Sue J Love
Loyal
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2015
- Messages
- 3,416
“But the Lord was pleased
To crush Him, putting Him to grief;
If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
As He will bear their iniquities.
Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the booty with the strong;
Because He poured out Himself to death,
And was numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.” (Isaiah 53:10-12 NASB’95)
This is a prophecy by the prophet Isaiah, of the Old Testament, regarding the coming of Jesus Christ as Savior of the world. Jesus always existed with God, and he was/is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He was with God in the beginning and he is our creator God, the one who made us. And he left heaven, came to this earth, was born as a baby to a human mother, and while on the earth he was fully human and yet fully God (God incarnate), but he was not born into sin as we are.
During his years of ministry on the earth he healed the sick and afflicted, raised the dead, delivered people from demons, fed the hungry, and performed all sorts of miracles before the eyes of the people. And the multitudes followed him, for a while, because of the miracles he performed, and because he was healing their diseases, and because he fed them. But the rulers in the temple hated him because he claimed to be God, he healed people on the Sabbath, and because of his popularity among the people.
But they hated him also because of the things that he taught, and because of the things that he said about them in pointing out their hypocrisies, and because he confronted them in their sins. They assumed because they were in the physical family line of Abraham that they were God’s children, in right relationship with God. But he let them know that, because they wanted to kill Jesus, that God was not their Father, and Abraham was not their father, but the devil was their father, and they were doing the deeds of the devil.
For Jesus Christ did not teach the diluted and altered gospel message which is so popularized in America today. He taught that we must die to sin and walk in obedience to his commands, in holy living, and not in deliberate and habitual sin, if we want to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God. And this is not “works salvation.” This is living out the salvation already provided for us via Jesus’ death on a cross, in the power of God, by the Spirit, by God-persuaded faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
But probably most of the Jews in the vicinity of where Jesus lived called for Jesus to be crucified on a cross, although he had done no wrong, but because they did not like it that he claimed to be God, and that he taught with the authority of God, and because he healed people on the Sabbath, and he did not conform to their traditions, and he confronted them with their sins, and he called them to repentance and to obedience to God, as living sacrifices to God, holy and acceptable and pleasing to God.
So, they arranged for him to be put to death on a cross because they wanted to put an end to him and to his teachings, and to his followers, too. For they assumed that by killing Jesus that it would be the end of him and of his teachings, and of his followers, too, I believe. But they thought wrong. For God the Father resurrected Jesus from the dead on the third day. Jesus appeared to his disciples, and to many other people, before returning to heaven. And later he sent his Holy Spirit to indwell his followers.
Was it evil what they did to Jesus? Yes! Was it wrong? Yes! But it was necessary that Jesus Christ should give his life up for us on that cross so that we can now, by faith in him, be crucified with him in death to sin, and raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness, in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands. By faith in Jesus Christ we can now be free from the control of sin and follow Jesus according to his ways.
Therefore, it was the will of God that Jesus should be persecuted and crushed and put to death on that cross. For when he died on that cross he put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded faith in him we might now die to sin and walk in obedience to his commands in holy living. He died so that we would no longer live for self-pleasure, but for the will of God for our lives, in doing all that he commands that we do, and in going wherever he sends us, and in speaking his words of wisdom to the people.
For only by the grace of God in sending Jesus to that cross to die for our sins can any of us be saved from our slavery to sin and be assured heaven as our eternal destiny. But the grace of God paved the way for us to be delivered from our addiction to sin and to empower us to now live holy lives, pleasing to God, in walks of obedience to his commands. But if we choose to refuse to bow the knee to God, and we do not repent of (turn from) our sins, but we continue in deliberate and habitual sin against God, and not in walks of obedience to his commands, we will not have eternal life with God.
[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matt 7:21-23; Matt 26:26-29; Lu 9:23-26; Lu 17:25; Jn 1:1-36; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 8:24,58; Jn 10:27-33; Jn 20:28-29; Rom 5:8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 9:5; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 11:23-32; 1 Co 15:1-8; 2 Co 5:15,21; Eph 4:17-24; Php 2:5-11; Col 2:9; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 1:8-9; Heb 2:14-15; Heb 4:15; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Pet 1:1; 1 John 3:4-10]
Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer
Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897
Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.
Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.
O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.
O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.
Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.
