Luke 18, Luke 18, verse 31. Then took he unto him the twelve. This is the inner circle. These
are the twelve apostles. He took them aside from all the
rest of the people and privately delivered to them the following
words. He said to them, the twelve,
Behold, we go to Jerusalem. Why were they going to Jerusalem? This is the feast of the Passover,
when the Son of Man shall suffer, when he shall be betrayed by
Judas and arrested by the soldiers and tried by Herod and crucified
on a cross. He's going to Jerusalem primarily
to keep the feast of the Passover. the Passover which God gave to
Moses when Israel was in bondage in Egypt as a picture of Christ
delivering his people from sin. And Moses took the lamb and the
people of Israel and slew the lamb and roasted it with fire
and ate the lamb and put the blood on the door. For God said,
when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. And Israel kept this
feast for 2,000 years. And our Lord and his disciples,
being Jews, our Lord of the tribe of Judah, kept the Passover. He worshipped on the Sabbath
day. He was circumcised and named when he was eight days old. He
kept all of the feasts, tabernacles, the Feast of the Firstfruits,
Feast of the Passover. And he's gone to Jerusalem to
keep the Passover with his disciples. But it's the last Passover. They
never have another one ordained by God. God ordained the first
one. He said, you keep this feast
before your children. And when they ask you, what do
you mean by this feast, Passover feast? You say to them, this
is the Lord's Passover that he gave to Moses when the children
were in bondage and said, when I see the blood, I'll pass over
you. But now Christ, the Lamb of God,
the Lamb slain, the foundation of the world, has become flesh.
And he's going to die as our Passover Lamb. And when God sees
his blood, he passes it over us. So no more Passover after
this one, but we're going to Jerusalem. That's what he says
to them here. And then he says, we go to Jerusalem,
and all things that are written by the prophets, who are the
prophets? Samuel, Joshua, David, Isaiah,
all the prophets, all things that are written in 39 books
in the Old Testament by the prophets concerning the Son of Man. Who is the Son of Man? The Lord
Jesus Christ. Everything written in the Old
Testament about me, concerning me, my birth, incarnation, my
life, My death, my burial, my resurrection, my exaltation,
everything written about me shall be accomplished, shall be done,
shall be fulfilled. Now, after our Lord died on the
cross and rose from the grave, he appeared to his disciples
and he reminded them of these words. Let's turn to it, Luke
24, just over 2 or 3 pages. He reminded them of these bare
words right here. when they were filled with so
many doubts and troubles. In Luke 24, verse 44, he's appeared
to them now in the upper room, and verse 44, Luke 24, he said
to them, These are the words which I spake unto you while
I was yet with you. He's about to ascend to the Father
now, before the cross. I spake these words to you. Out
there we just read them. that all things must be fulfilled
which are written in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets, in
the Psalms, concerning me." Isn't that what he just said? We are
going to Jerusalem, and everything in the Old Testament written
by the Prophets concerning the Son of Man must be fulfilled.
He said, I told you that, and then he opened their understanding
that they might understand the Old Testament scriptures. You
can't understand anything in the Old Testament if you don't
know Christ, if you don't have Christ Jesus. And he said unto
them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer
and to rise from the dead the third day, that repentance and
remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations,
beginning at Jerusalem. Now, back to my text. All these
things must be fulfilled. must be accomplished concerning
the Son of Man. Then he makes six statements,
six statements. The first one is this, he shall
be delivered unto the Gentiles. Where is that in the Old Testament?
