And this is talking about our Lord's
suffering for our sins. Mr. Spurgeon said, like the Ethiopian
did, who is this man speaking of himself or some other man?
Well, he said himself and some other man. And this psalm is
quoted more times in the New Testament second only to the 22nd psalm. This psalm has more quotations
in it from the New Testament that our Lord Jesus Christ was
spoken about Him or He Himself used the words Himself. So here
we have a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ suffering for us.
Look at that very first verse. I'm just going to go down here
through it verse by verse. And it says, Save me, O God,
for the waters are come unto my soul. You know, our Lord Jesus
Christ, when He was on the cross, His enemy said to Him, He saved
others. Himself, He cannot save. And
our Lord Jesus Christ is our substitute, one bearing our sins,
could not possibly save himself. But instead of trying to save
himself, he offered himself up as a sin offering and sacrificed
for us to save us from our sins, to save our souls. And then our
Lord Jesus Christ, and it says that he, The waters are come
into my soul. Our Lord's greatest sufferings
were the soul agonies that he had. And when it says, you know,
hear me, oh my God, save me, oh my God. You know, Hebrews
5.7 says this, that in the days of his flesh, He was heard for
his much crying, for his crying and his tears. And our Lord Jesus
Christ, God heard him for his crying and his tears. Look at
the second thing it says about him now. He said in verse two,
I sink in deep mire where there's no standing. I'm coming to deep
waters where the floods overflow me. Our Lord calls his position
under our sins, deep mire. Deep mire. Call them deep waters. And you know when you find mire
in the scriptures, it speaks of sin. He hath picked me up
out of a horrible pit, out of the mirey clay. And they sent
Jeremiah down into a pit. And there was no water in that
pit, there was just mire. And the scripture said he sunk
up into that mire. And you know, we've been in,
Gary knows it, and other people know it, that you get out in
this mire, especially dealing with cattle and stuff, and they
pull the boots right off your feet. It's so thick. Well, that's
what he's talking about. And it stinks, and it sticks
to you. So, mire is like sin. And it's filthiness, and it's
hold on men. And deep waters, our Lord said
here, deep waters will come to men. And in the deep waters,
there's no place to stand. And he said, the waters overflow
my head. And the judgment of God sometimes
is described as waters that come over. And the judgment of God
flooded over our Lord Jesus Christ. Overflowed Him. And our Lord
Jesus Christ is not a weakling. He was not a fainthearted person.
But, oh beloved, His sufferings were real and they were terrible. And He's describing His sufferings
here. Look at the third verse. He said,
Oh, he said, I'm weary of my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail while I wait for
God. You know, it's often I seen our
Lord Jesus Christ. He wept as a man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief. I know twice that he wept and
I don't know how many times he wept when he went off to pray
because the scripture said he was heard for his crying and
for his tears. And I know this, that you imagine
the Lord Jesus Christ being in such soul agony that he would
weep, weep and cry. And our Lord, he prayed until
he sweat great drops of blood in the garden of Gethsemane.
And the scripture said his throat was dry and parched under the
fire of God's wrath against our sins. And when he was on that
cross, he cried and said, I thirst, I thirst. He looked and waited
for God to come. But he is left alone, crying,
my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? I wait for God.
And he said, God didn't come. He said, I cried, oh God, why
hast thou forsaken me? And then look what it says in
verse four. They that hate me without a cause
are more than the hairs of mine head. They that would destroy
me, being mine enemies, wrongfully are mighty. Then I restore not
that which I took away. You know, there's two places
where they hated me without a cause. I said about our Lord Jesus Christ,
when He was, all the things that was done to Him and all the things
that was said to Him. From the day that our Lord Jesus
Christ was born and placed in that manger, till He went to
His cross, His enemies are without number. He was hated, He was
despised, He was rejected. And his enemies were many, and
look what it says, and they were mighty. My enemies, they hated
me wrongfully, and they're mighty. The people that was against our
Lord Jesus Christ were mighty people. Priests. scribes, pharisees,
kings, while the kings of the earth have written against thine
anointed. And they got a conspiracy against
God himself and said, let's put this man out of business. And
beloved, they started doing that. And all these, hell and all the
enemies of Christ despised him and hated him without a cause.
