Amen, Glory to God. Welcome to the program. Welcome to the cafe. Pastor Clark Kovington here with another episode of KJB Cafe. So glad you're back with me today. It is a beautiful day outside. Amen. A little chilly, but that's okay. I'm not afraid a little bit of cold weather. Amen. Hopefully you're doing well. Having a wonderful day, a wonderful week. Got some good coffee here. Getting into God's Word. Couldn't be a better day to study God's Word. Amen. And we are in Genesis 22, 13 and 14 looking up this idea that Abraham found a ram, a baby boy lamb stuck in the thicket behind him and he sacrificed this ram in place of his son. And that is a perfect picture of Jesus Christ, the atonement. And what we did last episode was looked at the idea of what it means to be saved through the atonement, the substitutionary death, the idea that we can't save ourselves, but that through Jesus Christ we're saved. And today we're looking at Isaiah 53. It's only 12 verses and it really puts into, you know, into the scriptural language, if you will, this idea. And I love how Isaiah 53 starts. Verse 1, "Who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?" You see, even in Isaiah speaking to belief and this idea of unbelief is often the problem. Abraham believed that he was justified by his belief, right? We are called to believe. Verse 2, "For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground, he hath no form nor comliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him." So Isaiah is speaking here to Jesus not being superman looking, not being like a movie star, but looking very ordinary. Verse 3, "He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed him not." So the Jews were again looking for some majesty, someone that would look like a king, as it's described Saul would have looked like a king, King Saul. They were looking for someone looking very royal and they were looking for someone that was going to sweep them off their feet, but they despised Jesus Christ and they rejected him. Verse 4, "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, the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed. We'll stop here, take a break, and tackle these verses when we come back." Hey, it's break time around here. Thank you for listening to KJV Cafe. If you haven't already, visit KJV Cafe.com for more information. So we see here, "He bore our griefs, he carried our sorrows, smitten of God and afflicted, he was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon him." Was it mean to be chastised, disciplined, right? And with his stripes we are healed. That right there, friend, is the substitutionary death. That right there, how somebody can, and there are people that argue, I think a movie was made, people are trying to argue about this. Look man, you don't need to go to Bible college to understand this principle. You can look in Isaiah here, 53, and you could just go ahead and look in verse 4 and 5, and you don't have to really go any further than that. I don't know what translation they're using, but here in my King James, it's wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities. That word iniquity means sin. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. So Jesus Christ is crucified on the cross, and he dies, and he's buried three days in the ground. There's very significance to that 3, that number 3, beyond just the triune God and the rest. Three days in that culture meant like truly dead, and some Asian cultures it still does. So he truly dies, if you will. Now we know that, you know, spiritually he wasn't dead. He went down and got the keys to heaven and hell and all the rest, but physically his body is dead there three days. When he dies, now we have a chance at life. Now he's risen again onto new life. He's now in his resurrected body, right? And now we, when we believe in him, that he died for us, we too can be like him, in that we now can have a resurrected body. We can now have a place in heaven. You say, when do we get that resurrected body? Well, if you believe in Jesus, you would receive it at the rapture as far as I can tell, right? So the dead in Christ rise first, and the rest of the life will remain, go up to be with the Lord forevermore. Okay? We go up to be with God, we receive our resurrected body at that time. I don't know about you, but I'm 44. Some days I feel like I'm 24, but most days I feel like I'm 104. God helped me to say that correctly. I don't want to complain, but Lord knows I just got fatigued and allergies and all the rest. And I don't know, I've got, I think I've got young child parent disease or something, just just being a parent wears you out, you know, for parents out there, you know how that is, or business man's disease, I don't know, preachers, whatever you call it, I'm just very tired, a lot of times in the resurrected body, I'll never be tired, I'll never be allergic, I'll never be overweight, I'll never be whatever else, you know, anxious, I'll never be, you know, sick, I'll never be depressed, I'll never be sad, I'll never be, you know, on and on. So that is what we receive when we receive Christ. So it's beautiful picture. God's like, look, I'm going to give you the spiritual application, like dead to your dead to the old ways, new, all things become new, but I'm also going to give you the physical application, like this is literally you, like you literally physically will no longer be this, you'll the Paul writes that you'll shed the mortal for the immortal, right? And so God gives you both the spiritual and the physical in this beautiful passage of scripture. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord have laid on him the iniquity or sin of us all. You know, I love that verse verse six because I feel like I see it so much today, everyone is gone their own way, you know, like, and I know I don't want to be pessimistic, but everybody has this level of like evil in them, right? Everybody has this level of sin. You know, some denominations refer to it as the depravity of man, depraved man. And I know that that's hard to accept for some people because I know I want to, you know, I want to get, I literally prayed this the other day, Lord, I want to give people the benefit of the doubt, like, I really do, like, I want to give people the benefit of the doubt, you know, but at the same time, when you read God's word, it's, it's not wrong. I mean, look at the church today, you know, and not just in terms of attendance, but in terms of leadership, both all of it, you know, you look at the church today, you look at the world today, you look at, you know, just like the little, the little anecdotal things, you know, you know, when we were young, the door wasn't locked. And now the door is twice locked, you know, we were young, you know, you kids could just ride their bike to the park. And now most places you can't do that. Whatever it is. I mean, the world really has changed, but truly