![]() This is the kind of life you’ve been invited into, the kind of life Christ lived. We are the purchase of his blood, and the monuments of his grace for this he continually pleads and prevails, destroying the works of the devil.1 Peter 2:24 who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. Here is laid a firm foundation for the trembling sinner to rest his soul upon. While we survey the sufferings of the Son of God, let us remember our long catalogue of transgressions, and consider him as suffering under the load of our guilt. When he led captivity captive, he received gifts for men, that he might give gifts to men. What God designed for the Redeemer he shall certainly possess. Sin and Satan, death and hell, the world and the flesh, are the strong foes he has vanquished. We must know him, and believe in him, as one that bore our sins, and saved us from sinking under the load, by taking it upon himself. By faith we are justified thus God is most glorified, free grace most advanced, self most abased, and our happiness secured. There are many whom Christ justifies, even as many as he gave his life a ransom for. He shall see it accomplished in the conversion and salvation of sinners. And whatever is undertaken according to God's pleasure shall prosper. Christ will not commit the care of his family to any other. Observe the graces and glories of his state of exaltation. ![]() He made himself subject to death, which to us is the wages of sin. Thus he took away the sin of the world, by taking it on himself. Commentary on Isaiah 53:10-12Ĭome, and see how Christ loved us! We could not put him in our stead, but he put himself. We may well endure our lighter sufferings, if He has taught us to esteem all things but loss for him, and to love him who has first loved us. By his sufferings he purchased for us the Spirit and grace of God, to mortify our corruptions, which are the distempers of our souls. He was delivered to death for our offences. Our sins were the thorns in Christ's head, the nails in his hands and feet, the spear in his side. This atonement was to be made for our sins. We are saved from the ruin, to which by sin we become liable, by laying our sins on Christ. Our sins deserve all griefs and sorrows, even the most severe. Sinners have their beloved sin, their own evil way, of which they are fond. We have all sinned, and have come short of the glory of God. ![]() It was for our sins, and in our stead, that our Lord Jesus suffered. In these verses is an account of the sufferings of Christ also of the design of his sufferings. Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 53:5-10 Commentary on Isaiah 53:4-9 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? 9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.ġ0 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him he has put him to grief when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring he shall prolong his days the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray we have turned-every one-to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions he was crushed for our iniquities upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. ![]()
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