All right, brethren, let's turn
in our Bibles to John chapter 19. Let's go to the Lord before
we begin. Our gracious Father, our holy,
matchless, sovereign God and Savior, Lord, we pray that your
kingdom would come today into the hearts of your people
in power that we might see how truly victorious
our Redeemer is and how secure the salvation of each of your
people for whom he died. Lord, help us to see how fully absolutely sovereign you are
in our lives and over all things. And make us, Lord, bow in our
heart. Make us bow in faith and love to our Redeemer. Lord, this
is our need, and this is our prayer. Whatever else you give
us, we're thankful. We praise you. We know it all
is of your hand. Lord, if you would give us this,
Then we have all. Make us know, truly know, Christ
is all. Forgive us, Lord, our sin and
unbelief and our doubting and our minds wandering as we try
to hear your gospel. And do this, Lord, for the name
of your dearly beloved Son, Christ Jesus, our Lord and our Savior. Amen. My subject is scripture fulfilled,
and I want to show you something here before we begin, just by
way of sort of reading some scripture before we begin. John 18, verse 31, Then said Pilate to
them, Take ye him and judge him according to your law. The Jews
therefore said unto him, it is not lawful for us to put any
man to death. Now notice verse 32, that the
saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake signifying what
death he should die. And then in John 19, down in verse 24, after they had crucified
our Lord. Let's read verse 23. Then the
soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and
made four parts to every soldier apart, and also his coat. Now the coat was without seam,
woven from the top throughout. They said, therefore, among themselves,
let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be.
that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, they parted my raiment
among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things,
therefore, the soldiers did." Then down in verse 28, it says,
after this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished,
that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Everything our
Lord did he did fulfilling the prophets. The Lord had written
beforehand through his prophets declaring what Christ would do,
and our Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled everything that was written.
In the ceremonial law, we know it's all shadows and types of
our Lord Jesus Christ. The whole ceremonial law, the
tabernacle is a picture of Christ. The mercy seat, the lamb, the
high priest, those were the shadow. Christ is the express image.
And Christ fulfilled everything typified in the law. Now when
we look at how Christ fulfilled all the scriptures and fulfilled
all the types and shadows, Let this speak to us and understand
that Christ Jesus fulfilled the righteousness of the law for
us, so that he is our only righteousness. That's what we see in him fulfilling
everything. We see a lot of things in it.
We see the faithfulness of God. We see the sovereignty of God.
We see Christ's faithfulness to please the Father, to fulfill
all things, but especially In Him fulfilling the Law and the
Prophets, we see that Christ Jesus is the fulfillment of all
righteousness for His people. Before God you have no sin. If you trust Christ and believe
Christ and He's your righteousness, before God you have not sinned,
you cannot sin, you will never sin, and sin will never be charged
to your account. If that's not good news, there
ain't no such thing. That is the good news of the
Gospel. That is the good news of the Gospel. Now let's see
this, and we see Him fulfill all things, fulfilling the Scripture,
in more than the places where it's said, thus it's written.
We've got to give a spiritual eye as we see this throughout.
We've seen it up to this point. Let's see it again today. Now,
the Lord declared through the prophet Isaiah that man despised
and abhorred Christ and hid our faces from the Lord Jesus. He
said in Isaiah 49, 7, Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel
and His Holy One, to him whom man despiseth. to him whom the
nation abhoreth." That's a prophecy. That's truth in every generation,
and it's a prophecy of how Christ would be regarded. Isaiah 53,
3 said, we hid, as it were, our faces from him. He was despised,
and we esteemed him not. We were too holy and righteous
to have anything to do with Christ. That's why we despised him. That's
why we hid our faces from him. Now, we see this in John 19,
15, when Pilate is sat down in the judgment seat and he said,
behold your king, verse 15, they cried out, away with him, away
with him, crucify him. Pilate said unto them, shall
I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, we
have no king but Caesar. They despised him. They rejected
Him. They hid their faces from Him.
This is what every natural man does then and now. Then and now. The Lord Jesus is the Redeemer
of Israel. He said in Isaiah 49, seven,
thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel. He's the Redeemer
of Israel. He's the Holy One. He's the Holy One. He is the
redemption, the righteousness, the holiness of all his spiritual
Israel who he saved. Our Lord Jesus Christ did. But
due to the enmity of the carnal mind against God, we despised
and rejected him. When God, who created all things,
who gave all the word of God, when he came into this earth,
The enmity of carnal man was to hold on to the scriptures,
pretending we could come to God by what we did, while we reject
the one that all the scriptures declared and said we need. That's the enmity of the heart.
