Man the title of my sermon this evening is Jesus lived by faith
Jesus lived by faith. Of course. Jesus Christ is the ultimate example
For our lives the Bible says in 1st Peter 221 for even here on to where you called because Christ also suffered for us
Leaving us an example that you should follow his steps go if you would do Philippians chapter number two
So Jesus Christ left us an example to follow his
Steps in Philippians chapter 2 the Bible also
Hammers this point beginning verse 5 let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus
So the idea here is that we should have the same mentality that Jesus Christ had about humility and so forth
It says in verse 6 who being in the form of God
Thought it not robbery to be equal with God
So Jesus Christ is up in heaven before he was ever born in Bethlehem's manger
Of course in the beginning was the word the word was with God the word was God God
Eternally exists as the father the son and the Holy Ghost and so Jesus Christ is God
Has always been God always will be God. He's the same yesterday and today and forever
And so he thought it not robbery to be equal with God meaning that
Equality with God isn't him stealing something that doesn't belong to him
It's not considered robbery for him to be equal with God because he is
Equal with God because God the father God the son and God the Holy Spirit are all
Co-equal and co-eternal and what we mean by co-equal is that they are all equally divine
They're all equally got it's it's not that the father is more God than the son
No, it's that they are all equally divine
And so it says although that he was in the form of God and he thought it not robbery to be equal with God
But he made himself of no
Reputation right and he took upon himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men
So Jesus Christ God himself came down to this earth and just made himself of no reputation just became an ordinary
Man and he took upon himself the form of a servant and he was made in the likeness of men verse 8
He being found in fashion as a man
He humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross
Wherefore God also had highly exalted him and given him a name
Which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the father
Right as opposed to God the son the Lord Jesus Christ God in the flesh came and dwelt among us
And he left us an example that we should follow in ourselves. We should be humble
We should be obedient even unto death the Bible tells us in Revelation to be thou faithful unto death
And I will give thee a crown of life. So we see that Jesus is the example now flip over if you would to Hebrews 2 where we started
Hebrews chapter 2 and
The title of the sermon again is that Jesus lived by faith now
Here's the thing we get saved by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ
So we are saved by faith not of works listen any man should boast
But faith does not stop at salvation
The entire rest of the Christian life is lived by faith and I would say that faith is the most important ingredient in our Christian lives
It's the one thing more than anything else that is going to make or break us how strong is our faith
How much faith do we have that's really going to determine how far we go for the Lord is what kind of faith
Do we have we live from faith to faith that just live by faith?
And so when it comes to the attacks of Satan upon us and we talked about this this morning briefly
But it says above all taking the shield of faith
We're with you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked
So everything that the devil is throwing at you can be quenched with the shield of faith
What a super important component of our lives is faith every day
Not just for salvation, but the whole rest of our Christian life is hanging on to promises of God
believing the promises of God and pushing through difficulty
Believing what God has said in his word doing what the Bible says because we believe it's right even if other people are telling us
It's wrong even if circumstances might point to something in the Bible being wrong
We know the Bible is never wrong and so we have the faith to always believe God's word all the time
And that's what keeps us going in the Christian life, you know without faith. It's impossible to please him
For he that come into God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him
Now here's the thing if the Lord Jesus Christ came to this earth as a human being and
Live the perfect life that none of us could live
And he's leaving out an example that we should follow in his steps
You know, it wouldn't really be much of an example if Jesus Christ never had to exercise any faith at all
If Jesus Christ never lived by faith
Then how can he be the ultimate example for us when that's like all our Christian life is about is faith every day all day
And then to have this idea that Jesus Christ himself did not live a life of faith
Well, then you know what he didn't live as a human being then and he didn't live the life
That would be an example for us because our life is totally by faith now
Let's look what the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9. It says but we see Jesus
Who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death?
Crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man
Now what does this mean when the Bible says that Jesus was made a little lower than the angels?
Well, the Bible tells us in 2nd Peter chapter 2 verse 11 that angels are
Greater in power and might than human beings are and that should be obvious to us
Right, you know, we don't have the kind of power that we see angels having in the Bible
And so he was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death
And so he is you know, basically as a human being on this earth Jesus Christ
He did not walk around
Omniscient and omnipotent
He just didn't okay now. It's funny because some
Faggity bozo from Miami who's not saved
Said that I was teaching heresy and he actually
Slandered me and lied about me because he said that I said that Jesus stopped being God while he was on this earth
And you know what that's a bold-faced lie
Coming from a guy whose father is the father of lies because he's an unsaved idiot
But let me tell you this right now. I would never say such a thing because Jesus Christ is a hundred percent God and a hundred percent man
And here's the thing Jesus Christ doesn't start or stop being God. He just is God all the time
He's the same yesterday today forever. He's always been and always will be but the problem with these bozos
These self-styled little theologians who are so into church history and church fathers and everything is that they
Literally believe that God is just like a list of attributes. They have this retarded doctrine called
Divine simplicity and they basically believe that God is just a list of attributes
So, you know, it's just omniscience. I'm that's just what God is so that basically to them
If Jesus stops knowing everything while he's on this earth or stops having all power while he's on this earth
That somehow that means he stops being God and then they can lie and say that we you know claimed that well
Let me tell you something if you do not believe that Jesus didn't know everything while he's on this earth
You're just rejecting the Bible if you're gonna tell me that Jesus knew every single thing while he walked on this earth
You're a liar and you're calling God a liar and you're calling the Bible a liar because what does the Bible clearly say?
