The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1905-07-14
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON ~, THIRD QUARTER, INTER.
NATIONAL SERIES, JULY &c.

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We are granted two lessons In this
wonderful prophecy Of Isaiah, the heart
of which, AS OF all Scripture, is the
suffcrings OF Christ and the glory that
shall follow duke xiv, 25-27; Pet. J.,
10, ID. Isaiah is little Bible, an
epltome of the whole, divided into
thirty-nine parts and twenty-seven
parts, like the books of the Old and
New Tcstaments 1t also begins with
sin and ends with the new heaven and
earth and the name signifies The
Salvation OF jehovah" If the prophet
had actually seen the suiterings Of
Christ he could not have written more
correctly than he has done in this
portion, but It was not the prophet
but the Holy Spirit, who wrote through
him, and therefore it is SO correct, for
we firmly and unwaveringly believe
that the Holy Spirit wrote ali the
words Of this book, the whole Bible
See Ii sam. xiii, =; Jer. XXXvi, 1, q, s.;
ii Tim. ILL., IL; ii Pet. i, p.
That the words Behold my Sery-
ant" with which our lesson opens, re-
fer 10 Christ is plain from Isl. xiii,
Ii; Matt xii, 1871. His eSiu,utiUu
IS seen by comparing verse Is IF our
lesson with Phil. il, oil, and j. read
ins 'staItle' instead of sprinkle in
verse - (Sec Rev. Nor) we see bow His
eXaltation Will affect the nations and
their rulers, many of whom seem 70
know nothing of the coming glory Of
Jesus OF Nazareth.
The marred form and visage of verse
II make us think Of the scourged
back, the scourSc possibly tearing the
face also; the crown of thorns, the
pierced hands ana feet. Yet who be
lieyes it-that is, truly receives it and
lays it to heart John j, 12.) To how
many of those who hear is it the power
OF God unto salyation?' (ROm. /, 49,
This portion Of Scripture will be
IsraeIs national confession in days to
come, just as chapter xii will be their
national anthem, but is it not true of
the vast majority of those who have
heard Of Christ that III their eyes He
IS still despisod and rejected, not
esteemed. not desired? When OH earth
lie was truly the Man Of Sorrows"
for no one ever had SO many or such
varied ones, but they were not His
except as He accepted them for our
sakcs.
The griefs, sorrows, transgressions,
iniquities, were all ours, laid upon Him
ana borne by Him in our stead that
we might be healed. His own self
bare our sins in His own body on the
tree" He suffered for sins. the just
for the unjust, that lie might bring us
TO God" q Pet ii, "A; iii, 49,. The first
two sentences Of verse 6 any sinner
must confess to be true, considering
only his own experience, but the third
sentence is just as true, The Lord
hath laid on Him the iniquity OF US
all" Any sinner who believes God
can therefore say: God laid my sins on
Jesus; He was wounded for my trans
gressions and bruised for my iniquities,
and !, receiving Him, am healed with
His stripes" Christ hath redeemed me
from the curse Of the law, being made
q curse for me" (Gal. iii. 49,.
Verse Z not only describes His suffer
ings before Caiaphas and PLATE, but
teaches us how TO act when we are OPP
pressed. He left us an. example that
we should follow His steps, for when
He was reviled He revied not again;
when He suffered He threatened not,
but committed Himself to Him that
judgeth rlghteously q Pet. ii, q, 23).
He was not allowed, the semblance Of
fair trial. y prison and the law would
today protect even Il criminal from
such treatment as lie received, but lie
was no criminal, even as PLATE re-
peatedly testified, 81 find no fault in
Him. his wife said, THAT just man."
and even Judas Iscariot said 81 have
betrayed innocent blood"
Verse o would almost seem impossl-
BILE Of literal fulfillment, but how literal
the fulfllment was-a place for His
body prepared with the malefactors.
But it found resting place in the tomb
Of rich man, where Joseph and
Nicodemus placed it. the tomb Of
Joseph Of Arimathea How can any
one question the voice of God and the
hand of God in all this prediction and
fulfillment unless he is totally blinded
by the god of this world?
He shall see His seed, He shall pro-
long His days, and the pleasure Of the
Lord shall prosper in His hand Verse
10). How clear a prediction Of His
resurrection! For how else could one
who died prolong his days and see his
seed? The great truth of resurrection
Is seen in the cherubim of Eden, in
Isaac given back to his father, i'm many
an Old Testament type as well as in
the plain statement OF rs. XVI, IL. Com
pare Acts ii, 81. In a completed and
glorified church. a redeemed Israel and
the earth filed with His glory He
shall yet see of the travail of His soul
and be satisfied. and until that con-
summation the pleasure OF the Lord
shall prosper In His hand for lie shall
not fail nor he discouraged till He shall