WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:14.240 Last week was part one of the covenant of redemption. This week is part two. I mentioned last week how the language in our covenant is that it pleased the Lord to reveal himself by way of covenant. 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:26.339 So describing the covenant or the counsel of the Lord, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to save, it's really given to us as an insight into the decree of God, which comes before everything. 00:00:26.339 --> 00:00:32.000 It's God's decree. It's what he intended. God is the one who has given us the language of covenant. 00:00:32.820 --> 00:00:41.420 Now, I just want to be careful, too, that as we're talking about this, the covenant of redemption refers only to the incarnate Son. 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:47.899 So Jesus Christ is God. The person of the Son is co-equal with God. 00:00:47.899 --> 00:00:56.379 So we we would reject a heresy called eternal subordination, like the Son was less than the Father at any point. 00:00:56.479 --> 00:01:02.759 No, this is simply referring to the work that the Son would do once he takes on flesh, the work of the incarnate Son. 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:16.039 I also wanted to introduce this text in particular, because, you know, that passage in Luke where Jesus, well, in the Gospels, he comes and he goes to one of the synagogues and they hand him the scroll of Isaiah. 00:01:16.539 --> 00:01:25.379 And he opens it up and he reads one of the servant songs and he tells them today this has been fulfilled in your hearing. 00:01:25.379 --> 00:01:33.939 He's referring to this God, the Son who took on flesh, fulfilling this prophecy in Isaiah 53. 00:01:34.420 --> 00:01:43.620 So listen to it with that in mind. The other thing I wanted to encourage us all with is why did God use covenant? 00:01:44.659 --> 00:01:51.620 Why did God reveal himself in this way? I think the language that we have in Hebrews chapter six is very helpful. 00:01:51.620 --> 00:01:56.600 And here's the answer. God gave us covenant for our benefit, not his. 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.620 It's a way for us to understand how great a salvation we have. 00:02:00.939 --> 00:02:09.000 He says it says Hebrews 6 13 for when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself. 00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:14.939 And it's a way of saying God covenanted or swore an oath by himself. 00:02:14.939 --> 00:02:20.379 There's no one else he could he could point this to except for himself and he himself fulfilled it. 00:02:20.379 --> 00:02:24.799 And it goes on to say God cannot lie. 00:02:25.219 --> 00:02:32.439 And therefore, we can flee to him as a strong encouragement to hold fast to this hope set before us. 00:02:32.539 --> 00:02:35.439 That's why the covenant of redemption is so good for ourselves. 00:02:36.180 --> 00:02:37.560 All right. Well, let's read our sermon text. 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:40.719 Isaiah 53 10 11 and 12. 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:48.340 As I read this, remember, we believe this is God's inspired, inerrant, infallible, clear and sufficient word. 00:02:48.340 --> 00:02:50.719 It's the word of the Lord for you. 00:02:50.900 --> 00:02:54.039 And if you receive it that way, I'll say this is the word of the Lord. 00:02:54.099 --> 00:02:55.580 And you can say thanks be to God. 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:58.439 Isaiah 53 10. 00:02:59.780 --> 00:03:02.699 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him. 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:05.640 He has put him to grief. 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:13.460 When his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring and shall be prolong his days. 00:03:14.180 --> 00:03:17.120 The will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:21.980 Out of the anguish of his soul, he shall see and be satisfied. 00:03:22.980 --> 00:03:29.840 By his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous. 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:33.680 And he shall bear their iniquities. 00:03:34.340 --> 00:03:37.680 Therefore, I will divide him a portion with the many. 00:03:38.060 --> 00:03:40.560 And he shall divide the spoil with the strong. 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:45.920 Because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors. 00:03:46.420 --> 00:03:48.939 Yet he bore the sin of many. 00:03:49.659 --> 00:03:53.140 And makes intercession for the transgressors. 00:03:53.659 --> 00:03:55.099 This is the word of the Lord. 00:03:55.580 --> 00:03:57.400 Thanks be to God. 00:03:57.480 --> 00:03:58.020 You may be seated. 00:03:58.020 --> 00:04:02.800 The Bible says that the grass withers and the flower fades. 00:04:02.939 --> 00:04:05.680 But the word of the Lord endures forever. 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:07.719 Let's pray. 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:28.180 Lord, we thank you that you have spoken. 00:04:28.819 --> 00:04:34.639 You have revealed yourself in scripture and in the person of Jesus Christ. 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:49.479 We pray that these verses from Isaiah 53 will point us to that great work of God the Son who took on flesh to fulfill the covenant of redemption that you decreed before time itself began. 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.199 May we stand in awe of your greatness today, Lord. 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:58.459 May we see that this is not just a high view of the heavens. 00:04:58.599 --> 00:05:03.959 This is a view of the God of heaven come down to earth to save his people. 00:05:05.180 --> 00:05:07.500 Simple, common people like me. 00:05:08.339 --> 00:05:11.019 And like each one here, Lord, for whom you gave your life. 00:05:11.719 --> 00:05:16.099 And now you stand making intercession for us who were transgressors. 00:05:16.659 --> 00:05:19.879 Thank you that you call us now the strong. 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:29.620 Lord, we trust that you will speak now powerfully as your word is proclaimed to the extent that it's faithful and glorifying to you. 00:05:30.060 --> 00:05:31.980 Please guard my lips toward that end, Lord. 