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Wednesday Evening Message: A Study in Psalms, Psalm 22 · CCC West Covina

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I want to welcome you back to our second night of Summer of
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Psalms. And tonight, we'll be looking at
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Psalm 22 while you're turning to Psalm 22.
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I just want to remind you of that wonderful story in Luke 24
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that we call the disciples on the Emmaus Road.
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The two disciples were traveling from Jerusalem to Emmaus Road.
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And they were talking with each other and Along Comes Jesus
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Christ. Now, they did not recognize in
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Jesus and hid it from him, and they were talking about Jesus
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arrest his crucifixion trial, resurrection, and Jesus asked
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him, what are you talking about? And they looked at him and says,
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don't, you know, that? Are you the only one in all of
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Israel? Who doesn't know what's happened
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in the last few days and they would explain to Jesus, the
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things that had happened ending with the empty tomb?
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Then Jesus looks at them. In Luke 24, verse 25 and says o
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foolish, ones and slow of heart to believe all that.
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The prophets have spoken. Was it not necessary that the
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Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory
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and beginning with Moses and all the prophets he interpreted to
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them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself and
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then later on in verse 32, when they had gone into the room and
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Jesus had vanished. They said Jesus opened to us the
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scriptures. I wonder what scriptures Jesus
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held that first Bible study after the resurrection.
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I'm sure he shared Genesis 3:15 about.
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He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel
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probably shared Deuteronomy 18, 18 says I will raise up for them
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a prophet. Like you from all their
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brothers, I'm positive. He would have shared Isaiah 53,
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the whole chapter, but Isaiah G36 as all we like, sheep have
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gone astray and the lord has laid on upon him.
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The iniquity of us all but also know that he would have gone to
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the Psalms he would have gone to Psalms 68 Verse 18 to talk about
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Christ's Ascension, he would have gone to Psalms 41, 9 to
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talk about Christ's betrayal. He would have gone to Psalms 45,
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verses, 6 and 7 to talk about, Christ's deity.
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He would have gone to Psalms 8, verses 5 to 6, to talk about
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Christ exultation. He would have gone to Psalms to
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verse 6 in Psalms 89 Verse 18 and 19 to talk about Christ
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kingship, he would have gone to Psalms to, again, to talk about,
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Christ's lordship, He'd gone to Psalms 41, verses 6 to 8 to talk
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about The Obedience of Christ. He would have gone to the Psalms
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110 verse 4 to talk about. Christ's priesthood, he would
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have gone to Psalm 16:10 to remind him that the Messiah
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would rise from the dead Resurrection.
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He would have gone to psalms 27 to talk about Christ.
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Sonship He would have gone to Psalm 69 verse 9 to talk about
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Christ's suffering and he had gone to Psalms 1, 18 verses 22
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to 23 to talk about Christ's Supremacy and I'm 100% sure that
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he would have taken them to Psalm 22 verses 1 to 22 because
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it's the entire song is about Christ's death and the Triumph
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of Jesus Christ. There are other Psalms like
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Psalm 72, Psalm 102 and some 109 that we consider Messianic
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Psalms Dietrich Dietrich. Bonhoeffer that great German
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Theologian who Hitler executed. Right at the end of World War
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Two. He said Christ is the secret of
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the song. Now I read that 10 years ago, 15
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years ago, I don't think I really completely grasp that
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concept till I study this Psalm 22 and I hope you'll see that
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tonight. Listen to what some commentators
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said. One said this Psalm is beyond
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all others, the psalm and the cross, it may have been repeated
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word by word by our Lord. When hanging on the cross, it
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begins with my God, my God. Why hast Thou, forsaken?
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Me and the ends with According, to some, it is finished.
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It's a photograph of our Lord's satis hours and the record of
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his dying wounds listen to what Jay Vernon McGee said.
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In the gospels. It's recorded the historical
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fact of, Christ's death, and some of the events, which
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attended his crucifixion. But only in Psalm 22.
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Do we see the thoughts and emotions that Jesus Christ felt
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are recorded. It is belief by many scholars
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that actually the Lord. Jesus Will on the cross said,
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the entire Psalm 22. And then Spurgeon said we should
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read this Psalm reverently putting off our shoes from our
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feet as Moses did at the burning bush for if there be Holy Ground
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anywhere in Scripture, it is this song.
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I won't make you take your shoes off tonight, but we're going to
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read Psalm 22 now. Psalm 22, if you're there to the
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choirmaster, according to the door of the Dawn, a Psalm of
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David, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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Why are you so far from saving me from the words of my
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groaning. Oh my God, I Cry by day, but you
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do not answer and by night but I find No Rest yet.
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You Are Holy enthroned. On the Praises of Israel in, you
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are father's, trusted. It.
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They trusted and you delivered them to you.
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They cried and were rescued in you.
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They trusted and were not put to shame.
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But I am a worm and not a man scorned by mankind and despised
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by the people all who see me mock me, they make mouse at me.
