In the sermon 'He Was Bruised for Our Iniquities' by Steve Hopkins at Burnet Bible Church, the speaker delves into Isaiah 53, emphasizing the doctrine of propitiation, which is the satisfaction of God's justice through Jesus Christ's sacrifice. Hopkins underscores that Jesus, despite being despised and rejected by men, bore the sins of humanity and endured God's wrath in their place. The sermon highlights the universal blindness of humanity to their sinful state and need for salvation, pointing out that Christ's humble appearance and life contradicted Jewish expectations of a Messiah. Hopkins explains that the Old Testament rituals foreshadowed Christ's ultimate sacrifice, which was necessary to appease God's wrath and remove the sin from believers. He stresses that Christ's sacrifice was not for all humanity indiscriminately but specifically for God's chosen people. The sermon concludes with a call to recognize the true biblical Jesus and His atoning work, urging listeners to return to foundational doctrines that emphasize the seriousness of sin and the necessity of Christ's redemptive work.

Thanks for joining us at Burnet Bible Church. This week Mr. Hopkins will be preaching from the 53rd chapter of Isaiah. His sermon is entitled, He Was Bruised for Our Iniquities. I was very grateful to hear in the men's prayers a prayer for those in the congregation who might not be saved.

I was actually thinking this very week, I was thinking about our young people again. We're very blessed to have not lost any to the world that have been members of the church. It's a great blessing. It's all due to the grace of God. Very grateful for that.

And we had a family that was on the phone with us this past week. And one of the daughters has been in our home many times, who we believe to be a Christian, wanted to get on the phone and tell her testimony of how she was just talking the talk and outwardly walking the walk, but she didn't know the Lord and how God saved her. It was a powerful testimony. And we should all examine ourselves. We should all be examining ourselves, not just the young people, but the older ones as well.

Lord willing, next week we will be resuming our study of the book of Romans, the third chapter. I wasn't able to pull it off this week. What I'm going to be doing is actually preaching a modified sermon that was preached, many of you may remember, from 2017 when many men of the church were down helping out with the Hurricane Harvey. And preaching out of the back of rescue boats to crowds of hundreds. Gathered in the parking lot of Walmart and school parking lots as we were bringing people in to feed and to preach.

It was an amazing time, but this sermon, some of you may remember it. This is from the book of Isaiah chapter 53. We're going to be reading and working our way through verses 1 through 10, the Lord willing. Please pray for me. And the reason I chose this is because this chapter of Isaiah deals with, really deals with the issue of propitiation.

And I asked some of my children this week, and they remembered, what is propitiation? And it's only one of the most important things in Scripture, important doctrines of Scripture. And very few people know, could sit down and say, if I said right now, tell me just basically what is the doctrine of propitiation. What is propitiation? What does it mean?

And so it deals with that, and as we go into Romans chapter 3, this next Sunday, we will be looking at the introduction by the Apostle Paul of that doctrine. And so I wanted to kind of give us a preface for that. So if you would stand with me for the reading of the Word of the Lord, let's look at Isaiah chapter 53. We'll be reading verses one through 10. Isaiah 53, one through 10.

OK, let's read together. Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground, he hath no form nor comeliness. And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from him. He was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions.

He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and he was afflicted, and yet he opened not his mouth.

He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he was made his grave in the wicked, with the rich in his death, because he had done no violence, neither was there any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him.

He hath put him to grief, when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Amen. Let's pray. Father, we do ask once again, God, that you would work mightily in the heart and the life of your people.

God, that you would do a work that no man can do. Every word, Lord, that pastors speak and ministers speak must necessarily fall to the ground, except it is attended by a powerful work of your spirit God. And we're asking for that again this morning. Open up the understanding of our hearts to see wonderful things in your word and change us O God more into the image of Christ Lord than when we came to this building today. For we ask it in Jesus' name.

Amen. Let's be seated. So who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? Few down through history have believed the message of the prophets of old concerning the coming of Messiah. All men enter into the world blinded to the eternal danger of their souls.

Every one of us does. We are all blinded to our miserable and our wretched state that we enter into the world, the sinful state that we enter into the world, and our desperate need for a Savior. None of us is any different. The arm of the Lord in the passage here that we're reading is the saving power of the grace of God, which must be revealed or made known to men, or they will never repent and believe the gospel. You understand that?

For he shall grow up before him, he goes on to say, as a tender plant. This is speaking of Christ to come, and as a root out of a dry ground. He has no form. He has no comeliness. When we see Him, there's no beauty in Him that we should desire Him.

Isaiah foretells here that Messiah, who we know to be Jesus Christ, would grow up before God as a tender plant, like a shriveled root shooting up out of parts soil. This is the way he would be viewed in the sight of men. He will enter into the world in lowly conditions. This is God's way. The Apostle Paul, you may remember, in 1 Corinthians chapter 1 tells us God has chosen the weak things of the world, amen, to confound the things which are mighty.

God has chosen the base things of the world. God has chosen the things which are despised. God has chosen the things even which are not to bring to nothing the things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence Jesus outward appearance and humble entry into the world didn't meet the expectations of the popular notions of the entrance of Messiah into the world. The Jews were expecting a Messiah that would come to them like Saul or like David. He would be head and shoulders above his brethren.