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:37.740 Please melt our hearts to receive what your Holy Spirit wants to press onto us today. 00:05:38.180 --> 00:05:42.779 We ask this for your glory, for our good, for the sake of Christ. 00:05:43.060 --> 00:05:43.319 Amen. 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:43.459 Amen. 00:05:43.459 --> 00:06:01.299 I want you to picture a different era when warfare was still hand to hand. 00:06:02.500 --> 00:06:07.759 And when treasonous soldiers got captured and made to line up with a firing squad. 00:06:08.099 --> 00:06:09.079 Picture that era. 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:12.379 And then picture a simple little cottage. 00:06:13.300 --> 00:06:16.240 A mother and a little daughter inside the cottage. 00:06:17.719 --> 00:06:22.680 Both are very sad, very heavy hearted because their dad has been captured in the war. 00:06:24.620 --> 00:06:29.899 Well, the good news comes one day when they hear a knock on the door and it's the dad. 00:06:30.019 --> 00:06:30.699 It's the husband. 00:06:30.699 --> 00:06:33.519 From this little girl's perspective. 00:06:35.620 --> 00:06:39.300 She doesn't even need to know the why or the details or the backstory. 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:42.899 She receives her dad with childlike faith. 00:06:43.339 --> 00:06:44.980 And she's overjoyed. 00:06:49.980 --> 00:06:56.639 For many of us, when we first had our eyes opened by the Holy Spirit to see how good God is in Jesus, 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:59.300 we receive him with that childlike joy. 00:06:59.300 --> 00:07:08.540 But to use this analogy, picture years later, this dad has the opportunity to take this little daughter on a trip 00:07:08.540 --> 00:07:16.180 and to tell her the whole backstory of how he got captured and liberated and got to come home and get a new lease on life. 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:20.560 He tells her how he was bound up in his hands and blindfolded. 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:26.120 And when she hears the full story, it changes her life. 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:38.019 She moves from a childlike faith to being overwhelmed with gratitude and wanting to just praise God for the redemption he's provided. 00:07:38.019 --> 00:07:43.500 That's been my prayer with this series on covenant theology. 00:07:44.599 --> 00:07:45.779 You don't need to understand. 00:07:45.979 --> 00:07:47.459 I think a lifetime is too short. 00:07:47.599 --> 00:07:49.939 In a sense, it's a mystery that we'll never fully understand. 00:07:50.060 --> 00:07:55.899 But we're wanting to understand our redemption from God's perspective because it changes our life. 00:07:55.899 --> 00:08:08.239 It doesn't mean you're not saved until you do, but it goes it can move you from being a childlike faith and joy and salvation to just being overwhelmed and throwing yourself at the feet of King Jesus in gratitude. 00:08:11.459 --> 00:08:14.399 These verses that we read, it's ancient Hebrew poetry. 00:08:14.939 --> 00:08:17.719 We've talked before about how Isaiah was from the princely class. 00:08:17.799 --> 00:08:21.579 He lived in the courts of Jerusalem, very highly educated. 00:08:21.579 --> 00:08:27.319 And even in these three verses, there's discussion about what is the true meaning, because that's what poetry does. 00:08:27.699 --> 00:08:29.419 That's actually the intent of the author. 00:08:30.479 --> 00:08:33.659 There's there's some Hebrew language that's not used anywhere else in the Bible. 00:08:34.059 --> 00:08:37.620 And that's how how elevated the language is in these verses we read. 00:08:37.620 --> 00:08:42.399 But even though it's mysterious and poetic and so high. 00:08:43.620 --> 00:08:45.100 God revealed to Isaiah. 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:52.960 We get this from first Peter 110 that Isaiah, along with all the other prophets, were serving not themselves, but you, church. 00:08:53.860 --> 00:08:58.840 At this good news, which the angels had longed to look into and understand. 00:08:59.460 --> 00:09:03.220 And the Holy Spirit foretold Christ in all of the Bible. 00:09:03.560 --> 00:09:05.279 That's what the apostles bear witness to. 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:08.659 He has unveiled himself throughout history. 00:09:09.459 --> 00:09:11.279 The eternal decree of God as it unfolds. 00:09:12.699 --> 00:09:22.240 So in these three verses for today, we get to try to peer and understand from Scripture what it is that angels in heaven have longed to see. 00:09:23.019 --> 00:09:27.100 And that's how God God's eternal plan would be unfolded on earth. 00:09:27.100 --> 00:09:30.980 So beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:09:32.060 --> 00:09:37.960 My prayer today is that you will see your redemption from God's perspective. 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:40.600 And be changed. 00:09:43.139 --> 00:09:50.740 First point is that to redeem sinners, the father required that his righteous one be crushed in our place. 00:09:50.740 --> 00:09:53.100 From God's perspective. 00:09:54.200 --> 00:10:08.759 In order to redeem sinners, God himself, through the person of the father, requires that his righteous one, this would be God, the son incarnate, would be crushed in the place of his people. 00:10:09.560 --> 00:10:11.080 Let's look at verse 10 together. 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:19.980 We read that it was the will of Adonai, the will of the Lord to crush him. 00:10:23.160 --> 00:10:29.280 The Jews spoke of Yahweh and Jehovah, which was the same name for God, the covenant Lord. 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:35.620 By the time we move further in redemptive history to Isaiah, that name was even considered almost too sacred to speak. 00:10:36.259 --> 00:10:37.840 Don't want to take the name of the Lord in vain. 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:40.139 So they modified it into Adonai. 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:44.360 And it was the will of Adonai, the one God who is one. 00:10:44.980 --> 00:10:46.980 It was his will to crush him. 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:54.300 In the King James, we read it, pleased the Lord to bruise his servant. 