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is great ♪ All right, open your Bibles now
to Luke 18, Luke the 18th chapter. I hope you remember Sunday morning
Bible study, how that we saw that all of these things were
connected. Notice how all the parables and
stories were connected. And the last thing before tonight's
text, the Lord dealt with a rich young ruler, and he tells the cause of the
cost of discipleship. He tells that rich young ruler to
sell everything. And so he tells his son. Just for a moment, turn back
to chapter 14, Luke 14. When he told that rich young
ruler, he tells all his sons. Chapter 14, verse 33. So likewise,
whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot
be quite a type. So he said, sell out and follow
a total commitment. Total commitment. But what he failed us to do,
he himself did. Didn't he? as the son of God. He left his
father's house. Look back at chapter 18. He said
in verse 29, there's no man that hath left the house of parents,
of brethren, and wives, and children of the kingdom of God, which
shall not receive manifold more than the brethren have. The world
has done their best in love. He did. He left his father's
house. He left his father to the kingdom
of God. That's why. And no man ever so committed
himself as Christ did. No one ever gave so completely
of himself. Scripture says, ready love as
no man did. No one ever gave so completely
as Christ did, and here He's about to tell them, tell them
to take the total commitment, and then He's about to tell them
and us how He's going to give off the total commitment for
us. All right? In chapter 18 now.
Again, with verse 31. Let's read. We're just going
to deal with these four verses. Verse 31 through 34. Then he
took unto him the twig, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to
Jerusalem. And all things that are written
by the prophets concerning the Son of Man shall be accomplished. Fourth, he shall be delivered
unto the Gentiles, shall be mocked, spitefully increased, spitted
on, they shall scourge him, put him to death, the third day he
shall rise again. And they understood none of these
things. And the same will get from them,
even today, the things which were spoken of. Well, the Lord
here, the Lord gives, makes known the mystery of God's will here. Like Ephesians 1 says, He has
a fountain for us and all the wisdom of the Prophets. Hasn't
He made known unto us the mystery of His will? 40 years to the
day you can purchase any product for the week, this is the end
of it. Because the disciples didn't know what he was talking about.
But we're glad that we did it. They will later, if they don't
know now, and we'll see why, in a few minutes, we'll see why
they didn't know now. They couldn't. They didn't need
to, right now. But the Lord has made known the
purpose of his coming here, the purpose of his coming, the essence
of the gospel, the heart of the covenant, the foundation upon
which the whole universe stands, the reason this ball is earthed,
still stands, what he just said, all for a purpose. Verse 31 says,
He took unto them, He took unto Him sweat, and He said, Me. Personally, He chose me sweat. He said, He did not choose me.
He did not choose you. He took unto Him. He took unto
Himself. All that the Father gave Him,
He said, I took unto Me. in a covenant, as their surety,
as their covenant aid, as their representative, as their substitute,
as their righteous representative. Christ took them. And so he takes
his own. Elect according to the foreknowledge
of God. And what he said just now has
been revealed to you then, that he's taken you. You're one of
those that needs to take unto himself. And he says this in
verse 31, Behold, now when the Lord says, Behold, That says quite a bit, especially
in the book of Isaiah. Behold. You'll start in Isaiah
40 and read through chapter 42. You'll see several Beholds. Behold your God. Behold all that
is great. Behold yourself. Behold thy servant. Behold. Behold means sit up and
pay attention now. This is worthy of all of us. And listen carefully. Behold,
we go up to Jerusalem. He's got their attention. Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. Now, there's a whole lot written
about Jerusalem. And a whole lot written about
it. You return to Psalm 122. Psalm 122. This is glorious. Psalm 122. Jerusalem is the city
of David, the throne of Israel. Jerusalem, Jeremiah says, shall
be called the throne of the Lord. Jerusalem, where the temple of
God was found. Jerusalem is where the Christ
came. and said, O Lord, whom do you
seek by passage, a citizen of the country? This is wonderful. Look at Psalm 122. This is wonderful.
We can't leave that one verse. I was gladdened, they said unto
me, let us go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand
within thy gates, O Jesus. Jerusalem is built in a city
that is compact together, where the tribes go up. Tribes of the
Lord, unto the testimony or gospel of Israel, to give thanks under
the name of the Lord. There are set thrones of judgment,
that on the thrones of the house of David, pray for the peace
of Jerusalem. They shall prosper with those
days. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palace.
