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The scripture for a sermon today is found in Matthew chapter 20 verse 17 through 28 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the 12 disciples apart in the way and said to them behold we go up to the room and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes and they shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock him to scourge and to crucify and the 3rd day he shall rise again then came to him the mother of 7 these children with her sons worshipping Him and desiring a certain thing of him and he said to her what wilt thou she said to him grant that these my 2 sons may sit the one on the right hand and the other on the left and by Kingdom But Jesus answered and said you know not what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with they say into him we are able and he said to them you shall drink indeed of my cup and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give but for whom it is prepared of my father and when the 10 heard it they were moved with indignation against the 2 brethren But Jesus called them to him and said you know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them and they that are great exercise authority upon them but it shall not be so among you but whosoever will be great among you let him be your minister and whosoever will be Chief among you let him be your servant even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto but to minister and to give his life our ransom for many I have been titled this sermon our redeemer our assurance consider this Surprising Truth 1st that Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory the prince of life came to serve he did not come that men might serve him as though he needed anything or as though the service of sinful man could have any value to him sinful man is bound in sins under the law he cannot serve God he cannot worship God Joshua what 24 verse 19 Christ's humility indeed the very heart of God Himself is seen in stark contrast here to human pride his humility is seen in all timid self-denial and also met self-sacrifice even as he offered himself as a sacrifice for these proud contentious presumptuous disciples James and John sought for the highest place among the disciples even among all others in the Kingdom of Heaven they wanted to set one of the. Tan and one of the right hand and the other 10 disciples were indignant against them because they thought they should have the place preeminence themselves pride is a part of our sin nature it is present in all that we do it can only be subdued by free grace this text of Scripture proves that to us in the face of the pride and presumption of James in John and the other disciples Jesus bears himself in humility and holds himself up as the lowest servant he tells these discussed in centers that he would give himself to pay the ransom his people owed God by the debt of their sins and set them free from the curse and bondage of their sin of God's law of death and from the devil himself in short from every enemy James and John thought that by enduring whatever suffering was required they would be worthy to sit at Christ right and left hand how ignorant of God's grace they appeared now to be yet what was in them is found in the heart of every one of us pride is no stranger to us it is our constant companion it is the tyrant that influences all that we think and do Jesus told James and John they did not know what they were asking he asked them Are you able to drink of the cop that I shall drink Oh and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with they presumptuously and naively said we are able Jesus then said that they would indeed drink his cup and be baptized with his baptism Now the truth of the gospel is that every believer suffers what Christ suffered and died the death that he died because he stood as their substitute and represented. There is only one way that it can be truthfully said that these disciples drank the cup of Wrath the Lord Jesus drank and were baptized in the sea of woe into which he was baptized they did so just as all of God's elect did they drank his cup and were baptized into His baptism representatively God made Christ the head of his people that he might deal with all of His elect in one man even the Lord Jesus Christ just as Adam stood for the entire human race in the covenant of works Christ stood for all of God's eternally adopted sons in the covenant of grace in Christ all of God's elect are completely and perfectly saved by his representative work as our substitute by his pre-agreed surety ship with God the Father all that God's elect did by their sin became Christ's to bear therefore Scripture says that for his people Jesus Christ was made sin 2nd Clinton's 521 and by this same eternal arrangement all that Christ did became the possession of all of his people he was made sin in order that we might be made the right justice of God in Him 2nd Corinthians 521 thus every believer suffered and died with Christ and in his suffering in death they suffered and they died Romans Chapter 6 verse 6 through 11 and 1st Peter chapter 2 verse 24 God received all that Christ did as from his people let me say that again God received all that Christ did as from his people God raised the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and with him raised all who were given to him. Evasions chapter 2 verse 6 Romans Chapter 4 verse 25 there is no greater comfort to the soul of every believer than this that God put upon Christ and received from Christ all that he demanded and required of me in the Lord Jesus Christ every believer is the very righteousness of God 2nd the Lord Jesus Christ paid himself 2 daughters the ransom for the souls of his people Jesus said that he came to give himself a ransom to God for many the price paid for the souls of God's elect people is Christ's blood 1st Peter $1.00 there is $18.00 to $19.00 he paid that price to God Psalm $49.00 verse 7 the weight. Now the only thing that matters in our redemption is what God thinks of the obedience and suffering and death of the Lord