Pilate said three times, I find no fault in this man. Find no
fault in this man. And then he said, I restored
that which I took not away. He didn't take our life away,
Adam did, but he restored it. He didn't take away our righteousness,
but he restored it. He didn't take away our standing
with God, but he restored it. He didn't take away... He restored us and took away
all of our sins. And our Lord Jesus Christ, and
though He was innocent, He was treated as the one that was guilty. The shepherd, the shepherd went
astray. And you know what happened when
the shepherd went astray? They smoked the shepherd. Smoked
the shepherd. And on their behalf, He restored
the majesty and honor and magnified the law of God. And I tell you
what, and he brought us and restored our acceptance with God Almighty.
And now in verse 5, O God, thou knowest my foolishness and my
sins are not hid from me. Now David might truly say this,
but not our Lord. We can't say he was foolish and
he never said he was foolish. But unless His sins, unless this
refers to His sins being imputed and laid to His charge, because
He was made to be sins for us. And I tell you what, my sins,
when He took our sins, He says they're not in from the, they
was put right out there in front and He was hung on that cross
because of sin being laid on Him. And oh, listen, this is
a mysterious thing to me. Listen to what he says here in
verse 6. Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts,
be ashamed for my sake. Let not those that seek thee
be confounded for my sake. What our Lord Jesus Christ is
saying here, those that wait on you, and those that seek you. Don't let them be ashamed. Don't
let them be confounded because of the way I died, because I
crucified, because I died a criminal's death, because I was taken by
the hands of men that hated me without a cause and was publicly
executed, publicly nailed to a cross. He said, don't let them
be ashamed of that. Don't let them be confounded
over that. For my sake, He said oh Lord
don't let and I tell you what we've come to the place where
like Paul said we're not ashamed of the gospel and Paul talked
about why wasn't he ashamed of the gospel because it was the
gospel of Christ in him crucified. Oh Listen that you know who was
ashamed of Christ when he was crucified all these disciples
were and they walked off and left. But oh, bless His holy name.
Oh, listen, I bear their shame. So let them don't be shamed.
I bear their confoundedness. Don't let them be confounded.
Let them never be ashamed. Never let them be confounded
because of what I did, because I did it for their sakes. And
oh my, God help us. There's a hymn, I think, Ashamed
of Jesus. Can it be? I forget what one
it is, but it's in our book. Ashamed of Him? How can it be? Ashamed of Him who died for me?
Ashamed of my Lord Jesus Christ? But that's what He said. Lord,
don't let them be ashamed. Don't let them be confounded. Oh my. And then verses 7 and
8, Because for thy sake I have borne reproach, shame hath covered
my face, I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien
unto my mother's children. Now it says, because I have borne
reproach, I have borne the reproach of those who reproach me. I have
borne it. And He died for our sake, to
save us, to redeem us. But God set him forth to be a
mercy seat, so God could declare his righteousness. And look what
he says now. Even he said, does my I am become
a stranger unto my brethren, alien unto my mother's children.
You know, his brother said in John chapter 7, he said, you
know, he said, if you be the Christ, You go up there to Jerusalem
and you perform all kinds of miracles and let us see you.
Don't hide yourself, go up there and show yourself. If you are
who you really say you are. Because the scripture says neither
did his brethren believe on him. He is an alien to his own people,
to his brothers and his sisters. But our Lord Jesus Christ did
this that God might be just and the justifier of them that believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. Look here in verse 9 and 10.
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up, and the Reproaches
of them that reproach me fell on me. Reproach there fall upon
me. When I wept and chastened my
soul with fasting, that was my reproach. Now you remember when
our Lord Jesus Christ went into the temple. They were changing
money, selling sacrifices. He went in there and was very
angry. Turned over them tables of them
money changers. He said, you've turned my father's
house into a house of merchandise. And he turned it over and went
to throwing money away and turning over tables and telling them
to get out. And that's where it says, the zeal of thine house
hath eaten me up. And you know some men are eaten
up with pride. Oh, eaten up with pride. Even
eaten up with cumbishness. Oh, eaten up with hatred. But
oh, you know what our Lord Jesus Christ was eaten up with? His
Father's glory. His Father's will. Eaten up with
the truth. eating up with accomplishing
the work that my father, our father seemed to do. It's what
eat him up. That was his passion. When they
come to him, said, listen, brought him something to eat. And he
said, listen, I've got meat to eat. You know nothing about it.