00:10:56.379 --> 00:11:04.420 Well, we know from Genesis 3.15 that God told Satan, Satan, you will be the one who will bruise the heel of the promised seed of Eve. 00:11:04.419 --> 00:11:10.539 But here in Isaiah 53.10, the bruising of the servant is ascribed to God. 00:11:10.860 --> 00:11:13.419 It was the will of God to bruise him. 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:16.240 Ezekiel 33.11 said, 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:22.959 The Lord God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, only that we would repent and live. 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:27.000 So how can God be said to take pleasure in the death of his servant? 00:11:30.180 --> 00:11:32.700 It's not the death of his servant that pleases God. 00:11:32.780 --> 00:11:34.379 It's what that death will accomplish. 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:40.200 It's the mission being fulfilled and the rewards, so to speak, in this covenantal language. 00:11:40.280 --> 00:11:43.620 The rewards the son would bring and then share. 00:11:43.620 --> 00:11:47.720 It's the knowledge of God through the incarnate son. 00:11:47.980 --> 00:11:49.840 That's what pleases the Lord. 00:11:50.899 --> 00:12:03.379 Stephen Charnock, one of the Puritans, wrote that our sin deserves infinite punishment because it receives its aggravation from the dignity of the infinite God against whom it is committed. 00:12:03.379 --> 00:12:10.340 And this servant song itself, Isaiah 53, back in verse 5, take your eyes just a few verses back. 00:12:11.139 --> 00:12:14.200 In verse 5, we read that why was he bruised? 00:12:14.299 --> 00:12:15.320 Why was he crushed? 00:12:16.379 --> 00:12:19.439 He was crushed for our iniquities. 00:12:20.100 --> 00:12:22.700 The punishment for our peace was on him. 00:12:22.700 --> 00:12:28.800 And this is the son willingly becoming the servant. 00:12:29.379 --> 00:12:37.180 We read in John 10, 18, that Jesus said, no one takes my life from me, but I lay it down on my own. 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:41.660 I have the right to lay it down and I have the right to take it up again. 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:45.240 I have received this command from my father. 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:54.000 God, the father commanded God, the son in the flesh to lay down his life and take it up. 00:12:54.620 --> 00:12:59.919 Jesus himself said this was a command he received and he willingly obeyed it as a servant. 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:14.879 Jonathan Edwards pointed out that Christ stood, so to speak, from all eternity, engaged with the father to appear as man's mediator, to take on that office at the fullness of time. 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:21.379 It was God, the son all along, decreeing to be our savior. 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.560 The covenant Lord has a requirement, a will, a work to be done. 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:33.840 We read in Isaiah 53, 10, the Lord has put his servant to grief. 00:13:35.019 --> 00:13:38.840 God, the father put God, the son in the flesh to grief. 00:13:39.580 --> 00:13:40.700 He did that. 00:13:40.700 --> 00:13:54.980 It's as if he said, son, before this sinful people can be with us, the holy God, we must remove the guilt of their sin against their holy creator, God. 00:13:55.560 --> 00:13:56.700 And the son responds. 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:05.240 Yes, it is our divine will that you crush me, humble me, break me to pieces, shatter me. 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:08.740 God, the son, as your servant. 00:14:08.740 --> 00:14:10.860 This is the decree of God. 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:13.279 This is your redemption from God's perspective. 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:16.820 Why did this please God? 00:14:16.980 --> 00:14:17.860 Look at verse 11. 00:14:20.500 --> 00:14:28.620 Because by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make the many right. 00:14:28.620 --> 00:14:41.000 You see how our Lord Jesus Christ, he accomplished the redemption that God decreed so that you can know God. 00:14:41.620 --> 00:14:45.840 By the knowledge of the son, you can know God. 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:54.180 By his knowledge, knowing him personally through faith, shall God's righteousness be put onto the many. 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:56.899 God will say, here are those for whom you died. 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:57.860 They are justified. 00:14:58.820 --> 00:15:02.300 They are righteous, clothed in Christ's righteousness. 00:15:02.299 --> 00:15:08.719 So what this matters for me and you is how do I know God in this way? 00:15:08.859 --> 00:15:12.240 How do I know if I'm clothed in his righteousness, that I'm justified? 00:15:13.539 --> 00:15:17.299 Romans 5.1 says we have been justified by faith. 00:15:17.839 --> 00:15:22.279 Therefore, we have peace with God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:26.159 In John 17.3, we read this is eternal life. 00:15:26.259 --> 00:15:26.679 What is it? 00:15:27.139 --> 00:15:33.279 That they know the only God and Jesus Christ whom the Father has sent. 00:15:35.179 --> 00:15:38.039 Do you see your redemption from God's perspective? 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:47.220 To redeem sinners, the Father required that his righteous one be crushed in our place. 00:15:47.220 --> 00:15:56.180 Second point is that in the covenant of redemption, the same covenant before God even created the world. 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:59.779 Timothy and Titus were told it's before the ages began. 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:10.220 In that covenant of redemption, God, the son, willingly offered himself as the substitutionary sacrifice to pay for your sin. 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:13.120 The father required it. 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:23.399 And the son willingly offered himself as the substitutionary sacrifice to pay for your sin and mine. 00:16:25.940 --> 00:16:35.159 We read in verse 10 that it would be his soul poured out that the father would receive as an offering for guilt. 