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not attractive. But this interpretation can not be true, for He was the perfect man, and therefore He must have been the finest physical .specimen of manhood the world has ever seen. The Hebrew word mareh, here translated “beauty,” occurs nearly one hundred times in the Old Testament and is nowhere rendered “beauty” except in this passage. In other passages it is generally translated “appear ance.” To understand its meaning in Isaiah 53:2, we should remember that the Jews were looking for a Messiah who would come in great glory and power; and when He came in lowly humiliation, the Jew could see no “beauty” in Him. To the Jew, our Lord had no “comliness” (v. 2). The Hebrew word here is hadar, and is often translated “majesty.”. See Psalm 45:3, 4, which pictures the second coming of our Lord in the kingly splendor which the Jew looked for at the first com ing. Hadar occurs twice: “Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously.” When our Lord came the first time, .there was no external majesty. “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” His moral and spiritual beauty they did not see. That inward glory was apparent only to those whose eyes were opened by the Spirit of God. “We beheld his glory,” writes John, “the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1 :i4). 2. "He opened not his mouth” (v. 7). Here is something astonishing: A Man who is innocent of any sin, suffering the death of a criminal. What would you ex pect ordinarily in such a case? You would think that Christ would open His mouth in protest against the injustice of His treat ment. But “he opened not his mouth.” You cannot explain these words apart from the fact that He assumed the burden of our sin. on the cross. Therefore, when judgment fell, He had no protest to make. Sin must receive its due reward. Golden T ext Illustration I was asked to call on a sick woman in a hospital. She told me she had been a professing. Christian and a church mem ber for years, but never had had the assur ance that she was saved. She did not seem able to grasp the fact that Christ’s atone ment could save sinners. I said, “Sup pose I had in one hand four hundred and ninety-nine pennies and in the other a five- dollar gold piece, which would you rather have ?” She said, “Why, the gold piece, of course.” Then I said, “The gold coin is worth more than four hundred and ninety-nine pennies of copper. And in God’s sight Jesus Christ was worth infinitely more than all the people who ever lived on the earth put together.” Then I added, “Jesus Christ became a Man that He might die, but because He is God, His death was of infinite value. Death did not choose Him and could not, for He had not broken the law. He therefore chose death ; and, not having any sin to die for, He put His righteousness in the opposite side of God’s scale to our righteousness. And in that way His death more than overbalanced all our sins. Therefore God can be just and the justifier of all that believe in Jesus.” “Oh!” she said. “I see it. God laid on Him all my sins and I go free, and now I know I am saved.”—H. D. K ennedy , in the Sunday School Times.
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Old Testament tells us about them. We have studied about some of them before, and I think you can tell me about the work they had to do. Lesson Story: Yes, the word “prophet” means a preacher who can tell what God wants His people to know, and what He has planned for them in the future. Some times a prophet brought good news, and sometimes he brought bad news. Isaiah is the name of the prophet we are going to talk about today. He lived about three hundred years after David was king of the children of Israel. Isaiah used to stand outside of the city wall of Jerusalem—that great city where the ancient Jewish kings made their home and where, years later, the Lord Jesus stood and preached to the people. As Isaiah stood by the wall, he gave to the people the message that God had sent to them through him. It was a great and wonderful message, for it was to tell them that God had remembered His promise which He had made to the very first people who lived on the earth—the promise that He would send to them His Son to save them from their sins. Isaiah told the people so much about Jesus, that when He came, some of the people remem bered what Isaiah had said. They could read it, too, for this message that God had given to Isaiah had been written down in the Old Testament, so that they could know that Jesus was the Son of God who had been promised. The ones who believed in the Lord Jesus were made very happy.
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