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Y did the Father forsake His Son? Ep 2803 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Dear Heaven and graces God is to come before your
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  Speaker 1: holy presence. We answer your forgiveness each and ever you
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  Speaker 1: known sin, be it words, thoughts or it deeds. And
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  Speaker 1: we thank you for what Jesus Christ did at the
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  Speaker 1: Cross of Calvary for each one of us, as we
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  Speaker 1: are in the message today, we ask you allow your
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to take it and make it real. Help
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  Speaker 1: us all understand which your son did for each of
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  Speaker 1: us at the Cross of Calvary, and Jesus' name we
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  Speaker 1: ask him, thank you, oh Man. So the question today
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  Speaker 1: is did God forsake his son? In Psalm chapter twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: verse one through six, I know you turn the word
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  Speaker 1: not geary. Gary doesn't have a word. My God, My God,
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  Speaker 1: Why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far
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  Speaker 1: from helping me? And from the words of my groaning?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, I cry in the daytime, but you
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  Speaker 1: do not hear in the night season, and am not silent.
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  Speaker 1: But you're holy and thrown in the praises of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Our fathers trusted in you. They trust and you delivered them.
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  Speaker 1: They cried to you, and we're delivered. They trusted in you,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not ashamed but I am a worm and
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  Speaker 1: no man, reproaching men and despised by the people. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when coming to Psalm chapter twenty two, you and I
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  Speaker 1: should take our spiritual shoes and take them off, because
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  Speaker 1: we're standing on holy ground. Psalm twenty two is called
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  Speaker 1: the Psalm of the Cross, and the reason why it's
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  Speaker 1: called it because it describes minutely the crucifixion of Christ
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  Speaker 1: any other portion of the Word of God. And when
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  Speaker 1: you look at it, you notice how it corresponds to
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  Speaker 1: two other chapters of the Bible, like Jesis chapter twenty
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  Speaker 1: two in Isaiah chapter fifty three. I know you wrote
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  Speaker 1: it down. All of the Messianic psalms are pictures of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And when you look at the first Song, for example,
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  Speaker 1: it's a portrait of Christ and his character, who he is,
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  Speaker 1: his life, and his practice. But when you look at
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  Speaker 1: Psalm twenty two is like an X ray penetrating his
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  Speaker 1: thoughts in his inner life. Have you had an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to look at you? Sure? There are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: scholars who believe that the Lord Jesus Christ actually quoted
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  Speaker 1: the entire Psalms while on the cross, and the reason
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  Speaker 1: why they believe that is because the seven last sins
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  Speaker 1: given in the Gospels either appear in the sun or
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  Speaker 1: the psychological background for them is here. I know you're reading,
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  Speaker 1: so instead of standing beneath the cross, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: passively listening to him, out of these last seven says,
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  Speaker 1: let's look at the crucifixion of Christ from a different
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  Speaker 1: position from the cross itself. You're ready, We're gonna look
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  Speaker 1: with him on those beneath the cross and possibly see
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  Speaker 1: what went on in his heart and his mind as
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  Speaker 1: he hung there. That's examine would occurred in his soul
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  Speaker 1: if we're able to, as he became the sacrifice for
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  Speaker 1: our evil thoughts, words, and actions, sins of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Because as you look and you see him suspended there
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  Speaker 1: between heaven and nerve, you notice how he became the
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  Speaker 1: latter let down from heaven to dessert, so that men
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  Speaker 1: and women, Women and men have wait to God. You
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  Speaker 1: and I were there on that cross as he made
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  Speaker 1: sin for us. That's who he was. You gotta remember
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  Speaker 1: he knew no sin. The word lets us know in
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  Speaker 1: second corinstance, Chapter five, verse twenty one, he who knew
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  Speaker 1: no sin, that we might become the righteousness of God
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  Speaker 1: in him. And if you think you walking around with
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  Speaker 1: some type of righteousness every respect of who you are
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  Speaker 1: included me. You were alive. We were on the cross
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  Speaker 1: when he died, as we today are in Christ by faith.
