1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:30,000 RI- 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,000 of our nation. 3 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Say, Lord, he came from the mountains. 4 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000 The God is mighty to save. 5 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 He is mighty to save. 6 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:55,000 For ever, of the house of salvation, 7 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 he rose and covered the plain. 8 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Jesus conquered the grave. 9 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Take me as you find me. 10 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Hold my fears and favorites. 11 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,000 You'll real my life again. 12 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Give my life to follow. 13 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Everything I believe in 14 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,000 comes true again. 15 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Say, Lord, he came from the mountains. 16 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:57,000 The God is mighty to save. 17 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 The word of Christ richly dwell within you, 18 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,000 with all wisdom, teaching, admonishing one another, 19 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:30,000 with psalms and hymns and spiritual psalms, 20 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,000 singing with thankfulness in your hearts for God. 21 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000 And whatever you do in word or deed, 22 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 you all in the name of the Lord Jesus, 23 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,000 giving thanks through him to God the Father. 24 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,000 So you notice that in that first part of the verse there, 25 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,000 verse 16, it says, wisdom, teaching, admonishing one another, 26 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 with psalms and hymns and spiritual psalms. 27 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 What's that sound like? 28 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Worship. 29 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Worship, sounds like going to church, doesn't it? 30 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Sounds like what we do in here on Tuesday, 31 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 what we do in here on Sunday, the very first part of it at least. 32 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 And then we talk about wisdom, teaching, 33 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000 that's the second part, and oftentimes we do that inspirational moment. 34 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,000 We teach each other, we work together, and so on, 35 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 to learn more about what God has to say. 36 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,000 And then it says, and whatever you do in word or deed, 37 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 you all in the name of the Lord Jesus, 38 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,000 giving thanks through him to God the Father. 39 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 And so in other words, from the one we meet at 11.30 or 6.30 on Tuesday night, 40 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,000 11.30 on Sunday morning, beginning to end, 41 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 it should all be about God. 42 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,000 And that's the key. 43 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Sometimes we come with another agenda. 44 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 There's somebody we're planning on talking to. 45 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 There's some fun we're planning on having with a friend 46 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 or with a family member that we haven't seen for a couple days 47 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 or a couple weeks sometimes if they've been sick or something. 48 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Sometimes we're all super excited about visitors that might come. 49 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,000 We're grateful to talk to them, to greet them, 50 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 to invite them to come back again to worship, whatever. 51 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Or maybe you're coming more to talk about something you experienced 52 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,000 to make sure somebody can pray for you. 53 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Or something you read and repented a couple days ago, 54 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,000 something that you did, and you want to come and meet that public. 55 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Sometimes we come with another agenda. 56 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 But God has an agenda in mind, 57 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:16,000 and it is encapsulated mostly in Colossians 3, 16, and 17. 58 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 It says, 59 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, 60 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,000 with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another, 61 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,000 with psalms and hymns and spiritual psalms, 62 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 63 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 And whatever you do in the word of God, 64 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, 65 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,000 giving thanks through Him to God the Father. 66 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Now some of that stuff that's in there, 67 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,000 giving thanks, singing, right? 68 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,000 It says, singing with thankfulness in your heart toward God. 69 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Sometimes we don't feel all that qualified to do some of those things. 70 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000 It doesn't matter if you feel qualified or not. 71 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 This is what God says we are supposed to do. 72 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 And it is what we do when we come together. 73 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,000 And that will also seem whacked out to the world as we block out time. 74 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Make sure that God is the most important thing on Tuesday night and Sunday morning. 75 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Sometimes it will seem whacked out to the people in the church 76 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000 as you're going through something really difficult or really harsh. 77 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,000 And you still prioritize to make sure that this time is blocked out. 78 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 That's hard to do. 79 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 And sometimes it looks whacked out. 80 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 And sometimes it doesn't look simple. 81 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 But that's our whacked out simple stuff for today. 82 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 God says it is exactly that simple. 83 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:33,000 That's what we do at the times that the Lord has lead us to block out time. 84 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,000 That's what we do. 85 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Let's pray together and then we'll sing worship via a song. 86 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 It's not the only way you can worship God. 87 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 We'll sing worship to God one more song 88 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 and then we'll let the children and their leaders go to class. 89 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,000 And then one more song and then we'll go to the Word 90 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 and look into some wisdom from His Word this evening. 91 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Let's pray together. 92 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Father in heaven, we know that lately, 93 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,000 and it's at every place that people might be, 94 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:09,000 there's been a number of attacks, a number of struggles, trials and tribulations 95 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,000 that have arisen. 96 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 It's been health issues. It's been job issues. It's been relationship issues. 97 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 It's been housing issues. 98 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Some of us have all of it. 99 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,000 And some of us have the one thing that's like our Achilles heel. 100 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,000 It's hurting us in a way that makes it hard for us to be found faithful 101 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,000 or hard for us to trust you. 102 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:32,000 We talked about that on Sunday, how easy it is for us to get thinking 103 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 in the middle of our trials, in the middle of our difficulties. 104 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 We don't understand. 105 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,000 As you're painting a masterpiece for us to see, 106 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,000 we're busy seeing the things that are right in front of us, 107 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 that are struggles, that are difficulties, that are hard for us to overcome. 108 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 We can't piece it all together. 109 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 We can't get it straight in our heads. 110 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 We confess our weakness to you and our need for your wisdom. 