My prayer is that God would bless
His Word, Psalm 69 this evening, that God would bless His Word
to our heart. I'm confident I've got God's
Word, and I'm confident I've got God's message, and I'm confident
that God has sent me to declare this message of salvation accomplished,
not attempted, but salvation accomplished, completely, fully,
to the satisfaction of God Almighty, in Christ and Him crucified.
So I'm entitling this message simply the Psalm of the Cross.
The Psalm of the Cross. You know, this whole book, this
whole book from Genesis all the way through the Revelation is
all about the Lord Jesus Christ, His person, His work, His sacrifice,
His blood, His atonement, in type, picture, and shadow all
through the Old Testament, through the Gospel, through the Epistles,
in the Revelation, You ever notice in a revelation, 21 times in
that revelation, it talks about the Lamb of God, the Lamb, the
Lamb. He is seen all the way through
that revelation in his sacrificial character as the Lamb of God. No wonder the Apostle Paul said,
I'm determined not to know anything among you but Jesus Christ and
Him crucified, Him crucified. He's a victorious, conquering
king. Now, Psalm 69, I feel somewhat
like Moses when God said, take off your shoes for this is holy
ground. as we read Psalm 69 and consider
the sacrifice our Lord made for us. Psalm 69 along with Psalm
22 both declare unto us the victorious sufferings of the Lord Jesus
Christ that he endured as a sinner's substitute. Now the Lord knows
much about agony. He's called a man of sorrow and
acquainted with grief. But He knows nothing of the agony
of defeat. His agony is an agony that leads
to victory. victory over sin, death, hell,
Satan, and the grave. I love to tell the story of the
victorious Lord Jesus Christ. You see, we're more than conquerors
through Him that loved us. The Apostle Paul said, thanks
be to God who has given us the victory through the Lord Jesus
Christ. Because, you know, everybody
likes to be a winner, don't they? The Lord Jesus Christ is the
winner. Everybody loves a winner. He's a winner. He's won all things. And we are winners in Him. No
wonder Paul said, Oh, that I may win Christ and be found in Him. You see, my friend, the Lord
Jesus Christ endured the wrath of God as the sinner's substitute. He died for the ungodly. His
sufferings were real. real sufferings horrible suffering
so much so that I can't even begin to describe it horrible
suffering when the wrath of God we see the wrath of men poured
out upon Him but look beyond the intimates of the cross to
the author of the cross and see the hand of God there on Calvary
Street. What happened at Calvary anyway?
What was taking place there at Calvary? Well Psalm 69 gives
us a little bit of insight as to the cry of his heart at the
accomplishment that was accomplished there at Calvary. When the wrath
of God was poured out upon the lovely Son of God without any
mixture of mercy, the pure and holy wrath of God was unleashed
upon the Lord Jesus Christ, and He suffers there as our substitute,
bearing our sin in His own body, and therefore, enduring the wrath
due that sin. When we started this whole thing
here in Kingsport, in September of 2006, five years ago almost,
I brought that message from Lamentation 1, verse 12. Remember? Is it nothing to you, all ye
that pass by? behold and see if there be any
sorrow like unto my sorrow which is done unto me wherewith the
Lord hath afflicted me the day of his fierce anger that's what's
going on in Calvary a lot of men a lot of people see just
the the anger of men and we see that there but we must also understand
and see the anger of God vented out toward sin the sin of God's
people as the Lord Jesus Christ dies in our stead. Now, these
two Psalms, Psalm 62 and Psalm 69 are quoted more often in the
New Testament than any other Old Testament scripture. At least
seven times I've counted. I'm not a good counter, but I've
counted at least seven times. And every time, every instance
when this Psalm or Psalm 22 is quoted in the New Testament,
The Holy Spirit always applies them to the Lord Jesus Christ
and Him crucified every time. So we're on safe ground. When
we take God's Word, God's truth. As my pastor used to teach me,
take your text and ski-daddle to the cross. and preach Christ
and Him crucified. Now, Lord willing, that's what
we'll try to do this evening. This psalm begins with His suffering
for our sin and ends with His exaltation and glorious victory
over sin. He put away sin by the sacrifice
of Himself, and when He did purge our sin completely and totally,
so much so that God did their sin and their iniquity, will
I remember no more? He sat down on the right hand
of the throne of God Almighty. This psalm begins with His suffering
and ends with His exaltation and glorious victory. over sin. He put away sin. He appeared
once in the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. Now, let's consider verses 1,
2, and 3. And you're probably thinking
right away, there's no way he's going to get through all 36 verses.
