If you will, you can be turning
to John Notting. Just a couple of announcements.
No meal this weekend. I know everybody's got lots of
family and a lot of cooking to go on. It's slam pickings anyway,
so we can all forego the meal this month. Hopefully give everybody
a little bit of a break. I wanted to say hello on behalf
of those brethren in Louisville, Arkansas, John Notting. Louisville,
Arkansas. They send their love and affection
to the brethren here in San Diego, and that was sweet to me. That's
an impressive group. They love the gospel. Louisville's
a town of 915 people, and it's hard to find unless you know
somebody there. You just about can't find them. And they had
six pastors come this year, six pastors. And Mindy, and Julie,
and Teresa, and Shirley all came with those four preachers. Some
of them flew in. Some of them drove in. And we
showed up. And everybody, it was all the
preachers and their wives. Somebody's got to tell them.
Preachers and their wives, and then whoever else felt like coming
over. Darvin cooked two filet mignons for everybody that showed
up. And I mean, a spread. They fed us. My button ain't
buttoned. They fed us and fed us and fed us all before I ever
preached to them. Abraham, he went and got the
young, good calf and hasted to get the butter and hasted to
get the bread before the Lord and two angels ever spoke. That's
a good example of it. All the expenses we had were
covered and then some. Tiny little place. What a thought. And none of them's wealthy. They're
not booming billionaires down there. They're just working folk.
They love the gospel and they told me to send their love to
the folks here, so I wanted to do that. Got John 19 will look
to the left a little bit there in John 18 verse 38. John 18 verse 38. Pilot sayeth
unto him what is truth? Speaking to. the truth. And when he had said this, he
went out again unto the Jews and saith unto them, I find in
him no fault at all. But he had a custom that I should
release unto you one at the Passover. Will you therefore that I release
unto you the king of the Jews? Then cried they all again. saying, not this man, but Bar-Abbas. Now, Bar-Abbas was a robber. That's us, isn't it? Now let's
look at chapter 19, verse 1. Then Pilate therefore took Jesus
and scourged him. He beat him. He had him beat. That's one of those Catanin tales,
and they wove into the tales of it. the fabric and the leather,
they wove into it glass and pieces of shattered bone and hunks of
metal and anything they could, and they scourged him. It's 40
lashes, save one. That's 39 lashes. Most people,
historians tell us plainly, most people don't make it to be crucified. The average man, if you could
find a man, it's probably hard back then, too, If you could
find a man, he'd probably die getting beat with the 39 lashes
from that cat of Nontells. Most of the time, that killed
him. Then Paulette therefore took
Jesus and scourged him. And the soldiers plaited a crown
of thorns, put it on his head. Probably the kind of thorns in
thorn bushes, you know, you go to trim them. And you can't trim
them without getting cut. They probably put on leather
gloves, real pokey type. And they twisted that up, and
they made a crown, and they pushed it into the skin of his head.
And they put on him a purple robe and said, hail, king of
the Jews. And they smoked him with their
hands. Not love taps. They punched him
and slapped him and backhanded him hard and a lot. Pilate therefore went forth again. He went forth again and saith
unto them, that crowd that had brought our Lord to them, behold,
I bring him forth to you that he may know that I find no fault
in him. There's no fault in him. We did
all these things to him. He didn't confess to something
he did or did not do. He didn't fight back. He gave
his other cheek when we smited him. He gave his back to the
smiters. I find, again, no fault in him. We're gonna behold the man tonight. Behold the man. That's a commandment. That's all willed. I pray he'll
command it to one today. We're going to behold the man,
but this man we're going to behold, it's the faultless man. There's
no fault in him. Old Brother Pink, whenever they
wouldn't take care of him and they run him out of England,
he was one of the last of the gospel preachers to leave that
little island. He came over here and he pastored a couple of different
places and preached a whole lot. The Lord made him a writer, and
he wrote a whole lot. And he brought up something really
interesting. We'd look before at the lamb being examined. I
showed you that a couple weeks ago. And Annas examined him,
and Caiaphas examined him. That's the one kind of high priest
and the other kind of high priest. And then Pilate did. The government,
the ruling class did. And there was no fault in it.