This is not a gray area
This is something that the Bible spells out in Mark chapter 13 32. It says but of that day and hour
Knoweth no man know not the angels with her in heaven neither the son
But the father only so if the Bible spells out that the son of God does not know the day or the hour of his return
But that the father does know
Then you have to reject Jesus you have to reject the Bible
You have to reject the words that are on the page in front of you in mark 13 32
In order to try to claim that Jesus knew everything while he was on this earth
So who's the heretic now buddy because you know what I've said this often nothing that the Bible says can ever be heresy
The Bible says something it's not heresy and you know who the heretics are are the liars
Who are denying the board the word of God that's on the page that says that Jesus?
Christ while he was on this earth did not know the day nor the hour of a second coming
Anybody who denies the truth of that verse is a liar and a heretic and a false prophet
Anybody who can look at a bullet just a bold statement in the Bible playing his day and just not believe it
It just means that they're not saved and that they're a liar and a fraud
Because saved Christians don't just point at a verse and just reject what that verse says
This verse spells out and explicitly states that Jesus Christ did not know everything while he was on this earth
And of story full stop and here's the thing is that Jesus Christ also when he came to this earth
He was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death
He took upon himself a mortal human flesh a mortal human body so that he could die on the cross for our sins
he did not have superhuman powers and
Superhuman knowledge of just knowing everything that is a false doctrine. It's just wrong and it's that simple
so it's kind of funny when people will come at you with all their theology and all their
Philosophy and all their Catholic mumbo jumbo but at the end of the day
The Bible just cuts through all that stuff like a knife and just says hey
Jesus didn't know the day or the hour of his second coming done over and of story
But let's keep going here in Hebrews chapter 2 jump down if you would to verse number 14
It says for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood
He also himself likewise took part of the same that through death
He might destroy him that had the power of death
That is the devil and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage for verily
He took not on him the nature of angels
But he took on him the seed of Abraham
Wherefore in all things that behooved him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful
High priest and things pertain to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people friend that he himself had suffered being tempted
He is able to suck or them that are tempted to suck or means to help or to give assistance
If you speak Spanish, you know this word so called oh, which means, you know, you're crying for help and so forth
So here's the thing it says in verse 17 in all things
This is about Jesus Christ in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren
So, okay, you know according to the Bible Jesus Christ became totally human
Okay, Jesus Christ lived a real truly human experience and in all things
He was made like unto his brethren and because he suffered being tempted
He's able to sucker them that are tempted and what's the idea here is that Jesus knows what we're going through
Because he went through the same thing he experienced the same thing
He was tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin
And so because he experienced that what we're going through as human beings
He is able to help us out. We have not a high priest
Which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was at all points tempted like as we are yet without
So, oh, you're saying stop being got no, no, here's that he's a hundred percent God and a hundred percent man
See what these people actually believe is they say well, he's a hundred percent God and
80 percent man 60 percent man 40 percent man, you know
They don't think that Jesus actually did the real human experience and I do that's the difference is that I actually believe that Jesus
Christ actually lived the life of a human being and here's the thing if Jesus Christ is going through life where everybody he looks at
He just knows everything about them and he just knows everything that's on their mind
He's just a mind reader reading every single person's mind
It's just like he's just like the terminator getting like a printout of everything about that person
Okay, well, here's the thing about that then Jesus Christ did not live as a human being and he did not live
The life that I live or that you live or that anyone else has ever lived
Because none of us are going through life reading everyone's mind and just knowing everything and knowing all things
No, that is not the human experience Jesus Christ took upon himself human flesh, which includes a human brain
That's why the Bible also explicitly says in Luke 2 52
Jesus increased in wisdom and
In stature and in favor with God and man the Bible is spelling out that Jesus gained wisdom
Well, how do you gain wisdom if you already know everything? You don't Jesus Christ was born as a baby
He didn't come out of his mother's womb and start talking on day one
He's a baby he had to learn how to talk he had to learn how to walk he had to you know
Rely fully on his mother to breastfeed him and take care of him and change his diaper and everything like that
He did not come out talking like he does in the Quran where in the Quran Jesus literally comes out
He just starts talking and saying a bunch of Muslim
garbage
Look what Hebrews chapter 5 says if you're there in Hebrews chapter 2 flip over to chapter 5 Hebrews chapter number 5 says this in verse 7
Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears
Under him that was able to save him from death and was heard and that he feared though
He were a son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered so again Jesus Christ is growing in wisdom
He's learning obedience
He you know did not know the day or the hour of his second coming. He said only the father knows that
I don't know that because Jesus Christ living life as a bonafide
Legitimate real flesh and blood human being up
Here's why I'm so passionate about this doctrine is because I feel like people are ruining
the entire story of the life of Jesus by turning Jesus into a
Superman with
Omniscience and omnipotence as he walks on this earth because then he's not even doing the experience
He's not even leaving us an example that we can follow steps. Yeah, just be like Jesus
Here's how you start you first know everything and have all power
Wow, good luck with that
How does that work it ruins the whole story? No Jesus Christ when he was going through life
He hungered he was thirsty. He was tired. He was frustrated. He was angry
He went through
Everything that we go through as human beings and he was having a bonafide human human experience
And you say well, what about the part where it says Jesus knew their thoughts?
Yeah, but here's the thing read a little further and keep going and compare scripture with scripture in a parallel passage
It says Jesus perceived their thoughts
Perception is when you look at somebody's face and you look at them and you perceive what's going on in their head
I mean, how many times have you said this someone? Hey, I know what you're thinking right now
Okay, so he perceived their thoughts. Okay, also, you know, there'll be people that will point out like well
What about when Jesus says hey when you were under the fig tree Philip?
