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I will pass, I will pass over you.
And then our second song is song number 266, Honey in the Rock.
Song number 266, Honey in the Rock.
Song number 266, Honey in the Rock, let's sing it out on the first.
Oh, my brother, do you know the Savior who is wondrous, kind, and true?
He's the rock of your salvation.
There's honey in the rock for you.
Oh, there's honey in the rock, my brother.
There's honey in the rock for you.
Leave your sins for the blood to cover.
There's honey in the rock for you.
Have you tasted that the Lord is gracious?
Do you walk in the way that's new?
Have you drunk from the living fountain?
There's honey in the rock for you.
Oh, there's honey in the rock, my brother.
There's honey in the rock for you.
Leave your sins for the blood to cover.
There's honey in the rock for you.
Do you hate unto God the Father?
What will thou have me to do?
Never fear, He will surely answer.
There's honey in the rock for you.
Oh, there's honey in the rock, my brother.
There's honey in the rock for you.
Leave your sins for the blood to cover.
There's honey in the rock for you.
Then go out through the streets and byways.
Preach the word to the many or few.
Say to every fallen brother,
There's honey in the rock for you.
Oh, there's honey in the rock, my brother.
There's honey in the rock for you.
Leave your sins for the blood to cover.
There's honey in the rock for you.
Good morning. Welcome to Sure Foundation Baptist Church for our morning service.
And let's take our bulletins.
Raise your hand if you need a bulletin. We'll go through the bulletin quickly.
If you look at the verse of the week it says, but let a man examine himself
and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.
1st Corinthians chapter 11 verse 28. Of course we're going to be doing the Lord's
Supper tonight for the evening service, but our
Sunday morning service is 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening service 3 30 p.m.
Thursday Bible study is 6 30 p.m. and you have to just show up on Thursday
and you'll know what book we're doing. So it's going to keep it a secret so that
makes people want to come more. So anyway, our soul-winning times are
listed there below. If you're planning on going soul-winning, please
let brother Brandon know that you're planning on
going so we can get the soul-winning organized.
And then we got Wednesday soul-winning with brother Blake.
And that's going to be 5 30 to 7 30 this week. So it's kind of a different time.
Usually he just does an hour and usually doesn't wash but we're
going to be going to Fruit Valley. So Fruit Valley's been very fruitful in
the past. So hopefully it'll be fruitful once again when we go
this Wednesday. So if you want to go to an extra soul-winning time this week
that'd probably be a good one to go to. Friday evenings with brother Harrington
and then Saturdays is with Remy and of course we're doing a
big soul-winning push. So that'll be, I'll go over that here in just a second,
but we're not going to do our regular soul-winning time at 12 p.m.
this Saturday. We're going to do a different time. So then also the regional
soul-winning times are listed below. And praise report you can see the
salvation totals, baptisms, and attendance numbers. And we had 14
salvations yesterday about soul-winning. So praise God for that.
And so yeah and that four of those were from
Tacoma. There was about I think 14 people that went up in the
Tacoma area soul-winning. And they had four salvations there and we had 10 down
here. And half of our team kind of left halfway
through. So it was all the ladies were at a baby
shower for Miss Annie. And so it was my fault. I kind of planned
it stupidly. But we still got
quite a few salvations yesterday. So praise God for that. The Spanish kids
class is going to be this coming week on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
Please let Miss Alejandra know if you're coming or not. And then
the Lord's Supper again is today at 3 30 p.m. So we're not going to have a
preaching service. We're just going to have
the soul. We're going to sing some songs and then we're going to
partake of the Lord's Supper. And then we're going to sing another song and
we'll be dismissed. So it's going to be an early release day for you in the
penitentiary. So no I'm just kidding. It's going to be
a good day. And I know that some people are
are sick and not feeling well. So we'll pray for them
today. And so yeah there's several people that aren't feeling well. Some kind of
bug going around. So let's just keep our close talking to
a minimum and you know follow the normal rules that we would go over if
you're sick. No handshaking or hugging. No kissing
other people's babies and all that kind of stuff.
All right so keep your your germs to yourself as much as you possibly can.
And I don't it's not the Rona so everybody can still taste and smell
right? All right good. I still can but
anyway so we might be a little have a little bit smaller of a
service than normal tonight. So just but just be in prayer for those that
are sick and not feeling well. And next week we are going to do another
big soul wanting push on April 3rd. Normally we do the mega soul wanting
marathon but there there's just not enough
pastors to run the mega marathon right now. And
so that's kind of the issue is that our former some of our former friends are
no longer able to take on some of the areas that
they would. So maybe they're doing their own thing. That's
that's cool whatever. But we're still gonna do a big soul
wanting push anyway. And so we're gonna have I I put 10 a.m.
and I just real I just forgot to that you guys are not really exactly
morning people so I'm not either. So I pushed it up to 10 30
a.m. and I'm sorry about the confusion about
that. It's my wife's fault. I cannot tell a lie.
So no anyway blaming her. But 10 30 a.m. will be the start time next
week and we're still gonna meet on location.