And that's perfection, isn't it? Three times? Seven times
he was declared faultless. seven times. Pilate says it three
times right in this little area. In John 18, 38, Pilate said to
them, what is true? And when he had said this, he
went out again unto the Jews and saith unto them, I find in
him no fault at all. There in John 19, verse four,
Pilate therefore went forth again and saith unto them, behold,
I bring him forth to you. that you may know that I find
no fault in him. You gave him to me, I'm bringing
him right back to you. I find no fault in him. Verse
six, when the chief priest therefore and the officer saw him, they
cried out saying, crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto
him, take ye him and crucify him for I find no fault in him. Pilate declared it three times
he found no fault in him. He was one of the seven. One
of the seven that said this is the faultless man that we're
going to behold. Turn over Luke 24, here's Herod. Luke 24. Verse 14, Luke 24, 14. Now remember,
we looked at it last time. Paul and Herod didn't get along
at all, did they? There was that enmity against one another. And
after Herod had publicly embarrassed our Lord, Then they were fast
friends to the end, aren't they? Walked away our friends carefully,
shouldn't we? Luke 23, 14. Pilate said unto
them, the crowd of Jews that brought him, said unto them,
ye have brought this man unto me as one that perverteth the
people. And behold, I having examined
him before you, you watch me. This wasn't done in secret. have
found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse
him." I've examined this thoroughly, and I find nothing of fault.
That's what you're accusing him of. Colman, verse 15. No, nor yet Herod. For I sent
you to him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him. Herod
didn't kill him. Now, they mocked him, and they
did mean things to him. Think how many criminals they
had come through that courthouse. I mean, this wasn't a once-in-a-lifetime
occurrence. Well, it was as to who it is.
But I mean, as far as someone that was accused of a crime coming
through there, how many a day did they have? One more. We'll
teach him not to come back. You know what happens if the
police pull over a teenager or something? We'll teach them a
lesson. We'll make it a little rough on them. They'll quit doing
this. I know that it looks like there's no fault in them and
they're innocent. We're going to train them up a little bit.
We call that training. vigilante justice, don't we? Is it right? You don't know what
spirit in you. That's what Herod did. Herod made fun of him. He
said, I find no fault in him. I can't kill this man. I ain't
that big of a crook. Look down at verse 39. So Pilate
said there's no fault in him. Herod said there's no fault in
him. Here's a thief on the cross. Luke 23, verse 39. And one of
the male factors which were hanged, railed on him, saying, If thou
be the Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked
him, saying, Dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in the same
condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we
receive the due reward of our deeds. But this man hath done
nothing amiss." There ain't no fault in him. What'd he do wrong?
Nothing amiss. Pilate said it multiple times.
Herod said there's no fault in him. The thief on the cross said
there's no fault in him. Verse 46, Luke 23, 46. And when Jesus had cried with
a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
And having said thus, he gave up the ghost. Now, when the centurion
saw what was done, he glorified God. saying, certainly, this
was a righteous man. This was a righteous man. How
many are there righteous? None. No, not one. There's none
good but God. And he said, this is God. There's
no fault in it. This is a righteous man. A couple
more witnesses. Turn over to Matthew 27. This is a good variety of witnesses.
I'm sure somebody could make up a better description of them. There's some high-minded folks
and some high in position and there's some low in position
and there's some mean ones and there's some nice ones. Here's Matthew 27 verse 3. This
is Judas. Judas, remember, he got so sad
and he went back and he tried to give that money back. Matthew
27 verse 3. Then Judas, which had betrayed
him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself and
brought again the 30 pieces of silver to the chief priest and
the elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent
blood." Innocent. What's innocent? Not
at fault. He's faultless. Pilate said it. Herod said it. The thief said
it. The centurion said it. The pierced his side. Judas said
it. The one that betrayed him. His
friend that betrayed him with a kiss said, that's innocent
blood. That's innocent blood. Pilate's
wife, put down verse 19, Matthew 27, 19. When he was sat down on the judgment
seat, Pilate, his wife sent unto him saying, have thou nothing
to do with that just man? For I have suffered many things
this day in a dream because of him. What's a just man? Somebody
that's righteous, somebody that has no fault in them. That's six. I'll give you one
more, verse 54. Matthew 27, 54. I said there was a good spread
