MADE OF A WOMAN
Part 2
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scottSTANLEY
In our last study, entitled “Made of a Woman,” we were taking a look at the humanity of Christ because of what is stated in Leviticus 4 - if we begin to contract guilt the way the people contract guilt, that we are to take the blood of a bullock. And understanding the difference between a lamb and a bullock, led us into a closer look at the humanity of Christ and what was happening to Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. I want to continue that study because the Lord has begun revealing truth to me in such a tremendous way recently in just looking at ourselves as human beings and what our heavenly Father sacrificed in allowing His Son to die for us - the plan that the Father had from the very beginning in allowing His Son to go to Calvary, planning this. I know that as I go through this study, you’re going to need your Bibles open. These things are going to be perhaps the deep things of God, deeper things than we have looked at before, but it’s something that we need to grasp and come into harmony with, come into harmony together with our Lord Jesus Christ and allow our High Priest to have the tools He needs to minister to us in our sanctuary.
Looking at the humanity of Jesus Christ in “Made of a Woman,” Part 1, we talked about the effect that His parents had on Him as a child. We looked at Mary, offering the two turtle doves and what that meant spiritually, inwardly, in what understanding she lacked. But I want to show you, reading from Luke chapter 1, I want to show you more in depth of what has happened to humanity, and apply this to our Savior, because of what is stated in Galatians, that He was made of a woman, made under the law. Reading from Luke 1:15,
Luke 1:15
15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost [Spirit], even from his mother's womb.
Now this is a prophecy concerning John the Baptist, and his mother Elizabeth, and I want you to read with me the fulfillment of this prophecy. It’s in the same chapter. The prophecy, again, is that John the Baptist would be filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother’s womb. Reading from the same chapter, Luke 1, starting at verse 39.
Luke 1:39
39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.
41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe [John] leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost [Spirit]:
42And she spake [spoke] out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou [are you] among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy [your] womb.
43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy [your] salutation sounded in mine [my] ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
Now consider what we have just read. John the Baptist was to be filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother’s womb. And here we have Mary giving a salutation and when Elizabeth hears this, the babe in her womb leaps for joy. Now “joy” is an interesting word, especially when you apply it to a baby in the womb. Because there is no way for a child who has no vocabulary to hear a salutation and be joyful about it. The baby did not understand what was spoken, so why did it experience joy? Remember the prophecy was that John the Baptist would be filled with the Holy Spirit. But the fulfillment of it happens when Elizabeth is filled with the Holy Spirit, and the babe leaps for joy. In other words, the baby in the womb was experiencing the emotions of it’s mother. The mother is the one that had the joy. The mother is the one that was filled with the Spirit and because she was, the baby experienced what it did. Again, let me say, when a baby has no vocabulary, there’s no way, if it doesn’t understand words, there is no way that it is going to have joy hearing Mary give a salutation. That is impossible. It was the mother who experienced the joy.
You know, I used to read this and I could not, for the life of me, understand well, what is being said here. Does this mean the Holy Spirit went into her stomach? You know, when you look at Trinitarians and what they have to believe, that the Holy Spirit is another person, and it has to be inside of her stomach, in this baby, you see, that makes no sense. But when you realize what the Holy Spirit is, the mind of God, and that Elizabeth possessed the Holy Spirit and the baby leaped in her womb because of the joy mama was experiencing. You see if that be true, if that be true, that the baby in the womb experiences the emotions of the mother, I have to take us back to Adam and Eve. This answers a question for me that I have wondered about for the longest time, and that is, the difference of Cain being born after sin had entered into the world as compared to before sin entered into the world. What exactly happened to that child? And I realize Cain received the emotions of his mother, Eve.
Now, I want you to consider this with me. When you look at Adam and Eve, and you look at the fact that Eve was deceived and ate off the tree that combined the knowledge of good and evil, Adam was not deceived. He just followed after Eve. Thinking of Eve and what took place after she did what she did, I just want to lay some things out for you. And I want you to see what began to happen in Eve’s surroundings. And then we’re going to consider how she felt when she saw this take place knowing it was a result of what she had done. Turn with me to Romans, chapter 8, reading from verse 19.