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  Speaker 1: Remember what Peter said. Peter said, who himself bore our
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  Speaker 1: sins in his body on the tree, that we, having
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  Speaker 1: died to sins, might live for righteousness by whose stripes
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  Speaker 1: you were healed. And you can see that in one
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  Speaker 1: Peter chapter two, verse twenty four. Remember we're healed from
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  Speaker 1: sin because the Son of God died for you and
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  Speaker 1: for me, for us. I mean, you look at Matthew
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  Speaker 1: chapter twenty seven, verse forty six. Think about it now,
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  Speaker 1: correlated back to Psalm chapter twenty two, because it opens
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  Speaker 1: with the plaintiff and desperate cry of a poor, lone
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  Speaker 1: man forsaken of God. Do you feel forsaken of God today,
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  Speaker 1: my brethren of the household of faith, Because there's a
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  Speaker 1: bit an attempt to kind of try to downplay the
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  Speaker 1: truth that our savior was forsaken of God his father.
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  Speaker 1: But when you look in the Hebrew, you know it's
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  Speaker 1: how it's clear that like the Greek is clear and
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  Speaker 1: the Aromatic is very clear. Because each of those languages.
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  Speaker 1: You see how the crime means that our savior was
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  Speaker 1: forsaken of God. And the reason why it's important because
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  Speaker 1: there is a record of his human suffering. Here. He
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  Speaker 1: is hanging there as a man, the lamb of God
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  Speaker 1: who takes away the sin of the world. And you
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  Speaker 1: can see that in John chapter one, verse twenty nine.
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  Speaker 1: And so we get a lot more understanding of this,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you turn to the epistle of the Hebrews.
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  Speaker 1: I know you turn them. And why you turn and
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  Speaker 1: turn to chapter two, verse nine. The word not Gary,
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  Speaker 1: but we see Jesus, who has made a little lord
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  Speaker 1: than the angels. Indeed, he was made a man. But
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  Speaker 1: the question is why. The word lets us know for
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  Speaker 1: the suffering of death crown with glory and honor, that he,
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  Speaker 1: by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: So here we are looking at the one that left
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  Speaker 1: Heaven's glory and became a man. And he became a
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  Speaker 1: man to reveal God, but most of all to redeem
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  Speaker 1: men and women. Women and men. Remember open Hebrews chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verse fourteen, where lets us know that inasmuch then as
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  Speaker 1: the children have partaken the flesh and blood, he himself
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  Speaker 1: likewise shared them the same that through death he might
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  Speaker 1: destroy him who had the power death. That is the devil.
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  Speaker 1: You got to remember now, he couldn't save no one
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  Speaker 1: by his life. It was this sacrificial death that saves.
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  Speaker 1: And when you look at Hebrews after two, verse fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen and eighteen, I know you wrote it down because
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  Speaker 1: you'll see how they had released those who, through fear
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  Speaker 1: of death or all their lifetime, subject to bondage. For indeed,
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  Speaker 1: he does not give aid to angels, but he does
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  Speaker 1: give aid to the seat of Abraham. For in that
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  Speaker 1: he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to
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  Speaker 1: aid those who are tempted. So here we see Christ
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  Speaker 1: Jesus on the cross, the perfect man. I'm not perfect. Men,
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  Speaker 1: you're not perfect. Women, You're not perfect. You always him
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  Speaker 1: me say, you can go twenty three hours, fifty nine minutes,
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine seconds without thinking wrong, saying wrong, and doing wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You're not gonna make it the next second. You're not Christ.
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  Speaker 1: But our savior learned to rest upon God to trust
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  Speaker 1: him in all he did. Remember over when John chapter eight,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty nine, he said, always do the things that
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  Speaker 1: please him. I know I don't, but I know there's
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  Speaker 1: some of you out there that do, but I don't.
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  Speaker 1: And then that death read and to sparing art. Do
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  Speaker 1: you notice how he was abandoned of God. You notice
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  Speaker 1: there was no place to turn, either on the human
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  Speaker 1: plane or on the divine. You notice that our savior
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  Speaker 1: had no place to go. You notice that the man Christ,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was forsaken. Do you notice that no other person
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  Speaker 1: that's ever had to experience that? No one. He's alone.