He'd be a dashing figure who would win them by a striking appearance. But here, with the coming of Christ, there is no appearance or heir of nobility. There is no external display of greatness. This doesn't appear to the Jews to be the long-coveted conqueror who would free the Jewish people from the Roman yoke and exalt their nation to honor. That's what they were expecting.

They were expecting a Messiah who would come and throw off the yoke of Roman oppression. There was no external beauty that would draw him into him. There's nothing in his appearance that would dazzle the eyes of men. There's nothing about Christ when he comes that engages their affections, though there is infinite beauty in his perfect holiness. The eye of sinful man can't perceive it.

And so he is, as verse 3 says, despised and rejected of men. And I want you to look at this for a moment. Not only is he despised and rejected not only by the Jews who didn't receive him, but he is universally despised and rejected. You know that. Jesus is universally despised and rejected by the unregenerate man.

Unless the arm of the Lord be revealed to men, they will never believe on him and be saved. There has to be a work of God that is done in the heart and life of a man, or he despises and he rejects Jesus. Go out in the world, test it, test the words that I'm saying. He is despised and rejected of men everywhere you go. Universal rejection of Christ.

And they may believe in some concept of a Jesus or some Jesus that has been presented by Joel Osteen or what have you and be able to receive that kind of a Jesus, but not the Jesus of Scripture. Not the Jesus of Scripture. The Jesus of Scripture is hated by the unregenerate. He is despised and rejected of men, not only by the Jew, but also by the Gentile. And he is a man of sorrows and acquainted, one acquainted with grief.

In the words of John Calvin, his entire life was not only a cross, but nothing but a perpetual cross from beginning to end. And so as we, like all men in the unregenerate state, we hid as it were our faces from him. Again, not only the Jews that is appearing, but all men in the unregenerate state who have ever lived. Why? Because we're dead in trespasses and sins.

We're dead to the things of God. We went through this a couple of weeks ago. Just like Adam and Eve, when they fell in the Garden of Eden, what did they do? The first thing they did was what? Turn to God and say, oh God, be merciful to me a sinner.

Oh, we've sinned. We ate the fruit. We didn't know. They're running from God. They're fleeing from God.

They're fleeing from the presence of God. They want nothing to do with God. They're spiritually dead to the things of God Remember that the Word of God tells us that in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die and the skeptics say Well, oh no Adam and Eve didn't die for not Adam lived to be 930 years old. The scripture is false. The scripture is not true.

No, he died. Adam and Eve died on the day that they ate of that fruit. Not only did death enter into where they would one day physically die, but they died spiritually on that day. No interest in the things of God. Running, fleeing, hiding from God, covering themselves, trying to cover themselves with the works of their own hands, sewing fig leaves together, and they're fleeing from the presence of the Lord.

That's what the word says, fleeing from the presence of the Lord. We also in the unregenerate state hid as it were our faces from him, having not the Spirit of God. All respond in the same way. We hide our faces from him, not because we're ashamed of our sins, but because we're ashamed of him. Not because we're ashamed of our sins, but because we're ashamed of Him.

Not because we're ashamed of our sins, but because we're ashamed of Him. Before God gives a man a new heart, there is universal shame of Christ. He was despised, he goes on, and we esteemed him not. We placed no value upon him. In our estimation, he was of no value at all.

When we were not in the regenerate state, when God had, before we were brought to saving faith, what value was Christ to us? There's no value to us at all. What value is a Savior to men who are blinded to their sin and their wretchedness and their eternal misery? No value at all. Think about it.

Why would a person who thinks that they're basically good in their own sight, they're basically good. Why would they see a need for a Savior? No, they esteemed Him not. Seen any value in Him. But on the day when the arm of the Lord was revealed to a man by the power of divine grace, when that stony heart that Ezekiel talked about, Ezekiel 36, of a man is replaced with a heart of flesh, when the heart of rebellion is changed, when the heart of a rebel with his fist lifted to heaven is conquered in regeneration, When the Spirit of the Living God takes up resonance and takes the heart of stone and replaces it with the heart of flesh.

When a man is given eyes to see his sinfulness and violence in the light of a holy God. When he's raised from spiritual death to spiritual life. When he's called forth from the grave like Jesus called forth Lazarus from the grave and he comes forth, when he's given a heart to understand that he's an offended and omnipotent holy God, when he's given ears to hear and cry for the first time in his life, God be merciful to me a sinner. When he's given grace to lay hold on the righteousness of Christ by faith, that man will lift up his voice in praises to God along with all the redeemed of the earth and he will say, surely he has borne my griefs and carried my sorrows. Verse four, surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.

Surely this Christ has borne all the guilt, all the grief, all the misery of our sins and carried all the sorrows we would have borne under the wrath of God and hell for all eternity. Surely, oh What fools we were in the unregenerate state in which we were born. We did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. Not just the Jews, but we also. That's the way we looked at him.

Think about it. This is a lamentation. It is a lamentable cry, a cry of those who once looked upon Jesus as a mere man, and of course of a mere man than a sinner before God who deserved what he got. We esteemed him strict and smitten of God and afflicted. It's a lamentation.