Jesus Christ the only issue is did Christ pay the ransom and did God receive full payment from our Redeemer that is the only thing that matters if Christ paid all and if God receive his ransom in satisfaction for our sins then all for whom Christ paid a ransom or reading they are set free they are released and from this we see several things 1st we see that the evil of our sin can only be measured by the price of our redemption how holy is God how just is God's law how evil is my sin all of these questions and more are only answered by this what was the price God required for our redemption and the answer is it is Christ that died Romans 834. Second the strength of our sin can only be measured by the strength of the one who read deemed us from our enemies Zacharias the father of John the Baptist but the Spirit of God said that Christ would read the name his people from their enemies and Luke chapter one verse 68 through 75 you says blessid be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and we deemed his people and has raised up on the horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets which have been since the world began that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us to perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant the oath which he swear to our father Abraham that he would grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life. What are the enemies for which Christ has redeemed his people 1st sin the Lord says in Isaiah 44 verse 22 I have blotted out as a thick cloud by transgressions and as a cloud by sins return to me for I have read deemed the end is Psalm 130 verse 7 he says he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities Titus 214 says who gave Himself for us that he might read deem us for all iniquity and what other enemies the law of God both is curse against us for sayin and bondage to fulfill it for our righteousness and to receive life. Collations chapter 3 verse 13 says Christ has 3 deemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us for it is written curse it is every one that hangs on a tree and from what other enemies do the Lord Jesus Christ redeem his people from death and the grave Hosea Chapter 13 verse 14 says I will ransom them from the power of the grave I will redeem them from death. And the Lord has redeemed us from Satan and Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 it says that through death the Lord Jesus Christ destroyed him that had the power of death that is the devil and the Lord has redeemed us from the world and religious works and ceremonies and all activities and philosophies by which men of this world imagine they are or can become acceptable to God that they can receive rewards from God that they can live and enjoy peace and happiness by what they are or think or do all of these are empty valueless positively filthy rags and idolatry before God and he lay she is one for it says that Jesus gave Himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God our Father the 3rd thing we see from this scripture in Matthew chapter 20 we see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 1st we see the grace of God in its measure by the cost Christ paid to redeem us and we see it because it was paid for centers whose guilt and corruption deserve only the wrath of God Perhaps your own children whom you love have rebelled against your loving instruction and the boundaries you placed around them for their safety and for their good perhaps they have despised you for your instruction perhaps they have treated your love as constraining bondage if so what is your reaction have you felt a measure of anger towards them how could they be so ungrateful so cruel in return for your loving provision in care over them now think of the infinitely greater rebellion that we exerted against our good and great God and now see in Christ the heart of humility and the grace of God in spite of our open and maty against him he looked for reason to save us not in ourselves but in himself he made a way for his grace he provided. All things for us he put himself in harm's way by interposing himself under his own justice in the person of His Son He created a human nature for his own son and in that nature made him guilty for the sins of his rebellious people then in justice he plunged the sort of His wrath into his own son 2nd why a 13 1st 7 in all this Christ willingly voluntarily and in humility offered himself up as the ransom payment for those who were his enemies he endured all that God required to make satisfaction for the sins of his people now in all this see the infinite humility and the riches of God's grace towards his people do you and I know this great glorious God and almighty Savior who humbled himself so. The 2nd way in which we see the grace of our Savior and his ransom for us is that it is certain that I can bring nothing to God to take away one sin or overcome one sin or contribute one thing to my salvation because of the dignity and the greatness of Christ who was ransom he who sits on Heaven's throne gave himself a ransom to thought as the price required by God to remit the debt of sinful men and their rebellion against God The price he paid was himself his own blood therefore the evil of our sin is beyond all comprehensible measure the death of Christ is the measure of the evil of our sin and the strength of our sin is greater than we could ever free ourselves we are slaves to sin in our nature and accountable to God for eternal damnation we see this evil and power of sin in the dignity and the greatness of the one who God require to put it away and in this we see the grace of our ransoming savior if God could have offered all of creation it would not have been sufficient to take away one sin Isaiah 40 verse 16 if there had been a way for you and me to take away one sin all free ourselves from the power and strength of our own sin then God would never have sacrificed his son but there was no other payment sufficient to reading collations to $16.00 says I do not frustrate the grace of God if righteousness come by the law then Christ is dead in