As most of you know, we have
been going through the Old Testament types, trying to preach what
we believe the Lord may have preached on that road to Emmaus
when he was preaching to two disciples and disguised himself. They didn't know him. He was
preaching. It says, he said, things that Christ suffered.
And beginning in the books of Moses and all the prophets and
the Psalms, he expanded on the things concerning himself, how
Christ ought to suffer, came to suffer, to die, substitute
for his people. That's why he came. That's what
the whole book is about. That's what salvation is about,
him, Christ crucified. Now, in looking at the Psalms,
I am quite certain that our Lord preached Psalm 22. So go there
with me. Psalm 22. This is the psalm of
the cross, as Psalm 23 is the psalm of the shepherd. Psalm
24 is the psalm of the king. This is the psalm of the cross,
Christ crucified. Even an unbeliever If looking
at this, as well as the New Testament fulfillment of these things,
even an unbeliever should be amazed how that everything written
here actually happened at Calvary. You take Psalm 22, and we may
not have time to look at all of them. in the Gospels where
these things were fulfilled. It's an amazing fulfillment of
all that happened on the cross. It begins with verse 1. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping
me? from the words of my roaring,
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not, and in
the night season I am not silent, but thou art holy. These were the very words of
our Lord hanging on the cross. My God, my God, in Matthew 27,
he cried. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? David wrote this a thousand years
before Christ. David never went through these
things that are written here. David was never compassed about
his garments, cast lots for his garments, and all of these things,
but David was speaking under inspiration of the Holy Spirit
of God, of Christ on the cross. 700 years before our Lord was crucified, Isaiah
wrote these words. Why was Christ forsaken of God? Why did he cry that? Because
if he wasn't as our substitute, we will be. Listen to this. In Isaiah 43, 700 years before
Christ was crucified, it says, surely he hath borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows. He was wounded for our transgression.
He was bruised for our iniquity. the chastisement or beating that
he took. For our peace was upon him, and
with his stripes we are healed. So Christ was forsaken by God
so that we would not be. That is his people. Now Christ
didn't do this for everybody, but he did it for some people.
And everyone for whom Christ died will not be forsaken, ever. Ever. The Lord Jesus endured
the equivalent of hell on Calvary's trail, his people. In Psalm 16, this is what Peter
quoted at Acts at Pentecost. In Psalm 16, verse 10, he says,
and this is Christ, ìThou wilt not leave my soul in hell.î Neither wilt thou suffer thine
Holy One to seek corruption." God is holy. God is love. God is love. God is mercy. God is grace. God is goodness. God is life. The absence of God,
to be cast out of the presence of God, for us not to be where
God is, is hell. No love. No mercy. No grace. No light. No life. Nothing. No purity. No holiness. But the opposite
of all that. Darkness. Corruption. Fear. Misery. Torment. Our Lord spoke of hell more than
anyone. The world scoffs, the world laughs, they curse using
that term, oh hell. Our Lord went through the equivalent
of hell and that's to be cast out of God's presence, is to
be forsaken by God. No mercy, no hope, no love, no
goodness, no grace, darkness, fear. That's hell. Ironically, the profound irony
of all of this, he cried, My God, my God, forsaken of God. Verse 2, O my God. The profound
irony of all of this. God is not mocked. God is not
mocked. God will someday do the mocking. That's what he said in Proverbs.
