\u201cBehold My Servant\u201d
\nIsaiah 42:1-3<\/p>\n
Behold him with the eye of faith. To behold him is to trust him. Behold him with an admiring heart. To behold the Lord Jesus Christ as he is revealed in the Scriptures is to admire him. Behold him whatever your need is. Whatever your soul needs you will obtain as you behold the Son of God. Behold him with grateful memory. \u201cThanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift!\u201d As all God\u2019s saints in the Old Testament beheld him in expectation, let us now behold him in holy remembrance.
\nBEHOLD CHRIST\u2019S GREAT HUMILIATION. Though our Savior is himself the Son of God, in every way equal to the Father, he took on him the form of a servant and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Phil.2:5-8).He came into this world to do his Father\u2019s will. As our covenant Head and Representative he voluntarily subjected himself to the will, work, and law of his Father to save his people (Heb. 10:5-14). In doing so, he both saved us and gave us an example to follow. \u201cLet this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.\u201d God calls his Son, \u201cmine Elect.\u201d God the Father saw his Son as the only one suitable for and able to perform the work of redemption and chose him to do it. The humanity of Christ was chosen,ordained, and sanctified by God the Father for the purpose of saving his people.The words, \u201cwhom I uphold,\u201d might be translated, \u201cupon whom I lean.\u201d The triune God placed complete confidence in the God-man as the Surety and Savior of all the elect. Christ alone is the One of whom God says, \u201cin him my soul delighteth.\u201dHe is delighted with Christ from eternity (Prov. 8:24-30), in his life of obedience (Matt. 3:17;17:5), and in his sacrifice (Eph. 5:2). And he is delighted with us in Christ (Eph.1:6;I Pet. 2:5).
\nBEHOLD THE WORK CHRIST CAME TO PERFORM. \u201cHe shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.\u201d The word \u201cjudgment\u201d means \u201crighteousness\u201d.Christ came into this world to bring righteousness and salvation to God\u2019s elect scattered among the nations of the world. He has done this by magnifying and honoring the law (v. 21). By his obedience to the law he magnified it. By his death he satisfied the penalty of the law for his people and made it honorable, so that God might be both just and the Justifier of chosen sinners. Even now Christ brings forth judgment (righteousness and salvation) to his elect by the preaching of the gospel (Rom. 1:15-17).
\nDon Fortner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cBehold My Servant\u201d Isaiah 42:1-3 Behold him with the eye of faith. To behold him is to trust him. Behold him with an admiring heart. To behold the Lord Jesus Christ as he is revealed in the Scriptures is to admire him. Behold him whatever your need is. Whatever your soul needs you will obtain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-don-fortner","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4890,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}