GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 13~ ~ Isaiah 53:4 ~ ~ “Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows; ….”

Continuing with John Piper’s book, chapter 6

(speaking yesterday about the contradiction of loving sinners who reject his glory)

The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the resolution of the symphony of history. In the death of Jesus the two themes of God’s love for his glory and his love for sinners are resolved. As in all good symphonies there has been hints and suggestions of the final resolution. That is what we have in Isaiah 53 seven hundred years before Jesus came.

God’s pleasure in his name and his pleasure in doing good to sinners meet and marry in his pleasure in bruising the Son of God.

Isaiah 53:10

“The Lord was pleased to bruise him; he has put him to grief —or caused him pain—; when he makes himself an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days; the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.”

This is a prophecy and picture of Jesus Christ crucified and raised from the dead hundreds of years before it happens. The bruising of the crucifixion and death of Jesus, making himself an offering for sin. It is a bruising unto death. This is confirmed in Is 53:8, “He was cut off out of the land of the living…they made his grave with the wicked.” And again in verse 12, “He poured out his soul unto death.” The reference to prolonging his days, on the other hand, is a reference to Christ’s resurrection to eternal life after death. This is confirmed in verse 12 by the prophesy that God will “divide him a portion with the great” even though he had already died. When it says he will see his offspring, it means that the fruit of his suffering will be many people saved from sin and death. This is confirmed in verse 11, “He shall see the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant (Jesus) make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities (sins).

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