They're lamenting. That's the way we saw him. But like the rest of sinning humanity, we were wrong. Now the light of the truth, by the grace of God, has been shined in the darkness of our hearts. He was not stricken, smitten, and afflicted of God for his own sins, for he knew none.

He wasn't punished justly by the Romans for claiming to be the Son of God. He is the Son of God, or for the crimes that he was said to have committed by the Jews and handed over. No, he was stricken and smitten and afflicted of God for our sins, for he knew no sin. We were, every one of us, conceived in sin. We've been through this recently.

We have 16 children. I've said it again and again. Didn't have to teach any one of them how to sin. They all sin. They come into the world, they're little sinners.

Oh, they're cute when they're doing some of their little sinful stuff when they're real little, you know, but if you don't get a handle on it by the time they're 12, it's not so cute anymore, right? They all come into the world sinners. They all come into the world sinners. They all come into the world speaking lies, as David said. You don't have to teach them.

The Pelagians say, no, they can only copy what they see. That's incorrect. That's an error. No, They sin because they're sinners. They're not sinners because they sin.

They sin because they are sinners, because they have a sin nature that they inherited from Mother and Father Adam and Eve. Every one of us were conceived to sin. We all come forth from the womb speaking lies, And we are by nature naturally chosen of wrath awaiting the everlasting outpouring of God's Fury on our sins that will rain down on the heads of all the wicked for all eternity unless and except Jesus Christ saves us And the verse one of the men read earlier while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. And this is where I'm going here right now. Christ died for us.

He became the object of God's wrath in our place. We were born objects of God's wrath. He becomes the object of God's wrath in our place. Remember the hymn, in my place condemned he stood, sealed my pardon with his blood. Hallelujah, What a Savior.

He, Jesus Christ, stood in our place and became the object of God's wrath. And we're going to look at this a little closer in just a moment because this is a part of the doctrine of propitiation. What does propitiation mean? And we're going to get there in just a few moments. What a savior, he was wounded for our transgressions.

He was bruised for our iniquities, ours. Not for his own, for he knew none. He was wounded for our transgressions and he was bruised for our iniquities. The Hebrew word there, bruised, means to be crushed. He was crushed.

It is a picture of something being demolished or smashed or ground to powder under the weight of something else. And the weight under which Christ was bruised or crushed was the weight not only of our sin but of the wrath of God being poured out upon him for our sins. When the sinless Son of God was for our sake made to be sin in the sight of God. When he bore our sin guilt. When all of our dirt, when all of our filth, when all of our treachery, when all of our treasonous rebellions against His reign, when all of our vile thoughts and actions and blasphemies were laid upon Christ as He hung on the cross, the wrath of God came upon Him for them.

And in a moment we're going to look at the Old Testament proclamation of the curses and see just how horrible this thing was that Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of God, goes to the cross and the curses of the law fall upon him. We're going to go there in just a minute when we look at Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. I hope that you're all familiar with what took place at Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, the Mount of Blessing and the Mount of Cursing. But we're going to look at how the curse of God came upon. All the curses of God were poured out upon Jesus Christ on the cross, just a moment, and we'll be there.

But all the wrath of God came upon him for our sins. So Christ is hanging on the cross and in that three hours when the sky grows dark and the earth quakes and the rocks are split in half and the entire cosmos is in just craziness. Everything is turning upside down. The whole world is focused. Everything in the world is focused upon this center place of the cross of Christ.

What happens? Our sins are laid upon Him. The sins of God's people are laid upon Him. The guilt of the sins of God's people are laid upon him, and the wrath of God comes upon him for those sins. If you are saved today, and I'll paraphrase Paul Washer, if you are saved today, it's not because the Romans beat up Jesus.

It's because God's wrath was poured out upon his own Son in your place. He endured the wrath that you deserve to endure for all eternity in a place called hell. And he died. Jesus died in your place. Many, many, many have suffered great wounds, but the stroke that justice gave is the stroke that satisfied the justice of God, the wrath of God that was due our sins.

Remember the hymn, stricken, smitten, and afflicted? Many hands were raised to wound him. None would interpose to save." The old hymn writers understood these things. What does the next line say? But the deepest stroke that pierced him was the stroke that justice gave and the Romans didn't give that stroke.

God did. God satisfied his own justice in the suffering and death of his son. Justice had to be satisfied. The law of God demands it. The holiness of God requires it.

And the Son of God fulfills it. Vengeance was taken on Christ for our sins. When our sin debt was declared to His account. Do you understand this? And The chastisement of our peace was upon him.

And you say, well, I haven't heard anything like that from a pulpit. I don't really understand what you're saying. That's because you've lived in America in the last 100 years. But if you listen to Charles Spurgeon, And you listen to George Whitefield and the Great Awakening. You listen to Jonathan Edwards, sinners in the hands of an angry God.

And you listen to all of our Pilgrim Fathers that landed at Plymouth Rock and their pastor, John Robinson, back in Holland. And you listen to all of the Puritans and you listen to all the reformers, you hear this doctrine. But no more. Not in decades in America. Why?

Because we lost, to the greatest extent, we've lost the gospel and the understanding of the gospel. And what happened on the cross? The chastisement of our peace was upon Him. This is what it took to make peace with God. The suffering and death of a God's own Son.

