(304) “Jesus Became the Cup of Suffering for Us”

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we can enter into his sufferings, into the sufferings

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of Jesus. Even when we're being pierced through

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by something, we have the joy of knowing that

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as we enter into his sufferings, there's a glory

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that comes with it. God promises in Joel 2 .28

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to pour out of his Spirit on all humanity. Welcome

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to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that

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promise outpouring, we equip for that outpouring,

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so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome

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to the podcast today. We're so glad that you're

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with us. We had a glorious time in our last episode

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with our brother Dean Braxton, talking about

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how Jesus became the cup of life for us. And

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as I've been meditating about that, it just felt

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like Boy, there's more to this. And so we want

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to talk about how Jesus became the cup of suffering

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for us. Thanks so much for joining us. We are

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just delighted that you're here and that we can

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do this thing together. And before we get started,

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from you. And if you have any ideas of things

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that we can bring, let us know. We would love

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to pray about that and see what the Holy Spirit

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gives us for that subject. So let's talk about

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what we talked about last time with Dean Braxton,

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talking about how Jesus became that cup. that

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Dean saw in heaven. He saw a cup that was for

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the drink offering. And really, Jesus became

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that drink offering for us. And we talked about

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how his suffering on the cross and pouring out

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of his blood was that. And there were some other

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things that have come into my spirit since then

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that I thought we should go over and just add

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to what we discussed last time. Because I just

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feel like there's more dimensions to it. There's

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more realms for us to understand. So, Philip,

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would you read for us Galatians 3 .13, please?

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Christ purchased our freedom and redeemed us

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from the curse of the law and its condemnation

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by becoming a curse for us. For it is written,

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cursed is everyone who hangs or crucified on

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a tree. And that's from the Amplified or Amplified

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Classic. I don't remember which one we used.

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There's something about Jesus becoming that curse

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for us that I want to dig into that his sufferings

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had to do with taking the curse that started

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all the way back in the Garden of Eden. So if

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you go back to Matthew 27, would you read that

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for us? Matthew 27, 27 through 31. Then the soldiers

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of the governor took Jesus into the governor's

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headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion

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before him. And they stripped him and put a scarlet

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robe on him. And twisting together a crown of

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thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed

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in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they

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mocked him, saying, Hail, king of the Jews! And

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they spit on him and took the reed and struck

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him on the head. Then when they had mocked him,

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they stripped him of the robe and put his own

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clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.

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So this crown of thorns is the thing that I kept

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thinking about so much after Dean shared with

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us. It appears that the crown of thorns that

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Jesus bore wasn't just like a circle of thorns

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that went around his head. It was more like a

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helmet that was made of thorns. So it wasn't

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just, I mean, as horrible as a circle of. thorns

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would be it was all over his head and they crammed

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it down on his head so his head began to bleed

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already and then they took this reed and started

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smacking him on the head with it so it's like

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oh the suffering that he went through but as

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i was meditating on this i was reminded that

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this whole idea of thorns, goes back to the Garden

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of Eden. You want to read Genesis 3, 17 and 18,

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where God is speaking to Adam. And unto Adam

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he said, Because you have hearkened unto the

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voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree

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of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not

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eat of it. Curse is the ground for your sake,

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and sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of

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your life. Thorns also and thistles shall bring

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forth to you, and you shall eat the herb of the

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field. So we talked about that a couple of episodes

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ago when we were talking about redeeming the

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land and how curse comes on the earth itself

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because of disobedience and that whole long list

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of things that will cause a curse to come. Part

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of what happened as a result of the earth being

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cursed, all of a sudden, for the first time,

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you have thorns and thistles. And I guess you

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could add briars and anything that's prickly

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like that. Like a cactus, too, probably. Oh,

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yeah, could be. And probably even things like

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poison ivy and poisonous plants probably came

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as a result of the curse. Because when God created

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the earth and he planted the garden, everything

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was perfect. Everything was good. You could eat

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everything. kind of plant. It wasn't going to

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hurt you. But there are now poisonous plants

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and these thorns. So I see this connection between

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the Garden of Eden and the curse that came because

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of disobedience. causing thorns to come up from

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the ground. And I feel like the suffering that

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was brought on Jesus as a result of these thorns

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is directly connected to the curse. Some years

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back when we were in Israel, we brought back,

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it was like a crown of thorns. Oh, yeah. Remember

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that? And the thorns were about... three inches

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long yeah yeah and they were sharp yeah and it

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was just and that was nothing like the one he

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was wearing yeah you know because this was just

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a more simplified thing but that was more an

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elaborate one What he was wearing. Yeah, yeah.

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He would have worn that helmet of thorns. But,

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you know, the point is that he was wounded for

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our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities.

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The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and

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by his stripes we are healed. So he took those

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thorns on his head and suffered on his head.

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And I'm telling you, if you are having issues

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with... thoughts that don't belong in your head,

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if you're having any kind of issues with mental

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torment. I remember one time, oh, one time I

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was going through a mental torment. And honestly,

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God so healed me of it that I don't remember

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what the torment was. But I remember being tormented,

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that these thoughts were coming into my head

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that did not belong there. And all I could do

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in that time was say, Lord, I love you and I

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trust you. Lord, I love you and I trust you.

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Jesus, Jesus, I love you and I trust you. And

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I went through this little season of of this

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mental torment. But because Jesus bore this crown

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of thorns on his head, he was there for me and

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he healed me of it. And like I said, he healed

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me so completely that. I didn't have any, I don't

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even have a recollection of what that torment

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was. He so healed me. And he can heal you, too,

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if you're being tormented by remembrance of things.

