Isa Msg 50

Truth:
1. The stage of Christ's resurrection will have no ending; it will last for eternity.
2. The arm of Jehovah is Jehovah in His power, and the man of sorrows is Jesus. When these two are put together, they equal incarnation.
3. Christ grew up like a tender plant. The plant here actually refers to a sprout, which is very tender, small, and delicate. He also grew up like a root out of dry ground, meaning that He was born of a poor family.
4. Instead of majesty, He had poverty, and instead of a beautiful appearance, He had a visage and form that were disfigured.
5. Christ was wounded by the nails in His hands and His feet, by the spear that pierced His side, and by the crow of thorns on His head.
6. Sin refers to the totality of evildoings, iniquities, trespasses, wrongdoings, and transgressions.
7. First, Christ was oppressed; then He was afflicted. Then, He was led to slaughter.
8. Christ had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in His mouth, yet people treated Him in a mean way. But God in His sovereignty came in to carry out His justice.
9. During the first 3 hours, from nine o'clock until noon, all that Christ suffered was inflicted by man. Then, at noon God came in to cause all the iniquities of His chosen people to fall upon that dying One.
10. Christ died a vicarious death that was legal according to God's law and was recognized by God.
11. Christ's death was not a martyrdom. Christ's death was something carried out by God Himself according to His law.
12. In the Lord's death He laid down His life, and in His resurrection He received it back.
13. Every offering, if it is a sacrifice, must be killed, and the blood must be poured out.
14. Man did the murdering, the killing, but God carried out the legal judgement to kill Him as a legal Substitute that He might die a vicarious death for the ones for whom He died as a Substitute.

Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, it was because of my sins. Because of my sins were put on You, at that time You were counted by my God as the unique sinner; so God forsook You for my sake, because You were my Substitute there, dying a vicarious death for me that was recognized legally by God according to His law.
2. We were not only sinners but also enemies of God; thus, we also needed reconciliation. Christ's redemption did all this for us. Christ's redemption accomplished the forgiveness of sins and justification for us, the sinners, and it also accomplished reconciliation for us, the enemies of God.