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They wag their heads, he trusts in the Lord, let him deliver
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him. Let him rescue him for, he
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Delights in him. Yet you are?
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He who took me from the womb you made me trust you at my mother's
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breasts on you, I was cast from my birth and from my mother's
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womb, you have been my God, be not far from me for trouble is
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near and there is none to help many bulls.
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Encompass. Me strong Bulls of Bashan.
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Surround me, they open wide, their mouths at me like a raving
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and roaring lion. I am poured out like water and
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all my bones. Or out of Joy.
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My heart is like Wax it is melted within my breast, my
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strength is dried up like a potsherd and my tongue sticks to
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my jaws, you lay me in the dust of death, for dogs, and Compass
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meet a company of evildoers. In circles me they have pierced
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my hands and my feet, I can count all my bones they stare
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and gloat over me. They divided my garments among
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them. And for my clothing, they cast
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lots, But You O, Lord. Lord do not be far off.
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Oh, you my help come quickly to my Aid deliver my soul from The
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Sword. My precious life, from the power
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of the dog. Save me from the mouth of a
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lion. You have rescued me from the
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horns of the wild oxen, I will tell of your name to my
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brothers. In the midst of the
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congregation. I will praise you.
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You who fear the Lord praise him?
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All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him and stand in awe of
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him. All you offspring of Israel for
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he is Despised for abhorred, the Affliction of The Afflicted and
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he has not hidden his face from them, but he has heard, when he
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cried to him from, you comes my praise and in the great
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congregation, my vows, I will perform before those who fear
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Him The Afflicted, she'll eat and be satisfied, those who seek
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Him, shall praise the Lord, may your hearts live forever.
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All the ends of the Earth shall remember and turn to the Lord,
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all the families of the Nations shall worship before you for
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kingship. Belongs to the Lord and He rules
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over the nation's all the prosperous of yours shall eat
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and worship before him shall bow.
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Down all, who go down to the dust.
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Even the one who could not keep himself alive, Prosperity Shall
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Serve him, it shall be told of the Lord to the coming
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generation. They shall come and Proclaim his
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righteousness to a people yet, unborn that he has done it.
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Let's pray, Father in heaven. We love you and thank you for
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this beautiful Wednesday night as we Open Psalm 22.
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Father may we learn more about you Jesus Christ the Holy
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Spirit. May we leave here today knowing
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more of you and what it is we are to do in Jesus name.
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Amen. The type of Psalm I already
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mentioned, it's a Messianic. Psalm some would say it's quoted
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13 times in the New Testament, one commentator believes,
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there's as many as thirty three prophecies that may be going a
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little too far, but it's a Messianic, Psalm the context of
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the psalm where it's placed is very important.
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Psalms 22, 23 and 24 are at rheology Trilogy.
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Psalms 22 is the Good Shepherd dying for the Sheep.
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Psalms 23, which I'm sure you all know is the great Shepherd
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who lives for the sheep and Psalms 24 is the chief Shepherd
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who returns, in glory to reward his sheep.
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So Psalms 22 is past work. Psalms 23 is the present work
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and Psalms 24 is the future work.
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There's a superscription on the psalm to the choirmaster
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according to do of the Don, a Psalm of David, we really don't
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know what that means. And it may just be the name of a
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tune by the chief musician. As I mentioned last week, quite
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a few of the superscriptions. We really don't know what they
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mean. Now, history of the song.
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Now, when you read psalms like this, it's by David.
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So normally like last week Psalm 11, it was about David and we
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know probably it was about David's trouble in Saul's court.
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But here most commentators I say most Say, it has nothing to do
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with David's life because there's nothing in the history
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of David that we have that can account for the agony described
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in the psalm, the intense suffering here, described isn't
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about a sick man or a soldier in battle, but it's basically of a
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criminal being executed the writer of Hebrews quote, Psalm
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22 as the words of Jesus Christ himself.
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And when you read Acts, T, it calls David a prophet.
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So, I believe that David here is riding as a prophet, describing
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the agony of the coming Messiah and the suffering on the cross.
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So I believe it is all about. Jesus Christ.
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You have an outline, I hope you got today or picked it up out
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there, there's seven points and on the back of that outline, if
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you see, dr. William Barak, the professor
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emeritus of the Masters Seminary made a little chart from his
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study on Psalm 22. You can take that home and look
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at it and you can see the, the gospel accounts, the times, and
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then quite often not all the time, but quite often Psalm 22
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has a reference to those accounts.
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So I'll let you study that more. But dr.
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Barrick did, but let's look at our seven points tonight,
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there's really two sections in this song, Some, I'm sorry,
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verse 12. 21 is a cry for help verse 12. 21 is a Cry for help
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and in Psalms 22 to Psalms 31r a praise from the cross.
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So two sections, but I broken down into seven points tonight,
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let's begin with point. A Christ separation from God,
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verses one, and two, two points here.