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  Speaker 1: And the question you gotta ask and answer is why
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  Speaker 1: did God forsake him? Remember we opened up with Psalm
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  Speaker 1: chapter twenty two, So let's turn back to Psalm chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. Look at verse three. But you are holy
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  Speaker 1: in throne in the praises of Israel. So here you
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  Speaker 1: got on the cross in those last three hours, and
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  Speaker 1: the impenetral darkness you got. The Son of God was
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  Speaker 1: made sin. Here you see he was forsaken for a
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  Speaker 1: brief moment. Look at that, at that very moment God
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  Speaker 1: was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. And you
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  Speaker 1: can see that in Second Christians chapter five, verse nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Here you have the Lord Jesus, Christ himself said over
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  Speaker 1: in John chapter sixteen, verse thirty two. Indeed the hours coming, yes,
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  Speaker 1: has now come, that you would be scattered, each to
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  Speaker 1: his own and would leave me alone. And yet I
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  Speaker 1: am not alone, because the Father is with me. Do
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  Speaker 1: you remember how the father was with him when he
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  Speaker 1: was in prison. You remember how the father was with
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  Speaker 1: him when it was been beaten. You remember how that
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  Speaker 1: the Father was with him when they nailed him to
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  Speaker 1: the cross. But on the cross he made a soul
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  Speaker 1: and offer him for sin. And do you notice how
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  Speaker 1: it pleased the Father to bruise him Forsaken? My friends
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  Speaker 1: of household to faith, we don't know what it is
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  Speaker 1: to be forsaken of God? Do you whoever comes to
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  Speaker 1: your heart and mind? Man, women, women, men on this
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  Speaker 1: earth today is not forsaken of God? Anybody can turn
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  Speaker 1: to him. But when Christ took my sin, my evil thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: my evil words, my evil actions upon himself, he was
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  Speaker 1: forsaken of God. And when our Savior I asked why,
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  Speaker 1: do you notice it's not a why of impatience or
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  Speaker 1: despair or doubt. You notice it's the human cry of
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  Speaker 1: intense suffering aggravated by the anguish of his innocent and
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  Speaker 1: holy life. Do you notice how that agonized cry, the
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  Speaker 1: loneliness of his passion, that he was alone with the
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  Speaker 1: sins of the world upon him. Do you notice that?
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  Speaker 1: And again when you go back to Psalm chapter twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: verse one, why are you so far from helping me?
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  Speaker 1: And from the words of my groaning? I mean you
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  Speaker 1: look at the word it's actually ruined. Think about it.
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  Speaker 1: At his trial he was silent, like Isaiah chapter fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: verse seven says, as a cheek before his shears is silent.
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  Speaker 1: So he opened out his mouth. You know it was
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  Speaker 1: when they beating he said nothing. But when they nailed
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  Speaker 1: him to the cross, he didn't whimper. But when God
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  Speaker 1: forsuck him, he roared like a line of the roar
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  Speaker 1: of pain. Remember now, the streak of our Lord from
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  Speaker 1: the cross tore the rocks. So he think about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's so easy for us to think about we weren't there.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it, for it had been his voice that
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  Speaker 1: created them. Now that created himself was suffering on that cross,
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  Speaker 1: not sounding as a human cry, but like a roaring
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  Speaker 1: lion because of our sins. You notice over in Psalm
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  Speaker 1: chapter twenty two, verse six. First he roared like a line,
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  Speaker 1: but then he says, I am a worm? What does
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  Speaker 1: it mean? Think about it. He's despised and rejected by men,
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  Speaker 1: a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, our faces from him. He was despised
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  Speaker 1: and we esteemed him, not as Isaiah chapter fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: verse three said. Do you notice how the word used
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  Speaker 1: here for worm? It's a cocus worm, which was used
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  Speaker 1: by the Hebrews, and dying, all the curtains of the
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  Speaker 1: tabernacle scarlet red. And so when our saviors said I'm
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  Speaker 1: a worm, he meant more than that. He had reached
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  Speaker 1: the lowest level was he who had said over in
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah chapter one, verse eighteen, though your sins are like scarlet,
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  Speaker 1: that shall be as white as snow. Do you notice that?
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  Speaker 1: And there's only one thing that's gonna take the spot
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  Speaker 1: of sin out of our life, and that's the blood
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. Because only the blood of our Lord,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, god Son, conses you and I from all sin,
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  Speaker 1: only his blood. And do you notice when you get
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  Speaker 1: the luke Chapter twenty three, verse thirty four, Father, forgive
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  Speaker 1: them he ever savior suffering on the cross. You know
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  Speaker 1: it's how it was intensified by that group of spectators
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  Speaker 1: beneath him. Do you notice that, especially as you're looking
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  Speaker 1: through his eyes and seeing what he saw, all those
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  Speaker 1: who see me ridicule me. They shoot out the lip,
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  Speaker 1: they shake the head, saying, he trusted in the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: Let him rescue him, let him deliver him, since the
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  Speaker 1: delights in him. Look at some chapter twenty two, verse
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  Speaker 1: seven and eight. You got the religious Pharisees. When the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ was dying, sitting down, they kept watch
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  Speaker 1: over him. As you see in Matthew chapter twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: verse thirty six. Look at human nature, look at the
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  Speaker 1: venom of the human heart. Look at them, the religious
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  Speaker 1: ones sitting there ridiculing him in his death. Think about that.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're thinking about it. Look around today globally
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  Speaker 1: at people who aren't glad when another human being died.