Well, I don't know how far we'll go, but we'll go for 35-40 minutes
and wherever that ends up, that's where we'll quit. In verses 1,
2, and 3, the Lord Jesus Christ here is praying, Save me, O God,
for waters, the waters of His wrath are coming to my soul.
You see, His sufferings were not just physical agony, but
soul suffering. God made His soul an offering
for sin. I sink in deep, deep mire. How deep? I can't even imagine.
I can't even imagine how deep trouble. There's no standing. There's no solid ground. There's
just quicksand. No standing. I'm coming to deep
water, deep mire, where the waters overflow me. I'm weary of my
crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail
while I wait for my God. The Lord Jesus Christ here is
not praying to escape from this appointed hour of sacrifice for
our sin, but he is praying to be sustained under the wrath
of God, this deep mire and deep waters of our sin. For he prays in the garden, Lord,
not my will, but if it possible, let this cup pass from me, but
not my will, but thy will be done. And he agonizes so over
being made sin for us that blood started to ooze out of his holy
humanity. And then it says there the angel
came and strengthened him. He would have died on the spot
being a real man. but we know it had to be at the
cross. John 12, 27, our Lord said this,
Now is my soul troubled. What shall I say? Father, save
me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto
this hour. You see, Calvary did not sneak
up on the Lord Jesus Christ. He's not the helpless victim
of godless men. He is appointed victim of the
Holy God. This is God's Lamb. Calvary didn't
just sneak up on him. The Lord Jesus Christ knew why
he came, didn't he? He said, I came to seek and to
save. That was his loss. He knew full well that he was
a lamb slain before the foundation of the world. Before Adam fell,
God already had the remedy fixed. Before Adam fell, the Lord Jesus
Christ stood as a surety of the everlasting covenant of grace.
He came to seek and to save the lost. He knew full well why he
came and why he must die for our sin. Peter declares in Acts
chapter 2, him being delivered by the determinant counsel. And
the foreknowledge of God, the foreordination of God, you have
taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain the Lord
of Glory. They couldn't touch Him till
that appointed hour. Not at all. You remember our
Lord said in Matthew 16 to His disciples when He said, I must
go to Jerusalem, I must be betrayed, I must die, I must be raised
again, I must go! I must go!" Peter said, wait
a minute, I don't think it's such a good idea that you go
down there. Remember what the Lord said to him? Get behind
me, Satan, for you savoreth not the things that be of God. These
things are of God. The Lord Jesus Christ crucified
is of God. He's the appointed Lamb who died
at the appointed hour for the appointed people and accomplished
the appointed purpose of God. It's a glorious thing, the Lord
Jesus Christ dying for his own. The chief agony he endured, as
it says in verse 1, my soul, my soul, being made sin for us. Turn over here to Isaiah 53.10.
We look at this verse all the time and sometimes I wonder if
we're just reading words. and just not really entering
into the blessing. It says here in Isaiah 53 10,
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. Now it pleased Pilate to
turn him over to the Jews and the Romans. Certainly pleased
that old Roman soldier that crucified so many Jews and he probably
delighted in putting another Jew to death. But what we must
see it pleased Jehovah. to smite him." Remember that
scripture, I can't quote it exactly, but over in Zechariah where it
says, "...a Waco sword against my shepherd, against a man that
is my fellow, smite the shepherd, sayeth the Lord of hosts." Smitten
and afflicted of God. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise
him. He put him to grief, who now
shall make his soul an offering for sin, guilty for sin, guilt
on account of sin. He shall prolong his days, and
the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall
see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. By his
knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, the many,
for he shall bear their iniquities. Soul agony, soul agony. As our substitute, He could not
save himself. You remember they said to him
mockingly, save yourself, you saved others, why don't you save
yourself? He couldn't save himself. And to be our savior, he had
to give himself. He could not save himself from
the cross and be our atonement for sin, but rather he gave himself
for our sins. He suffered once for our sins,
the just for the unjust, that he might bring us unto God. The
only way we can be brought to God through the just one suffering
for the unjust, for Christ dying for the ungodly, that we might
be brought unto Him. He died for our sins according
to the Scriptures. According to the Scriptures.