That's why the preaching of the gospel is foolishness to this
world. They'll endure it for a little
while, but after a while they get sick of it. and they won't
endure it. False preachers do with Christ
what Pilate did. Verse 16, then delivered he him
therefore unto them to be crucified. This is what false preachers
do. Pilate said a lot of true things
about the Lord Jesus Christ, but he delivered him over to
the will of the people. You'll hear messages and men
will say some true things. They never preach the gospel
of Christ, but they say some true things. But then they deliver
the Lord over to the will of the people. Now, will you accept
him or will you reject him? That's exactly what Pilate did.
Most of what preaching goes on under the name of Christianity
is Pontius Pilate preaching. Say some good things, then deliver
him to the hands of the people, to the will of the people. Now
secondly, I want you to see how he fulfilled this prophecy as
the Lamb of God. Verse 16 says, Then delivered
he him therefore unto them to be crucified, and they took Jesus
and led him away. They took him and led him away.
Look over at Acts 8. Acts chapter 8, when Philip preached
the gospel to the Ethiopian eunuch, he preached out of Isaiah 53.
And here's what it says, Isaiah, I mean Acts 8, 32. It says, the
place of the scripture which he read was this. He was led,
he was led as a sheep to the slaughter. And like a lamb done
before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth. Isaiah 53-7
is what he was preaching. Isaiah said, all those years
before he was oppressed, he was afflicted, yet he opened not
his mouth. He brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his
mouth. Throughout the Old Covenant,
God showed us we need Christ the Lamb. That was the message
of the whole Old Covenant ceremony. We have to have Christ the Lamb.
They had to offer lambs in the morning. They had to offer lambs
every day in the afternoon. They had to offer lambs any time
they came to offer a thank offering. They had to offer lambs on the
Day of Atonement. They were constantly shedding
blood. Without shedding of blood, there's no remission of sin.
God won't receive us unless we come in the blood of Christ the
Lamb. He is the Lamb that was set forth
throughout the Old Covenant. They would take a spotless lamb,
had to be spotless, Christ knew no sin. And then they would lay
the sins of the children of Israel on that lamb ceremonially. The
Lord Jesus Christ laid down his life for God's elect Israel,
and all the sins of God's people were laid on him. And then with
the sin, that sin-bearing lamb in type, bearing, and I always
say in type when I'm talking about the ceremony, because that
wasn't the actual thing. That was just a shadow. But what
Christ did was real. He was made sin for us who knew
no sin. And when he bore the sin of his
people, then that lamb in that old covenant picture, then he
was fit to be slain. Not until then. But then they
slew him, they killed him and drained his blood. And then the
blood of that lamb, not that sin-bearing lamb, he died, the
sin was put away, justice was satisfied. Then the blood of
that lamb is carried into the holy place, the holiest of holies,
and sprinkled on a mercy seat. And our Lord Jesus Christ, having
obtained eternal redemption for us by laying down his life, by
shedding his blood, he entered in through the Holy Spirit into
the holiest of holies, into God's presence. He is the mercy seat.
He's the blood who purges our sin. He is our acceptance with
God. And here you see him now fulfilling that scripture, being
led forth as a lamb to the slaughter. That's why John the Baptist,
when he saw the Lord Jesus coming, the first message he ever preached,
he said, behold, the lamb of God. This is He that takes away
the sins of the world, the sins of His people scattered all over
the world in every generation. He took them away. He took them
away. It was prophesied by Isaiah that
the Lord would lay on Christ the iniquity of all His people.
That's what Isaiah declared. And that's what we see fulfilled
right here in type even, but then we see it really accomplished
on the cross, but here you see it in type by him bearing his
cross. Verse 17, and he bearing his cross went forth into a place
called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew
Golgotha. The cross our substitute was
actually carrying right then was a wooden cross. But that's
not the cross that our Lord Jesus bore for his people. The cross
our Lord Jesus bore for his people was all the sin of his people
so that the curse of the law was poured out on him in full.
Poured out on him in full. That's the cross he bore. They
compelled Simon the Cyrenian to carry the wood of the cross.
