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 So turn your Bibles to Psalm 22, which is where we're going to be this evening. It's page 554.

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 And Hannah is going to come and read for us. So page 554, Psalm 22.

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 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?

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 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer. By night, but I find no rest.

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 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One. You are the one Israel praises.

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 In you our ancestors put their trust. They trusted and you delivered them.

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 To you they cried out and were saved. In you they trusted and were not put to shame.

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 But I am a worm and not a man. Scorned by everyone, despised by the people.

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 All who see me mock me. They hurl insults, shaking their heads.

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 He trusts in the Lord, they say. Let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.

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 Yet you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust in you, even at my mother's breast.

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 From birth I was cast on you. From my mother's womb you have been my God.

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 Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

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 Many bulls surround me. Strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

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 Roaring lions that tear their prey open their mouths wide against me.

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 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint.

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 My heart has turned to wax. It has melted within me.

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 My mouth is dried up like a potsherd. And my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.

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 You lay me in the dust of death.

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 Dogs surround me. A pack of villains encircles me.

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 They pierce my hands and my feet.

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 All my bones are on display. People stare and gloat over me.

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 They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.

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 But you, Lord, do not be far from me.

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 You are my strength. Come quickly to help me.

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 Deliver me from the sword.

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 My precious life from the power of the dogs.

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 Rescue me from the mouth of lions.

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 Save me from the horns of the wild oxen.

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 I will declare your name to my people.

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 In the assembly I will praise you.

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 You who fear the Lord, praise him.

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 All you descendants of Jacob, honour him.

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 Revere him, all you descendants of Israel.

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 For he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one.

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 He has not hidden his face from him, but has listened to his cry for help.

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 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly.

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 Before those who fear you, I will fulfil my vows.

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 The poor will eat and be satisfied.

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 Those who seek the Lord will praise him.

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 May your hearts live forever.

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 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord.

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 All the families of the nations will bow down before him.

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 For dominion belongs to the Lord.

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 And he rules over the nations.

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 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship.

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 All who go down to the dust will kneel before him.

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 Those who cannot keep themselves alive.

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 Austerity will serve him.

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 Future generations will be told about the Lord.

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 They will proclaim his righteousness.

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 Declaring to a people yet unborn.

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 He has done it.

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 Amen.

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 Thank you, Hannah.

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 So Psalm 22.

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 We're going to start.

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 And we're going to start with a question here.

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 Who here likes jigsaw puzzles?

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 Raise a hand.

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 Participation.

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 Who likes jigsaw puzzles?

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 Like a few.

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 Half-committal over here.

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 Some people over here.

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 Okay.

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 There's maybe 40-60 split here.

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 People that like it versus people that don't.

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 My wife, Megan, and I, we don't normally have a jigsaw puzzle out.

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 But there's something about the time of year when it smells like gingerbread in the air.

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 And how the Grinch stole Christmas is on our TV.

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 That it makes us say, I think we want to do a puzzle.

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 Actually, I probably should rephrase that.

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 It makes Megan want to do a puzzle.

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 I don't like jigsaw puzzles that much.

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 In fact, I'm quite rubbish at them.

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 I get two jobs when we do jigsaw puzzles.

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 One of them is to find the corner pieces and the side pieces.

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 Like the ones with the straight edges, Seth, look for those.

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 And then once we've found those, my job is to turn all of the pieces over so that you can see the color side.

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 And then start to group them by like blue goes over here, red goes over here.

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 And space them out that way.

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 See, I have a hard time seeing the vision of the puzzle that we're trying to make, right?

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 And see, I would say that what helps, though, when you pick out a piece and you pick out a blue piece and you go,

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 Ah, wait a minute.

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 Do I know if this blue piece belongs to the sky?

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 Or does it maybe belong to the ocean?

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 Or maybe it belongs to the face of a member of the blue man group.

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 Whatever it is, how I know where this puzzle piece goes is because of the picture on the box, right?

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 You have a reference point outside of that.

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 See, I think it would be very, very hard to put together a puzzle.

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 I know there's some people that probably could do it, but it would be very, very hard to put together a puzzle if you did not have the picture on the box.

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 David here is going to tell us that basically our lives are like pieces of a puzzle.

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 We don't get to see the whole thing.

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 But there is a picture that we can see, the picture on the box.

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 So we won't see exactly how this puzzle is going to look.

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 But there's a picture on the box that we can look to and point to and know eventually we know what this completed puzzle is going to look like.

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 So today we're going to look at just a few pieces of the puzzle in Psalm 22 here to help us understand what Psalm 22 is saying so that we can better understand this puzzle that we're a part of, which we call life, and see that bigger picture.

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 All right?

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 Does that make sense?

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 All right.

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 So let's go there.

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 We're going to start with the first piece of the puzzle.

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 And the first piece of the puzzle is David.

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 You have to know who is writing this and kind of the context of what David is writing in order to understand the puzzle.

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 So David, if you've been a part of church any amount of time, you know who David is, right?

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 Shepherd boy with a meteoric rise to being king of Israel.

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 He defeats a giant.