And if there's something to finish up on the map maybe just send a couple
people to finish up that map if you're one of the captains.
And then move on to map number two or map number three whatever one
you're supposed to be on. And see I sent Justin to the most fruitful area I see.
And it didn't even get that area didn't even get finished. So
yeah that place is always a treasure trove of
of souls. So as long as we let it lie for the land lie dormant for a time period
then we can always go back to those places and they're usually
pretty good. So 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. is going to be lunch.
I'm thinking about just having a little or not little caesars good night
roundtable pizza delivered to the park. Did you guys like that park was that
okay? Okay so miss Sherry told me that there
was a porta potty across the the area. There's no bathroom at that
park. If anybody knows of a park that does have a bathroom in Vancouver it's
kind of hard. I was just searching for it and I just really couldn't find
something that was solid. And I see that someone she said
that somebody took all the picnic tables and that was kind of a bummer. Sorry
about that. We'll just plan on bringing our own tables next time
and if we get the picnic tables we get them. So if anybody has any suggestions
of a different park that might work out better just come up
and let me know after the service and we'll think about changing it up.
But anyway so the second session will be at
2 p.m. So we're going to have lunch it's on the church and then a second
session. So it'll be another big day another tiring day. I'm sure a lot of you
guys are tired from going out yesterday but
you know we don't do these big pushes very often. I'd like to do them more
often and now that it's sunny outside and nice
for the most part except for on Sundays for some reason but
if it's if it's nice you know people are going to be out and about and doing
things and so that's a good time to get out and do some extra soul
winning. So we're also we got coming I'm going to be
preaching at Steadfast OKC on April 25th and then May 17th
through 21st is the Yakima souling trip. I put sign-up sheets around the corner
it's they're pinned to the bulletin board there and
it basically just tells you what you need to put there
how many adults how many children and what the name is for the room because
we're going to book it under a certain name.
So just put your first and last name there how many adults how many children
if you need two different rooms so like the Ritchie's definitely needed
two different rooms so so just specify that obviously you don't
want to put your three and four year olds in a room by themselves
so that would not that would be disastrous so let's not do that but
anyway if you need an extra room just let me know
so that's going to be a great trip if you're planning on going please sign up
I know I said to send me emails but I'd rather
just have a hard copy so if you already sent me an email please just sign up on
there anyway so I just have one thing to look at so
I know most of the people that sent me emails but
just please be sure to do that church camp at Union Rogue is still
a go as far as I know I'm going to call Tom this week and see
what the deal is with it we might not know till
right before I'm not sure how that's going to work out then the three-year
anniversary for our church is June 30th through August 1st
and we're really close to signing the lease but I have not signed it yet
I wanted to go through a lawyer and make sure everything was okay before I
signed it so I'm just waiting back on some questions
that were asked and then we'll probably end up
signing at least this coming week so praise God for that being a new
building with more room and all that good stuff so
anyway our Bible memory verse challenge is John 3 14 through 19 we're on verse
18 this week and so keep keep going with that it's
really an easy set of scriptures to memorize so
if you want a good prize at the end of that then make sure you
just quote it word perfect to a non-family member and let them
tell me that you've completed that and you'll get a prize at the end of the six
weeks and just for special prayer if you're in
prayer this week especially pray for our new building
and the signing of the lease and for Pastor Messler who's going
through a lot of problems up in Yakima with the
rucktards trying to overthrow the church and all this other stuff so
but the main part of his church is with him just so you know
there's just a few bad apples there that need to get tossed out
and we tossed a couple out last week when I was up there preaching
and wouldn't allow them in so they got all mad and tried to put their foot in
the door and then the cops came and trespassed one of them and then
so two walker texas rangers kicked out so if you want to know what that means
after the end of service I'll tell you about
some of you already know anyway and then so
I also have a special unspoken concerning the church
and just please pray for that special unspoken
and so we're a family integrated church that means the children and infants are
always welcome during the church services
make sure that you utilize those rooms they're downstairs they're clearly
marked the ladies restrooms back there men's
restrooms located downstairs and no dads are allowed in the mother
baby rooms and vice versa please make sure you're latching the gates
as you go down the stairs kids no running in the church
I know I keep having to say this but you know why I keep having to say it because
kids keep running in the church so please if you see your kids running in
the church stop them and make them stop okay
so I know no fun for the kids you know but
they have all week to have fun so church should be fun but obviously I
just don't want anybody getting hurt with some kid running in the back of
somebody some old person like me and taking me down
so anyway it's just it's just the way kids get hurt too
it's like they start breaking the rules and all of a sudden they bash their head
on a chair or something you know it's like
you know you had it coming no I'm just kidding
you know the rules I'm teasing all right so anyway silence your cell
phones if you would at this time please and make sure that if you're a lady and
you're here you're single you're getting a
escort by one of the ushers to your vehicle and you can look at the
you can donate online or text give the text giving number is there on the
bulletin and I don't want to miss this so we have
a couple birthdays rebecca alcorda is she here
no no rebecca alcorda no alcordas period okay
and then timothy harrington also not here
so i guess i'm off the hook i don't have to sing happy birthday no wait wait
yes yes i do have to sing happy birthday there's somebody
that's been hiding like aiken you know aiken hid the stuff well this person
