Isaiah 53:3 “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.”
The very essence of Eternal Salvation By The Grace Of God is clearly presented in Isaiah 53:4-11. It is made clear that we are sinners and that we were in a devastating state of sin from which we had, and have, no righteousness nor means with which to recover ourselves. And, “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8); and by His death, He saved us from the Eternal Penalty for sin; “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:10). We are guilty of sin on two accounts; “Wherefore, as by one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men” [Original Sin] and “all have sinned” by our own deeds (Romans 5:12). It is made perfectly clear that we sin and were in the state of sin; but, Jesus Christ Alone Hath Saved us from the penalty of our sin; “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12). We sin, “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;” (Hebrews 10:12). When He “sat down”, He clearly signified that He Alone had “finished” (John 19:30) everything necessary to “save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). This is why Paul put it in the past tense, Jesus Christ “hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began” (II Timothy 1:9). And our Lord punctuated this blessed truth when He declared, “And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” (John 6:39). Therefore, we have every reason to greatly “rejoice”; as Peter put it, “Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:” (I Peter 1:8) and we now “rejoice, inasmuch as” we “are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed,” we “may be glad also with exceeding joy” (I Peter 4:13)!