Caution: This link may contain ads
It Was God’s Will to Crush Him
An Original Work / March 30, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
To crush Him, putting Him to grief;
If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
As He will bear their iniquities.
Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the booty with the strong;
Because He poured out Himself to death,
And was numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.” (Isaiah 53:10-12 NASB’95)
This is a prophecy by the prophet Isaiah, of the Old Testament, regarding the coming of Jesus Christ as Savior of the world. Jesus always existed with God, and he was/is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He was with God in the beginning and he is our creator God, the one who made us. And he left heaven, came to this earth, was born as a baby to a human mother, and while on the earth he was fully human and yet fully God (God incarnate), but he was not born into sin as we are.
During his years of ministry on the earth he healed the sick and afflicted, raised the dead, delivered people from demons, fed the hungry, and performed all sorts of miracles before the eyes of the people. And the multitudes followed him, for a while, because of the miracles he performed, and because he was healing their diseases, and because he fed them. But the rulers in the temple hated him because he claimed to be God, he healed people on the Sabbath, and because of his popularity among the people.
But they hated him also because of the things that he taught, and because of the things that he said about them in pointing out their hypocrisies, and because he confronted them in their sins. They assumed because they were in the physical family line of Abraham that they were God’s children, in right relationship with God. But he let them know that, because they wanted to kill Jesus, that God was not their Father, and Abraham was not their father, but the devil was their father, and they were doing the deeds of the devil.
For Jesus Christ did not teach the diluted and altered gospel message which is so popularized in America today. He taught that we must die to sin and walk in obedience to his commands, in holy living, and not in deliberate and habitual sin, if we want to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God. And this is not “works salvation.” This is living out the salvation already provided for us via Jesus’ death on a cross, in the power of God, by the Spirit, by God-persuaded faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
But probably most of the Jews in the vicinity of where Jesus lived called for Jesus to be crucified on a cross, although he had done no wrong, but because they did not like it that he claimed to be God, and that he taught with the authority of God, and because he healed people on the Sabbath, and he did not conform to their traditions, and he confronted them with their sins, and he called them to repentance and to obedience to God, as living sacrifices to God, holy and acceptable and pleasing to God.
So, they arranged for him to be put to death on a cross because they wanted to put an end to him and to his teachings, and to his followers, too. For they assumed that by killing Jesus that it would be the end of him and of his teachings, and of his followers, too, I believe. But they thought wrong. For God the Father resurrected Jesus from the dead on the third day. Jesus appeared to his disciples, and to many other people, before returning to heaven. And later he sent his Holy Spirit to indwell his followers.
Was it evil what they did to Jesus? Yes! Was it wrong? Yes! But it was necessary that Jesus Christ should give his life up for us on that cross so that we can now, by faith in him, be crucified with him in death to sin, and raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness, in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands. By faith in Jesus Christ we can now be free from the control of sin and follow Jesus according to his ways.
Therefore, it was the will of God that Jesus should be persecuted and crushed and put to death on that cross. For when he died on that cross he put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded faith in him we might now die to sin and walk in obedience to his commands in holy living. He died so that we would no longer live for self-pleasure, but for the will of God for our lives, in doing all that he commands that we do, and in going wherever he sends us, and in speaking his words of wisdom to the people.
For only by the grace of God in sending Jesus to that cross to die for our sins can any of us be saved from our slavery to sin and be assured heaven as our eternal destiny. But the grace of God paved the way for us to be delivered from our addiction to sin and to empower us to now live holy lives, pleasing to God, in walks of obedience to his commands. But if we choose to refuse to bow the knee to God, and we do not repent of (turn from) our sins, but we continue in deliberate and habitual sin against God, and not in walks of obedience to his commands, we will not have eternal life with God.
[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matt 7:21-23; Matt 26:26-29; Lu 9:23-26; Lu 17:25; Jn 1:1-36; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 8:24,58; Jn 10:27-33; Jn 20:28-29; Rom 5:8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 9:5; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 11:23-32; 1 Co 15:1-8; 2 Co 5:15,21; Eph 4:17-24; Php 2:5-11; Col 2:9; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 1:8-9; Heb 2:14-15; Heb 4:15; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Pet 1:1; 1 John 3:4-10]
Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer
Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897
Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.
Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.
O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.
O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.
Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.
Caution: This link may contain ads
It Was God’s Will to Crush Him
An Original Work / March 30, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
