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“And for this cause He [the Lord Jesus] is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death…they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance” (Hebrews 9:15).
This is a different verse from the one we had yesterday, but it helps us to understand who the “great” and the “strong” are, in Isaiah 53:12. Eventually, when the Lord Jesus is given His rightful place as “King of kings, and Lord of lords” (1 Timothy 6:15), He will take as His inheritance all created things. This inheritance will be for all eternity, for God will never take it away from Him.
But then He shares all this inheritance with us; what a wonderful thing! In this way you and I are the “great” and the “strong” who share it with Him. But how are we great and strong? We are certainly not like this in ourselves. No, the Word of God says that before we were saved, we were “without strength” (Romans 5:6), and since we have been saved, we are strong only when we realize our own weakness (see 2 Corinthians 12:9-10).
However, when we are associated with Christ, we find that He says, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” (Matthew 28:18). We are strong in Him, and great in Him, but all because of what He is, not because of what we are. It is more than we can really understand.
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