Marker there in Psalm 110, we're
going to look at one verse in John 18. I was thankful Kimberly
worked so hard this weekend so we could have services Sunday
and then everything kind of reset itself. And Mike and Karen texted
me this morning and said, we're able to help. Can we come do
anything? I said, sure, I'll tell you what it is after you
get here. And they labored for hours and
cleaned everything and still a bit of work left to do, but
so I could study. And I told him, I thanked him
at the end. I said, I feel so guilty. I mean, I've done those
kinds of jobs, but I feel so guilty. Like you just had a horrible
job. And I got to sit and read the
word of God. And I think he gave me a message. It's this one is
better than bull yawns It's good to me and boy if he'll teach
us something. It's gonna be good to you, too
You're gonna be happy I'm gonna have to set a real big table
before we eat dessert I'm gonna have to look at a lot of things
to to get to the point. We're gonna turn some but I pray
this will be a blessing to you the title of uh a few people
preached from this verse so i didn't steal nobody's title same brook
different david keep track of titles it's a good thing to write
down same brook different david it says here in john 18 verse
1 john 18 verse 1 It says, when Jesus had spoken
these words, what words? Everything we've been reading
for a couple months now. He just prayed his high priestly
prayer concerning the redemption of his people and the keeping
of his people. When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth
with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into
the which he entered and his disciples. Just one text, one
verse. So easy to read over those things,
isn't it? That's the gospel laying before us. Jesus had spoken. He went forth with his disciples.
Who was with him, his disciples were. They went over the brook
Cedron to a garden. He entered into the garden. and
his disciples. Well, didn't he just say he was
with his disciples? Yes, that's important, too. There's no idle
words written in these scriptures. We may not have the insight of
the Spirit that has blessed us to understand what they are,
but nothing's idle. This will be precious to you,
I believe. We're going to spend the bulk of our time in 2 Samuel 15, if
you want to turn there. 2 Samuel 15. Throughout the scriptures,
there's a lot of types of Christ, and sometimes there's anti-types.
We looked at that with Abraham when he went down to Egypt. Everything he did was opposite
of what the Lord did. A pattern of what not to do.
Sometimes there's types, and sometimes there's anti-types.
It's the opposite. And sometimes it's really not
clear. It kind of goes back and forth.
Joseph's a wonderful type of Christ. Benjamin's a type of
the church in a few verses, and Judah's a type of Christ, and
he's a type of me. We'll see this here with David.
David walked across that brook that our Lord had just crossed
over with his disciples, over the brook seed drawn a few hundred
years before. Absalom, this is an account of
Absalom's conspiracy. It was when David was being pursued
by his son. Absalom wanted to be king. He
wanted the kingdom. He wanted to be the boss. and
he did not want to wait until his daddy died. He wanted it
right now. And he went behind the back of
God's king, of God's prophet, and he said all the things he
would do better than David. Man ain't changed one lick. Say
nice things to your face and then go behind your back and
sow discord and sow conspiracies and sow doubt and put question
marks on God's people. He went behind his back. He said,
I'll do all these things better than daddy does. He goes, when
I'm in office, I'll do people justice. The economy is going
to be strong. We'll keep law and order in this
town. You're going to be happy. You're going to have food in
your pantry. He was a politician. Nothing's changed. Nothing's
changed. He was kissing people. He went
through and kissed them. And I thought, boy, he's running
for office. He's trying not to get kicked out forcibly after
he killed his father, is what he's doing. But he was politicking,
wasn't he? It says here in 2 Samuel 15,
verse 10. But Absalom sent spies throughout
all the tribes of Israel, saying, as soon as you hear the sound
of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth, in Hebrew. It'll be announced, as soon as
you know, everything will be fine. You just wait for the sound of that
trumpet. And with Absalom went 200 men out of Jerusalem that
were called, and they went in their simplicity. They knew nothing
at all. There's 200 with him, and they
didn't really know what was going on. They didn't understand this. They were just, here's the head
prince. He said, go do this. Prince Harry
said, go do these things. Okay. They went and did it. They
were innocent in this. But verse 12 says, and Absalom
sent for Ahithophel. The Gillonite, that's David's
counselor, David's right-hand man, his friend, his confidant,
from his city, from Gillow, while he offered sacrifices, went down
and got him out of church. And the conspiracy was strong,
for the people increased continually with Absalom. This grassroots
movement was growing. And there came a messenger to
David. saying, the hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom. Now look here at verse 14. And
David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem,
Arise, let us flee, for we shall not escape from Absalom. Make
speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly and bring evil upon
us. and smite the city with the edge
of the sword. They came and told David, they
said, your son that you loved, you took care of, you provided
for, and you kept him when he was sick, and you taught him
how to play sports, how to throw a baseball, you was with him
and raised him, and you loved him, your very flesh and blood
that you spent so much time with is your enemy, and he's gonna
try to kill you. Later they're gonna tell him
about his friend, Ahithophel. That's whenever he wrote Psalm
41. He said, yea, my own familiar friend whom I trusted, which
did eat of my bread hath lifted up his heel against me. That
goes for both, doesn't it? That goes for Absalom and Ahithophel.