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Sometimes there's kind of like this replay of

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a recording that goes on in your head, something

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that happened to you, and it's just tormenting

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you. We bring the power of the thorns, the crown

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of thorns over your mind, over your will that

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you can say, no, that is not of me. Romans 7

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makes it very clear that the real you. is your

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spirit. And your spirit has become one with the

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Spirit of God. And when you need a healing or

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when there's something coming into your head

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that isn't according to the Word of God, your

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spirit has gotten into agreement with the Word

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of God. Your spirit has gotten into agreement

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with God's ways. So anything that's coming in

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that doesn't agree with God's ways, you can just

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tell it to leave. You can tell it to leave because

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of the power of the thorns that Jesus bore on

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his head. You're going to reject those thoughts,

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especially the ones that are coming as suggestions

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from the outside. But even our fleshly nature,

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we can't blame the devil for everything. Our

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fleshly nature is inclined to do the wrong thing.

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That brokenness that is coming from Well, it's

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coming from the curse, really. But Jesus bore

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that curse for us. So just to think about the

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curses, if you remember, and we're not going

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to go there, but if you can go there, just to

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study in. Deuteronomy chapter 27 and 28, it spells

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out the blessings and the curses. When the children

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of Israel were to come into the promised land,

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one of the first things that they were to do

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after they won the battle at Jericho, I think

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it was, and I think probably the first two battles,

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they went back to Shechem, which was where Abraham

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first met up with God in the land that was promised.

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And it was also the land where Jacob had... bought

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a piece of ground, and he dug the well there

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that's called Jacob's Well. And we've been there.

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And we've been there. And it's the place where

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Joseph's body was laid. Well, when the children

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of Israel came, they brought the body with them.

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So anyway, Shechem was a really important place,

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and they had the Mount of Blessing and the Mount

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of Cursing. Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim. Exactly.

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So Mount Ebal was the place where Deuteronomy

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27, they're pronouncing the curses, right? And

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then Mount Gerizim was the Mount of Blessings.

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But it also goes on beyond all of the blessings,

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you know, blessed will you be in the city, blessed

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will your store, all these good things. But then

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it goes on and say, but if you don't, and here's

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another whole list of curses. If you don't obey,

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then all these curses will come. Yeah, so it's

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really important that we understand that curses

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come from disobedience. And God wants to deliver

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us from all of that as we get a hold of the fact

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that Jesus did it for us. He did the suffering

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for us, and we can enter into his suffering.

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There's another word for curse that is used in

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Numbers 23, verse 8. where it's talking about

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Balaam, where Balak tried to get Balaam to curse

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Israel, and he took him three different places.

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We've talked about that recently. But this word

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curse, Balaam says, how can I curse whom God

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has not cursed? So that word curse is the Hebrew

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word nakav. it not only means to curse, it also

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means to pierce. Gesenius says it means to bore

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or to perforate. Well, isn't that what happened

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to Jesus with that crown of thorns? His head

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was perforated. It was absolutely bored through.

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And you've got so many nerves in your head. Even

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from our accident that we had. Oh, yeah. Because

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I had blacked out and my head went every which

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way but loose. But all these little spots on

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the left side of my head, I can just rub them.

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And the pain, it's like a nauseating pain almost

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just to rub them. And I can't imagine being pierced

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with something all over your head like that.

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What do you went through? Oh, terrible. And besides

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that, I had an experience with having shingles

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one time. And, you know, shingles are horrible.

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If you've ever had. And you had them in your

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ear. Well, yeah, that was the thing. It started

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in my ear and in my scalp. I didn't even know

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what it was for a month. Yeah. And I won't even

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go into the story, but I'm telling you. That

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was suffering. That was suffering. We had a wonderful

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40th anniversary. Yes. That's when it was, wasn't

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it? That's when it was, yeah. Yeah, I was suffering,

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but I was determined we're going to have a good

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time. Wow. So we did the best we could. But,

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you know, this idea of a curse will... perforate.

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It will cause a piercing. It'll cause a perforation.

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So talking about thorns, there are lots of scriptures

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where it mentions thorns. I was surprised at

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how many different places it was. And we'll just

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mention a few of them. Proverbs 22, 5 says thorns

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and snares are in the way of the froward. And

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he that keeps his soul shall be far from them.

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So, you know, if you're not doing what you're

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supposed to be doing, if you're behaving foolishly,

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if you're headstrong and going away from the

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things of God, it's going to put thorns and snares

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in your way. Because it's part of the curse.

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It's like you reap what you sow. You're sowing

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thorns when you disobey God. I remember our founder,

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Sister Gwen, when she came back from China the

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first time. Yeah. They were calling the missionaries

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from Taiwan, please come to Taiwan. Oh, my, yes.

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But she didn't want to, and she got a job. Well,

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I served the Lord on the mission field, so I

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did my time. Yeah. And so she was enjoying the

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war was over. You know, she's enjoying her time

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working in an apartment store. And then one day

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she found a lump, you know, on her breast. And

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she just inquired of the Lord and she just heard

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him speak to her. If you're not going to do what

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I told you to do, there's no purpose in you being

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here. Yep. Yeah. So she went to Taiwan and the

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lump disappeared. Yeah. And Mariah Woodworth

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hit her. She lost four children, one right after

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the other. The Lord was speaking to her to go

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into ministry. That was very difficult. Late

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1800s, a woman in ministry. Very true. But she

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had the power of God, healings, miracles. But

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it took till the fourth child where she obeyed

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God. Yeah. That's wild. She was left with one.

