Isa. 63:9—"In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old." Here is retrospection on the part of the prophet. He thinks of all the oppressions of Israel, and recalls how God's interests have been bound up with theirs. He was not their adversary; He was their sympathetic, loving friend. He suffered with them. Isa. 49:15, 16—"Can a woman forget her sucking child? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee on the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me." It was the custom those days to trace upon the palms of the hands the outlines of any object of affection; hence a man engraved the name of his god. So God could not act without being reminded of Israel. God is always mindful of His own. Saul of Tarsus learned this truth on the way to Damascus.
THE DOCTRINE OF JESUS CHRIST.
A. THE PERSON OF CHRIST.
I. THE HUMANITY OF JESUS CHRIST. 1. HE HAD A HUMAN PARENTAGE. 2. HE GREW AS OTHER HUMAN BEINGS DO. 3. HE HAD THE APPEARANCE OF A MAN. 4. HE WAS POSSESSED OF A BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT. 5. HE WAS SUBJECT TO THE SINLESS INFIRMITIES OF HUMANITY. 6. HUMAN NAMES ARE GIVEN TO HIM.
II. THE DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST.
1. DIVINE NAMES ARE GIVEN TO HIM.
2. DIVINE WORSHIP IS ASCRIBED TO HIM.
3. DIVINE QUALITIES AND PROPERTIES ARE POSSESSED BY HIM.
4. DIVINE OFFICES ARE ASCRIBED TO HIM.
5. DIVINE ATTRIBUTES ARE POSSESSED BY HIM.
6. CHRIST'S NAME IS COUPLED WITH THAT OF THE FATHER.
7. THE SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF JESUS CHRISTAS MANIFESTED:
a) In His Visit to the Temple.
b) In His Baptism.
c) In His Temptation.
d) In the Calling of the Twelve and the Seventy.
e) In the Sermon on the Mount.