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:42.219 We're told in verse 12 here of our sermon text that he, the servant, poured out his soul to death. 00:16:43.079 --> 00:16:46.399 And he was numbered with the transgressors. 00:16:47.860 --> 00:16:53.879 A Hebrew scholar, commentator on Isaiah wrote, his name's Alec Matye. 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:58.019 He said, what made the guilt offering distinct? 00:16:58.539 --> 00:17:00.699 It says he poured out his soul as a guilt offering. 00:17:00.980 --> 00:17:02.939 There's a lot of different offerings and sacrifices. 00:17:02.940 --> 00:17:13.320 What made the guilt offering distinct from all the other ones is that it was an insistence on minute exactness between sin and remedy. 00:17:14.220 --> 00:17:18.000 It is the total satisfaction offering. 00:17:19.299 --> 00:17:23.320 We have sinned against an infinite, eternal, holy God. 00:17:24.320 --> 00:17:27.140 What could be a satisfactory offering? 00:17:27.140 --> 00:17:30.680 What could be an offering that would cover all of the guilt? 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:36.120 It had to be God the Son himself in the flesh. 00:17:36.860 --> 00:17:39.360 We're told in Isaiah 53, look at verse 4. 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:43.259 He himself would have to bear our sickness. 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:46.180 He himself would have to carry our pains. 00:17:46.740 --> 00:17:50.259 He would have to be pierced because of our rebellion. 00:17:50.259 --> 00:17:54.660 We read in verse 7, 53, 7. 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:59.099 He was oppressed and afflicted, and yet he did not open his mouth. 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:02.559 Like a silent lamb, he was led to the slaughter. 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:12.960 God himself had to do it for the guilt to be perfectly satisfied in the most minute way. 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:20.259 Because we have sinned, as Charnok pointed out, and our sin is infinite in regard to the subject. 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:22.600 We have sinned against an infinite God. 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:27.640 And it's infinite in regard to the greatness of God against whom we have sinned. 00:18:32.259 --> 00:18:36.680 And we read that this was the deliberate plan of God. 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:40.580 This was not something that man did to God. 00:18:41.779 --> 00:18:47.640 We read in Acts 2, 23, that with the help of wicked men, Peter is preaching to Jews and Greeks. 00:18:48.060 --> 00:18:51.700 He said, you put Jesus Christ to death by nailing him to the cross. 00:18:52.100 --> 00:18:57.680 And he was handed over to you by God's deliberate plan and foreknowledge. 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:06.960 John Stott commented that God himself gave himself to save us from himself. 00:19:08.580 --> 00:19:14.259 The father put the work of man's redemption into the hands of his son. 00:19:15.539 --> 00:19:18.820 And this work was with him and before him. 00:19:18.980 --> 00:19:25.960 And the son undertook to accomplish the father's will, which was to redeem the people by his work. 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:36.539 We read in 2 Corinthians 5, 21, that God made him who had no sin to be the sin for us. 00:19:36.539 --> 00:19:41.759 So that in him, we might become the righteousness of God. 00:19:43.120 --> 00:19:44.360 God made him. 00:19:46.420 --> 00:19:54.740 It's like the father said, son, how shall we show the world that we created our justice? 00:19:54.740 --> 00:19:59.160 How will we show that God, the creator, is also gracious? 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:04.059 Son, will you become my grieving servant? 00:20:05.059 --> 00:20:11.500 Will you give up your soul as an offering to cover perfectly the guilt of our people? 00:20:11.500 --> 00:20:23.000 And it's as if the son says back, father, I will take on a body and I will pray not my fleshly will be done, but your will be done. 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:30.319 And I will drink that cup of grief and agony down to the very last drip down to the dregs. 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:44.919 Because in the covenant of redemption, God, the son willingly offered himself as the substitutionary sacrifice to pay for all of your and my sin. 00:20:46.059 --> 00:20:47.259 Thanks be to God. 00:20:47.259 --> 00:21:00.740 Third point is that as we see our redemption from God's perspective, the father promised his righteous servant rewards for obedience. 00:21:01.859 --> 00:21:09.400 In the covenant of redemption, the father promised his righteous servant rewards for obedience. 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:13.180 God, the son is God. 00:21:14.320 --> 00:21:16.800 This is covenantal language for our benefit. 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:24.040 It's to show us, like in Hebrews 7, that this oath that God swore by himself, so to speak, it is his eternal decree. 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:27.519 And the reason he uses this language is to give us hope. 00:21:28.259 --> 00:21:29.880 So look at verse 10 again. 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:42.740 What is it that the father promises the son who lacks nothing, but he does it to show us the grace and the guarantee we have in this covenant of redemption? 00:21:43.540 --> 00:21:47.360 So first, he gives the son this promise of a people. 00:21:49.780 --> 00:21:55.000 In verse 10, we're told that this suffering servant shall see his offspring. 00:21:55.000 --> 00:22:02.740 In Acts 20, 28, we read that the church of God obtained with which he obtained with the blood of his own son. 00:22:03.819 --> 00:22:06.740 So the seed of the son is the church. 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:13.859 The people he he receives from the father, it's the church that he purchased with his own blood. 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:21.900 Jesus, he said in John 12, 24, that unless a kernel of wheat dies and is buried, it remains a single seed. 00:22:21.900 --> 00:22:25.440 But if it dies, it will produce many seeds. 00:22:26.220 --> 00:22:32.080 So his death brought him the church of vast multitude, more than the stars of the heavens. 