But He could have never carried the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
nor could you and I. Not the real cross, not the curse. That's why Christ came, to take
that off His people, to bear it for us. And that's what our
Lord Jesus bore. By Christ bearing the sins of
His people unto death, by Him bearing that cross and suffering
that cross for us, cursed as everyone that hangeth on a tree,
By Him being cursed in our room instead, He completely, thoroughly
redeemed His people from the curse of the law. Now, when He
calls us, He commands us to take up our cross and follow Him.
That means to believe on Christ and continue trusting Christ
from the beginning to the end, you're going to suffer. You are
going to suffer. You're going to be rejected of
men. You're going to have people say all manner of evil against
you. And you're going to suffer in this world all different sorts
of trials and things that the Lord will bring. But here's the
thing about it. Because the Lord Jesus Christ
bore the cross of our curse for us on Calvary tree, the cross
you're going to bear is very, very light. It's very, very light. It's nothing in comparison to
what our Lord Jesus bore for us. It's nothing. And when we
bear some sort of suffering, it is always, always, always
to put us in mind of the great incomparable suffering that Christ
bore on our behalf. If that's not where we're brought
in our suffering, we've missed the whole point of it. But we
won't miss it if we're God's. He will bring that to your mind
and make you see and think on the things Christ suffered, on
the things He suffered. the wrath of God was poured out
on the Lord Jesus Christ. Now he has no fury toward his
people. Justice is satisfied. He will be merciful to us and
pitiful to us, compassionate to us. That was mercy and pity
and compassion in sending his son to bear that. So in all our
suffering, he will uphold his people. He'll keep you. He'll
keep you looking to Christ. That's the whole purpose of it.
That's the whole purpose of it. So, When our Lord brings us into
suffering, it's not only not gonna be as heavy as our Lord
Jesus bore, Simon only bore that cross for just a little while.
Well, you're only gonna bear suffering for a little while,
just a little while. I know brethren who suffered
their entire life because of something the Lord gave them.
You may suffer your whole life, but it's just gonna be for a
little while. That's just a little while. just a little while. Our
cross is the Lord winning us from this world. It's him bringing
us into the fellowship of Christ's suffering and winning us from
this world. It's our Lord showing us our
salvation is Christ Jesus. He's consecrating us to Christ
in faith and love more and more by making us know Christ is all. And so as Paul said, who suffered
as much if not more of any man, other than Christ, he suffered
greatly in his life. And this is what he said, though
our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by
day. The inward man is renewed day
by day. That's the new man. That's the man that's one with
the Spirit of God, your new man. You're born of the Spirit. You're
one spirit with the Lord in that new man. This outward man is
perishing. He's going back to the dust, but that new man's
renewed day by day, and our light affliction, our light affliction,
our light cross is but for a moment, and it's working for us and exceeding
an eternal weight of glory, making you look at things that are not
seen, but things that are lasting and eternal in Christ our Lord. That's the purpose. That's the
purpose. Now, back in our text in John 19, 17, notice And he, bearing his cross, went
forth. He went forth into a place called
the Place of a Skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha. The Lord Jesus went forth outside
the gate of Jerusalem, outside of the city, And this too is
the fulfillment of scripture. This is the fulfillment of scripture.
I'm trying to show you these fulfillments of these scriptures
so that we can be reminded and be certain that our Lord Jesus
Christ is the righteousness of his people. He's the end of the
whole word of God and he's the end of the law of sin and death
for us. He saves you from the glory of
that old covenant of sin and death. into the glory of the
new covenant of life and peace with him. Now this was the fulfillment
of scripture. He went forth without the count,
Christ being the Lamb of God, Leviticus 16, 27. Let me read
this to you, Leviticus 16, 27. Scripture said this, the bullock
for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering. whose
blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place,
shall one carry forth without the count, and they shall burn
in the fire their skins and their flesh and their dung." That is
being fulfilled right here when you see our Lord Jesus Christ
bearing his cross and going forth to this place called Golgotha.
He's going outside of the camp and the burning that he bore,
the burning fire he bore is the justice of God, the wrath of
God toward him being the one representative of all his people.