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  Speaker 1: That tells a story about them. But here's where our
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  Speaker 1: saviors said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know
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  Speaker 1: what they do. And think about that. If he hadn't
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  Speaker 1: said that, they would have committed them pardonable sin. But
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  Speaker 1: they didn't. He asks forgiveness for their sin. Remember the
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  Speaker 1: centurion that was in charge of the execution was saved.
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  Speaker 1: You remember that, and only him being saved. But there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of Pharisee religious people, including Salt Tarsus,
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  Speaker 1: remember sal the Tartars who became the apostle fault. He
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  Speaker 1: was probably in their group. And when you look at
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  Speaker 1: John chapter nineteen, verse twenty six, our Savior looks over
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  Speaker 1: the crowd, he sees eyes of hate, but he also
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  Speaker 1: sees eyes of love. He sees his mother with John
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  Speaker 1: there now there stood by the cross of Jesus's mother,
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  Speaker 1: according to John's record, And as our Savior looks at her,
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  Speaker 1: do you wanna know what went on in his heart?
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  Speaker 1: He went back to Bethlehem at that time he was born.
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  Speaker 1: He says to the father, when you are he who
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  Speaker 1: took me out of the womb, you may be trust
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  Speaker 1: while on my mother's breast, I was cast upon you
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  Speaker 1: from birth from my mother's womb. You have been my God.
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  Speaker 1: You can see that in the Psalm chapter twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: verse nine and ten. And to his mother he says, woman,
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  Speaker 1: behold your son. Remember at the wedding at cana and
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  Speaker 1: Gallery that she had asked him to do something so
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  Speaker 1: he was a messiah. That she was right when she
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  Speaker 1: said he was virgin born. She wanted him to reveal himself.
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  Speaker 1: Do you notice that at that wedding? But do you
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  Speaker 1: notice as answer to her at that time was, Oneman,
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  Speaker 1: what does your concern have to do with me? My
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  Speaker 1: hour has yet come? And you can see that in
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  Speaker 1: John chapter two, verse four. But they're hanging on the cross.
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  Speaker 1: He says, woman, behold your son. His hour has come,
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  Speaker 1: and the reason for coming into this world is now
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  Speaker 1: being accomplished. Notice this is the most important hour in
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  Speaker 1: the history of the world. And then his attention, you notice,
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  Speaker 1: moves back to those who are doing the crucifying. And
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  Speaker 1: when you look at Some chapter twenty two, verse twelve,
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  Speaker 1: many bulls have surrounded me, strong bulls of as Sean
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  Speaker 1: have encircled me. Do you notice how he is describing
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  Speaker 1: these soldiers they were crucifying him. You notice he said
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  Speaker 1: they're like the bulls of a shine. But he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: stop with that. But he's being devoured by wild animals.
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  Speaker 1: That's what his tormentors had become. Because when you look
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  Speaker 1: at Psalm chapter twenty two, verse thirteen, they gape at
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  Speaker 1: me with your mouths like a raging and roaring lion.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's talking about Rome because he's comparing them to
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  Speaker 1: a roaring line. For the line was the picture of
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  Speaker 1: Rome cause Rome had crucified it now't noticed this condition
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  Speaker 1: in Psalm chapter twenty two, verse fourteen. I am poured
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  Speaker 1: out like water, and all my bones are out of joint.
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  Speaker 1: My heart is like wax. It has melted within me.
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  Speaker 1: And here you got this description. Do you notice when
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  Speaker 1: you consider that crucifixion was unknown when the Psalm was written,
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  Speaker 1: Think about the Roman Empire wasn't even any existence, and
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  Speaker 1: it was wrong that instituted execution by crucifixion. Yet here
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  Speaker 1: you got a vivid picture of a man dying by crucifixion.
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  Speaker 1: He says, I am poured out like water. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the excessive perspiration of a dying man out in that sun.
