This will truly be a Bible study. It's what it's supposed to be,
but many want to look at many scriptures. You won't have to
turn. I do want you to turn to the ones I tell you to though.
But I've got over, I quit counting after 50. So I'm going to do
it for you. You will be amazed. You will
be amazed how they are they which testify of Christ. We're going
to see how everything that happened to him at the cross was written
before time. We're going to see that, everything.
Look at Luke 23. Verse 34, and the title is not
the only subject, but is the Rent Bail and the Unrent Vesture. Verse 34, it says, They parted
his raiment and cast lots. And Matthew and Mark say that
they cast lots for his vesture. which was a seamless row, says
it was a seamless row woven from the top to bottom. That's important. Then down in verse 45, it says the sun was darkened from
the sixth hour, verse 44, until the ninth hour. The sun was darkened,
and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And Matthew
says, from the top to the bottom, like the robe of Christ woven
from the top to the bottom. But I want us to look at everything
that was done to Him on the cross and see how that is all according
to Scripture, proving who He is and glorifying Him and God's
Word. Now, he was bound. He was bound. Look at Psalm 118.
They bound him, and he willingly was bound. Psalm 118. Of course,
there's so many. You go back to Genesis 22, where
he bound his son Isaac. Who did it? Who bound our Lord? The people? The mob? God did. Abraham bound his son Isaac,
and he willingly... Isaac was a strong young man.
He had to willingly submit to God. But Psalm 118 verse 26 says,
Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We have
blessed you out of the house of the Lord. God is the Lord
which hath showed us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords
under the horn of the altar. That's the cross. Bind him. And Hosea 11 says we're drawn
to him with cords. The cords of a man were bound
to him. He was bound for us. He was put in prison. Isaiah
53, 8, you know this. He was taken from prison and
led forth unto judgment. This was right between when he
was taken in the garden and to the high priest's house, and
then they put him in prison, and then immediately when the
day time came, they took him to power. So he was in prison,
and Isaiah 53a tells us that. So he was taken from prison. And so many scriptures talk about
him saying to the prisoners of hope, David said, bring my soul
out of prison. You know, somebody came out of
prison because Christ went in there. Who? Barabbas. And me
too. They gaped upon him. They wagged their tongues, it
says. They bowed the knee. They mocked
him. Psalm 22, look at verse 6. He says, I am a reproach of men,
despised of the people. Verse 7, all they that see me
laugh me to scorn. I shoot out the lip, shake the
head, say, verse 8, entrusted on the Lord he would deliver
him. Let him deliver him. That's exactly what they said
when Christ was hanging on that cross. He called on the glory. Eli,
Eli, let's see if you'll have it. They said, let's see if you'll
have it. No, he was forsaken by God. Why? So God would have us. So God
would accept us. These are our subjects. But,
and in Psalm 69, you don't have to turn there, I will, but it
says, I was the song of the drunkards. You know, they were drinking
and carrying on all around that cross. It was a sporting event
to them. They were all having a big time
watching our Lord suffer. Deuteronomy 25. Then they chastised
Him. Remember Pilate says, I find
no fault in Him, but I'll chastise Him. What injustice? What man is unjust? There is no justice with men.
In Deuteronomy 25, they beat him. The word chastise means
to scourge, beat with rods. They beat him with rods. Deuteronomy
25, verse 2. If a wicked man be worthy to
be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten
before his face according to his thought, according to his
sin, by a certain number. It was 40 stripes saved one,
39 stripes. So they beat him. Now let me
read this to you. They beat him not for his own
faults. He had no fault. He had no sin. They beat him. The chastisement
of our peace, Isaiah 53 says, was laid on him. He took our
weapon at the hands of God. But listen to this, 2 Samuel
7. This is what our Lord said to David concerning his son.
He says, I'll be his father. He shall be my son. If he commit
iniquity, I'll chasten him with the rod of men and the stripes
of the children of men. He's talking about Solomon, the
son of David, but no, he's talking about the Son of God who was
chastened with the rod of men. Beat Him with the stripes of
the children of men. By His stripes we are healed. He's our substitute. Scripture
says He would be beaten. And there's so many others. Proverbs
23 talks about a son that the Lord, we say, if you love your
son, chasten Him. Chasten that son. And it says,
Whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth. You know why the Lord chastened
his son? Because he loved us. He was chastised. He didn't deserve
it. We did. But since the Lord loved us,
he chastised his son instead of us. Beat him with the rods. They plucked his beard. Isaiah
50. Isaiah 50. Look at this. They plucked his
beard and spit in his face. Isaiah 50 tells this. Do you have it? Isaiah
50. And if you want to read, start
reading Isaiah from 49 until it leads up to 53. It's all of
Christ. It all leads up to Isaiah 53.
