Shall we turn in our Bibles to Isaiah chapter three, verse thirty-three. Isaiah chapter fifty-three. And verse five, verse one, read verse seven. Who hath believed our apostles, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall go up before us or before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor commonness, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrow, and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our paces from him. He was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he had borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are here. Assuming this morning, the darkest day in the history of man, we'll have an opportunity a little later on to show you what I mean by the darkest day in the history of mankind. When the sun refused to shine, when nature showed her sympathy for the one who was suffering upon the cross when darkness settled down upon this creation what cause of it in our texts we read he was wounded who was wounded if you were to read this chapter and also beginning at verse thirteen of the preceding chapter you would find who it is. Fifteen times you read in those verses something about he, him, and his. And the entire reference is to our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, if you want a testament confirmation for that, all you have to do is turn to Acts chapter eight. When that Ethiopian eunuch was sitting in the chariot, reading the prophecy of Isaiah, you'll remember how the Spirit of God led Philip to go up and sit beside him and answer his questions. Because the eunuch had asked this question, who speaketh the prophet this of himself or some other man? How interesting that the Spirit of God should have led that interested man a man who was Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Queen of Ethiopia, returning from Jerusalem back to his homeland, carrying a parchment of Isaiah. How wonderful the Spirit of God should have led him to this chapter and to these verses! And his curiosity was aroused, and he said, Of whom speaketh the prophecy? of himself or some other man. And remember what Philip said. It says concerning him he began at the same scripture and preached unto him Jesus. So we know that the he referred to in this verse five is the Lord Jesus Christ. He was who? The word was emphasizes the reality of it. He was, though guests were here, he was rude. His feelings were rude. His heart was rude. His mind was rude. His body was rude. He says, is it nothing to all ye that pass by? Behold and see if there be any sorrow, like unto my sorrow, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. Oh, yes, she was wounded. A wound is defined by a surgeon as the division of the soft parts of the body by mechanical force. About thirty-five years ago, I was in the home of Dr. Cameron. of Detroit, staying in his home over the weekend while preaching at the chapel there. And he said, I've written a little book that may be of interest to you, Brother Wilson. I'll be glad for you to take it and read it. And the title of that little book was, He Was Wounded. And in that book, he points out there are five different kinds of wounds, and all of them. apply from the Lord Jesus Christ. I think in the sermon as I looked it up, I wondered where I preached that and when, so I went through my file and found that I did on one of the months of nineteen sixty-three, I think it was the month of October. And so I referred to these five groups, and I'm going to refer to them again. First of all, there is the contused rule. They shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek or upon the face. You read in Micah five once. And in the New Testament, they said it was a reed. They smote him with a reed. This caused a bruise, bruised upon his head and face. There you have a confused wound. Then you have a lacerated wound, a wound caused by a tearing instrument. You have that in Isaiah fifty and six. The skirt. He gave his back to the spiders and his cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. He hid not his face from shame or spit. Here is that lacerating wound. as those pieces of steel in that lash, that Roman scourge, was drawn across his back, tearing the flesh from the bone. And as one has said, his back was like an island of ivory in a sea of blood. So there is one of that lash, these lacerating wounds. Then you have a penetrating wound caused by a sharp-pointed instrument. Here are the wounds, the result of the crown of thorns that rested upon his head. Those long Jerusalem thorns about three inches in length, as they made that crown of mock loyalty, and put it upon his head, and then with the reed they smote him, and there you have those new wounds in his head, encircling his brow. penetrating wounds. But there is the perforating wound, a wound that goes right through. And where do we see this? He says they pierced my hand and my feet in Psalm twenty two. And that's exactly what they did. But you come to an incised wound caused by a sharp-edged instrument. Here is the Spirit, that the soldier runs into his side. Now this is the only wound that Jesus Christ did not feel. He felt all the others. But when this wound was inflicted, he was dead. For when the soldiers came and they break the leg of the first and of the second, the feet on either feet on either side. When they strained to Jesus, they saw he was dead already, and the soldier drew back his arm, and which is near, he slipped the Savior's heart in vain when he plunged into his side. Forfeit their cane of blood and water. We hear today about blood blocks and sin and such nonsense. such disgusting expressions to be used in connection with the Lord Jesus Christ. This hath no implication whatsoever, or no leak with God's salvation in the work of a covenant, because he was already dead. He already has said in his finished, I yield up his spirit, and the water and the blood that flowed from the spear. had no relation whatsoever to ours. How do you express it then, or explain it? In this book by Dr. Cameron, and as he explained it to me that time, and why I haven't used it more frequently, especially of late, I don't know, although it's popped into my mind quite frequently. Here you have, in this connection, a wound... and its funds caused in the side of Christ, and out from that wound