Isaiah 53

When he was on earth he lay in the manger, now he sits in the throne; then he was hated and scorned of men, now he is adored of angels; then his name was reproached, now God has given him a name above every name (Philippians 2:9). Then he came in the form of a servant, and as a…

He knew no sin, yet he was made sin (2 Corinthians 5:21). He was like a sinner, he had all sin laid upon him, but no sin lived in him (Isaiah 53:12). He was numbered among transgressors.

Question. I am a sinner; who does Christ intercede for? Response. (Isaiah 53:12) He made intercession for the transgressors. Did Christ open his sides for you, and will he not open his mouth to plead for you?

Quest. Why did Christ suffer? Resp. Surely not for any desert of his own, (Daniel 9:26) The Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself; it was for us, (Isaiah 53:6) Unus peccat alius plectitor; He suffered that he might satisfy God's justice for us. We by our sins had infinit…

They know their duty yet do it not? Response 1. The not obeying of God is for want of faith (Isaiah 53:1). Quis credidit? Who has believed our report?

1. Christ will come in splendor and great glory. His first coming in the flesh was obscure (Isaiah 53:2). He was like a prince in disguise; but his second coming will be illustrious, he shall come in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels (Mark 8:38).

O give credence to the Word — it is breathed from God's own mouth. Hence arises all the profaneness of men: they do not believe Scripture (Isaiah 53:1): "Who has believed our report?" Did you believe the glorious rewards the Scripture speaks of, would you not give diligence to m…

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. Isaiah 53:8. Who shall declare his generation? Christ is a Son to the Father, yet so, as he is of the same nature with the Father, having all the incommunicable properties of the Godhead belonging to him:…

(2 Corinthians 5:21) He was made sin for us. He who was among the glorious persons of the Trinity, was numbered among transgressors (Isaiah 53:12). Not that he had sin, but he was like a sinner, having our sins imputed to him.

What if sin be red as scarlet, is not Christ's blood of a deeper color, and can wash away sin? If Satan strikes us with his darts of temptation, here is a precious balm comes out of Christ's wounds to heal us (Isaiah 53:5). What, though we feed upon the bread of affliction, as l…

It was the will of his Father that he should die for our sins, and he endured the Cross (Hebrews 12:2). It was a painful, shameful, cursed death; he suffered the very pains of Hell equivalently, yet he willingly submitted (Isaiah 53:7). He opened not his mouth, he opened his sid…

With these Christ's soul was filled when, as the text says, 'he was heard in what he feared' and 'his soul was heavy to death' and 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' And so in Isaiah 53: 'It pleased God to bruise and wound him.' Now then, to conform us to his image, we…

The laws of this kingdom are the word of God in the books of the old and new testament. Therefore it is called the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 13), the Gospel of the kingdom (Mark 1:13), the rod of his mouth (Isaiah 11:4), the arm of God (Isaiah 53:1). As a king by his laws bring…

He is a Father in respect of grace, because we are regenerate by him, and accepted to be his sons by adoption through the merit of Christ. And in this respect the second person as well as the first is called a Father, and said to have an offspring or seed and children (Isaiah 9:…

Trajan the Emperor did rend off a piece of his own robe to wrap his soldiers wounds. Christ did more, he made a medicine of his body and blood to heal us, Isaiah 53. 5. By his stripes you are healed. Here was a pattern of Charity without a parallel.

Behold a ruinous building upon a rotten foundation — for faith contains a knowledge of things to be believed, and knowledge is of the nature of faith, and nothing is believed that is not known. Isaiah 53:11: The knowledge of my righteous servant shall justify many. John 17:3: Th…

If we be made righteous by Christ his righteousness truly, then Christ is a sinner truly by our sins: but Christ is not indeed a sinner by our sins. Answer: We may with reverence to his majesty in good manner say, that Christ was a sinner, and that truly: not by any infusion of…

Never did any suffer more and greater abuses from men than Christ did, and never did any carry it more peaceably and forgivingly. Isaiah 53:7: 'He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.' This pattern the Apostle…

Isaiah 53:1 Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We hope it shall not be needful to insist in opening the scope of this chapter, or in clearing to you of whom the prophet means, and is speaking: It was once questioned by the Eunuch, Acts 8:32…