You who think of sin but lightly nor suppose the evil great, here may view its nature rightly, here its guilt may estimate. Mark the sacrifice appointed, see who bears the awful load, tis the Christ, the Lord's anointed Son of man and Son of God. Understand that you, I, every living creature was at war with God the day we were born. At enmity with God, the Scripture says, yet he who was offended made peace with us by the sacrifice of his own son, and with his stripes we are healed. We'll get there in just a moment.

Verse 6, all we like sheep have gone astray. The pictures of wandering sheep from a fold, a sheep that will certainly die unattended, which will never return to the fold on its own. And he says, we like sheep have gone astray and turned everyone to his own way, but the Lord has laid on him, that's on Jesus, the iniquity of us all. We turn aside, in the words of Matthew Henry, everyone to his own way and set up our own will in competition with God and with God's will, which is the great malignity of sin. But the Lord took all of that, all of our sin, all of our violence, all of our rebellion, and He lays it upon His own Son.

The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. Who's us all? The us all, look at your text, Isaiah chapter 53. Not every person ever born, it refers to the many in verse 11, where it says God's servant, referring to Christ, will justify many in bearing their iniquities. And then in verse 12, it's referring to the all are the many whom his son bore the sins of.

It says in verse 12, he bear the sins of many. He bear the sins of many. That's the all that he's referring to. The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all and the Lord in doing so worked propitiation. Finally to this word that I wanted us to come to, propitiation.

How many right now can sit down and say, okay, I can write down what propitiation is. I can give you a good theological, biblical definition of propitiation. Can I have a couple people? That's good. When you think of the word propitiation, think satisfaction.

If you're taking notes, when you think of the word propitiation, think satisfaction. Propitiation means that the demands of justice, God's justice, divine justice, have been satisfied. Propitiation means that the wrath of God has been appeased. I said earlier, our text from Romans 3 next week, verse 25, is going to introduce this word. Propitiation, again, means that the demands of justice have been satisfied.

When you think propitiation, think satisfaction. Okay, God has satisfied the demands of justice. How? Through the suffering and death of his son. Jesus satisfied the justice of God that was due us.

He appeased the wrath of God that was upon us, every one of us, to completely appease the wrath of God, satisfy the justice of God so that God's wrath is no longer upon us. Upon who? Upon His people who are in Christ by faith. His justice has been satisfied. His wrath assuaged.

Propitiation, In the words of Martin Lloyd-Jones, means that someone has been offended, okay? And someone has done the offending, and someone has made satisfaction for the offense. In the case of our sins, We're the offenders. Man is the offender. God is the one who's offended, and God is the one who makes satisfaction to his own justice.

Not the Roman soldiers. God makes satisfaction to his own justice. How? By pouring out his wrath upon his own son in our place. Jesus suffered and bled and died in the place of sinners, and God's wrath was satisfied.

Very simply, I've quoted this many times, John Gill who held the pastorate in the same church that Charles Spurgeon preached in a hundred years later in London, England. John Gill who wrote the only expository of the entire Scriptures that's ever been written word by word, expository of the entire Scriptures. Back in the 1700s he said this, quote, our sins were laid on him and the wrath of God was poured out on him for them. Simple injustice was satisfied, propitiation was worked. Our sins were laid on Jesus and the wrath of God came upon him for them.

Do you believe that? God lays the offenses of his people and his son on the cross and pours out his wrath on him for them, thereby satisfying his own justice. That's propitiation. Jesus satisfied the demands of justice because he put himself in our place and he was treated as we deserve to be treated. He was punished in our place.

In doing that, he placated the wrath of God. He appeased the wrath of God. There's no longer wrath upon those whose faith is in the Lord Jesus Christ. You're one with Christ, through faith, the wrath is gone. We sang it earlier from Ann, Can It Be?

Charles Wesley hymn. You know, no condemnation, now I dread. We don't dread any condemnation now. Why? Because Jesus already suffered in our place.

Theologians term what Christ did as standing in the place of sinners as a vicarious penal substitutionary atonement. Okay, any five-year-olds here? Vicarious penal substitutionary atonement. Ouch. All right.

Vicarious. That's when somebody acts in the place of another. Substitutionary, that's when they stand in the place of another person, okay? Penal has to do with punishment that's being inflicted. And then of course atonement means satisfaction.

There is satisfaction that is made. Christ again bore the wrath of God for our sins in our place. He shed His blood and He died. He was substituted for us. He stood in the place and in the room and in the stead of sinners and willingly bore our punishment, the penalty of our sins by suffering what we could never suffer.

If Jesus didn't suffer, listen to me, someone was arguing with me in my house about this. They said, well, I don't believe that Jesus suffered the wrath of God. I don't believe that. You know, you've been reading too much Charles Finney. Charles Finney was a heretic.

And next week we're going to look at some of his quotes and you'll see he was a heretic. That's why the so-called revival he was involved in didn't last. Yes, because he taught a false gospel. But Christ bore the wrath of God for our sins in our place. If you don't believe, whether you believe it or not, if Jesus didn't bear, if He did not suffer for your sins, the wrath of God on the cross, You will suffer the wrath of God for your sins.