came blood. That's clear. It must have flowed out. It wasn't blood clot. And water! Dr. Cameron said, there is such a thing as known as the pericardium, a sack that encases the heart of man. I see a nurse up to the front here. possibly she knows something about it, has to be a hard time. Under normal circumstances, that sack of pericardium holds about one teaspoon full of liquid. But under extreme pressure, on suffering, on agony, that has been known to increase to a fight, on just like one. I was that lowest pumped. When the spear went into its sack, that sack encasing the heart, containing around the piter even more of water, the water flowed out, decoupling the blood. That's the explanation, only sane and sensible explanation, of a blood and of a water. It was blood, and it was water. The blood from the heart and the water from the pericardum. some would minimize the physical sufferings of Christ and try and enhance his spirits of suffering I find no such differentiation in my life in other words if you read your Bible you'll find especially in that Psalm twenty two that we'll be recording to in a few minutes there's synonym the spiritual and physical sufferings of Christ. In other words, meaning the same thing. You can get that out of your dictionary, if you like. I only read a one death in my Bible, not two deaths. As some supposed genius claim, a physical death and a spiritual death. One death, one sacrifice. He died unto sin once, my Bible says, in Romans chapter six of ten. And we also read that we are sanctified to the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all, not the offering of His Spirit. But we are sanctified to the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. That's what my Bible says. Death is an entity. It includes several things. I don't find the true death. I find this about that one death, his crucifixion, his suffering, and his bloodshedding, and also the outpouring of God's wrath upon him. And included in that, he dismissed this spirit. One death. That's the entity. of the death of Christ. But all one, now I'm going to read to you some of the verses of Psalm forty two. You can read it yourself. This came before me the other night while I'm in bed. So I got up and looked at it. Now notice, this Psalm gives us more of the inner feelings and expressions of the Lord Jesus when he was on that cross during the darkness than even the gospel. When that darkness settled down, upon the place called Calvary and lasted for three hours, the sun refused to shine. Why? How could God shine upon us, or smile upon what may have come to his sight? And seeing the sun refused to shine, If the sun were to go down now, or if there were an eclipse, the possibility is, you could see the moon. Because the sun shines upon the moon and the moon reflects the light of the sun upon the earth. But when the sun refused to shine, there was no reflection of light even from the moon. Darkness at noon is the darkest time on our lives of the universe. When men... kill the sun's blood. Even nature would have no part in this ghastly business. Friendly said, away with this man, away with this man, he will not have this man's arrayed in his consciousness. Yet shall the darkness be to stay in the pages of human history. God sent his son into this world. and intensify him cold black. Now listen. My God, my God, why hast thou perceived it? Why art thou so far from Bethany and from the words of my voice? Oh my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou viewest not. There are the three hours of night. And in the night season, I am not. I am saved. I'm not silent. There are the three hours of God. Here is the Lord Jesus upon the cross. The Lord he did suffer with the hands of God. And he separated from God because God could not move upon the sick. But his spirit in no way, shape, or form died. When did the spirit die? Never. He was still God, though hanging upon that rock. For the Bible speaks of the church, which God had redeemed with his own blood. He was still God, although he was on the cross, and his spirit had never died. He had binded the Bible. Now listen, following that, to the sufferings of his body. Verse fourteen of Solomon. I have poured out like wax, and all my bones are out of the water. My heart is like wax, and is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potter, and my tongue see within my jaws. Thou hast brought me into the dust of death. Not death, but death. For gods have compassed me. The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. They pierce my hands and my feet. I may tell all my foes. They look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture. And you can read that whole Psalm through up to verse twenty. And he speaks more of his physical sufferings than he does. The absence of his father's fellowship. How clear the scripture is. his body relaxed in death when he said, get his finished and he yielded up the spirit. He bowed his tent upon his breast. His work was done. He yielded up his spirit. And the depth of the body and the departure of the spirit where the shame comes, but as the spirit of death, this body slumps your relaxings of death. Why, we're very plain, isn't it, the only time you find spiritual death in the New Testament or in your whole Bible, as far as that's concerned, is in Ephesians two and one. You have to be critical. who were dead in trespasses and in sins. There you have the threatening of the Spirit of God, the light, and the hearts of those who were dead in trespasses and in sins. That's the only time you read of a spiritual death. And this condition of these Ephesians before they were saved, Their condition was alienation from God, disobedience to God, and domination by the Prince and the Parlier. That was never true of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was not alienated from God in the sense of the obedience or where, of all who were saved. Let alone disobedience of God. Let alone being controlled. by the prince and power there which is seen, showing that that spiritual death there refers to sinners, quickened by the Spirit, has no connection whatsoever with the death of Christ. He offered himself without swathes, swathes. That rules out every other depth of the sinner. Holy Jesus Christ offered himself without spot