Now, let's move on. Look at verse 4. Our Lord said,
they hate me. I thought everybody loved Jesus. They may love some notion of
their Jesus that they whittled out, but faced with the Christ
of God, the true Christ of God, man by nature doesn't love God.
Man by nature hates God. He's at war with God. The carnal
mind is enmity against God. The carnal mind is enmity against
God. They that hate me without a cause
are more than the hairs of my head. You know, that's grievous
to be hated. Everybody wants to be loved. But to be hated. They hated Him
because He said, I am my Father alone. You've seen me, you've
seen the Father. They that hate me without a cause
are more than the hairs on my head. They that would destroy
me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. That is, according
to the flesh. Then I restored that which I
took not away. They hated the Lord Jesus Christ
without any good reason. He raised the dead, healed the
blind, gave countless miracles upon miracles of sinners that
were healed, and yet they hated him the more. Here is one of the key statements
of the blessed gospel of the glory of God. He restored all
that we had lost in Adam. and much more. Adam lost the
way, the truth, and the life. The Lord Jesus Christ brought
in what? He said, I'm come that they might
have life and have it more abundantly. The Lord Jesus Christ, He is
the life. He is the way. He is the truth. Truth personified. He restored
all that Adam had lost and that and much more. Then I restored
that, which I did not take away. What did Adam lose? Adam lost
paradise, didn't he? He lost that garden. That perfect
environment that God created and put him in. And he still
sinned against God. We don't need a better environment.
What we need is salvation in Christ. What Adam lost was paradise,
but Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, brought in a better paradise
that can never be lost. Read about it in Revelation 22.
No more sorrow, no more death, no more sin, just complete glory,
being one with Him, being made like unto Him. What did Adam
lose? Adam lost righteousness, didn't
he? Adam was created upright. Christ brought in Adam lost righteousness,
what he had. Christ brought in an everlasting
righteousness that can never be lost. God made him to be sin
for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. Adam lost life. Christ brought
in everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son
hath life. Oh, for faith to believe Him,
to trust Him. Adam lost his inheritance. He
was put out of the garden. The Lord Jesus Christ brought
in an everlasting inheritance that Peter says is incorruptible,
undefiled, fadeth not away, and it's reserved for you. I want
that inheritance. Your inheritance is earned by
someone else and given unto us. And that's exactly what the Lord
Jesus Christ did. We've been made heirs of God
and joint heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ. Adam lost God's
glory. The Lord Jesus Christ brought
in everlasting glory that will never be diminished. We'll just
grow stronger and stronger and more glorious and glorious as
we sing around the throne worthy as a lamb that was slain to receive
all honor, glory, and blessings, power both now and forever. I restored that. which I did
not take away." We have complete, complete restoration, complete
regeneration, complete righteousness, complete redemption, complete
reconciliation. How many more R's can we think
of? Complete resurrection, glory in Christ Jesus. You see, He
restored that which He did not take away. Now look at verse
5, Oh God! Now this is hard to wrap
our finite mind around because the Lord Jesus Christ is wisdom.
Wisdom! His name is synonymous with wisdom
and yet he cries here on Calvary's tree as our substitute. Oh God
thou knowest my foolishness. My sins are not hid from thee."
Now, don't misunderstand me. The Lord Jesus Christ did not
commit any sin. He's wholly harmless. He's wholly
harmless. Such a great high priest became
a wholly harmless, undefiled, and totally separate from sin.