vain but God did require Christ to give himself and Christ did drink the cup of indignation and Christ was baptized under the flood of God's wrath therefore righteousness comes by him alone and there is no righteousness apart from his obedience unto death before thing we see in this scripture. Which Christ said he would give himself our ransom for many is that in Christ alone we have assurance of our salvation what is the assurance of our salvation 1st we must understand that when Christ gave himself a ransom to God that God received his offering as full payment his ransom of tainted really actually tain from God eternal redemption for his people Hebrews Chapter 9 verse 12 Do you believe it and do I believe it. Christ offered himself to God and obtained eternal redemption for his people and his offering was obedience to God John Chapter 10 verse 15 and verse 17 through 18 he willingly and completely and perfectly rendered everlasting obedience to God on behalf of and in the place of his people to have assurance before God Therefore we must see what God sees he tells us what he sees Exodus Chapter 12 or 13 when I see the blood I will pass over you all that God looks for all that he looks at is the obedience and blood of His Son the Lord Jesus Christ that read the mean ransom price of his life offered to God for His people by his one offering he obtained eternal forgiveness of their sins he obtained their release from the curse of God's law he obtained their freedom from the bondage of bringing personal obedience to God for their acceptance and he obtained their freedom from the devil and from death itself God sees Christ for His people and receives him for them and receives them as Him Jesus said in John 17 verse 23 in prayer to his father I in them and in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that now has sent me and has loved them as that has loved me. Secondly the assurance of salvation is found in what God says God says that he looks upon and received from Christ all that he required to forgive his people to make them righteous Isaiah Chapter 45 verse 24 says surely shall one say in the Lord how I write just names and strength in the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory. And God looks upon Christ to give his people eternal inheritance Hebrews 915 says For this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the 1st Testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance God looks to Christ for satisfaction for all of the sins of all of his people and they are free for all claims of his law to bring obedience to our righteousness and life from him or to satisfy its curse God lives only upon his son for all that he requires of them therefore he commands us to look only to Christ Hebrews Chapter 12 years 2 says looking into Jesus the author and finisher of our faith and in John 6 1st 40 Jesus said this is the will of him to sent me and everyone will see it the son and believe it on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day God commands us to look only to Christ to flee to Christ to run to him for refuge to come to Christ to find all that God Himself requires in Christ alone Colossians to verse 9 in 10 he commands us to rest in Christ Hebrews 4 Verse one through 10 to submit to Christ in all things Romans Chapter 10 verse 3 in following. Does God require my eternal damnation because of my sins he gave that cup of indignation to his own dear son to drink and by drinking it to pay the debt of ransom for my soul does God's law require the flood of His wrath to be poured out upon me for my sins of the Lord Jesus Christ was baptized under that flood in Jonah Chapter 2 The Spirit of God prophesied of Christ I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord and He heard me out of the belly of hell cried I and now hurts my voice for that has cast me into the deep in the midst of the Seas and the floods compassed me about all by bellows and I waves passed over me and in solemn 69 the Lord says save me o. God for the waters are come in unto my soul I sink in deep mire where there is no standing I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me and Insall mediate for 7 by wrath Liath hard upon me and the House to flitted me with all by waves as God require these things of me he found them in his own son does God require mine damnation he poured out that damnation on his own son. And is God require perfection from me the Lord Jesus Christ perfected me by his one offering Hebrews Chapter 10 verse 14 by one offering He has perfected forever then that are sanctified is their remission of sins and nothing but Christ blood then full remission has been made because Christ shed his blood listen to what God says in Hebrews Chapter 10 verse 16 in following he says this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days saith the Lord I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them and their sins and iniquities Will I remember no more now where remission of these is there is no more offering for sin and then this entire fully to what the Lord says next Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the Blood of Jesus by a new living way which he has consecrated for us through the veil that is to say his flesh and having a High Priest over the house of God Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts Frankl from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised. Because God looks only to his son because God tells us that he looks only to his son and because God commands us to come to him only through his son therefore the assurance of salvation is that everything is provided by God out of his grace in Christ alone only our pride keeps us from coming and finding and resting in Christ alone only our pride prevents our conscience from finding peace unless we find reason for that peace in ourselves only our own pride withholds assurance from our own conscience because we require something more than Christ crucified as our all before God The Solomon says in the song 10 verse for the wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God God is not in all his