Romans 8:19
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth [waits] for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him [or because of him] who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Now consider what he is saying here. When Adam and Eve did what they did, creatures were made subject to vanity by the creator. Why? Because creatures were created as pictures of the inward. Remember, you look at the outward so you can understand the things you can’t see, the inward. Creatures, in fact everything outward, is a picture of something in our hearts - creatures being thoughts - and what happened to those creatures when Adam and Eve sinned? Well they were made subject to vanity. Why? Because our thoughts became vain. Except we abide in Jesus Christ, it is folly, our thoughts, there’s no wisdom in what we think. That is why when we read, for instance in Isaiah 11, we see the wolf lying down with the lamb, the lion eating straw like an ox. In Isaiah 11, you’re seeing the mind of Jesus Christ and His thoughts are under His dominion, and in control. They are more like heaven. When you think of animal life in heaven, you don’t see the wild beast, you don’t see all of these things portrayed because man is not going to be in that place anymore.
What I’m saying is, when Adam and Eve sinned, as a teaching tool to help man see themselves, God made the animals, made creatures subject to vanity and they are waiting in hope for the manifestation of the sons of God because God will change them back to fit the way we are inwardly. Now consider Adam and Eve. Consider what they did, and consider our Heavenly Father through the Son, making the changes to their surroundings. What else changed? God drove them from the garden. Now stay with me. When you look at the Bible, understanding it’s written for those upon whom the end of the world is come, the scriptures were written for us by people who were moved by the spirit of Christ, and came to understand that they were not writing for their own generation. They were writing for a later time, when the Holy Spirit would be sent from heaven. Therefore, they wrote things that would directly minister to us.
Why did the Spirit of Christ move on Moses to record what happened after sin? What did God do? For one, He drove Adam and Eve from the garden. Why? Because they were no longer in the garden inwardly. As that picture for the last generation church to understand, our Heavenly Father carried out and made Adam and Eve portray outwardly what had happened inwardly. He drives them from the garden, again, because they’re no longer in the garden. I want you to think about this with me. Do you think God really cared where Adam and Eve lived on the face of this planet? The only reason He would drive them from this particular spot is because of what that spot represented. Remember in Ezekiel 28, the garden of Eden, Eden represents God’s soul, or the mind of God, His Spirit. They were no longer in it. So He drove them from it. He put cherubims at the gate with a flaming sword so they couldn’t come back in. I am figuring two cherubims, because it was a picture of Michael and Jesus - because you can’t come back to the Father without passing through the Son. It only would make sense, there would be two cherubims standing in the way, blocking the way back into the Garden of Eden.
Follow me. God was simply portraying outwardly a picture to give the last generation church that would help us understand various things. I don’t think He told Adam and Eve what He was doing. I don’t think He said, “You know, I’ve got to carry this out because this is for the remnant church to understand something I’m going to be teaching them.” I don’t think He did that. I would be surprised if He did that. But I want you to consider Eve, with animal life changing around her, being driven from the garden, angels or cherubim put in place so she and her husband couldn’t go back into the garden without passing through them with a flaming sword - all of these things done to teach the remnant church the things of God, the deep things of God, and she not understanding that.
What do you think she felt? Well a big word that comes up in my mind is “rejection.” It’s quite possible this lady felt rejection from God. I can’t imagine seeing the animal life change, having all these things happen - death enters into the world when she sees the first leaf fall. She sees the animals slain that she and her husband could be clothed with the skin of it - and her understanding it was because of what she had done, what she and her husband had done - what she had asked her husband to do. I don’t think she felt accepted, even though I know in the heart of our Heavenly Father, He loved her. I’m not sure she felt that way. If you can imagine the horror of Eve, the horror that she endured inwardly, and realize those emotions were passed to her children in the womb. Now remember, the emotion of that mother, the power of it, and I ask the question, what would be the difference between their children being born before they sinned, or after?