It says in Scripture of him, he had no sin, knew no sin, and
did no sin, but yet as a sinner's substitute and as our sin was
laid upon him, he said, my sins are not hid from thee. so identified
with our humanity, so identified with our sin, that He calls our
sin His own. He says in Psalm 40, turn over
there, Psalm 40, you remember from our study in Psalm 40, He
said, innumerable evils have compassed me about, verse 12,
mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able
to look up, there more than the hairs of my head, therefore my
heart faileth. He did not commit any sin. He
personally had no sin of his own, and yet, with our sin reckoned
to Him, charged to Him, laid upon Him, made sin for us, He
said, My sins are not hid from God Almighty, and they're not.
That's why he cries out, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me? In Psalm 22. God's too holy to
look upon sin. He had to forsake him. You know
what it says in scripture that in, turn over here, this is an
amazing thing, turn over here to Psalm 37. Turn there a minute. Psalm 37. You know, he cries out from the
cross, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? They're recorded
in Psalm 22. And in the Gospel, that's what
he cried out. He was so truly made sin that
God had to forsake him. And look what it says here in
Psalm 37, verse 25. He said, I've been young, now
I'm old, yet I've not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed
begging bread. Now, He was so made sin for us
that He had to be forsaken of God. Oh, what an amazing gospel we
have. The Lord Jesus Christ had no
sin, had no sin, but as He's made
sin for us, He knows shame and guilt before God. as he's made
sin for us, as he bears our sin in his own body on the tree.
He is both guilty and shameful before God. It says in verse
7, because for thy sake I have borne reproach, shame hath covered
my face. Here's another amazing truth. Get a hold of this. Turn over
here to Isaiah 41.14. Isaiah 41.14. If I don't get
anything more than these two points across, it'll be be a
blessing Isaiah 41 now look at this carefully Isaiah 41 14 fear
not thou worm Jacob now Jacob You're a worm. And that word
actually means, look it up, maggot. Jacob, you're a maggot. And he
meant of Israel, I'll help thee, sayeth the Lord. Who says so?
Thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Now, how is God Almighty,
the Holy One of Israel, going to save a worm named Jacob and
the sons of Jacob? How's God going to do it? You
want to know the answer to that? Find Psalm 22. Psalm 22. Look
at this here. Psalm 22 verse 1. My God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping
me, from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime,
but thou hearest not, and in the night season am not silent.
But thou art holy, thou inhabitest the praises of Israel. Our fathers
trusted in thee, they trusted, and thou didst deliver them,
they cried unto thee, and were delivered, they trusted in thee,
and were not confounded. Now get hold of this, how does
the Lord Jesus Christ redeem Jacob a worm? He became a worm. Look what it says in verse 5.
I am a worm and not even a man. And reproach of men and despise
of the people. He became a worm. You see, that's
substitution. He took my place, room instead. He became that worm that sons
of Jacob might be princes of God. Think about it. That's what Jacob, God said your
name's not going to be called Jacob anymore, it's going to
be called Israel. Prince of God. Remember that's just exactly
what it says in Revelation. When we sing unto Him, unto Him
who loved us and washed us from our sin in His own blood, to
Him be all the honor and glory. He has made us both kings and
priests unto our God. How's he going to do so? How's
he going to make us kings and priests under our God? How's
he going to take these maggots and make them princes? He became
worm. Substitution. Learn two words
and learn the gospel. Substitution is satisfaction.
Our substitute may complete satisfaction for our sin. What a glorious gospel we have.
Look back to the text, Psalm 69 verse 6 and 7. Let not them
that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed. Now here
he's talking about us, talking about believers. Let not them
that wait on thee, wait on the Lord, God said, wait on him. His blessings are worth waiting
for. Wait on the Lord. Let not them that wait on thee,
that believe thee, that trust thee, O Lord God of hosts, be
ashamed for my sake. Let not those that seek thee
be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel, because for thy sake
I have borne reproach. Shame hath covered my face."