And they said, what? Somebody brought him food. He said, oh,
my meat. My food, my soul food is to do
the will of Him that sent me. And that's what He said. And
oh my! And I tell you then it talked
about the zeal, and I wept and chastened myself. The hatred
of men for God. The hatred of men for God fell
on the Lord Jesus Christ. All the reproaches about God.
And all the hatred people have for God. It all fell on the blessed
Son of God. All fell on Him. And then it
says this, when I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was
my reproach. And what he's saying here, everything
I did and everything I said only increased their reproach for
me. Increased their hatred for me. And then look what he said in
verse 11 and 12. I made sackcloth also my garment,
and I became a proverb unto them. They that set in the gates speak
against me, and I was the song of the drunkards. Now when he
said I was made in sackcloth garment, what he's talking about,
he was identified with us in our poverty. What did we have? What did we have? My garment
was a sackcloth. And oh my, He identified with
us in our poverty. And what He had to do is He had
to lay aside His eternal glory and clothe Himself in flesh.
And oh, that's the most humbling thing our Lord did was that He
came down here and took upon Him flesh. Became a man. and being found in fashion as
a man. Oh my! And oh, that should have
won him acclaim, that should have won him honor, that should
have won him glory. It only increased their markings.
He said, I became a proverb to them. And then those that sat
in the gate, you know the The elders and those that sit at
the gate, the wise men, the wealthy men, the powerful men, they sit
at the gate. Job used to sit at the gate and
said, those that sit at the gate, they speak against me. When I
go through the gates, they speak against me. There goes that imposter. There goes that blasphemer. There
goes that Samaritan. There goes that man who says
he's the son of God. And oh my, and then I was the
song of the drunkards. Oh my. When the drunk, you know,
the drunk get out there in the streets singing, and they would
sing, they made Christ to be their song. Oh my. All men by nature, I know this
in the depth of my soul. Not only because the Bible says
it. I know it from experience and I know it by how I see what
mother men do and how lost people do and even how we as believers
do. I know that all men by nature
hate the living God and hate His blessed Son and the way of
salvation by Him. I mean they hate it. They hate
it and hate Him. And then verse 13 through 18. I'll just go through these quickly
and come back and comment on them. But as for me, my prayers unto
thee, I cried out to thee, O God. And I cried out in an acceptable
time when I went to the garden. Oh God, in the multitude of mercy,
hear me. Hear me and the truth is our
salvation. Deliver me out of this mire. Deliver me from this
sin that I'm bearing. Let me not sink. Let me be delivered
from them that hate me. Let me be delivered, saved out
of the deep waters. And don't let the water flood
overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up. And oh Lord,
don't let the pit shut her mouth upon me. Don't put me in the
ground and let me leave me there. Oh no. Hear me, oh Lord. For thy loving kindness is good.
Turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Hide not thy face from thy servant. For I'm in trouble. I'm in trouble. Hear me speedily. Draw nigh unto
my soul. and redeem it. Deliver me because
of mine enemies." Well, they mocked and scoffed our Lord Jesus
Christ. You know what our Lord did? He
prayed. He prayed. Here in these verses
that I read, His prayer was for victory. Oh, God save me. Save me out of this. Let this
be done. Save me from them that hate me.
Save me from this mire. Save me from this water going
over my head. He prays for victory and salvation
according, and then he said, Thy tender mercies. There in
verse 16. Hear me, O Lord God, for Thy
lovingkindness and Thy tender mercies and according to Thy
salvation. And oh my, that's what he did. He looked to God's tender mercies.