111 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,000 And we ask, Lord, we need you in our circumstances right where we are. 112 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,000 We thank you that you do watch over us and you do remain with us 113 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:05,000 and that nothing, no matter how severe it may be, may separate us from your love. 114 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,000 And then we ask you, Lord, to intervene in very practical and specific ways. 115 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,000 Like the psalmist wrote, 116 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:17,000 unless I had seen the good of the Lord in the land of the living, 117 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,000 I couldn't have made it. 118 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 I would have perished. I would have been stuck. 119 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000 And so, Lord, we expect, we look for you to do amazing things in our lives 120 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,000 to those who are struggling, those who are trying to follow, 121 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 those of you who claim the name of Jesus. 122 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,000 And we know that that doesn't mean everybody who becomes a Christian becomes rich, 123 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 or everybody that becomes a Christian prospers, 124 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,000 or everybody that becomes a Christian overcomes all suffering, all difficulty. 125 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,000 In the moment, that means that you are with us, 126 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 and you are working, and you have a plan, 127 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,000 and you're painting a masterpiece that may include who knows how much suffering, 128 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,000 but at the same time comes out just looking beautiful, 129 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,000 as you have worked in us, and you have worked to take us where we really want to go. 130 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Lord, each of us could raise our hands and say, 131 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 I'm praying for this person, or I'm going through this difficult being, 132 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 and the struggles are real. 133 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,000 I just want to lift up Charlie, 134 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 because the last few days have been really hard for her, 135 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:11,000 and she's not able to be here with us this evening because she's still sick. 136 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,000 I want to lift up Trina, what she's been going through, 137 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 and it's been all over the place. 138 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 She's missed out on a good opportunity, 139 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 or what might have been a good opportunity because of the difficulties. 140 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,000 So we just ask you, Lord, that you provide the opportunities, 141 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,000 you provide the ability to find the time on the clock, 142 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,000 to provide the strength, to provide the healing, to provide the resources. 143 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:36,000 I would pray for Brother Chris and Barb, 144 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,000 as they're going into testing tomorrow and Thursday, 145 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,000 and Barb's having her gallbladder out, 146 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 and she's a little nervous about that, 147 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,000 but I think she knows that you really have it, 148 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,000 and so we pray, Lord, that you just take care of it all. 149 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,000 So I pray for Sherry, she's transitioning through what she's going through at work 150 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,000 and looking at a new job, 151 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,000 and it looks like it will be a huge relief to work for a company that's stable, 152 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,000 functional, and cares about their employees, 153 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,000 but at the same time, Lord, it's another job change, 154 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:08,000 and it's dealing with the management of the current company until that's resolved. 155 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,000 I pray for Alicia, she's been overcoming for a couple of weeks 156 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,000 the pain in her back and her hip, 157 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,000 and then all the sign of stuff that she had, Lord, 158 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,000 and she's just powering through, 159 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 and I pray that you'll sustain her. 160 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 I pray for our missing members, our missing folks, 161 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 who really wanted to be here, 162 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,000 and we don't know what all their struggles are. 163 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 We pray, Lord, that you bless them as you see fit. 164 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 I pray that you'll take this big mess that we call life, 165 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 that we get struggled, 166 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,000 that we get frustrated with our struggles and whatever, 167 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,000 and you'll paint a beautiful picture of your people persevering in faith. 168 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Jesus come, Jesus come. 169 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,000 At the same time, Lord, if there's a moment more, 170 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 let us use it to glorify you. 171 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,000 We pray all this in Jesus' name. Amen. 172 00:09:51,000 --> 00:10:11,000 wieder?, 173 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:20,480 our God. Great and mighty is he. Lift up your crown at the end of the tree. Praise 174 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:31,340 this to our King. Great and mighty is the Lord our God. Great and mighty is he. 175 00:10:31,340 --> 00:10:55,360 Great and mighty is the Lord our God. Great and mighty is he. Great and mighty is the Lord our God. Great and mighty is he. Lift up your crown at the end of the tree. Praise this to our King. 176 00:10:55,360 --> 00:11:11,360 Great and mighty is the Lord our God. Great and mighty is he. Great and mighty is the Lord our God. Great and mighty is he. 177 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:26,360 At this time we'll let the children and their leaders go to the classroom. 178 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:46,360 We come with expectations. 179 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:52,360 Waiting here for you. 180 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:01,360 Waiting here for you. 181 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:10,360 You're the Lord of all creation. 182 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:14,360 And still you know my heart. 183 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:18,360 You're the author of salvation. 184 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:25,360 You're gonna strong the storm. 185 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:32,360 Waiting here for you. 186 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:46,360 With our hands lifted high in praise. 187 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:58,360 And to you the author singing high. 188 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:03,360 Glory. 189 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:10,360 Glory. 190 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:18,360 Glory. 191 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:22,360 You are everything you promised. 192 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,360 Your faithfulness has shown. 193 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:30,360 And we're desperate for your presence. 194 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:38,360 All we need is you. 195 00:13:38,360 --> 00:14:03,360 So starting on Sunday we began to look at some of the classic texts of the Old Testament and we're about out of time already. 196 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:11,360 That speak volumes about the coming Christ and how he would suffer and so on and we're gonna do that again tonight. 197 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:18,360 And so we're going to look today at Isaiah 53 and I've handed you out a worksheet. 198 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:23,360 So this worksheet is designed as a little bit of a game. 199 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:31,360 You'll see that there is a list of words that says trouble, suckling, sea light, pain, soul, wounded, peace, all those are in the middle. 200 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:35,360 Those go in the boxes running down. 201 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,360 The empty box is in the middle. 202 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:46,360 And then you'll see blanks with kind of a few of the verses have blanks with them and those are for us to make up as we go. 203 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:49,360 Okay, so we'll just make those ones up as we go. 204 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:59,360 I have my example of an idea up there what I kind of thought but I'm okay with it being as long as it fits with the scripture whatever we come up with together as a group. 205 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,360 Okay. 206 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:11,360 All right, so I have on the if you'll notice also I have underlined and bolded the words for the boxes in the middle. 207 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,360 Isaiah 51 53 one begins as follows. 208 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:20,360 It says, Who has believed our report and to whom as the arm of the Lord been revealed? 209 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:27,360 Now, if we could just end with the desert, if you will, who is the arm of the Lord? 210 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:35,360 Who do you think is probably talking about since this whole chapter of Isaiah 53 is about Jesus, it's probably talking about Jesus. 