I will mock. The profound irony is that Christ
cried these very words, O my God. And the whole world is doing
that now without a thought. Christ cried it in earnestness,
in agony, while the world laughs and scoffs and says, Oh my God,
when the least little thing happens, they take his name in vain. And so would we had not Christ
been on this cross and did what he did for us and put the fear
of God in us and given us this great faith to look to him who
cried, oh my God, in earnest. And now he's coming some day,
he's coming back, and the whole world will collectively say,
oh my God. And they shall look on him whom
they have pierced. While his people, because Christ
did this, they will say with a joyful countenance, My God,
he's here for us. God's not mocked. And he's allowed people, he's
let people do this. Take his name like they do for
their condemnation of their judgment. And we cried all through the
Psalms, Oh my God. We cried like Christ cried in
earnestness, in praise, in thanksgiving. Oh my God. Thou art my God. God's my mother. He said in verse
3, Thou art holy. Why is Christ being forsaken
of God? God's holy. The God of the Bible is who we're
talking about. He's first and foremost holy,
just, and righteous. Christ was being made sin. Yeah, he was made sin. He took on him in his body our
sin, the sins of God's people, in his body on the tree. God
laid on him the iniquity of all of his people. He made him to
be guilty for all of his people. Because God is holy. God will
punish sin. Now, again, the world laughs
and scoffs at this. There won't be any laughing and
scoffing someday. There was a famous singer I used
to like when I was a young teenager, John Lennon. He wrote a most
famous song that everybody loved, still loves, and is still singing.
Imagine there's no heaven. Imagine there's no hell below
us. Well, that was his imagination, and now there's nothing left
of his imagination. He knows now. He knows. Thank God God revealed to me
what a fool that man was. And Jesus Christ is the truth.
Thank God. God is just. God is holy. God
will by no means clear the guilty. When Moses asked the Lord to
show him his glory, he said, I'll make all my goodness pass
before you. I'll proclaim the name of the Lord. He said, the
Lord God. The Lord. There's only one. God. Creator. Sovereign. Ruler. Controller.
There is no other. The Lord God. Merciful. God said,
I am merciful. I will show mercy. gracious,
forgiving iniquity, full of mercy, forgiving iniquity, reserving
mercy for thousands, keeping mercy for thousands. He ended
it by saying, by no means fear the guilty. By no means fear
the guilty. There's no justice on earth today,
no real justice with man. Man is an unjust creature. There's no justice, you know.
There's no punishment or penalty that fits any crime today. They're
trying to do away with all capital punishment and so forth. God
is just. He said, every sin shall receive
a just recompense of war, because God is holy, God is just. It's
a good thing. Can you imagine if there was
no God, what the earth would be like? Justice is served by
who? God. It's true, isn't it? Aren't you glad? God is just,
he's right. But God said, I will by no means
clear the guilty. This is a true story. Back in
the 15th century in Galway, Ireland, there was a man named James Lynch
who was the mayor of Galway, Ireland. He was loved and respected
by everyone in town. He was a fair man. He was a just
man. He was a good man. He had a son
named Walter, whom the town loved also. Walter Lynch. The town
loved Walter as well. Well, Walter had a girlfriend,
a lady friend, who he loved, and he had suspected her of being
involved with another man. In a fit of rage, he killed that
man in cold-blooded murder. He stabbed him and killed that
man in a jealous rage. Well, of course, they put him
in jail. But the town people loved the mayor so much. They
loved Mayor James Lynch so much. And they loved Walter, that they
asked him to lessen the sentence. The penalty, the punishment for
murder was hanging. No exception, if found guilty. And everyone knew this man, Walter,
was guilty. They asked him to, what's the
word, to lessen the sentence. Well, one morning the whole town
was awakened by a bell ringing at Mayor James Lynch's house
that was up on the hill. He was ringing a bell. He had
a bell tower where people would gather at times. He was ringing
a bell, and the whole town gathered up there to his house. True story.
Gathered to his house, and James Lynch was standing at the top
of that tower with his son beside him, and a rope was around his
son's neck. And all the people standing there,
and he said, No one is above the law. Not even my son can
hang him. His own son. That's where the term lynching
came from. Lynching. God killed his own son. God hung his son on a tree. Why? Because no one's above or
below. He's holy. He's just. He writes. I don't believe that preacher.