Someone has to suffer for your sins and die. Jesus suffered in the place of sinners and he died in the place of Sinners. If Jesus didn't suffer for your sins, you will suffer for your sins. And not a one of them will ever be paid for or atoned for. Why?

Because human suffering cannot atone for sin. That's why hell's forever. A person is in hell forever. Why? Because the smallest sin you ever committed, you can't make satisfaction to the justice of God for it.

Why? Because you're still sinning while you're trying to atone for it. You've got your fist lifted up to God while you're in hell. I am not here justly. Christ bore the wrath of God for his people in our place.

He shed his blood, he died, he was substituted for us. He willingly bore our punishment by suffering and dying in our place. He made atonement. He made satisfaction for the guilt of sin. He made it in the full and everyone whose trust is in Him is saved.

We were the objects of God's wrath, but Jesus became the object of God's wrath. You understand that? Jesus became the object of God's wrath in our place. He completely satisfied the justice of God do us, placating, appeasing the wrath of God and thereby declaring us just in His sight. The other English word translated in various versions, you may have an, I think it's ASV maybe, that translates to this incorrectly, expiation.

But it's still a word we need to understand. The other English translation in the New Testament is the word expiation. Expiation means that our sins have been removed from us. When you think expiation, think removed. Okay?

Propitiation, satisfaction is made for our sins by Christ and what He did on the cross. Expiation removed because Jesus dealt with the justice of God in our place and bore our sin guilt and the penalty of our sin because our sins were laid upon Him and He took them to the cross and paid for them in the full. Our guilt and our sin has been removed from us. How far? So far as the east is from the west.

And no more wrath remains against the people of God. Psalm 103 verse 12 says, as far as the east is from the west, So far hath He removed, removed our transgressions from us. You know how far the east is from the west, anybody? Right? They never meet.

Praise God. Praise God that they will never meet. Because of what Jesus did, our sins are taken away, they're removed from us as far as the east is from the west. That's expiation, okay? Both propitiation and expiation were accomplished for us by Jesus Christ on the cross.

And both propitiation and expiation are foreshadowed in the Old Testament sacrifices and rituals. You've got to hang with me for a few more pages here, okay? I know we're going to go long today. Somehow I got a second wind. I have no idea how.

Praise God. But turn with me to Leviticus chapter 16 because we need to understand this. In Leviticus chapter 16, you're going to see the Day of Atonement, okay, which foreshadows what Christ Jesus will do on the cross. You're going to see this foreshadow on the day of atonement when the two goats are brought in. This is Leviticus chapter 16, and the verses I want you to hone in on and focus in on are verses 14 and verse 22, okay?

Two goats or bullocks are brought in. The first goat or bullock is slain, verse 14. Its blood is sprinkled on the mercy seat, on the mercy seat. Guess what the word is in the New Testament that is translated propitiation. Hebrews, I think, 9.5, it's also the mercy seat.

It's the mercy seat. The first goat, the bullock is slain, its blood is sprinkled on the mercy seat, picturing propitiation. This is propitiation. The actual word used in the Greek and the New Testament is hilisterion, which means the mercy seat. The first goat is slain, its blood is sprinkled on the mercy seat picturing propitiation Satisfaction for the guilt of sin by an atoning a sacrifice the second goat get over to Leviticus 16 look at verse 22 After the priest lays his hands and you've got to hang with me here, this is so important, on the head of the beast confesses the sins of God's people, is taken outside the city and left to go wander toward the east, symbolizing the manner in which the guilt of our sins is removed from us as far as the east is from the west.

Jesus made satisfaction to The justice of God by suffering the wrath of God do us when he suffered and died on the cross, and our sins were removed from us as far as the east is from the west. Both of these were accomplished by Christ on the cross. You understand? The sprinkling, the propitiation, wrath is appeased, justice is satisfied, and then the sins of the people are pronounced upon the head of the other goat and it's sent to wonder. Our sins are removed from us as far as the east is from the West.

This is propitiation and expiation in the Old Testament which directs us to Christ. Back to our text, he was oppressed, he was afflicted, Isaiah speaking here of the physical abuses Christ endured. We don't want to minimize those. The scourging, the flesh ripping, the whippings, the spitting, the mockery, the ridicule. Being beaten with poles on the head, buffeted with the palms of the hand.

Yet he opens not his mouth. He didn't attempt to make a defense in the hopes that he might be set at liberty. No, he was on a mission to save his people from their sins. Even though Pilate, he even put Pilate on notice. You remember saying, you'd have no power over me except what?

Except if we're giving you from above. No, He's on a divine mission, the mission of God, the God-man, to save his people from their sins and to fulfill this mission he's brought as a lamb to the slaughter back into Isaiah 53. Christ willingly submits to the Father's will. He freely offers himself up to God a sacrifice for sin as a sheet before he shears his down. He doesn't even open his mouth.

He doesn't resist. He willingly complies. Why? John 6 38, I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And the will of God was that he would be the propitiatory sacrifice, an expiratory sacrifice that was necessary to save his people from their sins.

