In our last lesson called: ” The Sanctifying Relationship With The God Holy Spirit” We learned how each believer at the moment of their true faith and profession that Jesus Christ alone is their “personal Savior and Lord” receives the gift of the Holy Spirit Who is God, to indwell them for many reasons and provisions as indicated in the Bible, God’s Holy and inerrant Word. Our meditation for this Palm Sunday will briefly explain the greatness of the love of God toward mankind as we examine the miracle of “Jesus’ Will”
Old Testament Scripture Reading: Isaiah 53:1 – 12 (KJV)
Isa 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Isa 53:2 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.
Isa 53:3 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.
Isa 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 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.
Isa 53:6 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.
Isa 53:7 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 not his mouth.
Isa 53:8 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: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isa 53:9 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.
Isa 53:10 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.
Isa 53:11 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.
Isa 53:12 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.
New Testament Scripture Reading: Revelation 1:1 – 7 (KJV)
Rev 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Rev 1:2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
Rev 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Rev 1:4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
Rev 1:5 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,
Rev 1:6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Rev 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Transforming Power Statements:
1) The prophecy of Isaiah describes not only the inability of all mankind to possess any means by which to ever “satisfy” the righteous requirements of Almighty God for their salvation, due to fact that “all we like sheep have gone astray” and “we have turned everyone to his own way”, (vs. 6) therefore, The Holy requirements of God The Father were only satisfied by Jesus Christ The suffering Savior, Who alone provides “propitiation” (which means “satisfactory payment”) to God.
2) The book of Revelation reveals the fulfillment of the fact that God has been satisfied completely only by Jesus Christ, Who by His Own Freewill, Came indicating that He on the first Palm Sunday announced that He was the promised One, Who not only fulfilled the Law, and the Prophets, but also Isaiah’s prediction that only Messiah could do.
3) We are announcing again now again that it is not God’s desire that any should perish but that all would come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, Who came to save all who believe in Him and that God His Father has raised Him from the dead as proof of the credentials that He alone has.