That's a picture of Judas and our Lord. Just like in John 18. They're sitting there just waiting
for Judas to show up. They didn't know, the disciples
didn't know that, but the Lord did. He's in no hurry. He got there right
on time, patiently waiting. David was being informed. He
had to be told what was happening. Our Lord always knew what would
come to pass and it was his counsel to do so. It was his will. My pastor caught somebody's attention
one time and he said, don't you spend too much time feeling sorry
for the Lord Jesus Christ. Those things are horrible events.
It was on his will. He's the king. It happened because
he wanted it to happen and he was glorified in it. And that's
right. But David had to be informed.
Our Lord didn't. This is kind of an anti-topic. David was so
mighty. He was in good shape. He was
bold to speak. He was handsome. He was a warrior.
Our Lord came in the flesh, a triune God in a body, meek, long-suffering,
nothing about him physically that we would highly esteem in
his body or his possessions. Didn't own nothing, didn't own
land. That first David, he said, let us flee, arise, let us flee. The second David said, arise,
let us go, follow me. David's about to say, you all
go and I'll come later. Our Lord said, I'll go. I'll go first. At first, David, he was a father
fleeing from his son to avoid wrath. That's what it is, isn't
it? He was running away from Absalom,
a father fleeing from his son to avoid wrath. Right there in
John 18, in that garden, after they crossed that brook, it was
the second David, that's the son, purposefully going to his
father to be made sin and bear wrath. You see the opposite there? David, that first one, he was
escaping pain. He was escaping death. And that
second David, he had set his face like a flint with joy. I'm sure King David tore all
to pieces. His son's after him. Now he's
got to run. How are we going to feed everybody? And I'm tired.
I've been up for three days. Tore all to pieces, wasn't he?
Our Lord went to that cross for the joy set before him. Willingly,
he endured the cross, drinking every cup of wrath for his people. And in verse 14 it says, And
David said unto his servants, all his servants that were with
him at Jerusalem said, Arise, let us flee, for we shall not
escape from Absalom. Make speed to depart. Hurry up. Lest he overtake us suddenly
and bring evil upon us and smite the city with the edge of the
sword. He said, Make speed, make speed. Our Lord went into that
second garden and prayed. David said, Hurry up, grab what
you can get and let's go. Our Lord had just got through
praying his high priestly prayer, they went to Gethsemane, and
he said, sit down, I'm gonna pray. Ain't no rush in praying. I'm gonna speak to the Father.
Sit down, y'all sit down. Stay awake with me and pray with
me, but I'm gonna go pray. He said, lest he overtake us
suddenly, he might just pop out behind a tree. Christ waited
patiently for Judas and his band to arrive. Half a battalion,
that's 400 and 500 people or so as a band. coming over the hill, you'd hear
him coming. Lord, that was the time and the place and the moment
that everything had been foreordained. This was that hour's kicking
off right now. He just sat down and said, time
for me to pray. Have a seat. Judas is coming. David's scared
to death. He said, he might bring evil
upon us. You think David knew he was evil?
I already am evil, David. Our Lord went to that garden
and he put away sin, the events that took place that evening.
He put away sin. He put away the accusations.