But here in verse 5, it says, The Lord God hath opened mine
ear. I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. He set his
face like a flint. I gave my back to the smiters,
and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. I hid not my face
from shame, and spit him. As far as we know, Isaiah was
never beaten, nor was he spit upon. And if you want to read
something wonderful, read Job 30, the 30th chapter of Job.
The whole chapter is a type of Christ. Look at that whole chapter
as Job being Christ. And Job said, They spit in my
face. And then Deuteronomy 25, don't
turn there, but you know the law of the kinsman redeemer? that if the brother would not
raise up seed to his brother's wife, if he wouldn't do what
the law required, then they would take off his shoe and spit in
his face before everybody, saying, you didn't fulfill the law. You
didn't raise up seed. You didn't do your part. And
Christ was spit. He was barefoot before the Lord. He took off his shoes and God
spit in his face as a lawbreaker. For me, for us. Is there any doubt that he is
the Christ? They blindfolded him. They blindfolded him and
they smote him on the face and said, prophesied. They said, who hit
you? And I remind you, we looked at
the story of Samson, whose eyes they plucked out, and they made
sport of him. And they tied him up, as it were,
put his hands between those pillars, and they made sport of this blind
man. Who's blind? He's bringing this house down. Samson destroyed all of Israel's
enemies that day and made fun of him. That's what our Lord
did. But man, Isaiah 29 says that
they do what they do. Let me turn there. I don't want
to misquote. But, you know, man blindfolds
God. Man thinks God can't see in the
dark. Listen to Isaiah 29. They think
God is blindfolded. He said, Woe to them that seek
deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and their works in the
dark, saying, Who seeth us? He can't see us. Oh, yes, he
can. Who smote you? The one I told
you smite me. That's it. He was manipulating all of this
that the Scripture might be fulfilled. They crowned him with thorns. Genesis 3. Genesis chapter 3. Oh, what a crown he wore. Genesis
3. Marvelous. Marvelous. This is
the second Adam from above. crowned him with thorns. And you know what this says,
but read it with me again. Genesis 3. Look at this. This
is Christ. Verse 17. He said, Because I
was hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, as eaten of the
tree of which I commanded thee. Why did Adam... Adam was not
deceived. The woman was deceived. That's
us. That's us. Easily deceived, aren't
we? But rebellious, he was rebellious.
Adam willingly was made sin for Eve. He knew what he was doing,
he took that sin as a type of crime. And he said, and the Lord
said, Thou shalt not eat of it. Cursed is the ground for thy
sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Our Lord was a man of sorrows and acquainted with the pre-print.
