All right, brethren, John 19.
We've been in here for a while. I have four points for you this
evening and a question concerning this text. Christ was taken down
from that cross. That's our beginning. That's
our state that we're in. There was no broken bones in
him when they took him down, but a spear had pierced him.
in the side, and he was looked on. He was looked on. And then I want to ask you a
question at the very end. Do we look on him? Do we look on
him? I pray we do. Our Lord had just
said those three precious words, the good news, the salvation. It's finished. It's finished. That's the ocean of thought and
a thimble of words. It is finished. What was finished? That's what we looked at the
last time. The law was fulfilled. Every jot and diddle. The fulfilling
of all the scriptures. Everything was accomplished.
the covering of our sin in his own blood, him giving us his
righteousness, the crushing of the head of Satan, that great
accuser of the brethren, a place of reconciliation, a place of
atonement, atonement with the Father was made. So I gotta prepare a place for
you, a mercy seat, right? That's where they met, and that
holiest of holies, a mercy seat. Remember the other word for mercy
seat? Propitiation, that's it. And by doing that, by establishing
that, by him being the mercy seat, he gives us the ability
to come boldly to that throne. What a thought. Hebrews 4 says, we have not a
high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.
But he was in all points tempted, just like we are. He's our kinsman,
yet without sin. That means he's able. Let us
therefore, because of that, come boldly unto the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of
need." Who did he do this for? The Lord said it's finished.
When we see what was finished, well, who was it finished for?
He said, my friends. Isn't that a thought? Does that ever keep you up at
night? He called me a friend. He said, greater love hath no
man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
He said, you're my friend. Look at all the apostles there. If he laid down his life for
them, he laid down his life for us, that means he's our friend. Sticks
closer to brother, we're his friends. That's a special thing,
isn't it? There's some people in this world,
I say, that's my friend. I know them, I'll tell you about it,
too. And there's some people in this world I don't call friends.
I'll tell you that I ain't their friend. I know them. I ain't
friends with them. Seeing these things finished,
seeing that law fulfilled, seeing Christ our Lamb dying for us,
seeing all the Old Testament types of pictures coming to pass
in the person of our Redeemer and our Lord. seeing all those
things. They've been recorded right here
for us. That's for the child of God that they might believe. What we're gonna look at tonight
is that, John said it right here in his word, that you might believe.
Look here in verse 35, John 19, 35. And he that saw it, that's
John the apostle, he bare record. How'd he do that? Oh, you're
reading it. He wrote it down. And his record is true, and he
knoweth that he saith true. I know what I believe, I know
what I saw, that ye might believe. He told us what happened between,
it is finished, and Joseph of Arimathea coming, that ye might
believe. We're gonna look at these things
tonight. And a child of God might be born tonight. Wouldn't that
be something? If God made us believe on him
today, and if we believed before, maybe we believe tonight like
we've never believed. Like it's the first time. Wouldn't
that be precious? If this wasn't just sitting through
some sermon and God spoke to our hearts. I pray that day in
and day out. I think he does. And I'm going
to ask him again tonight. We're given the faith to believe
God to believe his word. We're going to rejoice in the
majesty of him and everything to do about him We will I've heard some message
I've sent y'all two messages read that last message I sent
everybody to you can't sit down and tell me the three R's in
there You can't clearly define tulip in it Can you it was just
a preacher telling you what God did and what he'd done around
us and referencing some scripture in that, and that's what happened.