He put away the accuser of the brethren, crushed his head. He
wouldn't worry about evil being brought on him. He's putting
away evil. my evil as far as the east is from the west, yours
and David's. David was worried about the city
falling, said he might smite the city with the edge of the
sword. Christ was about to eternally secure and raise his holy city,
Zion, his kingdom, his bride. That's what he was doing. Look
at the similarities and some of the difference between the
people too, of Christ's people, verse 19. 2 Samuel 15, 19. Then said the king unto Attea,
the Gittite, wherefore goest thou also with us? Why are you
coming with us? Return to thy place and abide
with the king. You go back to Absalom, where
thou art a stranger in an exile, whereas thou camest but yesterday.
Should I this day make thee go up and down with us? You just
showed up. This is a picture of the youngest believer there
is in the church of God. the one that the Lord just revealed
himself as king to five minutes ago. He said, you just got here
yesterday. I'm gonna make you go over where we go. One thing
to wear a cross, another thing to bear it. I won't do that to you. Seeing
I go, whether I may return now and take back thy brethren, mercy
and truth be with thee. You go home, go find you a place
of safety and mercy and truth be with, Lord be with you. We
got a battle about to take place. Gonna be some bloodshed, you
don't need to be around for this. And Attea answered the king and said,
as the Lord liveth, and as my lord, lowercase l, the king,
lowercase k, you, David, as the Lord liveth, and as my king,
David, liveth, surely in what place, my lord, the king shall
be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant
be. If you want to turn left, two
books. Just before 1 Samuel is Ruth. This is something that
rings true with the Old Testament believer and the New Testament
believer. From the old to the modern day, nothing changes.
Lord, where you are, that's where I'm going to be. I thought of
Ruth here. Naomi, they're down in Moab here
in Ruth 1 verse 9. Naomi was trying to run them
off. Her husband had died, both her sons had died. She's got
two daughter-in-laws with her. And she said, just like David
did, that servant, Ruth 1.9, the Lord grant you that you may
find rest. You go mercy and truth be with
you. The Lord be with you. Each of you in the house of her
husband, you're free. You're free. Go. Verse 15. And she said, she's speaking
to Ruth, speaking to Ruth, she said, behold, thy sister-in-law
has gone back unto her people. And unto her gods, return thou
after thy sister-in-law." Two daughters here I'm talking to,
both of them cried, both of them hugged them. We may look at this
passage again next week whenever they sought Jesus. A whole bunch
of people looking for a person named Jesus, ain't they? So they'd be like her. And verse
16, and Ruth said, entreat me not to leave thee, or to return
from following after thee. For whither thou goest, I will
go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my
people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die,
and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more
also, if aught but death part thee and me. When she saw that
she was steadfastly minded to go with her, Then she left speaking
unto her. She stopped trying to run her
home. How was she steadfastly minded, Ruth? She had a new mind
in her. Let this mind be in you. That's
the whole of you. That's a new creation. How was this servant
of David so steadfastly minded to whether you live or die, I'm
with the king. You're mine. You're my brother
and my king and my prophet. We're in this together. I'll
die with you. He had a new mind in him, didn't
he? Our Lord spoke to his disciples, look here in John 6. John chapter
6. Good for us to look at these
things and even if we're real familiar with them, some people
learn by hearing, some people learn by reading, other people
learn by doing. But if we do all three, it's
better, isn't it? John 6 verse 60. John 6 verse
60. Many, therefore, of his disciples,
when they had heard this, said, this is a hard saying. Who can
hear it? What was he saying? He said,
if you want to eat my flesh and drink my blood, I'm going to
have to be the totality of your life for you to have life. I
ain't going to be the biggest part of your life. I have to
be it in totalness. And they said, this is hard.
Who can hear it? What are you talking about? You mean give
up where I live? You mean give up my friends?