since the beginning of time, I believe this scripture is applicable. And now it's just more visible than ever. Verse seven, he was oppressed and was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before his shear is his dumb. So he opened not his mouth and see with Abraham, it doesn't say the Rams said anything. And here we see with Jesus, he didn't speak. I mean, pilot was, it was perplexed. He said, don't you know, I have all this power and you're not even going to stick up for yourself. In Jesus, remarkably says, you have no power. But what God gives you, what the father gives you, which again, goes back to a couple of episodes ago, we're speaking of how God has all power to do all things and does all things. Verse eight, he was taken from prison and from judgment. And who shot to clear his generation? For we's cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, was he stricken? And he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death. Remember, he was given Paul from Armathea, an example of someone that was rich that did something for God. There you go. He was given his tomb. But he made his grave with the wicked. Those two were guilty and he was not that he was up there being crucified with because he had done no violence. Neither was any deceit in his mouth, yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. Listen to this. Verse 10 Isaiah 53, it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief. When thou shall make his soul an offering for sin, for he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. You know, it pleased the Lord to bruise Christ. Think of that. So that number one you could be saved. So that number two, all in this age of grace could be saved that turned to him, not just you. So that gives us not just salvation, but also purpose, right? To share the gospel with everybody. That should be our main purpose. We love God. God loves salvation. And we want to be about God's business. God's business is the salvation business. Do not get that twisted up. It's not the leadership business. It's not the good person business. It's not the numbers business. It's not the financial business. God's business is the salvation business. And that right there friend could preach, but for time's sake we'll leave it at that. So we are to be saved. We are to tell others about Christ every chance we get. You know, there was a homeless person, and I gave him some money in a track. And the money was just a few dollars that I had. But the track has eternal wealth. The track has the real solution to the problem. So the money is what it is. You know, not gonna get you far these days, right? That track has everlasting life. That track has eternal riches. That track has the power to defeat whatever evil demon has allowed this individual to end up without a home. The track has it. God's word has it. So we have purpose. We have we have power in God. All of these things. But also too it pleased God to bruise him because now Jesus Christ is aware at the right hand of the Father. He's going to make his enemies his footstool. He is forever blessed. He is forever praised. He is forever our Savior and Lord. He is the pinnacle of what anyone could ever imagine in humanity. He is the example of obedience. He is the example of godliness. He is the example of sacrificial love. He is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. He will not lose anyone that God has given him. And so it pleased the Lord to go through this horrible horrific situation, if you will, so that eternal glory would be set forth. The salvation of all that would believe, and that operative word is believe, and the praise and glory that will come to Christ. And by virtue of coming to Christ, come to the Father for an eternity forever. Verse 11, "He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities." I mean, how in the world can you get away with saying that Jesus didn't go the cross for all humanity, when he says, "He shall bear their iniquities." That literally means bear their sin. Verse 12, "Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great. He shall divide the spoil with the strong because he has poured out his soul unto death, and he was numbered with the transgressors, and he bear the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors." And that is who Christ is, our intercessor. He is the one that is, he is the mediator, amen? He is the one that has gone to the cross for us. And when we simply believe in him, we are saved. It is a beautiful picture that we see here. By the way, Isaiah is Old Testament, and you say, well, how come the Jewish folks can't understand that? God has blinded them for a season. He has allowed them not to see it for a season soon enough, I believe. The blindfold comes off, and they will see him. I don't believe God is done dealing with the Jewish people. I believe that's what the seven-year tribulation period is for. After we the church are raptured out, God will return to dealing with the Jews, and he will save them, I believe that. And then they'll look at something like Isaiah, and they'll be marveled and they'll weep because they'll realize what it means. But for now, they can't. Now, save some, right? Paul writes that he desired to save some of his flesh. So all can be saved today, I believe that, technically speaking, and not all will be blinded, and the Lord will save some from them now, but certainly the bulk seems to be in the tribulation period for the Jewish people. But God's word to Abraham is still true. The Abrahamic covenant is still true. All of the rest is, you know, what is Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, right? Those people, the line of Jacob, he is the God of them still, right? And he will save his people at the appointed time because he is in full control. And so as we wrap up this age of grace, where we have the church age and those that would be saved, the Gentiles, except in Christ as Savior, as we wrap this up, God will turn his attention again to the Jews. That's what I believe is going to happen there. And that's when this Scripture, I think, will bounce off the page, just absolutely literally leap off the page to a Jewish individual as they read it in due time, though some could be saved now as God ordains, because God does the saving. We plant the seed, but ultimately God does the saving. So what does this all mean for you? Number one, believe in Christ as the substitution, as the atonement for your sin to be saved. That is the only way we're saved. He is the Jesus speaks to him being the only way to the Father is through Jesus Christ. Number two, we should be motivated to share this with others. And number three, that God put this in his word so we understand the whole Bible is about Jesus and about his love for us. Thank you for listening. Tune in next time. Take care, God bless, and amen. Thanks for listening to KJV Cafe, and we'll see you at the cafe tomorrow.
