Saturday, March 6, 2010

It Pleased the Lord to Crush Him: Isaiah 53:10, 11

"Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities."

How could God the Father have killed His own Son, let alone delight to do so? What compelling purpose would warrant this action of a seemingly utter betrayal? When Jesus was baptized, didn't the Father say, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17)? What compelled the Father to do this? And what compelled the Son to submit to this?

The purpose that the Father and the Son agreed to was the redemption of sinners in such a way that would magnify God's justice, righteousness and glory. This is powerfully expressed in Romans 3:23-26:
"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus."

This passage explains why God the Father crushed His Son, and why He delighted to crush His Son, and why the Son agreed to be crushed. Hebrews 12:2 says, "for the joy that was set before him endured the cross."

The cross was something that the Father and the Son agreed to, for the purpose of displaying God's justice and displaying God's marvelous grace. This was done "so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus."

Romans 5:1 tells us how that we become "justified" before the Lord by faith in Christ and His work on Calvary in our place for salvation, "Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."

The love between the Father and the Son is immeasurable. It is infinite. The Father delights in His Son, who is "the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature" (Hebrews 1:3). The Father looks upon His Son and sees the radiance of His own glory, and He delights in Him.

God the Father is satisfied in the work of His Son, and the Son Himself is satisfied. The justice and wrath of God against sin and sinners was fully satisfied by the suffering of Jesus upon the cross of Calvary, and thus Isaiah tells us that the Lord would "see it and be satisfied."

by Sesky Paul

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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

They agreed!! Father and Son agreed together! Never thought of it that way before. The Son agreed afore to be crushed in love, by His Father!! This reality; this truth is way to big for my finite mind to comprehend...and to think that in this, the Father was satisfied.
Love so amazing, so divine DEMANDS my soul, my life, my all.
Thanks for giving me food to pause and ponder my beloved.
sdpaul

March 6, 2010 at 4:27 PM  
Blogger EJK said...

Sesky thank you for this post. It is such an overwhelming thought that as Scripture says, "It pleased the Lord to crush Him".

Your explanation given in the following paragraph gives, what I believe to be the bottom line answer for it:

"The purpose that the Father and the Son agreed to was the redemption of sinners in such a way that would magnify God's justice, righteousness and glory."

Can there be any other greater reason than the Glory of God. I can't think of one.

Lord may you be glorified in Your Son, even in Your Son who lives in me!

March 8, 2010 at 11:02 AM  
Blogger Tia Kerwin said...

Awesome Sesky! Thanks for helping us all see a little clearer that it was always God's plan from the beginning to crush His Beloved Son and that doing that (what would be insane for a human being to do or even think of. Imagine a human father, delighting in crushing his own son?) But as you stated it was the "agreed upon plan" within the Godhead to bring about the only way to rescue His beloved chosen ones! Can you imagine listening to that discussion?!? It is greater than my mind can comprehend such wondrous love as this, that my Father willingly crushed His Son for me.

March 11, 2010 at 1:47 PM  

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