Isaiah 53:10-12

Passage: Isaiah 53:10-12
10 Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring;
he shall prolong his days;
the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.

Journal: The sin of Adam became the sin of all people. The sin of God's children became the sin of Christ. The righteousness of Christ became the righteousness of God's children. This threefold imputation is at the heart of the Gospel, and the heart of the Gospel is penned by Isaiah in Chapter 53. Our verses today indicate that God Himself is at the heart of the Gospel, pulsating with each heartbeat. [v. 10 -- "Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand."] He has saved "many," and the guilt of the many intersected on the cross with the righteousness of the One. The ugliness of the many necessitated that the Father turn His back on the beauty of the Son. This was double anguish, for our Savior bore our sins in both agony and in complete isolation. He became our Hell, and brandished Hell for us bearing our great transgression [speaking, of course, of His separation from the Father]. Yet, this separation and isolation could not hold His righteousness and innocence, and He has returned to the Father triumphant, carrying us along in His righteous perfection. [v. 11 -- "Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities."] He intercedes today on our behalf - the perfect for the imperfect, the righteous for the unrighteous. [v. 12b -- ". . . because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors."] Without Him, we are nothing. Without Him, life has no meaning. He is all that we need, for He became everything that we are.