And I want to read verses 4 through
9 again, because this will be my subject. This is where I'll
be speaking from. He says, The Lord God has given
me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak
a word in season to him that is weary. He wakeneth morning
by morning. He waketh my ear to hear as the
learned. The Lord God hath opened mine
ear, 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. I hid not my face from shame
and spitting, for the Lord God will help me. Therefore shall
I not be confounded. Therefore have I set my face
like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. He is
near that justifies me. Who will contend with me? Let
us stand together. Who is my adversary? Let him
come near to me. Behold, the Lord God will help
me. Who is he that shall condemn
me? Lo, they shall all wax old as a garment. The moth shall
eat them up together. These words that we're reading
today And hopefully by God's grace, I'll be enabled to preach
to God's glory and your good. We're spoken 700 years before
the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, before his ministry. But anybody
that reads this, it's obvious with those who have eyes to see,
and they're the very, very words of Christ himself. They're what
Christ said. Christ is speaking here. from
verse 9, verse 4, all the way down through verse 10, actually. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. It's
the words of Christ. It's as if our Lord Jesus is
speaking here. And why should we think it's
strange that He would speak 700 years of Himself before He ever
came and what would happen to Him and how He would be treated
and what He would do? Well, He declared the end from
the beginning. He was the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world. And so God had everything planned,
purposed, and decreed before the world ever was created. God
had it all done. And it's not decrees, one decree. God decrees one thing and it
all comes to pass in His time. And these words are prophetic.
They're prophetic. They haven't happened yet, but
they come through the lips of our Lord Jesus Christ. And let's
go down through these verses and see what our Lord has to
say. First of all, it says here in verse 4, The Lord hath given
me the tongue of the learned. God gave Christ the tongue that
no man ever had. God taught him things and God
gave him words to say. He says, the word that I speak,
they're not mine, but here's that Sydney. And what he was
saying was, they don't come from me. They don't emanate from me.
God taught me what to say. So every word that comes out
of my mouth, this comes from heaven itself. It comes from
God, and God speaks through me, and I am God. And so what I say
is actually what God Himself says. He said, I'm not just a
man that's come here to talk to you. He says, so when I speak,
my Father's speaking through me. Everything that He taught
me to say when I come to this earth, that's what I say. And
so the wisdom of God is found in Him. And look what he says
here, not only is his wisdom the Lord to give him the turn
of the learning, but he says also that I should know how to
speak a word in season to him that is weary, how to sustain
him. And so you see, beloved, there's
two things here. First of all, he himself is the
wisdom of God. All the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge are stored in Him, are found in Him. Everything
that God is, everything that God declares, everything that
God is in His attributes and everything. Christ Jesus was
that when He was in this earth. All the treasures of God's wisdom,
all the treasures of God's knowledge, all the treasures of what He
meant to say to us, and all the treasures of how He knows us
and how He knows God, dwelt in our Lord Jesus Christ. And beloved,
I'll tell you something, just talking about the way He talked,
you know, they sent some men to take Him one time. The Pharisees
sent some men to apprehend Him. And they got there and they was
getting ready to apprehend him and a crowd was gathered around
and our Lord Jesus was preaching to them and talking to them.
And they went back to the Pharisees and they said, why didn't you
break him? He said, well, we got to listen to what he had
to say. And we got so enthralled with what he was saying that
we said, never man ever spake like that man, so I ain't gonna
bother him. He said, nobody that I've ever
heard spake like this man. And when you hear the voice of
Christ, that's what you say. Nobody can speak to me. Nobody
can talk to me. Nobody can make himself known
to me like Christ can make himself known to me. I want you to hold
Isaiah and look in Luke chapter 2. Luke chapter 2. This is what
I'm talking about. Here's a very scriptural illustration
of what I'm talking about. Luke 2.46. 2.46. So He Himself is the wisdom of
God. How wise is God? How wise is
God? And this is what I love about
the wisdom of God. People say, you know, that we
understand that God purposed all things and decreed all things.
