Normally in Monday Matters posts, I try to summarize the message from the day before. CJ’s message yesterday from Isaiah 53:1-6, 10-12 contained too much good stuff for me to even try. I’m going to provide a very short outline, and the quotes from the message below, but I recommend that you download this message and listen to it again and again.

OUTLINE

1. The Appearance (vv.1-3)
2. The Reality (vv.4-6)
3. The Signficance (vv. 10-12)

“[These verses] are the Bible in miniature and the gospel in brief.” Charles Spurgeon

“Here, then, is one of the peaks of the Old Testament’s revelation of God. From its summit, we can look across the intervening centuries and see the distant coming of Christ. From our vantage point, we obtain a clear view of his work on the far-off summit of Calvary and gain a definitive perspective on its meaning. This song takes us to the heart of the human problem and the heart of the divine mind.” Derek Tidball

“It looks as if it had been written beneath the cross itself, upon Golgotha.” Franz Delitzsch

“Jesus Christ our Lord, moved by a love that was determined to do everything necessary to save us, endured and exhausted the destructive divine judgment for which we were otherwise inescapably destined, and so won us forgiveness, adoption and glory. To affirm penal substitution is to say that believers are in debt to Christ specifically for this, and that this is the mainspring of all their joy, peace and praise both now and for eternity.” J.I. Packer

“When we think of Christ dying on the cross we are shown the lengths to which God’s love goes in order to win us back to himself. We would almost think that God loved us more than he loves his Son! We cannot measure such love by any other standard. He is saying to us: I love you this much. The cross is the heart of the gospel. It makes the gospel good news: Christ died for us. He has stood in our place before God’s judgment seat. He has borne our sins. God has done something on the cross which we could never do for ourselves. But God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that he loves us.” Sinclair Ferguson

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