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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today I'm from His Heart with Pastor Jeff Shreeve, a
lesson about the greatest love possible.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We've been in a study on the book of Psalms
and talking about the ups and downs in life, and
in Psalm twenty two we have a very vivid picture
of the cross of Jesus Christ. Now this is a
Psalm of David, and so David, although he was a king,
he was also a prophet, and he prophesied in Psalm
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twenty two about the coming of the Messiah, the Lord
Jesus Christ, who was going.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
To die on a cross.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Psalm twenty two teaches us about the love of our Savior.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Said, welcome to from his Heart with Pastor Jeff Shreeve.
Where today he concludes is inspiring eight message series that
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we've been in most of the month entitled roller Coaster
facing the ups and downs of life, and today we'll
learn where no greater love can be found. Pastor give
us some insight into what today's final message in this
series is all about.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Larry from Psalm twenty two, when David, my inspirational Holy Spirit,
speaks of the cross of Christ, although he knew nothing
about crucifixion.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The Lord was leading him to write those words.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It just speaks volumes about the pain and the suffering
that Jesus endured, and he did it all for us
because he really does love us, and he would that
love would take him all the way to Calvary. The
way that changes life is when every day you wake
up and you think about the fact that the Lord
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loves me enough to give his own son for me.
Jesus loves me enough to die a brutal, horrible death
for me. How can that not change us? If Jesus
would go to the cross for me, and God would
send his son to the cross for me, then I
can know for certain that he will take care of
my daily needs because He's already taken care of my
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greatest need, which is salvation.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Now, normally, when examining the cross of Christ, we go
to the Gospels to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. But
as Pastor Jeff Is said today, we're going to look
at the Psalms, specifically in Psalm twenty two, for the
most vivid accounts of the crucifixion of our Savior, who
exhibited no greater love.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We've been in a study on the book of Psalms
and talking about the ups and downs in life.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And in Psalm twenty.
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Two we have a picture, a very vivid picture of
the cross of Jesus Christ. Now this is a Psalm David.
But the Bible says in Acts, Chapter two, Verse thirty,
Peter says this about David, that he was a prophet.
And so David, although he was a king, he was
also a prophet, and he prophesied in Psalm twenty two
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about the coming of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ,
who was going.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
To die on a cross.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Psalm twenty two teaches us about the love of our savior.
The scripture says, this, my God, my God, why have
you forsaken me? Far from my deliverance are the words
of my groaning? Oh my God, I cry by day
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but you do not answer, and by night but I
have no rest.
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Yet you are holy, Oh.
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You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel. In
you our fathers trusted, They trusted, and you delivered them
to you. They cried out and were delivered in you.
They trusted and were not disappointed. But I am a
worm and not a man, a reproach of men, and
despised by the people. All who see me sneer at me.
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They separate with the lip. They wag the head, saying,
commit yourself to the Lord. Let him deliver him, let
him rescue him, because he delights in him. Yet you
are he who brought me forth from the womb. You
made me trust, when upon my mother's breasts, upon you,
I was cast from birth. You have been my god
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from my mother's womb. Me not far from me, for
trouble is near, for there is none to help. Many
bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of bash have encircled me.
They open wide their mouth at me 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 within me. My strength
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is dried up like a potch herd, and my tongue
cleaves to my jaws. You lay me in the dust
of death. For dogs have surrounded me. A band of
evildoers has encompassed me. They pierced my hands and my feet.
I can count all my bones. They look, they stare
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at me. They divide my garments among them, and for
my clothing they cast lots, But you, o Lord, be.
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Not far off.
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Oh you my help, hasten to my assistance. Deliver my
soul from the sword, my only life, from the power
of the dog, saved me from the lion's mouth, from
the horns of the wild oxen.
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You answer me, so, I'm twenty two.
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The first twenty one verses that we just read about
suffering and about prayer, the suffering and prayer of the Messiah,
and then the next ten verses about victory and praise.
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So I want you to.
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Notice with me three prophecies about the Messiah and the
cross and his love for you and me. Prophecy number one.
The scripture prophesies that Messiah would be abandoned by the Father.
The Savior was going to be abandoned by the Father.
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Psal I'm twenty.
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Two, Verse one, My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me?
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Now?
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If you have read in the gospel accounts, namely in
Matthew or in Mark, you'll find that Jesus said those
exact words when he was on the cross. He was
crucified at nine am. He died at three pm, somewhere
right around three pm, and the Bible says it was
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the ninth hour three pm. They counted from six am,
so it was the ninth hours three pm. And Jesus
cried out and said, my God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me? Why have you forsaken me? Now?
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I think there were two reasons why said that.
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I think number one, he was alerting the people to
some twenty two.
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Hey, this is what is happening.
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It was prophesied in Psalm twenty two, and so he's
alerting them to that psalm when he says that, and
then he's also expressing the cry of his heart, My God,
my God, why have you forsaken me? It's a question,
but it's also a comment. It's a comment on the
fact that when Jesus was dying on the cross, when
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he was taking all of the sin of all of
the world upon himself, the father abandoned him. The father
turned away from him. When Jesus took our sins, the
father had to turn away, and Jesus, as the song said,
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he died alone on Calvary. Why would the father turn
away from the son? Scripture says he made him who
knew no sin, to be sin on our behalf, that
we might become the righteousness of God in him. And
when Jesus became sin on the cross, the Father can't
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have fellowship with sin. The Father cannot look upon sin.
How Back, chapter one, verse thirteen says this, your eyes
are too pure to approve evil, and you cannot look
on wickedness with favor. And when all the wickedness and
all the sin of all the world, you think of
the most terrible things that you've ever done, and then
you think of the terrible things that we've all ever done,
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and all of the terrible things that everyone in the world,
from the beginning of civilization to the end, have ever done.
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That was all on Jesus.
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And the Father could not look upon that, even when
it was in his own son, and he had to
turn away, My God, My God, why have.
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You forsaken me? That word forsaken means to.
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Abandon, to withdraw, to desert aband him by the father.
Fellowship between the son and the Father had existed from
eternity past. But now, as Jesus is dying on the
cross for the sins of the whole world, that fellowship
is broken.
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The Lord Jesus had never experienced that before, and.
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He cries out to his Father, Why have you forsaken me?
And when Jesus took our sins, not only was he
forsaken of the Father, but he experienced the fate of sinners,
of every single sinner. He experienced that on the cross,
forsaken on the cross. That's what every sinner who rejects
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Christ is going to experience for all eternity. The Bible
says in Second Thessalonians, chapter one speaks of the return
of Christ. He comes back with flaming fire and with
his angels as mighty angels, dealing out retribution to those
who do not know God, who do not.
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Obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And then it says in verse nine, and these will
pay the penalty of eternal destruction, eternal destruction in hell.
The Lord Jesus, he experienced the fate of every sinner
when he died upon the cross. Oh my God, my God,
why have you forsaken me? The first prophecy the Messiah
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would be abandoned by the Father. Prophecy number two, the
Messiah would be brutalized by the people.
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Brutalized by the people. They pierced my hands in my feet.
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What's he talking about He's talking about something he didn't
even know about. He's talking through inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
and the Holy Spirit led him to write those words.
And he's speaking as we know of the crucifixion of
Jesus Christ. Crucifixion so terrible, so horrible, And the scripture
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here says that he would experience excruciating physical pain. They
pierced my hands and my feet, and all my bones
are out of joint, and my heart is like wax.
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It has melted within me.
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As it says in verse fourteen, my strength is dried
up like a potchard, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws.
Do you remember one of the last things Jesus said
upon the cross, I thirst, And he was on that
cross for six hours.
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You know how people would die on the cross. They
would die from asphyxiation.
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They could no longer hold themselves up, they could no
longer push up to get a breath, and so that
they would just suffocate. That's why the Romans, when they
wanted to hasten death, they would break the legs. And
if they broke your legs, then you couldn't push up anymore.
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Then death would come very quickly.
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If you remember, when Jesus died, they didn't break his legs,
because it was prophesied that none of his bones would
be broken. They didn't break his legs legs, but they
pierced his side with a spear, and the blood and
the water flowed, and they knew that he was dead
and there was no need to break his legs.
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There was excruciating physical pain.
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But not only would the Messiah experience that, he would
also experience excruciating emotional pain, the emotional pain of the
sinless son of God taking the sin of the world
upon himself and the people for whom he came to die,
laughing in his face, it says in Psalm twenty two,
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verses six, seven and eight in the easy to read version,
people insult me and look down on me. Everyone who
sees me makes fun of me. They shake their heads
and stick out their tongues at me. They say, call
to the Lord for help. Maybe he will save you.
If he likes you so much, surely he will rescue you. Ah,
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that's just what's recorded in the Gospels. They said those
same things. They came up to Jesus and they made
faces at him, and they as the scripture says in
another version, they wagged their tongues at him, and oh, you,
you who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild
it in three days, come down from the cross, and
we'll believe in you. You understand the price that was
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paid for your salvation. There's the prophecy that he would
be abandoned by the Father, of the prophecy that he
would be brutalized by the people. But then there's the
prophecy that he would be victorious over death. You remember
what I said about Psalm twenty one, Verses one through
twenty one, all about suffering and prayer. He's crying out
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to God, He's crying out to God. He's still praising
God even in the midst of his suffering, because he
knows that God inhabits the praises of his people. But
the last thing he says in verse twenty one, saved
me from the lion's mouth and from the horns of
the wild oxen, You who hears prayer, you who answers me.
And then in verse twenty two, the scene shifts and
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everything changes, and he says, I will tell of your
name to my brethren in the midst of the assembly.
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I will praise you, you who fear the Lord, praise.
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Him, and all you descendants of Jacob, glorify him and
stand in awe of him. Now you might want to
jot down this scripture as a reference in verse twenty
two Hebrews to twelve Hebrews two twelve, because the writer
of Hebrews quotes Psalm twenty two twenty two when he's
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talking about the glory of Jesus Christ, the victory of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Now he was a based, but
now he is glorified. He has won the victory.
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Did the Lord save him from the lion's mouth?
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Yes, because it says in Psalm two, you won't allow
your Holy one to undergo decay. He died, he was buried,
but he didn't stay dead. He didn't stay buried. He
came up on the third day. He rose from the dead,
and he conquered death, and he conquered Hell, and he
conquered the grave. And he went to his brethren to
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tell of his name, God's name to the brethren. And
in the midst of the assembly he praised the Lord.
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And there is victory.
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Now listen by God's grace Jesus died for all by
God's grace. It's grace we sing, amazing grace, How sweet
the sound that saved a wretch like me. By God's grace,
he could save us because he paid the price that
was needing to be paid.
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It says in Hebrews two nine. For a short time,
Jesus was made lower than the angels.
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But now we see him wearing a crown of glory
and honor because he suffered and died because of God's grace.
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Jesus died for everyone.
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Listen, there's a teaching that's in Christendom that says that
Jesus only died for the elect, that Jesus only died
for the saved.
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He didn't die for the unsaved.
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And they say, you know, his blood is not going
to be wasted, So the blood that he shed was
only for the elect. But this verse says that he
died for everyone. I believe that Jesus died for every
single person. That's why I have confidence that I can
talk to any person at any time and say with confidence,
Jesus Christ.
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Loves you, and he died for you. Just as it
says in.
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Hebrews two nine, he died for everybody. And at the
great White throne, the Lord will open up the Lamb's
book of life.
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And say, I died for you.
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I had a place in my book for you, but
you reject me. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.
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I never knew you.
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By God's grace, he died for all, and by God's
power he conquered death and hell, not only his grace
but his power. Now it took power to raise Jesus
up from the dead. And when we talk about the cross,
we always have to couple that with the empty tomb,
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because the cross without the empty tomb gives a dead savior,
and a dead savior can't save anybody, and the empty
tomb without the cross.
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We lack a sacrifice.
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So it took the Cross of Christ to pay our
sin debt, and it took the empty tomb to make
it effective, to make it powerful. And both of those
things are evident here. It says in verses twenty eight
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through thirty one. The Lord is king, and he rules
the nations. All proud people will bow down to him.
Every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord. All mortals will bow down before him.
Future generations will serve him. They will speak of the
Lord to the coming generation. People not yet born will
be told the Lord saved his people, saved his people
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through the cross and through the empty tomb. So it's
by God's grace that all men can be saved. It's God,
by God's power, that he conquered death and hell, and
the Bible talks about that. In First Corinthians, chapter fifteen,
it says, death is swallowing up in victory. Oh death,
where is your victory? Oh death, where is your sting?
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin.
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Is the law.
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But thanks be to God who gives us the victory
through our Lord, Jesus Christ, who tasted death for every
man so that you and I wouldn't have.
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To taste it.
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He experienced forsaking of from the Father, so you and
I wouldn't have to ever experience that.
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Hallelujah. What a savior. And by God's love is a
so call. And by God's love he became a scarlet worm.
Look at verse six.
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But I am a worm, he says, and not a man,
a reproach of men, and despised by the people. Can
you imagine the Son of God, the Messiah of God,
describing himself and saying of himself, I am a worm.
People have said, well, that just doesn't sound right. They
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think of a worm. You know, a worm can be
a maggot. Surely the Lord's not saying he's a maggot. No,
he's not, he's not. The word that's used here for
worm is the Hebrew word tolah to la h tolah,
translated eight times as worm, one time is crimson, and
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thirty four times as scarlet. You say, well, good night,
I mean a worm and scarlet. How in the world
could you translate a word that means worm into a
worm the word that means scarlet. It's because in the
animal world, in the insect world, there's a little worm
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that's known as the scarlet worm. It's a little worm
that the ancients used to produce scarlet dye because they
noticed in this little worm, if you crush the life
out of this worm, a red scarlet crimson dye would
come out, or substance would come out that they could
use in the dye to make a dye for clothing.
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Jesus Christ is the scarlet worm who gave his life,
who shed his blood on the cross for you and me.
And you know, it's very very interesting about the scarlet worm.
When the female is about ready to lay eggs, she
will go to a tree and fix herself to the
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tree and bore into that tree and embed herself in
the tree.
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And then she lays her eggs.
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And when the eggs hatch and those little ones are
able to find for herself, she dies affixed to the tree.
And when she dies, she releases that red scarlet crimson
dye that stains her body, that stains the tree.
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What a beautiful picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. I
am a worm.
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I'm a scarlet worm who shed my blood on a
piece of wood to give life to all those who
will come to me.
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Have you given your all to Jesus. He's offering you
forgiveness for your sins and freedom to live for him.
And he is asking that you simply confess your need,
be willing to turn from your sins, believe that Jesus
died for you on the cross and rose from the grave,
and through a sincere, heartfelt prayer, invite Jesus Christ in
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to control your life through the Holy Spirit you can
do that with this prayer that echoes the feelings of
your heart. Say, Dear God, I know I am a sinner.
I ask for your forgiveness. I believe Jesus is your son,
and I believe that he died from my sin and
that you raised him from the dead. And I want
to trust him as my savior and follow him as
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my lord from this day forward. I pray this in
Jesus name. Amen. Now, if that is the desire of
your heart, genuinely speaking, you are a child of God
now and he will never let you go. If you
want to know more about what that means to make
that surrender and what your life will be like in
the future, please go to FROMI Hisheart dot org and
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what he wants for you, and how you can have
that piece that passes all understanding. But it starts with
a sincere desire to open your heart to the truth.
You can also download some free materials there from pastor
Jeff that will help you love the Savior even more.
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Today I'm from His Heart with Pastor Jeff Shreeve, a
lesson about the greatest love possible.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We've been in a study on the book of Psalms
and talking about the ups and downs in life, and
in Psalm twenty two we have a very vivid picture
of the cross of Jesus Christ. Now this is a
Psalm of David, and so David, although he was a king,
he was also a prophet, and he prophesied in Psalm
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twenty two about the coming of the Messiah, the Lord
Jesus Christ, who was going.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
To die on a cross.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Psalm twenty two teaches us about the love of our Savior.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Said, welcome to from his Heart with Pastor Jeff Shreeve.
Where today he concludes is inspiring eight message series that
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we've been in most of the month entitled roller Coaster
facing the ups and downs of life, and today we'll
learn where no greater love can be found. Pastor give
us some insight into what today's final message in this
series is all about.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Larry from Psalm twenty two, when David, my inspirational Holy Spirit,
speaks of the cross of Christ, although he knew nothing
about crucifixion.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The Lord was leading him to write those words.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It just speaks volumes about the pain and the suffering
that Jesus endured, and he did it all for us
because he really does love us, and he would that
love would take him all the way to Calvary. The
way that changes life is when every day you wake
up and you think about the fact that the Lord
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loves me enough to give his own son for me.
Jesus loves me enough to die a brutal, horrible death
for me. How can that not change us? If Jesus
would go to the cross for me, and God would
send his son to the cross for me, then I
can know for certain that he will take care of
my daily needs because He's already taken care of my
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greatest need, which is salvation.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Now, normally, when examining the cross of Christ, we go
to the Gospels to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. But
as Pastor Jeff Is said today, we're going to look
at the Psalms, specifically in Psalm twenty two, for the
most vivid accounts of the crucifixion of our Savior, who
exhibited no greater love.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We've been in a study on the book of Psalms
and talking about the ups and downs in life.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And in Psalm twenty.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Two we have a picture, a very vivid picture of
the cross of Jesus Christ. Now this is a Psalm David.
But the Bible says in Acts, Chapter two, Verse thirty,
Peter says this about David, that he was a prophet.
And so David, although he was a king, he was
also a prophet, and he prophesied in Psalm twenty two
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about the coming of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ,
who was going.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
To die on a cross.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Psalm twenty two teaches us about the love of our savior.
The scripture says, this, my God, my God, why have
you forsaken me? Far from my deliverance are the words
of my groaning? Oh my God, I cry by day
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but you do not answer, and by night but I
have no rest.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yet you are holy, Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel. In
you our fathers trusted, They trusted, and you delivered them
to you. They cried out and were delivered in you.
They trusted and were not disappointed. But I am a
worm and not a man, a reproach of men, and
despised by the people. All who see me sneer at me.
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They separate with the lip. They wag the head, saying,
commit yourself to the Lord. Let him deliver him, let
him rescue him, because he delights in him. Yet you
are he who brought me forth from the womb. You
made me trust, when upon my mother's breasts, upon you,
I was cast from birth. You have been my god
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from my mother's womb. Me not far from me, for
trouble is near, for there is none to help. Many
bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of bash have encircled me.
They open wide their mouth at me 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 within me. My strength
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is dried up like a potch herd, and my tongue
cleaves to my jaws. You lay me in the dust
of death. For dogs have surrounded me. A band of
evildoers has encompassed me. They pierced my hands and my feet.
I can count all my bones. They look, they stare
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at me. They divide my garments among them, and for
my clothing they cast lots, But you, o Lord, be.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Not far off.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh you my help, hasten to my assistance. Deliver my
soul from the sword, my only life, from the power
of the dog, saved me from the lion's mouth, from
the horns of the wild oxen.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You answer me, so, I'm twenty two.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
The first twenty one verses that we just read about
suffering and about prayer, the suffering and prayer of the Messiah,
and then the next ten verses about victory and praise.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So I want you to.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Notice with me three prophecies about the Messiah and the
cross and his love for you and me. Prophecy number one.
The scripture prophesies that Messiah would be abandoned by the Father.
The Savior was going to be abandoned by the Father.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Psal I'm twenty.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Two, Verse one, My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
If you have read in the gospel accounts, namely in
Matthew or in Mark, you'll find that Jesus said those
exact words when he was on the cross. He was
crucified at nine am. He died at three pm, somewhere
right around three pm, and the Bible says it was
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the ninth hour three pm. They counted from six am,
so it was the ninth hours three pm. And Jesus
cried out and said, my God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me? Why have you forsaken me? Now?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I think there were two reasons why said that.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think number one, he was alerting the people to
some twenty two.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Hey, this is what is happening.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
It was prophesied in Psalm twenty two, and so he's
alerting them to that psalm when he says that, and
then he's also expressing the cry of his heart, My God,
my God, why have you forsaken me? It's a question,
but it's also a comment. It's a comment on the
fact that when Jesus was dying on the cross, when
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he was taking all of the sin of all of
the world upon himself, the father abandoned him. The father
turned away from him. When Jesus took our sins, the
father had to turn away, and Jesus, as the song said,
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he died alone on Calvary. Why would the father turn
away from the son? Scripture says he made him who
knew no sin, to be sin on our behalf, that
we might become the righteousness of God in him. And
when Jesus became sin on the cross, the Father can't
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have fellowship with sin. The Father cannot look upon sin.
How Back, chapter one, verse thirteen says this, your eyes
are too pure to approve evil, and you cannot look
on wickedness with favor. And when all the wickedness and
all the sin of all the world, you think of
the most terrible things that you've ever done, and then
you think of the terrible things that we've all ever done,
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and all of the terrible things that everyone in the world,
from the beginning of civilization to the end, have ever done.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
That was all on Jesus.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And the Father could not look upon that, even when
it was in his own son, and he had to
turn away, My God, My God, why have.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
You forsaken me? That word forsaken means to.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Abandon, to withdraw, to desert aband him by the father.
Fellowship between the son and the Father had existed from
eternity past. But now, as Jesus is dying on the
cross for the sins of the whole world, that fellowship
is broken.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
The Lord Jesus had never experienced that before, and.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
He cries out to his Father, Why have you forsaken me?
And when Jesus took our sins, not only was he
forsaken of the Father, but he experienced the fate of sinners,
of every single sinner. He experienced that on the cross,
forsaken on the cross. That's what every sinner who rejects
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Christ is going to experience for all eternity. The Bible
says in Second Thessalonians, chapter one speaks of the return
of Christ. He comes back with flaming fire and with
his angels as mighty angels, dealing out retribution to those
who do not know God, who do not.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And then it says in verse nine, and these will
pay the penalty of eternal destruction, eternal destruction in hell.
The Lord Jesus, he experienced the fate of every sinner
when he died upon the cross. Oh my God, my God,
why have you forsaken me? The first prophecy the Messiah
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would be abandoned by the Father. Prophecy number two, the
Messiah would be brutalized by the people.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Brutalized by the people. They pierced my hands in my feet.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
What's he talking about He's talking about something he didn't
even know about. He's talking through inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
and the Holy Spirit led him to write those words.
And he's speaking as we know of the crucifixion of
Jesus Christ. Crucifixion so terrible, so horrible, And the scripture
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here says that he would experience excruciating physical pain. They
pierced my hands and my feet, and all my bones
are out of joint, and my heart is like wax.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
It has melted within me.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
As it says in verse fourteen, my strength is dried
up like a potchard, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws.
Do you remember one of the last things Jesus said
upon the cross, I thirst, And he was on that
cross for six hours.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You know how people would die on the cross. They
would die from asphyxiation.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
They could no longer hold themselves up, they could no
longer push up to get a breath, and so that
they would just suffocate. That's why the Romans, when they
wanted to hasten death, they would break the legs. And
if they broke your legs, then you couldn't push up anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Then death would come very quickly.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
If you remember, when Jesus died, they didn't break his legs,
because it was prophesied that none of his bones would
be broken. They didn't break his legs legs, but they
pierced his side with a spear, and the blood and
the water flowed, and they knew that he was dead
and there was no need to break his legs.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
There was excruciating physical pain.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
But not only would the Messiah experience that, he would
also experience excruciating emotional pain, the emotional pain of the
sinless son of God taking the sin of the world
upon himself and the people for whom he came to die,
laughing in his face, it says in Psalm twenty two,
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verses six, seven and eight in the easy to read version,
people insult me and look down on me. Everyone who
sees me makes fun of me. They shake their heads
and stick out their tongues at me. They say, call
to the Lord for help. Maybe he will save you.
If he likes you so much, surely he will rescue you. Ah,
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that's just what's recorded in the Gospels. They said those
same things. They came up to Jesus and they made
faces at him, and they as the scripture says in
another version, they wagged their tongues at him, and oh, you,
you who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild
it in three days, come down from the cross, and
we'll believe in you. You understand the price that was
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paid for your salvation. There's the prophecy that he would
be abandoned by the Father, of the prophecy that he
would be brutalized by the people. But then there's the
prophecy that he would be victorious over death. You remember
what I said about Psalm twenty one, Verses one through
twenty one, all about suffering and prayer. He's crying out
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to God, He's crying out to God. He's still praising
God even in the midst of his suffering, because he
knows that God inhabits the praises of his people. But
the last thing he says in verse twenty one, saved
me from the lion's mouth and from the horns of
the wild oxen, You who hears prayer, you who answers me.
And then in verse twenty two, the scene shifts and
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everything changes, and he says, I will tell of your
name to my brethren in the midst of the assembly.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I will praise you, you who fear the Lord, praise.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Him, and all you descendants of Jacob, glorify him and
stand in awe of him. Now you might want to
jot down this scripture as a reference in verse twenty
two Hebrews to twelve Hebrews two twelve, because the writer
of Hebrews quotes Psalm twenty two twenty two when he's
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talking about the glory of Jesus Christ, the victory of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Now he was a based, but
now he is glorified. He has won the victory.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Did the Lord save him from the lion's mouth?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yes, because it says in Psalm two, you won't allow
your Holy one to undergo decay. He died, he was buried,
but he didn't stay dead. He didn't stay buried. He
came up on the third day. He rose from the dead,
and he conquered death, and he conquered Hell, and he
conquered the grave. And he went to his brethren to
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tell of his name, God's name to the brethren. And
in the midst of the assembly he praised the Lord.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
And there is victory.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Now listen by God's grace Jesus died for all by
God's grace. It's grace we sing, amazing grace, How sweet
the sound that saved a wretch like me. By God's grace,
he could save us because he paid the price that
was needing to be paid.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
It says in Hebrews two nine. For a short time,
Jesus was made lower than the angels.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
But now we see him wearing a crown of glory
and honor because he suffered and died because of God's grace.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Jesus died for everyone.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Listen, there's a teaching that's in Christendom that says that
Jesus only died for the elect, that Jesus only died
for the saved.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
He didn't die for the unsaved.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And they say, you know, his blood is not going
to be wasted, So the blood that he shed was
only for the elect. But this verse says that he
died for everyone. I believe that Jesus died for every
single person. That's why I have confidence that I can
talk to any person at any time and say with confidence,
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Loves you, and he died for you. Just as it
says in.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Hebrews two nine, he died for everybody. And at the
great White throne, the Lord will open up the Lamb's
book of life.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
And say, I died for you.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I had a place in my book for you, but
you reject me. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I never knew you.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
By God's grace, he died for all, and by God's
power he conquered death and hell, not only his grace
but his power. Now it took power to raise Jesus
up from the dead. And when we talk about the cross,
we always have to couple that with the empty tomb,
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because the cross without the empty tomb gives a dead savior,
and a dead savior can't save anybody, and the empty
tomb without the cross.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
We lack a sacrifice.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
So it took the Cross of Christ to pay our
sin debt, and it took the empty tomb to make
it effective, to make it powerful. And both of those
things are evident here. It says in verses twenty eight
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through thirty one. The Lord is king, and he rules
the nations. All proud people will bow down to him.