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 He unites the 12 tribes.

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 For my Gen Z audience, he is him.

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 Did I use that right?

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 Lucy is dying back there in the back.

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 He is the guy that everybody in Israel is looking up to and points to.

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 But he didn't always have an easy life.

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 See, there's multiple times that he went on the run.

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 He went on the run from Saul.

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 He went on the run from some of his sons.

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 He did not have an easy life.

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 There was even one point that he's a madman.

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 He has to act like a madman in front of the king of Gath.

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 The king of Gath comes up to him and he starts to scratch on the walls and has spittle running from his beard.

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 And the king of Gath goes, wait a minute.

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 Why did you bring a madman to me?

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 We have enough of these.

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 Take him back.

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 Take him away.

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 So David went through a lot of stuff.

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 But never once do we see him go through what's described here.

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 See, we know more about David than any other king in antiquity.

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 But for our biblical scholars in the room, have you ever seen these words applied to him?

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 Let's look at verse 14.

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 It says, I am poured out like water and all of my bones are out of joint.

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 My heart has turned to wax.

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 It has melted within me.

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 Or verse 16.

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 It says, they pierce my hands and my feet.

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 All my bones are on display.

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 And you can even skip down to verse 18.

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 And verse 18 here is actually going to talk about death.

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 It says, they divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garments.

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 See, a dead man is not in need of clothes.

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 In fact, if a person is being publicly executed,

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 you've got to think one of their last possessions that they actually have is the clothes on their back, right?

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 And this person is being publicly executed in this psalm is seeing the people gamble over his clothes and put more stock and more value into the clothes that were on this man than the person that is dying.

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 So, David had a hard life.

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 Absolutely.

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 Absolutely.

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 But he never went through trials like this where he was being killed.

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 So, what does this mean?

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 Well, it means we have to look at David here and what he is writing about like the apostle Peter looked at David in Acts 2.

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 We have to look at him as a prophet.

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 Now, that doesn't mean that David wasn't going through something when he was writing these words.

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 And it doesn't mean that these words don't apply to David's life.

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 But it means that he was looking when he was writing this, it was actually going to apply to someone in the future.

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 So, that's when we move into our next puzzle piece.

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 And in this next puzzle piece, in order to understand Psalm 22, we have to understand a few more pieces of the puzzle.

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 In Psalm 22, we're going to see that it's referring to a Messiah figure.

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 And in this Messiah figure, that is going to be Jesus here in just one second, he has two things that go completely wrong in Psalm 22.

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 His relationship with God gets severed and his covenant with God gets severed.

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 So, we're going to look at Psalm 22 through those two aspects, the relationship with God and the covenant with God.

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 So, let's dive into that first one, the Messiah's relationship with God.

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 And once we understand these, I think we're going to have a better understanding of that picture on the box that we're pointing to, right?

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 So, let's take a look at verse one.

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 It says,

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 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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 Why are you so far from, that's too far away, I need to read the book closer,

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 saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?

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 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer.

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 By night, but I find no rest.

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 See, as I said earlier, these first words here apply to Jesus.

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 These are words that Jesus spoke when he was hanging on the cross.

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 And what Jesus does here is he applies these words to himself in that situation.

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 It's somewhat hard to remember, I forget kind of often, that back when Jesus was alive,

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 they didn't have chapter references and verse references.

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 So, if you were trying to get somebody to go to Psalm 22, look at verse 6,

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 you wouldn't say, hey, turn your Bible, or whatever they had at that moment, their scroll,

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 to Psalm 22, verse 6.

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 Instead, how they knew their psalms was by the first line of the psalm.

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 And so here, Jesus is saying,

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 My God, my God, why are you forsaking me?

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 And all of the Jewish people that are around the cross would go,

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 Oh, wait a minute.

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 I know that psalm.

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 He's referring to Psalm 22.

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 But even going one step further, he's not just applying verses 1 and 2,

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 or verse 1, to himself here when he cries out on the cross.

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 What he is saying to his Jewish audience is that this entire psalm,

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 all of these verses apply to me.

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 Not just the one that,

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 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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 But all of them apply to me.

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 And we'll see that that's very important here later on in the message.

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 So, we understand that Jesus is applying this psalm,

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 but what does it really mean?

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 Well, see, when Jesus says,

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 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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 These are not just throwaway words.

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 See, Jesus is using intentional here the language of covenant intimacy

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 when he says,

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 My God, my God.

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 Think about it like this.

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 When I talk about my wife,

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 if I'm saying something about you,

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 and I say,

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 My Megan,

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 that's going to convey a sense of intimacy, right?

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 It's going to convey to you that I know something about Megan.

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 I have a more personal relationship than probably you do with her.

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 And I'm conveying that by saying she is mine.

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 She's a part.

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 I know her in a deeper way.

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 What Jesus is saying here is he's invoking that same kind of intimacy.

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 When he is hanging on the cross, he says,

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 My God, my God.

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 And why is this so important?

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 Well, it's because from the beginning of time,

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 Jesus has always been in relationship with the Father.

