Well, good morning. Welcome.
Join me in your Bibles this morning in Luke, the 9th chapter, as
we continue our study in Luke. Like we got started in Luke in
October of 2019 and we're all the way up to chapter nine. And this morning we're gonna
be concerning verse 21 and 22. And we're gonna back up just
a little bit and read just a few verses before that to kind of
get the context of what's going on and Remember that we've been
examining the feeding of the 5,000 and the miracle there. And after that was done, Christ
took his disciples apart and said to them in verse 18, it
came to pass as he was alone praying, his disciples were with
him and he asked them saying, whom say the people that I am?
And remember, this is not like he doesn't know and he's curious. He's trying to give them some
spiritual understanding here and trying to elicit some understanding
from the disciples and by the Spirit. Whom say the people that
I am? And they answered and said, and
they knew right away. It was interesting to me that
they, they said, oh yeah, that we've heard all these people
talking. And they said, some say you're
John the Baptist, but some say you're Elias, the prophet. Some others say one of the old
prophets has risen again. And then he said in verse, by
ye that I am. And, Peter answering said, the Christ
of God. And he straightly charged them
and commanded them to tell no man that thing. His time was
not yet. He didn't want to precipitate the events that were going to
come to pass. He says, it's not time yet. And
so in verse 22, he said, he commanded them to tell no man that thing
saying, The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected of
the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be slain
and be raised the third day. So, and that's going to be our
focus today. The must, the Son of Man must. And when we look at this, just
like to consider all the spiritual blessings of must. as they're intertwined in the
fabric of grace with all the Lord's attributes concerning
the church. And this word must is, it's a
very interesting word. It's used 101 times in the New
Testament. It's a Greek word, di, or D-I. And it's imperative, a necessity,
a requirement, something that's absolutely determined. We know that he was delivered
by the determinate counsel and foreign knowledge of God. It's
something that's inevitable. It's something, it's proper,
it's necessary, it's binding, it's all those things come together
to form the glue that holds this word together as it applies to
the Lord. He must, it's just necessary. In Luke chapter 24, if we ever
get there, in verse 46, it says, thus it is written and thus it
behoved, or that's the same word translated must here. It's behove Christ to suffer
and to rise from the dead the third day. And so as we look
at this word, it's just, understood as something that's unshakable,
something that's absolute, something that's, it's not optional. It's
a requirement of the Lord. He must. And we find that word,
as we've mentioned 101 times in the, sometimes it's translated
ought or should or must needs. And in our modern vocabulary,
we kind of fade out that word must. We think it's something that's
evidence of something that we don't necessarily see. Well, it must be true because
I see some evidence of it. That car must be a Chevrolet
because I see a bow tie on the front of it. So things like that,
you know, or sometimes we apply it in a term like, I must get
around to that one of these days, but it means we ought to, but
we're not necessarily going to. But with God, with the Lord,
it's an absolute. When he says, I must, it's going
to happen. It must be done. So in context,
I want us to remember that through the Spirit, the Lord's been instructing
and revealing more of himself and his purpose to the disciples
and to the church at large through the recordings that are in the
Bible. We go back to all the scriptures where he said it's
written. In our last lesson in Luke 9,
18, Regeneration over a period of time is fulfillment of all
things written in the Old Testament. The healings, the miracles, the
opening of blind eyes, the hearing of the dead, the raising of the
dead, all allegories of the true work of Christ in applying all
these things spiritually to the church. They were things that
he did physically while he was there, but they had a spiritual
application to the church, the raising of the dead. the opening
of blind eyes, the giving hearing to the deaf, all those things
that spiritually we can't have in our natural state. And so
he asked these two questions, who do the people say that I
am and whom do ye say that I am? And of course, Peter answered
as we read there in verse 20, the Christ of God,
and of course Christ, that word means the anointed one, the sent
one. And if we recall back to our
lesson in Luke chapter 4, where he went into the synagogue and
they brought him the scroll and he opened it up to Isaiah and
he said, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed
me Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives and recovery of sight
to the blind, set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach
the acceptable year of the Lord. And so all those things are wrapped
up in that. You're the, who say ye that I
am? And he says, you're the Christ
of God. descent one. And yet he had that
much of an understanding, but he didn't quite have it all put
together. And they remember back in this
period of time, they were looking for a Christ that was going to
take the yoke of the Roman empire off of them. They were looking
for one that was going to be the new king in Israel. That
was going to remember, we read it in a couple of chapters ago
where they were going to take him by force and inaugurate him
as king. And he said, no, no, that's,
That's not why I'm here. And he disappeared kind of. So, he's trying to bring another
facet of himself to them spiritually. They said, okay, you're the Christ,
the Christ of God. And one thing that we want to
look at as we're going through here is that It was of paramount
importance to the Lord that he was obeying and implementing
the will of the Father. That's why there, Hebrews the
10th chapter, if you want to read this verse, Hebrews 10th
chapter, verse seven. I think our pastor has something
from Hebrews 10 in his message today. Then said I, lo, I come
in the volume of a book of thee book, it is written of me, to
do thy will, O God." Well, you know where that came from? That's
a quote from Psalm chapter 40, verse 7. It's written in the Psalm chapter
40, verse 7, about word for word there, what that says in Hebrews
chapter 10. And that's what he said, I come
to do thy will, O God. And in revealing himself to the
disciples, it was not immediately apparent to them the complete
and true nature of things. Because remember, even up to
the day when they were gonna take him and crucify him, they
were saying, no, not so, don't. We don't want them to kill you.