Give up my way of life? My family? My mom and dad? My church friends that we've
been buddies for eons?" He said, yeah. The totality is a person. That's salvation, isn't it? And
they said, who can hear this? This is hard. And when Jesus
knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto
them, does this offend you? Does that offend you? What if
you shall see the son of man ascend up where he was before? It's the spirit that quickeneth,
the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you,
they're spirit, they're life. But there are some of you that
believe not, for Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that
believed and who should betray him. He knew those things. And
he said, therefore said I unto you that no man can come unto
me, except it were given unto him of my father. Stay with me. You have a life inside of you
that must stay with him. If that life ain't there, it's
just, that's a hard thing to understand. Y'all want to go
golfing? Go back to the way things were? From that time, many of
his disciples went back and walked no more with him. Thousands,
huh? And Jesus said to the 12, will
you go away also? You want to go too? He wasn't
chasing nobody in the parking lot, begging him to stay. what mankind would call the worst
ministry, day in a ministry ever. 5,000 left. And he looked at
those inner circle, those that's been so close with him, said,
you gonna go too? Here's your chance. Simon Peter said to him,
Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ,
the son of the living God. That's you. Live or die, it don't
matter. We're knit together. We're one.
As the father had prayed or as Christ had prayed to the father
there in John 17, I pray that they're one like we're one. That's
exactly what happened. That's what this looks like.
I can't go nowhere. This is my life. A man that doesn't
know the Lord one time, but knows me, and you're gonna hear enough
of it if you're around me long enough. Somebody said, well,
what if you change your mind and you quit believing in God
and you move all the way out there to San Diego? And he laughed out loud.
He goes, that ain't gonna happen. He said, I've been around him
for 20 years, that ain't happening. I wish he was knit to that one
and knit to his people. Those that are one with Christ
makes us family, don't it? Look back in 2 Samuel 15, 2 Samuel
15. Verse 22, David said to Athtea,
go and pass over. And that day the Gittite passed
over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with
him, the whole crew, and all the country wept with a loud
voice. Oh, they cried. They said, y'all
go on, go. And they were leaving their king.
They were leaving their brother. They were leaving that sweet
psalmist of Israel, that one that told them plainly about,
I've sinned against the Lord. Some holier-than-thou squeaky
clean fella. He was just like us! And he knew
God, and I wanted to be with him. And he says, go! He's a
king, we gotta listen to him. And they wept. They cried. And all the people passed over. And the king also himself passed
over the brook Kidron. That's the old way of spelling
it. That's the Hebrew. Sidron. Same stream. Same stream. They were crying
going over, and he followed. The king also himself passed
over the book Kidron, and all the people passed over toward
the way of the wilderness. That first David said, go and
pass over, and then he followed them. He wasn't no different
than them, he was with them. That second David cries, come,
I've passed over. I'm the forerunner. He's the
hope, the anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, which
entered into that within the veil. He went into that place
we weren't allowed into. He went into that holiest of
holies, the presence of God. That's the place he went to prepare
for us. Reconciliation with the Father,
we offended. Whether the forerother is for
us entered, even Jesus made a high priest forever after the order
of Melchizedek. And what's his word to us, old
or new? Come. Come on. Isaiah 55 says, ho everyone
that thirsteth, go ye to the water. No, he said, come. All
right, he took care of the waters. Come. And he that hath no money,
come ye, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price. If somebody's itching to die
in this body, there's probably something wrong with them. Naturally, I've never done that.
I never jumped out of an airplane. I never bungee jumped. There's
things I haven't done that I just don't really want to do. I don't
like going to the dentist. I'm not really interested in
that mode of death. Our Lord already died and He already raised.