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Spurned, my God, verse 1 and Silence from God verse 2, you're
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all familiar with verse 1. The first some first, the
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psalmist prophesized that the Messiah would be spurned by God.
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It begins with the he begins the song with probably the most
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anguished cry in human history. The song begins with an
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agonizing Prairie, we know this verse because it's the fourth
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sing of the seven sayings that we have.
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On the cross. Matthew 27:46 says about the
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ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli
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Lema, sabachthani. That is my God.
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My God. Why have you forsaken me?
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An exact quotation of Psalms 22 1 in John 10?
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Jesus said, I am the John 10 verse 30, Jesus said, I and the
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father are one. When I go through the Book of
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John, which I'm studying in my quiet time.
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Now, I recorded 91 times that Jesus calls, god, father,
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father, father, he always calls God his father but only here.
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Does he say my God, Something's Happened.
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God. Turned his back on his son,
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while Jesus Christ was on the cross.
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There was a separation as never before in the history of the
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world and will never be. Again, to be forsaken by God
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means to have the light of God's countenance and the sense of his
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presence withdrawn, which is what happened to Jesus, as he
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suffered the wrath of God against sin for us.
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Let's look at number 2, verse 2 Silence from God.
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Why was Jesus spurned by God and God silent.
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It's an agonizing question from Jesus.
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It's a cry from the cross. The only possible answer is that
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Jesus must have been bearing the sins of the world on that cross
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during those three hours of Darkness.
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What separated Jesus from God, was my sin, your sins, and all
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the sins of the world Ibaka. Kkuk 1:13 says, God's eyes are
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purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong.
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Romans 5:8 says that God showed his love to us while we were
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sinners Christ died for us. One commentator said it, seems
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that. God, who answers the prayers of
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sinful? Men is not answering the prayer
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of the sinless. Messiah Warren, where's be said
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for our sake Christ was Forsaken by God that we might never be
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forsaken. We cannot be forsaken because
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the Savior was forsaken in our place.
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We cannot be forsaken because his promise is to never leave us
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or forsake us Hebrews 13:5. We cannot be forsaken because
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his Abiding and eternal presence with us, Matthew 28:20.
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We cannot be forsaken because of his promise to work all things.
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For the good of those who are called according to his purpose,
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Romans 8:28 in spite of all our circumstances and feelings.
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Remember, God will not forsake you but he did forsake his son.
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What do we learn from here in these first?
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Two verses Jesus was forsaken so that you and I would never be
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forsaken. God punished his own son, as if
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his son had committed every Wicked sin ever done by every
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sinner who would ever Of it was if Jesus is this the father
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abandoned his own son, God loved his son but he turned away from
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him. As he punished his son on the
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cross, for the sins of the world, Jesus felt the pain and
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we received Jesus righteousness. The question is why, why would
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the holy sinless? Son of God.
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In der this horrible suffering for three hours of Darkness.
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Well, that's the next point point B Christ, strength from
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God. Verses 3 to 5 and verse 3, says
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it all yet, You Are. Holy Christ is talking to God,
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the father. So some point one God is.
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Holy God is Holy righteous and just that means he must punish
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sin and wherever he finds it. God cannot Overlook sin, the
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love of God. Desired salvation For All
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Mankind, but the Holiness of God.
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That the wages of sin be punished.
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God is Holy and it necessitated that that there be a sacrifice.
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And at some point to Jesus Christ was sinless.
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The Lord Jesus Christ was sinless.
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He took our sin upon himself. He voluntarily, took the
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responsibility to pay the penalty of sins, for the sin of
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the world. The debt.
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We owed was charged to Christ's account now God can forgive
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sinners. The holy and just demands.
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That sin be punished, have been met the beloved Son, became our
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sin Bearer. My favorite verse in the New
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Testament, is second Corinthians 5:21, and you all know it.
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It says, for our sake, he God made him Jesus to be sin who
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knew no sin. So that in him, we might become
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the righteousness of God. God is holy Jesus Christ is
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sinless. And then in verse 4, the
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Holiness of Men. Three times you have the word
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trusted trusted and Trust in there in the past Israel.
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Trust of the Lord and God delivered him.
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Jesus at his darkest hour is strengthening by remembering
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God's faithfulness to the children of Israel.
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Moses, Abraham and David God always showed himself faithful
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to those in the past, you trusted him.
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So when we feel that God has abandoned us, when we are at our
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weakest, we need to remember the faithfulness of God.
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And God turned his back on his son, because in his Holiness, he
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must punish sin. Not the sinless son, but our
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sin. Let's look at Point C Christ.
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Scorn from the cross and two points there.
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He's reduced below a man verse 6 and ridiculed by the people
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versus 78. Verse 6 says, but I am a warm
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and not a man scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
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Now, the psalmist is going to prophesied that the Messiah
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would endure insults ridicule mocking, that would make the
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Messiah seem less than a human. And here, you have the first, a
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mini animal metaphors in the psalm.
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It's a reference to a helpless frail animal.
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That is often crushed. We Crush worms.