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She was left with one. Yeah. Disobedience creates

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thorns in your life. It leaves an open door.

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Yeah, it sure does. It's like the hand of protection

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is lifted off if you're not doing what God tells

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you to do. If you're being disobedient, that's

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a better way to say it. So Proverbs 24, 31 is

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talking about the vineyard of the slothful, the

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lazy person. It says, And lo, it was all grown

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over with thorns, and nettles had covered the

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face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was

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broken down. not attending to the thing that

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you're supposed to be doing can bring thorns

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and nettles into your life. And nettles are horrible

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too. So then Isaiah 5, 6 is talking about God's

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vineyard. This is the vineyard that didn't produce

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fruit. You know, they were disobedient again.

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And they're not producing good fruit. They're

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producing wild grapes instead of good grapes,

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even though he planted good vines. He says, I

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will lay it waste. It shall not be pruned nor

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digged, but there shall come up briars and thorns.

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I will also command the clouds that they rain

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no rain upon it. So, you know, there's something

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about this. wonderful Savior of ours that took

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all of these curses on himself to give us deliverance.

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So in John 19 .5, talking about Jesus when he

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had been beaten and brought out and he had this

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crown of thorns on his head, John 19 .5 says,

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Then came Jesus forth wearing the crown of thorns

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and the purple robe, and Pilate said unto them,

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Behold the man. So here's this man that has been

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lacerated for us. He's been shredded for us.

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He's had this crown of thorns crammed on his

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head. I don't know if anybody has seen the movie

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The Passion. Oh, my. That's mild compared to

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what really happened. That was just tough. Yeah.

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So it also says in Hebrews 6, 8, but that which

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bears thorns and briars is rejected. and it is

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nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned.

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So we have this picture in Psalm 22 of the crucifixion,

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and I think everyone recognizes the first verse.

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What does that say, Philip? My God, my God, why

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have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from

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helping me and from the words of my groaning?

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So we have this prophetic picture in the Psalms.

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Is that a Psalm of David? Does that say Psalm

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of David on it? Yes. Yeah. See, David was many

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times prophetically writing. about his own son.

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I think he was writing about himself, and Jesus

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entered into so many of the things that David

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entered into, so that he could really be the

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son of David in so many ways. So read verse 6.

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I think that's a really significant verse. But

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I am a worm and no man. I am the scorn of men

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and despised by the people. So Jesus Jesus became

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a worm for us. I'm a worm and not a man. That's,

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you know, like a worm is really a despised thing

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too. But I love this scripture in Isaiah 41,

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14 to 16. Would you read that one, please? Fear

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not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel. I am

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the one who helps you, declares the Lord. Your

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Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. Behold. That's

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amazing. Yeah. You know, I think that Jesus kind

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of became that worm. that God threshed the mountain

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with. Now, he's saying that he is the Redeemer,

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and Jesus is the Redeemer. And, you know, God

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used Jesus to thresh a mountain, really. But

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he became like a worm. And this word worm in

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the Hebrew is tola. And it's interesting that

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this word It means worm, but there's a specific

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kind of worm also that it means. It could mean

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just worms, like it's the word that's used where

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if the people didn't eat up all of the manna,

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then it bred worms. That's the same word. For

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the next day, it would develop worms. Exactly.

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It's the same word. But there's also a specific

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worm that is really remarkable. animal, and I'm

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just going to read from the outline of biblical

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usage that comes with the Blue Letter Bible app.

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It says, this worm is the Coccus ilicis. When

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the female of the scarlet worm species was ready

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to give birth to her young, she would attach

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her body to the trunk of a tree, fixing herself

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so firmly and permanently that she would never

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leave again. The eggs deposited beneath her body

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were thus protected until the larva were hatched

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and able to enter their own life cycle. As the

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mother died, the crimson fluid stained her body

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and the surrounding wood. From the dead bodies

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of such female scarlet worms, the commercial

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scarlet dyes of antiquity were extracted. What

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a picture this gives of Christ dying on the tree,

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shedding his precious blood that he might bring

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many sons unto glory. Hebrews 2 .10. He died

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for us that we might live through him. Psalm

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22 .6 describes such a worm and gives us this

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picture of Christ. Now, this is quoted from Henry

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Morris' Biblical Basis for Modern Science from

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Baker Bookhouse, 1985, page 73. Just so you know

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what that is to give proper. Give honor to where

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honor is due. Yes, but give honor where honor

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is due. So this word is also translated scarlet.

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This word for the worm is translated scarlet.

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So every place in the preparation of the tabernacle

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where it's talking about the blue and the scarlet

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and the purple and the gold, that word scarlet

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is the same word as this worm. So God uses a

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worm to... dye the fabric that is the tabernacle.

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Now, are we or are we not the tabernacle of the

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Lord? I mean, there's so many pictures that weave

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together for us to help us to see how God designed

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all of this. He designed us to be his tabernacle.

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He made all of these pictures, these types. of

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how it is in heaven on earth. Okay. He made these

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pictures so that we can see what he wants out

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of us on earth. Yeah. He put it into the tabernacle

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itself. All of this scarlet, scarlet, the giving

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of the life for the babies. You know, Paul said,

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know you not that your body is the temple of

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God. Right. The temple, the tabernacle, it's,

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you know, it's, it's kind of the same thing.

