His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify many” (or rather, instruct in righteousness many). “Many” is literally “the many”—including all who are in relation ship with Christ. This instruction He gave in the so-called sermon on the mount, and in other places and times during His earthly life: it is preserved to us in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John’s gospels. But more than instruction is needed for sinful souls and so we have, “and (rather than “for”) He shall bear their iniquities.” Without the cross of Christ there is no salvation.
In view of all the humiliation and suffering of God’s Servant even to death, the death of the cross, the recital of which has occupied the Divine Penman in this chapter, God has declared,
“Therefore will I divide (assign) Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong” (Verse 8).
This will have its evident fulfilment when the Lord comes to earth and reigns; it speaks of Him as Man, the God-man, truly but nevertheless man (untouched by sin), and the Holy Sufferer as no other has been. As such He will be exalted to the highest place, and then He will bring His earthly people (“the strong ) into blessing.
The place of highest glory is accorded the Servant, the despised and rejected of men, because of four things concerning Him as He hung’ on the cross in deepest suffering.
(1) “Because .He hath poured out His soul unto death.”. The word here translated. 'poured" is not tile one ordinarily used it has the sense of 1-rtaking naked, bare, empty does this not bring before us a touching sense of the grace of our Lord. Jesus Christ who though He was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we through His poverty might be rich (2 Corinthians 8:99For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. (2 Corinthians 8:9)), and of Himself as that Man who sold all that He had to buy the field in which was hidden a treasure; and as the Merchant man seeking goodly pearls, Who when He has found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that He had and bought it (Matthew 13:44-4644Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. 45Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: 46Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. (Matthew 13:44‑46)). Sweetly does this passage conform with Galatians 2:20,20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)— "Who loved me and gave Himself for me."
"Because He was reckoned with the transgressors." Mark's gospel which. speaks of Jesus as the Servant of God,. in chapter 15:28 applies this to Him when the thieves were placed on crosses beside Him, "And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith, 'And He was numbered with the transgressors.' " God noted that, in the treatment given His Son.
"Because He bore the sin of many." Note that Scripture while declaring emphatically that He died for all, never says that He bore the sins of all (Romans 5:66For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5:6); 2 Corinthians 5:14, 1514For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. (2 Corinthians 5:14‑15); Hebrews 9:2828So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Hebrews 9:28)). No salvation, no hope, for man apart from His death. And 0, what fathomless love that He should bear our stns—the sins of every poor, unworthy, guilty sinner that looks to Him for salvation! On Him our guilt was charged, upon -Him divine justice was poured as the sinner's holy Substitute. Eternally His hands., feet, side, will bear the tokens of His death on the cross,— tokens of love unfathomable, inexhaustible.
"Because He made intercession for the transgressors." It is Luke that records this utterance (chapter 23;34). "And Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!" If this has touched our hearts, what did it not mean to His Father, as He looked upon the Son nailed to a cross!
Messages of God’s Love 4/1/1934