We're going to find out. We're going to find out. But God is rich in mercy. God is merciful. Christ did this for some people. We don't know who he did it for. The only way we can tell who
it was he did this for is that at some point in time they hear
this, that God is just, and they fear God, and they believe God,
and they believe his word, and they cry out for mercy, and they
ask for forgiveness, and they ask for pardon. And he shows
them Christ's substance. And they believe and they hope
in God's mercy in Jesus Christ. They say, let the blood of your
son, let his death be my death. And God frankly, freely, forever
forgives them. Doesn't lessen the sentence. No, no. Completely blots it out. But Christ paid for every crime,
every sin committed by God's people. Look at verse 4. He said,
Oh, our fathers trusted in thee. They trusted and thou didst deliver
them. They cried unto thee and were
delivered. They trusted in thee and were not confounded, but
I am a worm. Beginning in Isaiah 40, if you
read it for yourself, you have, some of you, Isaiah 40 begins
to talk about our Lord Jesus Christ. All of them, but especially
from there on, and it leads all the way up to 53, Christ on the
cross. Read it for yourself, you'll
be amazed what's the progression of it. Comfort ye, comfort ye
my people. Tell them the warfare is accomplished.
Her iniquity is pardoned. How? Somebody's coming. In chapter 53. In chapter 41
he says, Fear not thou worm, Jacob. Chapter 42, Behold my
servant. And on and on it goes. Leading
up to chapter 53 where Christ is hung on the cross. Fear not
thou worm, Jacob. Men are creatures of the earth. We're all just a bunch of worms.
Say not me, preacher. Well, we'll find out. We'll put
your body in the ground one of these days, and the worms are
going to eat your flesh, and you're going to just be dirt.
That's true. You came from the dirt, and that's
what we're going back to. And that's a worm, isn't it?
Crawling, wriggling, writhing creatures in the earth, loving
darkness, eating dead things. That's what worms do. That's
man. That's man. Worms. Well, so God, the Son
of God, in great love and mercy, came to this dark place called Earth, and
became a worm. He became a worm. It's the only
way. The only way he could save these worms, by becoming a worm. That's what he did. I'm a worm. Verse 6, a reproach, despised
of the people, despised and rejected. All they did was see me, laugh
me to scorn, but shoot out the lip, verse 7, read it with me,
and shake the head, saying he trusted on the Lord that he would
deliver him. Let him deliver him, seeing he delighteth in
him." That's exactly what they cried when Christ was hanging
on that cross. People at the foot of the cross
mocking him, deriding him. Unbelievable. You know, the greatest
display or the greatest proof of man's utter depravity, what
a wicked creature man is, is at the cross, where God became
a man, holy, harmless, separate from sin, altogether loving,
pure, spotless, mercy, love, grace, goodness. He went about
doing good. That's all he did was good. All
he said was truth. All he did was kindness. Everything
he did was mercy. Everything he did was serving
others and being gracious to others. So man, what does man
do with it? This is man. They hate you. You're not like us. They kill you. They did what
God determined before to be done. Peter cried that on Pentecost. You with wicked hands have taken
and crucified the Lord of glory. Wicked hands. But you did what
God determined before you did. Only way. Only way. A substitute. This is utter proof. We need no other proof than Calvary
to see man's utter depravity. And it should not surprise us
that God is someday going to destroy every unbeliever, everyone
who despises his son, everyone who rejects his son. God sent him in great love and
great mercy and great grace to this hellhole, and nobody in
it deserved it. But God is so merciful and gracious
and sent his love on many, not just a few, but many. And all
we, like everybody else, such were some of you, despised and
rejected. I went for years without, I don't
believe that. I don't believe that stuff. I
don't care if Jesus Christ lived or died. I don't care. I don't want to hear that stuff.
That was me. But God. He said, I'm going to
open blind eyes. I'm going to open deaf ears.
Why should he? Why should he? God doesn't need any worms. He
doesn't need worms. Why should He? Some worms need
Him. And He makes them see that. He
makes them see that Christ is their hope for a holy God. Verse 9, Thou art he that took
me out of the womb and made me hope upon my mother's breath.