What we are describing here tells us the difference. And this feeling of rejection also, just like the baby in the womb, Elizabeth’s womb, had no vocabulary, Cain had no vocabulary either in the womb. And receiving these emotions of rejection and whatever else that she was passing to him, I can only imagine, he had no way of defining these things. He had no way of understanding what was happening. After being born and his response to people as a human being, from one human being to another, from a child to a parent, from a child to a sibling, he was dealing with all of the things he had been covering up from the womb because he didn’t know how to deal with it. This is what we have been calling the sin nature. And it is something that is within every one of us. It is something that you have no control over, the fact that it is within you, because of you’ll think about it, what Eve passed to her children, they passed to theirs. And it’s interesting, if you’ll look in Genesis chapter 3, verse 20,
Genesis 3:20
20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
You see, that’s what we all have in common. All of us have in common the fact that in the womb we were receiving emotions, we were receiving things given us from our parents, who had received it from theirs, who had received it from theirs, who had received it from theirs. And it goes all the way back to this woman Eve. She is the mother of all living. And that makes it even more interesting when you look at Galatians chapter 4, Jesus Christ was made of a woman. That is that part of His humanity that He was carrying from the womb. You could say, the disease of humanity, inward disease, the wounds, the struggles, all of the things that we deal with from the womb. That is why, and in the past studies we’ve covered the texts, the heavens and the earth being a picture of our minds, of our hearts; and the Lord saying that the heavens and the earth cannot be measured. If they could, He said, I’d cast you off forever. You can never understand, you can never search out yourself. It is impossible because things were happening to you before you even were birthed. As you were in the womb, things were happening to you. And you are still carrying those things and still needing to deal with the problems and resolve the problems that were given to us before we were even born.
It’s interesting that the Lord would be revealing these things to us now. Because I can’t help but think if we’re ever going to rid ourselves of this problem, of this sin nature, we’re going to have to better understand it. Now I know at Calvary our old man died, that Jesus Christ slew the old man for us. But you know, in order for Him to do that for you, it’s going to have to be more than you just simply read a verse and believe that it happened. As the scriptures have taught us, the High Priest, our High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ, is going to enter into the sanctuary and He is going to sprinkle the blood of the bullock and of the goat and bring down that veil, rip the veil from top to bottom. It’s interesting, the veil, simply being our distorted understanding of who God is, of who we are, of what His commands are, of what sin is, of what Christ did for us and what He is doing for us now.
I’m telling you now, the pinnacle of this ministry will be seen in this study, if we can only come to understand and be moved into the experience of allowing our Heavenly Father and his only begotten Son to minister healing to us. I want to ask you to turn with me to Isaiah, chapter 53, reading from verse l,
Isaiah 53:1
1 Who hath [has] believed our report? [that word “report” is “hearing.” Who has believed our hearing, or what we have heard?] and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? [Well, we know from chapter 51, verse 9, the arm of the Lord is Jesus Christ, the risen Savior.]
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath [has] no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 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.
4 Surely he hath [has] borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
I don’t know about you, but for me, all of my Christian life, when I would read Isaiah 53 and I would see things about the fact He’s despised and rejected, we hid our face from Him, we thought He was stricken and smitten of God, I would always apply that to people living in Jesus’ day. But you know, the Lord revealed to me that this is present truth. This is the way the Christian world looks at our Savior today and the mistake they are making today. I want to take you back to these verses we’ve read and I want you to make it present tense. I want you to realize, I want to help you realize how people are making this same mistake today in their understanding of the Savior. And it’s interesting, “who has believed our hearing?” [Isa. 53:1] It’s interesting, there is an abiding word right in the very first part of this. Who has believed what we have heard, or what the Lord has revealed to us. “To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?” Who really understands this man, Jesus Christ?
Isaiah 53:2
2 For he shall [Jesus Christ shall] grow up before him [God] as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: ...
Why dry? Dry means there’s no water. Could that mean there had to be in His mind a growth of His understanding of God and of Himself? He was born in Bethlehem, with His understanding starting at zero again because He was born in eternity past starting at zero and having to grow into an understanding of God. This time, He is doing this as a man in sinful flesh. And there are a couple of verses I want to share with you. The first one in 2 Corinthians, chapter 8, reading verse 9.
2 Corinthians 8:9
9 For ye [you] know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
Now just consider what is being said here. When I think of rich, when I say a rich man, there is a sanctified and unsanctified. I look at Christ before Bethlehem as having a sanctified richness, an understanding of God. But it says He became poor so that you could be rich. Why did He have to be poor? Because He laid it all down and became us. Yes, there was an awakening in Him of who He was, and a growth in His understanding. But remember, He became poor. A root out of dry ground. The other scripture is in Hebrews, chapter 10 starting at verse 5.