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Exactly. Exactly. So let's go back to Psalm 22,

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and let's look at verse 7 and 8. All who see

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me laugh at me and mock me. They shoot out the

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lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted

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and rolled himself on the Lord, that he would

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deliver him. Let him deliver him, seeing that

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he delights in him. Yeah, and isn't that what

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the mockers said around the cross? This is just

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so... So prophetic. Yeah, they said that very

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thing. Now let's look at verses 14 through 16.

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I am poured out like water, and all my bones

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are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is

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softened with anguish and melted down within

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me. My strength is dried up like a fragment of

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clay pottery. With thirst, my tongue cleaves

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to my jaws, and you have brought me into the

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dust of death. Yeah. For like a pack of dogs

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they have encompassed me, a company of evildoers

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has encircled me. They pierce my hands and my

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feet. They part my clothing along them and cast

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lots from my raiment. Wow. That's what happened.

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It's absolutely what happened. But I'm taken

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by this verse 14 that says, I'm poured out like

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water. There's a verse in Psalm 62, verse 8,

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that says, Trust him at all times, O people.

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Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge

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for us. Selah. So there's a thing here of entering

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into his sufferings that he's looking for us

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to participate in. Lamentations 2 .19. Do you

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want to read that one? Arise, crowd in the night,

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at the beginning of the night watches. Pour out

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your heart like water before the presence of

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the Lord. Lift your hands to him for the lives

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of your children who faint for hunger at the

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head of every street. Yeah. So we have another

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picture of Jesus, the son of David, in Psalm

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89. And I hadn't ever seen this one before. I

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knew about Psalm 22 being a messianic picture,

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but I hadn't seen this until... I was just studying

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recently, and it's like, whoa, there's another

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one. So would you like to read that Psalm 89,

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35 to 45? Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness,

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I will not lie to David. His offspring shall

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endure forever, his throne as long as the sun

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before me. Like the moon, it shall be established

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forever, a faithful witness in the skies. But

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now you have cast off and rejected. You are full

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of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced

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the covenant with your servant. You have defiled

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his crown in the dust. You have breached all

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his walls. You have laid his strongholds in ruins.

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All who pass by plunder him. He has become the

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scorn of his neighbors. You have exalted the

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right hand of his foes. You have made all his

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enemies rejoice. You have also turned back the

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edge of his sword, and you have not made him

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stand in battle. You have made his splendor to

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cease and cast his throne to the ground. You

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have cut short the days of his youth. You have

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covered him with shame. Selah. Wow. Wow. You

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know, that word, you have renounced the covenant

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with your servant. See, he starts out saying,

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you've made all these promises to me. And then

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it seems like, what happened? This isn't what

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I signed up for. Yeah. That's kind of what it

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seems like. We may say that at times in our lives.

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You know, this isn't what I signed up for. But

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verse 39 says, you've renounced the covenant

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with your servant. You've defiled his crown in

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the dust. And that word defiled, think about

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the crown, okay? The crown of glory that the

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king of glory has is not the crown that he wore

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on the earth. He wore this horrible, horrible

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helmet of thorns. has the idea of to wound fatally,

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to bore through, to pierce. So there it is again,

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this crown that's pierced, this piercing crown.

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Okay, there it is again. You've defiled his crown.

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His crown is now piercing him instead of the

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crown of glory that The king of glory ought to

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be wearing, you know, he ought to be wearing

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this marvelous crown of light, which Dean talked

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about this crown of light with us in a previous

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podcast. And we'll find that and put a link to

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it in the description. But here he is with this

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defiled, defiled crown, this piercing crown.

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And, you know, there it is right there for us.

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And Hebrews 2 .10. talks about this suffering

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that we need to understand the importance of

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the suffering that Jesus did for us. He became

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this cup of suffering. He became it. He became

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that drink offering that was poured out. Hebrews

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2 .10 says, For it was fitting that he for whom

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and by whom all things exist, in bringing many

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sons to glory, should make the founder of their

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salvation perfect or complete through suffering.

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Through suffering? I remember that in the description

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in the book of John where it talks about as Judas

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is going out into the night. Jesus says, Now

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is the Son of Man glorified. Yeah. Let that sink

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in. Let that sink in. His glorification began

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when the man who's going to betray him goes out

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into the night. Wow. His glorification, this

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whole process of his suffering really is about

00:30:38.309 --> 00:30:44.430
his glorification. And so he did this to bring

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many sons to glory, right? Yeah. So if he had

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to suffer. Maybe we have to suffer. Maybe we

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should too. So Paul talks about sharing in sufferings

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in 2 Corinthians 1 .7. He says, Our hope for

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you is unshaken, for we know that as you share

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in our sufferings, you will also share in our

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comfort. And you know, Paul had this warning

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ahead of time, because when he was blinded, the

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Holy Spirit spoke to Ananias and said, You must

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tell Paul how many things he must suffer for

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my sake. Yep. I'm sure he was ready for anything

00:31:24.569 --> 00:31:27.250
at that point because he was blind for three

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days. And when you think if you're blinded, it's

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just like my whole life is over as I see it.

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Yes. In three days, you cannot see anything.

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I mean, that hit home real hard. And you can

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believe Paul never forgot that experience. And

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anything he ever did. It's true. When you have

00:31:48.690 --> 00:31:51.970
an experience like that, you know, he shall suffer

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many things for my namesake. Yeah, it's true.