But that wasn't a three-point gospel message, was it? Sometimes
we see things in scripture and I just rejoice about it. Just
seeing the history of what the Lord's done. That's good. And it's not right for us, we'll
see this later on, it's not right for us to be, this is what we
do, and then we say, we gotta have to have room by the fall
first, and go through those things. That's not good. If I'm God's man, I'm speaking
to you, that's not good, heed me. It's not good to be that
rigid. The Lord told him, there in Luke
24, he said, these are the words which I've spake unto you while
I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled. All
things. You know how much things we don't
even know? We don't know what we don't know. He fulfilled all
of it. Even the stuff, I don't even
know what it means yet. I know he did it. All things must be
fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in the
prophets and in the Psalms concerning me." Doesn't that tickle you
to look back and say, but that is what Joseph is, a type of
Christ. He did abound towards me. I am
Gomer. He bought me. And that money,
they used silver. Can you believe that? I just,
oh, and majesty. It's majestic to me. I love it. He said, he then opened their
understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. And
he said, thus it's written, and thus it behoove Christ to suffer
and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance
and remission of sin should be preached in his name among all
nations, beginning right here where you're standing at Jerusalem,
before you take another step, get after it. He goes on to say,
you're my witnesses to these things. Has anything changed? We are, aren't we? We witnessed
him in these scriptures. What's that worth to you? John stayed at that cross. Most
had left already, I guarantee it. When the Lord had died and
those two thieves, the malefactors on either side had died, everybody
left. You can get a whole crowd of people to watch you kill somebody,
you can't get them to stick around. They don't want to go to jail,
or they ain't gonna stay around long. They won't be around when
that body starts swelling up. That's so, isn't it? John stayed. John stayed till Christ was laid
down. He recorded all this for you and I, the events that took
place for us to know about it. What a privilege. What a privilege. He was taken down. Why was Christ
taken down? He was on a cross. He had to
come off of it. Why did they take him down? Look at verse
31, John 19, 31. The Jews, therefore, this isn't
the Lord's spiritual Israel. This is the religious folks of
the day. I mean, this is the high society. Y'all have words
for corporate church or something? I don't even know. Religious
folks, not people that know God. Religious folks and theologians
and the doctors and the masters and all that. The Jews, therefore,
because it was the preparation, this is Friday evening, and tomorrow's
Saturday, that's when we go to church. We gotta get ready, and
this is a big day of church. that the bodies should not remain
upon the cross on the Sabbath day, for that Sabbath day was
an high day. This ain't just any old Sabbath
day, it's Passover. It's a special day. Basalt piled
that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken
away. Hurry up, break their legs, kill them, and get them out of
here. That Sabbath day was different
than the other day. That was the rush behind it.
It's one day different than another. Let me ask you this, what about
when we worship God? Is a Wednesday night different
than a Sunday morning? I've asked this question before. I've told
you what my children's asked me, haven't I? Is it different
on a Wednesday night as a Sunday morning? Do we put different
emphasis on it? We do, don't we? Because of religious
tradition, they ask for Christ to be taken down. You know why? Because the next morning, we
have to get to worshiping God. What they're saying is get God
off that cross, because they didn't know him. And we will
now worship God today. And it's going to be a big day.
It's a big event. Get this fella out here. That was the big day.
It was an high day. It's the Jews' Passover. Remember,
it used to be Lord's Passover. We'll see it later on. It was
the Jews' Passover. This is important. This is when
we worship God. We worship down there today.
We fellowship down there today. We have communion one with another. All the words that sound good,
They killed Christ and tried to get him off there as quick
as they could so they get back to their traditions. This is that one
time a year event. Has anything changed? Maybe they were having a special
message on that day. Just for the folks that show
up just once a year. And that way they just feel real
warm and fuzzy on the inside about hating God and ignoring
his son the other 364 days of the year. Anything different? Do I preach
anything different on Easter and Christmas to you folks? Or
do we just keep going where we're going? They did, but had something
special. And what time that's happening,
these people's only gonna come in once a year and we gotta make
them feel good and fuzzy. If it's a Mother's Day or it's
a whatever, we'll have a special thing for them and hand out some
presents to them. And get that bloody man off that cross. It's
gonna interfere. We got a big day tomorrow. Blood's
offensive. Blood's offensive. People don't
want to see that. They don't want to smell it. Most American men
have beards and profess to be men, don't even know what blood
smells like. You remember what it is? You ever been around it much?