Isaiah 53:1. Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We have spoken somewhat these days past, to sundry doctrines from this part of the verse, and particularly of the sad complaint which Isaiah has in his own name, and in the name of all the min…

Isaiah 53:1. Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? If we would soberly consider the frame of the most part of men and women that live under the Gospel, it would be hard to know whether it were more strange that so few should receive the report…

Isaiah 53:1. Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We have spoken at several occasions to this first part of the verse, and before we leave it, there is one use several times hinted at already, to which there is good ground to speak, it being…

Isaiah 53:1 — And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? There are many mistakes in the way of religion, with which the most part are possessed, and among the rest there is one, that generally the hearers of the Gospel think it so easy to believe, that there is no difficulty i…

Isaiah 53:1—And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? The way of the grace of God is a very difficult subject to be thought on or spoken of suitably and as it becomes, grace having a sovereign and unsearchable channel of its own wherein it runs; yet no doubt it is very useful…

Isaiah 53:1 — And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? Ministers have not done with their work when they have preached, and people have not done with their work when they have heard: that which is of greatest concern follows, which either has, in the want of it, influence on…

Isaiah 53:1 — And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? It's much to walk evenly and steadfastly under the pure doctrine of grace, and neither from it to take occasion to give way to looseness and carnal liberty, nor to become faint and discouraged, and fearful at the way of…

ISAIAH 53:2, 3. Verse 2. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness: and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Isaiah 53:2, 3. Verse 2. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness: and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Isaiah 53:4-5 Verse 4. Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:1. Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? The Prophet Isaiah is very solicitous about the fruit of his preaching, when he has preached concerning Christ; as indeed it is not enough for ministers to preach, and for people to hear, exce…

Isaiah 53:4-5 Verse 4. Surely he has born our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:4-5. Verse 4. Surely he has born our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Verse 5. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and w…

Isaiah 53:5 But 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. It's hard to tell whether the subject of this verse, and almost of this whole chapter, be more sad or more sw…

Isaiah 53, Verse 5. But 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. It were no small progress in Christianity to know and believe the truths that are implied and contain…

Isaiah 53:5. But 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. If there were more deep conviction among us of our natural deadness in sin, and of that fearful condition tha…

Isaiah 53:6 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. You have in the former verses somewhat of our Lord's suffering, and of his suffering for sinners, that he was wounded and bruised, etc.

Isaiah 53:6. 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.

Isaiah 53, Verse 7. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. Though the news of a suffering Mediator seem to be a sad subject, yet it has…

Isaiah 53:8 — Verse 8. He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people was he stricken. We need not tell you of whom the Prophet is speaking here, every verse a…

Isaiah 53:8. He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people was he stricken. Every step of Christ's way to sinners, and every word whereby it is expressed, is…

Isaiah 53:1. Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? The most part of men and women think not much of the preached gospel, yet if it were considered what is the Lord's end in it, it would be the most refreshing news that ever people heard, to he…

Isaiah 53:8. He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people was he stricken. These words are a proof of that which we discoursed in the lecture concerning Chri…

Isaiah 53, Verse 8. He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people was he stricken. The Prophet has been long in describing Christ's sufferings, and has shown…

ISAIAH 53:8. Verse 8. He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who shall declare his generation?

Isaiah 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Every passage of our Lord's way in prosecuting the work of redemption has somewhat wonderful in it; we heard of several of the…

Isaiah 53, 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 any deceit in his mouth. This is a most wonderful subject that we have to think and speak of, which concerns the sufferings that our blessed Lo…

Isaiah 53:9-10 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 any deceit in his mouth.

Isaiah 53:10, Verse 10. When you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Christ and his sufferings have been a most delightsome subject to be spoken and heard of, before ev…

Isaiah 53:10. When you shall make his soul an offering for sin, He shall see his seed, He shall prolong his days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Whatever the men of the world think of it, it is not an easy matter to get the justice of God satisfied for s…

Isaiah 53, Verse 10. When you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Sin was easily brought into the world, a little business brought in sin, and the curse and wrath of Go…