He's taken from prison and from judgment. Verse 8, he's judged by the Jews, he's handed over to the Romans. Pilate sent to Pilate, to Herod, back to Pilate again, he's scourged, he's judged, he's judged, he's abused. And who shall declare his generation? For he is cut off out of the land of the living.

Look what it says here, for the transgression of my people was he stricken. For the transgression of my people was he stricken, not for all men and all ages, but for the transgression of God's law committed by the people of God. For the transgression of my people was he stricken. He was stricken for the transgression of God's people. We just read about the goats, okay, before the goat would be slain, before the goats would be sent away to wander, okay.

What happened? The priests put their hands on the head of the goat or the bullock, okay, and pronounced, confessed the sins of the people. Who? The people, they're a symbol of Israel, not the Amalekites, not the Philistines, not the Girgashites, not the whateverites, the people of God. You understand what that is?

That's limited atonement, and it's a hated doctrine in the church today. That's limited atonement. It was limited to the people that God specifically said these are the ones that are gonna have the atonement for them. And the day of atonement didn't affect the Amalekites, not at all. And they died in their sins and they're in hell today.

I know we hate to hear these kinds of things. It just goes against all that we were raised up with, all the things we've been taught, but it's the truth of the Word of God. When the blood of the animal sacrifices were slain in the Old Covenant, they were not to make atonement for the sins of the Philistines or the Amalekites. They were slain to make atonement for the people. They were limited to the people of God.

The atonement, the satisfaction for sin was limited to the people of God and it pointed to Jesus to come. Those sacrifices are pointing to Christ who was stricken for the transgressions of the people of God, for the transgression of my people was he stricken. I know this strikes at the heart of pride. It strikes at our heart of pride. You know, we want to, we want a communist God.

We want a communist God. Equally distributes everything to all people. Everybody hears the gospel. Everybody hears the gospel at the same amount of times. Everybody has equal access to, you know, to the Scriptures.

It's not true. It is not true. No. There are millions and millions of people who are dying who never heard the gospel. I wrote it was raised in independent Baptist churches and I was taught everybody hears the gospel before they die.

That's a lie. Don't tell children that everybody has heard the gospel before they die. They say that because they want to vindicate their image of a God they've created in their own mind who is perfectly fair in the sense of men. I've made up a God in my own image who is perfectly fair in the sight of me. No.

Read Romans 9. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and whom I will I will harden. I will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy and whom I will I will harden. It's hard, but it gives us cause for glorying in the grace of God. You shall call his name Jesus, Matthew 1-21, for he shall save who?

Everybody? No, his people from their sins, Matthew 1-21. Jesus did not give His life for the goats, but for the sheep. I am the Good Shepherd, the Good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep. For the sheep, everyone that comes to believe on His name, repents and believes in the gospel.

We went through that last week, right, with John 3.16. John 3.16. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Everyone who believes on His name is saved, right? Everyone who believes on His name is saved.

God did not leave the world without a Savior But he provided the Savior in his own son, but Jesus says I lay down my life for who? Everybody in the whole world no says for my sheep Matthew 1 15. I lay down my life for the sheep. John 10 11. But you believe not because you're what?

But you believe not because you're not of my sheep. Ouch. But you believe not because you're not of my sheep." Let me go back to Spurgeon. I love Spurgeon. He talks about, you know, if Jesus paid your sins on the cross, you're not going to pay for your sins in hell.

It's that simple. Those for whom Christ suffered on the cross will not be made to suffer for those same sins again in hell. The ransom was already paid. The debt was canceled at the cross. The account was paid in full.

Who can extort a further payment? And he goes on to say it's blasphemy. He said it is, and I'm paraphrasing Spurgeon, he said it's blasphemy to say that Jesus was hanging on the cross suffering for the sins of people who were already at that very moment suffering for those same sins in hell. That's blasphemy. No.

The sins that he paid for were paid for. The sins of God's people were laid on Christ on the cross and the wrath of God came upon him for them and they were paid for in the full. He was stricken for their transgressions. They will not be stricken again for them in hell. Verse 9, he made his grave for the wicked.

He comes to the grave, having been nailed to a cross between two criminals with the rich and his death. He's laid in the grave a very wealthy man, Joseph of Arimathea, all this to fulfill the words of the prophets concerning him, because that is the cause of which he had no violence, nor there was any deceit in his mouth. He did not deserve the civil punishments or scourging or crucifixion. He did nothing to deserve any manner of punishment whatsoever. He's without sin, not in word, not in deed, not in thought.

He kept the law of God perfectly. He loved God perfectly. He loved others perfectly. He was without sin, perfect, spotless in every way. Without any taint or hint of sin or iniquity, and yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him.

Look at the text, verse 10. It pleased the Lord to bruise him. I never heard that before. It pleased the Lord. It pleased Yahweh.

It pleased the Father to bruise him. Again, that Hebrew word is to crush, to crush him. As I've said before, bruise here, the Hebrew word that means to crush under the weight of something. And while the weight of the burden of our sins was great, the weight that he was crushed under was infinitely greater, the weight of divine wrath. All the righteous indignation and vengeance that would have fallen upon the people of God for all eternity, all the hells and fires and brimstones that we would have endured rained down on the head of God's own Son on the cross as He drank the cup of God's wrath to the last drop in our place.