Because the Lord Jesus Christ brought in salvation by His blood
sacrifice, the believer You know the Lord actually accomplished
salvation? He actually justified the ungodly
with His own blood sacrifice. Because the Lord Jesus Christ
brought in salvation by His blood sacrifice, the believer resting
in Him, being found in Him, we have nothing, nothing to be ashamed
of before God or men. I'm not ashamed of the gospel
of Christ. We never have any reason to be ashamed, but rather
to glory in Christ and Him crucified. That's why Paul said, God forbid
we should glory save in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. We'll
never be ashamed. Believers will never be ashamed
of the gospel. He's not ashamed to own us, and
we're not ashamed to own Him. That's why Paul said, I'm not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God and
the salvation to everyone that believe it. God said, behold,
I lay in Zion for a foundation of stone, a tried stone, a precious
cornerstone. He that believeth on him shall
never be forced out. Now, it's interesting, when it's
quoted in Romans and in 1 Peter, he says he'll never be confounded,
never be ashamed, will never be forced to flee upon this rock
that God has laid, this foundation that God has laid, Christ in
him crucified. Ashamed of Jesus, can it be a
mortal man ashamed of thee? God forbid. God forbid. Look at verse 8. I am become
a stranger unto my brethren, an alien, an alien unto my mother's
children." He came into his own nation, his own people, it says
in John chapter 1, and his own received him not. His own kinfolk,
his own family, it says in John 7, verse 5, his own family didn't
believe him. other siblings that Mary had
did not believe him. Even his disciples, when he was
arrested, where were they to be found? They all forsook him
and fled. Ran like a bunch of scared rats.
I've been right behind Peter. You would have been too. I become a stranger to my brethren,
and alien to my mother's children. Look at verse 9. The zeal of
thine house hath eaten me up. The reproaches of them that reproach
thee are fallen upon me. The Lord Jesus Christ was most
zealous to do the will of God. He said, My meat is to do the
will of God. the will of Him that sent me
and to finish that work. He was full of zeal and passion. He was jealous of the Father's
glory. That's why when he went into
the temple and saw those Judaizers, those Pharisees making merchandise
of God's purpose and selling doves and different things, he
was consumed with zeal and he planted a whip and he went to
cleanse his father's house, to drive out those money changers,
those crooks that were taking advantage of the people making
money. We see the same thing going on today in religious circles.
It's all about, you know, big religion is big business. Mainstream
Christianity is big business. Millions and billions of dollars. The Lord Jesus Christ was full
of God's glory to accomplish God's purpose in the saving of
His people. He patiently endured the sinful
reproaches and actions of wicked men against Him. As they spoke
evil of Him, they also spoke evil of God Almighty, for He
is none less than God manifest in the flesh. When they blasphemed
him and spoke evil of him, they were speaking evil of God Almighty
Himself. Look at verse 10. I, when I wept
and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. I made
sackcloth also my garment. I am become a proverb to them.
They that sit in the gate speak against me, and I was a song
of the drunkards. the Lord of Glory, taking our
humanity into union with his deity, should have been a glorious
reason for any sinner to praise the Lord. But instead, it only
increased the ridicule and mocking he received. The religious judges,
full of religious pride, in the gates to the drunkards on the
street, all spoke against him. winebibber, a gluttonous man,
a friend of sinners. You see, the carnal mind receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them,
because they must be spiritually discerned, spiritually judged. In verse 13 down to verse 18,
while the enemies mocked our Lord, Well, the enemies mocked him.
The Lord continued, as our Redeemer, to accomplish our salvation.
As a God-man mediator, the Lord praised that salvation which
the Father had purposed He might fully accomplish, not that it
was ever in doubt. God said, I've spoken it. I bring
it to pass. I've purposed it. I will do it. He was raised from the pit of
corruption, which guarantees our salvation, which guarantees
our resurrection. Let's look at verse 19 for a
moment. Draw an eye unto my soul and
redeem it. Deliver me, verse 18, because
of my enemies. Thou hast known my reproach,
my shame, my dishonor, my adversaries are all before me. Again, our
Lord returns to His suffering for our sin. Three words here
are given to describe something of what He suffered as a sinner's
substitute. Reproach, shame, and dishonor. It says one of my favorite verses
over in Hebrews chapter 12, looking unto the Lord Jesus, who is the
author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was sent
before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set
down at the right hand of the throne of God. He's saying here,
Lord, you know, the Father knows my reproach, he said, my shame,
my dishonor, my enemies are all before thee. He suffered reproach,
that is, disgrace. He was disgraced by a wicked
man. They mocked him. You remember
they planted a crown of thorns. A king ought to have a crown
of thorns. So they got a crown and they made that crown of thorns
and crushed it down on his brow. They said a king ought to have
a reed, a scepter. So they went out and got a reed
and put it in his hand and they bowed the knee to him. Hail,
thou king of the Jews. They mocked him in his kingship,
didn't they? They even mocked him as the prophet
of God. They put a blindfold about his
eyes and hit him upside the face and said, you be the prophet,
tell us who hit you. What's his name? What's the name of that
man who hit you? They mocked him. They mocked him. They disgraced
him. He said, my shame, my reproach.