Hebrews 10:5
5 Wherefore when he cometh [comes] into the world, he saith [says], Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest [you would] not, but a body hast thou [have you] prepared me:
Now, when you read that, it’s obvious what came first. What came first? The mind or the body in that verse? The mind was there before the human body existed. So here you have the mind of Michael being put in humanity, but existing with it, is that human part of Christ that was made of a woman. And you have the divine and the human blending together. You have an awakening taking place in the mind of the Son of God and coming into that place where His divine understanding has got to govern the human, has got to rule over His humanness. It is no different for you and I today. When you receive the mind of Christ, you too have that divine mind abiding in you as you abide in Him. And you have your carnal mind. You have the spirit fighting against the flesh. You have the minding of the spirit against the carnal mind, the minding of the flesh. And it is learning to allow that divinity to have full control over your understanding, over your thinking. So He was rich in His understanding. Yet He became poor so that He could become us. He was made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them who are under the law. Let’s go back to Isaiah 53, pick it up where we left off. Verse 2.
Isaiah 53:2
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath [has] no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Now, I don’t want you to think of Him living back in His day, and people saying, “Oh, there’s no beauty.” That isn’t, I don’t think, what this is talking about. I think this is talking about people today when they are being instructed as to the truth of who Christ is. And you look a the denominational mind set, there’s nothing there that they desire. They want to see that Trinitarian god. They want to see that guy on the same level as the Father, and the Holy Spirit, coming down in flesh. There’s nothing in the truth that they really desire to understand about Him. Let’s just follow this through and again, apply this to today.
Isaiah 53:3
3 He is despised and rejected of men; [He is] a man of sorrows [sorrow], and [He is] acquainted with grief:...
This word “grief,” actually is “disease.” If you’ll look with me. Here we’re in Isaiah. Just go back to Isaiah chapter 1. And I believe it’s verse 5.
Isaiah 1:5
5 Why should ye [you] be stricken any more? ye [you] will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, [there’s your word] and the whole heart [is] faint.
This word, “sick,” which they have translated “grief” in chapter 53, Isaiah 53:3, is actually sickness or disease. And when you think of Jesus Christ, it is an inward thing. It isn’t outward disease. It is our inward disease. Not that He was acquainted with, He IS acquainted with it, because He possessed it, and overcame it, and killed it and slew it for us. He became poor so we could have the riches He possesses.
Isaiah 53:3
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief [disease]: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Friend, they are doing the same thing today. When you look at Revelation chapter 6, and you look at the seals, and the sixth seal, and you see the great reformation taking place, and as the message goes forth, the stars of God fall from the heavens, and they cry out to the mountains and rocks to fall on them, and they hide their face from Him. They hid their face from Him. They cannot deal with who He truly is because if it be true, the thing that we are teaching concerning the Son of God, then their god is a false god. And it is something they are going to struggle with forever. It will torment them because they cannot answer the questions that we raise. Verse 4.
Isaiah 53:4
4 Surely he hath [has] borne our griefs [disease, there’s the word], and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem [esteemed] him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Now, think with me. The people today will tell you that when Christ was in Gethsemane, the Heavenly Father, our Heavenly Father laid our sin on Him, that He was afflicted of God, that God was laying our sin - and that is why He sweat blood. That is why He had the struggle in Gethsemane, was because of what our Heavenly Father was doing to Him - giving Him your sin. Why would He give Him your sin? Because He had to pay the penalty, God’s penalty for this. His penalty was death because the law says so. This is what I was taught all my Christian life. By the grace of God, as we get through these studies, you’ll no longer carry that understanding. You’ll have a deeper understanding.
You want me to tell you when we read Isaiah 53:4, it says He has borne our disease, He’s carried our sorrows. We thought He was stricken and smitten of God. I just put a note in my Bible, ‘He was smitten of man, in the womb.’ We thought God smote Him. We thought what he was dealing with was the Father laying our sin on Him, and yet we were the ones who did that, because He was dealing with His humanity in the garden of Gethsemane. He was dealing with what we did to Him from the womb of Mary. He was dealing with humanity’s foundational problems. We thought God had done that. No. We did that to Him.
Isaiah 53:5
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised [they put “bruised,” it’s actually “broken.”] for our iniquities:....