All right, I want you to turn to Psalm chapter 2, Psalm chapter
2, the second chapter of Psalms, the David writing concerning
the Lord Jesus Christ in Psalm chapter 2. Verse 1 through 4. Now, we're talking about the
Gentiles. Why do the heathen rage? The
people imagine a vain thing. The kings of the earth, all of
them, set themselves, the rulers, take counsel together against
the Lord, the Lord God, and against his anointed. Who is his anointed? He said, The Spirit of the Lord
is upon me. He hath anointed me to preach
the gospel to the poor, to give sight to the blind, and deliverance
to the captive, to set me in place. He's God's anointed. But
all the kings of the earth set themselves against God and against
Christ, and they say, Let's break their bands asunder. Let's cast
away his cords, his laws, his statutes, his principles. Let's
be done with God. No God for me. The fool has said,
No God for me. He that sitteth in the heavens
shall laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
The Lord will speak to them one day in his wrath. He will deal
with them in his displeasure. Where is that fulfilled in the
New Testament? Turn to the book of Acts. All these things written
concerning Christ must be fulfilled. This is a council of kings. Turn to Acts chapter 4. This
is a council of kings, Gentiles, heathens, nations. You see, Christ,
the scripture says, he made the world, he was in the world, the
world knew him not. He was despised and rejected
of men. He came to his own, his own received
him not. They said, well, now have this man reign over us.
Well, what shall I do with Jesus, which is called Christ? Crucify
him. Now watch this, Acts 4, chapter 25. who by the mouth of thy servant
David hath said, Why do the heathen rage? And the people imagined
a vain thing. The kings of the earth stood
up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and
against his Christ. For of a truth against thy holy
child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, Pontius Pilate, with
the Gentiles, people of Israel, are all gathered together to
do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to
be done." Everything is written over here
about me. It's going to be fulfilled. I
want you to turn to Matthew 27. I want you just to sit right
there in Matthew 27 for a few moments, and I'm going to read
some other prophecies in the Old Testament. Matthew 27. Now, I told you the Lord made
six statements. He'll be delivered to the Gentiles,
and then he said he'll be mocked. He'll be mocked. Now, I'm going
to read Psalm 22, and you hold that, Matthew, now. I'll read
that in a moment, just to keep you from turning back and forth.
In Psalm 22, he'll be mocked. In Psalm 22, David wrote of Christ. But I'm a worm and no man. I'm a reproach of men, I'm despise
of the people. And all that see me, they laugh
me to scorn. They shoot out their lips and
they say, he trusted on the Lord that God would deliver him, let's
see if God will deliver him. Now he delights in him, let's
see if he'll deliver him. That's David writing a thousand
years before Christ died. Now you look at Matthew 27. Right
there, Matthew 27, verse 31. Matthew 27, verse 31. Our Lord
said he'd be mocked. Matthew 27, verse 31. After they
mocked him. They took the robe off him and
put his own raiment on him and led him away to crucify him.
Verse 39, And they that passed by reviled him, mocked him, wagging
their heads. And they said, O thou that destroyest
the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If
thou be'st the Son of God, come down from the cross. Likewise
the chief priests, mocking him, said with the elders and scribes,
He saved others, himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel,
let him now come down from the cross and we'll believe him.
He trusted in God, let him deliver him now, if he'll have him. He
said, I'm his son. These men are priests and scribes
and they're quoting what David said that day. Where did God
so miraculous? They quoted the very same thing
that David said, they are going to walk by wagging their heads
and say, he trusted in God, let's see if God will have him down,
see if he will deliver. That's what they said. Now, let me read
another one over here. Christ said that he would be
mocked, then he said he would be spitefully entreated. Now
listen to Psalm 22 again. You state Matthew 27. Dogs have
compassed me about. The assembly of the wicked have
enclosed me. They pierce my hands and my feet.