Iron. Oh, you can smell it a long way off. It smells on you if
it's been on there a while. Get that blood out of here. Blood's
offensive. You know why blood's offensive? There's something
worse than blood that's offensive. Why we need it. Don't you tell me I'm a sinner.
I mean, I'll agree to the adjective, not the noun. I know what's best. It's all of our nature by Adam,
isn't it? If Christ was still hanging on
that cross, that would tarnish their church services. I bet
they got up in funny voices and said, we will now worship God
in the conducting of the Passover ceremony. Probably swung some
incenses or something and did all kinds of crazy things. Dead
hearts carry out very strict, routine, and thorough ceremonies.
And they call it religion. They call it worshiping God.
That's why it's so, just to listen to a message and have a checklist
of like, we hit all the points of doctrine, that's dangerous.
You hear what I'm telling you? Don't hate me if you don't want
to, but I'm sending God to tell you these things. It's dangerous.
It's dangerous to do that. To sit there and look for something
in a message and say, oh, they did right. That's accurate, is
not looking for Christ. Look for Him. Look for Him. That's
a good thing. He didn't tell me how the Holy
Spirit abounds towards us and save sinners on this day. So
what? Was Christ proclaimed? That was the message for the
day, wasn't it? That's what we're looking for, because it's so
easy for us to get in a routine and then we have 400 years out
of profit. Look where they're at. For that body to be brought
down off that cross was not a typical thing. This was not normal, what
they asked to happen. The breaking of the legs was,
but not bringing the body down. The Roman cross, it was gruesome.
But after a person was dead, they left the body there for
a lot longer. days, some have said even weeks even, because
it was more gruesome. It corrupted the body more. It
was more shameful. The sole purpose of crucifixion,
that Roman cross, was to humiliate people, to torture them, and
to kill criminals in plain sight of the public. To shame them,
to be mean to them, and to discourage anybody else doing the same thing. They left them up there for days
to discourage. Our Lord said that too. It makes
good sense. You set an example, set a loud
one, warn people. That was just the rulers appointed
over them. But our Lord said, if they see
what they did to a green branch, what do you think they're going
to do to a dry branch? Somebody's going to come to God in their
own righteousness and all their good on religion. You see what happened
when the Lord put our sin on Christ, what he did to his own
son, who was without sin. What do you think he's going
to do to you? But they left them up there.
They left the criminals there long enough so the birds would come
and pick over their bodies and devour the bodies. And chunks
would fall down and the dogs would run up and fight over the
scraps of meat that fell down. And when there was nothing left,
they'd take the bones down. And they wouldn't even find a
nice place to bury them in the ground. We'll look at that Sunday.
Purpose of a burial, purpose of a funeral. They wouldn't even
find a good place to bury the bones. They would just throw
them over the hillside. What was the name of this place?
Golgotha? The place of the skull? A bunch of skulls laying there.
It's corrupted. The body was. And it was great
shame. And it was a deterrent. But why
was Christ brought off of that cross? Out of the norm? He said in Psalm 16, for thou
will not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thy
holy one to see corruption. You know, going to that cross,
he wasn't gonna stay on it after midnight. Before that happened,
he's coming off of there, fulfilling the scriptures. Can you believe
that? Psalm 16, verse 10. That's good, isn't it? I like
how Pilate didn't listen to those religious folks. They was giving
him advice. Well, let me just tell you, let me give some suggestions
to you. break their legs and get them
out of here. Give us that body to do something with it. And
he said, why do you want me to do that? Remember whenever they
did the title over the cross there? They came to him and said,
you wrote the king of the Jews. You write down, he said he was
the king of the Jews. He said, I've written what I've
written. And they said, well, give us the body to get rid of
it. And it was against the law to give it to anybody that wasn't
family. And then we'll see next week down in verse 38, Joseph
of Arimathea, he petitioned for it and Pilate gave it to him.