I saw you earlier when you were under the fig tree and then he's like oh wow
You're the son of God. You're the king of Israel
But here's the thing and I've pointed this out many times also is that all kinds of
Prophets and men of God throughout the Bible did miracles and received visions and did supernatural things
I mean think about it go through the Bible. You see Elisha
Raising the dead back to life. You see Elisha
Multiplying food you see Moses parting the Red Sea
Turning water into blood calling forth all kinds of plagues
And you also see the prophet of God when he's blind and he's physically can't see anything when the wife of King
Jehoram comes in he says oh come on in wife of King Jehoram why famous thou thyself to be another why because God revealed
That to him in a vision so here's the thing
Jesus Christ when he was living on this earth was filled with the Holy Spirit to the max more than any other person
Who's ever lived the Bible says God gave not the spirit by measure unto him now we in our Christian lives
Unfortunately, we spend a lot of time in the flesh and we're living in the flesh and then other times we're walking in the Spirit
Sometimes run the flesh sometimes run the Spirit sometimes we're filled with the Holy Spirit sometimes we're not
Okay, Jesus Christ though was just filled with the Spirit to the max all the time
So of course God's giving him all kinds of revelations
God is giving him all kinds of visions and knowledge and
Supernatural wisdom and awareness that doesn't mean that he knew every single thing though does it and not only that
But because he's filled with the Holy Spirit and he's praying in the will of God all the time
He's constantly doing miracles
Be through the power of the Holy Spirit just like Moses did miracles through the power of the Holy Spirit
Just like the Apostles went around and healed the sick raise the dead
Cast out devils cleanse the lepers the Apostles did all those things
Through the power of the Holy Spirit guess how Jesus did those things through the power of the Holy Spirit through prayer
He prays and asks God to raise Lazarus from the dead
Okay, so you have God the Father up in heaven and you have Jesus Christ down here on this earth
actually living as a human being not just some Hindu version of the of the gospel where Jesus just comes down as like an
Avatar or something like God is just an avatar as Jesus on this earth kind of pretending to be human
Going through the motions of being human
I know I believe he's actually born as a baby as a human when he was three
He had the mentality of a three-year-old. It was just a perfect three-year-old
He had a perfect mentality of a six-year-old
15 year old 20 year old 30 year old
But he grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God a man
Now I think that this should be a really basic doctrine and I think this is like Christianity 101
And it's really sad that people are goofed up on this and that people have been taught wrong on this because again
Frankly just ruins the entire story
How can you really appreciate Jesus Christ and everything that he's doing if you think that he has all these
Cheat codes turned on if you think he's playing with the game gene he plugged in and he's got all the cheats turned on and he's playing on
Super duper easy mode and before he started his life
He went up up down to the left right left right B.A. Start and now all of a sudden
He's got 99 lives and he's got 30 lives and four continues and then the rest of us are over here playing on difficult mode
Now I'm telling you he's playing on the same mode that we played on
Amen
Why would you ruin the story?
Why would you ruin the example of Christ by saying?
Oh, he has all these cheats turned on that we don't have he's like a super you is like a spider man
Superman Batman whatever no no he's Jesus the son of God and he was the son of man as well
He's human and he had the limitations. He took upon himself the limitations that we as human beings have
Where our brain holds a certain amount of information and our bodies can do a certain amount of work
And that's the life that Jesus and you say I don't know why you care about this why you preach it because I love Jesus and
You know to know him is to love him
And if you have wrong ideas about who Jesus is or what he was like on this earth
That's going to take away from your appreciation for the Savior
Whereas if you actually know what the Bible says about him and and you can appreciate him for what he is
So look at John chapter 11
Let's just look at a couple examples of this because I want to I really want to apply this tonight
But I want to you know first off to prove the doctrine because you got all these bozos out there
Getting this wrong and then they act like oh pastor Anderson really stepped in it pastor. It's like bro
The jokes on you I'm preaching sound biblical doctrine based on what the Bible explicitly says y'all are reading up a bunch of Catholic
Philosophical Greek mythology crap and then passing it off as Christianity because let me tell you where this idea of
Divine simplicity and God just being a list of attributes it comes from ancient Greek
Philosophy from before Christ people who didn't believe in Christ
So Plato and Aristotle they're writing about their conception of what they think God is and
What they think that the ideal or perfect God would be like then you have medieval Catholic scholars
Trying to take Aristotle's view of God and making it fit the Bible. No, thanks. I'm not interested
I don't want to be spoiled by philosophy and vain tradition of man
because I am so less scriptura and I'm only going by what the Bible says and
Aristotle's burning in hell and Plato's burning in hell and anybody else who didn't believe on
The God of the Bible is burning in hell. It's that simple
So
I had you turn to where?
So John chapter 11 this is this is of course, you know
One of the most powerful
passages of scripture in the entire Bible the raising of Lazarus John 11 is just a tour de force of a chapter
But look at verse 33 it says when Jesus therefore saw her weeping and the Jews also weeping which came with her
Watch this he groaned in his spirit and was troubled
I mean, is this just fake is he just pretending is he just going through the motions? No, I don't believe that I believe that he's really
legitimately upset
He's upset. He's struggling right? He's he's he's troubled and he's groaning in himself
I mean think about you know you groan when you're struggling you're upset you're in pain
That's what he's going through emotion here. He's groaning in the spirit
He's troubled and said wherever you laid him they said in him Lord come and see
Jesus wept and again Jesus is actually
Crying and shedding tears from the heart because he felt bad because he was upset because he was troubled because he's groaning in his spirit
He's not just play acting or pretending
You know Jesus actually went through what we went through and here's the thing none of this takes away from his divinity
You know why Jesus is divine you want to know the proof that Jesus is divine just he does is
And of story well, how could you be divine if he's if he's going through all these motions?