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And he did. He certainly did. We've read through

00:31:58.789 --> 00:32:00.690
everything he went. He was shipwrecked. He was

00:32:00.690 --> 00:32:04.250
stoned. He was lost in the deep. We still kind

00:32:04.250 --> 00:32:08.970
of wonder what the, you know. Yeah, shipwrecked.

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Yeah, shipwrecked. And so he was tilted with

00:32:12.349 --> 00:32:15.559
stones and left for dead. But also, you know,

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the scripture, I can't think of it off the top

00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:20.880
of my head where, you know, the sufferings of

00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:23.839
this present world will not compare to the glory

00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:26.599
that is to follow. That's exactly right. And

00:32:26.599 --> 00:32:29.500
if we can keep that in mind, that this life on

00:32:29.500 --> 00:32:32.920
our earth is just a breath. In the time of eternity,

00:32:33.480 --> 00:32:37.559
our life is just a breath. You know, so everything

00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:42.809
we do here accounts for our glorification. Where

00:32:42.809 --> 00:32:46.150
God is just preparing us for eternity. Because

00:32:46.150 --> 00:32:49.250
as we walk this boot camp on earth, you know,

00:32:49.250 --> 00:32:52.289
we think of how old we are and how many more

00:32:52.289 --> 00:32:55.390
years you think we'll be on this earth. But your

00:32:55.390 --> 00:32:58.289
life is just a breath. And the older you get,

00:32:58.349 --> 00:33:01.130
the more you realize that, you know, it's kind

00:33:01.130 --> 00:33:04.630
of like that only one life, it will soon be passed.

00:33:04.849 --> 00:33:08.509
Only what's done for Christ will last. Very true.

00:33:08.789 --> 00:33:12.519
That's very true. Very, very true. Philippians

00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:16.440
3, 8 through 10 says, indeed, I count. This is

00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:19.799
Paul talking. I count everything as loss because

00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:22.839
of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus,

00:33:23.099 --> 00:33:25.920
my Lord. He makes us a little nicer in the King

00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:29.220
James. I count everything as dung, I think. Yes,

00:33:29.619 --> 00:33:33.019
this is the ESV. It's a little nicer. Yeah. For

00:33:33.019 --> 00:33:36.259
his sake, I have suffered the loss of all things

00:33:36.259 --> 00:33:40.039
and count them as rubbish in order that I may

00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:43.859
gain Christ. and be found in him, not having

00:33:43.859 --> 00:33:46.259
a righteousness of my own that comes from the

00:33:46.259 --> 00:33:49.500
law, but that which comes through faith in Christ,

00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:52.799
the righteousness from God that depends on faith,

00:33:53.059 --> 00:33:58.079
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection

00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:02.140
and may share his sufferings, becoming like him

00:34:02.140 --> 00:34:06.640
in his death. Powerful scripture. Yeah. Don't

00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:10.460
you want to just know him? And that's part of

00:34:10.460 --> 00:34:12.880
the promise of the new covenant is that we will

00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:16.199
know him. If then you have been raised with Christ,

00:34:16.460 --> 00:34:21.139
seek the things that are above, where Christ

00:34:21.139 --> 00:34:24.940
is seated at the right hand of God. Set your

00:34:24.940 --> 00:34:28.079
minds on things that are above, not on things

00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:32.090
that are on the earth, for you have died. We're

00:34:32.090 --> 00:34:36.289
already dead. Okay. Dead in Christ. And your

00:34:36.289 --> 00:34:39.789
life is hidden with Christ in God. So that's

00:34:39.789 --> 00:34:42.429
a part of the sufferings when we die to stuff.

00:34:43.170 --> 00:34:46.190
And then it says for verse four, when Christ

00:34:46.190 --> 00:34:50.710
who is your life appears, then you also will

00:34:50.710 --> 00:34:53.570
appear with him in glory. So verse five gets

00:34:53.570 --> 00:34:56.809
into the nitty gritty and the next few verses.

00:34:57.210 --> 00:35:01.489
Put to death, therefore. What is earthly in you?

00:35:01.829 --> 00:35:06.170
Sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire,

00:35:06.190 --> 00:35:10.250
and covetousness, which is idolatry. So, you

00:35:10.250 --> 00:35:13.869
know, this greedy thing, this greed, it's idolatry.

00:35:13.909 --> 00:35:17.369
God hates it. On account of these, the wrath

00:35:17.369 --> 00:35:22.030
of God is coming. In these, you too once walked

00:35:22.030 --> 00:35:25.269
when you were living in them, but now you must

00:35:25.269 --> 00:35:30.900
put them all away. Anger, wrath. malice, slander,

00:35:30.940 --> 00:35:33.780
and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie

00:35:33.780 --> 00:35:36.039
to one another, seeing that you have put off

00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:39.179
the old self with its practices and have put

00:35:39.179 --> 00:35:42.500
on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge

00:35:42.500 --> 00:35:46.739
after the image of its creator. So our creator

00:35:46.739 --> 00:35:51.659
came in the form of his son. Everything that

00:35:51.659 --> 00:35:57.559
was made was made by Jesus, made by the God of

00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:02.170
glory. He's one. They are one. Don't think there's

00:36:02.170 --> 00:36:04.690
such a separation between the Father and the

00:36:04.690 --> 00:36:07.530
Son. Yes, there's the Father, and yes, there's

00:36:07.530 --> 00:36:11.030
the Son, but they're one. So if we want to be

00:36:11.030 --> 00:36:14.730
like him, we keep putting to death all of the

00:36:14.730 --> 00:36:18.889
things that don't look like him. And in Romans

00:36:18.889 --> 00:36:21.030
8, 18 and 19, would you like to read that one,

00:36:21.090 --> 00:36:38.630
Philip? Isn't that beautiful? Yeah. So as we're

00:36:38.630 --> 00:36:40.949
going through adversities, as we're going through

00:36:40.949 --> 00:36:44.050
sufferings, because that's our lot, you know,

00:36:44.070 --> 00:36:46.710
Jesus promised us, in this world you will have

00:36:46.710 --> 00:36:51.380
tribulation. It's a promise. So if you're in

00:36:51.380 --> 00:36:53.719
a church or something that doesn't believe in

00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:55.880
suffering, they don't read all the scriptures.

00:36:56.300 --> 00:37:01.340
Well, that's true. I was listening recently to

00:37:01.340 --> 00:37:04.639
a video by Peter Snyder. We've had him on the

00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:08.559
podcast a couple of times. And he was a missionary

00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:11.679
in China for many years. And Sister Gwen Shaw,

00:37:11.900 --> 00:37:15.099
our founder, went to visit him on her last trip

00:37:15.099 --> 00:37:19.099
to China. I think that's when it was anyway,

00:37:19.260 --> 00:37:22.940
was towards the end of her ministry. And she

00:37:22.940 --> 00:37:26.780
ministered there and the Chinese people loved

00:37:26.780 --> 00:37:29.980
her. And they really honored her for the fact

00:37:29.980 --> 00:37:33.980
that she came to be a missionary in China when

00:37:33.980 --> 00:37:37.320
it was very difficult, very, very difficult.

00:37:37.940 --> 00:37:42.900
And anyway, he asked her, do you have any regrets?

00:37:44.110 --> 00:37:46.510
And she said, she thought about it a moment,

00:37:46.550 --> 00:37:50.489
and she said, I'm sorry that I taught the Bible

00:37:50.489 --> 00:37:53.949
students about the pre -tribulation rapture.

00:37:54.429 --> 00:37:57.429
Because they were expecting to be raptured out

00:37:57.429 --> 00:38:00.909
from the tribulation that they wound up entering

00:38:00.909 --> 00:38:03.730
into. And they've been in tribulation ever since.

00:38:04.010 --> 00:38:07.789
It was very comforting when she went back that

00:38:07.789 --> 00:38:10.909
last time. Oh, yes. And they had the same picture

00:38:10.909 --> 00:38:14.329
which she had. There at the church at the Bible

00:38:14.329 --> 00:38:17.969
school of all the students, and with our founder

00:38:17.969 --> 00:38:20.750
and her husband that were there in the picture.

00:38:20.789 --> 00:38:24.690
How many years? That was like 1948, I think,

00:38:24.730 --> 00:38:27.710
something like that. 47, I think. Oh, 48. Yeah,

00:38:27.730 --> 00:38:29.909
you're right. And they found out that they were

00:38:29.909 --> 00:38:33.369
scattered all over China, but that as far as

00:38:33.369 --> 00:38:35.150
they knew, none of them had gotten martyred.

00:38:35.329 --> 00:38:37.489
That's true. God had protected them. That's true.

00:38:39.530 --> 00:38:42.309
So maybe they just hung on to those words which

00:38:42.309 --> 00:38:44.829
he preached them. Because, you know, many died.

00:38:45.349 --> 00:38:49.730
And still many are being persecuted in China.

00:38:50.650 --> 00:38:54.369
The point is, you have to understand that tribulation

00:38:54.369 --> 00:38:59.230
and suffering are a part of life. And it's not

00:38:59.230 --> 00:39:02.289
the same as the great tribulation, which is really

00:39:02.289 --> 00:39:05.639
the wrath of God. God has promised to take us

00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:09.219
out of the wrath. Yeah, we're seeing the wrath

00:39:09.219 --> 00:39:12.099
of man. Absolutely. Everywhere, we're seeing

00:39:12.099 --> 00:39:15.179
the wrath of man in our cities, different nations,

00:39:15.260 --> 00:39:18.980
but the wrath of God is not for his children.

00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:22.800
Amen. And so Sister Gwen had preached that, that

00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:25.239
we'll see enough of the tribulation to know what

00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:28.500
it's like. Yeah. But the wrath of God is not—

00:39:28.500 --> 00:39:29.699
We're not appointed to wrath. We're not appointed

00:39:29.699 --> 00:39:32.570
unto wrath. Yeah. Yeah. So there's a real balance

00:39:32.570 --> 00:39:35.409
there. It's true. It's true. So it's just be

00:39:35.409 --> 00:39:38.909
ready to go at any time. Because if we knew when

00:39:38.909 --> 00:39:40.469
the rapture was going to be, it's going to be

00:39:40.469 --> 00:39:42.909
two years from now. How many of the saints would

00:39:42.909 --> 00:39:45.789
be playing around to the last week? And then

00:39:45.789 --> 00:39:49.650
make everything right. It's going to be a surprise.

00:39:49.849 --> 00:39:52.630
Not a good thing to do. Not a good thing to do.

