of Calvary is that Christ shall see his seed children born of God. 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.000 Born by the word of God. 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:38.000 He shall prolong his days. 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:39.000 Resurrection. 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:43.000 The third phrase of verse 10. 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:45.000 The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.000 I'm going to gloss over that this morning because I don't have time. 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:57.000 But I would remind you that redemption is at God's pleasure, not man's. 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:05.000 You read in Ephesians chapter 1 and chapter 2 and Philippians chapter 2 of the pleasure of God. 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:08.000 According to his good pleasure. 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:12.000 We don't understand it as man. 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:18.000 But God says one of the results of Calvary is that Christ will pick up the work of the pleasure of God. 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.000 Not just the mind of God, but the heart of God. 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:24.000 And the pleasure of God shall prosper. 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.000 I'm to verse 11 and 12 this morning. 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.000 Very interesting verses. 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:38.000 You realize that the result of Calvary is all seen by Christ. 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:42.000 He shall see his seed. 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.000 He shall prolong his days. 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:49.000 He shall prosper in the pleasure of the hand of God. 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:53.000 Now notice the fourth phrase of the triumph of Calvary. 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:57.000 He shall see the travail of his soul. 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.000 Isn't that interesting? 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.000 It's a woman's word, isn't it? 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:09.000 The writer of the word of God uses the word travail in regards to childbirth. 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:14.000 I think personally it's a little sad that it's translated travail. 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:21.000 My personal opinion is it should have been translated toil. 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:29.000 The work that he went through on Calvary. 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:34.000 The toil he went through on Calvary. 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:39.000 The question is for the moment, was it worthwhile? 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:44.000 Why does the prophet put this phrase before he puts the other three? 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:50.000 Why didn't he say first, the result of all that I've prophesied, 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:55.000 this unbelievable report of a crucifixion of a deliverer which you won't like 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:59.000 because he doesn't come the way you want him to come? 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:01.000 Why didn't he put number one, 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:06.000 he shall see the toil, the travail, the work of his soul? 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.000 Because that would be logical. 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:14.000 May I remind you of something that we usually don't consider. 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:21.000 We read our Bible as if it's written totally to us and it is, right? 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:30.000 But I would remind you class, that the cross of Calvary had to satisfy God. 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:40.000 And that's what the prophet is leading up to. 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.000 You realize that the cross of Christ had to satisfy Christ? 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:48.000 He shall see the travail of his soul. 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.000 He was looking past the cross. 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:53.000 Now all of you know Romans 12, 1 and 2, don't you? 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.000 Seeing we are encompassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:01.000 let us lay aside every weight and sin which does so easily beset us, 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:05.000 and let us look unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith, 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:08.000 we through for the, what's the next word? 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:11.000 The joy that was set before him. 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:15.000 That's what Isaiah is writing about. 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:20.000 He was looking past the cross. 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:22.000 All of a sudden the prophet says, 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:24.000 it's going to have a seed, he's going to prolong his days, 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:27.000 he shall prosper in the pleasure of the Lord's work. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.000 And all of this is based on travail, 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:34.000 and somebody has to be satisfied. 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:38.000 Look at the phrase. 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:44.000 He shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:47.000 Isn't that interesting? 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:55.000 Christ's vision of the cross of which he was a part 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:58.000 is the subject of contentment. 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:02.000 What was he satisfied with? 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:05.000 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:13.000 Is it all worthwhile? 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:19.000 Is this unbelievable report really going to be the way it is? 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:24.000 Am I the accepted deliverer? 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:28.000 Am I going to be satisfied? 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:33.000 No man can understand the phrase travail. 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:37.000 Only a woman can. 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:40.000 Many times ladies say to me, 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:42.000 I can't identify with Christ. 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:43.000 He's a man. 