The Servant is the Father's Delight

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In this servant, there is real humanity, true humanity, so that he can truly represent real sinners from Adam's fallen race.

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And yet, there is such an equipping, such an upholding, that no matter how great the task, there is no possibility of failure.

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Another description we read here is, God says, He is my chosen one in whom I delight.

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Now, I love this because it does help us hold in balance the sovereign choices of God when we talk about salvation.

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It is easy to think of God's electing or choosing work in eternity past, which we read about in the

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New Testament, in particular, in some really wonderfully clear places. You might think of Ephesians 1 as an example.

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We read about God choosing to save sinners, setting

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His affections upon His enemies in eternity past. That's a great truth in the

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Bible, even if it's a bit difficult for us to understand. We bow before His right.

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He is good. The judge of all the earth will do good. His choices are good.

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And they astonish us. But the greater, the more astonishing choice is that God, in eternity past, turned and looked at, in a sense, the

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Father looked at the Son and says, I have chosen you as the champion of these fallen people.

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And the Son embraced it. Behold my chosen one. This is the elect one in whom

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I delight. Now, is that just kind of an unnecessary additive? Is He just trying to make it clear?

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Is He emphasizing something? No, He's my chosen one, my really, really chosen one. No, He is my chosen one for the task, appointed in eternity past to save a people.

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But He is also the one in whom the soul of the Father delights. Jesus is the one for the job and Jesus is the one for the

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Father. Think of a work environment where you're having to do something with a team of people.

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And so the boss comes in and says to the employees, OK, we're going to have to put together this project.

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We need to do it. We need to do it well. I'm going to put Joe in charge. And there's this kind of rumble that passes through the crowd.

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Everyone says, oh, not Joe. And the boss stops the meeting and says, look, sorry,

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Joe, but we got to be honest. Nobody likes working with Joe. Joe's a jerk. But Joe is the guy for this job.

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It's his area of expertise. And we can't do it if Joe doesn't lead it. So we're just going to have to grin and bear it.

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It's God's way of saying in this passage that the Son, the eternal Son, and united to our humanity in the person of Jesus Christ.

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He is the person for this task, the God man. But he is also the

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Father's object of infinite delight. Well, thank you for watching the clip.

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