Fury and frowns and abandonment and that of the Father, poured out upon the head of his own son. Anybody speak Spanish? No? Okay. En la cruz de este Cristo, toda la heredidad de Dios cayó sobre la cabeza de su propio hijo.

That's what happened on the cross. Satisfaction was made. Satisfaction to the justice of God was made when Jesus bore the wrath that was due us. When our sins were laid upon him and the wrath of God came upon him for those sins, justice was satisfied and his wrath was appeased. The wrath of God was appeased once and for all towards us.

So how is it that it pleased the Father to crush his only begotten son? It's like, oh, I want to bring, you know, suffering upon my own son? No. Isaiah 1-11 says, I delight not in the blood of bullocks and goats or of lambs. Same word is used by Isaiah here.

The father takes no pleasure in, he's not placated or appeased by the shedding of the blood of bulls, lambs, and goats, but he is infinitely pleased, forever pleased, eternally placated, because his justice is completely satisfied in the sacrifice of his only begotten son. Calvin writes here, in Christ there was no fault. Why then was the Lord pleased that he should suffer? Because he stood in our place. He stood in our room.

And in no other way, but by his death, could the justice of God be Satisfied. Jesus is also satisfied. Perfect unity in the Godhead, Matthew 26, 53. Praise to the Father. Says, thy will be done.

Hebrews 12, 2. For the joy that was set before him, and he endured the cross, despising the shame. But as we go forward here, our text continues, he hath put him to grief. How? How did he put him to grief?

By being made an object of God's wrath and a curse that his people might be delivered from the curses of the law. And this is the thing we're going to end with here, and it's going to take me about five minutes to do it. I know we're going long. Hang in there, but this is so important. Galatians 3.13.

Please, please turn there with me really quickly, and then we're going to look at Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal in the Old Testament and see what Christ did with relationship to the curse of the law. Galatians 3 13, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us. We don't hear too much of this, do we? Yes, he was made sin in the sight of God, and he was punished as though he had done the things that we've done, but he never did. But look here, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us.

Here it is again in our place, okay? Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. How? Being made a curse for us. We've got to understand something here.

Go to Deuteronomy chapter 28, beginning with verse 11. And I'm going to try to move through this quickly because I don't want to be here all afternoon. But there are two mountains in Israel upon which annually the blessings and the curses were pronounced upon the people. So you've got this mount here, okay, you got this mount here, and the people all standing in between, and then they're representatives from the six tribes of Israel on one side, the six tribes of Israel on the other side, and these six over here proclaim the curses, and these proclaim the blessings, and guess what all the people in the middle do? They say, Amen!

So let it be. Of course, bringing the curse of God, the curses of the law down upon their heads for not obeying the law of God perfectly. To mounts in Israel, the blessing of the cursings associated with keeping and breaking of the law of God are to be read. Mount Gerizim to declare the blessings of the covenant keepers and Mount Ebal to declare the curse upon those who broke covenant with their God and forsook him and disobeyed his commandments. Verse 12 says these shall stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the people when you come over Jordan and then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin.

These are the six representatives on this side. They'll stand upon Mount Ebal to curse. We got to get this. You got to understand this, everyone. And then upon Mount Ebalt, a curse, Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali, and the Levites will speak and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice, cursed be the man that makes any groven image or molten image which is an abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place that people shall answer and say amen.

The people in the middle are going to say amen. Cursed is he that set us light that makes fun of his father or his mother. And all the people will say, Amen. Curse is he that lieth with his father's wife. Now, please, as you're looking at these curses and listening to these curses, remember that Jesus became a curse for us and all the curses of the law were brought down upon his head on the cross, and he was treated as though he had done all the things that are being said right here.

The sinless, perfect Son of God, he that lies with his father's wife. Jesus bore that. Do You understand? The horror of the cross and the blessedness of the cross and all the people will say amen. But here it's God saying amen.

Cursed be he that lies with any manner of beast. Jesus, the holy, perfect, spotless son of God? No, yes. He will be treated as though he Lay down with beasts as men who have been forgiven of such a sin all the people say amen Curses he that lies with his sister the daughter of his father the daughter of his mother curses He that lies with his mother-in-law Jesus The sinless Son of God is bearing, is taking the weight of all of this sin, all of it's being laid upon Him. The curses of the law are coming upon Him and God's wrath is being rained down upon Him as though He had done all of these things, though he had done none of them.

He that smites his neighbor secretly murders, he that takes a reward to slay an innocent person, and cursed to be he that confirms all the words of this law to do them, and all the people shall say, Amen. Moses charged the people the same day saying, these shall stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the people. When you come over Jordan, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Izekiah, Joseph, and Benjamin, these shall stand upon Mount Ebalt, the curse, Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. Back in the, I don't advocate anyone ever put their child in public education system. It's like putting them into the jaws of Satan.

We raised all of our children through home education. Everyone in this church home educates, and if someone comes to the church and they don't home school, we try to convince them to do just that. But they used to have these, some of you will remember you have football games, they have a big stadium here and a big stadium here, and in between you'd have the field, and then they would yell these things back and forth. Anybody have that? You know, we've got spirit, sure we do.