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:44.000 Yeah, you can. 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:49.000 As a mother you can identify with him. 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:56.000 Every lady looks beyond the birth of a child. 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:58.000 To the child. 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:04.000 The satisfaction is not in the travail or the toil or the work. 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:08.000 The satisfaction is in the result. 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:13.000 And after a few years you may not be so satisfied with the result. 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:14.000 Christ. 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:15.000 Christ. 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:29.000 From the moment he was smitten of God with the spiritual leprosy of man called sin. 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:33.000 Went to Gethsemane and sweated out. 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:34.000 And said, 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:39.000 Father if it's possible remove this cup from me. 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:43.000 Nevertheless not my will but thine be done. 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:45.000 And it wasn't removed. 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:50.000 And all of a sudden he had to look beyond the cross. 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:51.000 Humanly speaking. 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:58.000 To the satisfaction. 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:02.000 And the vision of Christ was. 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:05.000 He shall be satisfied. 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:07.000 Complete triumph. 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:09.000 Completeness. 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:12.000 No more sacrifices on the altar. 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:16.000 No more animals to be brought to the temple. 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:22.000 No more fellowship with God based on what man has to do that God has asked him to do. 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:24.000 He's content. 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:29.000 And the Hebrews writer said when he had once for all offered himself for sin he sat down. 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:32.000 Except. 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:36.000 Remember. 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:39.000 When one of the ladies said to him. 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:42.000 And wanted to touch him he said don't touch me. 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:52.000 I've not yet ascended to my father to present the accepted living sacrifice. 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:55.000 My personal opinion is. 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:59.000 That was the illustration of the scapegoat. 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:06.000 Because it was the father who slew the soul on the heavenly altar for the sin offering. 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:12.000 But then he had to go to the father alive as the scapegoat. 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:17.000 So that the father could put his hand on him and send him outside the camp. 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:21.000 Bearing the burden of the sin for which the other goat had been sacrificed. 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:28.000 So he says to the lady who wants to touch him. 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:30.000 Don't touch me yet. 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:31.000 I've not ascended to the father. 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:34.000 The sacrifice is complete. 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:37.000 I have paid the penalty of the sin offering. 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:42.000 But I must as a living offering bear the burden of the scapegoat. 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:46.000 And the father must accept that. 00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:47.000 Accepted. 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:50.000 Accepted. 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:54.000 I would like to think. 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:58.000 That in the divine mind there is a little comedy. 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:07.000 As the father stands or sits in heaven. 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:11.000 And says of the sin offering slaying the soul. 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:12.000 It's good. 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:13.000 It's good. 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:15.000 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:23.000 So the son as the living scapegoat rings his hand. 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:28.000 And with the smile of the divine face says to Satan. 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:30.000 You've lost. 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:38.000 Right? 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:43.000 I'm satisfied. 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:43.000 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.000 You tried to kill me when I was born through Herod. 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:54.000 You tried to tempt me when I started my ministry. 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:01.000 You tried to get the Pharisees to crucify or kill me before the time came. 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:07.000 You tried to get my disciples to wander away but they came back. 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:09.000 And I'd like to say to you Satan. 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:10.000 I'm satisfied. 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:11.000 I'm satisfied. 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:18.000 And I would remind you this morning. 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:23.000 That he was satisfied that salvation was now available. 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:24.000 Men can be saved. 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:27.000 Simply, huh? 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:29.000 Simply, huh? 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:32.000 Well, go on with me. 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:37.000 Now we come to Isaiah and his theology. 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:43.000 For at the beginning I said to you, 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:47.000 He made himself through the Father an offering for sin. 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:55.000 When the priest on the day of atonement took that goat and slew it and sprinkled the blood before the veil and on the horns of the altar. 