00:39:52.949 --> 00:39:58.309
So Acts 541 talks about the disciples. I think

00:39:58.309 --> 00:40:01.940
it was Peter and John. It says, and they left

00:40:01.940 --> 00:40:04.739
the presence of the council rejoicing that they

00:40:04.739 --> 00:40:07.199
were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for his

00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:10.800
name. Rejoicing. They were rejoicing in their

00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:14.900
sufferings. And then 1 Peter 4 .13 says, but

00:40:14.900 --> 00:40:18.000
rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings,

00:40:18.019 --> 00:40:21.079
that you may also rejoice and be glad when his

00:40:21.079 --> 00:40:23.519
glory is revealed. And you put that in today's

00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:27.059
terms. If you're in China or somewhere and you

00:40:27.059 --> 00:40:29.690
get pulled in, you're interrogated. You know,

00:40:29.690 --> 00:40:32.409
and you're threatening all this and that. Your

00:40:32.409 --> 00:40:34.210
first thought getting out of, oh, thank you,

00:40:34.210 --> 00:40:36.809
Jesus. Thank you, Lord, that I'm not thrown in

00:40:36.809 --> 00:40:40.769
jail. You know, be rejoicing. But what happens

00:40:40.769 --> 00:40:43.130
if you got beat? Right. And all that, and they're

00:40:43.130 --> 00:40:45.429
rejoicing because they laid stripes on them,

00:40:45.449 --> 00:40:49.230
and they were rejoicing. Yes. And I've heard

00:40:49.230 --> 00:40:52.670
stories like that coming out of China, that the

00:40:52.670 --> 00:40:55.869
pastors that were arrested and beaten, that they

00:40:55.869 --> 00:40:58.860
were— joyful about it. In fact, Peter Snyder

00:40:58.860 --> 00:41:03.619
tells the story of a man that was in jail and

00:41:03.619 --> 00:41:07.179
he was being beaten every day. And one day, one

00:41:07.179 --> 00:41:09.420
day they're beating on him and he starts to laugh.

00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:13.179
And they said, what's the matter with you? Why

00:41:13.179 --> 00:41:16.280
are you laughing? And he said, I don't know.

00:41:16.420 --> 00:41:21.110
I'm just so happy. So he's really rejoicing in

00:41:21.110 --> 00:41:23.289
his suffering. That was a God thing. It was a

00:41:23.289 --> 00:41:25.710
God thing. And that is the work of the grace

00:41:25.710 --> 00:41:29.210
of God in our lives. And that is the point of

00:41:29.210 --> 00:41:33.610
us going through adversity so that we learn to

00:41:33.610 --> 00:41:36.710
rejoice in our sufferings. I remember that Chinese

00:41:36.710 --> 00:41:40.880
pastor that... They wanted to humiliate him so

00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:43.679
bad because he was a pastor. They had him clean

00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:47.219
out the toilets. The whole cesspool, I think

00:41:47.219 --> 00:41:49.480
it was. The cesspool. So he's standing in it,

00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:51.920
and they would tell him, don't you sing and all

00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:56.380
that. His favorite song was, I Come to the Garden

00:41:56.380 --> 00:41:59.619
Alone. And he stank so badly, and the job was

00:41:59.619 --> 00:42:02.300
so stinky, that they would leave him alone. They

00:42:02.300 --> 00:42:04.539
wouldn't come near him. There wasn't anybody

00:42:04.539 --> 00:42:07.420
there to tell him not to sing. They wouldn't

00:42:07.420 --> 00:42:09.679
let him sing in his cell. And they call him his

00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:13.119
garden. And the last time we were in China was

00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:16.900
in 2012. We were with the underground church,

00:42:16.980 --> 00:42:22.219
and we sat next to this man. He was in jail at

00:42:22.219 --> 00:42:24.219
the same time the heavenly man. I mean, everybody

00:42:24.219 --> 00:42:26.820
hears about the heavenly man. And how he escaped.

00:42:27.019 --> 00:42:30.099
He escaped. But this man, he served his full

00:42:30.099 --> 00:42:34.530
16 years. He did not escape. Who's more heavenly?

00:42:34.670 --> 00:42:37.670
I thought this man. And it's just like, you don't

00:42:37.670 --> 00:42:40.829
even feel worthy to sit next to somebody like

00:42:40.829 --> 00:42:44.030
this. You know, we think our idea of suffering

00:42:44.030 --> 00:42:47.989
is nothing compared to what this man went through.

00:42:48.150 --> 00:42:50.670
It's true. You know, it's just God's grace on

00:42:50.670 --> 00:42:53.110
it. It's true. You know, we're born in this nation

00:42:53.110 --> 00:42:57.070
that has been free and not born into a nation.

00:42:58.030 --> 00:43:00.789
That has been anti -God all of your life. It's

00:43:00.789 --> 00:43:03.809
true. But the more anti -God this nation becomes,

00:43:04.150 --> 00:43:06.630
the more tribulation we're likely to see. The

00:43:06.630 --> 00:43:08.809
more tribulation we're likely to see. So you

00:43:08.809 --> 00:43:12.909
know how to pray. Yes. And China isn't the only.

00:43:13.239 --> 00:43:15.219
nation that's suffering tribulation. You've got

00:43:15.219 --> 00:43:19.159
the Nigerian Christians that are being persecuted

00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:22.760
and churches burned down and people being slaughtered.