And if he doesn't know everything just because he is
He's just God because the Bible says he's God and he's the same yesterday today and forever
And he claimed to be God and the Bible says he's God and he is God
He was in the beginning with God and he was God
He's got okay. Can we just get that out of the way that he's just God period all the time every day
Okay, so guess what he also was a hundred percent man a hundred percent God a hundred percent man
And so he experienced this whole gamut of
Human emotion including being troubled being upset groaning in spirit
Just you know bursting into tears here. Okay, Matthew 26
Says this if you want to flip over there or you can just listen verse 37
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy
Then say at the end of them my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death
Terri here and watch with me is Jesus just a little bit sad little upset little perturbed. No, he says man
I am exceedingly
Right, what is exceeding? It's like overflowing excess. We talked about excess this morning with alcohol, right?
Exceeding is too much
Overboard it's too much. He says I'm exceedingly sorrowful. I'm extremely
Sorrowful even unto death. He says I feel like I'm gonna die. I'm so upset, right?
And I mean that's pretty extreme emotion here coming from the Lord Jesus Christ
But you know what we go through stuff like that too sometimes sometimes we're gonna be super upset
And we're gonna be exceeding sorrowful maybe even unto death and so we can look to Jesus and say hey
Jesus knows how that feels because he has legitimately been there done that
My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death. Terri here and watch with me
So he's praying to the father in the Garden of Gethsemane because he's constantly depending on
The father for strength depending on the Holy Spirit just like we're supposed to go through life
Depending on God trusting in God and relying on the Holy Spirit for strength
John 519 you don't have to turn there, but you could flip over to Matthew 26
But in John 519
Jesus said of them verily verily. I say to you the son can do nothing of himself
But what he see at the father do for what things so ever he doeth these also do at the son likewise
Verse 30 of the same chapter. This is Jesus talking. I can of mine own self do nothing
This is what the Bible says folks
I can of my own self do nothing as I hear I judge and my judgment is just because I seek not my own will
But the will of the father which hath sent me look at Matthew 26 39
This is when he was super troubled in the Garden of Gethsemane
He went a little further fell on his face and prayed saying oh my father if it be possible
Let this cup pass from me nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt you see Jesus Christ
He doesn't want to go through with being crucified because nobody wants to be crucified
Nobody wants to be physically tortured. Nobody wants to be spat upon mocked and
Execrated by people, but he says you know what I'll do it though. He's trusting God and he's saying you know what?
Whatever you want me to do I'll do it not as I will but as thou will
You know the Bible tells in Hebrews 12 looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith
Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross?
Dispising the shame right he despised the shame nobody wants to be publicly humiliated and Jesus was not only physically tortured
He was also publicly humiliated at the cross
It says he despised the shame and it sat down at the right hand of the throne of God for consider him that endured such
Contradiction of sinners against himself lest he be weary and faint in your minds
What's he saying look when you're going through stuff think about Jesus and what he went through
And think about how he was humiliated. Oh, you're humiliated. So was he you're in physical pain. So was he you're troubled
So was he you're groaning in your spirit. So was he you're exceeding sorrowfully even a death
So was he and this gives us an
Example that we can look unto Jesus and we can keep our eyes on him and keep going through the hard times
Now go if you were to Psalm 22 let's go back to Old Testament
Because remember the title of the sermon is this Jesus lived by faith
Okay, and what does that mean to live by faith? It means you have to believe that the Bible is true
You have to believe the promises of God you have to believe that God is gonna come through for you
You have to believe that God is looking out for you that God is watching over you that God actually cares about you
Because he says that he cares about you. He says that the hairs of your head are numbered
He says that the good the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. Well, guess what?
We can't see that we have to believe that and
Sometimes it becomes hard to believe sometimes. It's easy to believe
We see God working and it's just everything's happening and everything's coming together other times
We don't see it and then it's harder to believe sometimes. It's easy to believe sometimes
It's hard to believe but the Christian life is continually having faith in those promises and those statements of God's work
So here's the thing Jesus Christ when he lived on this earth, you know what he also had to trust
God and he also had to believe the Bible and believe the promises of God in the Bible
Look at Psalm 22 and you say well, I don't think that's true
Okay, well then basically what you're saying is that he was tempted at all points like as we are except in the biggest one
That's the most important one every single day
Because how are we tested every day more than anything it were tested on what our faith?
Well, he's tempted all points like as we are except for the big one
Doesn't make any sense my friend. Look what the Bible says, but but you know, that's just my
argument from you know, the obvious
Teachings of who Christ is and what kind of life he lived and what kind of a life we live and him being an example
But I'm gonna show you some explicit scripture of Jesus actually
exercising faith living by faith and trusting in God the Father because this is spelled out in the Bible
Psalm 22 is of course prophetic about the Lord Jesus Christ and some people will say oh, Jesus quoted
Psalm 22 verse 1 on the cross and wrong
Psalm 22 is quoting Jesus
Don't get it wrong here. It's not it's not that Jesus is just reciting a Bible verse on the cross
No, Jesus is saying this and Psalm 22 is quoting Jesus
You say, you know prove it. Well, here's the thing is that Psalm 22 is written in Hebrew and
Jesus makes his statement in Aramaic, so he's not quoting the Bible verse
he's saying it in his native language Aramaic and then
Hundreds and hundreds of years earlier the Bible is prophesying that he's gonna say that in the language of back then
You know back when Psalms was written probably this song is written about a thousand years before Christ
Okay, it's hard to know the exact date, but it's about a thousand years before Jesus
It says in verse 1 of Psalm 22 my God my God
Why has thou forsaken me and again? We know that this is a prophecy about Jesus
Why are thou so far from helping me and
From the words of my roaring. Oh my God
I cry in the daytime, but thou here is not and in the night season and I'm not silent
But thou art holy. Oh thou that inhabit us the praise of Israel our fathers trusted in thee they trusted and now
It's deliver them they cried unto thee and were delivered they trusted in thee and we're not confounded notice the emphasis on
Trusting in God. He's saying look our fathers trust in you
They were not confounded and this is what we go through in our lives to where we think to ourselves
You know what people in the Bible trust in God and God took care of them
Right like Sarah herself, you know
She trusted God and she followed her husband Abraham even though, you know
He told her to do some some things that were weird and whatever, you know
He and she ended up just try having faith in God trust in God
Submitting to her husband and in the end, you know God looked out for her and took care of her
And so the idea is that we could look at Bible stories and see people like Moses and Elijah
Trusting in God God comes through for Jeremiah. God comes through for Ezekiel. He's gonna come through for us too, right?