thoughts. The pride of our heart keeps us from seeking in finding our all in Christ what God requires he provided in Christ and received from Christ alone the Lord Jesus Christ obtained eternal prevention for his people by the ransom of himself to God All God requires He gives by virtue of Christ's blood in Acts 531 the Lord says him half god exalted with his right hand to be a prince and a savior for to give repentance to Israel and the forgiveness of sins and in Romans 517 he says they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ Now if our sins are taken away by God's grace alone and if he gives righteousness by His grace alone then what arrogance on our part is it to entertain a sub conscious thought that we could add to what Christ has accomplished by anything we do to make our salvation more certain all of our experience must be abandoned as any cause for comfort because God sees and receive from Christ all that he requires for his people faith itself by which we are unable to look to Christ alone is God's gift of grace justification is God's gift by virtue of Christ's blood Romans Chapter 5 years 10 eternal life is God's gift Romans Chapter 6 1st 23 sanctification is by Christ offering of himself remission of sins and perfection before God by the one offer enough Jesus Christ there is absolutely nothing nothing nothing that is not freely given by God out of his grace to his people on the grounds of the ransom Christ paved with himself therefore what do we look for in ourselves we must look away from all that may be called. Ours and find our all only in what belongs to Christ when you when i are persuaded in God given faith to look to Christ alone only then will we have full assurance of faith the one who sees that God looks to Christ and received from Christ all that he demanded requires of me the one who sees that God finds all in Christ in spite of the worst possible evil in me and my utter helplessness against sin that soul will find rest and assurance in Christ that God given faith will say from God's own word the Son of God loved me and gave Himself for me who gave Himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world Christ have 3 d. In us from the curse of the law be made a curse for us if you or I try to find one reason in ourselves why we can claim these promises of God in our conscience we will never have true peace and rest we must find every reason for assurance in God's sovereign grace and in Christ redeeming blood and his justifying righteousness many think we all naturally do that God will reward us for what his grace accomplishes in us as if by God's grace working in us we can become what God requires but this is utterly false in fact it is idolatry if God by His Grace could produce in you or me what he requires of us in Christ did not need to die collations to 21 says I do not frustrate the grace of God forever righteousness come by the law by my personal obedience then Christ died for nothing only Christ himself. Given in ransom could free me from the guilt of sin and the power of sin and from the curse of God's law and bondage to keep God's law in order to make God happy with me only the suffering and death of the Son of God in my nature offered to God as a ransom for my sins could free me from my Sent from the devil from death from the world and the law of God and Christ has freed me from these by giving himself to God in death as a ransom The other reason for assurance before God Is that because we are redeemed by Christ we are under grace alone Grace provides all to the most unworthy even great and horrible centers there is no such thing as a little Center saved by Christ if you can clean yourself up if you can put away one of your sins if you can clean up or quit even one sin then you don't need a Savior Christ will only do for you what is impossible it is by his life given to God for a ransom that he has done this Roman 614 says sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under the law but under grace now the wickedness of our pride is seen in our unbelief God's own word commands us to look to Christ to come to him to rest in Him Furthermore he gives all grace to enable us to see Christ as all of his word therefore to fail to submit to Him as our complete and perfect payment to God for all of our sins or to fail to submit to His righteousness as all my obedience to God is nothing short of proud and wicked believe Romans Chapter 10 says that the Jews were ignorant of God's righteousness so they went about. Who established their own righteousness and therefore have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God because Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes may God enable everyone who hears my voice even now to look away from our guilt from are enslaved meant to send from our corruptions to Christ alone and find in him all that God requires of me and so go to God in peace and joy and thankfulness and worship Him for all that he is to us in a great reading. Each year. You just heard a sermon by our Pastor Rick Warren you may contact despite even or by phone or download a copy of the sermon by visiting your website and why it's Grace Church dot com. I'm bridging this morning from Isaiah Chapter 53 and if you can get access to a Bible vol loam I think it would be helpful I've been titled this message the only message of Scripture every scripture Genesis to Revelation is tied to Isaiah 53 I repeat the only message of Scripture Isaiah begins this chapter with a lament who has believed our report it seems like nobody does and it seems that way in our day we have all come to religion but how little gospel. Who hath believed our report and the word report names the message the doctrine the word of Scripture now Isaiah 53 written 700 years before the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ is the clearest exposition of Jesus Christ and Him crucified that you'll find in the end our Bible as matter of fact Isaiah $53.00 is quoted 7 times in the New Testament and 7 is the word of perfection it lets us know that this is the complete revelation of the New Testament in the