00:22:32.980 --> 00:22:34.780 The father promised the son a people. 00:22:35.600 --> 00:22:40.560 The father also promised the son after taking on the flesh, eternal life. 00:22:42.280 --> 00:22:46.440 In verse 10, we're told that the father shall prolong his days. 00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:50.779 So yes, you will be crushed, you will be bruised, you will pour out your soul unto death. 00:22:51.580 --> 00:22:55.140 But then the father promises to prolong your days. 00:22:55.620 --> 00:22:57.240 May the king live long and prosper. 00:22:57.799 --> 00:22:58.660 That's the language. 00:23:00.259 --> 00:23:03.140 Son, you become a man and I will give you offspring. 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:07.000 I will adopt the people and you will dwell with them forever. 00:23:08.019 --> 00:23:11.100 They will be yours for infinity into the future. 00:23:11.099 --> 00:23:19.359 The language here of prolonging your days, it's really an echo of the Ten Commandments. 00:23:19.439 --> 00:23:20.019 Do you hear that? 00:23:20.719 --> 00:23:23.480 Which of the commandments is a promise to prolong the days? 00:23:24.179 --> 00:23:27.819 Both in Deuteronomy 5 as well as Exodus 20. 00:23:29.179 --> 00:23:32.059 It's the promise, children, honor your father and mother. 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:36.500 So son, will you take on flesh and obey me, your father? 00:23:36.899 --> 00:23:38.240 Will you honor me in this way? 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:42.720 You have the promise that I will prolong your days in the kingdom of heaven. 00:23:42.859 --> 00:23:44.559 Come to earth with your people. 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:52.480 Father, son, you shall honor me, your father and obey me and I shall prolong your days. 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:57.319 You have the reward of eternal life with your people for obedience. 00:23:58.700 --> 00:24:00.420 The father promises a people. 00:24:00.539 --> 00:24:05.920 The father promises eternal life and the father promises unstoppable success. 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:11.920 Verse 10 says, the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 00:24:13.120 --> 00:24:18.759 Mordier again said, in his hand, that phrase, it's by his personal agency. 00:24:19.340 --> 00:24:25.800 The servant who died to save sinners lives to administer the salvation he accomplished. 00:24:25.799 --> 00:24:29.559 It's like the father is promising him. 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:33.259 Son, your death will not be the end of your days. 00:24:33.899 --> 00:24:36.279 I will give you infinitely more. 00:24:38.019 --> 00:24:43.440 Jesus went to the cross trusting the promise from the father that he told in Matthew 25. 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:54.059 That he will look in the flesh at God the father and know he says, well done, my good and faithful servant. 00:24:54.059 --> 00:24:59.240 And that father, it's like he promises the son. 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:02.919 Yes, it is my will to make all things right. 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:06.399 My will for our kingdom of heaven to fill the earth. 00:25:06.679 --> 00:25:09.899 And it's my will that all of these promises will prosper. 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:11.200 They will come to pass. 00:25:11.259 --> 00:25:14.700 They will find unstoppable success in your hand. 00:25:14.700 --> 00:25:16.400 My dear son. 00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:23.700 We have the promise in Matthew 16, verse 18 from Jesus himself. 00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:25.160 What that looks like. 00:25:25.340 --> 00:25:32.700 Jesus says, I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 00:25:33.840 --> 00:25:36.900 He received that promise from the father himself. 00:25:36.900 --> 00:25:45.740 So in the covenant of redemption, the father promised his righteous servant these glorious rewards for obedience. 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:52.880 Number four, see your redemption from God's perspective. 00:25:53.840 --> 00:26:01.200 In the covenant of redemption, the son trusted that his soul would see satisfaction after anguish. 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:12.799 Look with me at verse 11. 00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:17.160 Out of the anguish of his soul, he shall see and be satisfied. 00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:24.140 He has anguish because he is bearing the iniquities of sin. 00:26:25.140 --> 00:26:26.759 But he'll be satisfied. 00:26:27.320 --> 00:26:37.320 He will be abundantly filled continuously because his anguish will make the many transgressors accounted righteous. 00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:39.900 That's what satisfies him. 00:26:40.900 --> 00:26:46.680 We're told in Habakkuk 1 13 that God is a purer eyes than to look at evil. 00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:52.960 So God turns his face away from sin and rebellion against him. 00:26:53.800 --> 00:26:59.040 And that's why the blessing, you know, may the Lord's face shine upon you, because that means he can look at you. 00:26:59.380 --> 00:27:01.019 He's holy and he can see you now. 00:27:01.620 --> 00:27:05.019 He doesn't have to turn his eyes away from your evil and my sin. 00:27:07.019 --> 00:27:10.019 He turns the light of his face away from sin. 00:27:10.860 --> 00:27:14.880 That's the anguish the son would experience in bearing our sin. 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:24.880 In the garden of Gethsemane, our Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 26 38 is described as being exceeding sorrowful. 00:27:26.800 --> 00:27:28.840 Anguish even unto death. 00:27:29.600 --> 00:27:33.560 In Hebrews 2 10, we read that in bringing many sons and daughters to glory, 00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:43.700 it was entirely appropriate that God for whom and through whom all things exist should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering. 00:27:46.139 --> 00:27:56.759 So he has to experience this anguish, this suffering in their place in order to have the joy on the other end of that anguish of being satisfied with the people he received. 