00:25:55.000 --> 00:26:01.000 He then took it on the inside and put it over the mercy seat and sprinkled it there. 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:06.000 And he made an atonement for all the children of Israel, not just some. 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:14.000 Now, so we come today to a very difficult lesson. 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:19.000 Then everybody is saved because God is satisfied, right? 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:25.000 Some people would like to have us think that. 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:36.000 For there's hardly a person unless he has no association with God or the Bible at all who does not know about Calvary. 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:43.000 The world may appear dumb, but when it comes to Easter, they're not. 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:47.000 You ask them, what's it about? 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:48.000 What's the cross? 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:50.000 That's the place where Christ was crucified. 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:52.000 You do it like you do with children. 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:53.000 Who was Christ? 00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:54.000 He was the Son of God. 00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:55.000 He came to earth. 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:56.000 Why did he come? 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:57.000 He came to die. 00:26:57.000 --> 00:26:58.000 Why did he die? 00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:59.000 He died for the sins of men. 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:00.000 They all know that. 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:06.000 All of man's sin is taken care of. 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.000 He was wounded for our transgression. 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:09.000 He was bruised for our iniquity. 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:12.000 The chastisement of his peace was laid upon him. 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:14.000 All we like sheep are gone astray. 00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:17.000 We've turned everyone to his own way. 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:25.000 And I would remind you, he says, that it was God who bruised him and made him an offering for sin. 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:35.000 The atonement day of the priest on October the 7th was for all the sin of Israel. 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:38.000 But you are aware of something. 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:41.000 All Israel wasn't saved. 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:55.000 Because you are aware that the birth, the meal, the peace, the sin, the trespass offering had to be practiced by the individual Israelite, at least the man for his family. 00:27:55.000 --> 00:28:04.000 And he had to do that individually to prove that he believed the day of atonement was accomplished for him personally. 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:08.000 And there were many Israelites who never darkened the door of the temple. 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:12.000 The availability of the day of atonement was there. 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:15.000 The priest had made atonement for all their sin. 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:19.000 But he never lived what he believed was available for him. 00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:20.000 He never accepted it. 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:22.000 Now you come to that in the verse we're in. 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:39.000 When the Lord saw his work hanging on the cross, the sweat, the blood, the crucifixion, the body broken, he saw his soul in offering for sin, he went to the depths of hell for three days. 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:43.000 He was satisfied. 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:50.000 The plan of the Trinity had been carried out without a hitch. 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:53.000 And he could sit down contented. 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:56.000 But notice something. 00:28:56.000 --> 00:29:01.000 By his, what's the next word class? 00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:03.000 Out loud. 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:04.000 Whose knowledge? 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:12.000 You can read. 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:13.000 You can read. 00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:15.000 Huh? 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:18.000 By whose knowledge class? 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:21.000 Not God's. 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:26.000 Christ's knowledge. 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:33.000 The knowledge of what he had done. 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:37.000 The knowledge of what was acceptable. 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:40.000 The knowledge which was complete. 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:47.000 The knowledge which now made the avenue open for every person to come to the sin offering. 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:50.000 If they don't, it's still there. 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:57.000 By his knowledge, that's Christ. 00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:59.000 Having seen the toil he's gone through. 00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:03.000 And having seen that he himself is satisfied that he's accomplished it. 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:06.000 By this knowledge he says something. 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:09.000 By his knowledge shall my righteous servant. 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:10.000 That's a name for Christ. 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:15.000 It's amazing that Isaiah uses the form servant. 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:16.000 He uses the word slave. 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:20.000 He identifies him as the righteous servant. 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:23.000 Because he has been righteous. 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:25.000 And he has accepted our sin. 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.000 He became sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made to righteousness. 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:35.000 There is not the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. 00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:39.000 I would question you this morning class to read the illustration and the prophecy. 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:40.000 Look what he says. 