They stripped him naked. before men as he hangs on Calvary's
tree." He said, it's recorded in Psalm 22, he said, I can count
all my bones. They're all before me. He was
stripped naked before men. Dishonor. They mocked him in
many ways. If you be the king, come down
and save us. Save yourself. By the hand, he
said, by the hand of the adversaries. My adversaries are all before
me. You know what they did? Turn
over here to Acts chapter 4. Acts chapter 4. These enemies
that railed on him around the cross, who mocked him before
his crucifixion and during his crucifixion. You know what they
did here? Look what it says here in Acts
chapter 4. Says verse 26, verse 25, Why did the heathen rage,
and the people imagine vain things? That's from Psalm 2. The kings
of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together
against the Lord, and against his Christ. For betrothed against
thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and
Pontius Pilate, You know, they were enemies, but they ganged
up on Christ. Both Herod and Pontius Pilate,
with the Gentiles, and with the people of Israel, were gathered
together for to do whatsoever thy hand, thy counsel, determined
before to be done. They did what they wanted to
do. They did what their wicked heart desired to do. But little
known to them, they did what God determined before to be done. He said, my enemies are all before
me. My reproach, my shame, my dishonor. Look at verse 20 for a moment.
Reproach, reproach, reproach hath broken my heart. I am full
of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity,
but there was none. For comforters, I found none. As I've often told you before,
it's not what men did at the cross. That's our hope. It's
what God was doing at the cross. That's our hope. The Lord died
of a broken heart. We read about it over here in
Psalm 22. Turn back over there. Psalm 22. He said, Reproach hath broken
my heart, I'm full of heaviness. Psalm 22. Be not far from me, for trouble
is near, there is none to help. Many bulls have compassed me,
the strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round, the bulls of
religion, the self-righteous. They gaped upon me with their
mouths as a ravening and roaring lion. I am poured out like water,
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 potsherd, my tongue cleaveth to my jaws. Thou has brought
me, thou has brought me into the dust. of death, for dogs
have compassed me, the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me,
they pierce my hands and my feet, I may count, tell all my bones,
they look and stare upon me, they part my garment among them,
they cast lots upon my vesture." His heart like wax, white hot
lightning of God's wrath When it comes in contact with the
exceeding sinfulness of our sin laid upon Him, you think of the
lightning explosion that took place upon Calvary's tree. The
wrath of God and our sin laid upon Him and the lightning explosion
that happened there at Calvary's tree. What God was doing at the
cross. He is forsaken of man, forsaken
of God. And then truly mocked, as it
says in verse 21, they gave me also for gall, gall for my meat,
bitterness, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink."
He was a real man, died in his real humanity. He said upon the
cross, I thirst. And that's when they mockingly
gave him vinegar. We see the inhumane treatment
in what he was given there and what was done to him. You want
to see something of man's true character? You look at those
jaybirds around the cross. Those men full of religious pride
and those Roman soldiers hated God and hated Him. And you know
what I see? I see a picture of me and my
wickedness. I would have done the same thing.