He's conquered death. That's a brief thing. That's
a lot of affliction. What if it's a whole bunch of
pain for five years? That's nothing. That's nothing. That's all right. I'm going to
be with Him. I'm gonna be in a garden with him. Verse 30,
2 Samuel 15, 30. David went up by the ascent of
Mount Olivet. That's the Mount of Olives. And
wept as he went up. He had his head covered and he
went barefoot. And all the people that were
with him covered every man his head. And they went up weeping
as they went up. This is hallowed ground. Take
your shoes off. I don't know if he entered into
what was going to take place at that very spot on this earth. Not
that that's a different place to worship God in any other place,
but powerful place. Verse 31. And one told David
while he was going up this hill barefoot, going to plead to God. One told David saying Ahithophel
is among the conspirators with Absalom. He thought it was bad enough,
your son, now your counselor, your very best friend. We have a friend that's closer
than a brother, and this life may get whittled down till he's
all we have left, and that's a good place to be. It's miserable
in the flesh, and it's joyous in the spirit. They told David
as he climbed this hill, his son's after him, they said, your
best friend, your counselor, your right hand of Hithophel,
he's among the conspirators. So David prayed, and David said,
oh Lord, I pray thee, Turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. Oh, what he's doing, make him
see his foolish ways. Lord, deal with this friend of
mine. Oh, we're already in, it's bad enough already. You're teaching
us a lesson and I'm willing to learn, but Lord, please just
take a pressure off a little bit and save my friend. He liked him. Work in him. Show him he's a fool. We're all
fools, ain't we? Stand on our own, going against
the Lord and his people. That's foolish, going against
his word. He said, be with him. Be with him. Mark 14. John didn't record it out of
the Gospels. He was the only one that didn't, but our Lord
stood in that exact same place. where David prayed, where he
was crying, and he had his shoes off and his head covered, and
he prayed to the Lord, turning the council of Ahithophel to
foolishness. And he told those with him, he took them up there,
and he said, sit here while I shall pray. And he took Peter and James
and John with him, and they began sore, amazed, and very heavy.
And the Lord said to him, he said, my soul is exceeding sorrowful
unto death, tarry ye here and watch. Stay right here. Lord, forgive them, they don't
know what to do. This is in that garden right
before Judas comes, John Mark 14. And he went forward a little,
and he fell on the ground, and he prayed that if it were possible
that the hour might pass from him. He said, Abba, Father, all
things are possible unto thee. Take away this cup from me. Take us away. Out loud, so we
could understand the weight. When he said, Father, why have
you forsaken me? He knew exactly why the father
had forsook him. We needed to know that he was
forsaken, because that's us. He said, Father, take away this
cup from me. David prayed, turn the counsel
of Ahithophel unto foolishness. And then our Lord said, Mark
14, 36, nevertheless, not what I will, But what thou will, nor
if it's possible, take this cup from me, but not my will, your
will be done. Your will be done. Luke verse
32. That are in a verse 31 and David
said Lord I pray thee turn the council of Ahithophel into foolishness
and it came to pass This wasn't in the same breath. You see that
a little bit like five seconds five minutes. I don't know But
not in the same breath. It came to pass that when David
was come to the top of the mountain Where he worshipped God He worshipped
God, how did he worship? Not my will, but thy will be
done. Have you ever prayed for something like, Lord, just let
this utility in our building be fixed so we can have services,
or let me pay my rent this month, or let one of my children do
this or that, or whatever, anything, big or small. And you ask for
things, and you go, I probably don't know what's right. I probably
don't know what's good for me, because I ain't got enough sense.
That's just petitioning, right? Worship takes place after that,
when you say, Lord, thy will be done. We're going to worship
God. Father, glorify your name. Your
will be done. Well, that ain't fancy enough. God called it worship. When he
worshiped, that's what he called worship. Father, thy will be
done. Thy will be done. Back in John
18, I'm going to show you one more thing. John 18, verse 1. Just one verse, but Lord show
us, let us see and hear what was accomplished from this statement.
There are no other words. John 18, verse 1. When Jesus
had spoken these words, everything told him that whole night from
chapter 13. He went forth with his disciples, they were with
him, over the brook Cedron, not scared, not, well, that's the
best hope we got, let's put our eggs in this basket, confidently,
where there was a garden. He was going to a place, a garden,
into which he entered. He didn't intend on going to
the garden, he entered into it, and his disciples. Them with
those that were with him in the beginning those that were living
with him as he was born into this earth And he lived in this
earth and he hung on that cross and he died and was raised again
never changed His people's always been with him, ain't they? Said
he entered in and his disciples on the word The will, the command
of the triune God, the Lord Jesus Christ, went for all of His disciples
and with all of His disciples over the brook, entered the garden,
and us with Him. In case we forgot in a half a
breath, us with Him. There's some gardens, I'm gonna
work this a little bit backwards. There's some gardens mentioned
by the Lord. The first one that come to mind
was the one that he made. And he said, this is good. And
he put Adam in it. And he said, we've made man,
we took from his side, made woman, this is good. All the plants
and animals and everything. He said, it's good, it's good.