He was born of a woman, made under the law, made of a woman,
made under the law, to do what? Why would he come here? This
is all we've ever known, you know, this world, this earth
that we live in, it's all we've ever known. Christ left glory, heaven, the
land of righteousness, peace, holiness, light, love, kindness,
nothing but to come here. He said in verse 11, Be not far
from me, a trouble is near. And he was in the garden before
he went to the cross. He said, now is my sole trouble.
Verse 12, Many bulls have compassed me, strong bulls of Bashan have
beset me round, they gait upon me with their mouths as a ravening,
roaring lion. One time our Lord said to Simon
Peter, and Simon, you know, speaking without thinking like we do,
said things. The Lord said he was going to
the cross. do what he came to do. And Peter
said, No, Lord, don't go there. No, no. I'm not going to let
you go to Jerusalem. He said, Get behind me, Satan. He said to Simon Peter, Satan
hath desire to sift you. He wants you. Sift you like wheat. If I let him have you, you're
gone. He said, But I have prayed for
you. The only reason, Simon Peter, is me, your only hope. Satan
has a roar in Simon Peter, and the Lord did allow Satan to sip
Simon. He denied the Lord, remember?
He reverted right back to that cussing savor that the Lord found
in the beginning. Just the Lord took his hand off
of him for a minute. And he reverted right back to
that cussing, sailor, denying, I don't know that Jesus, blankety
blank. And the Lord, he turned and the
Lord looked at him and it pierced his heart. Well, Peter, Simon
Peter later wrote, Satan is a roaring lion seeking to be made a man.
Then again, the world laughs at any mention of a devil and
Satan and all of this. They mock the name Satan, devil. That's the ignorant belief of
mountain people, some kind of devil that made you do it. Jesus
Christ said more about him than any other person in the Bible. Jesus Christ said, I beheld him
fall like lightning from heaven. I cast him down to heaven. I
put him here. He does my bidding. And I'll
let him have whoever I let him have. And nobody's a match for
him. Jesus Christ said that. Jesus
Christ. You know what? I believe Jesus
Christ and I don't believe anybody else. Do you? Everything we believe,
everything I preach is Him. And I've reached this point.
There was a time when I didn't care what Jesus Christ said.
Now, I don't care what anybody else says. How about you? Really? Let God be true and every
man a liar. I don't believe this is God's
book. I do. Every word of it. There was a
time I didn't believe any word of it. Honestly. It's all because of Christ, this
person who holds the world in his hands, who came into this
world. The world was made by him and
knew him not. He came to his own creatures
and they didn't know him. But some he made himself known.
That's the next message. That's every message. He said in verse 14, I poured
out like water. He poured out his soul unto death,
the scripture said. Hanging on the cross, it's significant
that after his body was pierced by that sword, God told that
centurion to take a spear and pierce his son's side. Why? Because
scripture said they would. It said they would look upon
him whom they pierced. And out of his side came blood
and water. Some of you mercifully, graciously
know what that means, don't you? Aren't you glad? So few people
do, but some do. Blood and water. Blood for our
justification. The crime is paid. Water requires
sanctification, the washing away of the pollution, the filth of
sin. Water. I'm poured out like water. He
poured out his soul. He went on, verse 15, my strength
is dried up like a pot sherry. My tongue cleaveth to my jaw.