Old Testament Jesus Christ and Him crucified Now this is the subject Jesus Christ and Him crucified the cross of Christ this is the subject of the eternity's before time began before there were any sun or moon or stars when all there was was God There was no creation even the in Christ is called in Revelation Chapter 13 versus 8 the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world now what do we know about this period if you could call it that language can't understand a time when there is no time but before time was the Lamb slain was the subject of eternity past and eternity future when this will be over in time will be no more this is going to be the song of heaven worth of the is the land that was slain. And time was created the universe was created sin made its appearance for this one purpose the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ God created the universe for the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ and when Paul said Abdurrahman not to do anything among save Jesus Christ and Him crucified that's what he said to the church court in 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 2 he said I determined I made this my resolve not to know anything among you not to esteem anything as important or even worth speaking of Save the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ and ask your question when Paul made that statement was he saying I'm going to make the cross My main focus or was he saying the only message there really is is the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ and let me try to illustrate this by something an n.f.l. Coach said many years ago and I don't want to bring this to a sports metaphor but I think this will serve to illustrate what is being said Vince Lombardi made this statement winning is not the most important thing winning is the only thing now with regard to sports I'm no better than that it's a silly game you can't say winning is not the most important thing winning is the only thing besides we learn more far from our failures and losses than we do our victories so with regard to anything on this earth we can't say winning is not the most important thing winning is the only thing but with regard to the cross with regard to Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The cross is not the most important thing. The cross is the only thing let me repeat that I want you to think about it the cross of Christ is not the most important thing the cross of Christ is the only thing all of God's salvation is found in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ no doctrine of scripture can be understood apart from the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ and the cross of Christ is the foundation of everything if you've been elected before time began it's because you were sitting in the land flying from the foundation of the world if you believe it's because Christ died for you and gave you that faith if you persevered to the end it's because Christ died for you and caused you to persevered to the if you're an adopted child of God If you're born of God It's because Christ died for you the only hope anyone has of being saved is that Christ died for there on Calvary street that somebody may think we didn't die for everybody no we didn't the Bible didn't teach that the Bible teaches that He died for His elect for his people for his sheep and if Christ died for you you must be saved now let's read Isaiah Chapter 53 I just want to read it and make a few comments as we go through it verse by verse in Isaiah Chapter 53 Verse one. Isaiah makes this complaint who has believed I reported our message. Our words are doctored it seems like Barry if you believe what the Lord said it would be this way he said many go in the broad gate that leads to destruction but only if you enter the strait gate and walk along the narrow way that leads to life that shouldn't be surprises but I say a enters his own question when he makes this complaint he says who has believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed now that's who believes that's who believes those to whom the arm of the Lord is revealed salvation comes by revelation you know I will not believe we will not understand English God is pleased to reveal Himself to us salvation comes by revelation you not can figure this thing out and you understand that you cannot but diligent studying of the Scriptures figure out what the message is you and I are completely dependent upon God to reveal Himself to us and if he doesn't we'll never know Him the Lord said I think the over board of heaven on earth because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babies even so father for so it seemed good in Die side now Christ Jesus is the arm of the Lord he's the mighty power of God He is the power of God and the salvation and the ones who have the arm of the Lord revealed to the him are the ones who believe the report and let's go on reading in verse 2 for he the Lord Jesus Christ shall grow up before him. You know our Lord was born and he grew up he grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man in the father watched his son grow up from a child to the young man for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and there's a route out of the dry ground that the picture before it's almost seemed like weakness the Son of God before the father while he lived on the earth was as a tender play and there's a root sticking up out of dry cracked parched ground and Isaiah says he hath no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should do sorry Him Now what this is letting us know is that there is absolutely nothing regarding Christ and Him crucified there to peel into the flesh I'm talking about fall of last fall in flesh sees no beauty or comeliness in Him who is altogether lovely Now the problem is not Him The problem is the blindness of the natural man he can see no beauty no comeliness in the most glorious person and work the could ever be described it he didn't see it why because of the same fullness of fallen humanity we don't even desire him we won't seek Him unless