to God. His heart's cry has given us in verses one and two of Psalm where he's in. But in the last of those verses, verses six to ten and thirteen to eighteen, his reference to his sufferings and the sufferings of his body. What? Was he talking about his spirit in those verses? Or was he talking about his body? He was talking about his body after a few years. If the Spirit died, I want to ask you a question. When did the Spirit rise? I find nothing in my Bible along that line. I know the answer about the body. His body rose. The spirit cannot die. It's absolutely impossible. The spirit cannot die. Or can the snork and the spirit save. Now, if a spirit would die and a spirit would save, God could have dispatched an unpawn angel. For angels are spirits. Yet, therefore, an angel, a sinless angel could have come down and died. Never spirit could die, never spirit could save. But that's an absolute impossibility. He took not upon himself the nature of angels. He took upon himself the seed of Abraham, a human body. Listen to this in Hebrews two, what he did. For as much then as the children... are partakers of flesh and blood, and I want you to hear that. He, the Lord Jesus, also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death, singular, not plural, that through death he might destroy him that has the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver them or us through the fear of death for all our lifetimes subject upon us. For verily he took not on himself the nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham. A literal body of flesh and flesh. The body gets the preeminence in salvation. He says, a body has thou prepared me. That's very clear. He bore our sins in His own body on the tree. That's in your Bible, verses of Jesus and what He says. You know, there are a number of things we find in the Scriptures that are linked together. And these are two important ones. His death and His resurrection. I find absolutely nothing about the death and resurrection of the Spirit. But seven times over, I find death and resurrection of the body related to seven important truths in our life, the truth of salvation, the subject of justification, and also the subject of our being not condemned, no condemnation, and the very subject of his lordship, and the subject of consecration, and the subject of consolation, and the subject of the paternal body does not incontent upon the death or resurrection of the Spirit. I'm going to give you those scriptures. They're very blessed to be. In First Corinthians fifteen and three and four. Salvation. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received. how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the suit. There's the death, burial, and resurrection of the body associated with salvation, then justification in Romans four and twenty-five. Who was delivered for our offenses? raised again for our justification. If the body of Jesus Christ was insignificant, if all the emphasis upon the spiritual death of Christ, why is it we read these texts that we can only be saved, that we can only be justified when the body, the literal body of Jesus Christ rose. No condemnation. Listen to this. In Romans take thirty-fourth. Who is he that condemned? It is Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also make an intercession for us. No condemnation. Why? Because Jesus Christ was condemned in my place at the cross. and to show God's satisfaction in the death of Christ, which God raised them from the dead. Therefore, seeing Christ was condemned to be, there's no condemnation now, for I've made that Savior mine. Then his lordship, in Romans, fourteen and I, for to this end Christ both died and rose and replied that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. The Lordship of Christ over the life of a Christian is dependent upon the literal death of Christ and the literal resurrection of Christ. I find the spirit of God not only in me but in those two. I know the Spirit of God had something to do with the resurrection. For he was declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from among the dead. That certainly wasn't the Spirit of God that rose from the dead. It was his literal body, the body of Jesus Christ. Then you have consolation. concentration in second Corinthians five and fourteen, fifty. For the love of Christ constrained us, because we thus judge that if one died for all, then we're all dead, and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who has died for them, and those in him. our very consecration to God is dependent. And the acceptance of the offering of ourselves to God, that that's what consecration is, is dependent and accepted on the fact that the literal death and the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ. Then consolation. Read that old friend, first Thessalonians chapter four. or if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus, who have gone through the age. They say Christ's spirit died on the cross. I ask the question, when did his spirit rise? And if we were to be told that a spirit did rise, We went back to the Father, and we have no further evidence, maybe in the darkness. For when my Bible speaks of a body, a little body. A man who's done, and on the third day, once again, a little body, that could be seen at hand. What did he say to the disciples in the upper room? handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bone that ye see me hath he immediately explained to them that the spirit was not there in their midst he was there for the person of all Lord Jesus Christ handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bone that ye see me So this is the consolation. When Jesus Christ comes again, when he comes for his people, when he comes for his church, we're going to have literal bodies. We're not going to be a bunch of spirits. For as it is, so we shall be. No, no, no, no. He, the first sheep, of all who are saved at his coming, shall be caught up to meet and near, thus for mighty harvest of souls. The first sheep has already gone to heaven, a sample of that mighty harvest of gold and green, precious souls saved by the grace of God. And we shall be like him. Beloved, now we are the sons of God. And it doth not appear, yet what we shall be. But we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like