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  Speaker 1: He says, all my bones are out of joint. Think
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  Speaker 1: about the horrible thing about crucifficion was that when a
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  Speaker 1: man began to lose blood, his strength ebbed from him
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  Speaker 1: and all his bones slipped out of joint. It was
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  Speaker 1: a terrible suffering. Then he says something that is strange.
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  Speaker 1: He said, my heart is like wax. There are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of doctors that have said that a ruptured heart
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  Speaker 1: would have produced what John recorded. One of the soldiers
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  Speaker 1: pierced aside with a spear, and immediately blood and water
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  Speaker 1: came out. And you can see that in John chapter nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: verse thirty four. Our savior died of a broken heart.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at John chapter nineteen, verse twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: do you notice when he says I thirst, he's hanging
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  Speaker 1: there ready to expire. Think about what that excess of
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  Speaker 1: perspiration pouring from him. He's suffering the agony of thirst,
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  Speaker 1: he says in Psalm chapter twenty two, verse fifteen. Remember
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  Speaker 1: that I was already prophesied what was gonna happen. My
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  Speaker 1: strength is dried up like a pot sheer, and my
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  Speaker 1: tongue clings to my jaws. You have brought me to
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  Speaker 1: the dust of death. Think about it. Beneath the cross
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  Speaker 1: to hear him say I thirst. And in Psalm chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, verse sixteen, for dogs that surrounded me, the
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  Speaker 1: congregation of the wicked has enclosed me. They pierced my
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  Speaker 1: hands and my feet. And you gotta remember now, dog
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  Speaker 1: was a name for gentiles, and so you got the
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  Speaker 1: piercing of his hands and feeds. Another description of crucifixion.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it over in Psalm chapter twenty two, verse
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  Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen, I can count all my bones, look and
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  Speaker 1: stare at me. They divide my garments among them, and
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  Speaker 1: my clothing they cast lots. Here you have our savor
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  Speaker 1: that was crucified naked. It's hard for you and I
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  Speaker 1: in today's society to really comprehend the humiliation that he
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  Speaker 1: suffered by hanging nude on the cross. They had taken
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  Speaker 1: his garments and gamble for ownership red of household of faith.
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  Speaker 1: He went through it all crucified naked, that you and
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  Speaker 1: I might be clothed with the righteousness of Christ and
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  Speaker 1: be able to stand before God throughout the endless age
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  Speaker 1: of eternity. You remember what Luke chapter twenty three, verse
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  Speaker 1: forty six says, Father, into your hands, I commit my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you look at Psalm chapter twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: verse nineteen or twenty, but you, old Lord, do not
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  Speaker 1: be far from me. Oh my strength helping hasten to
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  Speaker 1: help me, delivering me from the sword, my precious life
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  Speaker 1: from the power of the dog. Look at the word precious,
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  Speaker 1: because you know it's really better translated my only one.
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  Speaker 1: Because you got this is my beloved son. Like in
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  Speaker 1: Matthew chapter three, verse seventeen, our Savior is saying, Father,
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  Speaker 1: into your hands, I commit my spirit. And when you
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  Speaker 1: look at Psalm chapter twenty two, verse twenty one, saved
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  Speaker 1: me from the lion's mouth and from the horns of
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  Speaker 1: the wild oxen. Are you reading the word? You sure
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  Speaker 1: our Savior is crucified on the cross of Calgary for
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  Speaker 1: you and for me. But you already knew that, dn't you.
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  Speaker 1: And so you remember when Paul when he wrote over
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  Speaker 1: in first grinstance, chapter one, verse eighteen, for the message
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  Speaker 1: of the cross, this foolishness to those who are perishing,
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  Speaker 1: but to us who are being saved as the power
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  Speaker 1: of God. And when you look at it Acts chapter thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty nine. Now when they had fulfilled all that
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  Speaker 1: was written concerning him, they took him down from the
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  Speaker 1: tree and laid him in the tomb for you for me.
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  Speaker 1: So here you have the sufferings of Christ. But wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, it's not over. In Psalm chapter twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty two, I would declare your name to my
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  Speaker 1: brethren in the midst of the assembly. I will praise
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  Speaker 1: you here. I believe our saviors spoke this entire psalm
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  Speaker 1: while he was on the cross, because he didn't die defeated.