And so this is what Psalm 22 is teaching here. It's saying look our fathers trusted in you
They trusted doubt. It's deliver them verse 5. They cried unto thee and were delivered
They trusted in thee and we're not confounded, but I'm a worm and no man a
Approach of man and despised of the people all they that see me laugh me to scorn
They shoot out the lip they shake the head saying he trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him
Let him deliver him seeing he delighted in him now
Of course, they do say that exact thing in the four gospels, don't they?
This is the kind of stuff that they're saying about Jesus while he's on the cross and
So it's pretty easy to see the prophetic nature of the Psalm verse 9
But thou art he that took me out of my out of the womb that it's make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts
I was cast upon thee from the womb thou art my God from my mother's belly be not far from me for trouble is near
For there's none to help many bowls have compassed me strong bowls of Baychan have beset me around they gaped upon me with their mouths as
A ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint
My heart is like wax. It is melted in the midst of my bowels
My strength is dried up like a pot shirt and my tongue cleave it to my jaws and I was brought me into the dust of death
For dogs have compassed me the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet. I
May tell all my bones they look and stare upon me
They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture
But be not thou far from me. Oh Lord my strength hasty to help me and on and on it goes
I mean it's you have to be blind to not see that this is just over and over again
Referencing the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in every possible way
Piercing his hands and feet
Parting his garments casting lots upon his vesture
Gaping at him looking and staring upon his bones are out of joint
That's part of the crucifixion process of being hung in this awkward way on the cross and on and on it goes
And so, you know, we see here that Jesus Christ here
Going through this in his mind. Hey, you know what these other people in the past have trusted in God
And you know what they were not let down and I'm not gonna be let down either
If I trust in God now, what are they saying about him?
They're saying well
He trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him let him deliver him seeing he delighted them now go to Psalm 16
Now with that in mind kind of with this idea of Psalm 22 in your mind now go back to Psalm 16
Now
Psalm 16 is another
Very messianic Psalm and again, we don't have to just guess this Psalm 22 is quoted repeatedly in the New Testament
And guess what Psalm 16 is also quoted repeatedly in the New Testament about Jesus and how does it start?
What's the first verse preserve me? Oh God for in thee do I put my trust?
Okay, but now let's see
Exactly how did Jesus Christ trust in God or have his faith in God in the story look at verse 8
It says I've set the Lord always before me and and look
This is not my opinion that this is about Jesus because Peter says this is about Jesus in the book of Acts
Repeatedly Paul says it's about Jesus. This is explicitly stated to be about Jesus in the New Testament
It says I've set the Lord always before me because he is at my right hand
I shall not be moved
Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices my flesh also shall rest in hope
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither what thou suffered on holy one to see corruption
Thou wilt show me the path of life in my presence's fullness of joy at thy right hand
There are pleasures forevermore. Let me tell you something. These are the promises of God that Jesus is relying upon
Jesus is relying upon the promises of the Word of God. He's saying look, you know why I have hope
because I know
That God the Father is not gonna leave my soul in hell
Neither is he gonna suffer his holy one to see corruption and in his presence. There's gonna be false. What's he saying?
He's saying here that he is fully trusting and relying upon the fact that God the Father is going to raise him from the dead
So when Jesus went to the cross and he was obedient unto death even the death across he went with faith
believing that Jesus Christ would be risen from the dead, right?
So Jesus went to the cross
Believing that God the Father is not gonna leave his soul in hell. He's not gonna let his flesh see corruption
But that he would resurrect him from the dead
This is why in Luke 23 46 when Jesus had cried with a loud voice
He said Father into thy hands. I command my spirit and having said thus he gave up the ghost now
What does it mean to command something? Now the word command has multiple definitions
So if you look this up in a dictionary the relevant definition here is definition number two, which is to entrust
To entrust to give in charge to deliver with
Confidence, okay, so for example if I said hey Fidel come here Fidel
I am going to commend my wallet unto you. Okay. I'm commending my wallet unto Fidel. Okay good. No
I'm trusting you with my wallet. I commend that unto you. Okay. Look
What does that mean if I said I commend my wallet unto you now definition number one of command is to praise something like
Like if I said hey Jonathan, I'd like to commend you, you know on what a great church member you are, right?
That is me commending him as in praising him. Hey, let's give him a big hand. You know, that's what it means. Yeah, amen
He's like
You know, so, you know, that's that's definition number one of command
Totally different definition to command is to praise or to like a police officer will get a commendation
Okay, but then definition number two is hey, I am commending my wallet
Unto Fidel. What does that means? He's gonna watch it for me and it means I'm
Entrusting it to him for safekeeping. I'm giving it to him with confidence. It's like hey
I want to make sure nothing happens to my wallet while I'm preaching so I'm gonna go ahead and leave it with Fidel
So that because his name is Fidel he has to be faithful or else that wouldn't be his name
That's literally what his name means trustworthy
So if you can't trust the guy named Fidel you can't trust anybody, okay?