of people in this. Here's the largest spread. Matthew 27, 54. 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. This is Him. This is the just
one. This is the Holy One of Israel. Who does that encompass? Everybody
else. Whosoever was standing by, they
declared this. That's Pilate, his wife, Herod,
the thief on the cross, Judas, the centurion, and all of them
that were with that centurion, all of them declared the faultlessness
of Christ. All of them said there's no fault
in him. This is an innocent land. There's no spot. There's no blemish
at all. Am I right, Tom? He gave me a
dirty look. No, you don't, because he didn't
do it. wrong. If I did that, if I sucked
air through my teeth, that's wrong. He didn't do that. He
set his face like a plant. I labor this. I hope we can admire
God. Maybe I'd just, somebody would see him as he is, that
he willingly did this and just say, what a God. Back in our
text here in John 19, this is the characteristic, the
character of the one we're going to behold. John 19 verse four. Pilate therefore went forth again
and saith unto them, behold, I bring him forth to you that
he may know that I find no fault in him. Then came Jesus forth
wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate saith
unto them, behold the man. Behold the man. That's the message. of this whole book that you've
got in your lap. You've got your King James Bible
in your lap right now. I'm going to give you the keys
to unlock every page in it. Behold the man. Behold the man. A hundred and four times in Isaiah,
the word behold is used. Behold your God. He's saying,
behold me. You behold the man. Behold, you
adore, take account, you sit there, study it real good, and
commit your entirety of your life, soul, and heart to it. Behold the man. That's a commandment. Behold the man. That's what it
was in Ruth, this man. She said, sit still, Naomi was
telling Ruth, her daughter-in-law, she said, sit still, my daughter,
until thou knowest how the matter will fall. For the man, will
not rest until he had finished the thing this day. That's redemption. That's what's taking place here.
This is beholding the man. There in Zechariah 6, it says,
and speaking unto him, saying, thus speaketh the Lord of hosts,
saying, behold the man. God says that. God said, behold
the man whose name is the branch. And he shall grow up out of his
place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord. Even he shall
build the temple of the Lord, He shall bear the glory and he
shall sit and rule upon his throne. He shall be a priest upon his
throne and the council of peace shall be between them both. Behold
him, look at him, adore him. God tells us to. Here it says,
behold the man, but I want you to notice something. This is
one of the benefits of not having a red letter Bible. I got both,
but notice Pilate there in verse five. Get your pencil out and
you underline that. Is that in italics? Is that in
italics in your Bible, Castle? It is in mine? Oh yeah. It is. Ask Paul's call. We're getting
there. Read it without that in italics. The translators put
that in there for us to read it easier. And I've told you
that before, haven't I? You see it in italics, read it with the
italics, read it without the italics. Then came Jesus forth,
wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and saith unto
them, Behold the man. Beaten, tattered, torn, marred
with a crown of thorns, blood running down his face, punched
in the head, back tore all the pieces, a purple robe on him,
and he stands up, he walks out. Every word's important. We ought
not read over these things. We ought not drown ourselves
in information. We ought to pay attention to God's word. Behold
the man, he said it. That's a miracle. Spend all week
on that verse and you think about that. And then go out and think,
well, if I got hit 39 times with a cat and nine tails and somebody
punched me in the face for about an hour and a half, I'm gonna
get up and walk out that door and stand out and yell, behold,
the man. He did. He did. What about this man? We experience things in a different
order than how they truly happen, don't we? How do we always label
Christ? He's the prophet, priest, and
king. Didn't he? How'd that happen? He's king
of king and lord of lord. He's always been king. And because
of who he is, he's our priest. He made intercession for us. That's him doing it right here.
And then as the prophet, his voice speaks through any mouthpiece
he chooses, sees fit to do so. It's his business. He speaks
to us and says, I've interceded for you because I'm the king.
You see how it works? We say prophet, priest, and king.
We'll get to Ephesians 1. Read that backwards one day.
Start about verse 11. Work your way backwards. The
Holy Ghost abounds towards us through the preaching of the
gospel and tells us all these things. We see all this stuff
happening. Christ paid for our sins. That's what He came to
do. Why? The Father purposed all this
before time. We start on the back end, don't
we? All the works, like Bar Abbas, everything's done and we just
get told about it at the end. You're free, go home, do what
you want. What about this man we're to behold? Behold the man.