God does something for us look at verse 3 says he is despised and rejected of mean everybody who was anybody turned thumbs down on the Lord Jesus Christ I saw no beauty in him and the scripture says he was a man of sorrows. And acquainted he knew grief and that word grief is the word that is generally translated sickness the word is found one in 4 times in the Old Testament 19 times is translated sickness and disease he was a man of sorrows Now how is that because he knew that he was going to be separated from his father he knew he was going to be made the Sin bearer he knew he was going to experience his father's awful Fran and he knew he was going to be for saken by him whom he loved with all his heart because he was going to take on the sins of his people and he was a man of sorrows because of that how he loved his father how he hurt under the thought of being separated from his father's presence he knew that was going to happen you see he's the only one who knew the wickedness of St Then you don't really understand it we're used to it but he knew the wickedness of seeing in the how he was burdened at the thought of being made seen when it says he knew our at war as was acquainted with our grief or sickness this gives us some idea of what he experienced on Calvary Street now I know that false preachers take this and say well he bore your sicknesses and you don't have to it's not the Lord's will for you to be sick Well Bush if you're sick it's because it's the Lord's will for you to be sick he's in control of everything sickness is not some punishment for something somebody has done and somebody who's healthy they don't experience that sickness because of their holiness and their ability and that's food business the holiest pig all believers are equally holy in Christ but there have been many holy men and women of God who have lived their entire lives in sickness. But what this is talking about is him experiencing scene he never seemed and he knew everything there was to know regarding Syria he knew how bad it was he knew how evil it was he experienced the Shane he experienced the guilt you see when he bore Masi and it became history and when God poured his wrath out upon him he wasn't punishing someone who was innocent he was punishing someone who was guilty because Mohsin became his see and and he bore the sickness the filth the vileness of my see and what could be more evil than to place no value on him Look what it says he is despised and rejected of man a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we should as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteem him not here is the greatness of the guilt of me and we despised the Son of God and had no if stain for the glory of His person let's go on reading in verse 4 surely he had borne out of reefs and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of God and afflicted. Now he was bearing the sorrows the griefs the sayin the iniquities of his people when it says Surely he has borne our grief that's not talking about all need without exception if it was all name would be saved this is talking about the elect those and you the evidence of election is believing the Gospel those who rely holy on him surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of God an afflicted we didn't get it we didn't understand what he was doing we thought he was being punished by God But verse 5 says he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with His stripes we are healed now somebody may be thinking how could it be right how could it be fair for God to take the sins of his people and place upon his son so that his son became guilty of them and punish him for them whereas the rightness Where is the fairness in all of this what a good question it's right because God did it really no other reason is needed Shall not the judge of the earth do right it's right because God did it he at put him to greet it please the Lord to bruise him as we're going to see later on this passage of Scripture not only is it right because God did it it's right because crack did this voluntarily this one forced upon him he said no man takes my life from pain I have the power to lay it down and I have the power to take it out this commandment I received my father he did this voluntarily he did this because he wanted too. And this demonstrates the relationship between Christ and His people the great bridegroom takes on the death of the bride they become his he loves his wife and he's going to take care of his wife this is who he is and in this we see God's way of saving seduce I love this I was condemned by what Adam did when he did it I was can be and I did it too I was in here but just as I was condemned when Adam sinned I'm justified I'm saying by what Christ does so we see the glory of this he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with His stripes we are healed now this was written 700 years before it took place and when Peter quotes this passage of Scripture in 1st Peter chapter 2 he says by who stripes you were healed now healing salvation before God is all in Him Now I say you say this all we like sheep of gone astray we've turned everyone to his own way now this is the true confession of sin all we locked gone astray we're all stupid straying sheep and we can't get back we've turned everyone to his own way every believer feels like there's something. Peculiar and particular about their Seeing that makes them worse than others we've turned everyone to his own way and the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all and that word Lay means impinged made to collide he has made to collide on Him the iniquity of us all men do I know what all that means of course I don't of course I don't what I'm talking about I realize I have very little understanding of I know what this passage of Scripture teaches this is the message of Scripture been to Iraq understand what all it means for Christ to be made to stand no I don't but I believe this is this is who I'm relying on the Lord has laid upon him the iniquity of us all verse 7 he was oppressed. He was oppressed and it means he was