For my brethren and companions say, I will now say, Peace be
within thee. Because of the house of the Lord
our God, I was received by the Lord." Now that's not national
history or a city over there in Midian, but that's the church
of God. That's New Jerusalem. And behold, just as he said to
his disciples, behold, we grew up in Jerusalem. Behold, we are
still there. There's a new Jerusalem, a city,
a heavenly city, where Christ is right now. And we go there
because Christ came down to this first Jerusalem. We're going
to go to that heavenly Jerusalem because Christ came to this earthly
Jerusalem. Now why? Why did Christ come
to this? He's about, He's telling them,
we're going up to Jerusalem. Why? Well, who's going to tell him? The Baptist. The Baptist was
married to Satan. Behold, we go up to Jerusalem,
and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the
Son of Man shall be accomplished. All things written by the prophets
concerning the Son of Man shall be accomplished. And I hope to
have you by me today. We're going to look at each of
these things that the Lord says is going to happen to him, and
we're going to go back in the Old Testament and see where it
was written that it would happen. So they must be known. Christ
came to fulfill the law for us, and also to fulfill the scriptures
concerning this man, the person that he is, the very Christ.
All right? All right, look at the first thing he says. All
things that are written about the prophets concerning the Son
of Man shall be accomplished full. Verse 32. He shall be delivered
unto the Gentiles. Turn to the little book of Micah.
Micah, Chesapis. Micah, Chesapis. He shall be
delivered unto the Gentiles. Now, Now, as we read there, the
disciples did not understand any of these things, but later
he's going to appear to two of them on the road to Elias, and
he's going to begin in the book of Moses and the Prophets and
the Psalms and so forth, and he's found these things over
there. Well, here is Micah, tells us about him being delivered
to the Gentiles. Now, Christ came to where His
people were in captivity. Alright? The Jews, when Christ came to
this earth, the Jews were in captivity to Rome. Right. Rome. The Jews were in
captivity to Rome. Just like Yahshua delivered His
people. Moses and Joshua from the Egyptians
in the Promised Land. Well, Christ came to deliver
His people to leave captivity, captivity. Micah 5, verses 4
and 5. He shall stand and speak in the
strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord
his God. And they shall abide, for now
shall He be great unto the ends of the earth. And this man shall
be defeated. When the Assyrians shall come
into our country. Now that's who that's talking
about, the Gentiles, the Assyrians. When ye shall tread in our palaces,
that ye'll raise against him seven shepherds and eight principal
men. Look at verse 8, on down to verse
8. The remnant of Jacob shall be
among the Gentiles. And that passage is about our
Lord telling And he's put into the hands of
the Gentiles. All right, back in Luke 18. Back in Luke 18. Look at the
next page. See, the Son of God, the Son
of Man, he's called, came down here as our substitute, as our
representative. He's the man that God is one
to deal with in our state. And so he was delivered to the
Gentiles, the dogs, we read there in Psalm 26. Gentiles are dogs,
deliver my darling to the dogs. He was delivered to the Gentiles,
the enemies of God, bloody men, the Romans were bloody men. The
Word, that is. Our Lord came into this Word.
and was delivered unto it to deliver his people from it. Our Lord was turned over to the
world to turn us from it. Our Lord was delivered to the
enemy to deliver us from it. He prayed in John 17, I pray
that God should keep them from the evil one. Not take them out
of the world, but deliver them from it. And he was delivered
over to the will of the Lord. And they killed him. Well, delivered to the Gentiles.
Look at the next thing. It says, And he shall be mocked. He shall be mocked. You still
have some witnesses? Turn back there. They mocked
him. All sorts of false witnesses
came forward, lied and told against him. All manner of evil was told
on him falsely. Wow. He's our substitute. There was no sin in him, nothing
amiss in him. False witnesses were brought
against him. Lies were told against him. Why? Because he's our substitute. They had to drum up lies about
him to keep the truth from coming out of him. And it says, if we would stand
before God from justice, truth would have to come out. But no
Christ was standing in our city. And remember where it says that
He, as a sheep before a shearer is done, so always He overnights
my house. Why? Because He pleases. And all of the charges that were
levied against Him, though untruth, So it's all the witnesses against
him, yet he's taking my place. And so he doesn't open his mouth.