likes to hide their birthday it's miss rachel woods
now don't look everybody look at it right now so her face turns really red
brother rylan please make sure you put that in the bulletin for next year
and uh so miss rachel's birthday was on the 23rd
and uh she thought she was going to escape this year but she was wrong
oh yeah she was wrong so let's sing happy birthday to miss rachel
ready
happy birthday to you happy birthday to you
happy birthday god bless you happy birthday to you
she's 21 again so make sure you congratulate her on her
birthday all right so we're going to sing another song and then we're going
to receive the offering
so
our next song number 296 follow on
song number 296 follow on
song number 296 follow on song 296 let's sing it out on the first
down in the valley with my savior i would go
where the flowers are blooming and the sweet
waters flow everywhere he leads me i would follow follow on
walking in his footsteps till the crown be
won follow follow i would follow jesus anywhere
everywhere i would follow on follow follow i would follow
jesus everywhere he leads me i would follow
on down in the valley with my savior i would go
where the storms are sweeping and the dark waters flow
with his hand to lead me i will never never fear
danger cannot fright me if my lord is near
follow follow i would follow jesus anywhere everywhere i would follow
on follow follow i would follow jesus everywhere he leads
me i would follow on down in the valley or upon the mountain
steve close beside my savior would my soul
ever keep he will lead me safely in the path that he has trod
up to where they gather on the hills of god
follow follow i would follow jesus anywhere everywhere
i would follow on follow follow i would follow jesus
everywhere he leads me i would follow on
hey man good to see you
thank you
so
all right go ahead and turn your bibles to isaiah chapter 53
isaiah 53 if you don't have a bible raise your hand one of the ushers will
bring you one
isaiah 53
isaiah 53 the bible reads who had believed our report
and to whom is the arm of the lord revealed for he shall grow up before him
as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground he
had no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is no
beauty that we should desire him he is despised and rejected of men a man
of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we hid as
it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not
surely he had borne our griefs and carried our sorrows
yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of god
and afflicted but he was wounded for our transgressions
he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of
our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed
all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned everyone to his own way
and the lord had laid on him the iniquity of us all
he was oppressed and he was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth
he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is
dumb so he openeth not his mouth he was taken
from prison and from judgment and who shall declare
his generation for he was cut off out of the land of
the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken
and he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death
because he had done no violence neither was any deceit
in his mouth yet it pleased the lord to bruise him
he had put him to grief when thou shall make his soul an offering for sin
he shall see his seed he shall prolong his days
and the pleasure of the lord shall prosper in his hand
he shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied
by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many
for he shall bear their iniquities therefore will i divide him a portion
with the great and he shall divide the spoil with the
strong because he hath poured out his soul unto death
and he was numbered with the transgressors and he bare the sin of
many and made intercession for the
transgressors brother travis we pray for us
amen all right well the title of the sermon
this morning is jesus christ the suffering
savior jesus christ the suffering savior and of course
this chapter is a very famous chapter in the bible and
this whole chapter is about the lord jesus christ and i believe that the
scriptures of the new testament point to that fact
and they're they're referenced to multiple times in the new testament
and uh so i just have seven points this morning i know that seems like a lot
and i can get me into danger with not finishing the sermon but
i'm gonna finish the sermon anyway so i'll try to
go through this as quickly as i can but there's a lot of content
in isaiah 53 and there's only 12 what 12 verses in the whole chapter but there's
so much in there it's just a lot of packed
doctrine about how our savior suffered and died
for us and that his blood was shed for us
and his body was broken for us and and a lot of other
great doctrine in here so let's look at verse number one where the bible says
who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm
of the lord revealed so point number one is what is the report well what and what
is a report you know we think about you know you got to do a
report in school you know you have to report about what
facts are in in some book or whatever but this
book is a factual record that we can look to
it's the truth it's the word of god and so but what is the report
that it's talking about well actually let me define report first it says
to give a spoken or written account of something that one has observed
heard done or investigated i'll read that again
it's to give a spoken or written account of something that one
has observed heard done or investigated so it's
to give a report is something that you've heard something you've done
something you've investigated so if you've investigated the fact that
jesus christ is the son of god and you've called upon him as your
savior then you have done a report basically someone gave you that report
and you believed it now you as a as a soul winner as a christian go and
give that report that you've learned to somebody else the
second definition has an account given of a particular matter
especially in the form of an official document after
thorough investigation or consideration by an appointed person
or body and so even like in the book of luke
it it's addressed to someone so they can say this is the report that i have to
show you one of the gospels and then also the book of acts written
to theophilus and and it basically says these are the
facts this is what happens luke wrote both those books and so he's
like saying here's the report and it's up to you to believe it so and
obviously you can't believe the report unless
someone tells it to you right so the bible says who hath believed our
report well in romans chapter 10 these scriptures are are showed to us