That was property of the state. That was property of the government.
He gave it to him freely, didn't he? Before they gave that body,
before they took it down, there was no bones broken before Nicodemus
came along. Verse 32. Then came the soldiers
and break the legs of the first and of the other which was crucified
with him on either side. But when they came to Jesus,
they saw that he was dead already. They break not his legs. How
did they break the legs of people on the cross? Whenever I was
in the military, we called it a tanker's bar. You probably
see landscapers, a big old long, like a five foot long metal bar,
real heavy, about an inch and a half crossed, square on one
end, point on the other. That's what we had. That's what
I thought of. They have a big iron bar and they would go through
and they would crush their legs while they're still alive so
it'd kill them. There'd be arterial bleeding in there and all that
stuff but they'd break their legs and it was violent and it would
hurt more. To torture them more. They'd
crush their legs and then that would be a shock to their system
and death would come. And they did all that for the
criminal's sake, to be mean to them, and for everybody watching.
So either they could get enjoyment or get a lesson not to do whatever
that criminal did. But the two on the sides were
broken, not the master. You know why his legs weren't
broken? His body couldn't see corruption, he had to come down.
He's the Passover lamb. They're getting ready to celebrate
the preparation day. This is the lamb that all them
countless millions of other lambs typify. This is him. He's a lamb without, turn over
to Exodus 12. A lamb without blemish. I was walking this week
and I got to thinking about that a lot. I remember how many times
I had to start over. You find one cross hair in that
thing. If you had a white cat, you're
going to find some hairs that ain't white on it, you know.
If you had to find some, well, that's got a blemish. Well, that
one's got a blemish. Well, that one's got a blemish.
They walked out in them fields. I don't know what they did. Well,
that's close enough. That's not what scripture is. That's not
what God demands. That's what natural man does.
It says that close enough. God demands without blemish.
He's that lamb. He said it had to be without
blemish. You had to kill it in the evening. You had to take
that blood, and you had to strike it on two side posts in the upper
post of the house, and you had to eat it inside of there. And
you eat it all that night, and you had to roast it with fire.
You couldn't boil it in water. And you had to eat it with unleavened
bread, and it had to be bitter, bitter herbs. You see all those
things? Isn't that beautiful? Verse 10, Exodus 12, verse 10.
And ye shall let none of it remain until the morning, and that which
remaineth of it until morning ye shall burn with fire. It's
got to come down. It's got to be gone before morning.
You see that? He had to come off that cross.
And thus shall ye eat it with your lorns girded, and your shoes
on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And ye shall eat
with haste. It's the Lord's Passover. This is the Lord's Passover.
Down in verse 43. Next is 1243. It says, And the Lord said unto
Moses and Aaron, this is the ordinance of the Passover. He
speaks about strangers coming to eat with them, what they have
to do. But here in verse 46, In one house shall it be eaten. Thou shalt not carry forth all
of the flesh abroad out of the house, neither shall you break
a bone thereof. You can't break a bone of it. And all the congregation
of Israel shall keep it. No bones in this Passover lamb
can be broken. It has to be perfect. It has
to be without spot and without blemish. And it has to be roasted
with fire. And it has to be ate with bitter
herbs and unleavened bread. And you can't break a bone of
it. That's what I require. You ever cook something and found
out there's a broken bone in it? You ever got some chicken
legs or something? And when you go to bite into
it, that little bone, you didn't know it until you went to eat it.