And I want you to take a look with me at this word “bruised.” Turn to Job, chapter 19, reading verse 2.
Job 19:2
2 How long will ye [you] vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
This “break me in pieces” is the same word translated “bruised” in Isaiah 53:5. Now as we read this again in Isaiah 53:5, and we’ll continue reading to the end of the verse, what we’re reading right here is so deep, I don’t know, I can barely skim the surface of this for myself. And I pray it’s something you would spend time considering.
Isaiah 53:5
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised [broken. And remember in Job, broken with words. That means it has to be an inward thing. He was broken] for our iniquities [our distortions we carry]: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
This word “chastisement” is [4148]. It’s translated through Proverbs as “instruction. It’s translated through Proverbs as “correction.” And notice, it is the instruction of our peace. Again, put the thoughts together. Wounded for our transgressions, broken because of our iniquities. Instruction of how to give us peace is what He was receiving. With the stripes He received, we are healed, because He deals with us inwardly and can pass the healing to us. The correction that we need for peace, He endured that so that He could give us peace. He could understand what it would take to correct us. Let me say, I have to look at my Heavenly Father as having experiential understanding without having to have the experience. But He allowed the Son to pass through the experience because in Zechariah 6:13 the counsel of peace is between the two of them. That is something I want to touch on before we finish this study. It’s the pinnacle of my ministry, is that we would experience the Father and Son working together to bring us healing. Let’s continue reading Isaiah 53:6.
Isaiah 53:6
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. [that “laid” means “had it meet on him”]
All of our distortions. We’ve all gone our own way and all of those distortions, the iniquity of us all, were on Him. Do you think that only means at Calvary? No. It was from His very birth in Bethlehem. The iniquity of humanity, He carried, until by walking in obedience to the Heavenly Father, those things were destroyed out of Him. The things, the instruction we need for our peace, He endured for us so He could give it to us. What a lovely thought. Verse 7.
Isaiah 53:7
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth [opens] not his mouth. [and notice, it is a lamb, not the bullock, a lamb to the slaughter.]
8 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 [which simply means, He died. He did not raise Himself. He died; He was dead; He experienced death.]: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death [plural - deaths.] .... And when you compare that to Revelation 11:8,
Revelation 11:8
8 And their dead bodies [the bodies of the two witnesses] shall lie in the street of the great city, [which is Babylon.] which spiritually [Babylon] is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. [crucified inwardly. He was in Sodom and Egypt.]
Isaiah 53:9
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death [s]; because [although] he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. [Going to verse 10.]
10 Yet it pleased the LORD [our Heavenly Father] to bruise [break] him; he hath put him to grief:
That is the verb of “disease.” He gave Him disease. Now, as we read verse 10, let’s read what the King James has put.
10 ... when thou shalt make [you 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.
What I would like to do is re-read this and simply, by God’s grace, make this easier to understand; give a depth of meaning to this that I think would help us grab hold of what he is saying here. Notice again, verse 10.
Isaiah 53:10
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise [break] him; he hath put him to grief: ...[He has given Him disease. Now, think of His humanity, when you look at that, not simply Calvary, but the humanity of Christ.]
10 ... [so that] when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, ....
The King James has put...”an offering for sin.” That word “offering for sin”, the word “offering” is not even in the verse. That is something the King James has put in there for you. What the word actually is, is “guilt.” Think of these three things that are in this verse. It pleased the Lord to break Him, let Him experience disease, so that you can make His soul guilt. When you make His soul guilt. Think of the three things ... to break him, let him experience disease and guilt. You see, in the denominational groups I was in, all of these things happened to the Son of God at Calvary ... broken, disease, and guilt. But what I would like to do is take the first two and apply it to His humanity. And take guilt and put it at Calvary. When we do that, we then have a full picture of His whole life. It isn’t just simply something that happened at Calvary. What he is saying is, it pleased the Lord to break Him and let Him experience disease, or the wounds of humanity, the darkness of humanity.