00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:05.519 John Gill commented that as a woman, after her travail and sharp pains are over, having brought forth a son, 00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:12.059 looks upon it with joy and pleasure and is satisfied and forgets her former pain and anguish. 00:28:12.059 --> 00:28:24.579 So Christ, after all his sorrows and sufferings, he sees a large number of souls regenerated, sanctified, justified and brought to heaven in consequence of the anguish he endured, 00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:31.059 which is a most pleasing and satisfactory sight unto God. 00:28:31.059 --> 00:28:38.440 We have the promise in Psalm 89 verse 29. 00:28:38.740 --> 00:28:43.879 I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure. 00:28:44.259 --> 00:28:50.639 And this line will continue forever and his throne will endure before me like the sun. 00:28:51.940 --> 00:28:54.740 And Jesus fulfills this in the covenant of redemption. 00:28:55.539 --> 00:28:59.039 He fulfills that work of satisfaction and suffering and agony. 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:05.099 And now King Jesus lives to see all the children that the Father has given him. 00:29:05.779 --> 00:29:19.220 And when another soul believes, angels in heaven and the great cloud of witnesses join in rejoicing because Christ lives as King and he lives to intercede and to see this prosper in his hand. 00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:25.139 God is bringing everyone that Christ purchased to know him by the work of the Spirit. 00:29:25.140 --> 00:29:55.120 God is bringing everyone that the Lord has given him. 00:29:55.140 --> 00:29:58.140 And the Father has fulfilled that promise. 00:30:00.300 --> 00:30:01.280 Number five. 00:30:01.279 --> 00:30:07.879 In the covenant of redemption, the Son promises to share the spoils of his victory with an army. 00:30:10.660 --> 00:30:14.279 Now we turn to the reward themselves, the people, the seed. 00:30:14.980 --> 00:30:15.660 This is us. 00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:17.539 How are we part of this glorious redemption? 00:30:18.500 --> 00:30:25.200 Well, in the covenant of redemption, the Son promises to share the spoils of his victory with his army. 00:30:25.940 --> 00:30:26.980 Look at verse 12. 00:30:26.980 --> 00:30:27.019 Verse 12. 00:30:28.620 --> 00:30:30.440 Now it's in the voice of the Son. 00:30:31.220 --> 00:30:31.640 I'm sorry. 00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:32.599 First, the Father. 00:30:33.019 --> 00:30:33.920 What the Son will do. 00:30:34.299 --> 00:30:34.839 Verse 12. 00:30:35.240 --> 00:30:35.940 The Father says, 00:30:36.299 --> 00:30:44.700 I will divide him, my servant, a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong. 00:30:44.700 --> 00:30:52.980 So this Lord Jesus, the suffering servant who is numbered with transgressors, he joins the many. 00:30:53.700 --> 00:30:54.860 He redeems them. 00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:56.140 He suffers in their place. 00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:00.120 Then he receives these rewards the Father has promised him. 00:31:00.180 --> 00:31:03.220 The blessings of heaven opened up and channeled through him. 00:31:03.220 --> 00:31:05.880 And what does he do with this blessing? 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:09.259 He turns right around and blesses the many. 00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:11.860 And he calls them the strong. 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:18.960 The Father covenants with the Son, sealed by the Spirit. 00:31:19.500 --> 00:31:22.720 The Son turns around and now covenants with the people. 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:29.339 In Luke 22, verse 29, Jesus tells his disciples, 00:31:29.980 --> 00:31:35.160 I covenant with you as my Father covenanted to me a kingdom. 00:31:36.019 --> 00:31:39.579 The same verbal source of that word. 00:31:40.059 --> 00:31:41.220 I give to you. 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:43.100 I assign to you. 00:31:43.180 --> 00:31:43.700 I grant. 00:31:43.860 --> 00:31:44.440 I distribute. 00:31:44.900 --> 00:31:46.059 I steward to you. 00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:49.539 That verbal source is covenant. 00:31:50.360 --> 00:31:51.940 The Father covenanted with me. 00:31:51.940 --> 00:31:54.480 I turn around and covenant to you a kingdom. 00:31:55.620 --> 00:31:58.759 This was one of the great insights of the Reformation. 00:31:59.980 --> 00:32:02.240 Jerome had translated from the Hebrew to the Latin. 00:32:02.380 --> 00:32:07.160 So everyone who was literate in the Middle Ages was studying the Bible in the Latin, the Latin translation. 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:12.019 Well, with the Renaissance and the Reformation, it's an ad fontes, a return to the original sources. 00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:15.140 And they're learning how to study the biblical languages. 00:32:16.100 --> 00:32:21.400 In Geneva, John Calvin had a right-hand man, another pastor named Theodore Beza. 00:32:21.940 --> 00:32:24.500 And Beza was a linguist, a scholar. 00:32:24.740 --> 00:32:28.660 And he was studying this passage in the original language. 00:32:28.660 --> 00:32:31.500 And he picked up on this hint. 00:32:32.300 --> 00:32:34.080 The Father covenant with the Son. 00:32:34.300 --> 00:32:36.680 And the Son covenants a kingdom to his people. 00:32:37.180 --> 00:32:38.620 That's the word Jesus used. 00:32:40.019 --> 00:32:46.840 J.V. Fesco commented that Beza's insight was like a pebble that's caused ripple effects over the centuries. 00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:52.559 And has helped us to continue searching all of the Bible for biblical covenant theology. 00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:54.419 What does the Bible teach us? 00:32:56.099 --> 00:32:58.779 Meredith Klein is one such biblical theologian. 00:32:58.899 --> 00:32:59.159 And he said, 00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:07.380 That by using the same verbal source for both covenantal arrangements, Christ revealed that the new covenant, that's the covenant we belong to him in the church. 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:13.300 It derives from the eternal and triune covenant relationship. 