I can tell all my bones. They look at me and stare. They
part my garments among them and cast lots for my vesture." Matthew
27, verse 33. And when they would come to a
place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of the They gave
him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall. And when he tasted
thereof, he would not drink. And they crucified him, parted
his garments, casting lots, that it might be fulfilled spoken
by the prophet. They parted my garments among
them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. And sitting down
they watched him die." Our Lord said he would be delivered to
the Gentile kings, he would be mocked. He'd be spitefully entreated. He'd be spit on and scourged. Now, scourging, they'd tie him
into a post, take his clothes off, and hit him 39 times with
one of these whips with glass and pieces of metal in it. They'd
literally tear his back to shreds. That's a scourging. The Scripture
says 40 save one. These cruel people They weren't
allowed to hit a man over 40 times, so they did 39. They did
40, save one, just in case. Because the fellow scourging,
if he gave him more, he got scourged. So this is what they did. Now
let me read a passage over here. You stay in Matthew 27. I'm going
to read from Isaiah 50. Now listen to this. Isaiah writing
about our Lord. The Lord hath opened my ear,
that is, the Lord, a bondservant, hath his ear bored. And that's
who Christ is. He's the Father's bond surfer.
He said, I'm a surfer of God. He bored my ear. I'm not rebellious. Neither turned back. He went
to the cross and opened up his mouth. I gave my back to the
smiters, to the scourgers. I gave my cheeks to them who
plucked out the hair. You know, they pulled his beard
out. And I hid not my face from their spitting. All right, Matthew
27, verse 26. Then Pilate released Barabbas
unto them, and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be
crucified. Then the soldiers of the governor
took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole
band of soldiers, and they stripped him, and put on a scarlet robe. And when they had plaited a crown
of thorns, they put it on his head. and a reed in his right
hand, and they bowed the knee before him, mocked him, saying,
Hail, King of the Jews! And they spit on him, and took
the reed, and smote him on the head. Our Lord said, I'll be delivered
to the Gentiles, I'll be mocked, spitefully entreated, spit upon,
scourged, and put to death. Now, Isaiah tells us how he died. He was wounded by a transgression.
You've read that many times. Matthew 27, our Lord died. Verse
46, And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,
saying, Eli, Eli, lama, sabopthanai, that is to say, My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stood there
when they heard it, they said, This man calls for Elias. And straightway
one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and
put it on a reed and gave him to drink. The rest said, Let
me, let's see if Elias will come to save him. So when our Lord
cried again with a loud voice, he yielded up the ghost. He died. But the scripture says he'll
rise again. Now I want you to turn to this in Psalm 16. Psalm 16, verse 8-13. I have set the Lord always before
me. He is at my right hand. I shall
not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad. My
glory rejoices. My flesh also shall rest in hope.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. That is, my body in
the grave. That's what that word held as,
grave. Thou wilt not leave me in the grave. Neither wilt thou
suffer thy Holy One to seek corruption. Now, who is David writing about?
If you turn to Acts 2, the Apostle Peter tells us decidedly and
definitely who David is writing about. He is preaching on the
day of Pentecost here in Acts 2, verse 30. Verse 29, Acts 2,
verse 29, Peter is preaching on Pentecost after Christ arose
from the dead. And he says to these Jews in
Acts 2, 29, "'Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you
of the patriarch David.'" Let's go back to verse 27. He's quoting
David here in verse 27. "'Because thou wilt not leave
my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to seek
corruption.' Now it's made known to me the ways of life, thou
shalt make me full of joy without countenance." Now Peter said,
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch
David. He's dead, and he's buried, and his supplica, his grave,
is with us today. Therefore, being a prophet, and
knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit
of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up the
Christ to sit on the throne, He, seeing this before, spake
of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in
hell, his body in the grave, nor his flesh did see corruption.
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are all witnesses. Go back to my text, now Luke
18. I know we're reading a lot of Scripture, but we live by
the Scripture. I have faith to settle the scriptures, I have
a foundation of the scriptures. I don't believe anything unless
I read it here, and I don't expect you to. My subject is Christ
and my proof is the scriptures. That's just so. Now, back to
my text, Luke 18. All things written in the scriptures
by the prophets shall be accomplished. Verse 32, Luke 18. He shall be
delivered to the Gentiles, he shall be mocked, spitefully entreated,
Pitted upon, scourged, put him to death, and he'll rise again.