Beholding this man, there are some things that are declared
about him. This is the covenant man. This
is the man that the Lord, the Father, entered a covenant with
before this world ever was. And he said, I'm gonna make a
people just like you. You ask me, that's what he's
talking about in Psalm 2. You ask me, I'll give you the heathens
for your inheritance. And I'm gonna make them just
like you. And you're gonna stand up for them, and you're gonna
be their surety, and you're gonna be their prophet, and their priest,
and their king. And you're gonna do absolutely everything. They
ain't gonna do nothing. No sacrifices. And you're gonna
do it for them. And you're gonna die for them,
and you're gonna intercede for them. And they're gonna be made just like
you. And all they're gonna do is give the sacrifice of their
lips. What's that? Say thank you. We teach our children that,
don't we? Not nowadays, but used to. They taught children to say,
thank you. Or teach his children to say, thank you. Thank you. That's all we're going to do. Give thanksgiving. This is the
covenant man. This is the one the Lord entered into a covenant
and he prepared him a body to do all this. This is the promised
man. And in Genesis 3 it said, The
Lord said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art
cursed above all the cattle, and above every beast of the
field, and upon thy belly shalt thou go, and thus shall I eat
all the days of thy life. And I will put enmity between
thee and the woman. I don't love snakes. You get
that? There's enmity between me and
the woman, or between me and the serpent, between the woman
and the serpent, and between thy seed and her seed. Eve's
hearing all this. Adam's hearing all this. And
that's the most intelligent people that's ever walked the face of
the earth, other than our Lord. We can talk about smart. Adam named all the animals. Go
get you 100 scientists and put them all in one room. They can't
name all the animals. He did without breaking a sweat. He was brilliant. And we've just
been deluded every generation. I'm afraid to meet him. He's
like, that's my office. That's what y'all be coming to? They were listening to all this
and the Lord said, it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise
his heel. Said seed, as in one singular, and said it. It's going
to bruise your head. That means it's going to kill
you. You're done. You're going to hurt him. It's going to hurt
pretty good. You're going to bruise the heel, but you're going
to be defeated. Defeated. And then there in Genesis, the
next verse says, Adam knew his wife and she conceded and she
bare Cain. And she said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. Ah,
he's faithful. He said he's going to do this
and he just did it. Now she was wrong. She was an heir. But that's who she was looking
for. Eve was looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of her
faith. Eve looked for the man of God,
but Cain was merely a man. He was just a man, not the man. The man. This man were behold,
he's the manifest Messiah. Behold the man, this is the one
that entered the covenant before this world was, this is the promised
one, and this is the one that came. He's standing right there.
Hebrews 10 says, Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he
saith sacrifice and offering, thou wouldst not but a body.
Thou preparest me. A body. Manifest not as if he
was made flesh when that word was made flesh. It's not Theoretically
he was or there in essence. He was with us. He was made flesh He speaks plainly He was made
like us we go through Ruth that kinsman dream. He had to be related
to us twice born of a woman I'm going to biology of it later,
but he had her DNA not Adams. He's part of us. I He was our
kindred, and he was able to redeem because of what blood was pumping
through him, because of who he was. And he was willing, that's why
he's there. So in some stoic, cold, dead-letter
contract he entered into, he was out of love. Love for somebody
that's unlovable. A whole mess of them, more than
the sands of the sea. Not just one, it'd be a miracle
if it was one. A lot of them. That's him, the God-man. He said,
lo, I come. In the volume of the book, it's
written of me. Behold the man. That's it. Start in Genesis,
work through Revelation. Revelation, singular, not revelations,
plural. The book's called Revelation
because it reveals a person. Behold the man. This man. What did those there, when they
came out of that judgment hall, all those lost people there,
all those Jews there, what did they behold when they beheld
the man? Christ walked out front and said,
behold the man. What did they behold? A bloody
mess. I mean, worse than a prize fighter.
He was marred all to pieces. What would you think if you saw
something like that? Failure? Criminal? Guilty? He had what's come to him. We
think, oh, I would never think that. They used to drown folks
in this nation. to see if there's witches. And if they floated,
it was bad. And if they stayed out at the
bottom of the lake, then they must have been a good person. That's our DNA that did
that. You get that? We didn't fall
far from a tree. He walked out, he said, behold
the man. They said, what man? We can't tell what you are. That's
what they saw. Just a man. They saw, those that
didn't believe, they just see a man. When they read that book
right there, they just read about a man. And he said, behold me,
man. Behold thee, man, if you have
not given eyes to see." What did Satan say whenever he came
out there? He said, Behold thee, man. He said, I got him now.