211 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,360 Okay, so there's no blank for that. 212 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:38,360 There's nowhere that that goes. 213 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:44,360 But notice that this is a reference to people talking about Jesus, the gospel, the report, the truth of what Jesus has done. 214 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,360 And it says, and who believes it? 215 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:53,360 Isaiah does throughout the book of Isaiah talk a lot about Jesus, the coming Messiah, how he'll be God in the flesh and that kind of thing. 216 00:15:53,360 --> 00:16:06,360 If you want to learn about Jesus from the perspective of people who don't already know about Jesus, Isaiah is a great place to go and learn all that because he didn't know about Jesus. 217 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:14,360 And so everything that he was getting was kind of a revelation to him as he learned that the Messiah would suffer, would be sacrificed and so on. 218 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:20,360 And so the question here and those blanks on 53 one is who believes? 219 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,360 So those two blanks are who believes? 220 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:38,360 And you can put something else there if you want, but it's the summary of Isaiah 53 one who believes that on diverse to and it says for he grew up before him like a tender shoot and like a root out of dry ground. 221 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,360 Okay, and shoot is underlined and bolded. 222 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:51,360 And so if you take a stab at it, just kind of look down there through the through the words that we have. Which of these words do you think? 223 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:58,360 Now, mind you, you're trying to interpret Hebrew, which I know you don't know Hebrew might also come across as a shoot. 224 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,360 Anybody got an idea? 225 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,360 Any green fingers in the room? 226 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,360 What a shoot is? 227 00:17:04,360 --> 00:17:10,360 Shoot is like an extra growth of the plant or it's coming off the plant could be said again. 228 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:12,360 It's like a root. 229 00:17:12,360 --> 00:17:13,360 Yep. 230 00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:16,360 A root's not on the list in the middle there. 231 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:19,360 Okay, so say it again. 232 00:17:19,360 --> 00:17:21,360 Okay, no, it's not seed. 233 00:17:21,360 --> 00:17:23,360 Seed comes later. 234 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:25,360 Why? 235 00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:28,360 No, not life. 236 00:17:28,360 --> 00:17:29,360 Stems not on there. 237 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:30,360 Stems on the list. 238 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:32,360 So it's a suckling. 239 00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:41,360 And if you think about a root or a shoot coming off of a plant, it sucks nutrients and water off the plant. 240 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:43,360 Okay, so it's a suckling. 241 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:53,360 So you could interpret verse two as, and you'd be accurate to do so, for he grew up before him like a tender suckling and like a root out of dry ground. 242 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:58,360 He has no stately form or majesty that we would look at him. 243 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:04,360 Okay, and so what can we put in the two blanks there describing Jesus? 244 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:08,360 If we use those verses, what are two words that we could use to describe Jesus? 245 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:13,360 We say that he has no stately form or majesty that we would look at him. 246 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:14,360 What would you put? 247 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:17,360 Not what? 248 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:20,360 Not what? 249 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:21,360 Okay, not visible. 250 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:22,360 You could use that. 251 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:32,360 Not visible would work or not attractive or I guess you could put not obvious. 252 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:39,360 He has no stately form or majesty that we would look at him. 253 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:43,360 Not commanding. 254 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:46,360 If he has no stately form or majesty, you could say he's not commanding. 255 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:50,360 Any of those, whatever you think, go ahead and put it there. 256 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:53,360 So, why don't you get something in there? 257 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:58,360 Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in him. 258 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:01,360 So, what would you put there? 259 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:03,360 Not attractive. 260 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:06,360 So, people like to look at pretty people, handsome people. 261 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:08,360 Jesus was neither one of those things. 262 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:10,360 In fact, he was kind of rough and rugged. 263 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:14,360 Even his teaching was rough and rugged and people might like to turn their heads and look away 264 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:18,360 because he was asking for more than they were willing to give. 265 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:20,360 Now, we're on verse 3. 266 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:23,360 He was despised and abandoned by men. 267 00:19:23,360 --> 00:19:29,360 A man of great pain and familiar with sickness. 268 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:32,360 Now, this one is kind of obvious. 269 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:34,360 It's just pains. 270 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:37,360 So, pain or pains. 271 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:42,360 The only reason I put that there is because I want you to see that it was plural. 272 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:45,360 In the original Hebrew language, the word is plural. 273 00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:49,360 And in modern language you say that too. 274 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:52,360 I have pain in my leg, day after day. 275 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:55,360 You wouldn't say, I have pains in my leg, day after day. 276 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,360 Unless you have two different pains. 277 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:59,360 Unless you have a pain in your knee and a pain in your cap. 278 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:01,360 Then you would call that pains. 279 00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:02,360 Right? 280 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:05,360 I had pains in my leg two different places. 281 00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:10,360 If you had pain day after day, you wouldn't say, I have pains in my legs, day after day necessarily, 282 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:12,360 unless it gives two different pains. 283 00:20:12,360 --> 00:20:14,360 You would just say I have pain in my leg. 284 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:18,360 So in the Hebrew it was plural. He was a man of great pains and 285 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,440 familiar with sickness and 286 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:30,440 Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised and we had no regard for him 287 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:37,700 And so what big word what longer slightly longer word goes in that blank under verse 3 288 00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:44,700 despised yep, if you were going to give any word to describe Jesus you're talking to somebody who doesn't know Jesus 289 00:20:44,700 --> 00:20:48,700 You would not say that he's tall. We actually don't know how tall he was for sure 290 00:20:48,700 --> 00:20:53,700 He would not say that he's pretty he would not you probably wouldn't say that he was Middle Eastern 291 00:20:54,700 --> 00:20:56,700 Okay, although that was probably true 292 00:20:56,700 --> 00:21:02,700 Right, but that's not a significant thing a significant thing about Jesus is that he was despised 293 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:09,700 You could say he was authoritative if you want to use that word about him say he did teach with authority 294 00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:12,700 The problem with that is what? 295 00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:14,700 What's the problem saying that Jesus was authoritative? 296 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:17,700 Say it again 297 00:21:17,700 --> 00:21:23,700 Yeah, yeah, you offend people right away if you say he was authoritative and they don't agree and that's what happened in his day 298 00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:29,700 There were many he was teaching authoritative street was talking as if he knew what he was talking about and that was different 299 00:21:29,700 --> 00:21:34,700 They were all teaching like well rabbi so-and-so said or sometimes it was rabbi 300 00:21:34,700 --> 00:21:38,700 So-and-so said that rabbi so-and-so said rabbi so-and-so quoted rabbi 301 00:21:38,700 --> 00:21:45,700 So-and-so when he said and Jesus didn't just say that he'd say God says or the word says and it was very authoritative 302 00:21:45,700 --> 00:21:47,700 But also that's very offensive 303 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:55,700 And so we have to realize that to some people it wasn't authority that they liked and when we think of authoritative today 304 00:21:55,700 --> 00:21:59,700 We mostly think of somebody that people were willing to listen to and 305 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:02,700 A lot of folks were not willing to listen to Jesus even though he was authoritative 306 00:22:02,700 --> 00:22:06,700 So those people that were not willing to listen to him despised him 307 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:13,700 Alright, so despise is a good single word to describe Jesus at least from verse 3. Okay 4 308 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:16,700 However, it was our sickness that he himself bore 309 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:20,700 Okay, so give me a summary five words 310 00:22:20,700 --> 00:22:24,700 From verse 4 however, it was our sickness that he 311 00:22:25,700 --> 00:22:29,700 Sickness is that he himself bore give me five words to summarize that 312 00:22:32,700 --> 00:22:34,700 Fill in the blanks 313 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:41,700 Wow, that's an interesting way I said physical mental emotional spirit. That's only four that we need one more 314 00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:44,700 physical mental emotional spiritual and 315 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:47,700 Okay, that could be you could do that 316 00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:55,700 However, it was our sicknesses that he himself for if you want to make a sentence out of you could say he himself 317 00:22:57,700 --> 00:23:00,700 Bore our sicknesses or bore our ills, right? 