Bought and Paid For

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King James Bible Study[Mark 8:34  And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.]

Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
Chapters: ISAIAH 49-53
Study: Bought and Paid For

Hello My Brother/Sister/Friend,

I am officially on vacation for the next five days, and cannot recall how long it has been since I just spent time with family other than holidays. I am looking forward to just getting away for a few days, no work involved, just enjoy the paid vacation for the hard work that I did. You know, a paid vacation can get you thinking about your salvation. It was Jesus who paid the price of our salvation with His sinless death on the cross so that we no longer need to keep working to pay our sin debt, which could never be paid off by the way. The second that we believe that He died to save us and ask Him as our Saviour, that debt is paid in full and permanently. Now, see, I will have to keep working in order to keep getting paid time off, but my salvation was bought and paid for.

[1 John 5:5-10  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?  6  This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.  7  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.  8  And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.  9  If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.  10  He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.]

It may sound strange to the world that one could even imagine a God is so powerful that He is able to not only be in heaven, but everywhere at same time, and including in the flesh of Jesus Christ Himself. Well, that is why they will never see Jesus as anyone other than some prophet or preacher man who became a martyr for His God. The more you read through Isaiah, the more you discover that it is actually Jesus who is speaking through much of it. As we continue in the reading of Isaiah, Jesus, is the one speaking through these chapters as He reveals how and why His Father sent Him, and this message was not only addressed to Israel.

[Isaiah 49:1-3,5-6  Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.  2  And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;  3  And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.  5  And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.  6  And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.]

[from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.] This is Jesus talking and He is saying that even before He was in His mothers womb God has His name picked out. We learned this from Matthew, [Matthew 1:18-21  Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.  19  Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.  20  But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.  21  And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.]

You know, God, actually does give us all of our names, they truly are given even before we are thought of. We must come to understand why God sent Jesus in the flesh through the virgin Mary. It was not because she was perfect as she sinned just as well as we all do, she brought her sacrifices just like all the rest of God’s faithful had done at that time. God, had favor upon Mary, because she was faithful to Him. God used her to bring forth His only begotten Son for that fact that if He had sent Him through normal conception He would have been the son of Adam and not of God. God, did not just send Jesus to save the children of Jacob, He sent Him for all who believe in Him. Now, as we continue, some of this is actually God, the Father speaking to His Son.

[Isaiah 49:7-10  Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.  8  Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;  9  That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.  10  They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.]

[to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves.] Until we come to the knowledge of Christ we are walking in darkness as God cannot see us because we are just covered in sin. However, the second that we acknowledge Him as our Saviour, before we even say, “Jesus, save me!” we come out of the dark and are seen on our Father, [1 Peter 2:9-10  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:  10  Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.]

None of us are worthy, except for Jesus, to serve God and receive His blessings for a job well done because even on a good day, we fail Him. Nevertheless, He made a promise that no one could ever pluck us from His hand, and He holds to that promise. Oh, He will turn His back to us if we are living in sin and taking advantage of His grace because He cannot watch us like that. And it may seem like He is far away sometimes when we are being afflicted, but He has not gone anywhere, in fact, He goes on to tell us that He not only never forgets us, that our very own names are written in the palms of His hands.

[Isaiah 49:1516,18,22-23  Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.  16  Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.  18  Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth. 22  Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.  23  And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.]

[as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.] Jesus, covers our saved souls with something that no cloth made from what God has created can cover our body with, and that is His very own blood, [Revelation 1:5-6  And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,  6  And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.]

[and lick up the dust of thy feet;] This is an illustration of the eastern nation, adored of their kings, kissing the ground that they walked on. The true King of kings, and LORD of Lords, will steal the heart of all people, kings and queens, lords and ladies, beggars and stealers, all taking a knee to their Saviour and are not one bit ashamed to wait for His return, [Philippians 2:9-11  Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:  10  That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;  11  And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.]

Now, to the backsliders who lost their way, and to the lost who have yet to find their way, there is hope in Christ. And by the way, Jesus, not only, picks us up out of the dust that we have been scurrying around in when we were lost, He also lifts us upon His shoulders and carries us through the desert. God, promises that once we come to Him through His Son, then we are His forever so, why do so many Christians live as though He is no where to be found? Well, their sin has drawn them away from Him. Those who continuously live in sin and refuse to repent will suffer so much more than what we will ever suffer from life’s afflictions, and only have themselves to blame as to why God has stepped back and will not intervene until they repent. In a sense He is waiting for the divorce papers.