And he says, I have to be killed. And he's telling them these things.
And you know, our nature, due to the fall is just impeded in
receiving spiritual things. And if we could know everything,
all our minds would just explode, I think. In Luke chapter nine, a few verses
down here in verse 44, he said something. I think I've
said this to my child. Let these sayings sink down into
your ears. Pay attention. Let this sink
in. The Son of Man shall be delivered
into the hands of men. Let that sink in. Think about
that. But you know in the next verse
it says, but they understood not. And it was hid from them
that they perceived it not. And they feared to ask him of
that saying. Boy, you know, that's just something
that we shouldn't. He's just describing an attribute of our
nature. Sometimes we're afraid to ask
about things because we're afraid we might find out the answer
to it. And it's not trusting in him,
you know. And so it is here kind of line
upon line here a little, there a little. And you know, he knows
our frame. He knows what we're capable of
absorbing at a time. And sometimes you have to learn
this before you can learn that. And then after that, then you
can learn something and he builds on things. So they called him
the Christ of God and now he's going to add another line to
their hearts in preparation for full understanding. They call
him the Christ of God, and now he reveals himself not only as
the Son of God, but the Son of Man. Then he said to him, whom say
ye that I am? Peter said, the Christ of God.
And he straightly charged him, commanded him to tell no man
that thing, saying, the Son of Man must suffer many things and
be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes and
be slain and raised the third day. Boy, I was, when I wrote
that, my opening sentence there, I said, Today we want to consider
all the spiritual blessings of must. Well, that's not going
to happen. So if we spent the rest of our lives
just on this one sentence here, I don't think we could entertain
half of what's really there. So the son of man, he was the
son of God, He's the Son of Man, too. For
instance, in Luke, in just the book of Luke, where he's revealed
to them the divine miracle of Emmanuel, God with us, the Son
of Man. In Luke chapter 5, verse 24 says,
but that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power upon earth
to forgive sins. Each one of these times that
he mentioned that he reveals a little something about himself. The Son of Man had power to forgive
sins. In chapter 6 verse 5 it says the Son of Man is Lord also
of the Sabbath. The rest Cease from your works,
as it tells us in Hebrews chapter four. He that enters into the
rest of the Lord has ceased from his own works. He's the Lord
of the Sabbath. Luke 6, 22. Blessed are ye when
men shall hate you for the son of man's sake. Remember our lesson
from reviled for Christ's sake that he spent a lot of time teaching. If they hate me, they're rejecting
me, they're not gonna be that pleased with you either. So if
you're rejected and reviled in my name's sake, be standing for
the revival. So counter to blessing. In Luke chapter seven, the son
of man is come eating and drinking. He reveals his humanity. And
we find that also in toward the close of Luke chapter 24 too. In Luke 734, the son of man has
come eating and drinking. And you say behold a gluttonous
man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners, but
wisdom is justified of her children. And we spent a whole lesson talking
about being just the God being justified of the church there. Truly God, truly man. So today's lesson focuses on
this aspect of the son of man. And there's four musts here that
we wanna look at. He says, the son of man must. He must suffer many things. He
must be rejected of the elders and the chief priests and the
scribes. He must be slain and he must be raised again the third
day. Remember he said, I come to do
thy will. from Psalm 40, the almighty nature
of him disallows any other outcome. Must, the events concerning the
great eternal I am have been completed in eternity, fulfilled
in the view of time as we understand it there. And as we look at these
four musts, they're all written of in the Old Testament. They're
all recorded for us in the gospel of of the Old Testament, and
we were talking about that this morning, that the Old Testament
is nothing more than a recording of the covenant of grace, what God would do. God the Father
had a people. He gave them to the Son to redeem,
and the Son agreed to redeem them in the Holy Spirit, agreed
to breathe into them the breath of life. They would be born again.
