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“For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set My face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed” (Isaiah 50:7).
In this verse, and in the verses before it, the Lord Jesus is speaking prophetically about going to the cross. He shrank back from going through those awful sufferings in the three hours of darkness, and yet He knew that there was no other way for the work of redemption to be completed. Accordingly, He set His face “like a flint” when He went up to Jerusalem, to go to the cross.
Flint is one of the hardest rocks known, and before the days of matches, it was often used to start fires. The flint was struck against a piece of steel, producing a spark, which was then allowed to fall onto dry tinder such as thin paper, dry grass, or certain types of cloth that burned easily. To set His face like a flint meant that the Lord Jesus would not change His mind: He would finish the work His Father had given Him to do. He knew that He would not be ashamed, because He would finish the work.
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