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 It's something we can't even wrap our minds around, right?

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 With the Father and the Spirit, God, Jesus has always been in an intimate relationship with.

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 And in this moment, he is feeling for the very first time separation.

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 There's this hormone that can be produced.

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 It's called oxytocin.

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 It can be colloquially known as the love hormone or the cuddle hormone, okay?

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 This hormone is responsible for the good feelings that you get

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 when you touch a loved one or when you cuddle with a significant other, right?

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 This hormone operates on a positive feedback loop,

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 meaning if I go up to you and I hug you,

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 I get a release of oxytocin.

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 This then makes me feel good and makes me want to go and hug more people

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 to continue to get that release of oxytocin.

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 Positive feedback loop.

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 Colloquially around West Kilburn, we call it the Louise hormone.

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 Just kidding, Louise.

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 But genuinely, it operates on this positive feedback loop,

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 but the same can be said in reverse.

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 It can also operate on a negative feedback loop.

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 So if you don't get a hug from a significant other or whatever,

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 and you spend a significant time apart from them,

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 then oxytocin doesn't fire.

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 And actually, you want to remove yourself from the situation even further

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 and remove yourself from physical touch until you kind of start to spiral down.

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 So why long-distance relationships are so hard, right?

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 Because there's a person that you care about,

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 but you're not getting this release.

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 You're not getting this hormone that you normally do

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 when you're in the presence of that person.

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 And so imagine here this relationship that is in perfect harmony.

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 It's basically an unlimited amount of oxytocin, if you will,

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 that exists between this relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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 They are perfectly aligned.

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 They have always been connected from eternity past until eternity future.

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 They will always be together.

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 But right here at this moment on Calvary,

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 Jesus has that relationship severed.

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 And he feels the anguish of it, right?

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 I'm going to ask you a question.

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 Have you ever thought why Jesus was so distraught in the Garden of Gethsemane?

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 See, there's been a lot of people, if you really think about it,

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 that have faced death, quote-unquote, braver than Jesus, right?

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 I mean, I can name you a few.

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 William Tyndale was an English reformer.

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 He was burned at the stake, and before they burned him,

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 he's known for saying,

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 Lord, open the king of England's eyes.

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 Tyndale got in trouble because he was translating

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 the Bible into English.

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 And as he's about to face death,

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 he calls out not to save his own life,

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 but to open the eyes of the king of England.

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 Or, going way back to the third century,

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 there's Perpetua and Felicity.

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 These are two women that were killed in a Roman amphitheater

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 because of their belief in Jesus.

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 Right before they're about to be devoured by wild animals,

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 Perpetua is, or Perpetua, I don't know if I'm saying that right,

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 is known as saying, she's recorded as saying,

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 stand fast in the faith and love one another,

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 and do not let our sufferings be a stumbling block to you.

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 I mean, you can list people in the Bible that face death.

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 Stephen, when he was stoned,

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 Peter is widely believed to be crucified upside down

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 because he didn't want to be crucified the same way his savior was.

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 The disciples in the beginning of Acts

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 are actually rejoicing the fact that they get persecuted

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 because they get to be counted like Jesus.

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 So all of these people faced death a bit braver than Jesus, if you will.

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 So why is Jesus, all these other people,

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 die these brave deaths in the name of Christianity,

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 why is Jesus then so distraught that he is sweating blood

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 in the Garden of Gethsemane?

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 Well, it's because he's not just facing death,

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 but he's facing, for the first time in his life,

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 his relationship with the Father,

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 this intimacy that he has had from all of eternity,

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 is going to be severed.

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 See, this relationship with the Father

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 was responsible for him being able to do his ministry.

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 It was responsible for him to be able to serve God.

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 I mean, it was his entire identity,

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 and yet here, in this moment, it's gone.

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 And so he cries out,

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 my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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 He is completely wrecked.

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 But see, the fracturing relationship

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 isn't the only reason Jesus is so distraught

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 when he was in the Garden of Gethsemane.

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 See, there's another reason,

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 and we'll have to understand that piece of the puzzle as well

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 to get a better picture,

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 get a better view of the picture on the box.

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 And that piece of the puzzle is covenant.

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 See, Jesus had a covenant with the Father.

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 When he went to the cross, he wasn't just dying,

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 but instead, he was a sacrifice for us, right?

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 All of the sins of the world were laid on his shoulders.

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 And so, as a sacrifice,

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 he goes to the grave,

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 and all the sins of the world were laid on his shoulder,

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 and they are buried with Christ in the grave.

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 Look again at verse 1.

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 It says,

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 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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 Forsaken there is a covenant word.

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 To forsake means to break the covenant.

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 And humans, man, we are terrible at covenants, aren't we?

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 I mean, from the very beginning of time,

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 we lived in a perfect garden when we were Adam, right?

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 We lived in this perfect garden,

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 and yet Adam still couldn't keep the covenant with God

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 to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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 Instead, he disobeys God, eats of the tree,

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 and is then kicked out of the garden.

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 Humans are terrible at covenants.

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 But, on the flip side,

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 you look at Jesus.

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 Well, he's not been terrible at covenants.

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 Look at verse 9 in Psalm 22.

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 It says that,

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 I have always trusted you.

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 I have kept the words of the Lord.

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 I've kept the words of God.

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 And in verse 9,

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 from the womb, verse 9 says,

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 he has trusted God.

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 And he repeats that covenantal phrase

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 when he says,

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 my God.

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 There's only been one person that's lived a life

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 and didn't deserve punishment.

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 It was Jesus.

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 He was the new Adam.

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 He was the new Moses.

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 He was the new Abraham,

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 the new David.

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 He did everything right.

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 And yet we find him here in Psalm 22

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 nailed to a wooden cross.

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 His flesh is torn.

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 His bones are on display.

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 His tongue is so dry he can't move it.

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 And dice are being rolled for his coat.

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 It is in this place

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 that the Lord has all the weight

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 of the sin of the world on his shoulders.

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 The covenant curse,

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 the curse for breaking the covenant

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 is placed on the only person

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 that didn't deserve it.

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 Why?

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 Well,

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 that leads us to the last piece of the covenant,

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 to the puzzle,

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 us.

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 See,

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 in order to understand

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 the picture on the box,

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 we have to understand ourselves a bit.

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 We are full of nastiness,

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 aren't we?

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 There's not a day

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 that goes by

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 that we don't try and make ourselves

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 the God of our lives

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 in some way.

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 Not one of us is just.

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 Not one of us

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 is righteous.

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 Job,

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 one of the most righteous men

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 in the Old Testament,

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 he said this,

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 how can a man

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 be just

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 before God?

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 Job got his answer

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 and the answer is good enough

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 for us as well.

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 You

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 want to be just

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 before God?

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 Be perfect.

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 Have no faults,

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 have no blemishes,

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 just

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 be

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 perfect.

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 But obviously,

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 God knew that we couldn't do that.

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 We were set up in a perfect environment

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 and couldn't

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 do it.

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 And so he had to send his son

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 to be the sinless,

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 perfect sacrifice for us.

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 He took the shame,

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 he took the sin,

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 he took our suffering

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 so that God's justice

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 could be satisfied.

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 So on him,

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 all of those things go

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 and now what we get

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 if we believe

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 is the blessing of Christ

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 poured out onto us.

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 This is the greatest news

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 that anyone can hear.

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 This is the gospel.

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 And see,

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 when we put our sins

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 on Christ,

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 our sins are buried.

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 They don't come back up again.

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 See,

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 because when Christ died,

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 he didn't just stay dead,

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 but he defeated death

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 by rising three days later,

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 showing who has ultimate authority

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 over everything here.

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 And so,

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 because of this,

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 we can live our lives

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 assured knowing

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 we know what the picture

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 on the box looks like.

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 Christ loved us.

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 He died for us.

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 The righteous for the unrighteous,

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 this is the picture

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 on the box.

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 This is how it all plays out.

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 But I know

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 what some of you are thinking.

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 You're saying,

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 great, Seth,

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 this is a great,

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 great, great message.

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 At least I hope

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 you're thinking that.

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 For a Sunday morning.

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 But listen, Seth,

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 I'm a first-team Christian.

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 I'm here on a Sunday night.

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 I know what I'm doing.

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 What does this mean

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 for me?

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 Well, see,

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 Christ's death

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 and resurrection

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 isn't just good

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 for the sinner

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 when he comes to know Christ,

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 but it's actually the key

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 to living the Christian life.

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 See,

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 let's look at,

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 you can look at Christ's sacrifice,

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 and when you see

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 Christ's sacrifice,

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 do you see that

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 you can cast your cares

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 upon him

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 and he takes your burdens?

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 So we listed two examples

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 in this passage, right,

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 of a covenant

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 and a relationship.

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 Christ is distraught

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 because he has lost

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 his relationship with God

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 and he has lost

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 his covenant with God,

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 right?

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 We've seen that.

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 But in the midst

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 of this loss,

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 in the midst

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 of this hardship,

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 it's almost as if

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 Christ

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 and the writer

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 of the psalm,

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 David,

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 realize that,

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 wait a minute,

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 this isn't how

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 all of this ends.

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 See,

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 verse 21,

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 told you I'm terrible

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 at this.

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 Verse 21,

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 sorry,

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 I got ahead.

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 Verse 21 says,

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 sorry,

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 I got out of talk here.

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 Verse 21,

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 David has just talked

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 about dying.

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 His hands have been pierced,

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 his bones are display,

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 on display.

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 Lions have surrounded him,

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 but in the middle

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 of all of this,

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 in verse 21,

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 the language changes.

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 See,

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 the NIV translates it

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 as save me.

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 I don't think

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 it's a bad translation,

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 but I just don't

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 necessarily think

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 it's the best translation

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 either of this Hebrew word.

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 See,

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 save me almost makes you

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 think in the future,

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 but the Hebrew word here

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 is almost translated

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 into past tense.

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 So I'm going to read

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 verse 21.

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 I want you to follow along

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 with me.

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 Look in the Bible.

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 I'm going to read this

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 from the ESV

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 and just see

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 a little bit

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 how the emphasis changes.

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 So verse 21,

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 it says,

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 save me,

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 past tense,

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 from the mouth

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 of the lion,

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 but check this out,

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 you have rescued me

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 from the horns

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 of the wild oxen.

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 In the midst

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 of his suffering,

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 the passage

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 just automatically

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 changes tune.

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 It would catch you

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 off guard

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 if I did that

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 in a sermon,

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 right?

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 As quickly as he started,

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 he changes again.

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 Okay.

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 It's almost as if

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 the writer of the psalm

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 and then thus Christ

00:25:44.420 --> 00:25:45.079
 when he is talking

00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:45.559
 about himself

00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:47.200
 remembers in the midst

00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:47.700
 of his suffering

00:25:47.700 --> 00:25:49.720
 who has the ultimate victory.

00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:52.379
 And the same

00:25:52.379 --> 00:25:53.359
 can be applied for us

00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:54.460
 when we are in the midst

00:25:54.460 --> 00:25:56.079
 of broken relationships,

00:25:56.079 --> 00:25:57.819
 when we feel like

00:25:57.819 --> 00:25:59.259
 we cannot go on,

00:25:59.399 --> 00:26:00.659
 when life has been hard,

00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:02.000
 when we have no hope,

00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:02.980
 when we feel like

00:26:02.980 --> 00:26:04.559
 all is lost,

00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:06.480
 we can cast

00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:07.700
 our cares on him.

00:26:07.700 --> 00:26:09.660
 When life has been

00:26:09.660 --> 00:26:10.420
 beating us down,

00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:11.299
 when we feel weak,

00:26:11.340 --> 00:26:12.460
 when our bones are exposed,

00:26:12.819 --> 00:26:13.580
 when the covenant

00:26:13.580 --> 00:26:14.580
 that we've built

00:26:14.580 --> 00:26:15.480
 our life on

00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:16.340
 is no longer

00:26:16.340 --> 00:26:17.380
 a firm foundation,

00:26:17.740 --> 00:26:18.440
 we can do

00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:19.240
 what Peter says,

00:26:19.360 --> 00:26:20.380
 cast our cares

00:26:20.380 --> 00:26:21.519
 upon the Lord

00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:23.600
 and at the proper time,

00:26:24.259 --> 00:26:25.600
 he will exalt us.

00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:30.459
 So let's move to a close

00:26:30.459 --> 00:26:32.279
 and think about

00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:33.679
 how this puzzle

00:26:33.679 --> 00:26:35.719
 plays out

00:26:35.719 --> 00:26:37.719
 in the life of someone

00:26:37.719 --> 00:26:38.339
 that we may

00:26:38.339 --> 00:26:39.199
 or may not know.

00:26:40.719 --> 00:26:41.559
 John Wycliffe

00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:44.119
 was a 14th century reformer.

00:26:45.659 --> 00:26:47.480
 He's from northern England,

00:26:48.199 --> 00:26:49.359
 a town called Hipswell,

00:26:49.779 --> 00:26:50.980
 and he became

00:26:50.980 --> 00:26:53.079
 a preacher.

00:26:53.379 --> 00:26:54.199
 He went down to Oxford,

00:26:54.399 --> 00:26:54.819
 studied,

00:26:54.819 --> 00:26:55.500
 and started

00:26:55.500 --> 00:26:56.159
 to become a preacher.

00:26:56.539 --> 00:26:57.139
 And Wycliffe

00:26:57.139 --> 00:26:58.559
 started to develop

00:26:58.559 --> 00:26:59.299
 a theology

00:26:59.299 --> 00:27:01.139
 that wasn't really

00:27:01.139 --> 00:27:02.779
 popular at the time.

00:27:03.439 --> 00:27:03.740
 You see,

00:27:03.859 --> 00:27:05.079
 in the 13th century,

00:27:06.399 --> 00:27:07.639
 14th century,

00:27:07.700 --> 00:27:07.879
 sorry,

00:27:08.619 --> 00:27:09.319
 in the 14th century,

00:27:09.379 --> 00:27:10.700
 if you could get a job

00:27:10.700 --> 00:27:12.139
 as a priest

00:27:12.139 --> 00:27:13.359
 and as a preacher,

00:27:14.259 --> 00:27:15.200
 go for it.

00:27:16.279 --> 00:27:17.559
 You had a free house,

00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:19.939
 job security,

00:27:20.059 --> 00:27:20.740
 it can fire you,

00:27:21.659 --> 00:27:22.899
 and income

00:27:22.899 --> 00:27:23.740
 was stable.

00:27:24.819 --> 00:27:26.019
 And it was because

00:27:26.019 --> 00:27:26.619
 of this

00:27:26.619 --> 00:27:27.460
 that people

00:27:27.460 --> 00:27:29.839
 wanted to be preachers,

00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:32.159
 and they didn't

00:27:32.159 --> 00:27:33.539
 actually study the word.

00:27:35.399 --> 00:27:36.259
 A survey

00:27:36.259 --> 00:27:36.679
 that was run

00:27:36.679 --> 00:27:37.299
 a little bit

00:27:37.299 --> 00:27:38.819
 after Wycliffe's time,

00:27:38.899 --> 00:27:39.240
 actually,

00:27:39.740 --> 00:27:40.939
 says that they

00:27:40.939 --> 00:27:41.799
 ran a poll

00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:43.779
 and asked preachers,

00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:45.819
 when Moses came down

00:27:45.819 --> 00:27:47.039
 from Mount Sinai,

00:27:47.179 --> 00:27:48.740
 how many commandments

00:27:48.740 --> 00:27:50.079
 did God give him?

00:27:51.779 --> 00:27:52.619
 Preachers looked around

00:27:52.619 --> 00:27:54.619
 and just went...

00:27:56.619 --> 00:27:58.519
 And then a follow-up

00:27:58.519 --> 00:27:59.899
 question on that survey

00:27:59.899 --> 00:28:00.559
 was,

00:28:00.919 --> 00:28:02.039
 and when God,

00:28:02.179 --> 00:28:03.039
 where would you find

00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:04.899
 these 10 commandments

00:28:04.899 --> 00:28:06.619
 that God gave Moses?

00:28:07.579 --> 00:28:08.579
 What book of the Bible

00:28:08.579 --> 00:28:09.639
 would you find them in?

00:28:12.339 --> 00:28:13.539
 Their best guess

00:28:13.539 --> 00:28:14.859
 was the book of Matthew.

00:28:14.859 --> 00:28:17.939
 And so it was

00:28:17.939 --> 00:28:19.179
 into this

00:28:19.179 --> 00:28:20.659
 that John Wycliffe

00:28:20.659 --> 00:28:22.619
 starts to speak

00:28:22.619 --> 00:28:23.399
 the truth.

00:28:23.539 --> 00:28:24.500
 He starts to study

00:28:24.500 --> 00:28:25.379
 and he starts to read.

00:28:26.299 --> 00:28:27.439
 When he's reading Paul,

00:28:27.500 --> 00:28:27.699
 he says,

00:28:28.039 --> 00:28:29.579
 by grace alone,

00:28:30.539 --> 00:28:33.199
 by faith alone.

00:28:34.379 --> 00:28:34.939
 And he starts

00:28:34.939 --> 00:28:35.699
 to preach these things.

00:28:35.740 --> 00:28:36.719
 He makes such a big stink

00:28:36.719 --> 00:28:37.979
 that he actually goes

00:28:37.979 --> 00:28:38.899
 to trial

00:28:38.899 --> 00:28:40.279
 at St. Paul's Cathedral

00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:41.159
 in central London,

00:28:41.159 --> 00:28:42.619
 and he's on trial there

00:28:42.619 --> 00:28:43.799
 for preaching a gospel

00:28:43.799 --> 00:28:44.719
 that's not the truth,

00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:45.720
 according to the

00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:46.240
 Church of England,

00:28:46.420 --> 00:28:47.680
 and then all of a sudden,

00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:50.620
 a fight breaks out

00:28:50.620 --> 00:28:51.539
 at St. Paul's Cathedral

00:28:51.539 --> 00:28:52.259
 and he escapes.

00:28:52.900 --> 00:28:53.519
 And he spends

00:28:53.519 --> 00:28:54.360
 the rest of his life

00:28:54.360 --> 00:28:56.720
 preaching this gospel.

00:28:58.620 --> 00:29:00.640
 Praying for reformation.

00:29:01.180 --> 00:29:02.880
 Praying for revival.

00:29:03.380 --> 00:29:04.259
 Praying for people

00:29:04.259 --> 00:29:04.920
 to wake up

00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:06.220
 and see that there is

00:29:06.220 --> 00:29:07.380
 a hope out there

00:29:07.380 --> 00:29:08.539
 that is the gospel.

00:29:09.940 --> 00:29:11.259
 But in 1384,

00:29:11.259 --> 00:29:12.640
 he dies of a stroke.

00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:15.200
 There's no big movement.

00:29:16.220 --> 00:29:17.580
 There's no change

00:29:17.580 --> 00:29:19.180
 in the hearts of people.

00:29:20.460 --> 00:29:22.360
 And if you look at it,

00:29:22.700 --> 00:29:23.800
 you take John Wycliffe's

00:29:23.800 --> 00:29:24.380
 puzzle piece,

00:29:25.040 --> 00:29:26.240
 you just look at it.

00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:28.040
 You go,

00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:28.380
 hmm,

00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:30.120
 John Wycliffe,

00:29:30.620 --> 00:29:31.780
 you fought a good fight,

00:29:31.779 --> 00:29:34.079
 but what a waste.

00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:37.279
 What a waste your life was,

00:29:37.420 --> 00:29:38.180
 John Wycliffe.

00:29:41.099 --> 00:29:42.160
 Except for the Reformation.

00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:44.240
 You see,

00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:44.940
 because Wycliffe

00:29:44.940 --> 00:29:47.100
 wrote down

00:29:47.100 --> 00:29:47.720
 a lot of the stuff

00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:48.480
 that he was talking about,

00:29:48.540 --> 00:29:48.720
 right?

00:29:49.600 --> 00:29:50.860
 And then later,

00:29:51.860 --> 00:29:53.140
 an Augustinian monk

00:29:53.140 --> 00:29:54.779
 is tasked

00:29:54.779 --> 00:29:56.180
 with copying

00:29:56.180 --> 00:29:57.880
 Wycliffe's writings.

00:29:58.279 --> 00:29:59.200
 And he's copying

00:29:59.200 --> 00:29:59.820
 and he goes,

00:30:00.779 --> 00:30:02.519
 by faith alone.

00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:03.700
 Huh?

00:30:03.700 --> 00:30:03.779
 Huh?

00:30:07.019 --> 00:30:09.200
 By grace alone.

00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:11.860
 That's not what

00:30:11.860 --> 00:30:12.299
 I've been hearing.

00:30:15.080 --> 00:30:16.240
 And it changes

00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:17.460
 that monk's life.

00:30:19.059 --> 00:30:19.500
 The monk

00:30:19.500 --> 00:30:20.480
 was Martin Luther,

00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:22.299
 who would go on

00:30:22.299 --> 00:30:23.059
 to lead

00:30:23.059 --> 00:30:23.779
 the Reformation,

00:30:24.759 --> 00:30:25.160
 a movement

00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:26.100
 that we can trace

00:30:26.100 --> 00:30:27.160
 our roots back to

00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:28.080
 as Wes Kilburn.

00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:30.440
 So if you're just

00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:31.039
 looking

00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:33.539
 at the piece

00:30:33.539 --> 00:30:34.180
 of the puzzle,

00:30:35.080 --> 00:30:35.640
 you'd say,

00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:36.160
 what a waste.

00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:39.220
 See,

00:30:39.300 --> 00:30:39.779
 your life

00:30:39.779 --> 00:30:40.400
 and my life,

00:30:40.500 --> 00:30:41.380
 they are just

00:30:41.380 --> 00:30:42.240
 pieces

00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:43.820
 of a grand

00:30:43.820 --> 00:30:44.200
 puzzle

00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:44.580
 that God

00:30:44.580 --> 00:30:45.100
 is creating.

00:30:46.320 --> 00:30:47.300
 So when we feel

00:30:47.300 --> 00:30:47.840
 beat down,

00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:48.400
 when we feel

00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:48.860
 discouraged,

00:30:49.259 --> 00:30:50.720
 let's not forget

00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:52.220
 to look up

00:30:52.220 --> 00:30:52.900
 and see

00:30:52.900 --> 00:30:53.660
 the picture

00:30:53.660 --> 00:30:54.500
 that is on

00:30:54.500 --> 00:30:55.240
 the box.

00:30:57.460 --> 00:30:58.700
 And we realize

00:30:58.700 --> 00:30:59.720
 that we may

00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:00.320
 not know

00:31:00.320 --> 00:31:00.920
 what this puzzle

00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:01.560
 is exactly

00:31:01.560 --> 00:31:02.720
 going to look like,

00:31:03.220 --> 00:31:04.060
 but we know

00:31:04.060 --> 00:31:04.980
 how it ends

00:31:04.980 --> 00:31:05.440
 and it's going

00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:05.839
 to look like

00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:06.339
 that picture

00:31:06.339 --> 00:31:07.799
 on the box.

00:31:09.380 --> 00:31:09.799
 I'm going to

00:31:09.799 --> 00:31:10.160
 end it

00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:12.480
 with a verse

00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:14.259
 that kind of

00:31:14.259 --> 00:31:14.740
 shows us

00:31:14.740 --> 00:31:16.360
 what that picture

00:31:16.360 --> 00:31:16.860
 on the box

00:31:16.860 --> 00:31:17.620
 will look like.

00:31:18.099 --> 00:31:18.640
 This is from

00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:19.079
 Ephesians.

00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:19.440
 It says,

00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:19.840
 therefore,

00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:21.420
 God exalted

00:31:21.420 --> 00:31:22.340
 him to the

00:31:22.340 --> 00:31:23.200
 highest place

00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:24.440
 and gave him

00:31:24.440 --> 00:31:24.980
 the name

00:31:24.980 --> 00:31:25.519
 that is above

00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:26.160
 every name,

00:31:26.539 --> 00:31:26.960
 that at the

00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:27.860
 name of Jesus

00:31:27.860 --> 00:31:28.640
 every knee

00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:29.100
 should bow

00:31:29.100 --> 00:31:29.640
 in heaven

00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:30.500
 and on earth

00:31:30.500 --> 00:31:31.100
 and under the

00:31:31.100 --> 00:31:31.299
 earth,

00:31:31.299 --> 00:31:32.500
 and every tongue

00:31:32.500 --> 00:31:33.279
 acknowledge that

00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:34.100
 Jesus Christ

00:31:34.100 --> 00:31:34.720
 is Lord

00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:36.360
 to the glory

00:31:36.360 --> 00:31:37.279
 of God

00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:37.860
 the Father.

00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:38.779
 Let's pray.

00:31:40.580 --> 00:31:41.420
 Father in heaven,

00:31:41.620 --> 00:31:42.240
 we thank you

00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:43.880
 for today.

00:31:43.880 --> 00:31:45.700
 we thank you

00:31:45.700 --> 00:31:46.340
 that your

00:31:46.340 --> 00:31:48.000
 son was

00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:48.640
 crucified on

00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:49.160
 the cross

00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:50.520
 or that went

00:31:50.520 --> 00:31:51.500
 through the

00:31:51.500 --> 00:31:52.380
 pain of being

00:31:52.380 --> 00:31:53.540
 separated from

00:31:53.540 --> 00:31:53.880
 you,

00:31:54.040 --> 00:31:54.560
 went through

00:31:54.560 --> 00:31:55.320
 the pain

00:31:55.320 --> 00:31:56.140
 of not having

00:31:56.140 --> 00:31:56.540
 his covenant

00:31:56.540 --> 00:31:57.020
 relationship

00:31:57.020 --> 00:31:58.000
 with you

00:31:58.000 --> 00:31:59.700
 so that we

00:31:59.700 --> 00:31:59.940
 could.

00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:01.460
 God,

00:32:01.520 --> 00:32:01.960
 this is the

00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:02.480
 good news.

00:32:03.020 --> 00:32:03.500
 We wouldn't

00:32:03.500 --> 00:32:03.860
 have thought

00:32:03.860 --> 00:32:04.340
 this up if

00:32:04.340 --> 00:32:05.140
 he gave us

00:32:05.140 --> 00:32:05.440
 a thousand

00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:05.940
 tries,

00:32:05.940 --> 00:32:08.380
 but all

00:32:08.380 --> 00:32:08.960
 we have to

00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:09.960
 do is by

00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:11.120
 faith alone,

00:32:12.019 --> 00:32:12.980
 through grace

00:32:12.980 --> 00:32:13.600
 alone,

00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:15.220
 believe in

00:32:15.220 --> 00:32:16.580
 this fact

00:32:16.580 --> 00:32:17.059
 that your

00:32:17.059 --> 00:32:18.100
 son took

00:32:18.100 --> 00:32:18.519
 on our

00:32:18.519 --> 00:32:19.019
 sins,

00:32:19.820 --> 00:32:20.440
 was buried

00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:20.920
 and three

00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:21.380
 days later

00:32:21.380 --> 00:32:21.900
 rose again

00:32:21.900 --> 00:32:22.759
 and we can

00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:23.400
 be changed.

00:32:24.340 --> 00:32:24.519
 Lord,

00:32:24.539 --> 00:32:24.900
 we're thankful

00:32:24.900 --> 00:32:25.320
 that we get

00:32:25.320 --> 00:32:25.700
 to be at

00:32:25.700 --> 00:32:27.160
 peace in

00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:27.840
 this grand

00:32:27.840 --> 00:32:28.240
 puzzle.

00:32:29.120 --> 00:32:29.640
 So as we

00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:31.120
 go into

00:32:31.120 --> 00:32:31.720
 a moment

00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:33.180
 here of

00:32:33.180 --> 00:32:33.680
 reflection

00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:34.240
 around the

00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:34.580
 Lord's

00:32:34.580 --> 00:32:34.820
 table,

00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:35.080
 Lord,

00:32:35.360 --> 00:32:35.740
 let us

00:32:35.740 --> 00:32:36.400
 thank you

00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:37.120
 with hearts

00:32:37.120 --> 00:32:38.160
 open for

00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:39.079
 the greatness

00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:40.960
 of your

00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:41.700
 love towards

00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:43.140
 us and

00:32:43.140 --> 00:32:43.460
 let us

00:32:43.460 --> 00:32:44.900
 search to

00:32:44.900 --> 00:32:45.180
 see if

00:32:45.180 --> 00:32:45.680
 there's any

00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:46.319
 part of

00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:46.900
 our little

00:32:46.900 --> 00:32:47.599
 puzzle piece

00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:48.440
 that maybe

00:32:48.440 --> 00:32:49.380
 isn't reflecting

00:32:49.380 --> 00:32:50.099
 that grand

00:32:50.099 --> 00:32:51.359
 picture that

00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:51.920
 we should be.

00:32:52.539 --> 00:32:52.759
 Lord,

00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:53.180
 and let us

00:32:53.180 --> 00:32:53.900
 confess that

00:32:53.900 --> 00:32:54.380
 to you

00:32:54.380 --> 00:32:54.799
 today.

00:32:55.839 --> 00:32:56.700
 I pray all

00:32:56.700 --> 00:32:57.039
 of these

00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:57.559
 things in

00:32:57.559 --> 00:32:58.220
 your mighty

00:32:58.220 --> 00:32:58.559
 name.

00:32:59.240 --> 00:32:59.420
 Amen.

00:33:05.740 --> 00:33:07.400
 happy birthdayise

00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:07.400


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