So, I don't have to. The truth won't come out of me. He was lost. Look at Psalm
22. Psalm 22, verse 7 and 8. All that see me laugh me scorn,
they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, and say, he trusts
on the Lord, he's a believer, they're believers. They mock
them. They mock them. And this is our subject. There's
a proverb, a proverb, one that says that God's going to mock
some people some day. And then, just today, it says,
God said, because I followed your views, therefore I was mocked. I was laughed. I was mocked in
your class. But God in mercy chosen us to
deliver us from being mocked by God. My past was a practice
mockery, I said. Look at the next passage. It
says, He was spitefully treated in Luke 18. He shall be mocked
and spitefully entreated again in Psalm 22. Psalm 22. Spitefully treated
means abused and suffered violence and shame. Means all sorts of
believing things done to us. All sorts of malicious things
come to him, spiteful things, spitefully intrigued. Verses 12 and 13, many fools
have come to me, strong fools of patience that set me around
like a Roman soldier, you know, that had their way with me. Violent,
men of violence, big, strong, bloody men in New Hampshire. Spitefully intrigued. I was on my way to get my first
haircut and a man talked to me about a flea store and I said, God, I'm married. through
this genocide of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He forgave them once, but for
my sins, I sinned against God. My rebellion against Him was
my first sin, and so He was frightfully treated. Frightfully treated. He had no compassion. No compassion
was shown to Him so that God would have compassion. Look at
the next thing in Luke 18. It says that he was spitted on. Spitted on. Again, there in Psalm... No, I'm sorry, Isaiah 50. Isaiah 50. He was spitted on in Psalm 22. You know this is the ultimate
show of someone's contempt that is still in someone? The ultimate
show of contempt and hatred. Man cleared his throat. This
is what man thinks about God. Cleared his throat, which could
be said is without comparison. And hurled it in the face of
God. It's too despicable to think about
it. Why? Why did he do it? That's a scripture. It says it. Look at verse 6. Isaiah 50 verse 6. I gave my back to the smiter,
to my teeth, to them that plucked off the hair. I hid not my face
from shame and shame. Wouldn't David spit on Isaiah's
face? Well, they probably did. Well, who does he write about,
himself or someone else? That's what the C.P.O. in Munich said, that who's David
writing that song, when is it himself? When did David ever
see his mother? When did David ever part with
David's garments and cast them off for him? Then these things
are written for our learning, and then we might be sure that
this is the cross of the Son of God. Everything that we fell
in was to fulfill the Church, because we might know certain
things. The world is so far from the
Church that, like these disciples, People
don't have a clue why Christ came, why those things happened
to Him. They just think He was some helpful martyr that had
to go wrong one day. They don't have a clue, but we
do. God has laid it on them, doesn't He? These things were
written of Him, and they must be fulfilled. Everything that
happened to Him. He was skidded off, and scriptures
must be fulfilled. Again, in Luke 18, verse 33,
it says, They shall scourge him. They shall scourge him. Well,
we read that there in that same verse, didn't we, Isaiah? I gave
my back to the smite. Brother John Cathman, he was
his pastor. And he said, that's why he took
a back. It's going to be real. He's chastised by Jesus later
on. Listen to this psalm. If you've
ever heard this psalm, Psalm 129, verse 3, it says this. The
powers plowed my back. They made law on the very surface.
He's right. Amen. Thank you, Master,
for listening. Oh, the day is Christ's day.
That's Christ's day. The chastisement of our feet.
So that is the equipment necessary. Equipment that will do us, each
of us, each of heaven. The chastisement of our feet
is laid on Him and by His Christ. Where is He? Where is He? And they shall put him to death.
The last thing he says is they shall put him to death and the
third day shall rise again. Psalm 55. Psalm 55 says this. They shall put him to death and the third day shall
rise again. Psalm 55. Got it? Psalm 55 verses 3 through
5, because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression
of the witches, the days cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath
they hate me, my heart is full of pain within me, and the terror
of death, I call upon that." The terror of death. And then Psalm 16, verse 6, which
Peter, Peter's the one that, when he preached Pentecost, quoted
this. Psalm 16 says in verse 10, Thou wilt not leave my soul,
but hail me, and wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One, Jesus Christ.