Satan doesn't know the gospel. Do you get that? He might know
it in letter, but he doesn't understand it. He can give a
systematic approach to these words, but he don't know what
the Lord's doing. You've experienced grace, and you've got an eye
in the mighty eye. Now, I can't tell you exactly what he's going to
do, but I've got an idea what's going to have something to do with
this gospel. A substitution going on here. Cause that's supposed
to be me up there. I want to give a caution about
the details of this physical event. I want to be careful as
we go through this because whenever we read these things, our nature
is, our sin nature is to feel so sorry for the redeeming. Instead of feeling sorry for
our sin that did that to him. It's easy to get pitiful and
have some crocodile tears rolled down our cheeks and say, that's
so sad. That's what they did, because some of the crowd did
that. But to say, to weep because of my sins, what that looks like. That's what this requires. And
we don't really enter into how bad this was, even physically.
Physically, we can't describe it. Prophecy is more than any
man. That's so. I don't know how. That's so. We can't enter into
it. And it's a rare thing. I mean,
a rare thing. for a preacher to get up and
point folks to that spiritual forsaking and punishment for
seeing that this is what this was. They beat him. I hate that, but
God's about to turn his back on him. The presence of God is
about to depart from the presence of God because God was made sin
and made me his righteousness. Fear and trembling, we ought
to approach this. Fear and trembling. This is the gospel taking place.
If a man believes one thing and preaches another, you can't have
two gospels. You got no gospels. You get that? That's so. And a gospel that does something
to the head and doesn't do something to the heart ain't no gospel
at all either. If all this is in your head and that doesn't
move your heart, you ain't got a heart in you. You're dead in
trespasses and sins and not prayed for. An unregenerate person only sees
a poor, weak man being beaten for something he didn't do. What
does a believer behold? When you see him walk out there
and he says, behold the man. Oh, what's the Lord's people
see when that happens? I see the scriptures fulfilled.
In Genesis 3, when the Lord told Evac, right there, it's taking
place. He said he's going to do it. We didn't know how. He's
doing it. There it is. That's the scriptures being fulfilled.
He stands there doing what he said he was going to do. Cause
this whole book's beholding him. He said, you believe Moses? If
you had believed Moses, you would have believed me because he wrote
about me. Say you believe Moses. I see the cleft of the rock standing
on that judgment hall porch saying, behold the man. That's our hiding
place. You want a hiding place? Do you
want shelter from a storm? He's standing there saying, behold
the man. speaking there where Pilate stands. That's what the
Lord told Isaiah in Isaiah 32. And a man shall be as a hiding
place from the wind and a covert from the tempest. Behold him.
Look at him. Run to him. Run to him. The world
had sympathy for that tortured 33-year-old man standing there.
They have pity on him. The child of God sees the authority
of God's power standing there. That's God's authority. That's
the potentate standing there. It's the determinant counsel
and foreknowledge of God taking place. We know that. Our Lord said,
no man take my life from me. I lay it down. That's, and he
was proving it because he was standing. You couldn't have stood. The world's strongest man, whoever
it is that won a competition this year, he couldn't have stood.
Christ was standing, and he walked out in front of that building.
Left foot in front of right foot. Most died being scourged. He
walked out, stood, and then yelled, Behold the man. That's the man,
Christ Jesus. The one that's both God and man,
that's the man side. I don't hardly want to be called
a man anymore. Boy, it can shame. I don't know
many men, do you? That's a man. I talked to a friend
of mine who was one of the He's about that tall, but he's the
biggest man I ever met, one of them. And I said, there ought
to be more manliness in this nation, I'd love it. But could
you imagine our Lord, when he went to work that day? You think
there's ever a man that put in a day's work like he did? I admire him, I wanna be like him. I'm gonna be one day, but I wanna
be like him now. I'm like a small child, I wanna
be like daddy. I'll be like my big brother. I'll be like my
king. That's what this constituent
wants. He walked out from that building. The believer beholds
this as the man that created the heavens and the earth. And
this creator was making peace. Does that look like making peace
to you? No, it looks like he's getting beat to death. Well,
he said it was making peace. I believe. Throw over Colossians
1. I'll show you. Colossians chapter 1. Look at verse 15. Hold on, I'm
gonna flip it. Colossians 1, 15. Speaking of
Christ, it said, Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
of every creature? For by him were all things created
that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible, invisible,
whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.
All things were created by him. Is there somebody on the throne?
Is there a government official somewhere on earth? And for Him.