And so the point is that you know Jesus on the cross literally says
Father into thy hands. I commend my spirit. Oh, just kidding psych. I'm actually in control of it all the time
See I look I'm sick of people ruining the story of Christ by just taking away
All of these elements of Jesus living by faith and living an actual human life that we could actually
Follow and see the example because you know what I believe I believe that when Jesus said into thy hands
I commend my spirit that he's basically saying you know what God? I'm trusting you with my spirit right now. I
Am entrusting my spirit to you and I'm gonna rest in hope that my soul is not gonna be left in hell
Neither is my flesh gonna seek corruption. He said I'm trusting you to
Resurrect me. That's what the Bible is saying and look
I feel like this stuff is just so clear in the Bible and it's really sad that people miss out on this and
I don't know why they believe the dumb things that they believe but the Bible is just so clear
You know, I'm trusting my spirit with you. I'm trusting in you Lord
I trust you Lord my souls rest in hope because you're not gonna leave my soul in hell
You know what that shows me is that Jesus when he went to the cross he believed
That he is going to be resurrected and that he's relying on God to resurrect him
Now look at Acts chapter 2 acts chapter 2 and we go there and see
Exactly what I just said the quotation of Psalm 16 and it's spelled out even further
It says in Acts chapter 2 verse 24
It says whom God hath raised up right because God raised Jesus from the dead God the Father raised Jesus from the dead
Having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible
That he should be holding of it now again don't miss verse 24
Whom God raised up having loosed the pains. What does pain mean?
pain hurts
Right again, why don't we just believe what the Bible says?
Whom God raised up having loosed the pains of
Death
Because it was not possible that he should be holding of it
You see here's the thing is that when an unsaved person
Dies right a person who has not believed on the Lord Jesus Christ their Savior when that person dies
They go to a place called death and they go to that place and it's that place also called hell
Okay, and so like if I were to die today
I'm gonna go straight to heaven my body will stay here on this earth
But my soul my spirit is going straight to heaven. I'll be up in heaven immediately in heaven enjoying that
Even before my body is resurrected my body is going to be resurrected way in the future end of the world
But for now my soul is going to be up in heaven
Well guess what an unsaved person, you know the rich man died in Luke 16. He lift up his eyes in hell
He's in hell that fast
Because the body stays here, but instead of the soul going to heaven the soul goes to hell
Okay, and here's the thing about people who go to hell is that they are punished eternally
So it's not like they get a second chance. They don't get reincarnated
They don't get you know asked hey, I know you've been in hell for a while
Do you want to stay or would you like to change your mind and get saved now?
Because I feel like pretty much everybody be like yeah, I think I'll believe in Jesus now
You know if given that option
But the thing is once you're in hell, it's too late. You got to get saved while there's still hope while you're still alive
Now is the accepted time now is the day of salvation
You got to get saved now and if you're not saved right now
You should be scared to death
You should be horrified and scared and afraid to even get in the car and drive anywhere or go to bed tonight
You should get saved before you even leave this building
You should be begging people to tell you how to be saved before you leave this building if you're not safe
Because if you die without Christ and make no mistake you could die on the way home tonight
You could die in your sleep tonight. You could die during this sermon while I'm preaching
Nobody's ever died while I've been preaching but there's a first time for everything and this could be the night
Okay, I
Mean look if I weren't saved right now
I'd be literally getting out of my seat right now and just and grabbing somebody that looks like they've been here for a while
I'm just being like hey, let's go to the back and get me. I want you to get me saved right now
I want you to tell me how to be saved right now
If you knew what's at stake
Okay, once you go to hell it's over for you now here's the thing yeah at the end
The the the souls that are in hell are going to be brought up before the great white throne and judged again
Because they're already condemned already, but then they're going to be judged further and then thrown into the lake of fire
Okay, which is like the other
Location of hell because there's hell in the center of the earth at this time
And then there's hell and outer darkness for all eternity, but either way you're gonna burn in hell forever
You know the rest is just details
Okay
But here's the thing about this is that once you die that's it you're dead you don't come back
Now Jesus said that those who live and believe in Jesus will never die
So those of us that are saved we don't ever really die like our body dies
But we have eternal life eternal means it never ends
So we're not actually going to die because if I were to quote-unquote die tonight
It would only be my body dying and I'd still be alive and well up in heaven
Abraham Isaac and Jacob are alive in heaven right now according to Jesus and so yeah
The body will die, but I will not die, but let me tell you so once you die. That's it for you
You die you go to hell and you're done, and you you know, you're not gonna live again. Okay
But here's the thing about that is that Jesus Christ though
He actually died and he was dead. He said in Revelation 1. I'm he that live it then was dead and
Behold I'm alive forevermore. Amen and have the keys of hell and death Jesus Christ actually conquered death
Jesus actually
Conquered hell. He's the only person who went there and came back and
Resurrected after three days and three nights in the heart of the earth
Nobody else has ever done that nobody else is going to do that where they go to hell and die are truly dead
And then resurrected, you know, that's unique to the Lord Jesus Christ
Because the rest of us by believing in Jesus, we just avoid death altogether
You know, we just we just open our eyes and boom
You know, hopefully we'll all die peacefully in our sleep and just wake up in heaven, right?
And so he says here
That God raised him up verse 24 having loosed the pains of death
Because it was not possible that he should be holding of it
There was never a chance that Jesus was going to be left in hell never was a chance
But here's the thing about that is that Jesus had to believe that
Because God the Father had made that promise and that's what the Bible taught and
Jesus knew hey, my soul is not going to be left in hell. My flesh is not going to seek corruption
Keep going. It says in verse 25 for David speaketh concerning him
I foresaw the Lord always before my face for he's on my right hand that I should not be moved
Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope
Because thou will not leave my soul in hell neither with thou suffer line holy one to seek corruption thou has made
Known to me the ways of life thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance men and brethren
Let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David that he is both dead and buried and his sepulchre is with us under this day
He's saying this is not David talking
This is David speaking of christ
It says men and brethren
David's dead his we can go visit his tomb if you want his body's there
Therefore being a prophet verse 30 and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins
According to the flesh he would raise up christ to sit on his throne. He's saying this before
spake of the resurrection of christ
That his soul was not left in hell now that it is flesh see corruption
So there are two aspects to the resurrection of jesus christ aspect number one is that his soul was not left in hell
Aspect number two his flesh did not see corruption and that shows you that jesus resurrection is a bodily resurrection
Okay, the key doctrine of the faith that we must believe to be saved is we must believe in the bodily resurrection of jesus christ
Why because the gospel is the death
burial
And resurrection of christ. Do you bury a soul? Do you bury a spirit? What do you bury?
You bury the body and so the essential doctrine now
Here's the thing there are a lot of people who may not understand
The fact that jesus soul was in hell for three days and three nights
That is not something that someone would have to know or believe in order to be saved
That's a more like higher level doctrine or something like that
What's the most basic doctrine of just you know getting someone saved is the death burial and resurrection of jesus
You know and why because you know, it's a bodily resurrection
And this is why the jahoba's witnesses are not saved
Actually, there's a lot of reasons why they're not saved, but that's the biggest one
Is that they don't believe in the resurrection of jesus because according to them
Jesus rose means that his soul left his body bro. That's called dying
Isn't it called dying when your soul leaves your body? I mean if I die right now, my soul would leave my body
That's not a resurrection. That's called death
No, you want to know what the resurrection of jesus is is that he physically
Got up and walked out of the tomb with flesh and bone and literally went to his disciples
Showed them the hole in his side showed them the holes in his hands and said be not faithless
But believing and what did he do? He said hey you guys have anything to eat
And he ate food with them just to show them how he was literally physically there
He said hey a spirit hath not flesh and bone as you see me to have
And he ate some fish. He ate a broiled honeycomb. He's eating food to show them
I am bodily physically here risen from the dead. How can you not believe that?
Well, it's called being unsaved when you just reject what the bible just flat out says
It's a sign of somebody who is not actually saved
And if you don't believe in the resurrection of christ, I mean you don't believe the gospel
And specifically what aspect of the resurrection you need to believe in the fact that it's a bodily resurrection
Because it's the death burial and resurrection and the burial is what happens to a spirit
No a soul. No a body. Yes
And so he says
Neither did his flesh see corruption
He's seeing this before spake of the resurrection of christ that his soul was not left in hell
Neither his flesh did see corruption
This jesus hath god raised up
Whereof we all are witnesses
Therefore so again notice verse 24 god raised up jesus verse 32 god raised up jesus
We could look at 10 other verses that say the exact same thing, but we're not going to
Verse 33 therefore being by the right hand of god exalted and having received of the father the promise of the holy ghost
He has shed forth this which he now see in here
And so notice that when we study the life of jesus jesus christ, he did always those things that please the father
He grew in wisdom
He grew in stature. He grew in favor with god and men
He lived a perfect life in the sense that he never sinned
He was tempted all points like as we are yet without sin
But he still had to learn and grow
And he still had to you know read the bible
He had a custom of going to the synagogue and reading the bible the bible
You know the bible tells us that and that jesus christ when he went through life
He was hungry
You know the bible says when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights
He was afterward and hungry when he was on the cross. He said i thirst
saw him 22
prophesied the dryness of his mouth and his tongue cleaving to the roof of his mouth with
Thirst and being parched
He was super troubled
Grieved upset
Groaning in his spirit
He gets angry at times in the four gospels because he is living the bona fide human experience
Now look does jesus do supernatural things? Absolutely
Through the power of the holy spirit
But you know what so did other prophets so did other apostles that didn't mean that they aren't human
Right elisha can still be human and do miracles
Jesus can still be human and do miracles right jesus can still pray and get miraculous answers to prayer
Raise the dead cleanse the lepers heal the sick cast out devils, but so can the apostles also
And so jesus truly left us an example that we should follow in his steps
And just as jesus christ
Lived by faith and trusted in god because the big the big thing that that jesus had to trust the father for is
You're not going to leave my soul in hell. You're not going to suffer your holy one to see corruption
You know that's the big thing that the bible hammers him trusting in god about and that's why he said hey, okay lord
I'm commending my spirit unto you now. I'm turning it over to you for safekeeping, which reminds me if I give my wallet back
So don't forget
All right, it looks a little lighter than what I gave it to you, but hey
Well, guess what when we go through our lives
Faith is the big one
I mean look when you see people
living a life
That's just
carnal
And worldly and they're just looking out for themselves and not caring about
Other people not caring about putting god first not seeking first the kingdom of god
You know what it tells me is that this person is lacking in faith
Like what if somebody's like well, you know what I'm just gonna totally get out of church and just focus on only work
I'm just gonna focus on work focus on career
I don't have time for church because I'm too busy making money
You know what this tells me is that this person does not believe the promise in the bible that says
Seek he first the kingdom of god and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you
Now it doesn't mean that they don't believe it at a superficial level
Like yeah, of course every saved christian believes everything in the bible on some level
But there's kind of like believing something there's like believing something
How much faith does it take to get saved?