Thou wilt show me the path to the Father. So he entered into
the pains of death, but he didn't leave his soul there. He didn't
suffer corruption, but he rose. Christ be on his way, and we're
here tonight. and seated at the right hand
of the majesty on high. Now back to Luke 18, let's close
this out. Now the disciples, our Lord was
telling them of all that was to follow Him, and going to Jerusalem. And I thought about it. He said
all this almost matter-of-factly. I'm going to go to Jerusalem. And they're going to deliver
me, they're going to mock me, and spite me. And he treated
me, and he treated me, and he spit on me, and he scourged me,
and I scourged him with a hard torture, and put
him to death. Oh, as a matter of fact, I thought
this was what was going to happen. I thought he was quite upset.
Endure the cross, the fire, the shame, nothing, don't know nothing.
It's a joy. There's a scripture that says,
he said it, but it's steadfast in what he does. Now we're going
up through religion, and this is what's going to happen. If
you know what's going to happen, that's what's going to happen
to you and God when you go. Now, if you know you're going
to be treated like this when you go, Easy, isn't it? He said, this
is what's going to happen. We know what we've got. That's why I came, he said. That's
why I came. Well, verse thirty-four. They understood none of these
things. We're usually pretty horrible
at science, aren't we? Thomas, Peter, but I hope the
older we get, the more we'll see that they did not have as
much life as we do. They didn't have a Bible. They didn't have a Bible. The Bible, the Old Testament,
was in throes and parchment and limited pretty much to the Christian
heritage, and they didn't want the people to have it. And it
goes to Temple, and there it's read on the surface of it. They
didn't have to understand it. These disciples, they didn't
know what He was talking about. They couldn't go back to Psalm
22 and understand it. Now later on, He's going to read
it to them, and they're going to go, Oh, that's pretty nice. In chapter 12 of John, it says
they didn't understand it, and it says they were afraid to ask.
It's great to know that it made sense. It's great to ask. It says here,
I'm looking at this, verse 34, this saying was hid from them.
It was hid from them. Who did it? Oh, God did it. Christ did it. Why? Why didn't they understand
what He was saying? He only said this two or three
times, didn't He? He said that back in chapter four, and he's
going to say it again in chapter four again. And he's telling
us. Why didn't they understand? Why
was it hid from them? Why didn't Christ open their
understanding to them? Because that's what the Scripture
tells us. Because I said this Thursday,
I said we hid as it were our faces from them. All we got through
is Jesus on the cross. All of his disciples can slip
him out. They have to. Smile to the shepherds if you're
going to say it. Jesus can't help them. They have to. Peter,
in the dark, just for a brief moment, says, they're not going
to save me. They must save me. They must. Look at the sword I've got with
me. This is what I came for. I came to the cross, to the sword. And that the scriptures might
be fulfilled. None stood with him. None tried to stop his crucifixion. They all fled. Why? Because he
must suffer. Remember in Luke 24 it said,
Old fools and slow to believe all the... Now there it'd be
blank. Old fools and slow to believe
all that the prophet has written. He's not conscious of his suffering. He didn't. He had to. He didn't suffer. We don't reign
with him. He must suffer and die, and he
must do it alone. He's got to do it right. Like
David and I just want to go home now. I would have sent them off
if I ever was going to say this was a riot. And they didn't know what he
was saying. Let's close this chapter, this version of John
12. This is good. John chapter 12. Let's close
and read from there. They didn't know what he was
saying. John chapter 12, look at this.
This is good. Verse 16. Now, these things,
you have it in John 12, verse 6, these things understood by
the disciples of the church. But, when Jesus was glorified,
then remember, say, that these things were written in him, and
that they had been explained to him. And as I said, and we'll
get to it in a minute, but I'm going to go down and forth. And on the road to Laodicea,
it says, of my prideful son, be as he
hath done, every transaction that he hath accomplished, all
of them driven from the Son of Man, our Father. Blessed shall
he be. We're one of the Church, and
this is what's going to happen. Amen. And he shall say to his people,
He did good. He did good gospel. That's what
he said when he hung on that tree. He did good gospel. All
right. Here we come up to where you think this is supposed to
be. 117th. 117th. Sunday morning,
Bible study, we're going to look at line and part of that. There
are some pre-K things. And then in the 11 o'clock hour,
we'll look at Genesis chapter 4, verse 10 and 11. If you want
to read that in preparation for the morning. 1-7-10. First thing. you. ♪ But have not we faith in Thee? ♪ ♪ And with this Christ, and
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