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But it's also interesting, Henry, Morris and a few other
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commentators make the case that this is not the normal Hebrew
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word for warmer. It's a special word for a warm,
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that's called the Crimson word that they would get the coloring
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Scarlett from to die cloth. So they literally would crush
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this worm, the Scarlet, warm to get Scarlet.
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So to yield that Die. The lowly worm had to be
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crushed. Isaiah 53:5, prophesied says he
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was crushed for our iniquities. Christ was crushed.
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I'd like what? Charles Spurgeon said, what a
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contrast between, I am Yahweh and I am a worm.
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Another one of the prophecies that the Messiah would be
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disfigured by his enemies and not even look human.
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Isaiah 52:14 says his Was so marred beyond human semblance
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and is formed beyond the children of mankind, you know,
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we don't put crosses of Jesus up in our church, but when you see
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them generally, they're fairly pretty right?
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But the truth is, Jesus was naked on that cross and he was
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bloodied and battered beyond recognition.
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They had beat him so bad number two, he was ridiculed by the
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people versus seven and eight first.
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He was mocked in verse 7. And in verse 8, he was insulted.
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It says all who seek me mock me. They make their mouths at me.
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They wag their heads, one of the amazing things about Psalms 22
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is the fact, it foretells, the exactly what the gospels would
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record about Jesus, and in Matthew, 27 39, it says, as
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Jesus on the cross and says, and those who pass by derided him,
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wagging their heads exactly what Psalm 22 verse 7 says.
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And then it prophesied that the Messiah would be insulted in
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verse 8. You have this mocking sentence,
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he trusts in the Lord, let him deliver him.
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Let him rescue him for. He Delights in him.
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So another amazing thing about Psalm 22 and his prophecy is the
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fact that it for told exactly what Christ's enemies would say.
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And you want to turn to Matthew 27, you can or you just recorded
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Matthew 27 verse 40 says, And this is what the evil, the
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religious leaders of scribes. The Pharisees are saying that
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Jesus, when they're looking up on the cross, it says, you who
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would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save
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yourself. If you are the Son of God come
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down from the cross. So also the chief priests the,
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scribes the elders, mock him saying, he saved others, he
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cannot save himself, he is the king of Israel.
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Let him come down now from the cross and we will Believe in
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him, he trusts in God, let God deliver him.
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Now, if he desires him for, he said, I am the Son of God, so
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the priest and many of the people looking up, at Jesus on
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the cross. They probably knew Psalm 22,
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most Jews would know, all 150 of the Psalms they did everything.
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While Jesus was doing his ministry to try to disprove his
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claims of being the Messiah, but here, actually their lips.
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The prophecy of Psalm 22. That Christ was indeed, the
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Messiah. Let's look at Point D Christ
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submission to God in verses 9, and 10 in these two verses.
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You have the words you you I think in this Psalm you have the
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word you 25 times, but here it says yet you who took me from
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the womb you made me trust at my mother's breast, commentators,
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debate and argue about what these two verses mean.
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But I believe that Christ is acknowledging that God has Been
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with him. Since birth birth is human
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birth, God protected, him at Birth.
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God delivered him from Harrods attempt to slaughter him when
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God gave a bit a dream for Joseph and Mary to go to Egypt.
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So, and his beginning with God, you know, he says on you, I was
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in verse 10. I was cast from my birth from my
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mother's womb, you have been my God.
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You know, I helpless newborn baby is is totally dependent.
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Christ is looking up to God as only helper who can help him
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during every moment of Christ's life, God had been his God and
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Father and sustained him Christ has a memory of God's
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faithfulness in the past. Now while he's suffering, he's
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asking, will God be faithful to me now.
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I can rely upon the father but I want to get the point e.e.,
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pointy, Christ's suffering from God.
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And I think in your outline you can see like there's like nine
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sub-points. This is the meat of the message.
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This is the point that just stuns me and blows me away.
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You know the deity of Jesus Christ is being attacked today.
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Like never before. The homosexuals are saying,
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Jesus never spoke about homosexuality.
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I actually watched a video last week that a guy said that, Jesus
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Christ. Never existed which kind of
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shocked me because there are actually 29 books outside the
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Bible that reference Jesus. For example, Josephus the Jewish
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historian writes extensively about a man called Jesus.
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Now that doesn't prove he's God but to deny Jesus.
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So I remember in college, we had a, we had a chart that said, did
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Jesus claimed to be God. So if he didn't make that claim,
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then it's just a legend as this guy on this YouTube video.
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Was claiming, it's just a legend.
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But if Jesus claimed to be God, then it is his claim true or
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false? Well, if it's a false claim and
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he didn't know it's false, then people would call Jesus a
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lunatic. But if he knew it was false,
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then some people would call him to be a liar.
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Like the Pharisees would call him a liar, but if Jesus claimed
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to be God and he made the claim and that claim is true, we know
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he is Lord, he's not a legend, he's not a lunatic, he's not a
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Liar, and he's not a Lord. Why do I bring that little chart
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up about Lord, liar, lunatic and Legend.