from above. So these four musts here that
are represented, each in the I Am view, were always there
in eternity, and we have to kind of think of that in nonlinear
terms. If you look at the wordage in the Old Testament, they're
not written like, well, I'm going to be crucified, or I'm going
to be whipped, I'm going to. It's all, they have plucked out
my beard. My bones are all out of joint. He's all writing all these things
in the I am tense, in the I am, the eternal tense of I am slain
foundation of the world. So as we, we just want to keep
that in mind as we're looking through these things. And you
know, it says the very first thing says the son of man, must,
the very first one we want to look at is this, suffer many
things. And we think of that automatically,
our mind just goes to physical things. Physical abuse, kind
of. When we think of suffering, we
think of those kind of things. But there's more to it than that. Most of these many things can't
even be appreciated in their totality by us in this life. And in Luke chapter 24, it shows
us that the suffering of the Lord involved more. He just says,
I'm gonna suffer many, many things and be raised again the third
day. Suffer many things. Remember that separation? Was
he hanged there on the cross? It was dark and he said, why
have you forsaken me? Somebody that you were with as
in unity as one throughout eternity and yet for this brief span of
time, just a brief few hours to be separated. We see Jesus made a little lower
than the angels for the suffering of death. crowned
with glory and honor, that he, by the grace of God, should taste
death for every man, made a little Lord. What did he give up to
come down here and dwell among us? What did he give up to humble
himself and become obedient unto death, the death of the cross?
This suffering entails much which was contrary to his nature, just taking on the sin load of
his people and paying for that. Looking unto Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith for the joy, that tells us much right
there, for the joy that was set before him, for that union with
the church, that eternal love which he exhibited. He despised
the shame and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
For consider him, that endured such contradiction of sinners
against himself, lest you be worried and faint in your minds. I made a little joke earlier
about my wife and said, I said, she's always telling
me she loves me in spite. And I say, in spite of what?
She says, nevermind. Well, that's the way the Lord
is. He loves us in spite. And even after we're saved, you
know, and we continue and we get encumbered with sin, He still
loves us and still His view of us doesn't change. It's just
hard for us to contemplate that because we're so fluctuating. You know, if somebody does something
mean to us, we kind of, We kind of look at them and, well, how
could you do that to me? And we're kind of offended by
it. And yet he only looks at us through
the blood that he shed for us. And he only sees us as without
spot, without wrinkle. Hallelujah. I just love that. I just love
that message our pastor brought on the fair miter. His mercies are new every day
because we need them every day. And he always has that for us.
So, you know, a full description
of the physical aspect of his suffering, the physical aspects
of it can be found in the Old Testament, Psalm chapter Genesis,
the beginning, chapter three. I'll put enmity between thee
and the woman and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise
thy head. His head, from the very first
book of the Bible, his head was going to be bruised. Thou shalt
bruise his heel. Physically, in Psalm chapter
22, if you turn to Psalm 22, I'm not going to read the whole
chapter there, We'll just read an excerpt there from verse 14
through 18. I'm poured out like water. It's
not I'm going to be poured out like water, or I shall be. I am poured out like water. Remember that I am nature of
God, that I am attribute. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It's melted
in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like
a pot shirt, and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws, and thou hast brought
me to the dust of death, for dogs have compassed me. That's
that word have. That's not dogs will compass
me or are going to compass me. He says they have compassed me.
The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. They pierced my
feet. I may tell all my bones, they
look and stare upon me. That means he could look down
and see every bone sticking out of his body as he was just wrung
out. They part my garments among them and cast lots for
my vesture. What an amazing thing to write. in the I Am context. In Isaiah, the 50th chapter, he said, the Lord God hath opened
mine ear and I was not rebellious, neither turned away my back. I gave my back to the smiters.
and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. Plucked is a past
tense term. They plucked off, somebody pluck
a hair off much and we're gonna have a problem. And I hid not my face from shame
and spitting. How awful, when we think about
him suffering things, can you imagine the Lord God Almighty
that created everything? being spit on by one of you is
so appalling, but that's our nature. And it's just terrible
to behold. For the Lord God will help me,
therefore shall I not be confounded. Therefore, I have set my face
like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. His attitude toward the churches.
He's long-suffering to usward who believe, not willing that
any of us should perish. Surely he hath borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten
of God, and afflicted. Can you imagine the one that
he had eternal love with smiting him as a substitute for
the church. He was wounded for our transgressions
and he was bruised for our iniquities. That substitutionary context
there. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him and with his stripes we are healed. So every time
he took a, they scourged him before they hanged him on that
cross. Every time he took a stripe, It healed, it was a healing of
the church, a healing of his people. Most seriously, his suffering
was a spiritual suffering. The very first verse of Psalm
22 is what he said on the cross. My
God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from
helping me and from the words of my roaring? We find those
very words in Matthew, the 27th chapter, verse 46. And about
the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli,
lama sabachthani. That is to say, my God, my God,
why has thou forsaken me? As it was written in the Old
Testament. We just find more and more that
there's not very much that happens in the New Testament that wasn't
written about in the Old Testament. We might just say virtually nothing.
