Series: Isaiah
Title: He Shall See His Seed
Text: Isaiah 53: 10
Date: January 12, 2014
Place: SGBC, New Jersey
Isaiah 53: 10: Yet
it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt
make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his
days,…
Adam, along with every sinner who fell in Adam, must and
shall suffer the eternal vengeance of holy justice.—God will be no means clear
the guilty. But by God’s sovereign
grace, for you who God sanctified in divine election—chosen in Christ, for every
sinner God shall sanctify in the new birth to believe on Christ, instead of you
bearing that justice, it pleased the LORD to bruise him in your room and stead;
He hath put him to grief, instead of putting his people to grief—he hath made
his soul an offering for the sin of his people.
By doing so, he satisfied God—“it pleased God to bruise
him.” Christ manifest the righteousness
of God—that God might be just and the Justifier of him which believeth in
Jesus. (Rom 3: 26) He magnified his law
and made it honorable satisfying divine justice for his people. (Is 42: 21) Christ our Scapegoat bore our sins into the
grave—the land not inhabited—and left them there never again to be remembered
by God. (Lev 16: 22; Heb 8: 12; 10: 17)
Proposition: IT
PLEASED GOD TO BRUISE CHRIST BECAUSE BY CHRIST’S ONE OFFERING ALL HIS SEED
SHALL BE BORN TO ETERNAL LIFE—v10: he shall see his seed, he shall
prolong his days,…
I. GOD THE FATHER
SAW HIS SEED
First, God the Father saw HIS Seed—his only begotten Son,
Christ Jesus—and prolonged his days. The great crosswork of our Mediator
magnifies God the Son’s preeminent love and honor of God his Father. It shows his willingness and preeminent
desire to glorify his Father because to go to the cross he had to humble himself,
he had to make himself of no reputation.
On the cross he made himself the very least but “He that is least among
you all, the same shall be great.” Lu 9: 48)
God the Father saw his Son and said, “This is my beloved
Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Mt 17: 5) “This is my Son whose heart it was
to do the will of his Father, to fulfill my law in every jot and tittle; this
is my Son who began by saying, “I must be about my Father’s business.” And
ended by saying, “It is finished.” In every way my Son preeminently glorified
me by his work on the cross wherefore I highly exalted him and give him a name
above every name.” So we read, “he prolonged his days.” God raised him to be Head over every name
that is named, to be Head over his body his church. (Eph 1: 21-23)
II. CHRIST SHALL SEE HIS SEED
Christ shall see all his seed brought to faith in him and
their days prolonged to eternal life. Among the Hebrews—and among us—a large
family was counted a great blessing. It was an even greater blessing to live to
see your children’s children. For example: Genesis 48:11: And Israel said unto
Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy
seed.
Seen From the Foundation of the World
Christ Jesus shall see his seed—as Surety of his people
he has always seen them from the foundation of the world. Philip ran to get
Nathaniel. He saw his people from the
moment they were given to him by the Father in eternity.
John 1: 47: Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith
of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! 48: Nathanael saith
unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that
Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
Seen Risen in Him
Christ saw his seed—all those he redeemed—raised with him
on the third day.
Hoshea 6:2: After two days will he revive us: in the
third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Ephesians
2:5: Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,
(by grace ye are saved;) 6: And hath raised us up together, and made us sit
together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Seen Born-Again
Christ shall see his seed born the first time and
born-again to newness of life.
Psalm
22:30: A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a
generation. 31: They shall come, and shall declare his
righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
Christ is the Life of his seed. Adam was our father but
that relationship is not everlasting. Christ is the last Adam, the “Everlasting
Father” of all for whom he is the Head and Representative. Our relationship to Christ our Father shall
never end. (Is 9: 6)
Promised by the
Father
As promised by the Father, to Abraham and his Seed
(Christ Jesus) his seed shall be as the stars of heaven. Christ Jesus lives to see, all the souls that
he has redeemed, born first, to earth, and then born a second time to newness
of life in the new birth. He shall see
every elect child for whom he died born the first time then brought to faith in
him and to glory by him. None shall be lost. This is why it pleased the LORD to
bruise him.
Galatians 3: 8: And the scripture, foreseeing that God
would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be
blessed. [That same promise was made to Christ (Gal 3: 16) and that is why
Christ laid down his life.] 9: So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 10: For as many as are
of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every
one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law
to do them. 11: But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it
is evident: for, The just shall live by
faith. 12: And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall
live in them.13: Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made
a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
14: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus
Christ; that we might receive the
promise of the Spirit through faith.
He shall see every elect child for whom he
died born the first time then brought to faith in him and to glory by him. This
is why it pleased the LORD to bruise him.
Let’s see it again.
Galatians 4: 4: But when the fulness of the time was
come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5: To redeem
them that were under the law, that
we might receive the adoption of sons.
6: And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 7:
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of
God through Christ.
It is certain that all Christ’s redeemed
shall be born again and receive the adoption of sons because each child of God
is predestinated unto this adoption by Christ.
Ephesians 1: 5: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to
himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6: To the praise of
the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Away with this nonsense that Christ’s redeemed
do not have to hear the gospel and be born again. It was the promise made to Christ and the
very reason why Christ laid down his life. It pleased God to bruise him for
this very reason. There are scriptures
that declare plainly the necessity of the new birth. Such as,
John 3: 3: Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom
of God….5: Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the
kingdom of God.
Matthew
18:3: And said, Verily I say unto you, Except
ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter
into the kingdom of heaven.
John 6:53 Then
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh
of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Hebrews
11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Isaiah 54:13: And all thy children shall be taught of the
LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
John
6: 44: No man can come to me, except the Father
which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. 45
It is written in the prophets, And they
shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath
learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
But beyond these plain statements of fact, it
was the very promise of God to Christ. The
word of God, who cannot lie, was the promise to Christ his Son that “he shall
see his seed, he shall prolong days.” It
was the very reason that Christ laid down his life.
Therefore, Christ Jesus lives and by his own
power he shall see all the souls that he has redeemed, born first, to earth,
and then born a second time to newness of life in the new birth. This is why it
pleased the LORD to bruise him.
Illustration:
Teresa Eddmenson and her mother
Psalm 128 conveys the meaning of Christ seeing his seed
as the fruit of his finished work.
Psalm 128: 1: Blessed is every one that feareth
the LORD; that walketh in his ways. 2: For thou shalt eat the labour of thine
hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with
thee. 3: Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine
house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. 4: Behold, that
thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD. 5: The LORD shall bless
thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy
life. 6: Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon
Israel.
Amen!