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Well, I wish every man and woman in the world would read the next
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few verses in 11 to 18 and I wish that would make them come
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and bow down at the cross and believe in Jesus Christ.
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I am a Christian today because the resurrection of Jesus
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Christ, the tomb is empty. That proof to me.
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Jesus Christ, rose from the dead, and I know all rise from
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the dead when I die, but the second reason II.
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My I know positively I'm a Christian is because of all the
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Prophecies of the Bible prove to me that the Bible is the very
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words of God and verses 11:18 here are some of the most
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remarkable verses of scripture ever written because they're
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describing in detail and event. That would take place a thousand
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years later. It's an accurate description of
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crucifixion written when they didn't even do crucifixion.
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The Roman Empire was not even in existence who introduced that
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cruel form of execution. But here in Psalm 22, we have a
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picture of a man dying by crucifixion in verses 11 to 18.
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So let's look at it. Number one, his anticipated Agni
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verse 11 says, be not far from me for trouble is near there is
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None to help and the prophecy that the Messiah would be all
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alone hanging on the cross. Marked 1450 says, and they all
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left him and fled all the disciples left him.
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It was one thing for Judas to betray Christ, but all the
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disciples fled. I know, John did come back at
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the cross Christ wasn't just abandoned by the father when he
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hung on the cross. But he was abandoned by his
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disciples. Number two.
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His wife surrounded verse 12. Many bulls, Encompass.
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Me. Strong Bulls of Bashan.
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Surround me here. We have a prophesy against the
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abuse that the Messiah would encounter.
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We have the second animal metaphor in this Psalm, strong
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Bulls refer to strength, right? Well, but Sean is today is where
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we know the Golan Heights. Remember Israel, captured?
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The Golan Heights. And I think in the 1973
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arab-israeli war and its high It's typography receives more
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rain than the rest of Israel so it produces better grass for
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grazing, the cattle. So, the Bulls of Bashan, were
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known to be bigger stronger and more vicious.
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So the emphasis here is on verbal abuse, the hostile crowd,
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they they cried crucify him, crucify him, the religious
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leaders Spilled Out their vile hatred towards him Roman
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soldiers, mercifully mock him enjoying another execution while
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Christ. Surrounded and all alone at that
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cross number three, his safety threatened.
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It says they open wide, their mouths at me like a raving and
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roaring lion. So we have the third metaphor of
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animals here, a roaring lion, and you all know from National
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Geographic that Lions only Roar win.
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When they capture their prey, they Roar, the Pharisees, in the
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priests had finally captured Jesus.
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They had tried to capture him, they had tried to kill him up to
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eight. Times, I believe in Matthew,
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Mark, Luke and John try to throw him off a cliff.
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They tried to capture him. So this first refers to their
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viciousness, they're described as raving and roaring Lions
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point number four, his bones disjointed.
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Two things here. The Messiah is going to be
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dehydrated and he's going to be having some of those long page.
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He's going to be dislocated dehydrated dislocated.
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So you have the prophecy that the Messiah would suffer
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dehydration and you all know in the third saying, of the seven
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recorded in the gospels, in John 1928, it says after this, Jesus
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knowing that all was now finished said to fulfill the
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scripture. I thirst.
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So, When they're hanging on the cross, they would be very
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thirsty. And so, he's poured out like
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water. The second thing, it says all,
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my boy bones are out of joint so when they're hanging on a cross,
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you have two spikes in your arms.
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You have spikes in your feet but to breathe, the man crucified
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would have to lift up very painfully otherwise he'd
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suffocate. So at some point the joints in
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the shoulder blades and different parts of the body
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would start to rip from Attendance.
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Crucifixion was just a horrible horrible thing.
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So it says all my bones bones are out of joint swen
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commentator. Said the Christ who holds all
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things together Colossians 1:17 had all his joints dislocated
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Number 5. It says his heart melted.
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My heart is like Wax. It's melted within my heart.
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So, here it's a Prophecy of the Messiah is emotionally broken.
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His Vitality is gone, you know, he was so weak.
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He couldn't even Carry the Cross Beam down the road.
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Remember, in the garden when Jesus was sweating drops of
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blood, remembering knowing what was coming.
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So he's just emotionally broken here.
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Number 6, verse 15. His strength is gone.
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Now, it says that my strength is dried up like a potsherd.
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My tongue sticks to my jaws, you lay me in the dust of death.
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He's physically exhausted. He's thirsty.
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The one who gives living water in John 4 was dried up like a
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broken clay pot and then ultimately it's God's doing.
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It says you lay me in the dust of death.
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That's a referent acts 2:23. First Corinthians. 5:21 talk
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about the prophecy of the burial of Jesus that he's going to be
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late. Dust of death and Matthew 27,
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verse has 59 to 60. It says, and Joseph took the
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body and wrapped it in a clean shroud and laid it in his own
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new tomb, which he had cut in Iraq, and he rolled a great
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Stone to the entrance of the Tomb and went away number seven,
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his body pierced for dogs, Encompass me, a band of evil
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doers in circles mean. So before we get to the park,
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the last part of her 16 about the Seing.