And he satisfied that fire. He quenched that fire toward
his people because he bore it all. And that's how he sanctified
his people. That's how he is our sanctification
and our sanctifier. This is what he reveals when
he sanctifies us in the heart. Hebrews 13, 12 said, the Lord
Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood
suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto
him without the count, bearing his reproach. Just like he had
to bear reproach to save us, we'll bear reproach to be saved
by him, but go to him without the count. Leave formal corporate
religion. Leave every hope that you had
in yourself and following of men and trusting men and go to
Christ and trust him and believe him. Go without the count and
trust him. Now thirdly, it was declared
from the garden that Christ would defeat the devil. That was declared
from the garden. He would defeat the devil. He
would crush the devil's head. And we see that fulfilled right
here. The place is called in the Hebrew, Golgotha. Luke calls
it Calvary. But the meaning is the same for
either word. It's the place of a skull or
skull. It was a hill where they killed
people and it just had skulls in it. And it was just a place
of death is what it was. A place of the skull. The Spirit
recorded this twice for us. And that tells us it's important.
This was declared, what Christ accomplished there was declared
way back there in the garden in Genesis 3.15. The Lord Jesus
was declared there when the Lord said to the devil, I will put
enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her
seed. Her seed is Christ. It shall bruise thy head and
thou shalt bruise his heel. Here he is in a place called
the skull. And our Lord Jesus Christ there
put away the sin of his people. And by putting away the sin of
his people, he conquered death for his people. And by doing
both, he crushed the devil's head. He took all the power the
devil had of keeping his people in constant bondage all our life. That's how come we were in bondage.
We were either seeing our sin and in bondage that we're going
to die and God's going to send us to hell, or we were trying
to fix it and do something by our works to make up for it and
never feel like we'd done enough, so we were in bondage in that
regard. But it was nothing but bondage, and it was the devil
accusing, accusing, accusing, accusing. That's what the devil
does. And this is what the scripture
said in Hebrews 2.14, for as much then as the children are
partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took
part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that
had the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver them
who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage. We died in Christ. You here that believe him, that
he's saved by his grace and brought to faith in him, you were in
Christ and you died in Christ. That's done. It's done. You've
died to the justice of God. Now you can go out to a cemetery. There's one right over here.
You can go out to that cemetery and you can accuse that man in
that grave all you want to. It ain't gonna faze him. He already
died. It ain't gonna faze him. Just
know this, you died in Christ. You died in Christ. Satan can
accuse you, accuse you to God. It won't change God's view of
you one iota. And if men accuse you, just remember,
you're that dead man in that grave. Let it faze you about
as much as it fazed that dead man in that grave. You're already
dead. And you're alive in Christ. All right, fourthly. We see that
our Lord is the Savior of sinners and that He identified with sinners.
Verse 18, there they crucified Him and two other with Him on
either side, one and Jesus in the middle. That's where they
crucified Him. That again is a fulfillment of
Psalm 22, 16. He said, dogs have come past
me, the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me, they pierced
my hands and my feet, they crucified me, they nailed me to a cross.
But here's the good news for sinners. There were two sinners
there, one on one side, one on the other side, and our Lord
Jesus Christ in the middle. Isaiah 53, 9 said, he made his
grave with the wicked. Isaiah 53, 12 says, he was numbered
with the transgressors and bare the sin of many. He being numbered
with the transgressors, that's the whole reason he came. That's
why he came, to be numbered with the transgressors. Now men numbered
him with transgressors. Men counted him a transgressor.
But that, that was neither here nor there. That didn't mean anything.
God numbered him with the transgressors. God laid the sin of his people
on him and he stood there as you who were his. That was you. That was you the transgressor
hanging there and God numbered you right there as the transgressor
in Christ and gave us what we deserved, what the law and justice
of God demanded of us. That's why he poured out justice
on our Lord Jesus Christ to declare that God is holy, to declare
he's holy and that he will not clear the guilty. But here's
the good news, because Christ Jesus bore that in the room instead
of his people, God is just to number you with the righteous. And he numbers his people, counts
his people to be the righteousness of God in our Lord Jesus Christ.
And God's not pretending, it's so. It's so. We died under justice. Our old man is dead. Everything
about you, sin nature, everything about you, old man, everything
about you, sin and Adam, has died under the justice of God. And now, in Christ, our righteousness,
we are the righteousness of God. As righteous as God is, that's
how righteous his people are in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
how righteous you are. The righteousness of God. the
righteousness of God. Let's see it in the Scripture,
Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53, verse 11. This was
him fulfilling this. Well, let's begin at verse 10.
It pleased the Lord to bruise him. It brought satisfaction.
