Isa Msg 51

Truth:
1. In Isaiah 53:10b-11b, there are 4 points: 1) Christ's making Himself an offering for sin; 2) His seeing a seed and extending His days; 3) His seeing the issue of the travail of His soul and being satisfied; and 4) His making many righteous by the knowledge of Him. The first item of the four belongs to the stage of Christ's crucifixion. The remaining 3 belong to the third stage, the stage of Christ's resurrection.
2. By the knowledge of Him does not mean by Christ's knowledge but by knowing Him, the righteous One, the resurrected Christ as God's Servant.
3. For Christ to make us righteous is not merely to justify us through His death by His blood. It means primarily to make us righteous.
3. Christ's resurrection produced the life-giving Spirit.
4. Elijah's raising of the widow's son and even the Lord Jesus' raising of Lazarus cannot be counted as resurrection in full, because after being resurrected, both of these resurrected ones died.
5. In His resurrection, Christ became the Germinator of the new creation, and He also became the Head, the top One, of the Body.
6. In the aspect of His being a man, He was not divine before His resurrection.
7. Christ's believers are His brothers, and His brothers are the many sons of God.
8. From His resurrection, God began to have a family, a household. Eventually, this household becomes God's kingdom, and the children of God, the household of God, become God's precious inheritance.
9. The many grains as the increase of Christ are the components of His Body.
10. Christ's making Himself an offering for sin is related to His crucifixion. It is the "cause," and the "effect" is His seeing a seed in His resurrection.
11. God's economy comes out of God's good pleasure. God's dispensing is to fulfill God's good pleasure, which is to produce many sons to be the components of the Body of Christ, the church.

Life experience/Application:
1. Let us come to Christ as our "gasoline station" to get the spiritual gasoline, the spiritual air, and the spiritual water.
2. Since Christ is in us, the many grains, He is wherever we are.