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  Speaker 1: When he reached the very end, he said, this is
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  Speaker 1: the gospel that will be witnessed to. I will declare
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  Speaker 1: your name to my brethren. And you see Peter in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of the Sanhedrin, which was composed of both
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees and Sadducees religious leaders, saying to them over in
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  Speaker 1: Acts chapter four, verse twelve, there's no other name of
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  Speaker 1: the heaven given among men women too, by which we
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  Speaker 1: must be saved. And when you look at Luke chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, verse forty three, you notice what it say
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  Speaker 1: is today you will be with me in paradise. My
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  Speaker 1: praise shall be of you in the greatest sem that
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  Speaker 1: will pay my vows before those who fear him. The
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  Speaker 1: poor shall eat and be satisfied, those who seek him
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  Speaker 1: or praise the Lord. Let your heart live forever. And
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  Speaker 1: you can sit in Psalm chapter twenty two, verse twenty
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  Speaker 1: five and twenty six. Here you got the thief on
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  Speaker 1: the cross. Remember what he said, Lord, remember me when
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  Speaker 1: you come into your kingdom. Remember what our savior responded.
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  Speaker 1: Today you will be with me in paradise, the redeemed
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  Speaker 1: shall be there to praise, and that includes a thief.
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  Speaker 1: And he took him with him that very day. So
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  Speaker 1: for those of you out there who think you know
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  Speaker 1: who's saved, who's not saved, or to believe that a
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  Speaker 1: person can't did any give a moment, turn to Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And for those of you who throw your dart, you
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  Speaker 1: know it's been said that there's gonna be people in
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  Speaker 1: heaven that you thought shouldn't be there, and people not
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  Speaker 1: there that you thought this already been there. And even
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  Speaker 1: though he was a man unfit to even live down
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  Speaker 1: here according to Rome standard and yours, the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ makes the thief you wouldn't be fit for heaven
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  Speaker 1: by his death on the cross. And then when you
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  Speaker 1: look at John chapter nineteen, verse thirty, it is finished. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's the seventh word. It's his last. In Psalmn chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, verse thirty one, they will come and declare
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  Speaker 1: his righteousness to a people who will be born, that
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  Speaker 1: he has done this. Think about it, to a people
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  Speaker 1: who will be born that includes you and me. They
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  Speaker 1: show declare his righteousness, not my righteousness, not your righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: For God has made it clear. He says, it's as
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  Speaker 1: filthy rags in his sight, So how would they declare
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  Speaker 1: his righteousness. He's already done that. It's finished. Remember now,
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  Speaker 1: our saving me to clear on the cross when he
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  Speaker 1: said it one word, tell us this, yeh finish our redemption.
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  Speaker 1: It is a completed package. Remember, my household of faith.
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  Speaker 1: Are you the belief? You have to do some additional
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  Speaker 1: not according to the word, and including those of you
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  Speaker 1: don't know him who died for you. He don't want
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  Speaker 1: you to bring a do it yourself kid alone. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't need that. When our Savior down on the cross,
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  Speaker 1: he provided a righteousness that would satisfy a holy God.
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  Speaker 1: And all he asked of you is to receive this package,
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  Speaker 1: this gift of God, which is eternal life in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're rejecting our heavenly father must treat you
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  Speaker 1: as he treated his son when he cried, my God,
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  Speaker 1: my God, why have you forsaken me? And it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be hell whether you want to hear it or not.
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  Speaker 1: Any man or woman WoT want a man to be
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  Speaker 1: forsaken of God. Our Savior went through it himself so
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  Speaker 1: that you might not ever have to utter that cry.
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  Speaker 1: And so when you look at Psalm chapter twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: you notice how it reveals the heart of our savior,
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  Speaker 1: and he would made sin offering for you and me.
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  Speaker 1: But do you also notice how he completed the transaction
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  Speaker 1: and triumph? You notice how your offers to you and
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  Speaker 1: I have finished redemption. And while you're noticing that, do
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  Speaker 1: you notice that you and I should never be worthy
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  Speaker 1: of it. We can't earn it, we can't buy it,
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  Speaker 1: we can't receive it as a gift. But you can
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  Speaker 1: see that's the point. You must receive it as a gift.
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  Speaker 1: Our Savior did all that was needed to save you.
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  Speaker 1: When you when you and me too, you know what
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  Speaker 1: it is finished? And the question you got to ask
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  Speaker 1: an answer for your own individual life before he calls
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  Speaker 1: your name, Because when you look around the globe, your
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  Speaker 1: respector where you're looking, do you notice that when it's
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  Speaker 1: time to leave her, there's a certain age. And the
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  Speaker 1: question you got to ask an answer for your own
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  Speaker 1: individual life is will you're accepting to death