made accursed. He bore the cross, we'll see
in a moment, which was accursed. Thorns, verse 18, and thistles
shall it bring forth to thee. Our Lord said, and he said, in
sorrow shall thou eat of it. And to the woman, sorrow, sorrow. Thorns, pain, suffering, and
sorrow. Our Lord bore our griefs and
carried our sorrows. Our Lord willingly took all the
thorns of this life, all the pain, all the affliction, all
the suffering that we go through, willingly. Would you take any
pain or any suffering if He didn't have to? No. Unless it's for
somebody you love, and He did. And they crowned him with a crown
of thorns. Truly, the king of glory he is. What a wonderful crown, sister,
that he wore on our behalf. He took all the thorns of this
life, our griefs, our sorrows, our troubles, in every point,
tempted like as we are, afflicted, all their affliction he was afflicted,
and he wore this as a crown of glory. And I remind you that in Genesis
22, that ram caught in the thicket. What's a thicket? Thorny bush. Okay? Kentucky's full of them
if you go out in the bramble storm. And that ram was caught
in a thicket by his horn. That's a picture of Christ. And that ram was slain in the
stead of Abraham's son. And our Lord is that lamb slain
in the stead of His people, all the sons of Abraham. They laid
the cross on Him. I was going to have you turn
to Deuteronomy 21. It's where it says that cursed
is everyone that hangeth on a tree. And by the way, the Lord said,
don't leave his body on that tree. The Lord was merciful even
to vile criminals. And He made sure that they would
not leave that body hanging on the tree overnight because it
would be so repulsive and so putrefied and so awful. And the
disease and all that it could be. And our Lord, mercifully
and graciously, made sure that they would take that body, even
of the worst criminal, take it down. The Jews made a law out
of it on the Sabbath. It doesn't say that. It doesn't
say that on the Sabbath. The Lord didn't say that. But
the reason our Lord was taken down and put in a grave is so
that he would lay in a grave on the Sabbath, dead, to the
law. That's us. laid the cross on
Him. They laid this tree on Him, and
He was hung from it. Our Lord bore our sin, bore our
guilt, bore our sorrows, bore our shame, bore the curse. He was made a curse for us, Galatians
3.13. And Leviticus 5 and Isaiah 53,
just so many scriptures. So many scriptures. Speak of
the cross. Why didn't they kill our Lord?
Why didn't they kill Him in some other way? Because He had to
be hung on a tree. He had to be pierced. He had
to be nailed. The scriptures said, they shall
look on Him whom they pierce. In Zechariah. They led him. Now, he could not have been led
unless he was willing, right? They led him as a lamb to the
slaughter, Scripture says. Isaiah 53, Acts 8, led him. The Scripture says, all we like
sheep have gone astray. He ran off like Adam. He hid,
not him. He said, I hid not my face. He didn't go astray. He willingly,
willingly, take me. Remember when he went out in
front of them? Whom seek ye? And they would have taken all
of them, had not the Lord gone out willingly and taken their
place. He said, if you seek me, let them go. And they did. They
ran. Not him. He was led. She chills up my spine. His lamb
to the slaughter. Submitted willingly. They stripped
him naked. Now we're getting to the vesture. They stripped him naked. There's
not a human being who, if you were stripped naked before people,
you would be full of shame. You'd be so embarrassed, wouldn't
you? They stripped him naked. He had
no shame. He had no sin to be ashamed. When Adam and Eve, let me remind
you, in the Garden, the last verse of chapter 2, before they
see Him, says they were both naked and not ashamed. There was no lust in their flesh,
no lust to the eyes, no pride. Naked, not ashamed. Sinless, holy, weren't they? And not ashamed. They got made
to have no lust. They had desire. Adam and Eve
had desire for one another, didn't they? But it was not evil. It
was love, not lust. It wasn't animal passions. It
was love. And our Lord was stripped naked. Job said this. Job said, naked
I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return. This is the Son of God who came
into this world like we all do, naked. And He went out of this
world like we all will, naked. Yes, your clothes will rot first,
and you'll be naked. Man is the only creature The
only creature, have you ever thought about that? Why is man
the only creature that doesn't have a natural covering? There's
no animal on earth that wears clothes except man. Why? Because we're sinful. Shameful. Cover them. Because we're helpless. We can't
protect ourselves. Can't we? We need a covering.
We should be covering all things that are naked and open before
the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. And we're sinful.
We should be ashamed of ourselves. All human beings should be ashamed.
And this is a sign of the times, isn't it, that human beings are
becoming increasingly more naked without shame. And man is proud of his clothing. We wouldn't need it if we weren't
sinners. Man is proud of that which covers. The only reason
for it is to cover sin and shame. Our Lord had none. He says he
was for the joy set before him, endured the cross, despised the
shame. He was not ashamed. They stripped
him naked. That's something. That's something. And I remind you in the garden
when those two naked sinners were, they were ashamed after
they sinned. They were ashamed. They should
have been. They were. They were ashamed. And now, and the Lord,
you know what the Lord did? He stripped the skin off of a
lamb and covered him. He took the vesture off of a
lamb. Vesture means veil. It's the
same word. Covering. The Lord killed an
innocent lamb, shed its blood, poured out its blood. It died. And He took that skin off the...