And oh how tender God's mercies are. And oh how good is God's
loving kindness. And according to the truth and
promises of thy salvation. And here he speaks as our representative. And as such, he waits for deliverance. Our deliverance and our redemption,
that's ours. And then here's three words in
verse 19, three words that describe our Lord Jesus Christ and what
he was going through at the time. Thou hast known my reproach,
my shame, and my dishonor. Three things about our Lord Jesus
Christ speaks here about him. Reproach and all the contempt
that was poured upon him because of our sins. And this has something
to do with our Lord's servant. First of all, reproach. How they
reproached him. How they ridiculed him. And then,
oh, the next one is shame. How they're despising the shame. Oh, my. And then look what the
next is. And dishonor. Oh, did anybody
ever suffer dishonor as the Lord Jesus Christ did? He who should
have been honored and glorified more than anybody else was treated
the worst than anybody else. And what makes His sufferings
and His treatment so awful? Because of who it is that they
mistreated. You and I deserve to suffer.
We deserve to suffer. I mean, we, we, we got a right
to reason to suffer our sin and under the curse. But Christ,
all of His suffering was for somebody else. For us, for our
sins. Oh my. And we deserve all three
of them. But He bore them in our place.
Huh? Oh my. And then look what it
says in verse 20 and 21. Oh, this is something. Reproach has broken my heart,
and I am full of evidence. And I looked for some to take
pity, but there were none. I looked for comforters, but
I found none. And then when I got thirsty,
You know what they gave me? To eat? Gall. When I was thirsty,
you know what they gave me? Vinegar. Vinegar. Our Lord Jesus
Christ died with a broken heart. The scripture says, you know,
when that pierced him with that, his heart burst. That's where
the blood come out. But our Lord died with a broken
heart. He went there with a heavy heart.
And before He went to the cross, His heart was so heavy. His soul
was so troubled. He said, Father, if there be
some other way, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. But
nevertheless, not my will, but Thine be done. And then he was
there in his loneliness and his reproach and heaviness that was
upon him. There's no suffering quite like
our Lord Jesus Christ. And with his thirst they gave
him gall and vinegar. And then it says there he looked
for pity. And there was nobody there to
show him any pity. He sought for comforters, but
he didn't find any. And whatever he was looking for,
there was nobody there. Nobody there. Nobody there. Our captain of
our salvation, he went on the battlefield, and he went there
by himself. And when he should have had an
army behind him, standing for him and standing with him, he
went on the battlefield by himself. And he defeated every enemy on
that battlefield. And he come back with a blood-stained
garment, bless his holy name. And he came back because of that
blood-covered garment. And beloved, He went to that
cross and He come out as white and as pure and without our sins
on Him anymore. Oh my! He went to that battle
by Himself. He by Himself purchased our sins. And I tell you, we didn't have
nothing to give Him then and we ain't got nothing to give
Him now. And we got nothing and He gave us everything. Oh boy! And I tell you what, look in
verse 22 through 28. Now our Lord calls for judgment upon
rebels, and He calls for a curse upon the despisers of the Lord
Jesus Christ. First thing He says, let their
table become a snare unto them, and that that should be for their
welfare, let it become a trap. Our Lord here said, you know,
let their table become a snare unto them. That's used in the
New Testament. And what He's saying here is,
let all their ceremonies All their tables, all their tithes,
all the things that they should have seen Christ in. Let it become
a stumbling block to them. Let it be a hindrance to them.
Let it be a trap for them. The things they look to and trust
in, let it become a trap for them. And then he says this,
let their eyes be darkened. Oh, when they had the lie of
the world, He said, let their eyes be darkened, so
they'll never be able to see. Oh my, that's an awful thing
to say. Our Lord is praying, let their
eyes be darkened. They didn't want to see, now
they can't see. They were born in darkness, they'll
live in darkness, and they'll die in darkness. and let their
loins continually shake. Let them walk with fear all the
days of their life. And then he said in verse 20,
pour out your indignation on them. Let thy wrath or anger
take hold of them. Oh my, and I tell you what, let
their habitation be desolate and let none dwell in their tents.
Oh, listen to what he said. For they persecute him whom thou
hast smitten. Christ was smitten and afflicted
of God. But you know what it says here?