318 00:23:00,700 --> 00:23:04,700 And Trina was saying you could list out the actual ills there the actual sicknesses 319 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:09,700 So you might have five sicknesses that you personally could list in those blanks and that'd be a good example 320 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:15,700 Especially in light of what's coming later? Okay, and our pains that he carried 321 00:23:15,700 --> 00:23:21,700 That's a finish finish sense. So however, it was our sicknesses that he himself bore and our pains that he carried 322 00:23:22,700 --> 00:23:27,700 Notice he had pains. He was a man of great pains, but they were not his pains 323 00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:33,700 That's what the what Isaiah is trying to explain to us. They were not his pains was our pains that he carried 324 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:38,700 Yeah, we ourselves assumed that he had been afflicted 325 00:23:38,700 --> 00:23:44,700 Okay, so get this we ourselves in other words the people looked at him and they assumed that he had been afflicted 326 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:48,700 So what would be a three-word summary for they assumed that he had been afflicted? 327 00:23:51,700 --> 00:23:53,700 Want to take a stab at it anybody 328 00:23:55,700 --> 00:23:59,700 Okay, yeah, so they made a three-word summary of what he had been afflicted 329 00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:08,700 Okay, yeah, so they misjudged or judged him right so we misjudged him would be a way to say that 330 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:18,700 If you had judged him afflicted and then he would assume that he had been afflicted for a reason of his own cause 331 00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:21,700 For example, then that would definitely be misjudging him 332 00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:24,700 We misjudged him 333 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:29,700 So finishing the thought he says yet we ourselves assumed that he had been afflicted 334 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:32,700 Struck down by God and humiliated 335 00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:37,700 See in Jesus's day the people that were mocking him laughing at him, etc 336 00:24:37,700 --> 00:24:41,700 They were doing it not because they didn't think highly of God 337 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:46,700 Okay, they thought highly of God. They just had a bad misunderstanding of what God was trying to do 338 00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:50,700 They didn't understand God was sending a suffering Messiah. They totally missed it in the scriptures 339 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:54,700 Especially Isaiah 53 right here. We're seeing it clearly explained 340 00:24:54,700 --> 00:24:58,700 So they totally missed that but they were saying Jesus was being struck down by God 341 00:24:58,700 --> 00:25:03,700 And the Old Testament says the man who was hung upon a tree is cursed 342 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:06,700 Cursed literally says cursed as he is hung upon a tree 343 00:25:06,700 --> 00:25:11,700 And so Jesus being hung upon a tree they were saying he was cursed struck down by God and humiliated 344 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:14,700 But we know that's not exactly what was happening, right? 345 00:25:14,700 --> 00:25:20,700 And then he goes on verse 5 to explain that he says but he was pierced for our offenses 346 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:22,700 Okay, so check the list 347 00:25:25,700 --> 00:25:28,700 Which word would you use to replace pierced? 348 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:36,700 Wounded very good. So he was wounded for our offenses and the Hebrew word that is used there can be pierced or wounded 349 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:39,700 Can be translated as pierced or wounded 350 00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:43,700 Wounded is kind of better in a way because he wasn't only pierced 351 00:25:43,700 --> 00:25:47,700 But the reason I think they went with pierced is because elsewhere in scripture 352 00:25:47,700 --> 00:25:50,700 It says that he was literally crucified to pay the price for sins, right? 353 00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:56,700 So that it was the actual crucifixion being put on the cross that paid the price for our offenses 354 00:25:56,700 --> 00:26:02,700 And so that I think that's part of why they chose but the word can be translated either way pierced or wounded either one 355 00:26:03,700 --> 00:26:07,700 He was pierced for our offenses or wounded for our offenses 356 00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:12,700 And then it says he was crushed for our wrongdoings 357 00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:19,700 The punishment for our well-being was laid upon him 358 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:22,700 And then what replaces well-being? 359 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:25,700 Nope, not soul 360 00:26:25,700 --> 00:26:29,700 Not life. Soul and life are very close together things 361 00:26:31,700 --> 00:26:36,700 Peace, right. That's right. So well-being and in English we kind of do that too 362 00:26:36,700 --> 00:26:41,700 Those are almost synonyms, well-being and peace. They're not exactly 363 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:44,700 They're almost. We kind of synonymize them almost 364 00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:52,700 So it's well-being or peace and the Hebrew word that's there could be translated as peace or well-being 365 00:26:52,700 --> 00:26:57,700 Interesting when you think about it then because the punishment of our peace was laid upon him 366 00:26:57,700 --> 00:26:59,700 Or the punishment of our well-being was laid upon him 367 00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:02,700 That adds meaning, doesn't it? What peace? 368 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:08,700 So in your life as man perceives peace have you had peace today? Did everything go right? 369 00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:12,700 No conflict, no trouble, nobody said a cross word 370 00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:16,700 You're not having struggles with money, not having struggles with health, not having struggles with employment 371 00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:20,700 So that would be peace by man's definition, right? 372 00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:23,700 So that's not the peace that it's talking about, is it? 373 00:27:23,700 --> 00:27:27,700 Yeah, the peace of Christ, the peace between us and God 374 00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:29,700 That's the peace that it was talking about 375 00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:32,700 That's the peace that it was talking about 376 00:27:32,700 --> 00:27:35,700 So that's latent with meaning 377 00:27:35,700 --> 00:27:41,700 There's lots of old meaning in that to say that the punishment for our peace was laid upon him 378 00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:48,700 But it also can be translated well-being and it might even be more easily understood by some folks 379 00:27:48,700 --> 00:27:50,700 And so maybe that's why they chose it 380 00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:53,700 The punishment for our well-being or peace was laid upon him 381 00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:56,700 And so how would you summarize that in four words? 382 00:27:56,700 --> 00:28:01,700 It's the whole thing, but he was pierced for our offenses, he was crushed for our wrongdoings 383 00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:05,700 The punishment for our well-being was laid upon him 384 00:28:05,700 --> 00:28:07,700 Give me four words 385 00:28:07,700 --> 00:28:09,700 He paid our price 386 00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:11,700 He paid our price, I like that, that's good 387 00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:13,700 Somebody else give me one, go ahead 388 00:28:13,700 --> 00:28:15,700 He carried our sins 389 00:28:15,700 --> 00:28:17,700 Okay, good, I like that 390 00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:19,700 Put that in your blanks there 391 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:24,700 Another would be maybe he took our punishment 392 00:28:24,700 --> 00:28:26,700 He paid our way 393 00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:28,700 He bought our peace 394 00:28:28,700 --> 00:28:31,700 So all of those are possibilities, whatever you like the best 395 00:28:31,700 --> 00:28:33,700 Or maybe whatever you can spell 396 00:28:33,700 --> 00:28:35,700 It's that kind of thing 397 00:28:37,700 --> 00:28:39,700 Whatever resonates with your soul 398 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:41,700 What did he do? 399 00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:44,700 He took our or he bought our or he paid our 400 00:28:44,700 --> 00:28:46,700 However you like it 401 00:28:46,700 --> 00:28:52,700 And then of course five actually ends with and by his wounds we are healed 402 00:28:52,700 --> 00:28:54,700 Then six 403 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:56,700 All of us like sheep have gone astray 404 00:28:56,700 --> 00:28:59,700 Each of us has turned to his own way 405 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:05,700 But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all to fall on him 406 00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:07,700 To fall on him 407 00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:11,700 What do you think off the list in the middle would replace fall on? 408 00:29:11,700 --> 00:29:13,700 Very good, that's right 409 00:29:13,700 --> 00:29:15,700 To encounter him 410 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:18,700 Now think about the deep meaning of that 411 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:24,700 The wrongdoing of us all to encounter Jesus 412 00:29:24,700 --> 00:29:27,700 See Jesus didn't have any wrongdoing of his own 413 00:29:27,700 --> 00:29:33,700 So for 33 to 35 years of his life he has lived without any wrongdoing whatsoever 414 00:29:33,700 --> 00:29:41,700 And now