The Biography Of The King

The Biography of The King

Isa 53:1-12 Who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? (2) For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. (3) He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. (4) Surely, He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. (5) But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. (6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, everyone, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. (7) He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth. (8) He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. (9) And they made His grave with the wicked—But with the rich at His death, because He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. (10) Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You 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. (11) He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities. (12) Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

You know, every time I read this passage in Isaiah, I wonder how there could possibly be any Jews left who still haven’t believed in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. No person writing a brief biography of the Life and Times of Jesus Christ as a contemporary and an eyewitness could have more perfectly described the life and ministry of Jesus Christ than Isaiah did more than 700 years before He was born! And to me, this is just more evidence that we have of…

I. The Supernatural Birth of the King

Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel."

From dawn of time, the plan of God to bring mankind back into relationship with Himself was openly declared to our first father and mother. That Messiah would come was foreordained, which means it was sure to happen. The very moment that sin entered in, God’s plan went into effect and just as surely as He spoke those words to Adam and Eve about the Seed of the woman, that Seed would surely come, and He would bruise the serpent’s head. The birth of that Seed would be miraculous!

Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

Isa 9:6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

It would be miraculous in the fact that the Seed would be born of a virgin! And matter of fact, if Jesus hadn’t been born of a virgin, then He wouldn’t have been sinless. Now, He was 100% man because He was born of a woman, but He was also 100% God because He was born of the Spirit. Had the seed of man entered into the picture anywhere, then Jesus would have been born into sin just as we all are. He would have needed forgiveness and salvation just as we do. But because He was born from the seed of woman who has no seed, that connection with sin was broken and bypassed by the Spirit.

Then, when the fullness of time approached and Gabriel brought his announcement to Mary, she may have questioned “How can this be?” She knew the facts of life as all small village children did back then. They raised animals. They knew of these things. So how could it be that a young maid who had never known a man have a child? It was a sensible question because such a thing had never happened before. No precedent established. This was a new act of God in history, and so instead of being punished for doubt as her uncle was, she was given an answer.