We are looking at Isaiah 42:1-3 which are taken up in Matthew 12:18-20.
1. Christ’s calling to his office: to be the agent of our redemption ’see here for our comfort a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father gives a commission to Christ, the Spirit furnishes and sanctifies to it, and Christ himself executes the office of a Mediator. Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the Trinity.’
2. The manner in which he carries it out: Christ deals with bruised reeds and smoking flax, not great trees or beautiful flowers. God’s children are bruised reeds before conversion and often times after. He has no means of supply or help from himself and so is driven to look upward. Hence the bruising can be good.
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