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:42.000 He shall see the toil of his soul. 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:43.000 I like that. 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:44.000 I didn't stop. 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:48.000 Kindly notice Christ did not see the toil of his body. 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:57.000 And shall be satisfied. 00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:03.000 By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify all. 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:06.000 Right? 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:10.000 Is that what your Bible says? 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:12.000 What does it say? 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:14.000 Why doesn't it say all? 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:21.000 Should I tell you why it says? 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:25.000 Because not all will be saved. 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:31.000 The availability of the sin offering is there. 00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:39.000 But the justification is for those who accept. 00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:46.000 Kindly notice salvation is not automatic. 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:52.000 Let me boggle your mind because there are some scholars. 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:56.000 You that are in the Hebrew class need to be kept on your toes. 00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:00.000 Maybe. 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:03.000 What did I say? 00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:04.000 Maybe. 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:06.000 Don't quote me. 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:11.000 Maybe election has to do with justification. 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:20.000 Just maybe. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:23.000 Kindly notice. 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:26.000 It is the son that does the justifying. 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:27.000 Right? 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:33.000 By his knowledge my righteous servant shall justify many. 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:38.000 Just because Christ died as a sin offering from all does not justify all. 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:43.000 You can only be justified by the servant who was the offering for sin. 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:45.000 And it has to be on a personal basis. 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:46.000 He will obey says. 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:48.000 And it is very interesting. 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:55.000 For he uses the word justification in the light of the last phrase where he says for he shall bear their iniquities. 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:57.000 I am going to be technical for a moment. 00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:00.000 He only bears the iniquities of those he justifies. 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:07.000 He bears the sin of all. 00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:12.000 Now he has become specific. 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:17.000 It may be a very homely point. 00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:20.000 But I don't believe the Bible is a hot spot. 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:33.000 If you are familiar with the offerings I would remind you iniquities were forgiven by a trespass offering. 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:35.000 Not a sin offering. 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:43.000 And a trespass offering was for specific sin of individuals. 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:46.000 In other words it became personal. 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:51.000 And so the prophet says to us the triumph of the cross is. 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:54.000 That Christ shall have children. 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:55.000 He shall have a family. 00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:58.000 He shall be the head of a family of a spiritual generation. 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:01.000 He shall prolong his days. 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:04.000 He shall work the pleasure of God to his own prosperity. 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:10.000 He shall look at the work of his soul which went through all of this agony as a sin offering. 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:13.000 And by his knowledge of what he's done. 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:18.000 He shall justify who will come to them personally and specifically. 00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:25.000 And that's justification. 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:35.000 Therefore we are justified by grace through faith. 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:42.000 That justification is nothing more class than the ability to stand before God. 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:47.000 Let me ask you a question. 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:54.000 How can sinful man stand before God? 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:56.000 He can't. 00:34:56.000 --> 00:35:03.000 And the Jews looking for a Messiah, a deliverer to be dropped in their lap. 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:11.000 Are being taught by the prophet that this deliverer is going to do something that's unbelievable and almost unacceptable. 00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:16.000 This is the deliverer. 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:23.000 This is how we got the continuous ability to stand before God. 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:31.000 Why didn't God just come down in the flesh, absorb all the Israelites of sin, set up his kingdom and say, now we got it made. 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:44.000 Why doesn't God in his grace and his love say to total humanity, my son died for you as the sin offering. 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:48.000 Therefore everything's absorbed and we set up the kingdom of God and here we are. 00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:51.000 He didn't do it that way. 00:35:51.000 --> 00:36:04.000 He says to you, if you want to be justified, the ability to stand before God, it has to come by the servant who died. 00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:07.000 And all won't come that way. 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:11.000 Only many will. 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:14.000 And that's where he is. 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:17.000 By his knowledge of what he's done. 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:19.000 Here sits Christ. 