Now, shocking words in verse 34. And they understood none
of these things. Now, the disciples believed on
Christ. I know they did. They loved him. Peter said, Lord, you know everything.
You know I love you. They left everything to follow
him. They believed him to be the Son of God. They said it
over and over again, not the Christ, the Son of the living
God, the King of Israel. They believed he was the King.
But this thing he's talking about here, being rejected of the people,
despised of the people of Israel, suffering, death, resurrection,
they didn't understand that. These things did not fit their
notion of the Messiah. did not fit their notions and
ideas about the Christ. They believed he would set up
a kingdom, a Jewish kingdom, a kingdom of Israel like David's
kingdom. And so they understood not the
substitution, satisfaction, death for sin. They didn't understand
this. This saying was hid from them. Neither knew they the things
which were spoken, these things which are clear to you and clear
were not clear to them, because the scriptures weren't finished.
This was before the cross. This was before Christ died,
was buried and rose again. We live after he died and was
buried and rose again. But he's speaking about sacrifice
for sin, fulfilling the scriptures. They didn't understand that the
Messiah who came to redeem Israel would die. They didn't understand
that he would be so barbarously mistreated by those he came to
redeem. Peter asked him not to go to
the cross. Let me show you that in Matthew
16. They didn't understand the necessity
of the cross, the blood of the cross, just the gospel. Look
at Matthew 16, verse 21. And I think much of the world
today doesn't understand the gospel. They don't preach substitution. Look at Matthew 16, verse 19. Matthew 16, verse 21, I'm sorry,
verse 21. From that time, Jesus began From
that time forward began Jesus to show his disciples how he
must go to Jerusalem, he must suffer many things of the elders,
chief priests, scribes, be killed, be raised again the third day.
Now, we know this because every Old Testament lamb slain is a
picture of our lamb slain. We have the fulfillment of the
book of Revelation when it says, The song of those in heaven is
unto him who loved us and washed us from our sin in his own blood.
and made us kings and priests to God. But I listened to Peter,
verse 22. Peter took him and began to rebuke
him, saying, Lord, be it far from thee, this shall not be
unto thee. Oh, he loved Christ. Danny is one that said, just a few hours before that
over here in verse 16 of that same chapter, look four verses
back. Peter said, Thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God. And Jesus said to him, Blessed
are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, flesh and blood. Hadn't revealed that
to you, but my Father which is in heaven. You know who I am,
but you don't know what I came to do. Boy, he gave Peter a shot this
next time. Look at this next verse. Verse
22, Peter said, Be it far from thee, Lord, this shall not be
unto you. And he turned and said to Peter, Get behind me, Satan. You know, he's not calling Peter
Satan. It's the spirit in which Peter is speaking. It's what
Satan wants him not to do, don't go to the cross. That's what
Satan wants. Peter is just being used, like
he was another time, to deny the Lord. But Christ is speaking
to Satan here, who is speaking through Peter. You get behind
me, Satan, you're an offense to me. Peter wasn't an offense
to him. He loved Peter. deeply loved him. But you don't
savor the things which be of God, but that which is of men.
That's the area you operate in, man saving himself. I came to
save the lost. I came to redeem the lost. You
see, the disciples, though, understood none of these things. They were
hid from them. They didn't understand substitution, the righteous life
of Christ, the death of Christ on the cross, the blood shed,
and Christ, our high priest, who entered not into the house
made with hands, but into heaven itself, to obtain redemption
for us, not with the blood of animals, but with his own precious
blood." That's the gospel. Turn to, just leave Luke 18 there. Let's look at 1 Corinthians 15.
This is the gospel. This is what Paul and all the
apostles write about. In 1 Corinthians 15, moreover,
brethren, I declare unto you the gospel. which I preached
unto you, which also you have received, wherein you stand,
by which you are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached
unto you, unless ye believe in vain. Here it is, I deliver it
unto you, first of all, that which I received, how that Christ
died for our sins according to the scriptures, and he was buried
and rose again the third day according to the scriptures."