God requires this. He requires perfection. Well,
what'd that mean? It says over in Numbers 9, too,
it said, You shall leave nothing till morning, and neither break
a bone of it. According to all the ordinances of the Passover,
ye shall keep it. Shall keep it. We have. We have
in Him. Ain't that something? There's
so much required. You take care of a shall, and
you gotta. And the child of God will. It's a command. It's gonna
happen. Go read the Ten Commandments
with that. That's what Christ did for us. Well, how's this
affect us? We're bone of his bone, ain't
we? Turn over to Ephesians 6. This was precious to me, I think
it'll be precious to you. Ephesians 5, I'm sorry, it's
Ephesians 5. I wrote that down wrong. Christ did not have a broken
bone. He suffered everything else to go on. The beatings and
the scourgings and all that, but not a broken bone. Why? We're
bone of his bone. Just as Eve was taken out of
that first Adam's side, our lives from his wounded side. We're
bone of his bone, we're flesh of his flesh, we're one with
him. You think about those bones not being broken for me and you,
this bride, I'm a bride, okay? Now let's read Ephesians 5 here
in verse 22. Christ is her husband. Wives, submit yourselves unto
your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the
head of the wife. He's speaking of a body. Even
as Christ is head of the church, he's the savior of the body.
Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives
be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even
as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it. that he might sanctify and cleanse
it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present
it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or
any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Spotless, without blemish. That's what we have to be. So
ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that
loveth his wife, loveth himself. There's unity, there's atonement. Because it's the same body. He's
the head, we're the body. For no man ever yet hateth his
own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord
the church. For we are members of his body,
of his flesh, and of his bones. For this call shall man leave
his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and
the two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery, but
I speak concerning Christ and the church. You see that bone
of our bone, and we're to be made without blemish because
he's our substitute, and we're made him because he took our
blemishes. He bore that, we're made him.
Paul says this is a great mystery. This thing's been revealed to
us, isn't that precious? We're stewards of the mysteries of
God, the grace of God. He says, but I speak concerning
Christ's church, nevertheless, nevertheless, let every one of
you particular, so love his wife, even as himself and his wife,
see that the wife reverence the husband. He said, now don't go,
that don't mean nothing to me, because this is spiritual, I
don't have to, no, he says, nevertheless, you go be a good husband and
you go be a good wife. Psalm 34 says, he keepeth all
his bones and not one of them broken. We are God's children
and we will not be crushed by our sin and destroyed. We will
never be separated from him ever. And like that thief on the cross,
he knew he was going to be in glory that evening. Before midnight
struck, he was going to be with the Lord because the Lord told
him and he believed him. But he had to have his legs broken. He had to suffer still. We may
suffer a whole lot in the body as believers, but that's for
God's glory. It pleased him for that, to do
that. Job, I thought of his miserable comforters coming and every one
of them said, what'd you do, Job? You did something. That's
why God's being mean to you. Was God's punishing that thief
on the cross because he was mad at him? He just died for his
sins. No, this was for His benefit
and Christ's glory. It was. Just because the saint
of God suffers in the body does not mean that the Lord's not
for us. I want to be delivered from pain. I want to be delivered
from sorrow. My heart's aching right now and
I wish it'd stop. But it's not necessary that that pain stop.
It's not necessary, whether it's in the body or the suffering
and sorrow of the soul. It's not necessary for that.
It's necessary for me to have Him I want you to get that there
in John 16 33. It says these things I've spoken
unto you that in me you might have peace What do people look
for peace in you hear what here what they talk about? well I
did this and I did that and I found this and I Went to start going
to church here and I knew that one's wrong. That one's wrong
That one's wrong. That one's wrong. I finally found the right place Christ said you're
gonna have trouble So you'll have peace in me not in doctrine,
not in a church, not in membership, not in baptism, not in your experiences,
and not in your understanding of how much scripture you know.