All things. The stuff you don't even see
is for Him and is created by Him. And He is before all things
and by Him all things consist. He's the head of the body, the
church. That's us. Who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead, that in all things He might have the preeminence.
For it pleased the Father, that in him should all fullness dwell,
and having made peace through the blood of his cross." What
do you see when you see him come out there bleeding head to toe
with a robe on him and a crown of thorns, and he yells out,
behold the man? He's making peace for you. He
said, I've got to prepare a place of atonement. of reconciliation,
he's doing it. You believe him? That's him doing
it. By him to the reconcile all things
unto himself, by him I say whether it be things in earth or things
in heaven, and you that were sometime alienated and enemies. I wasn't even born, you wasn't
born yet. We're gonna come into this world, enemies of God. Now that could be in the church,
that could be down at the pool hall. It don't make a difference. We're enemies. You are an enemy of God. And
that's when he went and offered himself up for us. You were alienated
and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled. Hath. What he's doing right now.
Everything. Fulfilling the scriptures, doing
it all by his determinate counsel and foreknowledge and his power
to showing himself as the man, because I'm a man and you're
a man. We're mankind. Our substitutes, proving himself
to his people and the world. To see that now, to see that
now in this life, the very one that reconciled us is also the
sacrifice. He's the sacrifice. We behold
the man as our sacrifice, don't we? In Romans 5, it says, for
by one man's Disobedience, many were made sinners. That's Adam.
So by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. That's
the acceptable bloody sacrifice standing on Pilate's doorstep.
Behold the man. Look at it. Behold him. Second
definitional term. This is it happening right now. I thought, you know, as You couldn't
even tell it was blood, and you know it was bleeding? I saw a
fight recently, and that fellow's nose got busted, and there's
blood going everywhere, and a little bit of blood goes a long way.
A gallon of blood would be a huge puddle. And he was bleeding hard. Why does this not? He's faultless. That's been proven in perfection,
hasn't it? The faultless lamb of God right there, blood covering
all of it, that's what we are. washed perfectly in His holy,
precious blood, the blood of the Lord of glory. Romans 3, let's go over here
real quick. Romans chapter 3. Verse 23. Romans 3, 23. We're all have
sin. and come short of the glory of
God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for
the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance
of God, to declare, I say at this time, His righteousness.
that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth
in Jesus. This is what's taking place.
This is the just and the justifier. Where's boasting then? It's excluded. All this, he did all this alone.
Peter wouldn't have prayer holding his hand. Nobody's up there whispering
good words of affirmation in his ear. He tried this while
I'm praying alone. Where's boasting then? It's excluded.
By what law? Of works, nay, but the law of
faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith
without the deeds of the law. Because Christ was there fulfilling
the law every job he did. And he said, it's finished, it's
done. You want anything to it? No. You want to take something
from it? No. It's finished. Finished. And
the man gets all the glory. Turn over to Revelation 1, we
done. We behold that man. who shall be bowed to and worship. Revelation 1, verse three. John, to the seven churches which
are in Asia, grace be unto you and peace. Where'd that peace
come from? He established it as blood, didn't
he? From him which is and which was and which is to come and
from the seven spirits which are before his throne, and from
Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead,
and the prince of the kings of the earth, unto him that loved
us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made
us kings and priests unto God and his Father, to him, this
one that did all this. We're just getting started. We're
going to take our time once we draw on that theme. To him, behold
the man, be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold him. That means admire,
adore, adhere to the man. Latch onto him, don't let go. Forsake all and cling to him. forsake everything and cling
to it. Isaac asked his father to go up that mountain to worship
God. He called and said, my father. And he said, here am I, my son.
And he said, behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the
lamb for the burnt offering? Where's the lamb? And Abraham
said, my son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. Just like Abraham, our father
Abraham, Just like John the Baptist, just like all the apostles, just
like all the disciples in old days, just like all of God's
mouthpieces throughout time, I tell you, behold the man. Behold
the lamb. Behold your God. Does it not
do all? I want to cry and clap and laugh
and weep. Behold him, adore him, and adhere
to him. Cling to him with all tenue.
Come to him. Well, next week, there in verse
14 of John 19, we'll look at and pilot, saith unto the Jews,
behold your king. Hope it didn't keep you too long.
We have only beheld the man tonight. This is the king. This man's
the king. What a king we have. All right,
let's pray together. Father, thank you for this word
you've given us.