that that what it actually means so turn over to
romans chapter 10 verse 14 should be a familiar portion of scripture
to you and the reason why i'm preaching about this today is because obviously
we're going to partake of the lord's supper tonight
and i think it's just a good thing to have a remembrance for the lord jesus
christ and to remember what he did for us
obviously i talked about how we're supposed to do the lord's supper last
week but i'm now i want to preach to you
the purpose of this and why are we remembering well because
somebody the lord jesus christ did something for us
that we could never repay we don't have to repay it's a free gift
but we need to remember what he did for us
and and a lot of times we get to preaching about lots of different topics
but ultimately the fact that jesus died for us
suffered for us he was body was bruised for us and he rose again from the dead
those are things that we have to put ourselves in remembrance of
and realize just how important this doctrine is about
the suffering of christ so look at roman chapter 10 verse 14 says how then
shall they call on him whom they have not believed
and how shall they believe in him and whom they have not heard
and how shall they hear without a preacher of course these are very famous
verses but people aren't going to believe people are not going to call on
somebody that they have not believed on and they're not going to believe on
someone who they've never heard of and how should they hear without a
preacher so it's up to us as christians to preach the gospel
and to make known the report that there's the savior died for us
and we need to make sure that that's part of our gospel presentation
obviously people have to know about the suffering of christ they have to know
that he lived the perfect life they have to know these things but it's
very important to for people to understand
the truth of the gospel and if you leave the gospel out
then you're not getting people saved so anyway so it says verse 15 and how shall
they preach except they be sent as it is written
how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things
so this is talking about soul winners people
that are actually y'all were out there yesterday in the
highways and the hedges and the lord you know at the end of the
day your feet were probably hurting maybe your back was hurting
but god looks at your feet as if it's a pretty thing
and usually feet are one of the ugliest parts of someone's body
especially as you get older and you know your toenails turn yellow and
yeah you get that get that visual so but even though your
feet are nasty looking and gangly you know as you get older
god still looks at those feet and considers them beautiful because of what
you're doing with those feet and he requires all his children to
win souls to him i mean that's what he wants that's what you should be doing
and it says in verse 16 but they have not all
obeyed the gospel for isaias saith lord who hath believed our report and
so obviously he's referencing back to isaiah chapter 53 and saying who's
believed our report what's the report the gospel the gospel is the report and
what he did for us how he suffered and died for us that's
the report that we that it's talking about in isaiah
chapter 53 it's and it's obviously referenced here it says so
then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of god but i say
have they not heard yes verily their sound went into all the
earth and their words unto the ends of the
world so the gospel's gone throughout the world already
multiple times you know and and it's kind of just like when you think about
solanine in vancouver like i know that the the brother shawn
went to an unreceptive place yesterday but that place has been receptive in
times past so like if you think about the gospel
going around the world there's gonna be places once it goes around the world
again that might not be receptive because maybe they've just
you know not followed after christ like they should have and so there's
different countries and different places of the world where it's not received
but it's still the gospel still has to go around the world
multiple times so look at acts chapter 8 verse 26
acts chapter 8 verse 26 another
another report of the fact of how powerful this passage is that we're in
today is from acts chapter 26 and it was actually used to get the
ethiopian eunuch saved so look at acts chapter 8 verse 26 it
says and the angel of the lord spake unto phillips saying arise
and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from jerusalem unto
gaza which is desert and he arose and went
and behold a man of ethiopia eunuch of great authority under candace queen
of the ethiopians who had the charge of all her treasure
and had come to jerusalem for to worship and was
was returning and sitting in his chariot read ezias
the prophet so what is he reading he's reading this chapter that we've
that we're going through today it says then the spirit said unto phillip
go near and join thyself to this chariot and phillip ran thither to him
and heard him read the prophet ezias and said
understandest thou what thou readest and let me tell you something
this also proves the fact that someone can't just read the bible and get saved
on their own someone has to show him because look
what it says in verse 31 and he said how can i except some man
should guide me and he desired phillip that he would
come up and sit with him so if you could get saved on your own
reading the bible then why did phillip why did he say
someone has to guide me i don't understand when i'm reading
he wasn't saved when saved when people are not saved they're not going to be
able to understand the word of god but it says in verse 32
the place of the scripture which he read was this
he was led as a sheep to the slaughter and like a lamb done before his shearer
so opened he not his mouth so that's the spot
that's the place of the scripture where he was reading and it's in isaiah
chapter 53 look at verse 33 it says in in his
humiliation his judgment was taken away and who
shall declare his generation for his life
is taken from the earth talking about the death of the lord jesus christ
and the eunuch answered phillip and said i pray thee of whom speak is
the prophet this of himself or of some other man
and then phillip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached
unto him jesus so these sets of scriptures right
here prove to us that it's talking about isaiah chapter 53 and so
phillip what did he do he began where he was reading and then preached to him
jesus see that look at verse 35 and began at
the same scripture and preached unto him jesus that's very
important because isaiah 53 can get someone saved
can it because it's the word of god is talking about the lord jesus christ and
he preached jesus unto him how he suffered