They persecuted Him. They persecuted Him. Instead
of praising Him and being thankful for it and understanding what
is said in the Old Testament about Him doing that. And they
talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. Oh, they go
around talking about me. Because I was wounded by you.
And he said, I want you to do this unto them. Add iniquity
unto their iniquity. Just make them sinner, wickeder,
and wickeder, and wicker, and let them not come into thy righteousness. And listen to this now. Let them
be blotted out of the book of the living, and be not written
with the righteous. Oh my. You know what? He said the books were open. over in Revelations and even
a book about the dead. About the dead. And that's what
he's saying here. Oh my. Bought them out of the
book of life. There's a Lamb's book of life
and then there's the book of life. He said take them out of
it. Don't even let them have a life
here or hereafter. But look what our Master said
now about Himself. He returns to prayer and to praise. He said, But I am poor and sorrowful,
and all mine. He was poor and sorrowful. Let
thy salvation, O God, set me on high. Lord, I went so low. Now, lift me up. Exalt me. Give me that name that's above
every name. Set me on that throne of the right hand of Yourself. And then he says, you know what
I'm going to do? He said, I'm going to praise thy name with
a song. And I'm going to magnify you with thanksgiving. He said,
I'm going to do that. Oh my, even in the depths of
agony, I'm going to praise and magnify him. In verse 31, 32,
listen to what he says here. This also shall please the Lord
better than an ox or a bullock that hath horns. What is that
God, Christ in his agony will praise him with a song and magnify
him with thanksgiving. And then the humble shall see
this and be glad, and your heart shall seek the Lord. God never
found pleasure or satisfaction in the sacrifices of the Old
Testament, but he's fully pleased, fully pleased, blessedly pleased.
and reconciled us through his sufferings. Those who are taught
of God, the humble shall see this and I tell you what, they
glad. Aren't you glad? David talked
about hearing that joyful sound that joyful sound of the gospel
and all my all those who are taught of God they rejoice in
him and They live and who seek God in Christ and love seeking
God in Christ We live Because of him And then look what our
master said here in verses 34 through 35 For the Lord hear
the poor and despise us not as prisoners." You know, the believers
in their own eyes are poor and needy. They're prisoners. But
because of what our Lord Jesus Christ did, we are in God's sight,
sons of God and complete in Christ. Let the heaven and earth praise
Him, the seas and everything that moveth therein. And they all listen to this now.
For God's going to save His people. He's not going to hear them.
He'll hear them. He won't despise them. And He'll save them. And look what it says here. God
will save Zion and build the cities of Judah that we may dwell
in there. We're going to dwell in Christ.
Christ dwells in us. And then look at that last verse.
The seed also of His service shall inherit it. Oh my, what
are we going to inherit? This city of Zion? This blessed
place that God caused us to dwell in Christ? This perfection in
Christ? This living in Christ, rejoicing
in Christ? Oh my. And it says here, the
seed of Abraham, the seed of his service shall inherit it.
We are all heirs of God. And this is what it says, and
they that love his name, where are they going to dwell? We shall dwell in the house of
the Lord forever. That's our Lord's sufferings.
And this is His sufferings for us. And then He comes down and
tells because of all this suffering what He's going to do for us.
He's going to hear us. He ain't going to despise us.
He's going to save us. And our hearts are going to live
and we're going to rejoice in Him. And we've got an inheritance. His seed has an inheritance.
Oh my. I tell you what, people are going
to leave a lot of things to a lot of people. Oh, God's left us
Himself. Left us His Son. Left us everything
we need for time and eternity. Oh, bless His name. Our Father, we thank you, bless
you, and praise you for the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for your
precious word. Oh, Lord. It's impossible, utterly
impossible for us to take the time and have the vocabulary
and have the depth of heart and mind to dwell and delve into
the sufferings and accomplishments of our Lord Jesus Christ. It's
impossible. But Lord, we bless you and thank
you and praise you that you did it. And that you did it for your
people. And we thank you that you taught
us these things. And really, truly, our heart
loves you. Our heart rejoices in you. And
our souls live because of you. We praise you for it. Amen. Amen. There is a name I love
to hear, I love to sing, it's brave. It sounds like music in
my ear, the sweetest name on earth. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus.