Petitions from the Cross

[00:00:00] All right. Let's look at Psalm number 22, Psalm 22. [00:00:15] All right. Psalm 22. [00:00:26] All right. Would you pray with me before we begin? [00:00:30] Our Father in heaven, thank you for thank you especially for this psalm and what it represents to us, Lord. [00:00:39] As we examine it, we look at the details of it and try to focus our mind and heart upon what you have said. Lord. This is your word, not ours. A marvelous description of our Lord and Savior. [00:00:55] Lord, would you please help your people. Would you please strengthen their arms and encourage them, strengthen them with might by your spirit in the inner man, that they would serve you more faithfully, that they would love you more sincerely. [00:01:10] Lord, help us to see things in the Scripture tonight that would magnify in our sight and in our estimation the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and what he has done for us. In Jesus name we ask. Amen. [00:01:28] I want to read verses 1 through 21 together before we dive in. [00:01:36] The subtitle here says, to the chief musician upon Ijeleth Shahar a Psalm of David. [00:01:46] My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me? And from the words of my roaring, O my God. I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not, and in the night season, and am not silent, but thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in thee, they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. [00:02:12] They cried unto thee, and were delivered they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. [00:02:18] But I am a worm and no man a reproach of men, and despised of the people. [00:02:25] All they that see me laugh me to scorn, they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, he trusted on the Lord, that he would deliver him. Let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. But thou art he that took me out of the womb. Thou didst make me hope. When I was upon my mother's breasts I was cast upon thee from the womb Thou art my God. From my mother's belly be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help. [00:02:58] Many bulls have compassed me Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gaped upon me with their mouths as a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws. And thou hast brought me into the dust of death. [00:03:27] For dogs have Compassed me. The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet. [00:03:36] I may tell all my bones. They look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. [00:03:46] But be not thou far from me, O Lord, O my strength. Haste thee to help me deliver my soul from the sword. My darling, from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion's mouth, for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. [00:04:04] This is one of the most famous Old Testament passages of Scripture, is it not? And usually when we think about the sufferings of Christ, we automatically think of Isaiah 53 and the one difference, the big difference between Isaiah 53 and this messianic psalm that speaks of the suffering of Christ is that in this psalm no explanation is given as to why David is suffering. Whereas in Isaiah 53, Isaiah 53 does not actually go into a lot of detail about the specific sufferings. There's some detail, but not a great deal of detail. Nothing like this. But yet Isaiah 53 gives the backdrop of the why, why Christ suffered, why this servant, Jehovah's servant, the Lord's servant, had to suffer. He suffered for our iniquities and our sin. But when we get here, we don't see any of that. But what we see here as this psalm opens up, as you can see, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And you could ask, well, maybe. Of course, the Lord said that when he said upon the cross, eli, eli lama sabachtoni, which is to say, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [00:05:24] And obviously he's quoting this psalm. That's obvious. But does that mean that this verse is a prophecy of what Jesus would say up in the cross? I don't know that I can answer that exactly. But for certain, his mind was on this verse when he said that on the cross. [00:05:43] But what this psalm, this psalm opens with this quotation of our Lord upon the cross. So when the, when the curtain opens, here's what we have. [00:05:53] We have Jesus. We have Jesus already having been nailed to the tree. We have Jesus already on the cross in the midst of his six hour period of suffering. That's what we have. When the curtain opens, this is the scene. Nothing has happened as far as this psalm is concerned. Nothing has happened before. [00:06:16] We just, we came upon this scene and this is what we see. It opens with Jesus already on the cross. And when you read the psalm, what you see is you see I and you see me. And you see my over and over. And you see thou and the. [00:06:35] So what this is is our Lord upon the cross in prayer. [00:06:43] This is our Lord suffering upon the cross of Golgotha. [00:06:49] It is a prayer directed to his Father while he is suffering, while he is bearing the sin of the world upon himself. [00:07:02] Now, I want to just show you this. [00:07:05] I want to demonstrate that this is a Messianic psalm. So I know that you know that, but I want you to see it. First of all, you got verse one. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? But there's a couple of other reasons. [00:07:19] If you'll go down to verse number 18. [00:07:25] Verse number 18 is probably the definitive. [00:07:32] There's actually two verses in the psalm that are directly quoted in the New Testament. And this is the most definitive one. It says this verse 18. They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture. And when you go to. If you look at the Book of John, when they crucified Jesus, of course they took his clothing. He had no more need of it. So that means, of course, he was on the cross naked. And that's a lot. That's something none of us, really. We kind of wince at and grimace at, right? It grates upon our sensibilities to think that the Son of God was nailed to a cross naked. [00:08:08] They took his clothing and they were going to divide it up. Because in that time, cloth was valuable. It wasn't like it is now. Cloth was valuable, especially cloth that was already sewn into a garment. So because it was, there was no seams that they could easily take out. It was one piece. They decided they were going to gamble. They were going to just roll dice, cast lots for it, and divide it up like that. Nobody in the world could have predicted that. And yet here it is, 1,000 years before the cross. Here it is described. And then when you get to that passage in John, it says that they cast lots. Rather than just ripping, they cast lots. That was a specific event, a specific detail that they did. And the Bible says that the Scripture might be fulfilled. Psalm 22, verse 18. [00:08:58] So what that means is when we read Psalm 22:18, it's talking about Jesus. It's prophetic, referring to not David, but to Jesus. [00:09:11] You go to one more, and you go to verse number 22, says, I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. I'm not going to go there right now. But in Hebrews chapter two, that's quoted in reference to the Lord Jesus Christ. So here you have. Besides verse one, you have verse 18 and verse number 22 that are referenced in the New Testament with direct arrows saying, this is Jesus. So here's what that means. That means we can go back to verse one and read the whole psalm, forgetting about David. [00:09:53] It's talking about Jesus. And that's what I want to do. As we read it, I want you to think exactly what the apostles thought when they finally got this psalm is about Jesus. Look at verse number one. [00:10:08] My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me? And from the words of my roaring, I'm going to quote several. I'm going to quote these. I'll give you the references if you want to write them down. But I want to show you these parallels in Psalm 22 with other parts of Scripture. Matthew 27:46. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice saying, eli, Eli lama sabachtoni. That is to say, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? O my God. [00:10:40] I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not. Now listen to this. This is amazing. If you. I promise you, if you read this psalm tonight as we go through it and you read it with your mind upon Jesus on the cross, I promise you, you're gonna learn some things, just like I learned some things. And you're going to see his sufferings in a light that you've never seen them, probably never seen them before. [00:11:05] Jesus is on the cross and he's crying. He's saying, oh, my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not, and in the night seasons, and am not silent. So throughout the suffering, of course we know Gethsemane when Jesus prayed to be delivered. But after he was arrested, as he was going from place to place, he's being led from the trial and then to the. To the. To the palace, and then back and back and forth, and Herod and Pilate and all that. And finally they led him out to Golgotha at the northern part of the city, and they nailed him to the cross. And he's hanging there for six hours that whole time. Here's what he's doing. He is silently praying. [00:11:48] That's what it says. He's calling upon God for deliverance. That whole time, he's calling upon God for deliverance silently. And of course, we know he did that in the garden. And we know that he, you know, he did cry seven times. There were seven statements he made from the cross. That are recorded in Scripture. We know that. But all the other times in his heart. And that's what you have here. This is a magnificent window into the very heart and thoughts our Lord as he is suffering. It is a huge spotlight in the Old Testament prophecy that is pointed at the probably the most important event in human history. [00:12:38] A prophetic spotlight pointed right on it, but not just on the event, but into the very heart and soul of our Lord as he dies, as he suffers and as. And we see that he cried out to God, but apparently the only reply our Lord got was dead silence. [00:13:03] He says, look at verse two. He says, I cry in the daytime, thou hearest not in the night season and am not silent. He's crying and he says, God, you're not hearing me. Verse one. You've forsaken me. [00:13:15] At the end he talks about being crying out for deliverance. But we know that he was not delivered. [00:13:24] Think about this. As our Lord cried out to his Father and his God, right? [00:13:30] He was ignored. [00:13:34] He was ignored. [00:13:37] Wow. [00:13:40] He was not delivered. God said no. [00:13:48] Look at verse four of verse three. But thou art holy. Oh, thou inhabitest that inhabitest the praises of Israel. In other words, even though God's not answering, you know what he's doing? He's justifying God and saying, God, you are holy. Nonetheless, Verse four and five. 