It's gonna be in him and you ain't gonna have it. That's why
people's miserable. And that's why they take it out and lash
out on other people. Unbelief, sin's all it is. But
the Lord's going to put us through our paces and he's going to have
our legs broke. I told you that story. I broke
his leg. I don't want to break it again. I'm thankful for what
the Lord did. That was the means. But he put
us through suffering and does those things. That way we're
going to have tribulation, but we're going to be of good cheer
because we know he overcome the world. And our peace is him. Not this body feeling. Him. Not
my mind being okay. Him. He's peace. That passes all understanding. Not if you have it. I can't explain
it, but I get it. I want other people to get it,
too. It's finished. He said it's finished. It's done. According to the scriptures,
no bone will be broken. But they did something else,
though, back in John 19. A spear went in his side. Water
and blood came out. John 19, 34, but one of the soldiers
with a spear pierced his side and forthwith came there out
blood and water. John wrote about this again many
years later. This stuck with him. He said
in 1 John 5, this is he that came by water and blood, Jesus
Christ, not by water only, but by water and blood. He emphasizes
greatly. What's this mean? Why was there
water and blood? There's a whole lot of speculation and debate
and this, and you can go on and find things on the internet for
eons, and you'd be better off watching a football game. There's
a, well, how could a body bleed if it was already dead, and nonsense,
right? I know water and blood came out.
You know why? It says water and blood came out, and I believe
it. So that happened. And there was some old writers,
and buddy, they had some real good points. These were men like
the first century. They had met the apostles. Old
writers, I'm not talking about 1950s, I'm talking about like
the 50s, you know what I mean? Way back when. They had some
good points. They said, well, this was the
written word and the spirit of God coming out. I could see that. I guess that'd be honoring. One
of them said, I like this a whole lot. Faithful man of God that
knew him. This was a picture of the two
baptisms that God's children experienced. Baptism of the blood,
the Holy Ghost, and of water. That's good. Another one kind
of took off that and ran a little bit. And he said, here's a picture
of the two ordinances we're given. The Lord's Supper, this is my
blood, take and drink, didn't he? And the other ordinance,
baptism, water, we're buried with it. And those could be really
good points, isn't it? I could honor God. I could understand
some of those things. But what's the word say about
these things? The word's clear on these things. We compare scripture
to scripture. What came out of his side was
our justification and our sanctification. Paul said in Romans 5, but God
commended his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. What's the context? We've got
to get to verse before before we get to verse after, don't
we? Christ died for us, much more than now being justified
by his blood. we shall be saved from the wrath
through him. That blood that come out, that
typifies the blood that we're washed in. How in the world do
you wash something in red blood and it comes out white? I don't
understand that either, but I say amen, it's so. That blood come
out, that's our justification. Well, what about that sanctification?
That's a rough a lot of feathers, but the word says so, so I ain't
scared to say it. Psalm 119 says, wherewithal shall a young man
cleanse his way? How are we gonna be cleansed?
By taking heed thereunto according to thy word. We have to be cleansed,
don't we? There's a whole lot of washings.
Paul talked about that justification there in 1 Corinthians 6. He
said, he listed this whole thing of bad things, right? You just
think of bad people. And he said, and such for some
of you. Is there somebody I ought not preach to? Such for some
of you, such for some of this guy, wasn't it? He said, but
you are washed. He's talking to believers. He
said, you're washed. You are sanctified, but you are justified
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our
God. That's who did it. You're washed. We're justified
by his blood. Hebrews 9 says, without the shedding
blood, there's no remission of sin. Ain't gonna happen. And
we're made holy and we're cleansed by the washing. You remember
back in John 13, when the Lord went and washed the apostles'
feet? And Peter said, don't you, I ain't gonna let you wash my
feet. The Lord said, if I wash thee not, thou hast no part with
me. This is serious. This is important, isn't it?
What'd he say? I'll wash my head, my hands,
my feet. Watch what I think, watch what I do, watch where
I am, what my providence is. And he said, he that is washed
needeth not to wash but his feet, but is clean every whit. You are clean. You're clean,
Peter. You're washed. You're washed.
Hebrews 10 says, let us draw near with a true heart full of
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled. That's the
blood, remember the sprinkling with hyssop of the lamb? Our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, from that sin, and
our bodies washed with pure water. We're justified, that means everything
we did was right, because we was in Him. And we're sanctified,
you're washed, you're clean, you can't get dirty no more.