Now he’s just stated in the verse above, He never sinned. But here He is carrying the depth of humanity, from birth in Bethlehem and then becoming guilt. So you have His entire life. You have the whole person, Jesus Christ, born in Bethlehem, dying on that tree. And he says, now when you make His soul guilt, when you make His soul guilt, He, the Father, shall see seed. What does that mean? I was told that He would see Jesus in me. He would see His seed, Jesus in me. I would like to give you something more than that. Psalms 97, reading verse 11,
Psalms 97:11
11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
This word in Psalms 97:11, “is sown” is the verb of what we just read in Isaiah 53:10, “seed.” And what this word “seed” actually means in Isaiah 53:10 is “that which is sown.” Therefore the King James put “seed.” It only makes sense. It is seed that we sow. But if you put the literal meaning in there or, “that which is sown” and realize for the righteous He sows light, then it makes more sense when you can take the Savior and you can look at His brokenness and the disease and you trace it through and you see He became guilt. And you take this guy, this entire person, and you say, this is who became guilt. But He never sinned. But He was carrying my disease and He became guilt and died. God can look at you and see that which was sown, or see light in your understanding.
Remember in Genesis 1, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, or our understanding. The earth was without form and darkness. It was void. Remember the darkness before you come to the Lord and the Spirit of God moves upon that person of the waters and what does He say? “Let there be light.” You see, He plants the seed and it begins to grow. He will look at you, when you can take this man, that full man, not denying any part of the Son of God, and you allow Him, you see that He became guilt. And this guilt is simply the result of sin. And He slew that thing on Calvary’s tree. He says, God will look at you. He will see seed, He will prolong days and the pleasure of the Lord will prosper in your hand.
And what is the pleasure of God? Remember, Revelation 4:11. He created us for His pleasure. And what is His pleasure? Someone told me the other day praise and worship is His pleasure from us. But if you look at those two words, worship - being in subjection to Him in the spiritual realm - that means when He communicates something to you, you submit. Praise is when you are speaking back. Praise and worship is simply communication. Why did He create humanity? For His pleasure. What is His pleasure in us? To communicate with us. That is why we have the mind with the potential and the capacity that it has. That is why we have a free will. That is why we have a conscience - so that He can communicate, and communicate with us throughout all eternity. That is what He saw in man when He saw the fall and brought forth His Son as an answer to humanity’s falling into that endless, bottomless pit of self. That is the reason for the Son of God.
When you can take the Son of God and see who He is, from His disease endured, to His becoming guilt, realizing He never sinned, but He became the result of what sin is, God will look at you and He will see seed. He will prolong days. And His pleasure for you, in you, will be fulfilled in your works, in what you’re doing. To me, that makes more sense of what He is saying here. Isaiah 53, verse 11, I want to read it the way the King James has written it.
Isaiah 53:11
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Now what I want to point out to you is, in this verse, the chapter actually changes from Isaiah speaking to the Father addressing you. Look again at this verse 11. In the middle of it he says “by his knowledge shall my righteous servant....” You see, it changes from “he” to “my.” In other words, Isaiah is speaking about “he shall do this,” but then it changes to “my righteous servant.” The Father begins to address you. And what I would like to do is re-read Isaiah 53:11 and I would like to end this sentence this way. “He shall see of the travail of His soul (speaking of the Father) and shall be satisfied by His knowledge that He gains in the travail of His soul.” That is why Christ went through what He did. It was a knowledge, an understanding gained. “He shall see the travail of His soul and be satisfied with the knowledge He gains.” I want you to consider...turn to the gospel of John with me, chapter 17:4.
John 17:4
4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest [you gave] me to do.
And John 19, verse 30.
John 19:30
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
This word “finished” that you see in this verse is the word in 17:4 where he says, “I have finished the work.” There in John 17, before Christ goes to Gethsemane, He prays to the Father and He says, “I have finished the work you gave me to do.” Yet on the cross, He says it again, “It is finished.” Something happened in those two chapters to the Son of God. Something happened during this time that finished Him. In John 17 He says, “I finished the work you gave me to do.” That work was preaching, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom. But on the cross, something else became finished, became completed. And I believe I know what that is. I believe it was His understanding, not only of the depth of human wickedness, but of the love of His Heavenly Father.
Now why do I say that? Because when you follow Him into Gethsemane, and you see the Bullock being transformed into the Lamb, and when you see the Lamb being tried before Pilate, being nailed to the tree, and you hear Him cry out, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” He realized something at that point, perhaps He had never understood. For sure He never understood what it felt like to be forsaken of His Father, because He had never been separated from His Father before this point. Being forsaken of God, now listen to me, having spent an eternity past with His Heavenly Father, having been in the closest relationship He could have possibly been in with the very God, the only true and living God, His Father, He understood something about His Father that we have a hard time grasping. And that is, He experienced first hand, face to face, the compassion, the mercy, the love of God.