Every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord. All mortals will bow down before him.
Future generations will serve him. They will speak of the
Lord to the coming generation. People not yet born will
be told the Lord saved his people, saved his people
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through the cross and through the empty tomb. So it's
by God's grace that all men can be saved. It's God,
by God's power, that he conquered death and hell, and
the Bible talks about that. In First Corinthians, chapter fifteen,
it says, death is swallowing up in victory. Oh death,
where is your victory? Oh death, where is your sting?
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Is the law.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
But thanks be to God who gives us the victory
through our Lord, Jesus Christ, who tasted death for every
man so that you and I wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
To taste it.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
He experienced forsaking of from the Father, so you and
I wouldn't have to ever experience that.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Hallelujah. What a savior. And by God's love is a
so call. And by God's love he became a scarlet worm.
Look at verse six.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
But I am a worm, he says, and not a man,
a reproach of men, and despised by the people. Can
you imagine the Son of God, the Messiah of God,
describing himself and saying of himself, I am a worm.
People have said, well, that just doesn't sound right. They
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think of a worm. You know, a worm can be
a maggot. Surely the Lord's not saying he's a maggot. No,
he's not, he's not. The word that's used here for
worm is the Hebrew word tolah to la h tolah,
translated eight times as worm, one time is crimson, and
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thirty four times as scarlet. You say, well, good night,
I mean a worm and scarlet. How in the world
could you translate a word that means worm into a
worm the word that means scarlet. It's because in the
animal world, in the insect world, there's a little worm
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that's known as the scarlet worm. It's a little worm
that the ancients used to produce scarlet dye because they
noticed in this little worm, if you crush the life
out of this worm, a red scarlet crimson dye would
come out, or substance would come out that they could
use in the dye to make a dye for clothing.
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Jesus Christ is the scarlet worm who gave his life,
who shed his blood on the cross for you and me.
And you know, it's very very interesting about the scarlet worm.
When the female is about ready to lay eggs, she
will go to a tree and fix herself to the
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tree and bore into that tree and embed herself in
the tree.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
And then she lays her eggs.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
And when the eggs hatch and those little ones are
able to find for herself, she dies affixed to the tree.
And when she dies, she releases that red scarlet crimson
dye that stains her body, that stains the tree.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
What a beautiful picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. I
am a worm.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I'm a scarlet worm who shed my blood on a
piece of wood to give life to all those who
will come to me.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Have you given your all to Jesus. He's offering you
forgiveness for your sins and freedom to live for him.
And he is asking that you simply confess your need,
be willing to turn from your sins, believe that Jesus
died for you on the cross and rose from the grave,
and through a sincere, heartfelt prayer, invite Jesus Christ in
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to control your life through the Holy Spirit you can
do that with this prayer that echoes the feelings of
your heart. Say, Dear God, I know I am a sinner.
I ask for your forgiveness. I believe Jesus is your son,
and I believe that he died from my sin and
that you raised him from the dead. And I want
to trust him as my savior and follow him as
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my lord from this day forward. I pray this in
Jesus name. Amen. Now, if that is the desire of
your heart, genuinely speaking, you are a child of God
now and he will never let you go. If you
want to know more about what that means to make
that surrender and what your life will be like in
the future, please go to FROMI Hisheart dot org and
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what he wants for you, and how you can have
that piece that passes all understanding. But it starts with
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You can also download some free materials there from pastor
Jeff that will help you love the Savior even more.
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