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. This is the scripture going through his mind. All of those passages of Scripture where the people of God cried out to God and were delivered because they trusted in Him. Those things go through his mind as he's on the cross. He's thinking about those things. [00:14:28] And then he says, Verse 6. But not me. [00:14:37] Others trusted in God and were delivered, but not me. He was not delivered even though he trusted in God. [00:14:50] And throughout the entire passion of the Lord Jesus Christ, he demonstrated his trust in his Father. Think about the garden. Before he ever went to the cross in the garden, what did he say? He said, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. And then his trust kicks in, as if it didn't need to kick in. But you know what I'm saying. His trust kicks in and he says, nevertheless, not what I will, but as thou wilt. That's what he says. So even at that moment, he trusts God. [00:15:19] First Peter 2:23. Listen to this verse. Who speaking of Jesus, when he was reviled, reviled not again, when he suffered, he threatened not, but committed Himself to him that judgeth righteously. So no matter what happened to him, he trusted on his Father. [00:15:42] You can see that in this verse. [00:15:45] And then he gets to verse number six. He says all these, verse four and five say, all these people trusted in you and you delivered them. When they trusted, you delivered them. But you will not deliver me. [00:15:57] He says, but I am a worm and no man, a reproach of men, and despised of the people. And we're reminded of Isaiah 53, verse 3. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from him. He was despised, and we esteemed him not. [00:16:22] Verse 7. [00:16:24] All they that see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. Mark 15, verse 29 says this. And they that passed by railed on him. What you might not know is this laugh me to scorn. That's like a single word. That's a single thing. It's this idea of. It's like, ha, yeah, uh huh, yeah. Just like we read in, we read in the scriptures a number of times. Listen to this one, Mark 15:29. And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads and saying. It says, they shake the head in verse seven. Here it says they wag the head. They said, ah, thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days. [00:17:10] You can hear them laughing. Christ to scorn. [00:17:16] Verse number eight says this, quoting Verse number eight is quoting these mockers. And he says, he trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him. Let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. And we read in Matthew 27, verse 42 and 3 says this. He saved others. This is what they actually said. He saved others. Himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross and we will believe him. He trusted in God. It's exactly what verse 8 says. They had no idea they were quoting Psalm 22 in their mockery. And yet they were. [00:17:51] He trusted in God. Let him deliver him now, if he will have him. For he said, I am the Son of God. [00:17:58] They had no idea they were quoting. [00:18:01] They were quoting this psalm when they taunted him. And notice their taunt. Verse number eight. He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him. Let him deliver him, seeing he delighted him. What particular thing are they mocking in this verse? You know what particular thing? [00:18:18] They're mocking the most precious thing that is of the highest value to the Lord Jesus Christ. They're mocking his relationship with the one that is of the highest value to him, his relationship with his father. [00:18:40] You can see the sufferings. Imagine, you know, those of you that are married, the kind of relationship you have with your wife, with your husband, the kind of. The kind of like connection that exceeds all others, right? The kind of connection you have with your husband and your wife, that is unlike every other relationship, human relationship, it is unique. [00:19:08] And then she or he say, she betrayed you, betrayed your trust. [00:19:16] And then someone came by and mocked you. [00:19:22] That's like turning the knife. [00:19:25] Because the one who's whose relationship you valued the greatest, the one who is your place of trust and safety, is the one who betrayed you. And then somebody comes along and says, ha, not even your wife likes you. [00:19:40] It is the ultimate insult. [00:19:43] This is the way our Lord suffered. [00:19:53] The Father was Jesus final and most important place of refuge. [00:20:00] And they mocked the fact that God had forsaken him. [00:20:05] Imagine the pain. [00:20:07] Not only is he, not only is our Lord dealing with the fact that he had been forsaken, now he's being mocked about that fact. [00:20:20] What they taunted him was actually true. [00:20:23] It's amazing. [00:20:26] The Lord. You look at verse number eight. He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him. Let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. Did the Father delight in the Lord Jesus? Indeed he did. He said. He said. He said that this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. The Father delighted in the Son, he loved the Son, and yet he is forsaking the Son right here. [00:20:51] So what they're saying is actually true. [00:20:55] And he was. Verse 8. He was not delivered. As I said previously. [00:21:00] Why was the one who is the object of God's delight rejected? [00:21:10] Do you know why the one who is the object of God's delight was rejected? Is because on that cross he was you and he was me. [00:21:22] That's why. Look at verse number nine. [00:21:26] The Lord says, but thou art he that took me out of the womb. Thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb. Thou. Thou art my God from my mother's belly. None of us can claim this. This is unique to the Lord Jesus Christ. We came out of the womb speaking lies. We had to be introduced to God. God wasn't our God when we came out of the womb. As children, we have to teach our children the ways of God. But not so with the Lord Jesus Christ. He, from the time of his conception, he was right with the Lord. [00:22:01] He knew who his father was. Verse 11. [00:22:05] He says, Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help. Matthew 26, verse 56 says this. But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him and fled. The Lord Jesus had no friends around the cross. Even John and his mother. Obviously they were visible. [00:22:30] We don't know exactly when they showed up or how that happened. But broadly speaking, there was no friends at the cross. [00:22:39] Peter was out. You know, he was hiding behind some tree, looking at a distance. [00:22:44] Verse 12. Many bulls have compassed me. Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round the bulls of Bashan. [00:22:54] Notice it says strong bulls. This is a. This connects the idea of bulls in Scripture with those that are of. Those that are people of power and influence who stood around. Notice he says the bulls. Have you guys. Has anybody ever been around a bull? I know one time in Cambodia, there was a. What do they call the bulls that you use for breeding? Come on now, some smart person tell me a breeding bull. [00:23:26] Yeah, but like, there's certain bulls, they reserve for breeding anyway. [00:23:31] They have a good genetic line, that kind of thing. Well, I remember one in Cambodia, and they have white. They have white cattle. Generally they're white. And you've seen them in, like, Vietnamese pictures. They're white. This bull was enormous. [00:23:47] Its shoulder was here. [00:23:51] Its shoulder. It was just a. Enormous, muscular. I mean. I mean, it more reminded you of an elephant than anything, except with hair. [00:24:04] You have this. All right, get the picture? He's using this as the Lord's, Using this in his prayer as an illustration. Surrounding him are these enormous animals, not cows, not heifers, bulls. [00:24:20] You have these enormous animals surrounding him. These are pictures of power. And what does the Bible say? The Bible Sundays in Mark 15:31. Likewise, also the chief priests mocking, said among themselves, with the scribes, he saved others himself. He cannot save the surrounded him on the cross, those of power, the bulls of Bashan. And then it goes on to say this in Luke 23:35. And the people stood beholding, and the rulers also with them derided him, saying, he saved others. Let him save himself, if he be the Christ, the chosen of God. So you have. And this you'll see in a minute. But you have the rulers, those of power. That's what the bulls of Bashan indicate. Verse number 14. [00:25:08] I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd. And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. [00:25:25] John 19:28 says this. After this, Jesus, knowing all things were now accomplished that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. [00:25:35] These verse 14 and 15 appear to be a description of extreme thirst resulting having result that result from blood loss. [00:25:46] The life of Christ is melting away like wax. Verse 14. [00:25:52] And when a person loses blood, I hope I don't get. Don't say anything out of line because I have like nurses and doctors and everything in here, but hang in there. When a person loses a great amount of blood, it causes weakness and dizziness and lightheadedness. The strength is spent. The body goes into what I read called profound lethargy. Not just regular lethargy when you're just tired, but profound lethargy. And I've actually seen this on like police videos when a police officer gets shot and he's bleeding out internally or something, and he gets to a point where he just. He just can't move. He's conscious, but he just profound. He does not have strength to even move. [00:26:38] And it goes into this lethargy as the body uses all of its energies to just survive. [00:26:44] Notice he says in verse 15, my strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue cleaveth to my jaws, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. [00:26:53] As this happens, the. The person gets thirsty and the tongue dries out and loses its saliva. And it gives the sensation that it's sticking to the inside of the mouth as the saliva in the mouth dry up because the volume of water in your body is in your blood. [00:27:19] So this description here is actually a description. It appears to be a description of someone who's losing a great deal of blood, not like quickly, but over a period of time, where the real effects of it, you know, like in my example a minute ago with the police officer who gets shot a lot of times, if they get shot in the femoral artery or something like that, I mean, they can bleed out in minutes. This is six hours. So this is a slow death from blood loss, right? It's slow. So every effect, from the weakness to the tongue to the thirst, every effect of it is felt slowly. [00:28:00] It builds. [00:28:03] Then you get down to verse number 16. He says this. [00:28:09] For dogs have compassed me. The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet. [00:28:16] Luke 23:36 says this. And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar. [00:28:21] So you can see at this, at the cross, I mentioned the soldiers because the soldiers were Gentiles. And it mentions dogs. Here it also mentions dogs. [00:28:31] It says, verse 20, deliver my soul from the sword, my darling, from the power of the dog. So you have this power of the dog, the typical name, the derogatory name for Gentiles, surrounding the cross. So here's what you have bulls, those of power and influence, dogs, gentiles, and those with power. You have soldiers and at least one centurion surrounding the cross. [00:28:55] And the soldiers also surrounded him and mocked him. [00:29:00] And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar. [00:29:05] So surrounding the Lord Jesus. [00:29:09] I actually skipped one. I'm sorry. [00:29:15] I'll get to that one in a minute. So surrounding the Lord Jesus, you have the passersby, verse 17 says they gape at him. [00:29:23] They're just staring and reviling. You also have the rulers surrounding him, mocking. And you also have the soldiers, who are not Jewish, surrounding him, mocking him, all of which are described in Psalm 22. [00:29:45] And then, of course, it says this, verse 16, they pierced my hands and my feet. Notice he's referring to the dogs and by extension, the wicked, because the wicked are mentioned, too. [00:30:01] Luke 23:33. And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified him and the malefactors, one on the right hand and the other on the left. [00:30:12] You know, crucifixion is basically one of the very few methods of execution that pierce both the hands and the feet. That's what's so unique about this verse is it says, they pierced my hands, plural. You only got two. And my feet, plural. So whatever they did involved the piercing of all four appendages. [00:30:40] It's, like, perfectly accurate. What is not referred to here, though, is the piercing of the spear into his side. Do you know why? [00:30:50] Because this is the prayer of the Lord Jesus while he's on the cross. And that happened after he died. [00:31:00] Then we get verse number 17. [00:31:03] He says, I may tell all my bones. [00:31:08] I may tell all my bones. [00:31:11] In my study of this going back to the blood loss, it says this blood loss can lead to dehydration. [00:31:18] Obviously, he's thirsty and loss of skin. Turgor, which is elasticity of the skin. This can make the skin appear tighter or more sunken, which might make bones appear more prominent, especially in areas like the face, ribs, or extremities. As the skin loses its elasticity, the bones become more visible, which is exactly what's described here as a result of blood loss. And it says in verse 17, they look and and stare upon me. [00:31:56] I want to be discreet here, but you have a man, a very well known man that's being crucified with no clothes on. [00:32:09] What do people do at a spectacle? What do people do when they see a car accident and someone laying on the pavement? You know what they do? They gape. They stare. [00:32:22] What do they do when they see a spectacle like was on the cross? [00:32:28] This. They look and stare. [00:32:35] Then we get down to verse 21. [00:32:38] Verse 20 says, Deliver my soul from the sword, my darling, from the power of the dog. [00:32:43] Save me from the lion's mouth. [00:32:46] Again the Lord's crying out, lord, Father, save me, save me from the Lion. 1st Peter 5:8. [00:32:56] Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. Revelation 12:4 and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered for to devour her child as soon as it was born. So you have this picture of the devil devouring the Lord Jesus. This is what our Lord referred to, not me. He says, save me from the lion's mouth. [00:33:30] But he wasn't saved. [00:33:33] He wasn't saved indeed. The devil devoured him. Satan put into the heart of Judas Iscariot to betray Christ. [00:33:43] Satan was the father. Jesus said, your father is the devil. Of all those religious hypocrites that were the ones that condemned Christ. And it was Satan's ultimate goal to destroy Christ. And he did. [00:33:54] Because when Christ called out to his Father, there was only silence. [00:34:00] But it would be, as Hebrews tells us, it would be his death that would destroy the devil. It's bruise the heel, bruise the head, back in Genesis 3. [00:34:22] Now, before we get into the rest of the psalm, I just want to make a few observations. From what we've read, there's three layers of Christ's suffering. I'll be very quick. [00:34:34] So the world describes the cross as a very unfortunate and sad story of injustice whereby a good man was. [00:34:48] Was put through great suffering. [00:34:52] That is not what this is about. [00:34:55] Isaiah 53 does not describe his suffering in detail like this, but with a picture, with a camera into the heart of the Lord Jesus. You see the way he suffered? [00:35:07] He suffered. I put it like this. He suffered upward, outward and inward. [00:35:17] He suffered inward, referring to his physical suffering. But that was not the primary way he suffered. He describes his, you know, being poured out like water, strength dried up. Yes, he suffered Physically, yes, we all know