and died for his sins and then the man gets saved and gets baptized right
afterwards so now point number two he made himself
of no reputation let's look back in our text at isaiah chapter 53
isaiah chapter 53 look at verse number two he made himself
of no reputation look at verse number two says for he shall grow up
before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground
he hath no form nor comeliness that when we
shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him
so jesus christ was made just you know i'm not saying he was ugly
but he also wasn't the most handsome he was it says he has no form
nor comeliness so the form that he came in wasn't some muscle-bound ribbed dude
probably and also it says nor comeliness like
that means like like handsome or beautiful or something
like that and it says there's no beauty that we
should desire him so you know when king saul was made king
he was head and shoulders above everybody else a good looking guy
and everybody liked him they looked at him and say that's the guy
and even samuel looked at eliab and said surely this is the lord's anointed
because he was tall and handsome and and probably ripped and
whatever but that that wasn't the case when it came to the lord jesus christ so
he made himself of no reputation and he made himself humble look at let's look
over at philippians chapter 2 verse number 5
philippians chapter 2 verse number 5 so what i'm saying is like when people saw
him they weren't they weren't like wow i'm gonna follow this guy because he's
you know a big strapping guy he's good looking he's handsome like he had no
beauty that people would desire him for that reason
and i think that's a good point to understand is that he just was a regular
guy he wasn't you know he wasn't severely
ugly he wasn't severely handsome he was just a regular
guy no no form of calmliness in him philippians chapter 2 verse 5 where i
had you turn it says let this mind be in you which was also
in christ jesus who being in the form of god thought it
not robbery to be equal with god so in that scripture it proves that he
was in the form of god and he was equal he
thought it not robbery to be equal with god you know why because he is god
and he's equal with god the father and the holy spirit
but look at verse 7 it says but made himself of no
reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness
of men so even though he was in the line of the kings
is that how he presented himself in the beginning no
he came from a humble place he came from nazareth which you know he was born in
bethlehem like he was supposed to be according to the scriptures but he lived
his life in a place where people never thought that the lord was going to come
from he made himself of no reputation and
people didn't like think really highly of him in these
ways he took upon himself the form of a servant
someone that serves other people and was made in the likeness of men he
wasn't made to look abnormally weird or abnormally smart he
wasn't abnormally smart as far as like what what what we he's not like uh
richard dockings or something he he wasn't like you know getting the nerd
glasses on and talking all sophisticated
he the common the bible says the common men the common people received him
because he spoke as a common person not that he was stupid i'm not saying that
i'm just saying that he spoke just as a common person would
speak and people people liked the way the things that he
said see it's the things that jesus did and said
that made him set apart from everybody else he took himself
upon himself the form of a servant and says but made himself of no reputation
and took upon himself the form of a servant was made in the likeness of men
and being found in fashion as a man he what
he humbled himself and so even as a man it's it's already humbly enough for god
to become a man to to do the things that he did to to
secure our salvation but he also humbled himself he wasn't a
proud man he wasn't like just talking about himself all the time
and how great he was he was just show he showed people that he
how humble he was he didn't live in a mansion
on a hilltop he wasn't you know dressed the nicest
as as other people would probably look and think well this
surely you know the jews probably thought he was going to be this mighty
king that just came and he was all good looking and he's
just going to just give all the kingdom back
to the jews and all this other stuff but he was nothing like they thought he was
going to be isn't that funny how they just thought
he was going to be something that he really wasn't he never
intended to be that way it says he became obedient unto death
even the death of the cross and the death of the cross
to to endure something like that you know what you think about in the garden
of gethsemane when it says that he sweat as it were sweat drops of blood i don't
think it was blood personally but like it was like sweat was
just pouring out of his face because he knew
what he was going to have to go to he knew the death of the cross was imminent
and you know anybody that's human and he was human
but he was also god anybody that's human that knew that they're going to have to
go through something like he went through
they'd be they'd be sweating bullets too right
so and most people obviously would if they knew that what they were going
through next was going to be what he knew he was going through wouldn't have
gone through with it at all they would have ran and hid
wherefore god also hath highly exalted him and given him a name
which is above every name why did he get get the name better than every other
other person's name because he earned it he earned that
and he did he was obedient to the father and did all the things that he was
supposed to do on this earth and he was given that name that was
above every name it says that at the name of jesus
every knee should bow of things in heaven
and things in earth and things under the earth
and that every tongue should confess that jesus christ is lord
to the glory of god the father so it's the fact that he came with no
no reputation he wasn't some beautiful person to look at
he came in the form of a servant he humbled himself he was obedient to death
he died on the cross you know the hands
hand his hands and feet were nailed through with with
like iron spikes and he was nailed to a cross i mean imagine
having to go through that i mean i i think that
you know we think about it but we don't really think about it as deep as we
should because how painful would that be to
have just spikes driven through your arms i'm sure they weren't like being
gentle with them you know like here i'm just going to tap
it one time through you know they probably
had to hit it multiple times his feet together
had the the nail driven between both of his feet
i think that might even hurt worse than having your hands