And that no matter what happens to us and what happens in this
world, it's God behind it, not just, it's God behind it, the
wisdom of God. God knows exactly what we need
when we need it. He knows exactly how to govern
this world. It's not just a haphazard. It's
not just being cruel. It's not just laws put in motion
and God walks off and leaves it. When we're tried greatly,
God's wisdom says that's what we need. When we're rejoicing,
God's wisdom says that's what you need. When you're having
trouble, God's wisdom's behind everything that goes on in our
life. And that's what I love about Christ being the wisdom
of God. How wise was God to send His
Son into this world and by Him, by His birth, by His life, by
His death, by His burial, by His resurrection, by His ascension,
how wise was God to send Him here to save rebels like ourselves. Oh how wise was God to do it
this way that God gets all the glory and we have to trust Him
and He brings us the wisdom of God that brings us to trust Him. Oh how wise is God. But look
what it says here in Luke 2.46 And it came to pass that after
three days, our Lord, they'd come to worship God and bring
sacrifices. They found Him, the Lord Jesus,
in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing
them and asking them questions. Now, He's 12 years old here now.
And all that heard Him were astonished at His understandings. and his
answers. He was with the smartest men
of his days at 12 years old. He confounded the doctors and
the lawyers, the rabbis. And oh beloved, he is the wisdom
of God. His word His Word has sustained the weary. How many times has He sustained
you and your weariness? And you being faint? And He's
done it through all generations. When Paul was in that storm in
Acts chapter 20, and they hadn't seen the sun or the moon or the
stars for 14 days. I mean just storming for 14 days. Paul stood up and he says, men
and brethren, He said, I told you not to take this ship out,
but you did. And since we're out here, he
said, God's, there's not going to be one soul lost off his ship. So he says now, he stood in the
midst of this storm and says, sirs, be of good cheer. Why? Because God has told me that
everything will be alright. He sustained him in the storm. He sustained him in his weariness.
He sustained him in, oh listen, oh bless his holy name. He holds
us up. when we're the weakest. And I
tell you what, if we think we're strong, then we're well deceived
in ourselves. One thing we know, we ain't got
no strength and He has to hold us up. And oh, He speaks a word
in season to His weary ones. He always does. So next time
you're weary, He'll give you a word in time. That's why you
come here. God speak to me baby today. God
speak to me today. Then look down in verse 5. The
Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither
turned away my back. Look at his obedience here. When
it talks about God opening his ear, I was not rebellious. You remember in Exodus, when
they had a servant, And this servant, every seven years, they're
supposed to turn the servant loose, supposed to let him go.
And if the servant decided, I love my master and I don't want to
go free. And so what they would do, they
would take him to the doorpost and they would take his ear like
this here, and they would take it all and stick it through his
ear and open his ear, put a hole through his ear. To prove when
everybody saw that ear, thought that ear was saying was that
I love my master. I had an opportunity to go free.
But I found my freedom in my master. I found great love from
my master. My master treated me so well,
treated me so good. I don't want to be free. I want
to be under my master. I want to be his servant. Well,
that's what Christ did. That's what he says, the Lord
hath opened mine ear, neither turned my back away. And oh,
look over here, look over and look at Psalm 40 with me. Psalm
40. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ,
when he said he opened my ear, our Lord Jesus Christ, he voluntarily,
willfully, willfully became Jehovah's servant. But look what it says
here. You know when it says, who for
the joy was set before Him despised the shame. What joy was set before
Him? The joy of doing His Father's
will. The joy of fulfilling God's Word. The joy of saving His people
from their sin. The joy of knowing that God was
working through Him and was going to do for Him and do for all
His elect. that only he could do. But look
what it said here in verse 6. Sacrifice and offerings that
did not desire, mine ears hast thou opened. And the word margin
says digged. That means dig a hole in it.