Our Lord on the cross. Everything that is written here,
he cried, said something on the cross. Seven sayings of Christ
on the cross. One of them was, I thirst. He's
going through Hell on the cross. The fire of God's wrath against
him. God is a consuming fire. And
he was going through hell on Calvary's tree. You remember
the story our Lord told of Lazarus and the rich man, how the rich
man in hell cried, I thirst. And so will everyone. But Christ
did that for his people. He cried, I thirst. And man,
being so cruel as he is, they took vinegar and stuck it in
his mouth. Why? Because Scripture said they
would. But to show us that there's no relief for the godly from
man, of his thirst. The water of this world will
not relieve it, only the water that comes from God, of his mercy
and his grace. Our thirsts. Verse 16, Dogs accompanied
me. Down in verse 20, it said, Deliver
my darling from the power of the dog that saved me from the
lion's mouth. Dogs. Man encompassed the Son
of God on Calvary's tree. Before that, they took him into
Pilate's hall and beat him unmercifully, beat him to a bloody mass. And Isaiah 52 says his visage,
his countenance, his body was marred, beaten more than any
man, unrecognizably beaten to a pulp. These big, strong soldiers had
their way with him. They had their way because God
let them. But they did, okay? They beat
him. It says his business was marred
more than any man. And they coaxed him. If you don't
think man is what we've been saying, corrupt, Man is like
a bloody creature. Scripture talks about man being
a bloody creature. You watch somebody get injured,
you watch there be a car crash or something, and blood is shed.
You watch the crowd gather around. They're not interested in that
person's health or whatever, really, no. They want to see
blood. It's very significant and fitting that we're in a day
now where blood sports are all the rage. Can't get enough of
it. Men and women beating one another
to a bloody pulp and people love every minute of it. Have you
ever seen an innocent animal surrounded by a pack of wild
dogs and eaten alive? That's one of the saddest things
you'll ever witness. It ought to tear the heart of
the most hard-hearted person. Have you ever seen a pack of
coyotes or hyenas surround an innocent animal and literally
eat it alive while that animal is crying for its life and it
is eating and gnawing at it until it just lays down and dies. You
have to be a monster not to be touched by that. That's what
man did to Jesus Christ. That's man. That's mankind. It's a fact. And you wonder if God's going
to destroy the people? But God. He shows some. I had to smile and laugh. And when I think about it, that
was me. That was me. And so for so many years. Verse 16, they pierced
my hands and my feet. They nailed Christ to the cross.
And you know, religion, I hate it. I hate religion. They make, under the pretense
of preaching Christ on the cross, they make fun of it. What's that
saying about four nails? I forget. They make all kind
of little cleric shays concerning the nails that are driven in
our Lord's hands and feet. Can you just try to imagine nails
driven in your hands and your feet? How did they die from loss
of blood? That would have, you know, people
cut their, slit their wrists and they died just no matter
how long you nurses, just a very short time. He hung there six
hours. Why? Because no one took his
life from him. He said, I lay it down. In him
is life. He's going to die when he decides,
and so will you. But they nailed his hands and
his feet according to the Scripture. Why? Because these hands, man's
hands, God's hand, Christ's hand, good, holy, pure hand, holy hand,
pure hand. He went about doing good, his
hands. God gave him a set of hands as a man, and he went about
doing good. All he did with his hands was
good. All man does is evil. Their hands, the scripture said,
are swift to shed blood. That's what it said. Our feet
are swift to run to mischief. Our feet don't walk in paths
of righteousness, for his name's sake. Our feet don't walk in
faith. Our feet run to mischief, to
commit crime. That's mankind, okay? So Christ,
as a man, God pierced his hands and his feet on that cross. You
understand? That's what it ought to do to
my hands, my feet. Our Lord one time said, if your
right hand offends you, cut it off. Well, it does all the time. But Christ's hands were pierced.
His feet were pierced instead of mine. And they nailed him
to the cross. And you know what else was nailed
there? This is by design. We've broken
every law, every ordinance, every commandment. It all says we're
guilty of every crime known to man. We have done it, we've thought
it. But God made him to be sinned,
made him to be guilty. He who kept the law. Crime has
to be punished. So God had him nailed to the
cross, but not only his body, but all the ordinances, all the
commandments against us, all the crimes that we ever committed
were nailed to the cross. It's as if God said when nailing
his son, pay, kept, finished, forgiven. They hung him up there for all
to see, paid. The Lord Jesus paid it off with
his own hands and feet, with his own body on the tree. They parted my garments, verse
17. I may tell all my bones, and
they look and stare upon me. They parted my garments among
them and cast lots upon my vesture. You and I know that Christ was
stripped naked on purpose, because all things are naked and open
before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Clothing, man
can't cover his sin. He can't cover it at all. Clothing
doesn't cover it. Nothing covers it. Darkness doesn't cover it.
