Isaiah 55:4-6 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.… I. A DIVINE GIFT. 1. The Father has given His Son. 2. The Son consented to be given. 3. We have the purpose of this Gift avowed. "For a Witness," etc. 4. The persons thus favoured. "The people." II. A DIVINE PROMISE made to this Leader and Commander. 1. To call those whom He does not know (ver. 5). That must be a strange nation which Christ does not know. There will be people at the last to whom Christ will say, "I never knew you;" and there arc such people now, whom Christ has never known in this sense. He never spoke with them, He never heard their voice in prayer, He never knew them by mutual acquaintance. And there are nations of this kind of people. 2. Christ is to make run those who do not know Him. People who did not know anything about Christ, and who did not want to know about Him, shall on a sudden hear of Him, and they shall run to Him. I have often noticed that, when such people do come to Christ, they always run to Him. 3. Here is a Divine promise to exert a singular motive power. "Because of the Lord thy God," etc, A glorified Christ makes men run to Him. III. A DIVINE EXHORTATION. ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.WEB: Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples. |
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