I believe it was the Lord Jesus Christ Himself that was doing
that right before their eyes. And He covered those two naked
sinners. Covered their guilt. Covered their sin. Covered their
shame. We must have a covering. What
is it? It's Christ. It's righteousness. It's something that God wove.
Christ wore this garment. I'm getting ahead of myself here.
But I do want you to turn to Numbers 20. Numbers chapter 20.
If you've never seen this, prepare to be blessed. I've always wanted to preach
on this. I guess I'm going to right now. The horror on Mount
Hoar. The horror on Mount Hoar, where
God took the high priest and stripped him and killed him.
Aaron. Numbers 20. Look at verse 22. Children of Israel journeyed
from Kadesh unto Mount Hoar, and the Lord spake unto Moses
and Aaron in the Mount Hoar by the coast of the land of Edom,
saying, Aaron, the high priest, shall be gathered unto his people.
He shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children
of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water
of Meribah." Now, Moses, remember, and Aaron both did not sanctify
the Lord. Moses got mad and told Aaron
to smite the rock and all that. Why were they angry? Why were
they full of wrath? Because of the people. They suffered
because of the people. Right? The people were rebellious. The people were stiff-necked
and hard-hearted. And so Moses and Aaron were punished
for that. Aaron the high priest, verse
25, so the Lord said, Take Aaron and Eleazar his son. and bring
them up to Mount Hor and strip Aaron of his garments and put
them on Eleazar, his son. And Aaron shall be gathered unto
his people and shall die there." God killed Aaron, the high priest,
stripped him naked, and God killed him. He died naked. Why? The sins of the people. Moses stripped Aaron of his garments
and put him on Eleazar, verse 28, his son, and came down from
the mountain. Our Lord came down from the cross
and was buried in a tomb. So Eleazar, the son of the high
priest, was clothed with his father's garments, his father's
vesture. And that's us. They parted his
garments and cast lots for his vesture. Psalm 22, 18 tells us
that. For as we know, that never happened
to David, did it? Never. But in prophecy through
the Spirit of God, David prophesied of Christ, the Son of David,
whose garments they would part into four parts. And we've looked
at that before. The Gospels tell of four aspects
of our Lord's work on the cross. But the vesture, it says, they
cast lots. And one of those soldiers got
that garment. Did he decide? Did that soldier, did he's the
one that chose it? Did he accept it? Did they offer
it to him? No, no, no, no. The lot is cast into the lap. But the whole disposing there
of the Lord. The Lord saw that this one man
would get the vesture of the Lord Jesus Christ. Put it on
him. What happened to the prodigal
son when he came home? The very first thing that the
Father said, bring the best robe, the one woven from top to bottom
without seam, and put it on him. The blood of Christ was not shed
for everyone. It was shed particularly, particular
redemption for God's people all through the Scripture. The atonement
was made for Israel. He had the names of high priests,
had the name on his breastplate and his shoulder. Israel, the
twelve tribes, not the world, Israel, God's chosen elect people. That's who the atonement was
made for. That's who Christ died for, his
people, his chosen people, true Israel. And the vesture or the
righteousness of Christ, the robe of Christ's righteousness,
was not offered to anyone that would take it. No, no, no, no,
no. It was given to this one fellow and passed by the other
three didn't get it. Who determined that? God did.
God did. So it is with the righteousness
of Christ. Put on his people. And it says that coat, now we're
getting to the vesture, the veil, the vesture. They said, let's
not rip that. It's cashed lots for. So they
did. It was without seam from the
top to bottom woven. Somebody wove this garment. I've
never seen one like that. You ladies that sew, Earlene,
maybe you can tell me, how in the world do you make a garment
without a seam? Do you understand that? So for years, still do.
How can that be? I don't understand. But it was
so. It had no beginning and no ending. From the top. Somebody, whoever
wove it, started at the top and wove it all the way down to the
hem. to the hem. Why do they call
that hem? And that woman crawled and said,
if I could just touch hem, the hem of his garment, bells and
pomegranates. But how can that be? I don't understand. But it was
so. It was woven from the top to the bottom to the hem without
seam. There was no place to rip it.
