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The Love of God in the book of Isaiah
There is no way that man, in Adam, understands the true love of God. Man cannot even define the love of his own heart, for his heart has been permeated with sin, so that man’s value of love cannot be compared to God’s love. In reality, God’s love is beyond the bounds of earth. For God the Father SENT His love in the Person of His beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, His ONLY Son, the Son of the Father’s love. He sent Him into the vineyard, for truly they would reverence the heir, the Son of the Father’s love. However, they took Him out of the vineyard, and took Him to the place of the skull, and by wicked hands crucified Him showing the enmity of man’s heart and the absence of any godly love. Man’s heart at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was perverted and polluted and hardened by sin brought into the world by Adam. Therefore, Adam cannot enter into heaven, he cannot return to the paradise of God, he cannot enter into the gates of the garden, he has made his world of his own curse of sin. The only thing that Adam left as an inheritance to his children and to his descendants is his legacy of death. God’s love is not in ANY of Adam’s thoughts for Adam, after the curse of death, had no understanding of God’s love. This is why that when we come to Christ we become A NEW CREATION, a new creature, anointed anew with God’s love, a new heart, a new spirit, and a restored soul. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. (Psalm 23:3) There’s no greater love then this: that God laid down His life for His friends who were at one time His very enemies. With all His disciples that He had chosen, the Lord Jesus loved them in His manifestation unto the end which was death on the cross. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13)
In Isaiah Chapter 53, we have a divine prophecy. Prior to the cross this divine prophecy remained in the unseen of man’s heart and mind, but Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross shined the light of His glory on Isaiah Chapter 53. Not only do we see the temporal fulfillment, but we see the spiritual reason for the spiritual fulfillment. Before the cross of Christ, man could not see the love of God in Isaiah Chapter 53. The sacrificial thorn was not yet revealed to them, the tender plant and the root of dry ground, they could see; however, from the cross the love of God was shed abroad. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? (Isaiah 53:1) 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. (Isaiah 53:2) The prophecies out of the Old Testament concerning the Lord Jesus Christ glowed with the glory that is in the face of the Lord Himself. When they looked upon Him there was no beauty that they should desire Him, however, He was manifested to take upon Himself their transgression and their iniquity, and now we KNOW, in the spiritual world, that God laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
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. (Isaiah 53:3)
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (Isaiah 53:4)
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. (Isaiah 53:5)
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. (Isaiah 53:6)
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 not his mouth. (Isaiah 53:7)
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. (Isaiah 53:8)
Isaiah tells us that He was taken from prison, and from judgment, and who, yes, WHO, will champion or declare His generation? In the divine will and determinate counsels and foreknowledge of God, He made His soul an offering for sin.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. (Isaiah 53:9)
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. (Isaiah 53:10)
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. (Isaiah 53:11)
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. (Isaiah 53:12)
Through the travail of His soul, He was satisfied for He endured the cross with the joy that was set before Him. He endured the scoffing and shame and shed His precious blood and offered His soul and the body of His flesh to the offering of God for the sin of the whole world. This NOW puts love in the 53rd Chapter in the book of Isaiah. Every verse ends with the love of God. Every word reflects the light of the love of God in Christ Jesus. The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus is fulfilled in the eternal love for those who trespassed against God. Isaiah 53 gives us more understanding of John 15:13. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. And from Isaiah we can see that God has highly exalted the Lord Jesus Christ. The child of God sees Isaiah 53 completely different from those who know not God. The child sees the full portrait of the love of God in the Man Christ Jesus, and this love fills your heart, your mind, your spirit and your soul.