It's all alike to God. He sees it all. He said, I see
all things naked. So Christ came as a man and had
them strip Him naked. His robe, though, that he was
covered in, lots were cast by the Roman soldiers, you remember?
They cast lots. That is, who's going to get them?
Well, they rolled the dice to see who'd get it, okay? And one
of those, they said, don't tear it. Don't tear this robe. You all know what that means.
You know how pestilent we are. That's the righteousness of Christ.
That's the dress of heaven. That's the wedding garment of
heaven. It's what Christ did to cover
our sin. His righteousness. The lot is cast in the lap. Who
gets the robe? The whole disposal there is up
in heaven. Some of us get the robe. We get
covered. We didn't have anything to do
with it. That's Centurion. He got that
garment. Verse 19, let's just read on. Be not far from me, O Lord, my
strength. Help me. Deliver my soul from
the sword, my darling, from the power of the dog. Save me from
the lion's mouth. And then he says, and it changes.
It starts to change you. Thou hast heard me. He heard
him. He heard him. The horns of the unicorn. In Hebrews it says, our Lord,
let me, I don't want to misquote it, that he cried and he was
heard and that he cried. Listen to this. It said in Hebrews,
He says that in the days of his flesh, he offered up prayers
and supplication with strong crying and tears unto him that
was able to save him from death. And he was heard in that he feared. But though he were a son, yet
learned he obedience by the things that he suffered. And being made
perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all
them that obey him. Christ was heard in that he feared. He was heard from Calvary's tree.
God heard him. God forsook him. Then after a
while, God heard him. Who? Why? All of his people. He's the one mediator between
God and men. He's the one whom God will only
hear on behalf of other men. Like he said before he went to
the cross, I know that you hear me. You always hear me. But there
was a time when he wasn't heard. He was forsaken, okay? Why should
God listen to us? People only call on God when
they get in trouble, and then when they get out of trouble,
they quit calling on God. So why should he listen? Why should
he hear? Me? I didn't listen. But then he was heard. You know
what the first thing he said on Calvary Street was? When they
hung Christ on that cross, the first thing he said when he hung
there, the first words out of his mouth, Father, forgive them. They know not what they did.
They don't know what they're doing. They don't know who they've
done this to. They don't know anything about
themselves, what they have done all their life. They don't know
anything. Forgive them. And whoever Jesus
Christ cried that for, God Frankly, forgave them, because he asked
him to. But now he's got to pay for their
sin, and he did. God both punished his people
in Christ and forgave them. That redemption of our sin and
the forgiveness of our sin. Why? Because Christ asked him.
You know what he tells us to do? Ask the Father in my name. He asked him anything. You know,
all manner of sin will be forgiven, he said. In my name. Amen. In my name. We know that. For Christ's sake. Perhaps even worse than calling
God's name is for men to say, oh, for Christ's sake. They're
only breathing for Christ's sake. Not in hell for Christ's sake. That's the only reason. And it began to stop. It changes
from crying and death to life and praise. Notice verse 22,
I will declare thy name, I will declare thy name unto my brethren. Meaning, I'm not going to stay
on this cross. I'm not going to stay in the
grave. You won't suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. I'm going
to rise the third day. And with my dead body, my people
will live. And I'm going to go back and
be with them. Verse 22, I'll declare in the
midst of the congregation. That's where he's going to declare.
That's who he's going to be with. What happens? When Christ arose
from the grave, when Christ arose from the grave, he told those
women, you go back and tell my disciples to go to Galilee. That's
where he found them. That's where he gathered them.