00:33:13.299 --> 00:33:21.180 So the covenant of grace, Jesus Christ as Lord with his church, is founded upon the covenant of redemption. 00:33:22.259 --> 00:33:25.440 And that's how our confession of faith explains it. 00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:30.779 So is this covenant of redemption the same as the covenant of grace? 00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:32.319 Notice all the differences. 00:33:33.419 --> 00:33:34.500 There are different parties. 00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:39.019 In the covenant of redemption, the Father is, it's the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 00:33:39.339 --> 00:33:42.059 In the covenant of grace, it's between God and the church. 00:33:42.059 --> 00:33:42.460 Church. 00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:44.980 That's the different parties. 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:46.259 The role of Christ is different. 00:33:46.399 --> 00:33:52.200 In the covenant of redemption, before the foundations of the world, the role of Christ is to become the suffering servant. 00:33:52.700 --> 00:33:55.679 In the covenant of grace, Jesus is Lord over the church. 00:33:56.099 --> 00:33:56.859 He's not the servant. 00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:57.480 He's the Lord. 00:33:58.740 --> 00:34:00.440 There's a different operating principle. 00:34:00.659 --> 00:34:04.179 In the covenant of grace, we receive a finished work. 00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:05.519 We receive by faith. 00:34:05.639 --> 00:34:07.259 Our one job to do is believe. 00:34:07.500 --> 00:34:07.960 It's faith. 00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:08.559 Receive. 00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:15.179 In the covenant of redemption, it was the perfect, perpetual, and personal obedience of a man. 00:34:15.619 --> 00:34:16.739 And no man can do that. 00:34:16.820 --> 00:34:18.880 Under Adam's curse, it had to be God himself. 00:34:19.380 --> 00:34:20.199 Take on flesh. 00:34:21.759 --> 00:34:25.279 In the covenant of redemption, our election is hidden in eternity. 00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:35.700 But in the covenant of grace through scripture, the mystery of Christ is revealed by the help of the Holy Spirit so that every believer beholds Christ in all of the Bible. 00:34:35.699 --> 00:34:40.819 I love how Michael Horton, a professor at Westminster's condito, wrote. 00:34:41.759 --> 00:34:47.500 God's predestination is hidden from us, but Christ is not. 00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:54.079 The person and work of Christ is the mystery hidden in ages past, now unveiled. 00:34:54.659 --> 00:35:00.579 The person and work of Christ is the only reliable testimony of your election. 00:35:00.579 --> 00:35:03.460 This is the key for application. 00:35:04.279 --> 00:35:07.000 Those who trust in Christ belong to Christ. 00:35:07.420 --> 00:35:10.259 And you believe because you are elect in Christ. 00:35:11.219 --> 00:35:15.679 You belong to him in the covenant of grace if you believe in him by faith. 00:35:16.299 --> 00:35:18.559 You believe in him because he died for you. 00:35:19.259 --> 00:35:22.679 He died for you because he fulfilled what the father decreed. 00:35:23.139 --> 00:35:26.380 This is how God will save a people for himself. 00:35:26.380 --> 00:35:31.460 It's like our Lord Jesus says. 00:35:32.820 --> 00:35:37.599 Those many whose sins he bore, those transgressors for whom he died. 00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:41.079 Father, for them I will now live and make intercession. 00:35:42.640 --> 00:35:48.519 The father says, I will give you the many as your portion and you will receive the mighty as your spoil. 00:35:50.860 --> 00:35:51.960 Who are these? 00:35:52.980 --> 00:35:55.240 Well, we know from the Bible we are sinners. 00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:56.039 We are fools. 00:35:56.359 --> 00:35:58.419 We are sin-loving losers. 00:35:58.779 --> 00:36:02.979 And we are enemies of God according to the flesh and the curse under Adam. 00:36:03.919 --> 00:36:05.439 We are transgressors. 00:36:06.259 --> 00:36:11.539 But now, in the language of Romans 8, 37, because of the work of Christ for us, 00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:18.819 we are more than conquerors through him who loved us and gave himself up for us. 00:36:18.820 --> 00:36:29.559 That's why the father could say, oh son, it is my will for you to save these rebels and make them into your army. 00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:33.940 Your troops will be willing on the day of war. 00:36:33.940 --> 00:36:35.779 Psalm 110, 3. 00:36:36.579 --> 00:36:45.559 Because in the covenant of redemption, the son promises to share the spoils of his victory with his army for the glory of God. 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:49.440 Do you see a redemption from God's perspective? 00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:51.380 Isn't it humbling? 00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:54.239 Six. 00:36:54.239 --> 00:37:02.939 In the covenant of redemption, the son promises to bless his people as their royal kingly priest forever. 00:37:02.939 --> 00:37:11.079 In the covenant of redemption, the son promises to bless his people as their royal kingly priest forever. 00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:14.519 Look at verse 12 with me. 00:37:15.179 --> 00:37:19.960 He bears the sins of many transgressors and now he makes intercession. 00:37:20.460 --> 00:37:23.279 He prays for those whose sins he bore. 00:37:24.860 --> 00:37:28.860 We saw the same message in Psalm 110 last time. 00:37:29.500 --> 00:37:32.940 It's the office of a king combined with the office of a priest. 00:37:34.539 --> 00:37:40.860 The two functions of a priest are to make offerings and intercede to pray. 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:43.980 We see Jesus doing both of those here. 00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:45.360 He bears the sins of many. 00:37:45.460 --> 00:37:47.059 He poured out his soul as an offering. 00:37:47.340 --> 00:37:48.539 That's the work of a priest. 00:37:48.779 --> 00:37:49.960 And he prays. 00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:54.599 He makes intercession and he lives to pray for them as their eternal priest. 