[Isaiah 50:1-2  Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.  2  Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.]

[Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement,] This is directed to the Jews, when God sent them to Babylon, by whom God here refers to as children to a mother. They turned from God and gave themselves to idols, therefore, God could not stand to look at them and sent them away from seventy years according to the Law, [Deuteronomy 24:1  When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.]

Through Isaiah, Jesus, reveals more of what will happen to Him, speaking of the humiliation He will face leading up to His crucifixion, but He also mentions how sinful we are, and why we cannot save ourselves. Needless to say, it is a good thing that they are saved by grace and not their own works. And if they would just get it in their heads and hearts of what Jesus went through to save them, then perhaps they would not keep hanging Him on that cross every time. In fact, they would be down right humiliated by the way they have been acting if they truly understood that.

[Isaiah 50:6-10  I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.  7  For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.  8  He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.  9  Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.  10  Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.]

[let him trust in the name of the LORD,] Due to our own transgressions, we owe a debt that we can never pay for our redemption on our own. Even if we could afford to pay for every sin we ever committed, we still would never be able to pay it off because we never stop sinning. And that is where Jesus comes in at, those who trust in the name of the LORD will be saved, [Romans 3:23-26  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;  24  Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:  25  Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;  26  To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.]

It is no wonder why we need the Saviour and run to our ROCK, He never moves from His promise to save us, He quenches our thirsty soul, and we never have to worry about our own works of righteousness because His righteousness does. Jesus, goes on to explain how His own righteousness is what saves us forever.

[Isaiah 51:1-2,4-6  Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.  2  Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.  4  Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. 5  My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.  6  Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.]

[and my righteousness shall not be abolished.] Animal sacrifices were a way for a person to be atoned for their sins, but it was not permanent, everytime they sinned they would have to bring another offering. What Jesus would do by offering Himself as the sacrifice would not only atone for our sin, it would pay the debt owed, and remove the need for any other sacrifice, [Hebrews 10:4-6,12,14  For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.  5  Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:  6  In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 12  But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 14  For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.]

Do you see how, by His sinless death, Jesus made salvation permanent? Not for righteousness that we have done, but by His righteousness we are saved. Amen! When we put our faith and trust in Christ alone to save us, then our salvation is forever. And through Isaiah, Jesus goes on to explain this further.

[Isaiah 52:7-12  How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!  8  Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.  9  Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.  10  The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.  11  Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.  12  For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.]

[that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation;] Through our iniquities we have sold ourselves to the creditor, Satan himself, and for nothing, because all he will do is take us to hell with him. By Jesus sacrificing His sinless body, He paid that debt for us, and we never have to pay it back. Amen!, [1 Corinthians 7:23-24  Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.  24  Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.]

We have been washed clean with His blood, removed of our sin stain filled garments, and put on the new clothes of Christ’s righteousness that He has given us without one single payment. Amen! Now, we get a little more insight into what Jesus looked like, the life He would live, how man would see Him, His crucifixion, and the amazing purpose behind it.

[Isaiah 53:1-5  Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?  2  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.  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 borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.  5  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.]

[and with his stripes we are healed.] Jesus, did not just endure all that pain for the Jews, He did it for all. When Jesus hung on that cross He bore every single sin of every single soul upon His body, it was covered with so much sin that God had to turn His face as to not look at him, [2 Corinthians 5:21  For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.] His sacrifice, once and for all, satisfied God’s requirement needed to redeem a soul bound for hell permanently because of the debt that could never be paid, even if we gave ourselves as a sacrifice. And this goes all the way back to the first sin committed by Adam and Eve.

[1 Peter 2:21-25  For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:  22  Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:  23  Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:  24  Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.  25  For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.]

Today’s Prayer: Jesus, As much as I thank You for saving my soul from death and hell the second I trusted You as my Saviour, I still do not comprehend all that You have done for me. It is so overwhelming that You died for me to save me from something I deserve. Thank You, Jesus. I know there is nothing I can do to repay You, but I love You, and want to give honor to You by giving myself to You as the Bishop of my soul. You are my Lord and Saviour, the ROCK upon which I stand, there is no other, and I am glad that there is no other because You are all I need. Lord, Give me Your power, strength, mercy, and grace to endure all the trials, challenges, and afflictions I face as I seek to serve You as a living sacrifice. I ask these things in Your name, Jesus. Amen.

God Bless You, I am praying for you,

Christina

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