You're forever holy, without blemish, before Him in love. That's typified by the Spirit.
Those people that was witnesses of this, John saw it, didn't
he? John 19.35. And he that saw it bare record."
John's speaking of himself. And his record's true. John said,
everything I just told you is true. And he knoweth that he
saith true. I know what I told you is true.
Paul didn't say, I think I know. He said, I know whom I believe. I'm fully persuaded. I'm not
half persuaded. Fully persuaded that ye might
believe. I've seen these things, I know
these things, and I'm telling you about it and maybe you'll
believe. Maybe you'll receive me. What I have to tell you,
what this word says. For these things were done that
the scriptures should be fulfilled. A bone of him shall not be broken.
This is all according to the scriptures isn't it? Every bit
of it. Every bit of it. According to
the scriptures. This is right, this satisfies
God. That's important, because we
have affinity. If he's made us know we're sinners,
we need restitution and reconciliation and anything that's good. We
need to be made right, we can't do it. According to the scriptures,
this is holy, this is just. And looking on him, look here,
last point short, verse 37. And again, another scripture
saith they shall all I'm sorry, they shall look on him whom they've
pierced. Everyone that's going to be the
one that pierced him, be the one that hung him there, that
drove those nails in. That was the reason he hung there.
You're going to look on him. You shall see him high and lifted
up. Over Matthew 27, it says, Now when the centurion and they
that were with him watching Jesus saw the earthquake and those
things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly, this
was the Son of God. You put him on that cross, you're
going to see that you put him on that cross. If you're the one
he died for, he's going to reveal himself to you. And you're going
to say, it's my fault. I did it. I killed him. That water and that blood had
to be for me because of the wickedness I am. Am I prone to wonder and
all the bad stuff about me? We're going to see. We're going
to see. How do we look on him? How do you see? How do I see? Well, let's look at Zechariah
and we'll close, okay? Zechariah, you go to Matthew
and then turn to the left, two books. Zechariah chapter 12. Zechariah 12, verse 10. Says,
and I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplications. And they shall
look upon me whom they have pierced. And they shall mourn for him.
Do you mourn for him? He said, weep not for me, weep
for yourselves and your children. But we're gonna mourn for him.
As one mourneth for his only son. and shall be in bitterness
for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. In that day
shall there be a great morning in Jerusalem, as the morning
of Hadrimon in the valley of Megiddon, and the land shall
mourn every family apart, every family of the house of David
apart, and their wives apart, and the family of the house of
Nathan apart, and their wives apart, the family of the house
of Levi apart, and their wives apart, the family of Shimei apart,
and their wives apart. What does that all mean individually?
It ain't gonna be because somebody else cried for you, you won't
cry about it. You are gonna look on him. You're gonna look on
him. He's revealed himself. The family
of the house of Levi apart, their wives apart. Verse 14, all the
families that remain, pick one, every family apart and their
wives apart. And that day, what are they gonna
say? God gets you alone by yourself
and reveals Christ to you. for real, not a creed. He reveals a person to you. What
are you going to see? Chapter 13, verse one. In that
day, there shall be a fountain open to the house of David and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem. What's that fountain for? For
sin will be a fountain of blood and uncleanness, a fountain of
water. We're gonna pierce him. Blood and water's gonna come
out. And that's for our sin and uncleanness. That was before
the Lord was born, a couple hundred years. Isn't that precious? What's
that teach us? You wanna be taught something?
He said I'll be taught of God. What's that teach us? If he says
he's gonna do something, he's gonna do it. He made it come
to pass. People willfully did it. And
it's finished, all the work's done. And now he says, I ain't
gonna leave you, I'm gonna stay with you. I'm gonna keep you
all the way till you see me face to face, if I've revealed myself
to you. Believe him, that's good news, isn't it? All right, Brother
Mark.