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He will see it and be satisfied; by His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will
justify the many, as He will bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will allot Him a portion
with the great, and He will divide the booty with the strong; because He poured out
Himself to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet He Himself bore the
sin of many, and interceded for the transgressors.
There are many ways in which Christ suffered. He endured rejection by His own
people. The reproaches that fell upon Him in His life were many. He was considered
the son of an adulteress. He was accused of being demon possessed and of being a
half breed, a Samaritan. His own family thought He was mad. He was accused of
being a Sabbath breaker, which was an offense worthy of death. He was called a
blasphemer for saying He was the Son of God. He was constantly misunderstood,
and His words were twisted to be used against Him. He had no home, beginning His
life in a stable and spending the last years of His life as a vagrant and a wanderer. He
was often weary and hungry, and He experienced grief when His own disciples failed
to believe in Him, or to understand His words.
We see then, that even before He went to the cross, Yahshua’s life was one of much
grief, sorrow and suffering. Yet God had a purpose for it. We are told:
Hebrews 5:7-9
In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud
crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because
of His piety. Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He
suffered. And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the
source of eternal salvation...
Christ both learned obedience, and was made perfect through His suffering. It is
through suffering that every saint of God must also learn obedience and be made
perfect (mature). There is no other way.
There is a teaching present in this hour that states that the saints do not have to
suffer because Christ suffered in their place. It says that the saints need not bear the
cross for Yahshua bore it for them. Though our flesh may wish that this were so, such
teachings are contrary to the word of God.
Matthew 16:24-25
Then Yahshua said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must
deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his
life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”