We have never seen God. He has seen God. And being on that cross, when He realized God had forsaken Him, I think personally, that is when He began to experience guilt. He understood the result of guilt, which was something He had never understood before. That helped finish off His thinking. But when He saw the Father’s willingness to depart from Him, a couple of things here - it showed Him more than ever God’s love for humanity in that He was willing to do this to His only begotten Son. It also showed the Son God’s willingness to do this if a person chooses not to receive His love. And this is what you have in Jesus Christ. He became guilt. He became the result of sin.
You see, there are a lot of pictures in here. There were a lot of things - the Son of God gained an understanding through this experience. He saw the depth of human wickedness; He saw the height of God’s love for humanity. And He saw the willingness of a loving, compassionate God, Father, to deal with sin in such a way. You know, I think that at the end of this thing, after we have spent a thousand years in a relationship with our Heavenly Father at the end of this millennium, and the end of the thousand years, whether that thousand is literal or not, right now is beside the point - there will be a time that we will be face to face with our Heavenly Father. And there will come a time when the wicked will be raised unto the judgment of condemnation as Jesus describes in John, chapter 5. The resurrection of condemnation. And remember in Revelation 20 how it states the wicked are deceived again by the adversary. And they come against the holy city.
If you can put that inward. When you see that take place, after having spent time face to face with your Father, can you imagine being in a relationship with Him, for instance that I have, with my wife. There are times when somebody will say something to me, and she can answer for me because she knows me that well. She knows what I’m feeling inside when it’s spoken to me. I feel like that with her. I think after spending time with my Heavenly Father that when I see the wicked reject Him, my pity is not going to be for the wicked. My pity will be for my Heavenly Father as I see Him rejected and I see the pain in His face. Because I know He’s a loving God, I know He is, just like Jesus knew it hanging on that tree. Jesus knew the character of His Father and you know He learned something about humanity and about God that He would have never seen had He not gone through that experience.
That is why He came to the place where He said, “It’s finished.” And you know, when you think about the wicked, and you think about seeing the pain in our Father’s face, being rejected again, consider why He’s willing to endure this. Do you think He’s raising the wicked so that He can punish them? The only effect that that action will have is going to be carried by those who survive throughout all eternity. In other words, when He destroys the wicked, it’s over for the wicked. But if I witness it, I’ll carry that for the rest of my life, which is eternal. Therefore, He’s doing it for us. There is something that will happen to us when we look and we see the pain in His face, and we know why, and what is happening to His heart as He carries through what He carries through. I’ll tell you, we will have a sanctified pity and love for Him because we will know Him, even as we are known and you’ll see pain in His eye. Don’t think you won’t. You’ll see a struggle in Him when people, His very creations turn on Him and reject Him. Looking back at Isaiah 53:11,
Isaiah 53:11
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied by his knowledge...
That makes more sense to me. The Father will see the travail the Son of God goes through and He’ll be satisfied with the knowledge gained. What is that knowledge? He understands the depth of human wickedness and the height of God’s love and the willingness of God to follow through with what needs to be done, even though His heart breaks. It makes more sense rather than saying that God will see the travail of His soul and be satisfied with the travail - that He’s hurt enough. That is the pagan god. That’s the god that he’s having to take a human sacrifice because we’ve sinned and somebody’s gotta die in our stead. No. Our Heavenly Father is not like that. Again, He’ll see the travail of His soul and be satisfied by the knowledge gained.
Now, my righteous servant shall make many righteous because He is going to carry their iniquities. You see, there’s the rest of that verse. He’s going to make you righteous because He’s going to carry your iniquity. And that instruction needed to give you peace, He is going to endure that. Carrying your iniquity, He’s going to straighten out the crooked places. And He’s going to have a perfectly healed mind to help us through, to bring us into the everlasting arms of our Heavenly Father.
Isaiah 53:12
12 Therefore [the Father is speaking] will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall [will] divide the spoil with the strong; because ...
Now there are four things listed in this verse.
