Isaiah 53:10 - Homilies By R. Tuck

A soul-offering.

This prepares us to see that the real sacrifice for sin, which our Redeemer offered, was the full surrender of his will , his self , to God, which found expression, for us to apprehend it, in his bodily sufferings on the cross (see Hosea 9:14 ).

I. SIN IS A SOUL - THING . It is not an act; it is a man acting.

II. PENALTY IS A SOUL - THING . "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."

III. SALVATION IS A SOUL - THING . Christ bore the soul-penalty; Christ brought life for dead souls. The infinite depth of Christ's suffering lay hidden—in behind—in the Redeemer's soul, finding only once what seemed a suitable utterance in human language, and that a cry of immeasurable distress, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"—R.T.