The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-05
Golden Text-With his stripes
we are healed. Isiah 53:5.

we are healed. Isiah 53:5.
The summit of Messianic proph-
ecy was reached in the fifty
third chapter of Isiah which Poly
carp called "The golden passional
of the Old Testament Evangelist. |"
And Delitzsch is quoted as calling
it "the most central, the deepest
and the loftiest thing that the Old
Testament prophecy, outstrip-
ping itself, has ever achieved"
Inimitable indeed is the prophets
description of the suffering SER
want of Jehovah Isaiah So: l
to 12), who though divine was
despised, and though rejected was
redeeming, his supreme sacrifice
being at once vicarious, voluntary
and victorious. The Gospels rec
ord the fulfilment of the prophecy
even to minute details, in the
Crucifixion of our Lord at Col
gotha John 10: 1870
THE REJECTED SUFFERER
The Stunned Christ fulfilled
the prophecy of the rejected Suf-
ferer. CD The basis of rejection
is unbelief. That unbelief refus-
ed to accept the testimony both
of hearing and of sight. That is,
on the one hand unbelievers would
not accept the message of truth
as embodied in the Gospel and on
the other hand they would not see
the arm of the Lord as manifest
in his providence and power. (2)
Tie excuse for rejection was al
legged disappointment. They were
looking for a palm as at Jericho
or an oak as at Mamre or a cedar
as on Lebanon. AS a matter of
fact, when the Messiah appeared
he was like a tiny shoot out of
the decaying stump of the de-
stroyed Davidic tree or sprig of
green peeping up through the de-
sert sand. He did not appear in
the usual form of king nor with
the trappings of court splendor
nor with the mightliness of a mag
netic worldly monarch drawing
everybody to him and driving
everybody before him. He did not
meet the worldly expectations of
the world. 81 The fact of re-
lection therefore stands forth
darkly. They who are willing to
be sycophants at a shining court
would not make hero out of one
who was identified with pain and
associated with sickness and &C
quainted with the ups and downs
of human grief. Therefore they
looked down upon him and turned
away from him. (4) The act of
involved a gesture of
disgust. Not only did they des-
pise and forsake him, but they
turned their faces away from him.
They refused to recognize him.
They actually covered their own
faces in dislike and disgust. How
deep was the humiliation he en-
dured!
THE REDEEMING SUFFERER
The Saving Christ fulfilled the
prophecy of the redeeming Suf-
ferer. Twelve times over with
IN the space of nine verses he
asserts with the most emphatic
reiteration that all the servants
sufferings were vicarious, borne
for man, to save him from the
consequences of his sins, to enable
him to escape punishment. The
doctrine thus taught in the Old
Testament is set forth with equal
distinctness in the New Matthew
20: %; John IL: 50-52; Romans
8: 25, 5: 6-S, s: 3; 2 Corinthians
5: 1921, s: 9; Galatians 3: 49,;
Ephesians l: 7; l Peter 2: 24)
and offers the hope, the trust and
the consolation of Christians"
(1) He saves from the pain of sin.
He was acquainted with all our
human ills. He knew the ache of
sickness and pain, physical, men,
tai, and spiritual, not because he
was personally sick or sinful but
because Of his identity with the
human race. Because of this re-
lationship he was misunderstood
to be himself a victim of Gods
wrath affecting him in punish
ment for his own sins. GU He
saves from the penalty of sin.
Think of Calvary as you re-read
the wondrous prophecy. How he
was wounded or pierced for our
transgressions of Gods holy law;
how ne was bruised or crushed for
our inquities which need to be
Strengthened out; how the chastise-
ment due US fell upon him, thus
giving US liberty and peace; and
how by his stripes made on him by
strokes which we deserve not only
saved US from the pain but actu-
ally cured ne of that which caus-