nailed to a cross but you know they it was a very awful way to die
the romans really were were very uh good at torturing people and they were
not very nice about it so um but look what it says in verse
oh let's turn to act chapter 4 verse 12 so even though jesus made himself with
no reputation still god exalted jesus to the point
where he said his name is above every name
his name is above every name that every tongue should confess that jesus is lord
and one day everybody including richard dawkins including all these clowns that
just uh say all these dark things about the
lord and say all kinds of manner of evil against him
and all these homos that are you know just cursing his name and saying vile
things about him and all these just wicked people that
that just mock him even now today there's gonna be a day when they're
gonna bow down and call him lord whether they like it or not
so it's like you know hey you might as well just get saved because you're gonna
bow anyway and i like to tell people that too it's
like you know you can say all you want but one day you're gonna bow and they're
like oh no i won't oh yes you will the bible says you will
acts chapter 4 verse 12 says neither is there salvation
in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men
whereby we must be saved look if you're not saved by the name of jesus then
you're not saved at all so the name of jesus is the name that
you're saved by when it says for whosoever shall call upon the name of
the lord what's the name of the lord jesus christ i think it's important that
people that we get that across to people because
i think sometimes you know sometimes we're asking people they're like
god god god and and yet jesus is god but i like to make sure that people
specifically understand that jesus is god
because if they don't understand that then how are they going to be saved
so it says that jesus is the only name that we're saved by i'm going to uh
have you turn well just turn to john chapter 14 verse 6
and i know that we've all memorized this and i
but it's still valid and important in this sermon
john chapter 14 verse 6 says jesus saith unto him i am the way
the truth and the life no man cometh unto the father
but by me and the reason why that's true is because jesus earned that place
he he came he was of no reputation he did all these things
but god hath highly exalted him why because of the things that he did
because of the way he humbled himself because
of his obedience to the father and jesus is the only way to heaven and
sometimes i think we need to get that across to people out so wanting to
because sometimes they'll say weird things like
um they'll just say you know they'll just add him to the list of gods
that they already believed in so we gotta make sure that we under the
people understand that he is the only way because there's
no other name given among under heaven given among men whereby we
must be saved so that includes hinduism buddhism all
these different false religions you can't just add him to the list of
gods you believe in he has to be the only way
the only truth the only life and nobody's getting to heaven
except through him period that's what the bible teaches
now point number three this morning is jesus was hated
rejected in a man of sorrows jesus was hated
rejected in a man of sorrows look at verse number three in our text
in isaiah chapter 53 that jesus was hated rejected a man of sorrows look
what it says he is despised and rejected of men
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief
and we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised
and we esteemed him not there's a lot of people out there that
they don't esteem the lord jesus christ they don't they don't get how great the
gift was of what he did and a lot of people still
to this day despise the lord jesus christ they reject him
outright how many people rejected christ yesterday when you're out sowing him
a lot of people how many people didn't even talk to you and just shut the door
in your face there's a lot of people that just
reject the lord they hate him despise means that someone
that's they're a hated person and it's a man of sorrows you know he did
all this stuff for us but look at look at what they did to him for
no reason you know they literally killed him in
the worst possible way that you can for what reason for no reason there's no
reason that they that they actually did that so as he was
despised and we esteemed him not now jesus is hated today just like he
was hated back then but there are people there's a remnant of people that love
him and believe in him and want to serve him
but there's also many more that reject him and hate him look at john chapter
15 verse 18 john chapter 15 verse number 18
the book of john chapter number 15 look at verse 20 or excuse me verse 18 it
says if the world hate you talking about
christians you know that it hated me before it hated you so
people hated jesus before they hated us don't don't get on a high horse thinking
that you know oh they just hate me because i'm so
this or that no they hated jesus and you say you claim to be of jesus
and so they hate you because they hated him that's why they hate us
that's why they hate christianity and people say i don't really hate
christianity you liar there's a lot of people if you're not
for him you're against them and maybe not everybody hates jesus
some people just don't understand the truth i i get that
but there are people that just flat out hate him and those people are
wicked people they hated me before it hated you now skip down to verse 23 it
says he that hateth me hateth my father also
so all these jews that want to say that you know they believe in jehovah they
believe in and god the father as we would call him
then you know they don't even believe that he has a son
so they hate if they if someone hates jesus
they hate god the father also isn't that what it says
if i had not done among them the works which none
other men did they had not had sin but now have they both seen
and hated both me and my father so they don't they didn't just hate jesus they
hated the father too so don't let these jews tell you that
they don't that they love the father you know they love god but don't love
the son that's not true that's what the bible says right here
right look at verse 25 it says but this cometh to pass that the world
excuse me the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law they hated
me without a cause so why did they hate
jesus they didn't have a reason that's what it says right they hated him
without a cause you know darkness hates the light and
why because their deeds are evil and so people won't come to jesus and
people will hate jesus and they'll go against them a lot of these people are
children of the devil the ones that would hate jesus i believe are children
