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Text: (Isaiah 53:10-12)
Intro: We have been studying the suffering of Christ on Wednesday evenings for a while now, and our focus has been in Is. 53. Tonight we be focusing on the final three verses, and manly one portion of those verses. (His Seed) What is amazing about this name of Christ is the many aspects it covers!
The Promise: Whenever a gardener plants a seed it is with the understanding that not only will that seed produce a plant, but that plant will produce fruit! The seed, in that sense is the promise of eventual fruit! God had made a promise to Abraham concerning his seed!
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Part of that promise was not just in giving the seed however, but in the seed dying and springing forth to new life!
The Death and Resurrection: Every seed that is planted, undergoes a very similar process by which a sprout appears, and eventually it grows into a full fledged plant.
But what ever happened to the seed? If you dig up the plant, can you find it’s seed down at the bottom? No! Maybe a remnant of its shell, but what you will find is that the seed has essentially died to itself! It ceases to be a seed in order to be something else!
It’s become something far different, and lives a new kind of life. From the “potential” of life that is contained within the seed comes that new life, that is now capable of producing fruit. Where a seed cannot produce fruit, while it’s plant form can.
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Through His death and resurrection the Scriptures were fulfilled and when... “He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand”
(vs. 13) “By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many:”
Isaiah 53:12 “Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, And he shall divide the spoil with the strong; Because he hath poured out his soul unto death: And he was numbered with the transgressors; And he bare the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.”
Glorified After Death!
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
O that one might plead for a man with God,
As a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us,
That might lay his hand upon us both.
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Intercessor:
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Priest:
So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
Mediator:
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Everlasting Father:
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:
And the government shall be upon his shoulder:
And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God,
The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Every person has the “potential” of the fruit bearing life that has been offered by the death of the Seed! It can’t do this on it’s own, though, it needs to be planted, nurtured, and nourished.
He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Some seeds, though, do not ‘die to themselves.’ Resulting in these seeds not growing into anything staying dead, and never springing to new life.
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
I 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.
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