burdened down he was afflicted yet he opened not in his mouth he has brought as a lamb to the slaughter and is it before her fears is done so he opened not his mouth now why did the Lord defend himself you know if I am accused of something that I didn't do I am going to be defending myself I didn't do that but the Lord did not open his mouth why because he knew he was guilty he wasn't going to try to defend himself because the sins of the elect literally became his sins and he was guilty of the commission of them when The Father gave them to him and he did not open his mouth in self defense because he knew he was guilty person 8 he was taken from prison and from judgment. And who should declare his generation for he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken all restraint was removed he was taken from judgement cut off just as Daniel said he would be cut off for the drains Gratian of my people this is substitutionary atonement the reason I'm not going to be Dame just because Christ took my place no other reason is needed I'm not say because of anything I do I'm saved because he took my place there was a missionary once trying to describe to a tribe the gospel and he didn't know if he'd got across to him and he asked a woman he said he understand what I've been saying and she replied either he die or me die he die me no die and that is the gospel he was stricken with the transgression of my people verse 9 and he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death because he had done no violence neither was deceit found in his mouth he was buried in a rich man's tomb Joseph environment he had and he was looked on as a criminal in the eyes of them who crucified Him even though no deceit was found in his mouth he's always the sinless sacrifice for stain yet it pleased the Lord the Brucia. Now when he was nailed to that tree it was the justice of God who nailed him to that term because he really was guilty Nazi and actually became his seed and everything that happened to him happened to him according to the determinant counseling for knowledge of God I think of. The words of the early church of Against of the truth against the Holy Child Jesus whom Val has anointed both harridan punchers policy with the gentiles and the people of Israel that everybody were gathered together for to do whatsoever the hand and I cancel determined before to be done it please the Lord to bruise him he had put into grief when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin and this was what God did he made the soul of the Lord Jesus Christ an offering for St Now that word offering is also different for same as also translated seen and it's also translated guiltiness this is saying the same thing Paul said in 2nd printings 521 For he hath made him to be seen who knew no seen that we might be made the rock just in his soul God in him now because of this he shall see his seed this is all of God's people called his seed his children he should see his seed he show prolong his days. His priesthood is for ever he's never going to die again he is eternal he should prolonging his days and the pleasure the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand you see what Christ does and what Christ did is successful he can't fail you know there's not going to be the body inhale that he died for he can't fail look at verse 11 says he's just see of the travail of his soul and that's what was going on on the cross all the travail of his soul he so see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied he's going to know that he has accomplished the Father's will everybody 'd that he died for is saved by his knowledge and that's not to talk about our knowledge but his knowledge his knowledge of God his acquaintance with grief and c n his knowledge of how he say by his knowledge shall my right to a servant justify many for he shall bear their iniquities and in bearing their iniquities he put them away and now everybody he died for is justified and look at his last verse verse 12 therefore will I divide him a portion with the great. It was talking about the spoils of the mighty Victor and he survived the spoil with the strong he divides his spoils with his people who in him themselves are weak and insignificant but because of what he did for them they are described as Mighty and Strong if he is Mighty and Strong every believer is due because of what he did for them and he names these 4 things because he poured out his soul on today this is why he comes as a mighty Victor he poured out his soul to death willingly and he was numbered with the trend pressures and I remember on Calvary Street God wasn't punishing someone who was innocent he was punishing someone who was guilty the great transaction of my san being made his sin and his sin being I mean his righteousness being made why he poured out his soul and today as he was numbered with the transgressors he bear the sin of many oh he bore their stadiums and put them away and he made intercession for the transgressors when he said from the cross Father forgive them he was making a request he was calling upon God to forgive everybody that he died for the very justice of God demands that the very purpose of God demands that he made intercession for the strange oppressors and everybody he makes intercession for must be saved now this is the Gospel given by. I say. In the book of Isaiah the gospel. Is. Soon seen. That. You have just heard a message. Talking you may download a copy of the sermon you just heard by visiting the you beside her Grace Church website at y. S. Grace Church dot com This is Pastor Rick Warren praying God would make himself known to you in Christ you're listening to the Patriots on 1410 am. 3 f.m. Key to a 2. Broadcasting station. Spending the prison time for a year of probation authorities say Hubbard operated his pickup truck and it criminally negligent manner in July $2800.00 he crossed a median in Delaware and was hit by a New Jersey family's minivan the father and his 4 daughters died and Kerik Fox News it got louder around the chemical plant in Louisiana officials with Dow Chemical still.