That's where he first spoke to them and revealed himself to
them. He said, go back to Galilee, I'm coming. I'm going to come
and I'm going to be right in the middle of them. And they're
going to be happier than they've ever been in their life. We're
going to sing, oh, we're going to sing. Why? Verse 23, You that fear
the Lord, praise him. The seed of Jacob glorified. Fear him, all seed of Israel.
He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted.
In all our affliction he was afflicted. The angel of his presence
saved us. Though he was despised and rejected
by us, he wasn't by God. God was well pleased with his
righteousness. And he accepted what Christ did
on our behalf. And when he cried, God heard.
Verse 25, My praise shall be... David's saying this, we're saying
this, Christ said this. My praise shall be of thee in
the great congregation. Whenever God's people get together,
they get together to talk about Christ crucified. Those that
really were Redeemed by Christ, the redeemed of the Lord are
going to be there. It's just so. You can't keep them away. And that's a fact. A lot of people playing at it.
And you might see them, you might not. But not God's people. He
is their life. He really is. They only live
because He died. And when somebody's going to
talk about their Lord that died for them, they're going to be
there in their congregation. They're going to congregate.
To do what? To praise the glory of His name.
Christ crucified. That's just a fact. I'm tired
of making excuses for people who don't love Jesus Christ. God knows. God's not a lie. It says, The meek, the lowly,
verse 26, shall eat. Eat what? Christ said, My body
is meat indeed. My blood is drinking tea. You
know what that means, don't you? That's what we do. Eat the body of Christ and be
satisfied. Nothing else will. And he'll
praise the Lord that we seek him. Your heart shall live forever. What a promise. Let's go on. That all the ends of the world
shall remember. This do in remembrance of me. And turn unto the Lord. All the
kindreds and nations shall worship him. God has a people out of
every kindred nation and tongue under heaven. What do they do?
They worship Jesus Christ. That's why they may. That's what
they do. They know. He's their life. Wow. Verse 28.
The kingdom is the Lord's. He's the governor. He's Lord
over all. He's not just Jesus. He's a Lord
Jesus. They know it. At this end, Christ both died
and rose and revived that he might be Lord of the dead and
the living. This is the Lord. Verse 29, they that be fat on
earth shall eat and worship. Fat. Where is it in the psalm that
says they'll be fat and flourishing? God's people. Fat and flourishing,
like a well-watered garden. They'll eat and worship. Everybody
that goes down in the dust is going to bow before him. Every
knee will bow and every tongue will confess that he's Lord. They will. And none can keep
alive his own soul. God says, Christ says, all souls
are mine. The keys of hell and death are
mine. Psalm 2 says, kiss the Son. And
a seed, verse 30, shall serve him. A seed. You've got Satan's
seed and you've got Christ's seed, God's seed. That's the
people of God. And they'll do what? Serve him.
His glory. It's all about him. Our life
is about him. We owe unto him everything. Unto
him that loved us. We did love him. Loved us and
washed us from our sins into His own blood. Unto Him. This is a hymn book. We sing
hymns. If it's not about Him, it ain't
a hymn. Take it out of the book. It's
unto Him. They'll serve Him. If it's God's
church, they're serving Him. Who? Jesus Christ. Him, who loved
us. Verse 30 says, It will be accounted
to the Lord for a generation. His people. That's his people.
And they shall come, all of them, verse 31. They shall come. And
what are they going to declare? John Kingsley, Jr., tell me,
what shall they all declare? Ladder. That's his name, isn't it? And
that's their name. unto a people that shall be born.
Some of them aren't born yet, but they're all going to know.
They're all going to see. They're all going to believe.
They're all going to bow. They're all going to love. They're
all going to believe. And they're all going to live
forever because Christ died and rose again and ever lives. And
the last line, don't you love the last line, says, they're
all going to say, he hath done this. It began by Christ saying, my
God, my God, why? And it ends by saying this, it's
done, finished, over. As we like to say, it's all over
but the shout.