That's the gospel. He who knew no sin was made sin
for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
But they didn't understand. But you know, let's move on a
little bit. It's not by accident that the following incident occurred
just very shortly. Look at verse 35. And it came
to pass, as he was now under Jericho, he's on his way to Jerusalem
now, but he's now under the city of Jericho, a certain blind man,
a certain blind man. Now, there are a lot of blind
men. in that city. A lot of blind men everywhere,
but just a certain blind man, like that woman at the well,
like Zacchaeus, a certain centurion. This is a certain man. And this
blind man was sitting by the wayside begging. He was not only
blind, sitting in utter, absolute darkness. You close your eyes
and Bartimaeus, that's his name, One of the other apostles talked
about him and said, sat by the wayside Bar Timaeus, son of Timaeus. Bar means son, son of Timaeus.
I don't know who Timaeus was, but this man was the son of Timaeus,
and he's sitting there in blindness. And not only blind, but he's
begging. He's blind, he's broke, he's
bankrupt, he's in poverty. And that's a good picture of
us, is it not? Spiritually, blind, broke, bankrupt,
spiritual poverty, very sad. That's a picture of us. And hearing,
listen, verse 36, hearing the multitude. He asked what it meant. He inquired,
what's going on? And this is the way God first
visits his people. They hear, they hear something.
That's called effectual grace. God always speaks to a man through
his ears. Did you know that? Christ kept
saying, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear. That's how
God speaks to you, through your ears. God's ordained by the foolishness
of preaching to save people that believe. Faith comes by hearing,
hearing by the Word of God. He that heareth my word and believeth
on me will be saved. That's what he said. This man
heard, what's going on? And he inquired. And that will
always happen. When God's dealing with somebody,
he's going to hear something and he's going to ask what it
means. What's going on? And they told him, they said in the next
verse, why, Jesus of Nazareth is passing by. Now, these people,
the whole crowd of them, wherever Christ went, there's always a
lot of people. And they identified him this way, Jesus of Nazareth,
the carpenter. Oh, they said, we know who he
is, he's the carpenter. We know his mother, Mary. We
know his brothers and sisters. We know him. Oh, he's something
special, because everybody's talking about him. He claims
to be a prophet, but he's Jesus of Nazareth. Somebody said, can
anything good come out of Nazareth? And that's the way they described
him, Jesus of Nazareth, passing by. And he cried. This man that heard the commotion,
when that name, Jesus of Nazareth, spoken in derision, spoken mockingly,
but he'd heard something else. Now, I don't know who Timaeus
was, his daddy. And I don't know where he had been, but he knew
who this man was. He's the only one in that crowd
that knew who he was. He said, Jesus? That's the son
of Mary's, Jesus. But he said, thou son of David?