12 ... because he hath [has] poured out his soul unto death:
That poured out is simply emptied. Number 1, the Father tells you, the Son emptied His soul unto death. He died.
12 ...and he was numbered with the transgressors;
In so doing, (Number 2) He was numbered with the transgressors; or He died as a sinner.
12 ... and he bare the sin of many,
Number 3, He carried or He bare the sin of many in doing that. He’s able to straighten you out, to take it away, and the way the rest of this verse reads,
12 ... and made intercession for the transgressors.
For the transgressor, the King James has put, and [he] “made intercession.” The word simply means “to strike upon.” This word they have translated “intercession” is actually used in verse 6, the Lord laid on Him the iniquity of us all. For the transgressor He met, he came upon this iniquity, this sin, this struggle that He went through. He did it for you.
Again, the four things. 1) He died. 2) He died a sinner. 3) in so doing, He helps carry or take away your sin. 4) He did it for you. He did it to help you because His Father was asking that of Him. Now because this verse contains this word “he made intercession” and when we say “intercession” that paints a mental picture that I think is contrary to what the truth really is in Jesus Christ. Again, this isn’t even the word “intercession.” The word simply means “to strike upon, to come upon.” For the transgressor, He came upon this. He dealt with this. But I would like to ask you to turn with me to Romans chapter 8, reading from verse 31.
Romans 8:31
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for [in behalf of] us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth [justifies].
34 Who is he that condemneth [condemns]? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh [makes] intercession for us.
Looking at this word “intercession” here it is again. Again when that word “intercession” is spoken, it paints a picture of someone protecting you or protecting you from God. He’s making intercession for you. You’re a sinner and He is standing there pleading that God would have mercy on you and He paid the price for your punishment at Calvary, and at Gethsemane. He paid the price, so therefore, God needs to leave you alone because He has already paid it and you’ve said you believe in Him, so you should now be forgiven by God. All of that comes in there. But reading from Acts 25, I want to read you another place where this word “intercession” is used.
Acts 25:24
24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye [you] see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
This word “have dealt” is the same word we just read in Romans 8:34 that they translated “intercession” and it just simply means “to consult with.” They consulted, he says. The Jews have consulted with me concerning this man. So if I bring this back to Romans 8, and I know that this was something on an earlier tape in this series of studies and when I think of this series I think of “A Fountain of Gardens,” leading into this “Made of a Woman.” But it’s important we get this because I could not give you a higher concept than what I’m getting ready to tell you now. In fact, every single thing we have come to understand from the Godhead, to abiding in Christ, all of that, everything is simply there to help you experience this experience with Christ and God, the Father. He, that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all.
You see, there was something God could not do when He saw humanity and He saw the fall, there was something He could not do for you and that is die. So He brought forth a Son to die for you, because it was going to take death to fix what we had done to ourselves. He that spared not His own Son. Our Heavenly Father couldn’t die. He is God. But He gave you His only birthed Son. That is the next thing He could do for you. He gave you His only begotten Son. He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up freely for us all. And then look at the Son. He gave you all that He had. He gave you His very life. These two beings, the Father and the Son, who gave all that they could give, the most valuable thing they possessed, it states again in
Romans 8:34
34 Who is he that condemneth [condemns]? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God [the one who gave you His Son], who also maketh intercession for us. [who is consulting in our behalf]
The One who gave you His Son, the One who gave you His life (and by the way, they are the two most powerful beings in the universe) are consulting between themselves to bring us healing. The pinnacle of my understanding. And to be able to pass that to the church, that we might sit in the care of God, under the arms of God and allow Him to minister to us. Remember
Zechariah 6:13
13..... and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. [is between the two of them]
Our Heavenly Father has experiential knowledge without having to have the experience. The Son of God went through the experience and the counsel of peace, our instruction of peace was upon Him, and He knows what we need to bring us peace. He knows how to straighten out the crooked places. He Himself was made of a woman. I understand why God had a Son in eternity past, a perfect person brought forth and His spirit created in a perfect environment, was put in that womb along with and to blend with humanity. And the Son of God goes to Calvary, slays our old man and is brought to perfection Himself because, on that cross He reached completion in His understanding of us and God.
I praise God for what He’s working in my life and I pray that all of us would see Him in a freshness, a newness and allow Him to minister His love to us. May He be glorified forever.