The Son of Man, number two, as we're trying to go through these
four musts here, the Son of Man must. Well, we talked about suffering
many things and we didn't do justice to it. We're inadequate
to the task. But number two is, The Son of
Man must be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes.
You know, it was all those, he was rejected by all those whose
responsibility and duty was to proclaim the God's Son, the Christ
of God, and the Son of Man, Christ our Lord. rejected by them. Every day and every hour and
every week they went through all these ceremonies that were
supposed to picture and be a type and a shadow of the sacrifice
of the Lord for the redemption of the church and yet they had
just turned it into a religious formality and they just turned
it into a nothing. There was no spiritual application.
We find this application and this rejection from Adam on through
every generation. What's the first thing they did?
They rejected God and then they sowed fig leaves together. They
rejected God in the wilderness, in coming out of Egypt. After
all the things he did, got him out of Egypt. After all the miracles. Well, let's make us a golden
calf. We'll worship that. We'll reject the actual God. And that's just the nature of
man. We reject God because we don't want Him. Because it diminishes
ourselves. He is despised and rejected of
men. Isn't that what it said in Isaiah
53 verse 3? It is written, he is despised
and rejected, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, and we
hid, as it were, our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed
him not. Boy, there has to be a big change
in us that can only be accomplished through being born again, where
we go from despising him and esteeming him not to having him
be the Lord God Almighty, our Savior, the Son of Man who came
down here and suffered all those things in our stead. Acts chapter 7 verse 51 says,
Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always
resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you.
That just tells us there's nothing new about man through time. We resist, resist, resist from
the beginning. Number three, the son of man
must be slain. In order to satisfy the justice
and right God, he's written, The wages of sin is death. The
day you eat thereof, you shall die. The son of man must be slain.
And we find the representation of that, again, all the way through
the Old Testament. Genesis chapter three, verse
21, unto Adam and also unto his wife did the Lord God make coats
of skin and clothe them. Someone died to cover their nakedness. Something died. Genesis chapter
28 verse 8, and Abraham said, remember he had to take his son
up there and the Lord told him to offer his son as a sacrifice.
Had him on the altar. And Abraham said, my son, God,
will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So both of
them went together. That's an interesting play on
words there. He says, God will provide himself. He's going to
provide, and he is what he is providing. Both wrapped up in
that God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.
Passover lamb, you're all familiar with that. Won't go there due
to time. Revelation 13 verse 8 says, and
all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names
are not written in the book of life of the Lamb, slain from
the foundation of the world. So he must be slain. It's written. It was foreordained. Acts chapter 2 and chapter 4,
you can go there and read those scriptures. Him being delivered
by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have
taken and with wicked hands have slain, crucified and slain. Number four, the Son of Man must
be raised the third day. He must be raised. It's not possible
for it to fail. Again, we find that written in
the Old Testament in Psalm, the 16th chapter, verse 10. For thou wilt not leave my soul
in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Raised again for our justification. Raised again to show that God
was satisfied with the sacrifice that He made. This is my beloved
Son in whom I'm well pleased. The Son of Man must fulfill. And so the gospel for the redemption
of the church. I must suffer many things. I must be rejected because that's
the effect of the fall. I must be slain. I must be raised again. Moreover, brethren, that's what
Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15. I declare unto you the gospel
which I preached unto you, which ye also have received, and wherein
ye stand, by which ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached
unto you, unless ye believed in vain. For I delivered unto
you, first of all, that which I also received." Now that Christ
died for our sins according to the Scriptures. The Son of Man
must suffer many things. He must be slain. Death in our
behalf. He took the punishment we deserved,
satisfying the justice and righteousness of God. 1 Corinthians 15, 4,
and then he was buried. You know, the rejecters thought
they won. We've got him buried now. We've got a big rock rolled
in front of the tomb. He can't get out. And then they
were still squeamish about it. They said, they went to the headquarters
and said, well, why don't you put a troop over there to make
sure that the disciples don't come pirate him away in the night
and then say that he was raised. And he said, you have your troop,
you have a seal, make it as sure as you can. Death could not hold him. He
rose again the third day according to the scriptures. He's risen
for our justification. And so there we have just a brief
synopsis of the four musts. The Son of Man must suffer many
things. The Son of Man must be rejected. The Son of Man must be slain. The Son of Man must be risen
again. There's a whole slug of, if you
want to take some time to read them, I won't read them here
right now. You'd be surprised how many times the musts of the
Lord are written in the book of Luke alone. The Son of Man must be delivered
into the hands of sinful man and be crucified and in the third
day rise again. You know who said that? The angels
said that to the people at the tomb. I told you that, remember. So we'll stop there. Until the
next time, my friends, be free.