We've got spirit, how about you? Then they would do whatever their thing was back, that sort of thing. So imagine this, you've got the two grand stands, one the curse is one is the blessings and the representatives of the tribes are in the people are in the middle and they're all saying, amen, let it be so. But in Deuteronomy 28, 15 through 19, if you go on, it'll come to pass if you will not harken to the voice of God to do these things. Cursed you'll be in the city, cursed you'll be in the field, cursed you'll be your basket, your store, cursed will be the fruit of your body, the fruit of your land, the increase of your cattle, kind, the flocks of your sheep.

Curse will be when you come in. Curse will be when you go out. Instead of blessing, there will be cursing. This is what Jesus endured on the cross. Instead of the blessing that we read in number 624, the Lord bless thee and keep thee.

The Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace instead of this, the curse. The curses of the law falling upon the one that is cursed, and in this place it's Jesus. As Jesus hung on the cross, all the curses of the law came upon him as though the perfect law keeper were himself a violator of all of these laws. Why?

In the room and the stead and the place of his people. Standing in the room in the place of sinners, he was treated as though he had broken all the laws we just went through and committed all the vile sins that men who have been saved by his grace have committed. So instead of the Lord blessing and keeping him, it's the Lord curse thee and forsake thee. The Lord make his face not to shine upon you but to frown upon you and be vengeful unto thee. The Lord take away all mercy from thee and remove all peace from you.

Now do you understand why on the cross Jesus cried out, my God, my God, why ask thou forsaken me? That's why. Your sin, your sin, and my sin relate upon Him. R.C. Sproul comments here, Jesus didn't just feel forsaken, He was forsaken.

For Jesus to become the curse, He had to be completely forsaken by the Father. Oh, that strikes at the pride of man. We want a Jesus in our own image. We want a God in our own image. Folks, this is what it means to make His soul an offering for sin.

When thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, As we read earlier, to give his life a ransom for many. Matthew 20, verse 28. I'm gonna end with Spurgeon. Give him the last words. The sins that were ours were made his.

He stood as a sinner in God's sight, though not a sinner in himself. He was punished as a sinner. He died in the place of sinners upon the tree of the curse. Upon the tree of the curse being made a curse for us. He made an end of sin.

He rose again from the dead to bring in everlasting righteousness, which at this moment covers the persons of all his elect." End quote. Mount Ebal is the mount of all those outside of Christ who will abide in hell forever, bearing the wrath of God for their sins forever. Why? Because none of their sins could be paid for, can only be paid for by the God man. Jesus Christ, God's son.

Mount Gerizim is the mouth of the blessed of God who are in Christ. Christ upon whom all the curses of the law fell, upon whom the wrath of God was poured out, by whose sufferings and death the justice of God was satisfied to the full, so that the curse is gone, all of them having fallen upon another. Propitiation, satisfaction made to the justice of God, expiation, our sins removed from us, the guilt of our sins, never to be punished in this already punished in Christ, and removed from us as far as the east is from the west. This is what Jesus procured, affected, accomplished for us at the cross, and when he died he said it is accomplished before he died it's finished he accomplished it all. Where are you today?

Do you believe on this Christ who stood in the legal place instead of sinners? Do you believe in this Christ to whom all the sins of his people were imputed? Do you believe in this Christ who answered for our sins? Do you believe in this Christ who dealt with the justice of God in the place of his people? Do you believe in this Christ who became sin in the sight of God, though he had never known any sin?

Do you believe in this Christ who took upon him all the curses and became a curse on the side of God and was treated as a cursed thing to be hung up on a tree. Do you believe in this Christ who satisfied the justice of God, who spared not his own son? Do you believe in this Christ against whom the sword of justice was awakened? Do you believe in this Christ against whom the sword of justice was awakened? Do you believe in this Christ who was delivered up to death in our place?

Do you believe in this Jesus, the Jesus of Scripture who suffered and died and arose again for our justification. I hope you do. The final word is, he shall see his seed. He's going to see the fruit of his sufferings and he's going to be satisfied. He shall prolong his days.

He's going to be raised from the dead. That's an inference of resurrection. And the pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand. God's kingdom will advance and all this pleasure will be accomplished. Let's pray.

Father in heaven, we are so grateful for your Word. We're grateful for the truth of your word. We're grateful for the work of your spirit. We pray, oh God, that a work of your spirit has been done in this place today. Oh Lord, help us God to move away from the silly doctrines of men that have accompanied the downfall of this nation in the West.

Oh God, help us to return to the doctrines that were preached by the men chosen of you and the greatest revivals that have ever struck this continent during the Great Awakening and at the founding of this nation. Lord, help us to return to those doctrines oh God and put away all the silliness that is blasphemies really that have been resurrected from the history of heresy in the church. Help us to put them all away oh God and return to the truth of your Word. It's the truth that sets men free, and we pray, God, that you would set men free. We pray for revival, we pray for salvation, we pray for regeneration, for the saving work of your right hand, O God, for the arm of the Lord to be shown as mighty in the changing of hearts of men, and bringing them to the saving faith through the grace of God that is in your son Jesus our Lord alone.

It's in His name we pray these things. Amen. Amen.