all of our, really all of mankind's wrongdoing was brought upon him 415 00:29:41,700 --> 00:29:50,700 The Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all to fall on him or to encounter him 416 00:29:50,700 --> 00:29:53,700 Okay and there's a lot of blanks there 417 00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:56,700 And you could summarize it however you want 418 00:29:56,700 --> 00:30:00,700 I got a nine word blank 419 00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:01,700 They all go together 420 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:03,700 Those four on the bottom do not go with number seven 421 00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:05,700 They're all together 422 00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:07,700 How would you want to try to do it? 423 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:09,700 Let's see, and you can start and we can help you 424 00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:12,700 So something about us, we all what? 425 00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:16,700 Okay so we all sin, those are your first three blanks, that's easy 426 00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:19,700 And what? We all sin and? 427 00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:21,700 Fall short 428 00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:25,700 We're not going to get fall short of the glory of God in the blanks 429 00:30:25,700 --> 00:30:30,700 Fall short of God's glory, you could do it that way 430 00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:38,700 But I think there's more because the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all to fall on him would be left off then 431 00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:43,700 If we just go with and fall short of the glory of God 432 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:50,700 So we all sin and what did Jesus do for us in five blanks? 433 00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:51,700 He died for our sins 434 00:30:51,700 --> 00:30:55,700 He died for our sins, perfect, that fits 435 00:30:55,700 --> 00:30:58,700 Take that one 436 00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:00,700 Anybody else want to try one? 437 00:31:00,700 --> 00:31:03,700 You could do a bunch of different things there I think 438 00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:06,700 He carried the cross 439 00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:08,700 And he, we all sin 440 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:14,700 How about we sin and he carried the cross to Calvary, it fits 441 00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:20,700 If you take out the all, you just put we sin and he carried the cross 442 00:31:20,700 --> 00:31:25,700 We sin and he carried the cross to Calvary, it fits 443 00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:28,700 There you go, got it 444 00:31:28,700 --> 00:31:31,700 I didn't hear that last thing you said 445 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:35,700 Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay 446 00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:42,700 So we all sin and he took sins upon him 447 00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:47,700 We all sin and he paid for those sins 448 00:31:47,700 --> 00:31:50,700 Paid for our sins, however you want to do it 449 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:53,700 He encountered our sins 450 00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:56,700 Okay, verse seven 451 00:31:56,700 --> 00:32:01,700 He was oppressed and afflicted yet he did not open his mouth 452 00:32:01,700 --> 00:32:07,700 Like a lamb that is led to slaughter and like a sheep that is silent before its shearers 453 00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:10,700 Shearers are the ones that take the wool off the sheep, right? 454 00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:13,700 And the sheep is used to it so he doesn't complain 455 00:32:13,700 --> 00:32:17,700 So he did not open his mouth 456 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:22,700 Like a sheep that is silent before its shearers so he did not open his mouth 457 00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:30,700 Two word summary 458 00:32:30,700 --> 00:32:32,700 No objections 459 00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:35,700 No objections, I like that 460 00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:40,700 That's even better, I've had put no complaints but I like no objections even better 461 00:32:40,700 --> 00:32:44,700 Anybody else? Two words 462 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:50,700 You could do kept quiet 463 00:32:50,700 --> 00:32:56,700 Silent savior 464 00:32:56,700 --> 00:33:02,700 No debate 465 00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:06,700 Whatever you like 466 00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:07,700 Verse eight 467 00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:10,700 By oppression and judgment he was taken away 468 00:33:10,700 --> 00:33:13,700 And as for his generation 469 00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:18,700 Who considered that he was cut off from the land of the living 470 00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:23,700 And okay so we've got a bold underlined living 471 00:33:23,700 --> 00:33:26,700 What do you think? 472 00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:31,700 Life, yes 473 00:33:31,700 --> 00:33:41,700 Easy one 474 00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:46,700 Okay, for the wrongdoing of my people to whom the blow was due 475 00:33:46,700 --> 00:33:49,700 So that whole thing is a question so I'm going to go read it again as a question 476 00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:52,700 By oppression and judgment he was taken away 477 00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:54,700 And as for his generation 478 00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:57,700 Who considered that he was cut off from the land of the living 479 00:33:57,700 --> 00:34:02,700 For the wrongdoing of my people to whom the blow was due 480 00:34:02,700 --> 00:34:04,700 Did you get that? 481 00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:08,700 Four word summary 482 00:34:08,700 --> 00:34:12,700 It's similar to what came before, four words though 483 00:34:12,700 --> 00:34:15,700 Who considered that he was cut off from the land of the living 484 00:34:15,700 --> 00:34:21,700 For the wrongdoing of my people to whom the blow was due 485 00:34:21,700 --> 00:34:25,700 What do you think? 486 00:34:25,700 --> 00:34:30,700 What did he do? 487 00:34:30,700 --> 00:34:33,700 I put he took our punishment 488 00:34:33,700 --> 00:34:37,700 Right, the blow was due to us 489 00:34:37,700 --> 00:34:42,700 And anybody who does not allow his sacrifice to stand for them they'll still get it 490 00:34:42,700 --> 00:34:46,700 And they're going to get it for eternity is what's going to happen 491 00:34:46,700 --> 00:34:49,700 He took our punishment and you could do it 492 00:34:49,700 --> 00:34:53,700 Any four words that works for you? 493 00:34:53,700 --> 00:34:57,700 Found guilty when innocent 494 00:34:57,700 --> 00:35:01,700 Okay, four words, found guilty when innocent 495 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:03,700 That would work if you like that 496 00:35:03,700 --> 00:35:11,700 Found guilty when innocent 497 00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:14,700 He took our guilt 498 00:35:14,700 --> 00:35:21,700 Our guilt was born 499 00:35:21,700 --> 00:35:22,700 That's kind of yucky 500 00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:24,700 Okay, anyway, verse 9 501 00:35:24,700 --> 00:35:27,700 And his grave was assigned with wicked men 502 00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:29,700 And yet he was with a rich man in his debt 503 00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:34,700 That's a neat prophecy about Joseph of Arimathea coming and getting a body and putting it in his own tomb 504 00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:36,700 There's no way that could have been foreseen 505 00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:39,700 That a rich man would come and get his body and put him in his tomb 506 00:35:39,700 --> 00:35:40,700 That's interesting 507 00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:42,700 And his grave was assigned with wicked men 508 00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:46,700 Yet he was with a rich man in his debt 509 00:35:46,700 --> 00:35:48,700 Because he had done no violence 510 00:35:48,700 --> 00:35:50,700 Nor was there any deceit in his mouth 511 00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:57,700 But the Lord desired to crush him causing him grief 512 00:35:57,700 --> 00:35:58,700 What do you think? 513 00:35:58,700 --> 00:35:59,700 Look at that center list there 514 00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:07,700 What other translation could that Hebrew word give where it says causing him grief? 515 00:36:07,700 --> 00:36:10,700 Say it 516 00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:14,700 It's more than trouble 517 00:36:14,700 --> 00:36:17,700 Anybody else got it? 518 00:36:17,700 --> 00:36:19,700 It is a verb actually 519 00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:22,700 So you have to have a verb to place in there 520 00:36:22,700 --> 00:36:27,700 There's not too many verbs left 521 00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:30,700 The Lord desired to crush him causing him grief 522 00:36:30,700 --> 00:36:36,700 So it's kind of like a past, I don't know, perfect past verse, verb 523 00:36:36,700 --> 00:36:38,700 He made him sick 524 00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:43,700 The word means he made him sick 525 00:36:43,700 --> 00:36:48,700 The Lord desired to crush him, he made him sick 526 00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:50,700 What does that say? 527 00:36:50,700 --> 00:36:53,700 Oh, yeah, it made him sigh 528 00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:55,700 That would be different 529 00:36:55,700 --> 00:36:59,700 If he renders himself as a guilt offering 530 00:36:59,700 --> 00:37:01,700 And there is a different word in there from the Hebrew 531 00:37:01,700 --> 00:37:04,700 If he renders himself as a guilt offering, what do you think? 