You know, our Lord said to the Pharisees one day, all these
religious leaders, well, before that, Herod the king, when the
wise men came They had heard that the King of Israel had been
born. They came and inquired of where he would be born. They
turned to the scriptures and said, He's born in the city of
David, because he's the son of David, the King of Israel. That's where he's supposed to
be born in scripture. And one day our Lord asked the Pharisees,
the Christ, whose son is he? They said, son of David. Now,
here sits a man in darkness, blind, a beggar, been blind all
his life. He didn't have a dime, no influence,
no power, no input, no nothing. And he's the only one in the
crowd that knows who this is. Son of David, have mercy upon
me. That's the very prayer David
prayed. Lord, have mercy upon me. Be
merciful to me. The publicans said that. Lord,
be merciful. This man knows something. He
has great understanding. Jesus, Savior. Call his name
Jesus, he'll save his people. Son of David, Messiah. Have mercy. God Almighty is the only person
that can have mercy. Do you know that? Only one who can have mercy on
a sinner. The man, Jesus. The Messiah,
Son of David. Now what's the next verse? And
the people there, people there that went before him, they rebuked
him, that he should hold his peace. The disciples might have
been in on this, too. You know, when that woman came,
the Syrophoenician woman, they said, Lord, send her away. She
came and wanted mercy, and they said, send her away. She's crying
after us. We can't help her. And they rebuked
him. You see, they were looking for
a king to set up a kingdom. This man is looking for a Savior
that will have mercy on him. He knows why Christ came. And
they said, Hold your peace, and he cried out the Lord, Son of
David, Messiah! There is nobody called the Son
of David but the Messiah in the Bible. Messiah, Messiah, Messiah,
have mercy on me! And Jesus stopped. The Lord of glory, the scripture
says, stood still. and commanded him. There's no
invitation here. This is a commandment. This is
a certain man who has heard, who knows who he is, who needs
help, and he needs mercy. He needs mercy. Not a spot on
the right hand or left, and he needs mercy. Mercy for the miserable. And he's crying out to the only
one who has mercy and the one who said to his enemies, I came not to sacrifice, but
to show mercy." I will have mercy and not sacrifice. And Jesus
stood still and commanded him to be brought to him. And when
he was come near, here he is, here is the Lord of glory, who
just told his disciples why he came, and they didn't understand
it. To save sinners, to die on a cross, to shed his blood, that
we might have life. And here is a blind beggar. who
needs help. And he asked him, he said to
him, verse 41, What do you want me to do to you? Are you looking
for a handout? Is that what you want? You want
a new car, a job, or more nice clothes, or a big home? What
do you want? Alms? What do you want? You want to
sit on the right hand, left hand? That's what my disciples said,
and we argued about. Who sit on the right hand or
left hand coming to kingdom? That's what their mamas want.
What do you want? What do you want? He said, Lord
God, I want to see. I want to see. I want to see. I can't see. I can't see. There's plenty of light, but
I can't see. I'm in darkness. I need sight. If I could see, I could see the
light, but I can't see. That's the reason people can't
see the gospel. Our gospel is here to them that are blind,
whom the God of this world has blinded, blinded by all the things
of this world. They're blind. They're not blind
to technology and science and intellectualism and fun and food
and fellowship and all this stuff. They're not blind to that. They
can go where the best of them, but they're blind, like these
disciples. to who he is, what he did, and why he did it, and
where he is now, and to anything worthwhile. I'm blind, you see. I want to see. That's all I'm
asking. I just want to see. And Jesus
said to him, that's why I came, to give sight to the blind. Receive
your sight. That old leper that came to him
when he came down from the mountain, fell at his feet and worshipped
him, said, Lord, if you will, You can make me whole. I'm a
rotten leper, a decayed leper, but if you will, you can make
me whole." And that's what this man said, if you will, you can
make me safe. And our Lord said, receive your sight. And immediately, he received his sight, and he
followed him. You don't have any trouble getting
a fellow to follow the Lord if the Lord's given him sight. The
Lord saved him. inspire him, or instruct him,
or impale him, or imprison him, or just if the Lord sets him
free, he'll follow him like a little dog all the days of his life. And he'll glorify him. He'll
glorify him. This man didn't run around talking
about what he'd done for God and how he'd made a profession,
how he'd tithed and taught Sunday school and preached the gospel.
He went around telling about Christ that made him whole. And everything I have is because
I see. The reason I was a beggar was because I couldn't see. Now
I see. And all the people, praise God,
when they saw what God had done, blind from birth to guilt and
to thee, so dark I was within, thy love and thy grace I could
not see. nor the sinfulness of my sin.
But thou, they say, art passing by. O Lord, let me find thee
near. Lord Jesus, in mercy, hear my
cry. Thou Son of David, hear. Behold me waiting in the way
for thee, the heavenly light. Command me to be brought, and
say, receive your sign. Wouldn't that be the day? He's able. He's able.