00:43:22.780 --> 00:43:25.659
And it's happening in Mozambique and it's happening

00:43:25.659 --> 00:43:30.199
in India. Terrible. Many, many places where there's

00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:34.980
a strong Islam. Think of Iran. Iran is just awful

00:43:34.980 --> 00:43:37.699
right now. Yeah, because you think Iran, they're

00:43:37.699 --> 00:43:41.320
not Arabs, they're Persians. Right. And Islam

00:43:41.320 --> 00:43:44.340
was not their religion. Not originally. Not originally.

00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:46.420
And then all of a sudden when they came in and

00:43:46.420 --> 00:43:49.940
took over in the overthrow, how many remember

00:43:49.940 --> 00:43:55.079
our embassy that we had there? And for like 400

00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:59.119
some days, the members of the embassy, the U

00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:02.679
.S. embassy in Tehran were taken prisoner. It's

00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:06.039
true. We attempted to come in and get them out

00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:08.960
and it botched. It got botched. It didn't work.

00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:12.340
But as soon as Ronald Reagan came into office,

00:44:13.019 --> 00:44:15.920
Guess what? They freed him. It's true. Because

00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:20.119
he had some clout. Yeah, God used him. Yeah,

00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:24.539
God used him, and that's a persecution. You imagine

00:44:24.539 --> 00:44:27.460
you're working in an embassy, U .S. embassy somewhere,

00:44:27.739 --> 00:44:30.300
and all of a sudden you're taken prisoner. Yeah.

00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:33.159
And that's what happened. That's when Islam came

00:44:33.159 --> 00:44:37.780
in to Iran, and now you see it has a foothold

00:44:37.780 --> 00:44:41.159
in our country. A prayer is what will combat

00:44:41.159 --> 00:44:44.760
that. And this next move of God, you know, when

00:44:44.760 --> 00:44:48.440
the presence of God comes down to every Muslim

00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:50.699
and we've, you know, there's been dreams and

00:44:50.699 --> 00:44:54.039
we've shared some of those, they will fall on

00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:57.559
their face before Yehovah God, before Jesus,

00:44:57.780 --> 00:45:01.119
and they will know him. That's true. That's the

00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:04.619
only thing that will turn righteousness in any

00:45:04.619 --> 00:45:09.380
nation. It's true. Wow. So to boil this down.

00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:14.079
I think it would be good for us to understand

00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:18.519
that every kind of adversity that we go through

00:45:18.519 --> 00:45:24.619
is meant to help us to practice rejoicing in

00:45:24.619 --> 00:45:29.380
suffering. And the longer we spend in grumbling

00:45:29.380 --> 00:45:32.719
and complaining about it and murmuring. the longer

00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:35.360
it will be before we get delivered from that

00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.440
trouble. We'll have to try that the next time

00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:40.539
we're on a real turbulent airline. We call that

00:45:40.539 --> 00:45:46.480
tribulation. You do. I just go to sleep. So let's

00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:50.340
make that our practice. Let the Holy Spirit remind

00:45:50.340 --> 00:45:53.019
us. Remember, that's one of the jobs of the Holy

00:45:53.019 --> 00:45:56.860
Spirit, is to bring to our remembrance. So whenever

00:45:56.860 --> 00:46:00.239
we come into some kind of adversity, it could

00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:03.599
be small, it could be great, begin to practice

00:46:03.599 --> 00:46:07.400
rejoicing. Because rejoicing and praising God

00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:11.800
is going to set you free from that set of circumstances.

00:46:11.860 --> 00:46:16.679
Or, you know, I've heard people that have been

00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:21.519
in prison under communism that talked about how

00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:25.159
they were freer in their cell than the jailer

00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:30.539
who was not knowing God. Because knowing him

00:46:30.539 --> 00:46:35.539
gives you... The ability to walk in his presence,

00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:40.659
knowing him and rejoicing in him brings his presence

00:46:40.659 --> 00:46:46.619
into your life and gives you that grace. And

00:46:46.619 --> 00:46:50.199
it gives you that shalom, that peace that passes

00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:55.219
understanding that comes from his presence. So

00:46:55.219 --> 00:46:58.480
to close, I was reminded of this little song

00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:03.280
that we used to sing. A long time ago. A long

00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:06.800
time ago. And I understand that there's more

00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:09.699
than one tune to it, so I'll just bring that

00:47:09.699 --> 00:47:12.940
tune that I remember, and hopefully I'll get

00:47:12.940 --> 00:47:16.010
it pretty close to right. But it's to remind

00:47:16.010 --> 00:47:20.369
us that we can enter into his sufferings, into

00:47:20.369 --> 00:47:23.489
the sufferings of Jesus. Even when we're being

00:47:23.489 --> 00:47:27.070
pierced through by something, we have the joy

00:47:27.070 --> 00:47:30.170
of knowing that as we enter into his sufferings,

00:47:30.190 --> 00:47:34.630
there's a glory that comes with it. So, will

00:47:34.630 --> 00:47:40.829
you be poured out as wine upon the altar for

00:47:40.829 --> 00:47:47.710
me? Will you be broken as bread to feed the hungry?

00:47:48.829 --> 00:47:56.630
Will you be so one with me that I may do my perfect

00:47:56.630 --> 00:48:03.289
will? Will you be light and life and love, my

00:48:03.289 --> 00:48:10.369
word fulfill? Lord, give us that grace to walk

00:48:10.369 --> 00:48:16.119
in your ways. to walk in that partaking of the

00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:20.579
sufferings of Christ, to walk with Jesus down

00:48:20.579 --> 00:48:25.719
the Via Dolorosa, to walk with him and let the

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sufferings of Jesus that brought him forth into

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