It made satisfaction for sin. He hath put him to grief, it
was God doing this, when thou shalt make his soul an offering
for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and
the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall
see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. By his
knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he
shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great, and he shall divide the small with the
strong. with his people, because he hath
poured out his soul unto death, and he was numbered with the
transgressors, and he bare the sin of many, and he made intercession
for the transgressors." Our Lord Jesus Christ served God in perfect
obedience unto the death of the cross for his people. And God
looks at the obedience of his Son and says, that's the obedience
of all my people. He bare the sin of many and He
made intercession for sin. As many as the Lord ordained
to eternal life, He bare the sin of many. It's not a few.
It's a lot of people. It's a multitude. We don't even
have any idea. He bare the sin of many and He
made intercession. He bore the whole of our sins
and all the punishment due to those sins. and thereby he made
satisfaction for the sins of his people. That scapegoat, it
took two different bullocks to represent Christ on the day of
atonement. That one that died and another one that's called
the scapegoat that took the sins away never to be remembered again
into a land not inhabited. That's what Christ our one Lamb
of God did. He answered justice for our sins
and made atonement and he put our sins away forever, forever. He's the author and finisher
of our faith. That means God ain't looking
to you. He's looking to his son. He's
the author and the finisher of our faith. It's by his faithfulness
that we're saved. And by his righteousness now,
we're justified. That means we're acquitted and
absolved of all our sins. God declares that Christ made
us righteous in him. There's no more condemnation
of those born of his spirit who are resting in him by faith and
following him. He did this by his knowledge.
By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many. It was
the wisdom of God we see in Christ when he opened not his mouth.
He went there and bore all of that because it was the only
way he could justify his pride. And he bore it all. And then
it's by his knowledge that he gives you in the new man. the
mind of Christ that makes you know he really accomplished it
so that you cannot do anything else. All your choices in false
religion, they're taken away. You choose this day whom you
serve, whether the false gods on that side of the flood or
the false gods on this side of the flood, and that's what our
choices were. When he's given you the mind of Christ and made
you convinced in your new man that he accomplished this, you
got no more choices. You don't want any more choices.
You're persuaded he is my salvation. Now lastly, notice the place
Christ was lifted up. It was where everybody could
see. Everybody could see. He said in verse 19, Pilate wrote
a title and put it on the cross, and the writing was, Jesus of
Nazareth, the King of the Jews. This title then read, Many of
the Jews. For the place where Jesus was
crucified was nigh to the city. It was where everybody could
see. It was outside of the city, but everybody could see it. And
it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Latin, so everybody
could read it. All could see the Lord Jesus lifted up on the
cross, but none could see but by the Spirit
of God. Everybody could read what was
written, but none could read it with spiritual understanding
and believing except those God gave the mind of Christ. Has
the Lord given you eyes to see and a heart to understand and
to know what you're hearing preached? Sin's the problem. Sin's the
cause of every problem. Sin's what we are. We're the
problem. The cure at all times and for
all time is to look to Christ. Look to Christ. That's foolishness
to the world, but it's not to the man who's been bitten by
the serpent. Our Lord Jesus said, as Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up that
whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Can you imagine if you were there that day when all those serpents
were biting people and the Lord said, you make an image of the
very thing that's causing them to die and lift it up on a pole
in a place where everybody can see it and everybody that looks
to that one will be healed. That's foolishness to a lot of
people, I'm sure, and they died. But those that looked were healed. That's our gospel. Believe on
Christ. Look to Christ and you're healed. Is that the answer to everything
I go through? I face a lot of problems in this
life and there's a lot of random different situations and lots
of just innumerable amounts of troubles we face in this world.
The answer to every single problem. Look to Christ and believe Him
and you'll be healed. You'll be healed. You can't give
anybody any better instruction than that. I don't care what
their problem is. All this carrying on and talking
we try to do to explain things, the best thing you can tell somebody
is look to the Lord Jesus Christ, believe him. That's the best
thing. That's the only instruction I
have for you. If you took everything the Lord
commands us in the scriptures, and you got to the essence of
what every bit of it is, this is it. Look to Christ and believe
Him. That's foolishness to men. That
can't, gotta be more to it than that. If there's more to it than
that, you're looking to yourself. That's it. Look to Christ and
believe Him, and you'll be saved. You'll be saved. They heard the
gospel and the things that was said that day. He saved others,
himself he cannot save. That's the gospel. He's the substitute. And there was one hanging on
that cross. By the Spirit of God, he was given a mind to understand. And he was given eyes to see
who that was hanging there by him. And he saw him as all his
salvation. He said, I'm getting exactly
what I deserve. This is the Lord from heaven. This is salvation. And he asked
him, Lord, will you remember me when you come into your kingdom?