Burnt offering and sacrifice and sin offering, burnt offering
and sin offering hast thou not required. That's not what you
wanted. Then said I, I, Christ, I, the Son of God, I, the Savior,
I, the substitute, I, the sin offering, in the volume of the
book it is written of me. I delight to do thy will. Yea, my God, thy law is written
within my heart. Oh, my. And I said, and look,
you know, he voluntarily became Jehovah's servant And then he
says, I was not rebellious. I was not rebellious. He was
just the opposite of us. Just the opposite. We were born
rebels. And we still find ourselves being rebellious. We still find
ourselves when somebody says something that we don't like,
it aggravates us. We get rebellious about it. But
our Lord Jesus Christ was different. He was so I was not rebellious,
never rebellious. He was never rebellious to his
parents when he was born on this earth. Never. He never was rebellious
to the laws of the land. Never rebellious to the civil
law. Never rebellious to God's holy law. And they brought to
him one time, they asked him, they tried to trap him in his
words and they said, listen, who pays taxes, the strangers
or the children? And he said, well strangers do.
And he says, well, why then do I, I mean the children, why then
do thy and my disciples not pay taxes? He said, give me a coin.
They handed him a coin. Said, what's the scriptures that
say on that coin? Says Caesar's. He said, well,
you give Caesar's what belongs to him and you give God what
belongs to him. He was not rebellious. Oh, no,
no. And he was obedient. Not only
was he not rebellious, but he didn't turn away his back. He
was obedient to God's law. And what I'm telling you is this,
is that in his precepts, every precept of God's law, the Pharisees
had 632 or 637 laws. They had a law for everything.
Almost like a fundamentalist or a Pentecostal. But he was
obedient to God's law, all of his precepts. He asked them,
which of you convinces me of sin? And not only was he obedient
to God's laws in all of his precepts, all of his commands and everything
that's in it, but he also was obedient to its penalty. When
it says, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things
of the book of the law to do them, Our Lord Jesus Christ bore
that curse for those who did not continue in the law. So He
obeyed it because of His non-rebellious and because He was sinless Himself.
So He obeyed it and then He turned around and suffered His penalty,
not for Himself, but for those for whom He was a standing and
a substitute for. Oh, listen, this is the gospel
I'm telling you about. People want to be saved by law
keeping. Well then you'll never be saved.
The only person who ever, ever, ever kept God's law was the Lord
Jesus Christ. He obeyed it from Genesis 1 to
the end of Jude. He obeyed it. And our Lord Jesus Christ then
when he obeyed it, he went around and turned around and said the
soul that sinneth it shall die. So our Lord Jesus Christ was
made a sin offering. God made his soul an offering
for sin. And he suffered his penalty.
And bless his holy name if God could not be just. if he calls
Christ to be suffered for our sins and then turn around and
come and punish us for our sins if Christ died for us. It can't
be just to do that. Can it, Gary? Can't do it. Oh
my! And so what I'm saying is he
suffered for his people willingly, fully, freely, and completely. In fact, the
scripture says that he became obedient even unto death, the
death of the cross. And when he was praying in the
garden of Gethsemane, and he prayed there, his sweat became,
as it were, great drops of blood. And he says, Father, if it be
possible, if it be possible, Let this cup pass from me. But
you know what he said? Nevertheless, nevertheless, thy
will be done. Oh my. And look what he says
there. Not only does he not repay us,
he neither turned away back. He never says, well, this is
too much for me. I'm going to go back. I'm going
to go back to glory where I come from. I'm going to leave this
bunch of rebels to themselves. Men are so... they hate me and
despise me. They reject me. They see no beauty
in me. They curse me. They lay traps
for me. They try to catch me at my words.
They're always plotting to kill me. Always plotting to destroy
me. Always plotting to deny me. And all call me every kind of
name you can imagine. They call me a devil. They call
me a whine member. They call me a false prophet.
They call me a blasphemer. I'm just going to turn away.
