Isaiah 53:8-10

Isaiah 53:8-10. 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. 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. 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.

Our blessed Lord and Master is to have a full reward for all his griefs, and an earnest of that reward is here tonight. He will receive this very night some born unto him by the new birth, who shall henceforth be his children, and who shall gladly say, "Here, Lord, I come myself to thee, for thou hast bought me by thy precious blood." It is the joy of some of us that we belong altogether to Christ. We would not have another honour: we wish to live to him, loving him and serving him, as long as we have any being. And there are some here tonight who have not felt this, whom God, nevertheless, will make to feel it, for so runs the promise: -