No flaw. Nothing to tear. Flawless, faultless,
without beginning or end. That's our Lord. And that's His
righteousness. Oh, Adam and Eve tried to cover
with fig leaves. You can turn one over and it's
still going to rot. It's not going to cover you. Oh, we need
a garment that will cover. It cannot be porn. It cannot
be. We do it. We have it. The sign
of God's righteousness. And this was woven by God Himself,
made by the hands of our Lord Himself. And they said, let's
not rend it. Now our Lord was made in the
likeness of sinful flesh. You know what was rent? His flesh. Our Lord was made in the likeness
of sinful flesh, but without sin. In the likeness of sin.
Our Lord is the only man who ever lived whose flesh was sinless. And here's something to consider. There was no form or beauty,
no comeless in His flesh. When you look at his flesh, you'd
say there's nothing beautiful about his flesh. He was probably
brown skinned and nothing beautiful, no form, no taller than anybody
else. His flesh, there was no glory
in his actual flesh. But hold on. He had no lust of flesh. His hands were pure hands, clean
hands. His feet never ran to mischief,
were always walking in paths of righteousness. His lips, grace
poured from his lips. His mind was pure. His flesh
was flawless. But he was marred, God marred
his flesh. You know, we're all going to
be without spot. We are without spot and without
blemish. Everybody, all of God's people, we've got scars now,
don't we? We've got wrinkles. Boy, do we
have wrinkles. Our flesh, the longer you live,
the uglier your flesh gets. Doesn't it? Be honest. You start
out as a baby of the dew of youth. You're going to think that thing
is the most beautiful thing in the world. Those two. Oh, beautiful. Aren't they beautiful? That's
the type of the newborn baby in Christ, isn't it? Beautiful.
Sinless. But the older we get, in our
flesh dwelleth no good thing. Not in our Lord. Everything about
His flesh was good, righteous, holy, just, pure. You see, God made man flesh,
but without sin. There's no sin in flesh until
sin entered us. There's no flesh in this, sin
in this flesh per se, but the sin that's in us is what causes
sin with the flesh. And that's what we use the flesh
for. Isn't that awful? It's awful. But not the Son of God. God gave
Him a body and a sinless mind and heart, and His flesh was
pure. And the only one that's going
to have marks and glory in the flesh is Him. We all will have
the dew of youth, the flesh, pristine, perfect flesh. There's
one in glory who has scars, and we're all going to thank him.
He's the most beautiful person there. Exodus 26. Turn over there. Here's the veil. Exodus 26. I've got to hurry.
I don't want to go to Hebrews 9. I told you I had the Scripture. I put a lot of time in there. Exodus 26 talks about the veil. Exodus 26, look at verse 31. Here it is. Thou shalt make a
veil of blue, purple, and scarlet. Fine twine, linen. Hang it, verse
32, upon the four pillars of a shed of wood, overlaid with
gold hooks. Hang it, verse 33, under the
thatches. Bring it in hither between where
the ark is to cover the where the ark of the testimony is.
The veil shall divide unto you between the holy place and the
most holy place. Make this veil, the Lord said,
of blue and purple and scarlet fine twine, cunningly woven linen. What's linen? Linen is a plant. It's plain. I have some linen garments. It's wonderful. It's made of
flax and it's comfortable. Well, that was the garment the
high priest, that the ephod. The ephod was linen. The high priest would wear underneath
it all an ephod, linen ephod, when he went in before the Lord.
That's our Lord's righteousness. But this veil that hung between
the holy place and the holy of holies where the ark was, was
of blue. What's that? Deity. Sky. What's bluer than sky? High. It's high above the purple. It's
royalty. Scarlet. Scarlet. Listen. Listen to Isaiah 63. So this veil was blue, purple,
and scarlet. Isaiah 63 says, Who is this that
cometh with dyed garments from Basra, glorious in his apparel? Why are you red? in your apparel,
your garments, like him that treadeth the wine vat." Because
he said, I have trodden the winepress alone. The people, there was
none with me. Our Lord's garments. You know, that robe that that
soldier got, that vesture, it was covered with blood. It was covered with blood. blue,
purple, and scarlet, fine, twine, linen, cherubims. It was woven
with cherubims all over it. Angels all over that veil between
the holy of holies. Angels all over it. Angels. appeared at Christ's birth. Angels
appeared when He was baptized. Angels when He was tempted by
Satan. Angels came to escort Him when
He was risen. Angels escorted Him all the way
back to God. Which things do angels desire
to look into? Four pillars. It hung on four
pillars. The pillars of the earth, it
all hangs on this, John. It all hangs on Christ, doesn't
it? He's all. Well, when Christ was
crucified, it says, that veil was about that thick, okay? Woven from the top to the bottom. And it's separated, and I was
going to have you go to Hebrews 9, but I'm out of time. It separated
a holy place from the holy of holies where the ark was, where
the mercy seat was, and only one person could go in there.