You know, I think that it takes a just a super little tiny amount of faith to get saved
Thank goodness. Amen. I mean look jesus said hey if you have the faith of a grain of mustard seed you could move mountains
So here's the thing
Does it take a lot of faith to get saved? I don't think it takes a lot of faith to get saved at all
But whatever little tiny microscopic faith you have you just have to put it all on jesus
It doesn't matter how much faith you have you just have to believe on jesus with all your heart
And just put all your faith on jesus
So you might you know walk up with you know a dollar worth of faith or a thousand dollars worth of faith
You just got to put it all on jesus and you're saved
But here's the thing people who just have a little tiny bit of faith and then they believe in jesus they're going to heaven
You know like the guy who said to jesus lord, I believe help that on my unbelief
How much faith did that guy have if he's literally saying?
Well, I believe but help my unbelief
Well, that was enough because jesus does it for him
So yeah, you know believing and doubting
Is just part of being a christian. This is part of being a human. It's part of life. Okay
So here's the thing about that is that you put all your faith on jesus. Maybe it's just a tiny bit
Well, here's the thing as we read our bible
As we pray as we sing the hymns as we go to church as we win souls to christ as we live for god our faith grows
Right because the fruit of the spirit is faith
So the more we walk with god the more experience we get the more our faith increases and grows
As a christian then we start having more faith. So there's the thing. Yeah, of course
We all believe the bible right unless you're an unsaved person like these unsaved people who say
Jesus knew everything while he walked on this earth because I think mark 1332 is a lie
Well, you're a liar and you're going to hell because you're just proving to everybody
You're a false prophet when you say that because mark 1332 is a bible verse. That's true
And and so here's the thing obviously we all believe the whole bible in the sense that we believe
That it's all from god. We're not we're not saying that any of it's false or a lie or anything like that
Right because you know if you add to or take away from god's word. Well, you know, we know what kind of person you are
According to revelation 22
But here's the thing about that
Is that there's believing that all these things will be added unto you on a very superficial
Minor level and then there's being like, you know what man?
I really believe that if I seek first the kingdom of god
All these things will be added under and the more that we really believe that and have more faith in that
We're going to be more like prioritizing the things of god because it would be stupid
To prioritize other things over god if we know that if we seek first the kingdom of god, we're going to get both
I mean think about it
You know what what you know just to make it real simple what if there's a doughnut and there's a glass of milk
Okay, and it's like look if you seek first the doughnut the milk will be added unto you
Okay, and then you're just like well, you know what?
I just really want that milk and I don't know if I can really trust that if I go for the doughnut
I'm going to end up with the milk also
So I'm just going to go straight for the milk
It's stupid because if you seek first the doughnut the glass of milk will be added unto you
If you truly believe that you'd get the doughnut you'd get the milk and you'd have it all, you know
Amen
So if you seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness
And then the food and the clothing the other things will be added unto you
If you're just like well, I got to put god on the back burner to go seek this stuff
Isn't that a lapse in faith?
No, look, that's one example
I could give you example everything in the christian life is like this
Every if you truly believe on a visceral level and you have just great faith in the promises of god
You're going to be constantly doing what the bible says to cash in on those promises
And this is why the entire christian life every day is walking by faith
Believing if I obey my parents, I'm going to be better off than if I don't obey my parents
Right now here's the thing when you see kids just being like well, you know
I'm going to disregard what my parents say
I'm going to do something totally different because I know better
You know what they're saying is they don't really believe what the bible says
That if you honor your father and mother, it's going to be well with you
And your days are going to be long on the earth and that if you despise to obey your mother
Well, god's going to curse you, you know if you actually believe that you'd be super respectful
Of your parents you'd be fearing your parents honoring your parents
Loving your parents obeying your parents. Am I right?
You know if you knew that stealing
Is going to cause you problems with the lord, you know, you wouldn't you wouldn't steal
Right, but here's the thing all of us are human and we all make mistakes
And when we do make those mistakes, it's typically because our faith is weak
You know or we're going through trials and tribulations
And it's just like god's not coming through for me
Our faith gets weak and then we want to quit on god and people quit going to church quit reading their bible
Quit soul winning and get disillusioned disenchanted. That's a lack of faith
In the promises of god
Okay, and so everything in the christian life is
faith
All the fiery darts of the wicked quench by the shield of faith
So then
How could jesus be our example if he didn't live by faith? Well, guess what?
We have this awesome example of jesus exercising faith
In a greater way than any of us could even really amount. I mean he's going to the cross
He's going to die for our sins. He's going to be in hell for three days and three nights. I mean
trusting
That he's not going to be left there. I mean, that's
A huge amount of faith to be obedient unto death. I mean, here's the thing if one of us
Went to the cross and got literally crucified because you know, there have been people who crucified christians
After jesus right people people, you know
The romans crucified a bunch of people and japanese people were crucifying people and everything, you know, it has happened to people
You know if I just marched off to be crucified you'd say like wow, there's a man of great faith
right
And so the lord jesus christ he modeled the way for us
He left us an example to follow in his steps and he actually also showed us a life of faith
Let's bear it in our word of prayer father. Thank you so much for your word lord
And thank you for the example of our lord jesus christ and how he trusted you and and
And he relied upon you and did always those things that please you lord help us to follow that example
Help us to have faith
please lord increase our faith and help us to trust in you and to just
Cash in on the promises that you've made
by
Doing what you've said in the bible would would get us those promises lord help us to live by faith
As jesus lived by faith and it's in his name. We pray amen