I'm going to turn my back on this outfit and I'm going to
walk away from them. How many times have you, now
I'm going to ask you a question, how many times have you took
all you could take from certain people and the things they've
done for you, and how they used you, and how they lied to you,
and how they manipulated, and you say, that's it. No more. No more. No more. I'm not going to let, that's
not going to happen to me. No more. Nobody is going to,
they've lied to me the last time, they've used me the last time,
they've manipulated me the last time, they've done it the last
time. I'm finished. We've all done that. Every one
of us here has done that. But ain't you think Christ never
has done us that way? He's never done us that way. How many times have we lied to
our own hearts? How many times have we said,
Lord, I'll do this and I'll do that? We make promises to ourselves
that we can't keep. Make promises to God that we
can't keep. But you know what? He said, I
didn't turn my back. I didn't turn it away from them.
I didn't turn it away from God. I didn't turn it away from them
who smote it. I didn't turn my back away. I
didn't turn my back away. Oh, he did the work and he stayed
and kept his face, face toward Jerusalem, set like a flint towards
Jerusalem. And he did not stop until he
cried from the cross. It is finished. He didn't turn
his back on it. Then look what it says here in
Suffering in verse 6. Talking about I turned not neither
turned away my back. What did he do? I'd turn around
and gave my back to the smiters. And my cheeks to them that plucked
off the hair. I hid not my face from shame
and spitting. Do you notice he says I gave
my back to the smiters. He just gave it to them. They
came to get him. And he was led as a lamb to the
slaughter. He never resisted. You know what he did? He said,
here's my back. Go ahead and smite it. Go ahead and beat it
and make the blood flow from it. Lay my ribs bare. And oh my, they didn't have to
take him and make him suffer. He gave himself to this. He gave his back to the smiters.
They didn't force him any suffering on him. He gave himself up to
it. Gave himself to it. Men, you
resist suffering, but he gave himself up to it. He gave his
back. And he hid not his face. He gave
his back to God. Lay all the burdens. Oh, my back's
strong enough. My shoulders are strong enough.
Lay all the burdens. Lay all the guilt. Lay all the
shame. Lay all the sin. Lay it all on
me of all your people. I'll bear it. I'll bear their
iniquities. I'll bear their chastisement.
Lay it on me. I won't turn my back away. And
then he gave his back to men. And oh, what they did to his
back. We cannot imagine what his back
looked like. Then he turned around and said,
here, here's my cheeks. And there, you know what they'd
done to him? They'd reach up and get his beard and jerk and
jerk and pull and jerk and pull and just snatch at his beard.
Can you know what it's like to have somebody jerk your hair
and pull your hair? They'd grab him by his beard
and they'd just jerk and pull on his beard. Blood would be
coming out of his face where they'd jerk the hair out. And
look what he says, and he said, I didn't hide my face. I didn't
hide my face from this. Ah, he didn't hide my face. And
look what he says, from shame? I didn't hide my face from shame. and spitting. Look with me in
Matthew 26. Look with me in Matthew 26. Let's
look at this together. This is what I'm talking about.
Our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, what a Savior. What a Savior. What He suffered for us. Matthew
26. You know, a mob spit at Him and
a mob plucked at His beard. Look what it says in verse 27,
Matthew 26, 27. Matthew 27, excuse me, Matthew 27, 26. I'm sorry. Matthew 27, 26. Look what it
says here. Then released T Barabbas unto
them, and listen to what it says, and when he had scourged Jesus,
scourged him, that means they took the whip to his back. He
delivered him to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the governor
took Jesus unto the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole
band of soldiers got around him. And all these soldiers, they
stripped him and put on a scarlet robe and then they planted a
crown of thorns and they put it upon his head and then they
took and put a reed in his hand in his right hand and they bowed
the knee and before him and mocked himself. Hail King of the Jews! He's standing there done been
beaten bloody crown of thorns on his head and stood the crown
that God crowned him with. They took an old reed, just like
you'd go out here and get out of a pond somewhere, and handed