of the devil if you hate jesus then you're not saved period and you're
probably a reprobate but turn to matthew chapter 26 now we'll
show i just want to show you some actions that the people did that
show that they hated jesus and these are some
pretty some of what they did was really disgusting
and so many people in this room maybe you've had someone spit in your face
before anybody raise your hand if you've ever had
someone spit in your face on purpose so yeah some a lot of people and it's a
disgusting thing to do it's wicked and it's not
right and it and it shows your hatred for
somebody and maybe you don't really just hate that person but
but sometimes people spit on people out of disgust and hatred
but what did they do in verse 67 matthew chapter 26 verse
67 it says then did they spit in his face
and buffeted him hit him and others smote him with the palms of their hands
which you know is not a closed fist but with the palm of your hand that still
hurts you can still knock somebody out with a
slap to the face haven't you ever seen anybody in the slapping contest before
and they just like fall down when they get slapped it it you can you can knock
somebody out slapping them in the face it says that they um
they smote him with the palm of their hands saying prophesy unto us thou
christ who is he that smote thee and so in matthew chapter 26 you see
that they're spitting upon him they're hitting him in the face
this is when they're like trying to try him and
basically they're doing it for what no no cause
they just hate him because he's good saying prophesy unto us thou christ who
is he that smote thee so that's mocking so he endured people's mocking he
endured the shame of what he had to go through and nobody
wants to get spit in their face and think about this
jesus christ is the king of kings and lord of lords could he have defended
himself absolutely he could have just melted them
with one word honestly he could have done that but see
that wasn't his purpose for coming here his purpose was to save
all of mankind now look over matthew chapter 27 verse 30
matthew chapter 27 verse number 30 look at what it says and they spit upon
him it wasn't just one person it says they
spit upon him so multiple people are spitting on him
and they took a reed and they smote him on the head with it
and after that they had mocked him they took the robe off from him and put his
own raiment on him and led him away to crucify him so jesus
didn't just get crucified and that was it
he got beat up he got spit upon they pulled his beard out of his face
they put a crown of thorns upon his head and he was beaten
with a whip and he was he endured all kinds that he didn't have food or water
to drink for that whole time period when they from the time they took him at the
garden till the evening when he died that's a
long time to go without water and food isn't it
especially after going through all this uh things the things that he went
through and so when they tried to give him
vinegar to drink you know he's thirsty thinking it's water i mean what a
cruel thing to do to somebody is make them think that they're about to drink a
drink of water after he's probably severely thirsty
and and and then do that wicked thing and
pretend like they're giving him water so it's really wicked what they did to
him and what it points to is the fact that he was hated
he was rejected and he was a man of sorrows
and he took all that stuff he took all that hatred he took
all the things and he still takes it today honestly
people could still uh reject christ and then later on get saved some people
have a problem with god and they and they think that oh god took
my loved one so i'm not going to believe in him and things like that
and really that's not god's fault people always say
stuff like well you know it's i don't like god because he took so and so out
of my life or he allowed my this divorce to happen
or something that's he didn't allow that to happen you allow that to happen
and you know the fact that this world is cursed with sin
bad things happen to people it's not like the lord is just making all this
bad stuff happen to people you know it's the fact that we're in a
sinful world that's why calvinists it's so ridiculous what they believe
that jesus gets or that god gets some kind of glory
out of things happening to other people it's just not true
you know if someone molested a child do you think god gets glory from that that's
the sickening that's the most sickening thing i
can even think of someone hurting a child makes me more angry than anything
else that i could absolutely think about
i hate when people blasting the name of the lord obviously i hate that
but i really i also get really fired up when it comes to someone hurting a child
it really angers me and um jesus has anger for it too he says it's better
that a millstone were tied around your neck
and you were cast into the depths of the sea
so obviously he's saying it's better for your head to explode on your way down to
the bottom of the ocean with a millstone tied behind about
your neck than to face him on judgment day so
you know jesus is not going to be mocked he's not going to be
there's going to come a day when he's going to come back as a warrior
as a king as the king of kings and he's going to have
an iron rod that he dashes people like a potter's vessel with
so but right now he wants everybody to be saved that can be saved
so but he was hated he was rejected a man of sorrows
but he also still is today he's still rejected he's still a man of sorrows
and he's still hated today and maybe more so now than ever
there's a lot more people in the world now and so there's a lot of people that
really do hate jesus and don't want to have anything to do
with them so point number four jesus christ took upon himself the sins of the
whole world point number four jesus christ took upon himself the sins
of the whole world look at verse number four back in our
text it says surely he hath borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him
stricken smitten of god and afflicted so the bible is very clear in in isaiah
53 that he bore our griefs he carried our sorrows
and so he he died for our sins and he died for not just our sins but
the sins of the whole world and he bore all that stuff
upon himself having no sin upon him so like he kind of had to get in the hog
pen even though he wasn't one of the hogs
right you know i mean if you want to look at
it like that he he had to feel and and and take upon himself the dirt and filth
of this world and the sin and and all this stuff having not sin
himself so um i think that that would probably be
a pretty hard thing for somebody to do that
is holy and set apart um to have to do that i mean just
just thinking about the sin that you've committed in your life just you
think about how much sin just from you had to be put on jesus