Left to myself? Left to myself? There's none
righteous, no, not one. We see something of the extent
of our depravity before God as He dies for our sin under the
wrath of God, experienced a hatred and wrath of men. Verse 22 down through verse 28, God said, let their table become
a snare before them. That which should have been for
their welfare, let it become a trap. We see the severe judgment
that fell upon the Jewish nation, which for the most part is still
in effect today. Judicial blindness upon these
rebels against God. Pilate brought him forth that
day and said, Behold your king. Remember what they said? Away
with him. Crucify him. We have no king
but Caesar. Give us Barabbas. Away with this
Jesus. Crucify him. Crucify him. Their ceremonies and types under
the law should have served as a stepping stone and it was given
to reveal Christ but instead it became a stumbling stone,
a rock of offense. Look at verse 28. Let them be
blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with
the righteous. They thought so highly of themselves
as to write themselves in God's book. God said they shall be
written off. Those who reject the Christ of
God have nothing to look forward to but judgment. Judgment and
judgment. He that believeth on the Son
hath life. He that believeth not the Son,
well everything will be okay. I thought what he said. The wrath
of God. The wrath of God. Abides, abides,
abides upon Him. It's a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of the living God. Fearful thing. Fearful thing. Verse 29. I am poor and sorrowful. Two
things here. I am poor and sorrowful, let
thy salvation, O God, set me on high. Now two main points
in this gospel psalm, that's what it is. His suffering and
his exaltation. His suffering and his exaltation. He became obedient unto death,
even the death of the cross. You remember Philippians chapter
2? Wherefore God hath highly exalted him. How high is he exalted? As high as you can get. On the
throne of glory. God hath highly exalted him,
and given him a name above every name, that at that name every
knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that he is Lord
to the glory of God the Father. I am poor and sorrowful, let
thy salvation, O God, set me on high." And it has, it has,
fully has, truly has. This also shall please the Lord. I'll praise thy name with the
name of God with a song and magnify him with thanksgiving. This also
shall please the Lord better than an ox and a bullock that
hath horns and hoofs. The humble shall see this and
be glad." Are you glad in your heart that the Lord Jesus Christ
came and lived and died for you as your substitute? The humble
shall see this and be glad, and your heart shall live forever. Your heart shall live those that
seek God. Christ's blood atonement is most
pleasing unto the Lord. This shall please the Lord better.
Better. You know, that's the recurring
word in the book of Hebrews, isn't it? Christ is better. Christ
is better. A better priest, a better atonement, a better sacrifice,
a better covenant. This also shall please the Lord.
Christ's blood atonement is satisfying and pleasing unto the Lord. It
says in Ephesians chapter 5 that his offering, he offered himself
unto God as a sweet smelling savor satisfying unto God Almighty
and the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sin. The Lord
Jesus Christ as our great high priest did bring the typical
animal sacrifice, did he? He brought Himself as a sacrifice
for sin, to put away our sin. Therefore it says, verse 35,
you didn't think I'd make it through, did you? I'm going to
make it. God will save Zion. Who will do it? God will save
Zion. How does He do it? How can it
be a just God and Savior? Only in Christ crucified. God
will save Zion. at Gospel Zion and will build
the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there, God will save,
God will build. Oh, I thought God was trying
to save. Not the God of the Bible. God doesn't try to do anything.
He said, I've spoken it. I've purposed it. I'll bring
it to pass. I'll do it. God will save Zion. Call his
name Jesus. He shall save his people from
their sin. And I'll build my city. He said,
I'll build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it. And they may dwell there. Who dwells there? The
seed also of thy servant shall inherit it. Inheritance is a
gift. They that love his name, get
this, They that love his name shall dwell there, shall dwell
there. If any man love not the Lord
Jesus Christ, let him be accursed, accursed. Well, you jot that
reference down that I told you. Psalm 22 verse 30, now let's
turn and read it. I'm going to quit with this.
You get a hold of this right here. God will save Zion, the
seed shall inherit, and they'll love his name. And you know what
they say? Look what it says right here.
The same seed, Psalm 22 verse 30. A seed shall serve him, it
shall be counted to the Lord for a generation. They shall
come and declare, shall declare his righteousness unto a people
that shall be born. Uh-oh! He had done this. You see, salvation is his doing.
He had done this. He had done this. Salvation is
always determined, dependent, and accomplished by God Almighty. Never, never determined or accomplished
by the sinner. You know, this religious world