it to him, put it in his right hand like it's his scepter. And
then they bowed the knee, mocked him, and then listened to verse
30. And they spit upon him and took
the reed out of his hand and began to beat him on the head. Oh, but they spit on him. They
spit on him. Now Matthew 26, 66, look here. Oh, the mobs spit at him. Oh
my. Look what he says here in verse
66. Matthew 26, what think ye? They answer, said he is guilty
of death. Then, And then they spit in his
face and buffeted him. That means they all stood and
hit at him and slapped at him and beat on him. And listen to
this, another smote him with the palms of their hands. And
I tell you, a man cannot show more contempt more hatred, more
anger towards you than to walk up and clear their throat and
spit in your face. And to show how much they hated
and despised and rejected the Son of God, they walked up, the
mob did. And not only that, but after
they spit in him, they hit him. And you know one of the main
characters in that crowd? Was me. I was right there. I was right there. I was right there. I'm as guilty
as anybody of treating Him that way. Ain't you thankful? Ain't you thankful that He didn't
hold it against you? Oh, I hid not my face. Then look
what He says in verse 7. Oh, he's suffering, but look
what a confidence our Lord has, our Lord Jesus has. Look what
he says, for the Lord God will help me. Therefore, I shall not be confounded. Therefore, have I set my face
like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. He said, you know what? He told
his disciples, he says, my Father never leaves me alone. Never
leaves me alone. This is his confidence as a man
in the promises God made to him. God made a promise to him. You do what? The work that I
gave you to do. And you know what I'll do? I'll
give you the glory that you had with me before the world ever
was. I'll give you all that glory.
I'll raise you from the dead. And I'll bring you and set you
at my right hand. And I'll make the whole world
one of these days bow to you. I'll make men come to you, and
acknowledge you, and submit to you, and praise you, and bless
you. And I'll save every single soul
for whom you die. So our Lord said, what I'm going
through, He said, the Lord God will help me. I ain't gonna be
ashamed of this. I'm not gonna be confounded.
I'm not gonna be confounded. He said in Psalm 49 and 8, he
says this, Thus saith the Lord God, in an acceptable time have
I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee.
And I will preserve thee, and give thee a covenant of the people
to establish the earth. So he's what he promised Christ.
And this is his confidence. Now listen to me. This is his
confidence as a man. As a man. Because that's when
he got alone and he got alone and he understood what he was
going through. He had his confidence in God. He didn't have any confidence
in man. In fact, he said, all of you
are going to flee and all of you are going to forsake me.
Simon Peter, you are going to deny me three times. He told
all of them he was going to do that. He told Judas that he was
going to betray him. But he said, I know this, God
God himself is going to help me. And his confidence as a man
was in the promises that God made to him. Though shamefully
used, he wasn't brought to shame. He wasn't brought to shame. And
all for the joy said before him. You know what he said? He said,
I despise that shame. I despise it. And he said, look
what he says there, therefore have I set my face like a flint. Oh listen, I'm not going to be
ashamed, I'm not going to be confounded. I know exactly when
my hour comes, I know that when my time comes, and I set my face
like a flint. Hard to do what God set me to
do. I'm set. I'm fixed. I'm going
to do the will of God. I'm going to go that way. And
my father is going to see that everything's brought to pass
just exactly right. He's going to help me. And whoever,
whoever needed more help than our Lord Jesus Christ, when he
was left to himself in the garden of Gethsemane, when he was left
to the help of man, to the men and all they do. and all listen
the scriptures tells us he was crucified in weakness but he
was raised in power and no one was more confident in getting
his father to meet his needs the scriptures tells us that
when he was in the garden angels came and gave him strength angels
came and gave him strength Oh my! He says, you know, I'm
not going to be ashamed. I'm not going to be ashamed.
I won't be confounded. I won't be left by myself. Look
what He says now in verse... Look at His testimony in verse
8 here. He is near. He is near that justifies
me. He is near that justifies me.