that. [00:35:33] But actually, between the three types of suffering, upward, outward and inward, the inward, his physical suffering was the. Was the one that has the least amount of information in this psalm. [00:35:45] He suffered outward. We can see it as he describes all the people that were mocking him and ridiculing him and shaming him around him. [00:35:54] Right? That's another way. He suffered as he was shamed, crucified with no clothes on, mocked endlessly about everything. [00:36:04] But what part of his suffering was the one that you keep seeing in this psalm over and over and over? Over which part it was what was happening with his father? [00:36:18] Verses 1 and 2, verses 4 and 5, verses 9 through 11, verses 19 through 21. Over and over. God, why have you forsaken me? God, why aren't you hearing me? God, why aren't you delivering me? Why are you doing this? Why aren't you hearing my cry? [00:36:38] That was the keenest, that was the most painful part of Christ's suffering. How do we know? Because he's describing it. [00:36:51] He's describing it. [00:36:57] The Lord Jesus magnifies how terribly he suffered in this psalm resulting from His Father's from forsaking Him. Throughout the psalm, the psalmist cries out to help for God, but no help came. [00:37:11] He was forsaken. [00:37:13] He was alone. And for the first time he was without his Father. [00:37:19] He describes the Father as being far From Him. [00:37:25] Verse 1, verse 11, verse 19. [00:37:28] But be not thou far from Me, O Lord. [00:37:34] The effect. [00:37:36] Every effect of sin was felt by the Lord on the cross, and it is described here. Think of these. He was shamed. You think of Jesus being being without any clothes on the cross and automatically go back to Genesis, chapter three. What was the direct result of Adam and Eve's sin in the garden? The first sin, it was the shame. Nakedness. And here Jesus is shamed openly in that same way. [00:38:05] He was. Just as every sinner is forsaken by God. He was mocked as a result of it. He had physical pain as a result of sin laid upon him. He experienced death as a result of sin laid upon him. [00:38:21] He had farness from God, distance from God. God did not answer his prayer. [00:38:27] All of these are the results of sin that were laid on Christ that are described right here. [00:38:32] Every effect of sin was felt by the Lord on the cross, and he tells us about them. But even in the midst of his sufferings, there was not one single moment in which Jesus mistrusted or accused the Father because he suffered. [00:38:53] Job. You can't say that about Job. [00:38:56] You read the Whole psalm. Not one time does he accuse the Father of anything. Not one time does he indicate his trust is faltering, because it didn't. [00:39:10] And then we get to verse 22. [00:39:17] In verse 22 through 31, the Psalm totally changes. It pivots. [00:39:24] The suffering is over. And here's what you have in this dramatic change. [00:39:32] You can see after Christ's suffering, the epochs of time that would come after he suffered. Because in verse number 22, he mentions the church. We know that because of Hebrews, chapter 2, verse 12. [00:39:46] And he says, My praise, verse 25. My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation. That's the similar word to church. I will pay my vows before them that fear him. Verse 24. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted. Neither hath he hid his face from him. But when he cried unto him, he heard. So you have the subject of the church being brought to the front, even a suffering church, because it mentions their affliction. But God doesn't forsake them like he did His Son. You see that? So you have the suffering. You have the church suffering. And then you move on from that. And you go down to verse number 23, or verse 27, rather. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nation shall worship before thee. This is the repentance of the nations. [00:40:33] Not just a few, but the nations. [00:40:37] And finally, in verse 28. For the kingdom is the Lord's, and he is the governor among the nations. You have finally the Lord's kingdom over the whole earth. So you have a picture of time after the cross. You have the church. Then you have the repentance of the nations, which is a part of the judgment, right? There's a lot of prophecy in there, but. And then you have finally, he's the king. He is the king of kings. He is the governor among the nations. And lastly, I love this verse 31. [00:41:10] They shall come, speaking of the nations, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born. That he hath done this. [00:41:24] He we know is God the Lord, right? [00:41:27] What is the this that he did? [00:41:31] It's not perfectly obvious. [00:41:35] So this is now in the context we're talking about in the kingdom, right? This is way after his sufferings. The Lord is now the governor among the nations. [00:41:47] And he says there are going to be people that are born that didn't know any of this stuff afterward. [00:41:55] And at that time, people are going to say the Lord did this. You know, maybe I'm wrong, but this is what I see in that. [00:42:07] What Christ has done shall be declared to those even in the future that he did it. And brother David, that goes back. That goes back to the central truth of the gospel. This whole psalm was all about what the Lord did, not us what the Lord did. And they're going to be talking about it for ages and ages and ages to come. Let's pray.