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You have the fourth, a no metaphor here and it's dogs dogs
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in that time was a common name for Gentiles and especially the
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Romans who they hate it. It's likened a hunting dogs,
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hunting dogs, would chase a fox or a rabbit and they would
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surround him here. The hunting dogs have surrounded
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Christ on the cross and then verse 16 says they have pierced.
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My hands and feet, here's the prophecy of the type of death
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that the Messiah Have by piercing and just so, you know,
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200 years before Christ came, there was a translation of the
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Bible called the Greek Septuagint.
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It has this exact phrase to, they have pierced, my hands and
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feet it describes the exact method of Jesus death after the
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resurrection. Remember, when Christ said to
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the disciples, see my hands. See my feet touch me for a
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spirit. Does not have Flesh and Bones.
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So we know that he was pierced through his hands through his
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feet. Feet.
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Let's look at number Point. Number eight, his Bones Exposed
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and this is really important, I can count all my bones, they
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stare and gloat over me. Now, when a man was executed on
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the cross, they could live up to 30 hours in the cross Birds
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would come often and pick their flesh.
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But you remember when Jesus was crucified, it was the day of
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preparation, the Sabbath preparation.
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So in John 19, if you want to turn their, write it down John
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night. Team verse 31, it says, since it
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was the day of preparation so that the bodies would not remain
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on the cross. On the Sabbath.
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The Jews asked pilate that their legs might be broken, and that
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they might be taken away. So understand that, as a thief
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is on the cross, he's lifting up his legs to try to breathe.
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Otherwise, it'll suffocate. So they want to get them down
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from the cross because the Sabbath.
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So they say, break the legs. So the soldier came and broke
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the legs of of the first thief and that of the other Thief who
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had been crucified with him, but when they came to Jesus, they
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saw that he was already dead and they did not break his legs.
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But one of the soldiers, pierced his side with a spear and at
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once there came out blood and water, he who saw it has borne
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witness. His testimony is true and he
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knows that he is telling the truth that you also May believe.
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And verse 36 says for, These things took place, that the
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scriptures might be fulfilled. That Psalms 22 verse 17, not one
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of his bones will be broken. And again, another scripture
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says, they will look on him whom they have pierced.
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And I believe that's from Zachariah 12, understand the
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perfect Lamb of God. Had to be without any blemishes
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the Old Testament sacrifices of land.
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You could not bring a mutilated a Mane And lamb the lamb had to
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be perfect. In Christ was the perfect Lamb
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of God so they could not break his legs and you all know they
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did not number nine, his clothes divided.
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This is an important one to it says they divided my garments
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among them and for all my clothing, they cast lat.
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So you have the prophecy here of the soldiers, dividing up, the
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close of the executed one. Now, this is one of the few
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events that all four gospels record about Christ.
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Crucifixion, Matthew Mark and Luke all say and they crucified
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him and divided his garments among them.
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Casting lots for them to decide what each would take, but John
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in John, 18 gives a little more information.
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It says, when the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his
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garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each
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Soldier and also his tunic, but the tunic was seamless woven in
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one piece from top to bottom. So they said to one another, let
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us not tear it, but cast lots to see who it shall be.
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And then it says this was to fulfill.
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The scripture which says what's it?
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Say they divided my garments among them and for my clothing,
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they cast lots. So in your Bible, when you're
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reading, John 18 and you come to verse 24, there's probably a
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little space of white space right there.
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And then you have a verse that Psalms 22, verse 18, a direct
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quote, So, think about all the abuse that Christ suffered think
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of the emotions he suffered on the cross.
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You would think that the mother would get the clothes right.
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But no, the executed soldiers, that was kind of their bonus
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kind of their, their payment. They would get the close of the
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prophesied one. John MacArthur said, the
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strongest objective argument for the validity of scripture comes
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from Bible prophecy. And that's one of the reasons
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I'm A Christian today and these verses 11 to 18 are just
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stunning, when you look at them. All right.
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Let's move to point F. We got two more points.
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We got to hurry. By the way, I told Pastor Lance
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that some Easter you need to take this Psalm and preach a
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four-part series, because I'm going fast tonight, 31 verses,
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it's kind of insane to predict. Try to cover a song.
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We took seven verses last week. I'm trying to do 31 tonight, but
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Lord, willing, someday in the future on Easter.
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Lance can dig deeper and I'm going tonight.
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Christ. Application to God, verses 19 to
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21 to things. Strengthen me and save me verse
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19. He's on the cross.
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He says, but You O Lord be not far off from me.
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Oh you my help come quickly to my Aid?