Who will contend with me? And what our Lord Jesus Christ
is saying here, He is near, that justifies me. God, His Father,
was near to Him and all of His soldiers here on this earth. We think that our Lord's humiliation
at His cross was awful, and it was awful. But you know what
His greatest humiliation was? Not how they treated Him at the
cross. We always partake of that. But the fact that He came to
this earth and assumed human nature, assumed flesh, became
a man, that's the greatest humiliation God who would have his eternity
came down here and had the womb of a woman and when he came out
of that being a man look how we loathe ourselves
sometimes but he became a man why? how far down? when God says
he has to humble himself to behold things that are in heaven he
has to humble himself to see the things that are in heaven
imagine how he had to humble himself to become a man But all while his on this earth
in his humiliation, God justified him. And what does he mean by
that? God justified his whole life. God proved that he was
who he said he was. God justified his ministry. God
justified him before his enemies. God justified, cleared Christ
before man, devils, law, scriptures, word, everything. And I'll tell
you something else he justified him from. He justified him from
all the sins of his people that were laid upon him. How do we
know he justified him? Because he raised him from the
dead. Delivered for our offenses. Raised again for our justification. Look with me. You keep Isaiah
and look in Romans chapter 1. You know, Paul talked about,
while you're turning there, let me tell you this. The Apostle
says great is the mystery of godliness. Great is great. Oh, it's great. God was manifest in the flesh,
seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, justified in the
Spirit. Justified in the Spirit. Justified
by the Spirit. Can you imagine what men are
going to say? The men who crucified Him, what
they're going to say? The Pharisees, those two high
priests that falsely accused Him and hired people to lie on
Him and gave Judas 30 pieces of silver to deny Him. Can you
imagine what it's like when they're going to face the Lord Jesus
Christ and see, Oh my! They crucified the princes of
this world, crucified the Lord of glory because they were ignorant. They shouldn't have been ignorant.
They had a whole Bible. His whole ministry, every word
that he said, every deed that he done, every miracle he performed,
every dead person he raised, every lepers he cleansed, every
lame person he caused to leap, every palsy that he healed, every
blind man's eyes he opened, every deaf man's ears he opened. Beloved
justified that he was who he said he was and God gave that
justification to that. They said, oh, Simon Peter says,
you know, when he saw Moses and Elijah appear to him on the mountain,
he said, oh, Lord, how glad I am that we're here. He said, I tell you what we're
going to do. We're going to build three little old tabernacles
here. We're going to build one for you, one for Moses and one
for Elijah. God said that, Peter. Oh, listen,
you listen to what I'm going to tell you now. Big voice moved
from heaven. This is my beloved Son. Hear Him. That's what God did. He justified Him. And God, I
want to hear His voice. I'm going to listen to what He's
got to say. I'm not going to listen to what some jake-legged
preachers got to say or some false prophets got to say. I'm
going to listen to His voice. Well, you got to say, Lord Jesus,
come unto me, all you that labor heavy laden. If anybody's thirsty, let him come
unto me. Anybody want to come to the Father?
I'm the way for you to get there. Anybody want to speak to my Father? Come to me and I'll enter, I'll
take you to Him. Are you a sinner? He said, I
came to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance. Oh, if I can just touch the hem of
his garment, I'll be made whole. God said, that's my son. That's
my son. That's the son of my love. Oh, look what it says here now
in Romans 1 verse 1. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,
called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. And this
gospel he promised before by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures. And that's what we just read
there in Isaiah 50. This is what was promised that
Christ would go through. And this, that's what he says,
it concerns his son Jesus Christ our Lord. That's the thing we're
reading and talking about, concerns the Lord Jesus Christ. And listen
to this, which is made in the seed of David. We're talking
about his back and his face and his body and his shame and his
suffering of the flesh. But oh listen, declared to be
the Son of God with power. according to the spirit of holiness
by the resurrection of the dead God proved and justified everything
our Lord Jesus Christ did and that's why the scripture says
God was in Christ reconciled the world unto himself and then
look what he said also there in verse 8 he is near that justifies
me he says who will contend with me Who's going to contend with
me? Who's going to argue with me?
Who's going to be contentious with me? Who's going to have
enough pride and arrogance to contend with me? Will God contend
with me? He is the one that sent me. He
was the one who laid their iniquities on me. He was the one who made
my soul an offering for sin. He was the one who told me to
give my back to the spiders. God, will God contend with me? Will the law contend with me?
