Pastor's Power Points

April 16, 2006

Divine Satisfaction (cont.)
As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied…
Isa. 53:11a

Jesus said, Because I live, you also will live. He also affirmed, I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly. Not only did His satisfaction come from the removal of sin and the accomplishment of the Father’s will, but from the new life experienced by all who would surrender in faith to him as the guilt offering in their place. These are His seed (v.10), those who are in Him, new creations, in whom all things become new. These are His descendants now being conformed to His image because they now share His nature.

Verse ten states: He will see His seed – His offspring. Martin comments, “The Lord Jesus had in view that great multitude of sons whom He would bring into glory. When viewed in this light, the death of Christ is… the greatest triumph possible.”¹ The many who would be justified are those who will be made alive in Christ, who will be freed from the law of sin and death by the law of the spirit of life in Christ (Rom.8:2). The accomplishment that here satisfies the suffering Servant is the transformation in the lives of the many who would be justified by His grace and would become His heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Crabb eloquently explains this accomplishment by Christ, the suffering Servant:

Christianity is about the life of the Trinity released in human community. The doorway into that life is death, and death is always painful. The gospel informs us that God found a way to bring us out of the grave by putting Christ into it. When he walked out of his burial place, we walked out of ours, and we did it in his strength, with his invincible life flowing through our veins. Because of Christ’s death and resurrection, we’re both forgiven and empowered, loved freely and enabled to love freely. ²

This new life is the life for which God created us to enjoy from the beginning of time. By man’s self-gratifying decision – the attempt to find good apart from God – life came to include death under the curse. But now the Servant, because He bore the sin of many, made intercession for the transgressors and justified many, can see the life of original intent which God designed for man – to enjoy Him forever with a heart inclined toward Him.

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1.Martin, Isaiah, The Glory of Messiah, p. 141
2.Crabb, Connecting, p. 81