532 00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:06,700 He renders what? 533 00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:09,700 That's true, but that's not the word 534 00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:11,700 His soul, it's his soul 535 00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:14,700 If he renders his soul as a guilt offering 536 00:37:14,700 --> 00:37:17,700 Now there's complications there, I understand 537 00:37:17,700 --> 00:37:24,700 And the reason that it's complicated is because people think when you die and go to heaven, just your soul goes to heaven 538 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:27,700 But is that true? 539 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:31,700 So much more, there is a complete resurrection that takes place 540 00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:35,700 Jesus was resurrected as we will be at the new resurrection 541 00:37:35,700 --> 00:37:39,700 So we get confused about soul sleep and people getting into all that kind of stuff 542 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:44,700 But really your soul is what makes you alive 543 00:37:44,700 --> 00:37:50,700 And so Jesus gave his life, his soul, himself as a guilt offering 544 00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:53,700 If he renders himself or his soul as a guilt offering 545 00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:58,700 He will see his offspring 546 00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:00,700 He will see his offspring, say it again 547 00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:02,700 Seed, that's right 548 00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:05,700 And that actually makes a lot of sense in an agricultural society 549 00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:09,700 We kind of forget that plants drop their seed and that's where baby plants come from 550 00:38:09,700 --> 00:38:15,700 But also a man's seed is semen or whatever, it's called a man's seed 551 00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:19,700 But this is this, that word there, he will see his offspring 552 00:38:19,700 --> 00:38:21,700 So can I ask you this then? 553 00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:25,700 Because Jesus died and he never had children before he died 554 00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:27,700 And he never had children after he died 555 00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:30,700 So who are his offspring? 556 00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:32,700 Who is he talking about? 557 00:38:32,700 --> 00:38:34,700 Say it again 558 00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:36,700 Believers, that what you said? Yep, believers, right? 559 00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:40,700 So the church, God's people, a faith offspring if you will 560 00:38:40,700 --> 00:38:42,700 He will see his offspring 561 00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:44,700 He will prolong his days 562 00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:50,700 And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in his hand 563 00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:52,700 Good pleasure, say it again 564 00:38:52,700 --> 00:38:54,700 No, we already used peace 565 00:38:54,700 --> 00:38:57,700 The will of the Lord 566 00:38:57,700 --> 00:39:01,700 So that's because you're thinking of peace as good pleasure 567 00:39:01,700 --> 00:39:03,700 And that could be another definition 568 00:39:03,700 --> 00:39:06,700 But somebody's good pleasure is what they will 569 00:39:06,700 --> 00:39:08,700 It's what they want to happen 570 00:39:08,700 --> 00:39:11,700 And when you say please to somebody 571 00:39:11,700 --> 00:39:16,700 I remember the Lord had me and the Holy Spirit say this in a sermon about a year and a half ago 572 00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:20,700 But when you say please will you hand me a pencil 573 00:39:20,700 --> 00:39:23,700 What you're really saying is 574 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:26,700 If it pleases you, will you hand me a pencil? 575 00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:29,700 Or will you be pleased to hand me a pencil? 576 00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:31,700 I want it to be something you want to do 577 00:39:31,700 --> 00:39:33,700 So in other words, they can say no 578 00:39:33,700 --> 00:39:37,700 So we've got this thing now we're teaching it all wrong to our children 579 00:39:37,700 --> 00:39:40,700 Where we say, they come up and say may I have a piece of candy 580 00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:42,700 And they'll say you forgot a word 581 00:39:42,700 --> 00:39:45,700 And then they say please and we feel like we have to give it to them 582 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:47,700 Because now they've used their good manners 583 00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:50,700 But the question is actually does it please you to give me a piece of candy 584 00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:53,700 Or will you be pleased to give me a piece of candy? 585 00:39:53,700 --> 00:39:58,700 So the answer could still be yes or no 586 00:39:58,700 --> 00:40:02,700 So it pleases him, that's his good pleasure 587 00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:05,700 It is the will of the Lord 588 00:40:05,700 --> 00:40:10,700 And God's good pleasure will prosper in his hand 589 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:13,700 So let me just ask you, what is God's good pleasure? 590 00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:14,700 What is the will of the Lord? 591 00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:16,700 Simply put, salvation 592 00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:18,700 The love of mankind through Jesus Christ 593 00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:21,700 God wants to save people and through Jesus he'll do that 594 00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:23,700 So that's what that verse is saying 595 00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:25,700 And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in his hand 596 00:40:25,700 --> 00:40:29,700 Jesus was not going to waste the good pleasure of the Lord 597 00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:31,700 He was not going to go back on the plan of God to save people 598 00:40:31,700 --> 00:40:34,700 Simply put, two words 599 00:40:37,700 --> 00:40:39,700 Say it again, God what? 600 00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:41,700 I didn't hear you 601 00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:42,700 Nothing? 602 00:40:42,700 --> 00:40:44,700 I didn't hear you 603 00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:46,700 Okay, anybody got it? Two words? 604 00:40:48,700 --> 00:40:50,700 God what? 605 00:40:50,700 --> 00:40:53,700 God will, you can do that 606 00:40:53,700 --> 00:40:56,700 God wills or God will or God wins 607 00:40:56,700 --> 00:40:59,700 God's victory, Jesus' victory 608 00:40:59,700 --> 00:41:01,700 This is about they win 609 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:04,700 The Lord desire to crush him 610 00:41:04,700 --> 00:41:07,700 Even making him sick 611 00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:10,700 He renders his soul as a guilt offering 612 00:41:10,700 --> 00:41:13,700 He will see his offspring or his seed 613 00:41:13,700 --> 00:41:15,700 That's the people that God will save 614 00:41:15,700 --> 00:41:17,700 He will prolong his days 615 00:41:17,700 --> 00:41:19,700 And the will of the Lord or the good pleasure of the Lord 616 00:41:19,700 --> 00:41:21,700 Will prosper in his hand 617 00:41:21,700 --> 00:41:23,700 He wins 618 00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:25,700 Victory, victory, victory 619 00:41:25,700 --> 00:41:27,700 You can just put victory twice if you wanted to 620 00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:29,700 Like the old song that they used to sing 621 00:41:29,700 --> 00:41:31,700 Verse 11, we're up on the right hand side now 622 00:41:31,700 --> 00:41:33,700 We're almost done with the hard work 623 00:41:33,700 --> 00:41:37,700 As a result of the anguish of his soul 624 00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:41,700 Say it again 625 00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:43,700 Trouble 626 00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:45,700 It's trouble 627 00:41:45,700 --> 00:41:49,700 The result of the anguish of his soul or the trouble of his soul 628 00:41:49,700 --> 00:41:54,700 In fact, I would say to you that all trouble of the soul is anguish 629 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:58,700 We don't like it when we eat something that doesn't taste good 630 00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:01,700 We don't like it when somebody says something to us that hurts us emotionally or whatever 631 00:42:01,700 --> 00:42:04,700 But if it affects you in your soul 632 00:42:04,700 --> 00:42:06,700 If it troubles your soul 633 00:42:06,700 --> 00:42:08,700 That's bad, that hurts 634 00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:10,700 When somebody you love and you just 635 00:42:10,700 --> 00:42:13,700 They are everything to you in the world 636 00:42:13,700 --> 00:42:16,700 And they tell you, get away from me, I don't want nothing to do with you 637 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:20,700 Or when you want to be with somebody that you love and you can't 638 00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:22,700 That troubles your soul 639 00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:24,700 That's anguish 640 00:42:24,700 --> 00:42:28,700 And even to the point that psychologists will tell you that it'll make your whole body hurt 641 00:42:28,700 --> 00:42:30,700 It'll make everything feel wrong 642 00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:33,700 Anxiety, depression, struggle, emotional, physical 643 00:42:33,700 --> 00:42:36,700 You know, you can't function, you got pain in places, you don't know why 644 00:42:36,700 --> 00:42:38,700 Because if your soul is hurting 645 00:42:38,700 --> 00:42:40,700 It drives everything else 646 00:42:40,700 --> 00:42:45,700 And so, as a result of the anguish or the trouble of his soul 647 00:42:45,700 --> 00:42:48,700 He will see it and be satisfied 648 00:42:48,700 --> 00:42:50,700 This is an interesting one 649 00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:52,700 See light, that's right 650 00:42:52,700 --> 00:42:56,700 So the it here could be light 651 00:42:56,700 --> 00:43:05,700 So the Hebrew word that is in there says he will see light or he will see it and be satisfied 652 00:43:05,700 --> 00:43:10,700 So what do you think the it or the light is talking about? 653 00:43:10,700 --> 00:43:14,700 Kind of sort of God, right? 654 00:43:14,700 --> 00:43:16,700 It's talking about the wisdom of God 655 00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:20,700 Nine times out of ten in the scripture when you see a reference to light 656 00:43:20,700 --> 00:43:22,700 It's talking about wisdom or understanding in the Lord 657 00:43:22,700 --> 00:43:24,700 And when you see a reference to darkness 658 00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:27,700 It's talking about ignorance or a lack of understanding in the Lord 659 00:43:27,700 --> 00:43:30,700 It's a lot of times in scripture it's talking about that 660 00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:37,700 And so that's kind of why they didn't say he will see light 661 00:43:37,700 --> 00:43:38,700 They're talking about Jesus, right? 662 00:43:38,700 --> 00:43:40,700 So Jesus should know 663 00:43:40,700 --> 00:43:44,700 Except what they mean is the same as what the verse says 664 00:43:44,700 --> 00:43:46,700 For the joy that was set before him 665 00:43:46,700 --> 00:43:51,700 The light that Jesus was seeing was that this is how God is going to save mankind 666 00:43:51,700 --> 00:43:53,700 This is how God is going to do it 667 00:43:53,700 --> 00:43:55,700 He knew that there was a suffering Savior coming and he was it 668 00:43:55,700 --> 00:43:57,700 He knew they were going to crucify him 669 00:43:57,700 --> 00:43:58,700 He knew, he understood 670 00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:03,700 And so satisfied, in fact it even goes on to say he will see it and be satisfied 671 00:44:03,700 --> 00:44:09,700 By his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, will justify the many 672 00:44:09,700 --> 00:44:11,700 For he will bear their wrongdoings 673 00:44:11,700 --> 00:44:13,700 Jesus got it 674 00:44:13,700 --> 00:44:17,700 He understood that he was bearing the wrongdoings of people 675 00:44:17,700 --> 00:44:20,700 So that God could have his way which was to reconcile himself with mankind 676 00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:25,700 Otherwise God's justice has to be borne out and everyone will pay 677 00:44:25,700 --> 00:44:29,700 So Jesus knew that that was the way, the math of it 678 00:44:29,700 --> 00:44:31,700 So for the joy set before him 679 00:44:31,700 --> 00:44:35,700 He was able to submit himself to death even death on a cross, Philippians 2 680 00:44:35,700 --> 00:44:40,700 By his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant will justify the many 681 00:44:40,700 --> 00:44:41,700 For he will bear their wrongdoings 682 00:44:41,700 --> 00:44:46,700 Okay, so summarize that, simply put three words 683 00:44:46,700 --> 00:44:49,700 Let me take a stab at it 684 00:44:49,700 --> 00:44:54,700 Jesus will 685 00:44:54,700 --> 00:44:56,700 Say it again 686 00:44:56,700 --> 00:44:59,700 Okay, I like that, carry, kinda 687 00:44:59,700 --> 00:45:01,700 What else? 688 00:45:01,700 --> 00:45:03,700 Save, Jesus will save 689 00:45:03,700 --> 00:45:08,700 Or justify, there is a difference between justification is a part of the salvation process, right? 690 00:45:08,700 --> 00:45:11,700 Jesus will save, Jesus will justify 691 00:45:11,700 --> 00:45:14,700 You could put, Jesus will understand 692 00:45:14,700 --> 00:45:15,700 Right? 693 00:45:15,700 --> 00:45:18,700 Jesus will submit 694 00:45:18,700 --> 00:45:20,700 Any of those are possibilities 695 00:45:20,700 --> 00:45:26,700 Because they fit with the, he will do this as a result of his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant will justify the many 696 00:45:26,700 --> 00:45:29,700 For he will bear their wrongdoings 697 00:45:29,700 --> 00:45:31,700 Okay, just one verse left 698 00:45:31,700 --> 00:45:34,700 Therefore, because all of this is true 699 00:45:34,700 --> 00:45:38,700 I will allot him a portion with the great 700 00:45:38,700 --> 00:45:41,700 And he will divide the plunder with the strong 701 00:45:41,700 --> 00:45:45,700 Because he poured out his life, and you probably already know this one by now 702 00:45:45,700 --> 00:45:50,700 You haven't figured it out, he poured out his 703 00:45:50,700 --> 00:45:52,700 Alternative word for life 704 00:45:52,700 --> 00:45:54,700 Soul unto death 705 00:45:54,700 --> 00:45:57,700 He poured out his soul unto death 706 00:45:57,700 --> 00:46:02,700 So it's life or soul in that, the Hebrew word that's there could be translated either life or soul 707 00:46:02,700 --> 00:46:04,700 He poured out his life or soul unto death 708 00:46:04,700 --> 00:46:06,700 And was counted with wrongdoers 709 00:46:06,700 --> 00:46:10,700 Yet he himself bore the sin of many 710 00:46:10,700 --> 00:46:13,700 And interceded for the wrongdoers 711 00:46:13,700 --> 00:46:16,700 Forward summary, and all your blanks are filled in 712 00:46:16,700 --> 00:46:20,700 God willing, if it has worked 713 00:46:20,700 --> 00:46:28,700 What do you got? Forward summary 714 00:46:28,700 --> 00:46:31,700 He or Jesus? 715 00:46:31,700 --> 00:46:33,700 Say it again 716 00:46:33,700 --> 00:46:34,700 Covered their sins 717 00:46:34,700 --> 00:46:37,700 Okay, that's good, I like that 718 00:46:37,700 --> 00:46:38,700 What else? 719 00:46:38,700 --> 00:46:39,700 He paid the price 720 00:46:39,700 --> 00:46:41,700 He paid the price, good 721 00:46:41,700 --> 00:46:43,700 What else? 722 00:46:43,700 --> 00:46:45,700 Anybody else got one? 723 00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:47,700 Stab at it, Chris you got one? 724 00:46:47,700 --> 00:46:49,700 What did Jesus do? Jesus did what? 725 00:46:49,700 --> 00:46:51,700 For us 726 00:46:51,700 --> 00:46:53,700 Say it again 727 00:46:53,700 --> 00:46:54,700 Died for us 728 00:46:54,700 --> 00:46:56,700 Died for us, that's good 729 00:47:01,700 --> 00:47:02,700 Good 730 00:47:02,700 --> 00:47:05,700 Any of those things work for me as long as they're biblical 731 00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:09,700 When you're studying your Bible the most important thing is that you 732 00:47:09,700 --> 00:47:13,700 Keep in line with the Scriptures 733 00:47:13,700 --> 00:47:15,700 Okay, just keep in line with what it says 734 00:47:15,700 --> 00:47:17,700 If you try to interpret a verse 735 00:47:17,700 --> 00:47:22,700 And you find out that it does not line up with something else in Scripture 736 00:47:22,700 --> 00:47:24,700 Then you're not interpreting the verse correctly 737 00:47:24,700 --> 00:47:26,700 Or you don't understand that other verse 738 00:47:26,700 --> 00:47:29,700 Right, you always cross check verses of Scripture 739 00:47:29,700 --> 00:47:32,700 Alright, so we're gonna, I wanna give you the piece of this 740 00:47:32,700 --> 00:47:34,700 You got a little picture down here 741 00:47:34,700 --> 00:47:37,700 A little pictorial representation of Isaiah 53 742 00:47:37,700 --> 00:47:40,700 In the middle is the cross at Calvary 743 00:47:40,700 --> 00:47:44,700 Have you ever told anyone that Jesus died on the cross for their sins? 744 00:47:44,700 --> 00:47:45,700 I hope you have 745 00:47:45,700 --> 00:47:48,700 If you haven't you kind of missed the point of Christianity because 746 00:47:48,700 --> 00:47:52,700 You know, it becomes a ministry of our reconciliation 747 00:47:52,700 --> 00:47:54,700 That we reconcile others to God 748 00:47:54,700 --> 00:47:55,700 That's kind of the whole point, right? 749 00:47:55,700 --> 00:47:58,700 So we explain how we came into relationship with God 750 00:47:58,700 --> 00:48:00,700 So that others might do the same thing 751 00:48:00,700 --> 00:48:03,700 Somehow or other you want to do that with your family, with your friends, whatever 752 00:48:03,700 --> 00:48:05,700 You want to kind of explain 753 00:48:05,700 --> 00:48:10,700 But understand that Jesus was a man 754 00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:13,700 He was 100% man, he was also 100% God 755 00:48:13,700 --> 00:48:15,700 It's called the hypostatic union 756 00:48:15,700 --> 00:48:16,700 So he was totally a man 757 00:48:16,700 --> 00:48:19,700 So he had all the same weaknesses that any man might have 758 00:48:19,700 --> 00:48:21,700 You see that in the Garden of Gethsemane with him 759 00:48:21,700 --> 00:48:23,700 So in anguish about what he was about to go through 760 00:48:23,700 --> 00:48:26,700 That he was sweating so bad he started to bleed out his pores 761 00:48:26,700 --> 00:48:27,700 Right? 762 00:48:27,700 --> 00:48:29,700 So it was so terrible for him what he was going through 763 00:48:29,700 --> 00:48:32,700 Anybody here ever want to have it handed down 764 00:48:32,700 --> 00:48:34,700 That you'll be put to death tomorrow? 765 00:48:34,700 --> 00:48:37,700 And know with 100% certainty that that's going to happen? 766 00:48:37,700 --> 00:48:41,700 How about if it was 100% certain going to happen 767 00:48:41,700 --> 00:48:43,700 You're going to be whipped with a scourge 768 00:48:43,700 --> 00:48:45,700 So that your back is going to be ripped open 769 00:48:45,700 --> 00:48:47,700 Until your muscles, sinews and bones showing 770 00:48:47,700 --> 00:48:50,700 Then put to death 771 00:48:50,700 --> 00:48:54,700 So you first have to undergo 2 to 5 to 6 hours of terrible torture 772 00:48:54,700 --> 00:48:57,700 So that death will come as a release 773 00:48:57,700 --> 00:48:59,700 And know that's coming? 774 00:48:59,700 --> 00:49:03,700 It's a terrible torture 775 00:49:03,700 --> 00:49:05,700 It's a terrible thing 776 00:49:05,700 --> 00:49:09,700 Even to the point that we can say with 777 00:49:09,700 --> 00:49:11,700 In our faith we can say with certainty 778 00:49:11,700 --> 00:49:14,700 That we would not renounce the name of Christ 779 00:49:14,700 --> 00:49:20,700 But under torture stronger people have done worse 780 00:49:20,700 --> 00:49:22,700 And some have stayed the course 781 00:49:22,700 --> 00:49:25,700 Probably those who were true Christians stayed the course 782 00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:27,700 And they did not renounce the name of Christ 783 00:49:27,700 --> 00:49:30,700 And they were crucified, burnt at the stake 784 00:49:30,700 --> 00:49:31,700 Drawn and quartered 785 00:49:31,700 --> 00:49:33,700 That's where they put four draw horses 786 00:49:33,700 --> 00:49:35,700 One on each arm, one on each leg 787 00:49:35,700 --> 00:49:37,700 And they pull you until your body comes apart 788 00:49:37,700 --> 00:49:38,700 Drawn and quartered 789 00:49:38,700 --> 00:49:41,700 People stayed their faith and didn't give it up 790 00:49:41,700 --> 00:49:43,700 They didn't renounce the name of Jesus 791 00:49:43,700 --> 00:49:45,700 But very realistically speaking 792 00:49:45,700 --> 00:49:47,700 You kind of don't know what you're going to do 793 00:49:47,700 --> 00:49:48,700 Until you're in that place 794 00:49:48,700 --> 00:49:49,700 And if they say 795 00:49:49,700 --> 00:49:50,700 We'll just end 796 00:49:50,700 --> 00:49:51,700 You're whipping you in your hour two 797 00:49:51,700 --> 00:49:54,700 And your back is ripped open and on fire 798 00:49:54,700 --> 00:49:55,700 And you're like 799 00:49:55,700 --> 00:49:56,700 If you'll just renounce the name of Jesus 800 00:49:56,700 --> 00:49:58,700 We'll end it quickly 801 00:49:58,700 --> 00:50:01,700 And hopefully in the Spirit in God 802 00:50:01,700 --> 00:50:02,700 Because that's our salvation 803 00:50:02,700 --> 00:50:04,700 Because it's the truth about Jesus 804 00:50:04,700 --> 00:50:06,700 We would not renounce the name of Christ 805 00:50:06,700 --> 00:50:07,700 That's the hope, right? 806 00:50:07,700 --> 00:50:08,700 But the fact is 807 00:50:08,700 --> 00:50:11,700 Here's Jesus with the ability to call 10,000 angels 808 00:50:11,700 --> 00:50:14,700 To save him from this thing that he's about to do 809 00:50:14,700 --> 00:50:15,700 Right? 810 00:50:15,700 --> 00:50:17,700 It's not going to change the fact that God loves us 811 00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:20,700 It's not going to change the fact that God wants to reconcile mankind 812 00:50:20,700 --> 00:50:23,700 It's just the plan to get that done 813 00:50:23,700 --> 00:50:24,700 Right? 