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:24.000 And the Father says, it's all finished. 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:26.000 He sits down. 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:28.000 He's content. 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:30.000 Man can now be saved. 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:32.000 Satan is defeated. 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:38.000 Sin has been covered. 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:42.000 God is not willing that any should perish. 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:46.000 But that all should come to what? 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:47.000 Repentance. 00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:50.000 The ability to be justified. 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:53.000 Let me ask you a question before I proceed. 00:36:53.000 --> 00:37:00.000 Can you stand before God this morning? 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:05.000 If God would drop down in visible form for the moment, what would you do? 00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:09.000 Crawl under the seat? 00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:10.000 Yeah, you would. 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:16.000 If you didn't have Christ standing between you and him. 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:21.000 I'd like to see that happen sometime. 00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:24.000 Wouldn't you? 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:38.000 By his knowledge, my righteous servant shall justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities, those who are. 00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:41.000 Who are justified. 00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:43.000 Verse 12. 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:58.000 Verse 12 is probably, in prophecy, the greatest controversial fun verse in the Bible. 00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:01.000 Let me read for you this morning. 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:06.000 Therefore, will I divide him a portion with the great? 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:08.000 Now, it's a very difficult verse. 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:13.000 You are going to say to me, well, pastor, that refers to Christ. 00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:19.000 Well, in our King James Version, which is an exceptionally good version. 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:28.000 If I would read it right, the I would be those who have been justified from their iniquities. 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:38.000 Or if that is a parenthetical phrase, then the I is God speaking of Christ. 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:47.000 Now, I am sorry to thwart your simple minds in the reading you've done on this verse. 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:53.000 But I have a feeling that the prophet is telling us something that is tremendously important. 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:59.000 You are aware the phrase possibly could be an illustration. 00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:02.000 It may not be a direct statement. 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:06.000 Or it may not be a prophetic coming historical fact. 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:08.000 Let me remind you of something. 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:12.000 The phrase is just an expression of full victory. 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:14.000 For the conqueror has conquered something. 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:19.000 And I would ask you this morning. 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:22.000 Who can share the victory of the cross with Christ? 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:23.000 Nobody. 00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:30.000 He is the all-conquering savior. 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:31.000 Am I right or wrong? 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:38.000 Then he doesn't share it as the illustration goes with the conquering victories. 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:44.000 I think personally, I could whet your appetite by showing you something. 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:45.000 Let's try it, shall we? 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:49.000 Therefore, will I divide him a portion with the great. 00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:51.000 It probably speaks of Christ. 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:58.000 And he is now back to his divine position with the Father and the Holy Spirit. 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:06.000 But, he shall divide the spoil. 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:09.000 Now, the question is, what is the spoil? 00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:12.000 Man. 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:19.000 Who's he going to get man from? 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:25.000 Who does Calvary save you from, class? 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:27.000 Satan. 00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:33.000 And I'm again being imaginative. 00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:39.000 Here is Christ looking past the cross according to Hebrews 12, 2, for the joy that was set before him. 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:45.000 And sees the contentment and the satisfaction and the completeness and the acceptance and the avenue of salvation. 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:51.000 But most of all, wringing his hands with his divine smile and saying, Satan, you lost. 00:40:51.000 --> 00:41:01.000 I'm going to take something away from you. 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:04.000 How many of you like to cheat Satan? 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:06.000 Huh? 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:19.000 God reminds you, every time a sinner by Calvary is justified before God, Satan loses another soul. 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:20.000 And here's the conqueror. 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:22.000 And here's the conqueror. 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:26.000 Who possibly the Father says, now he's back to his greatness. 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:31.000 He is the all conquering one. 00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:41.000 And to Satan, the Savior says, you may be powerful. 00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:44.000 That's the word. 00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:46.000 Look at it again. 00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:49.000 He shall divide the spoil. 00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:52.000 Let me change a word. 00:41:52.000 --> 00:42:02.000 From the stop. 