The law looks at him and says, I'm satisfied. You've honored
me. You've magnified me. You've made
me to be just what I am. God did not compromise. And then
look what, well justice? Was justice gonna contend with
me? Justice wore out his sword in my soul. Wore out his whip
on my back. Will I contend with him? No,
no, no. No, no, I'm gonna embrace him.
I'm gonna embrace him. And then look what he says here.
And the next line in verse 8, let us stand together. And who's
he talking about, let us stand together? He's talking about
Him and His people. Where I stand, you stand. What
I do, you do. What I've accomplished, you've
accomplished. When God justified me, He justified you. And what
he's saying here is, I'm identifying myself with my people. Let us
stand here together. Let's stand together before God.
Let's stand together before law. Let's stand together before justice.
Let's stand together before... Let's stand together. And what
he's talking about, he's our substitute here. And I'm telling
you something, beloved. With Christ, we fall or we stand. If you're not in Him, you have
no hope. But if you're in Him, where He
is, that's where you are. He said, we're standing together.
I'm standing for you, standing with you, and you're standing
with me. Let's stand together in the place
of condemnation. Let's stand together in the place
of condemnation. Listen, that's what I just said
a minute ago. When that crowd gathered around
the cross and that crowd spit in His face and buffeted Him,
I was there. I tell you, I was there. I was there. I've done that just
like everybody else did. If you don't take part of your
guilt of what you did to Christ, you'll never take part of what
He accomplished on the cross. Now that's right. If you don't
take part of crucifying Him, you'll never take part in being
justified by Him. If He didn't bear your sins,
then you have no hope whatsoever. And oh listen, let's stand together
in the place of condemnation. I and the children which God
has given me. Let's stand in the place of justification. If we were condemned with Christ,
and we were judged with Christ, we shall also be justified with
Him. Oh, look what he says. Oh, let
Him come near to me, those that stand with me. Let Him come near. Let Him come near. Let Him come
near. Who's going to condemn me now,
he says in verse 9. All those that did condemn me,
they're going to wax old as a garment. Therefore, right now, and I say
this every time you read it, it's now, now, now, now. I've been reading that from the
time I was 23 years old. There's no condemnation in Christ.
I'm 67 today. Not today, I'm 67 now. So that's how long I've been
reading that. And you know, every time I read
it, you know what it says? Now. Every time I read it, it says
right now. Oh, my. Oh, bless his holy day. And oh, look what he says here
now. So let us stand together. And I tell you what, I stand
with Christ now. I kneel to Christ. I stand with
Christ. We are one in Christ. What He
did, that's how close our union is. We're bone of His bone and
flesh of His flesh. What He did, we did. Where He
is, we are. He is accepted, we're accepted. He's justified, we're justified. He's at God's right hand, we're
seated with Him at the right hand of God. As He died unto sin once even so we
died unto sin once in that he is raised from the dead to the
glory of the Father we was raised up to the glory of the Father
in Christ if we're planted together in the likeness of his death
you know what it says we'll be raised in the likeness of his
glory so everything he went through
here we went through it with him We went through it with Him. And that's the gospel. That's
the gospel. That's the gospel. Oh my, what rest for a soul. What comfort for a soul. What
comfort for a soul. Our blessed, blessed Father,
in the glorious holy name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank
you for the gospel. Thank you for the grace of God.
Thank you for the Holy Spirit that teaches us these things.
And Lord Jesus, thank you. Thank you and bless your holy
name that you willingly, willingly, joyfully, joyfully, Did what
you did, all the things you gave you back to the smiters, you
cheat to them that plucked off the beard. You didn't turn your
back away from us. Oh Lord, thank you for allowing
us and causing us to be one with our Lord Jesus Christ. Lord,
open hearts, open understandings, give sight that sinners may see
Christ. They may lift up their hearts
today and say, yes, I see, preacher, I see, I see. Oh, may it happen
today. For Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. Let's do that Psalm 209. 209. Then you'll be at liberty to
go. 209.