IT PLEASED THE LORD TO BRUISE HIM – ISAIAH 53:10

There are several reasons the Father took pleasure in bruising His Son by sacrificing Him upon the tree.

• It pleased the holy justice of the Father to slaughter His Son as the substitute for His people because the Son was made sin for His people. “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities” (Isaiah 53:4-5) “for the transgression of my people was he stricken.” (Isaiah 53:8)
• It pleased the Father to see His eternal purpose of the redemption of His people accomplished through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son made flesh. “he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.” (Isaiah 53:10)
• It pleased the holy nature of God. God can only accept what is perfectly holy. The Father is pleased to accept His people because the sacrifice of Christ fully justified them. “by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities” (Isaiah 53:11)
• It pleased the grace of God to make peace for His elect people through the sacrifice of the Son. “the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5)

Pastor Frank Tate

NO CONDEMNATION AND NO SEPARATION

Consider this dreadful truth for a moment. Our sin in fallen Adam charged to us has separated us from God, "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God" (Isaiah 59:2). In Adam we are, "Estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies." (Psalm 58:3). In Adam death and sin entered into us, "By one-man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men" (Rom. 5:12).

But now consider this glorious truth for a moment. Our sin has been separated from us forever. Our Blessed Saviour came in the flesh apart from sin (Rom. 8:3) and in our nature to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself (Heb. 9:26; Gal. 4:4-6; 1 John 3:5). Now because of His glorious, full and eternal atonement for sin the believer has no sin (Heb. 10:14-17). Our Lord said, "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us" (Psalm 103:12). He has also assured us that He remembers our sin no more, "their sins and iniquities will I remember no more" (Heb. 10:17). This is the good news of the gospel no condemnation and no separation but rather eternal reconciliation (Rom. 8:1, 32-39; 2Cor. 5:17-21).

Pastor Tom Harding

Oh, The Wonder Of It! Ephesians 1: 6-7

When I think of the wonder, majesty, and glory of God, I can hardly believe that such a worm as I am should be called to be an heir of His grace. Yet, it is just this vast difference that manifests the glory of His grace. He who is the highest, the holiest, and the greatest has set His affection on the lowest, the most sinful, and weakest. It is "to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved, In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace."

Pastor Darvin Pruitt

He Laid Down His Life For Us.” 1 John 3:16

Children of God, this is the foundation of our faith, the rock of our salvation, and the hope of our souls. Since Christ has died in the place of his people, they cannot perish. I know that there are men whose minds are so distorted that they can conceive it possible that Christ died for men who in the end will be lost in hell. I am sorry to say that there are men in the pulpits of the church today, whose brains have been so addled by religious tradition and false doctrine that they cannot see that the doctrine they hold is both a preposterous lie and a blasphemous error. Their doctrine is this – Christ dies for a man, and then God punishes that man again; Christ suffers in the sinner’s stead, and then God condemns that sinner after all! It shocks me to even mention such an error. Were it not so commonly held, I would pass over it with the contempt that it deserves. That would be a perversion of justice, a double-cross, and a requirement of double indemnity.

The doctrine of Scripture is this – God is just. Christ died in the stead of his people, satisfying God’s justice; and now, as God is just, he will never punish one soul for whom the Savior shed his blood. Justice will not allow a double payment for the same offense, first at the hands of Christ, and then from me. The idea that Christ was the Substitute and Surety for all men is so inconsistent, both with reason and Holy Scripture, that we are obliged to reject it with abhorrence. We cannot, for the glory and honor of our dear Savior, let go of the blessed gospel doctrine of particular and effectual redemption. To deny the efficacy of Christ’s substitutionary atonement would be, for me, a total denial of the gospel. And it would rob me of my soul’s greatest comfort.

Don Fortner

The promise of the Lord to Joshua is the same promise He gives to every vessel of His mercy. And His word to them is the very foundation of their rest...”As I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”