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:07.000 The olden days and sometimes in some of the country style music today. 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:20.000 There is the line which says, the sinner is snatched from the pit of hell. 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:27.000 The devil was created for the devil and his angels. 00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:35.000 And Christ is satisfied that he justifies the many and they are taken away from Satan's power. 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:37.000 They were his spoil. 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:38.000 They were his fortune. 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:39.000 They were his treasures. 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:46.000 And now that spoil, treasures is really the word. 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:51.000 You have the same type of phrase in the sin of Achan when he took the spoil of the camp. 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:55.000 He really took the treasures to the camp. 00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.000 You see friends, when man sinned, Satan got a treasure. 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:01.000 He got the creation of God. 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:10.000 The greatest treasure God ever had was the creation of man to fellowship with himself and to rule over his creation. 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:16.000 And when Adam sinned with Eve, they took away a treasure from God and gave a great treasure to Satan. 00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:19.000 Somebody's got to get it back. 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:29.000 And he hung on Calvary in his soul with an offering for sin in the heavenly altar. 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:34.000 He looked beyond that and he said to Satan with a smile, you lost. 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:41.000 And he said to the rest, we're going to get some of our treasure back. 00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:46.000 And once we get them back, you'll never get them again. 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:54.000 Because the blood of Christ is not eternal, it's not sufficient. 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:59.000 But I'd remind you of something. 00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:09.000 But the prophet describes Satan as strong. 00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:12.000 Go on. 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:17.000 Now he turns around and uses the same phrase towards himself. 00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:19.000 How did he get spoiled back? 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.000 Because he hath poured out. 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:26.000 That blood term poured out. 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:29.000 And don't miss the little word, he. 00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:33.000 I lay down my life. 00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:38.000 No man takes it from me and nobody gives it back to me. 00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:40.000 I do it myself. 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:45.000 Do you realize that Christ wanted to die for you and me? 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:51.000 He poured out his soul. 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:52.000 He gave himself. 00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:54.000 The gift he gave was his soul. 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:59.000 And the means was that Old Testament pouring out again. 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:03.000 Now notice something as we draw to a close. 00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:07.000 I think our vision of the prophet is very small. 00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:17.000 I wish I could get you to appreciate the Bible. 00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:24.000 Kindly notice in verse 2, he started with his insignificance as he came to earth. 00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:34.000 And as he closes in verse 11 and 12, with the triumph of Calvary, he reverts back to the earth. 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:38.000 Past tense. 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:44.000 He was numbered with the transgressors. 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:47.000 Now I know what all the commentaries say. 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:54.000 That says he hung between two thieves, far from it. 00:45:54.000 --> 00:46:01.000 The first time he was numbered with the transgressors was in the Roman census when he was a baby. 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:09.000 Was he really an ordinary man? 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:15.000 All the other ones of the census were sinners. 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:16.000 He was not. 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:26.000 The census by the Romans numbered him with the transgressors. 00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:29.000 Interesting thought. 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:30.000 Remember what? 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.000 He cast out a demon. 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:37.000 The Pharisees said to him, he does it by Beelzebub. 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:44.000 In other words, he cast out demons by the king of demons himself, Satan. 00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:46.000 He was numbered with transgressors. 00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:53.000 The Pharisees says, he's nothing more than a man that's possessed of a demon. 00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:56.000 He's numbered with the transgressors. 00:46:56.000 --> 00:47:02.000 He's going to look like a sinner. 00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:06.000 He's going to be a baby who's listed in the Roman census. 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:15.000 The religious crowd are going to list him in the listing of those who are nothing more than ordinary men possessed of the devil. 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:21.000 He was numbered with transgressors in the courts of justice. 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:27.000 He was numbered with transgressors because of his treatment he got by the soldiers. 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:31.000 I would remind you, he was numbered with transgressors by God himself. 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:34.000 That's what verse 10 says. 00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:42.000 It pleased the Lord to bruise him and use him as a sin offering. 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:45.000 Look at the second phrase. 00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:53.000 Isaiah seems to have prophetically by the Holy Spirit a second thought. 