00:37:56.079 --> 00:37:57.940 That's what we're taught in Hebrews 10, 10. 00:37:58.039 --> 00:38:05.219 By God's will, we have been made holy through the sanctification of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 00:38:05.799 --> 00:38:08.880 That's the work of Christ, our priest, with paying our offering. 00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:11.619 We read in Hebrews 7, 25. 00:38:12.059 --> 00:38:18.480 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him. 00:38:19.240 --> 00:38:21.360 Why do they draw near to God through Christ? 00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:25.820 Because he always lives to make intercession for them. 00:38:25.820 --> 00:38:29.820 That's what the author of Hebrews preached in 7, 25. 00:38:31.660 --> 00:38:36.300 In verse 12, we have this language that because he poured out his soul unto death. 00:38:37.640 --> 00:38:40.340 This is why he can bless them. 00:38:41.380 --> 00:38:42.180 To pour it out. 00:38:42.179 --> 00:38:46.819 Once you pour something out, it's irreversible. 00:38:48.139 --> 00:38:49.179 It's finished. 00:38:50.019 --> 00:38:52.119 You don't need to wait for more to happen. 00:38:53.059 --> 00:38:57.219 He poured out his soul unto death to finish this work. 00:38:59.159 --> 00:39:01.839 He'll bear sin and he will pray. 00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:08.980 It's the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit's divine will, their divine decree. 00:39:09.980 --> 00:39:16.920 In the words of Hebrew 9, 14, that Jesus Christ, through the eternal spirit, offered himself unblemished to God. 00:39:17.600 --> 00:39:18.539 Ephesians 5, 2. 00:39:18.620 --> 00:39:25.660 Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 00:39:25.659 --> 00:39:31.179 Do you see the work of Christ as priest? 00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:35.759 Pouring out his life, paying the sacrifice willingly. 00:39:36.259 --> 00:39:39.239 Do you see the Father receiving the sacrifice as an aroma? 00:39:39.879 --> 00:39:41.859 Being pleased with the work of the Son. 00:39:45.739 --> 00:39:54.819 I mentioned earlier that if we could be with that dad and his daughter and travel back and listen in as he told her the story of how he got redeemed. 00:39:54.820 --> 00:39:56.940 From the row of death. 00:39:57.860 --> 00:39:59.760 We would be changed just like she would. 00:40:03.059 --> 00:40:04.720 I heard this from an Irish pastor. 00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:08.720 There's a grave and it just says, I want to stand where you stand. 00:40:09.780 --> 00:40:13.900 And according to this Irish pastor, I tried to find it, but I'm just going to go off of his. 00:40:15.200 --> 00:40:21.280 The story is that this dad took his child back to that gravestone and then got to tell her the whole story. 00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:29.280 He was standing in a line of men with their hands tied and the blindfolds on and the firing squad pointing at them with the muskets. 00:40:29.900 --> 00:40:34.740 These were men who had been arrested for, quote unquote, treason, whether or not it was just. 00:40:34.739 --> 00:40:41.399 And one of the one of the soldiers who had the musket to shoot them was 19 years old. 00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:44.699 And he happened to know this man. 00:40:45.279 --> 00:40:48.359 He happened to know that this man had a wife and a kid and a family. 00:40:49.139 --> 00:40:55.000 And that 19 year old asked permission, went over and talked to that man in the line deserving to be shot. 00:40:55.819 --> 00:40:57.799 And those were the words of the 19 year old. 00:40:57.899 --> 00:40:59.359 I want to stand where you're standing. 00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:01.460 He switched places. 00:41:02.099 --> 00:41:04.900 He tied up his hands and took on the blindfold. 00:41:06.200 --> 00:41:08.440 Took the bullet and died and was buried. 00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:10.079 And that's what they put on his gravestone. 00:41:11.019 --> 00:41:15.140 That's what allowed this dad to go back and meet his daughter and wife. 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:26.900 And I just imagine that little girl getting to travel back with her dad, seeing this gravestone and wanting to just, you know, kiss the dirt where the feet of this this man would have been laying. 00:41:26.900 --> 00:41:33.059 Well, that was a soldier, a sinner who's dead. 00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:40.619 How much more we want to kiss the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself up for us. 00:41:41.160 --> 00:41:43.519 He said, I want to stand where you stand. 00:41:45.240 --> 00:41:47.720 I want to be numbered with the transgressors. 00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:52.959 And I'll be satisfied to receive my own people. 00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:55.579 And to please my father. 00:41:58.299 --> 00:42:01.779 From the foundation of the world before time began. 00:42:02.619 --> 00:42:07.619 Our Lord Jesus Christ looked at you and me standing there hopelessly. 00:42:08.359 --> 00:42:08.919 Blind. 00:42:09.819 --> 00:42:11.619 Imprisoned to our own sin. 00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:13.519 Deserving death. 00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:13.599 Death. 00:42:17.340 --> 00:42:25.960 And that's why Revelation 13 calls our Lord Jesus Christ, the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:37.059 So that we can see our redemption in our own limited way with the words God has given us from God's perspective and be changed forever. 00:42:37.059 --> 00:42:37.139 Forever. 00:42:37.139 --> 00:42:43.359 Brothers and sisters and dear friends here. 00:42:44.500 --> 00:42:46.699 The only fitting response. 00:42:47.639 --> 00:42:50.900 Is to know God in Jesus Christ. 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:59.099 Kiss the feet of the father's servant, our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the living king. 00:42:59.099 --> 00:43:02.880 He is praying for you right now. 00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:05.619 And follow him. 00:43:07.380 --> 00:43:08.159 Let's pray. 00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:08.179 Let's pray.