What happened in that garden? People wanna give quizzes on
TV to people on the street, go ask them what happened in the
garden. Man died. He didn't stub his toe. He didn't
get his feelings hurt. He didn't limp a little bit.
He died in the garden. Second garden, Yosemite. That's
where he gave himself and we went free. We'll look at that
next week. He said, you want me? You take
me and you let these go. Substitution, liberation, freedom. Restoration, isn't it? That was
the second one. The third one. That's where there
was proof of this accomplishment. We died in Adam. We live in Christ. Well, how are we going to know?
When's that payment going to take place? It says in John 19,
when they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen cloth with
the spices as the manner of the Jews was to bury. Now in the
place where he was crucified, there was a garden. There was
a garden. And in the garden, a new sepulcher
wherein was never man laid yet. We died in that garden. We live
in Gethsemane's garden because he stood for us and drunk of
that brook for us. I'm getting ahead of myself,
but that's where he interceded for us and prayed for us. And
then we were in that garden where that tomb was. We were buried
with him. Where's he at now? We've got
an empty tomb. He's risen, isn't he? What's our garden right now? I'm on this earth. All my tomato
plants are gone. I tried to grow a garden and
can't. What kind of garden I got now, says Jeremiah 31. Therefore
they shall come and sing in the height of Zion and shall flow
together to the goodness of the Lord for wheat and for wine and
for oil and for the young of the flock of the herd. And their
soul shall be as a watered garden. and they shall not sorrow any
more at all. That's when the Lord comes and
waters his garden inside of you. He plows it, he plants his seed,
he puts his water in it, he makes it to grow. And whenever that's
what we're looking at, his work, his doing, his person, his accomplished
work, there's no sorrow. What you sad about? The work's
done, isn't it? How does that take place? He
said, I'm the true vine, and my father's the husbandman. Where's
vine at in a garden? He does the work. What about
that final garden? Song of Solomon 5 says, I am
come into my garden, my sister, my spouse. That's us. I have gathered my myrrh with
my spouse. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey. I've drunk my
wine with my milk. Eat, oh ye friends. drank ye,
drank abundantly, O beloved." I've done all this. That's in
you now. Have a glass of wine. Get you
some honeycomb, sit down. How is it that we are escaped
from wrath and made pure, settled into the Lord's garden? Those
that fell in that garden of Eden, Adam, me, I fell a whole lot
quicker. I fell in him, I fell in myself
and conception and every lie I've told from there on and all
the stuff I don't even know. How is it that I could be in
his garden? How is it he could be just and
justify me? He drank of that brook because
we could not. Look here at John 18 verse 1
again. Remember, these aren't idle. When Jesus had spoken these
words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden into which
he entered and his disciples. That's the whole gospel right
there. You know what that brook Cedron was? Remember reading
there in Psalm 110, if you got a marker, you can look at it
again. Psalm 110. The Lord said to my Lord, And
to completion of this, set thou my right hand until I make thine
enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of
thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of thine
enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power
and the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning.
Thou hast the due of thy youth. Those people with David, they
crossed that brook with tears, didn't they? Tears of weeping.
Uncertainty. We crossed that brook of Jordan
with tears of joy. Precious in the sight of the
Lord is the death of his saints, isn't it? The Lord hath sworn
and will not repent. Thou art a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand shall
strike through kings in the day of Israel. He shall judge among
the heathen. He shall fill the places with
the dead bodies. He shall wound the heads over
many countries. What a victorious and mighty
king we have. Hopefully what we've been looking
at, this won't be out of place anymore. Look at verse seven.