814 00:50:24,700 --> 00:50:26,700 And he's 100% man 815 00:50:26,700 --> 00:50:30,700 When they pierce his side the next day 816 00:50:30,700 --> 00:50:31,700 When they pierce his side with a spear 817 00:50:31,700 --> 00:50:33,700 And it goes up and it punctures his heart 818 00:50:33,700 --> 00:50:35,700 And makes you 100% sure that he's dead 819 00:50:35,700 --> 00:50:36,700 Blood and water flow 820 00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:38,700 That's called a plural effusion 821 00:50:38,700 --> 00:50:40,700 You only get a plural effusion 822 00:50:40,700 --> 00:50:41,700 Water around your heart 823 00:50:41,700 --> 00:50:46,700 If you endure terrible, terrible traumatic stress 824 00:50:46,700 --> 00:50:47,700 And people will die from it 825 00:50:47,700 --> 00:50:48,700 Because you get water around their heart 826 00:50:48,700 --> 00:50:50,700 And then their heart can't beat anymore 827 00:50:50,700 --> 00:50:52,700 It will crush your heart 828 00:50:52,700 --> 00:50:55,700 The water will stop your heart from being able to beat 829 00:50:55,700 --> 00:50:58,700 And that had happened to Jesus 830 00:50:58,700 --> 00:50:59,700 Okay? 831 00:50:59,700 --> 00:51:00,700 Jesus was 100% a man 832 00:51:00,700 --> 00:51:05,700 And he endured what God willing you or I will never endure 833 00:51:05,700 --> 00:51:07,700 Okay? 834 00:51:07,700 --> 00:51:11,700 These verses, Isaiah 53, among others 835 00:51:11,700 --> 00:51:14,700 Prophecy that that exact thing was going to happen 836 00:51:14,700 --> 00:51:15,700 And he knew it 837 00:51:15,700 --> 00:51:16,700 And he was living it out 838 00:51:16,700 --> 00:51:19,700 But he was still 100% a man 839 00:51:19,700 --> 00:51:22,700 And I submit to you that these verses also tell us 840 00:51:22,700 --> 00:51:24,700 That as a man 841 00:51:24,700 --> 00:51:26,700 The reason he could do that 842 00:51:26,700 --> 00:51:31,700 Was because he understood what lie on the other side 843 00:51:31,700 --> 00:51:34,700 As a man, he understood what lie on the other side 844 00:51:34,700 --> 00:51:37,700 This is why you can hope to not renounce the name of Jesus 845 00:51:37,700 --> 00:51:39,700 And when you get in that circumstance 846 00:51:39,700 --> 00:51:40,700 Is to not renounce the name of Jesus 847 00:51:40,700 --> 00:51:42,700 This is why you can do that 848 00:51:42,700 --> 00:51:45,700 Because something lies on the other side 849 00:51:45,700 --> 00:51:46,700 That will heal it all 850 00:51:46,700 --> 00:51:47,700 All the pain will be gone 851 00:51:47,700 --> 00:51:48,700 All the suffering will be gone 852 00:51:48,700 --> 00:51:51,700 The scars, etc. will not affect you anymore 853 00:51:51,700 --> 00:51:53,700 Your weeping, your sorrow 854 00:51:53,700 --> 00:51:55,700 All that all dealt with on the other side 855 00:51:55,700 --> 00:51:58,700 Whereas if by some chance you renounce the name of Jesus 856 00:51:58,700 --> 00:52:02,700 And you then die thereafter 857 00:52:02,700 --> 00:52:04,700 If you truly were not already a believer 858 00:52:04,700 --> 00:52:06,700 If you really had not accepted Jesus 859 00:52:06,700 --> 00:52:07,700 And you get there 860 00:52:07,700 --> 00:52:10,700 Then it's an eternity of something that's actually worse than the crucifixion 861 00:52:10,700 --> 00:52:13,700 So if you really believe in the plan of God 862 00:52:13,700 --> 00:52:15,700 There's heaven and there's hell 863 00:52:15,700 --> 00:52:18,700 Then you really believe that Jesus went through what he went through 864 00:52:18,700 --> 00:52:21,700 To make sure people go to heaven and not hell 865 00:52:21,700 --> 00:52:23,700 If you really believe that 866 00:52:23,700 --> 00:52:26,700 Then you can endure just about anything on this earth 867 00:52:26,700 --> 00:52:29,700 With the same ability as a man that Jesus did 868 00:52:29,700 --> 00:52:32,700 Looking for what comes after 869 00:52:32,700 --> 00:52:36,700 Our eyes fixed on the joy that lies before us 870 00:52:36,700 --> 00:52:40,700 We can endure almost anything on this earth 871 00:52:40,700 --> 00:52:43,700 The one thing that we cannot rightly endure 872 00:52:43,700 --> 00:52:47,700 Would be the absence of God in our life after we're saved 873 00:52:47,700 --> 00:52:48,700 That would be crushing 874 00:52:48,700 --> 00:52:50,700 That would be too much 875 00:52:50,700 --> 00:52:53,700 And so that's why you'll see martyrs 876 00:52:53,700 --> 00:52:55,700 Who will stick their guns 877 00:52:55,700 --> 00:52:56,700 They will stay 878 00:52:56,700 --> 00:52:59,700 And they will right up until their last breath 879 00:52:59,700 --> 00:53:01,700 Will not renounce Jesus 880 00:53:01,700 --> 00:53:05,700 And you see Stephen looking to heaven and seeing Jesus standing by the throne 881 00:53:05,700 --> 00:53:08,700 You see Justin the martyr saying 882 00:53:08,700 --> 00:53:10,700 You know 883 00:53:10,700 --> 00:53:13,700 I'm not going to renounce Jesus because I know where I'm going 884 00:53:13,700 --> 00:53:17,700 I see the throne room of God and I'm being invited therein 885 00:53:17,700 --> 00:53:20,700 Like the Korean pastor that they took out 886 00:53:20,700 --> 00:53:22,700 It took him and his wife and his kids out in the field 887 00:53:22,700 --> 00:53:24,700 Made them all dig their graves 888 00:53:24,700 --> 00:53:26,700 Put his wife and kids down in there 889 00:53:26,700 --> 00:53:28,700 And they were getting ready to shoot him with AK-47s 890 00:53:28,700 --> 00:53:29,700 And make him watch 891 00:53:29,700 --> 00:53:31,700 And that was the worst torture they could do 892 00:53:31,700 --> 00:53:33,700 They knew if they just tortured him it wouldn't be that bad 893 00:53:33,700 --> 00:53:34,700 They just killed him 894 00:53:34,700 --> 00:53:35,700 That wouldn't be that bad 895 00:53:35,700 --> 00:53:37,700 But they killed his wife and kids for him 896 00:53:37,700 --> 00:53:38,700 They knew that would be really bad 897 00:53:38,700 --> 00:53:40,700 So they killed his wife and kids 898 00:53:40,700 --> 00:53:42,700 And as they were about to shoot his wife and kids 899 00:53:42,700 --> 00:53:43,700 She looked at them and they were crying 900 00:53:43,700 --> 00:53:45,700 Kids were sobbing, they were crying, scared 901 00:53:45,700 --> 00:53:49,700 And she said don't worry, we're being invited to the greatest feast there ever could be 902 00:53:49,700 --> 00:53:50,700 And she was not afraid 903 00:53:50,700 --> 00:53:52,700 And they shot the three of them dead 904 00:53:52,700 --> 00:53:55,700 And then they took him back and dumped him in his shop 905 00:53:55,700 --> 00:53:57,700 To blubber in his own spit for hours 906 00:53:57,700 --> 00:54:01,700 As he cried over what had just happened to his wife and children 907 00:54:01,700 --> 00:54:04,700 The next morning he got up and began to share the gospel 908 00:54:04,700 --> 00:54:07,700 Three weeks later one of the men that shot his wife and children came to him 909 00:54:07,700 --> 00:54:09,700 And they said I don't understand what we did to you 910 00:54:09,700 --> 00:54:10,700 What we put you through 911 00:54:10,700 --> 00:54:12,700 Why are you still telling people about Jesus 912 00:54:12,700 --> 00:54:15,700 And he said what else can I do 913 00:54:15,700 --> 00:54:17,700 I know where they've gone and I know who I serve 914 00:54:17,700 --> 00:54:19,700 What else am I going to do 915 00:54:19,700 --> 00:54:21,700 And that man became a Christian 916 00:54:21,700 --> 00:54:25,700 And then all the men except for one who were there that day that shot his family became Christians 917 00:54:25,700 --> 00:54:27,700 And then they started a small group 918 00:54:27,700 --> 00:54:29,700 And that small group started other small groups 919 00:54:29,700 --> 00:54:35,700 And now he is the founding pastor of the largest church in the world 920 00:54:35,700 --> 00:54:37,700 But he could only do that 921 00:54:37,700 --> 00:54:39,700 And they'll tell you flat out 922 00:54:39,700 --> 00:54:43,700 I've talked to him not personally but our meeting talked to him over Zoom 923 00:54:43,700 --> 00:54:48,700 And he'll tell you that the only reason he was able to do that was as a man 924 00:54:48,700 --> 00:54:50,700 The same reason that Jesus could endure what he endured 925 00:54:50,700 --> 00:54:53,700 Which is he was looking at what lies beyond 926 00:54:53,700 --> 00:54:55,700 So we are humans 927 00:54:55,700 --> 00:54:57,700 We look at Calvary 928 00:54:57,700 --> 00:54:58,700 And we do that quite often 929 00:54:58,700 --> 00:55:00,700 Jesus paid the price for my sins 930 00:55:00,700 --> 00:55:02,700 I'm so glad I'm saved and that's all good 931 00:55:02,700 --> 00:55:06,700 We have to realize that there's something beyond Calvary that Jesus was seeing 932 00:55:06,700 --> 00:55:09,700 And that's what we really need to be seeing 933 00:55:09,700 --> 00:55:12,700 We really need to be seeing that which is beyond Calvary 934 00:55:12,700 --> 00:55:14,700 Because your Calvary 935 00:55:14,700 --> 00:55:17,700 Even if it's a death to cancer or a car accident 936 00:55:17,700 --> 00:55:20,700 Or get shot in a mugging 937 00:55:20,700 --> 00:55:22,700 Or die from a disease 938 00:55:22,700 --> 00:55:24,700 Other kind of disease like COVID or something 939 00:55:24,700 --> 00:55:26,700 Your Calvary is coming 940 00:55:26,700 --> 00:55:30,700 And it may be the sum total of what your life is 941 00:55:30,700 --> 00:55:33,700 You may have to endure a number of very bad hardships 942 00:55:33,700 --> 00:55:35,700 A number of terrible things 943 00:55:35,700 --> 00:55:38,700 Well that's summed up your Calvary 944 00:55:38,700 --> 00:55:40,700 But lying beyond your Calvary 945 00:55:40,700 --> 00:55:45,700 Is a glorious second eternity if you will 946 00:55:45,700 --> 00:55:47,700 A life beyond death 947 00:55:47,700 --> 00:55:49,700 And Jesus saw it as a man and he understood 948 00:55:49,700 --> 00:55:52,700 And he understood it was God's plan to pay 949 00:55:52,700 --> 00:55:57,700 Unfortunately the church continues the ministry of Jesus 950 00:55:57,700 --> 00:55:59,700 When they're truly following the Lord 951 00:55:59,700 --> 00:56:02,700 And we must face some of the difficulties in order to carry out 952 00:56:02,700 --> 00:56:04,700 What is the good pleasure of the Lord 953 00:56:04,700 --> 00:56:07,700 If you wanted to you could kind of go back through here 954 00:56:07,700 --> 00:56:10,700 And you could look at how you embody as a Christian 955 00:56:10,700 --> 00:56:12,700 Following the Lord each one of these things 956 00:56:12,700 --> 00:56:14,700 The question is 957 00:56:14,700 --> 00:56:16,700 For example 958 00:56:16,700 --> 00:56:17,700 Verse 11 959 00:56:17,700 --> 00:56:22,700 As a result of the anguish of RJ's soul 960 00:56:22,700 --> 00:56:26,700 Right? Or the pains of RJ's soul 961 00:56:26,700 --> 00:56:29,700 RJ will see the light 962 00:56:29,700 --> 00:56:31,700 And be satisfied 963 00:56:31,700 --> 00:56:32,700 By his knowledge 964 00:56:32,700 --> 00:56:34,700 RJ who will be righteous in Christ 965 00:56:34,700 --> 00:56:37,700 Not his own righteousness but righteous in Christ 966 00:56:37,700 --> 00:56:40,700 My servant RJ will justify the many 967 00:56:40,700 --> 00:56:42,700 For he will bear their wrongdoings 968 00:56:42,700 --> 00:56:44,700 The church is the body of Christ 969 00:56:44,700 --> 00:56:48,700 And we will bear their wrongdoings just as Jesus did 970 00:56:48,700 --> 00:56:51,700 Assuming we can see where we're going 971 00:56:51,700 --> 00:56:53,700 And we have the wisdom to continue 972 00:56:53,700 --> 00:56:55,700 And it's going to suck sometimes 973 00:56:55,700 --> 00:56:57,700 From a human perspective 974 00:56:57,700 --> 00:56:59,700 And that's why we can consider it pure joy 975 00:56:59,700 --> 00:57:01,700 When we face all men our trials and tribulations 976 00:57:01,700 --> 00:57:03,700 Because it says 977 00:57:03,700 --> 00:57:05,700 We will see that great joy 978 00:57:05,700 --> 00:57:09,700 If we suffer with him 979 00:57:09,700 --> 00:57:11,700 I close this in prayer and we'll be through 980 00:57:11,700 --> 00:57:39,700 I hope you have any questions