00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:01.000 And he bare the sin of what? 00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:03.000 Not all. 00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:10.000 Is he contradicting himself? 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:11.000 No, he's not. 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:17.000 He's saying to us again that it is not automatic. 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:29.000 It's a lively discussion nowadays between those who say the atonement was not for everybody. 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:32.000 The atonement was only for those who will accept Christ. 00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:35.000 I am not a semanticist. 00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:38.000 I am not a grammarian. 00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:42.000 I'm really not much of anything. 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:52.000 But my friend, Christ could die a thousand times, but if you don't accept him, it doesn't do you any good. 00:48:52.000 --> 00:49:00.000 He cannot bear the sin you will not allow him to have. 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:09.000 He cannot forgive the sin that you will not allow to be laid on him practically when it's already been laid on him positionally. 00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:12.000 He was numbered with transgressors. 00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:16.000 Oh my, the Israelite would say, how can that be the deliverer? 00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:20.000 He can't. 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:30.000 He bare the sin of many and the Israelite picks up his voice and he picks up his ears and he says to himself, you just said he was the offering for all sin. 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:31.000 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:33.000 Just like the day of atonement. 00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:35.000 Where have you been all year? 00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:41.000 I thank God that he's patient. 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:50.000 I thank God he's long suffering for some of you have sat here for months and years and have never accepted Jesus Christ, the atonement for your sin. 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:57.000 God was never that long suffering with a Jew. 00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:58.000 God was never that long suffering with a Jew. 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.000 This is the age of grace. 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:14.000 He is still willing to bear your specific personal individual sin, which is included in the sin offering on that day of atonement illustration. 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:22.000 And then it says, thirdly, he made intercession for the transgressors. 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:25.000 Not what your reference Bible says. 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:33.000 Not just the thief who said, Father, remember me when you come into your kingdom. 00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:36.000 My dear friend, that is only scratching the surface. 00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:42.000 You realize what it says in that little phrase from the cross? 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:45.000 Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. 00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:47.000 Who does that include? 00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:48.000 All the people. 00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:52.000 Those who had so-called tried him. 00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:54.000 The soldiers who were there. 00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:55.000 Those who reviled. 00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:56.000 Those who walked away. 00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:57.000 Those who mocked. 00:50:57.000 --> 00:50:58.000 Those who jeered. 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:00.000 All of them are included. 00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:03.000 It says he made intercession for the transgressors. 00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:06.000 What a paradox. 00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.000 He's numbered with the transgressors. 00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:10.000 Now he prays for them. 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:11.000 Isn't that an interesting prayer? 00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:25.000 And that ministry is now finished. 00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:31.000 My personal conviction is that Christ never prayed for us. 00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:34.320 for it said 00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:37.460 when he had completed 00:51:37.460 --> 00:51:38.599 was satisfied 00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:40.960 was content with the offering for sin 00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:43.539 he sat down at the right hand 00:51:43.539 --> 00:51:44.300 of the father 00:51:44.300 --> 00:51:47.699 ever living to make intercession 00:51:47.699 --> 00:51:50.679 for us 00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:54.239 that's important 00:51:54.239 --> 00:51:58.900 a little girl sat in Sunday school 00:51:58.900 --> 00:52:02.880 and the teacher was trying to teach 00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:04.079 what intercession meant 00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:08.119 and he was getting no place 00:52:08.119 --> 00:52:12.139 finally in desperation 00:52:12.139 --> 00:52:14.059 he said to this little class 00:52:14.059 --> 00:52:16.880 what does intercession mean to you 00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:20.820 and as always if the little girls 00:52:20.820 --> 00:52:22.400 who are brighter than little boys 00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:23.760 little boys are stupid 00:52:23.760 --> 00:52:29.860 and the little girl said 00:52:29.860 --> 00:52:32.540 teacher 00:52:32.540 --> 00:52:34.200 intercession 00:52:34.200 --> 00:52:37.740 is Christ 00:52:37.740 --> 00:52:39.980 speaking a word to God 00:52:39.980 --> 00:52:42.540 for us 00:52:42.540 --> 00:52:49.520 do you believe Calvary 00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:53.579 do you believe it or not 00:52:53.579 --> 00:52:57.420 to by faith accept Christ 00:52:57.420 --> 00:52:59.739 for your iniquity 00:52:59.739 --> 00:53:01.039 and your sin 00:53:01.039 --> 00:53:03.300 it's not automatic 00:53:03.300 --> 00:53:05.860 for you to stand before God 00:53:05.860 --> 00:53:07.780 you have to be justified 00:53:07.780 --> 00:53:09.619 by Jesus Christ 00:53:09.619 --> 00:53:12.739 on the basis of what 00:53:12.739 --> 00:53:13.940 he did 00:53:13.940 --> 00:53:15.500 not what we do 00:53:15.500 --> 00:53:16.400 you 00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:16.539 you