And you couldn't go through the veil, you had to go under it.
You had to dip down. way down and go under it. You
had to get on your face and crawl under that veil. One man only,
once a year, would go within that veil, not without blood. He'd take the blood of another,
a lamb, and take it under that veil and pour it on the mercy
seat. No one else was allowed to see
that ark. No one else was allowed in that
holy place where God was, where the mercy seat was. No one is
allowed to come in there at all. But why? Alright, when Christ
was hanging on that cross. I wonder how many people, religious
people in the world, know why that veil was rent. Ever thought
about that? I wonder if preachers know. I
doubt it. But it says in all four Gospels,
the veil was rent from the top, like an unseen hand. It's huge,
thick. How high was it? Real high. Fifteen feet or more. From the
top to the bottom. Right down the middle. So the
way into the Holy of Holies was wide open. And whoever needed, whoever could come boldly into
the throne, where the throne of grace is a mercy seat, that's
where God is. And that's all of Hebrews 9.
Hebrews 9, Hebrews 10, showing us that the way unto the Holy
of Holies, was through the rent veil, through Christ's flesh
being rent for us. And then they pierced His side
that He was hanging there. Remember? Scripture says that.
Zechariah, and look on him who that pierced, and Revelation.
That everyone, after it's all over, they saw Christ hanging
there. They saw Him pierced. He was
nothing to most. And in the end, everyone's going
to look on Him whom they pierced. Everyone's going to see Him.
And then, something that didn't happen to Him, according to Scriptures. Those soldiers, because the priests
said, take their bodies down, they can't hang on the cross
on the Sabbath day. And they cruelly had them fixed
up there to where they could just barely breathe. Most of
the time they'd have... Our Lord was nailed to the cross,
but the thieves were probably tied to the cross, okay, because
they wanted them to suffer a long time. They nailed our Lord because
they had to, God said so. They would put a little platform
under their feet and they would drop that cross into the hole. And when they dropped that cross
into the hole, all your joints would be out of joint. That's
Psalm 22. See, I can tell all my bones. But they put it so that they
could raise themselves up just a little bit so they could breathe,
not suffocate. They'd just raise themselves
up. Get a breath. Cool. God didn't sanction that. The
hanging, when our Lord said hanging, He didn't mean torture. But they
did. Okay? And our Lord was nailed
then. And they marveled that He died
so soon. But anyway, to keep them from doing that, soldiers
came by with an iron bar or a big piece of wood, a big club. They
came to the thief on the left hand and broke his legs. Think about it. So he couldn't
lift himself up. So he died of suffocation. And
the pain, the shock, everything. Then the soldier went around. The Lord's in the middle. Why
didn't he break his leg? God said, not a bone of him could
be broken. And you're not going to take
his life. Nobody's taking his life. He
lays it down willingly. And he went around to that thief
on the right side and broke his leg. And we're going to look
at that old fellow in a minute. But our Lord, His legs, not a
bone of Him shall be broken, the Scripture says. Why? Because
we're His body. Number one, complete, whole Christ. Not a bone will be broken. Everything
in place perfectly ordered by God. Every jot and tittle is
all there. He's there. That's Him. But we,
being the body of Christ, will never be. Who shall separate
us when a bone is broken? If it's a compound fracture,
it's separated from the rest of the skeleton, isn't it? God says, not one member of my
body shall be separated. Why? Because Christ's body was
broken. Have you ever heard such a thing?
They are they which testify of me, Christ, to him be the glory.