How? How's this gonna happen? How's
he gonna be my king? He's king. I want to be in his
kingdom. He died for a people. I want
to be that people. How is that right? He shall drink
of the brook in the way. Therefore shall he lift up the
head. He's going to stoop down and
drink of that brook. John didn't mention that. He
didn't say that, did he? Bet you the Lord bent over and
scooped that water up and drunk it as he stepped over it. They
might not have even seen him. They didn't even know what was
happening. What was this brook? I talked about the garden first,
but how are we gonna get to the garden? You gotta go over the
brook. What's this brook? Those names, Kidron and Seadron,
same thing. Same thing. One's Greek, one's
Hebrew. Both of them mean darky, ashy, dusky, mourning, as in
sad. Nasty water, ugly water, that's
what it means. That's the same brook that King
Josiah made all those polluted vessels be crushed and burnt
and all the ashes being scattered in there in 2 Kings 23. That's
the same brook, same little tiny stream that Hezekiah, when he
was king, all that uncleanness he found in the house of the
Lord, they carried it to that brook and they put it in and
they burned it and they destroyed it in that waters. That's sin,
iniquity, self-righteousness. Horrible things, isn't it? Some of the old writers, they
pointed out the fact this brook, it was in a direct runoff from
the temple. All the blood of bulls and goats
that could not satisfy run through there. All the attempts that
I had, that you had, of making God happy and then debting him
to us, now he owes us something. That's what flowed through that
little tiny creek. That little brook. Nastiness. Sin's what
it was. Sin of his people. That had to
be dealt with for me and you to go back to a garden. You see
that? He had to drink of the brook
along the way, and the head, cross our head, had to be lifted.
He's gonna be exalted for doing such a thing. That toilet backing
up this week and the plumbing problems we had. Nasty. Plumber
was stalling. I've worked with a lot of people
and I spot a good worker and a bad worker pretty quick. He's
a pretty good worker and he was stalling. I knew exactly what
he was doing. He was putting that off. He didn't want to fool
with it and he just kept mumbling around. He said, that's a that's
an ugly problem you've got. That's an ugly problem you've
got and I just about couldn't stand to be in the room. It was
ugly. That was nasty. Black dark, ashy, looked like
crude oil coming up out of there, and smelled horrible, a stench
in the nose. And I thought, the Lord becoming
sin for us, being made sin for us, being made me is so much
infinitely worse than if I got a coffee cup, went and scooped
that up out of there, and took a drink out. You couldn't pay
me. You'd have knocked me out. That ain't a drop in the bucket
to what that river represented. What that cup of sin he was about
to be made, and that cup of wrath that goes hand in hand with it. The wages of sin is death. You
can't have sin without death, and you can't have death without
sin. Like sin's life, that's Christ. Mercy and grace, can
you distinguish the two? They go hand in hand. That was a continuation of thought
in 2 Corinthians 5. For he hath made him sin for
us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of
God in him. Well, it just says he passed
over a brook and went into a garden with some people, and those people
were with him when he went in the garden. Yeah, it says a whole lot. What
an event. Our second David. The one greater
than David. Our king did for us. We can't
even enter into. I thought about that. I was like,
I wonder why John, maybe John didn't see. but they followed
the Lord. He'd have been in front of them,
but he ends that gospel. He said, and there's so many
other things which Jesus did, the witch, if they should be
written, everyone, I suppose that even the world itself could
not contain the books that should be written. Amen. Amen. How many years do you think?
And that's just what little bit he gave me this week. How many
years do you think it'd take? Lord could expound on that and
show himself in those scriptures like those two, the road of the
mass. Did you know Sidron was Kidron? That's where Josiah was. That's where Hezekiah was. That's
the same place. That's where he chose from eternity past.
I'm going to be sitting right there, praying to the Father.
They're going to be sleeping, and that's when Jesus is going
to walk out. My hithephel, my absalom is going to come up right
there, that same spot. Well, Lord willing, next week
we'll look at that betrayal and the substitution with it. Let's
pray together. Father, thank you for your word.
Lord, as you open that up to our hearts, what a, what a king
we have and whether I live or whether I die, I'm going to be
where he is. Oh, keep us. Thank you for that heart you
put in your people to desire to be with your people and to
be with Christ and worship him, gather together and say, thy
will be done. or keep us there as you promised
you will be. Thank you for this hour. Thank
you for the events of this week. Thank you for our brethren and
the trials. And thank you for our enemies,
Lord. Make us pray for them. They may be our brethren. Forgive us, Lord, of our sin.
It's because of Christ only we approach your throne. Amen. All
right, brother Mike.