it. We shall see him as he is. And then the last of the seventh thing is the glory. In Revelation, one eighteen, and we hope to announce next Sunday definitely when we'll start, maybe. two weeks from day depends upon the reaction to this morning's message, how I feel. What did he say in Revelation, what? I am he that lived. I was dead, but I am alive. Whatever more. What did they see in heaven? A lamb fleshed flesh. They saw the person of Christ. on in his excellent work. He doesn't say the Spirit dies in the dead, but a literal fire of thy heavy wounded dead, sinned, sealed, and God's ready. These are the seven scriptures, the seven truths that are dependent, absent, upon the literal death. liberal self, liberal resurrection. Lord Jesus Christ, he literally went back to him. And he was literally, and again, but he didn't really thought up and said, yes, yes, yes. And that's a wonderful conversation. What is the cause of his wounded, wounded? on the thought. He was wounded. You can't wound the spirit in the sense he was wounded. He was wounded. He was bruised. How are you going to bruise the spirit? He was chastised. How are you going to chastise the spirit? And with the stripes that fell upon him, how are you going to put stripes upon him? The spirit. He's talking about the suffering of God. He was wounded for our transgressions. That was the cause of the truth. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement with the view to our having peace was upon him and with his stripes. The stripes that fell upon him. I am healed. I am saved. A wonderful that is. There you have the fruit of his moving. Healed. That word healed implies and includes pardon, forgiveness, freedom, light, peace, save, and satisfy the time and position. In the coming days, and it will be right for it. Israel is right. She's back in the land, baby. But your God instead of looking to Egypt, one may have seen some other attacker, or looking to the Arab world, or Syria, or fearing Russia or China, oh, if the Jews today got a hold of the truth of God, is he looking for him? the only true deliverer of that nation and he will deliver them in a coming day in that dark day that's going to descend upon Israel then they should see him come and ask the question what are these wounds in my spirit what are these wounds in my head he shall save these are they I was wounded in the house of my friends. I was in the house of my friends, nineteen hundred years ago. You were my friends, but you're crucified. But then, you had me nailed to the cross. You didn't believe I was your Messiah, but I walked. And because you rejected me then, you were set aside and blessing, lo, to the Gentiles. But I call back to the nations of the Gentiles who trusted me during the time of time. And you, because of your rejection of me, nineteen hundred years ago, have passed through the fires of persecution. A national struggle that almost leads you to the dark age, but now you're alive, to the nation in the land. It will be now that I'm your Messiah, your King who you've crucified. Here's the evidence I'm the same one that hung on that cross outside Jerusalem in the nineteen hundred years ago. But a mock crown of pawns are not there. When they shall look upon him to rule there, it is Israel who will use this language, he was who? for our transgressions. He was bruised for our remission. The chastisement was made upon him. He was put away our sins. It is striking. We as a nation can be healed. And then it shall be a nation shall be born in the day. And Israel will receive their long, long for Messiah, who came came unto his own ninety hundred years ago, and his own received a mock. Since then, as many as received him, he then gave you the power to become the sons of God, until that glad day when the church complete the triumph of him. Shall be sought to glory, then he turned his attention to the subsequent people as he is, now in the land surrounded by a little. And he is their promised deliverance. He will come. And he'll save Israel from extinction and annihilation. They shall look upon him who they have changed. The literal body. The marks of the wounds of Calvary still upon them, blessed body. And throughout eternity we're not going to look at the Spirit. Oh no. How shall I then know the... amidst those most above. What tokens true will show me the object of thy love. Those wounds, those wounds are deep, those deeply wounded, held to sacrifice and free from sin, death, or death. How wonderful women can say wounded for me, wounded for me. there on the cross he was wounded. Yes, you say that. Jesus Christ, the wounded, bruised, chastised, chastised, striped, with a stroke of blood, and I might be healed, that I might be saved. He's a living man at God's right hand. Why don't... confess yourself the sinner before God and worthy of eternal death. Believe the Lord Jesus Christ to be your substitute for your sins for the penalty of sin. Say, I accept that as my personal savior now, he says, thank you. For the forgiveness of all your sins, he must For grace and strength to live for him, until he comes, for those who have been paid, are not. We will say this morning concerning the Lord Jesus, yes, he was with us. He was with. He was just that, that I might be. People say I want to see you're not saved on your field. You were saved by the feelings, he said, when he took your place on supper in your stead. And there were sad and ghastly grief that you accepted in your feelings, the feeling of relief. John, gladness, Lord. Our Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we commend to thy presence. We ask thy blessing upon thy word. Grant that some precious soul in this meeting might come to know the Savior whom to know is life eternal. We ask it in our Savior's precious name. Amen. Shall we sing in closing our favorite hymn? two hundred and forty two it might be a good one to sing that hymn at the end if anyone knows right at the moment wounded for me wounded for me it's a lovely chorus and do well to be with it five oh five let us sing five oh five most of us know Will you use the language as we stand and see? If you've trusted Christ this morning, come and tell us. If you've made that decision in the past and have not confessed it, probably use your opportunity.