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We know that Christ was abandoned by God for those three
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hours but many commentators here make the case that Christ might
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being abused by Satan here. Okay because it says that in
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Luke 22 53. Christ says, this is your hour
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and the power. Power of Darkness, I think Satan
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and his demons were rejoicing and celebrating those three
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hours of darkness and if he's in sixth end, 18 tells us that
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reverent would reference that all hell was gather around
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Christ on the cross. They thought they had the
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victory, didn't they? So he's crying out to God to
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strengthen him and then he's saying in verse 22, 21, save me.
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Okay, so he says he's asking to be delivered from the dogs here
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in verse 20 and 21. You have the metaphors again of
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a dog. A lion and a wild oxen Bulls
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lion and dogs are repeated again.
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That's how the enemies of Christ are described.
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Someone has said they possess the strength of the bowl, the
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power of the lion and the savagery of the Wild dog.
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That's how Christ's enemies are are described.
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And then, it says, so verse 21 Christ will be crying out.
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Rescue me from the Lions and the oxen.
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Some of you may still have the King James Bible.
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Anybody have the King James Bible here.
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Does it? Say unicorn.
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Yeah, it says unicorn in the King James Bible but most
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commentators now believe that this is not a unicorn that we
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think of some fantasy animal, but there actually was an animal
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that's extinct. Now, there's an animal, it's
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extinct, that's smaller than an elephant that actually has a
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horn. It was a vicious animal and a
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brutal animal. So it's a fitting description
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for the religious leaders, who I counted eight times in the
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gospels tried to kill Christ. But Finally, the our King and
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God allowed it to happen. So you have cried the prophecy
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here of Christ. Committing his life, to the
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father in Luke 23:46. Jesus, cried out in a loud
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voice. Father into your hands.
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I commit my spirit and having said this, he breathed the last.
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Let's look at the last point in the few minutes.
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We have I intentionally wanted to cover the first 21 verses to
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talk about the prophecies. So I'll go quickly on the Lex.
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10 verses, but this is the second section here.
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If the first 21 verses are a cry for help, then the next 10
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verses are a song of Praise. In fact, I believe praise is
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mentioned in verse. 22 verse 23, verse 25 and verse 26, we see a
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change from prayer to praise. You know we need to experience
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the bitterness of the Cross before we can truly and praise
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him, right? Because the Also Calvary, we can
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Praise Him. Hebrews 12:2 says for the joy
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that was set before him. He endured the cross Christ had
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Joy. Why knowing, because what he
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would accomplish on the cross. We can now talk about in these
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final versus the final verses anticipate, the preaching of the
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Gospel, which can only take place because what Jesus Christ
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did and they're in three groups. Number one, it's proclaimed to
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the Jews. Number two, its I'm to the
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Gentiles. And number three, it's
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proclaimed to a whole world. So number one Proclaim to the
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Jews. He says, in verse 22, I will
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tell of your name to my brothers, in the midst of the
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congregation. I will praise you.
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So it's the Risen Christ that's going to say.
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I will tell you Christ is going to lead lead a great Praise In
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The Great congregate in the great congregation.
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Now this will take place at the end of the tribulation going
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into the Kingdom and Christ says my brother's after the
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resurrection Jesus Christ was a preacher and a missionary.
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But how can Jesus speak two thousand years after this Psalm?
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Well, Paul says, in Ephesians 2 17 and he came and he preached
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peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near
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Jesus Christ. Never went to Ephesus to preach.
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So, what's that mean? Well, it means when Paul
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preaches or any preacher preaches, Today, he's preaching
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the word of God. Jesus Christ is speaking through
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his word, that gives you a great comfort in just about three
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weeks. Will he go into Argentina?
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And when we preach the gospel, Jesus is speaking.
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The holy spirit is with us, helping us preach.
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So the Risen Christ, will preach his gospel.
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And then points up to it to, to believing disciples in verse 23
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and 24. He's talking about the
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disciples, The Offspring of A come and and The Offspring of
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Israel. And you remember after Jesus
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rose from the dead, he was here on Earth for about 50 days.
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He only showed himself to believing disciples and in 1st
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Corinthians 15. He says even up to 500 people at
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one time. So believing disciples.
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So the gospel first, went to the Jews and Romans 1:16 says, I am
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not ashamed of the gospel for its, the power of God to
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Salvation for anyone who believes to the Jew first and
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then to the Gentiles. So the gospel was proclaimed to
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the Jews. You see that in Acts chapter 1,
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The Acts chapter 7, The Gospel exclusively for the Jews.
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And then you, then number point to Proclaim to the Gentiles in
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Acts chapter 8. The gospel goes to the
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Samaritans to the Ethiopian eunuch to the Roman Centurion
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and then it'll goes all over the Gentile world.
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So in verses, 25 to 29, Apostle Paul would try to take the
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gospel message to the Jews, but they would generally reject it.
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John, 1:11 said, Christ came into his own and his own people
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did not receive him. Paul would have some Jewish
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Believers, but not many. And so, then Paul would go to
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the Gentiles on for missionary Journeys.
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And the gospel would explode around the world.