He believed God. He believed he was the Lord.
He believed he was entering his kingdom that day. And he believed
he needed Christ to save him or he couldn't be saved. And
you want to talk about there's something else to be done? The
message God declares us in that repentant thief hanging there
with his feet nailed to that cross is they ain't but one thing
you can do to be saved. Believe Christ. That's all he
could do. That's all you can do. That's
all you can do. And you can only do that by the
Spirit of God. Has the Lord convinced you that
you are the sinner? Has he convinced you that everything
you are and everything you do and everything you say is sin? That's so. That's all we are
in our flesh. That's all we are in our flesh.
And so the new man is conformed to the image of Christ right
now. Colossians says that. We're created after the image.
And the new man is created after the image of Him that created
him right now. But not our flesh. Our flesh
won't be till the day we're adopted into glory. So that means everything we do
right now has evil present with it, everything, the best things. That means we need Christ to
save us. We need Christ to be our only
acceptance with God, our only righteousness with God. Has God
convinced you of this? Has he convinced you Christ is
your only righteousness? Has he made you look and live?
Have you seen he's the fulfiller of everything this book declares? This book's about God's son and
the salvation that he is for his people. This is how everybody
shall be saved that God saved. Christ Jesus fulfilled the law
and the prophets at Calvary. The Lord even prophesied what
the soldiers would do with his garments. I won't read the whole
thing, but they took his garments and they made four parts and
they cast lots for the garments and they did it. Verse 24 says
that the scripture might be fulfilled. These things therefore the soldiers
did. That shows us that Christ really fulfilled everything because
here he is hanging on a cross and yet by his sovereign will
men are doing exactly what he said they'd do to fulfill the
scriptures. He brought that to pass. that the scripture might be fulfilled.
In verse 28, after this, knowing that all things were now accomplished,
that the scripture might be fulfilled, he said, I thirst. And there
was set a vessel full of vinegar, and they filled the sponge with
vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it in his mouth. And
when Jesus, therefore, had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished.
And he bowed his head, and he gave up the ghost. The soldiers
rent that garment to fulfill scripture, and they cast lots
for that garment to fulfill scripture. There is a garment that can't
be bought, it can't be, lots can't be cast for it, it can't
be bartered for. It is a complete, seamless garment,
and it's Christ's righteousness. It's Christ's righteousness.
He did that on Calvary's cross for his people, and he said,
it is finished. Do you see him? Do you believe
him? Do you trust him? Those that believe him, he robes
in that seamless garment of his righteousness. Perfection in
him. Perfection in him. Now, sinner,
you come to Christ today. You believe him. He said, come
unto me, all you that are laboring and are heavy laden. Stop your
working for salvation and come to Christ. And he said, I will
give you rest. I'll give you rest for your soul.
And believer, you do the same thing. Seeing that he fulfilled
all prophecy, you rest assured Christ is our righteousness and
we're made righteousness in him. Is his cross heavy to you? Then
come to Christ and believe him right now. He'll give you rest
for your soul right now. He'll show you your afflictions
light. He'll show you it's just for a moment. He'll show you
Him and what He bore for you and it'll be just, it'll just
be so light to you. He's our life. He's our house
not made with hands eternal in the heavens. See, from the day
He calls us, to the day we're with Him in glory, we never stop
looking to Christ, we never stop believing Christ, we never stop
coming to Christ. This is the life of a believer,
coming to Christ. Every morning we come to Him,
throughout the day we come to Him, in the evening we come to
Him, all our day we're coming to Christ, in the good times,
in the bad times, Whatever the time, we're coming to Christ
constantly. We're doing it because He keeps
drawing you to Him. You're going to try to turn,
try to find another solution. He's going to show you, that
ain't going to work. You're going to have to come back and trust
Me. And He'll keep you coming to Him. And one day we'll be
with Him forever. Amen. Father, thank you for this
word. Thank you for our Redeemer. Thank
you for our salvation in him. Lord, make those that don't know
you to come to Christ and believe him. Make us that do know you
come to Christ and believe him. Lord, heal us and make us to
know it is finished. Lord, we thank you. Thank you
for all this free, sovereign, sheer salvation we have in our
Redeemer. It's in his name we ask it. Amen.