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The psalm says, they're all in verse 27.
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All the ends of the Earth shall remember and turn Lord, all the
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families of the Nations. So worship before you, I Leave
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we have planted churches and all of the 194 countries of the
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world, some of those countries, the churches of the underground.
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But the psalmist says, there's going to be a great congregation
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from all the ends of the Earth and all the families of the
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Earth shall worship before Christ.
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Let's look at number three. It's going to be.
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This gospel is going to Proclaim to All Peoples, verse verse 30.
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And 31, I didn't mention that. I think the last four verses 28,
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29, 30 and 31. I believe the holy spirit is
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speaking. Being in these verses because he
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says he. But in verses 32 31, the gospel
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is going to be proclaimed. All Peoples.
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It says, in verse 29, all the prosperous of the earth and that
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says all shall bow down to him. So the holy spirit's describing,
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peace and prosperity, probably during the millennial Kingdom
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Here. Ultimately, and lots of things
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are going to go on there. They don't have time to go
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through poverty is going to be abolished the poor and Afflicted
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will eat and be satisfied, the Earth.
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Be filled with God's Praises, there will be a worldwide
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Revival. The ends of the Earth, will
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remember what Christ did at Calvary, the Lord himself will
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exercise worldwide domination. He will rule the Nations, but I
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want to finish the song tonight with the last five words and
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what powerful words they are that he has done it.
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This is the prophecy of the messiah's last words on the
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cross and most commentators say that the words that he has done.
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Done it have the same meaning as it is finished in John. 19:30,
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when Jesus had received the sour wine, he said it is finished.
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He bowed his head and gave up his Spirit.
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What a fitting conclusion of this song?
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They shall come and Proclaim his righteousness to a people yet,
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unborn, written 1,000 years before Christ's birth, that he
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has done it. What is he?
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Done. He has proclaimed the great work
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of redemption. A special message will be passed
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down from generation to generation.
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That Christ has finished the great work of redemption.
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Now, the Catholic Church would teach that that work is not
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finished, but the prophet David foretold it was and Christ
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himself said, it is finished. The satisfaction of Christ is
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the only satisfaction for sin. And is so perfect and final that
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it leaves no panel. Pineal liability for any sin in
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The Believer. And it makes me think of that
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great verse in Revelation chapter 7, verse 9 to 10 that
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says. After this I looked and behold a
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great multitude that no one could count from every nation
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from all the tribes peoples and language were standing Before
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the Throne and before the lamb clothed in white robes and with
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palm branches in their hands crying out with a loud voice.
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Salvation Belongs To Our God, who sits on the throne and to
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the lamb. So what do we learn tonight?
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Well, I just I'm just stunned by this song but it just makes me
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believe the Scriptures. It makes me want to share the
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scriptures. Many people have called Psalm
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22, The Fifth Gospel. I thought the book of Isaiah was
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the Fifth Gospel, but many commentators are saying, this is
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the Fifth Gospel. Messianic, Psalms like this one
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are prophetic revelation. Confirmed in the New Testament
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and you can go home and take that chart and look up the
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verses which I mentioned up to it.
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So it makes me believe the scriptures are the very living,
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active words of God. It makes me want to obey the
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scriptures when you see the Suffering.
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The Emotions, you know, you can read about Matthew, Mark, Luke
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and John and get the story, The Gospel, which, you know, and
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just, we just had Easter a couple months ago, but here I
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see the suffering in a new light, I see the suffering that
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my savior went through. And I need to die to sin and
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live for him. Galatians 2:20.
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It also reminds me that he will never, he was forsaken, will
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never forsake me Hebrews 13:5 and then it makes me want to
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share the scriptures more. I want to believe them or when
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it will bathe him more and want to share them more.
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I want to be part of bringing people that great congregation
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that these last few verses mentioned.
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And what do we tell him that? He has done it, that Jesus died
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on the cross for our Our sins was buried and rose from the
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dead and ascended, the right hand and then he's coming back
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next week. We're going to look at a Psalm
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50, the Judgment saw. So if people reject Jesus
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Christ, they're going to experience the Wrath and the
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Judgment. That Psalm 50 for takes.
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Let's pray, Father in Heaven, thank you for letting us just
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gloss over this wonderful Psalm but may we leave here tonight
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believing the scriptures believing that this song was
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written. In a thousand years before
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Christ would come and that Christ fulfilled.
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Many Psalms, I believe over 300 of them from his first coming
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from the Old Testament. It shows me that Jesus loved me
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so much that he would under intense suffering pain, in the
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most brutal form of execution, probably ever invented.
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Father, thank you for the love of Christ.
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Help us to live for you as we lift, leave here today, but
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father, especially whether it be in Argentina, whether be in our
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neighborhoods and our workplaces help us to share the great
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message that he has done it. That Jesus Christ has completed
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the work of redemption. And all we need to do now is
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believe in him receive him as Savior.
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Thank you may we share that message as we leave here tonight
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in Jesus name, amen.