think about the whole world of all people
from adam and eve to the last people that's a lot it's a lot of sin because
we sin a lot in our lives let's just be honest
and he carried that grief he carried that sorrow he carried that sin upon
himself look at second corinthians chapter 5
verse 15 second corinthians chapter 5 verse 15
now here's another thing where calvinists go off the edge with i don't
understand how they could think that he only died
for certain people that's ridiculous the bible is very
clear even in the book of timothy where it says
um that he is the savior of all men he's the savior of all men so second
corinthians chapter 5 verse 15 says and that he died for what's that say
right there all not just the not just the elect not
just certain people all that they which should live should not
henceforth live unto themselves but unto him which died for them and
rose again so jesus does want us to live um a good
life after we've been saved it says
that the henceforth not live unto themselves because really in all
honesty even now as christians sometimes we
live our lives for ourselves don't we yeah
but that's what's that's where soul winning does help you it
teaches you to live for other people because there's a lot of other things
that y'all could have been doing yesterday
besides knocking on people's doors and and uh getting shamed
getting told you know you're whatever they i mean i'm sure if i just asked
questions and had you give a testimony of how many
people rejected you yesterday it'd be it'd be a lot
but he wants us he died for all that that they which live should not henceforth
live unto themselves but unto him which died for them arose again
we should be living our lives for christ after we get saved
and he died for us all so that we could do that
because people that are dead and trespasses and sins they don't they
can't live for god all these people that said yesterday
yeah i'm saved how do you know well i'm a good person
they're not really living for god they're living for themselves because
they think that they they themselves can get themselves to heaven
they think that's the way to heaven they're and they're wrong about that
and they won't hear the fact that they're living that what they believe is
wrong it's always that fatal moment when
you're like well you know the bible says something different than
that can i show you and they're like no i got i got to go to work in two minutes
or you know i i'm reading a book or they
have any excuse you know and one excuse is just as good
as the next you know i got milk in the fridge
people you know people give stupid excuses as to why they won't do
something you know because one excuse is just as
good as the next hey i know that you're going to tell me
that what i believe isn't true about salvation
you would think that people would be like well yeah i i do want to know
you know obviously there are a remnant that do do that they
say yeah i'd like to hear but most of the time when you
expose someone they want to just stay in that system of belief that they have
already unfortunately turn to romans chapter 5
verse 6 romans chapter 5 verse 6
it says for when we were yet without strength and due time
christ died for the ungodly and who's the ungodly you
us all of us he died for the ungodly and he did it in due time when he was
supposed to look at verse 7 it says for scarcely for a righteous man
will one die yet paired venture for a good man
some would even dare to die but god commendeth
his love toward us and that while we were yet sinners
christ died for us so christ died for us everybody in this room he died for you
look at first corinthians chapter 15 verse 3 first corinthians chapter 15
verse 3
it says for i delivered unto you first of all that which i also received
how that christ died for our sins according to the scriptures as according
to what the bible said in the psalms and the old testament and the prophets
and moses saying that there's going to be a prophet that rises up
like unto me hear him hear ye him so we're we were supposed to look for this
savior that was going to come and he died according to what the
scripture said so christ was a mystery in the old
testament but there are a lot of scriptures that
now it's like it's like you see things in hindsight
you know with the new testament you see now you can see the scriptures for what
they were but at the time a lot of that was
uh something they couldn't they couldn't quite grasp so
and and obviously the new testament reveals to us
these things that christ died for our sins according
to the scriptures the way the bible said it was going to happen
now turn to galatians chapter 1 verse 4 galatians chapter 1
verse number 4 it says who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us
from the present evil world according to the will of god
and our father what's it what what part of you know he died for our sins so that
he could deliver us from this present evil world it's like well we're still in
the present evil world but yeah you're not supposed to live like you are
he's given us the freedom um from our salvation
of our salvation and we are free from the world
if you'll if you'll walk in the ways of the lord if you'll separate yourself
onto the things of god he will uh set you apart he'll allow you to live in
this world but see we have to live in this world
we have to live in this world or we're not going to reach anybody you know
these christians are homesteaders and want to just go out
and and just live on some ranch out in the middle of nowhere that's not what
christ called us to do he's you know but if you live in a far
away place i'm not saying that that's wrong i'm just saying you better get
into the city and preach the gospel to somebody and
not just hide out with your you know uh your your your prepper kits
and your and your grain silos and all this
other stuff it sounds like a good idea it sounds like fun but look why would
you want to escape the things that god says
we're going to do great works in in the times the end times we're going to do
great exploits the bible says and that will
turn many to the truth and will and will shine as the stars forever
and god's very pleased with the fact that his people go soul winning
there's a lot of people that don't go soul winning there's a lot of christians
in this city that don't go soul winning they don't care they
don't give a rip about other people they might say that they do but they
really don't because if they did they would go out
and do the works but they're the type of people that
would say yeah well you got all those people saved yesterday where are they
today how come they're not getting baptized
today how come they're not in church today well
why don't you ask jesus why there's only 126 in the first service after
he ascended up into heaven why don't you ask that question
well jesus wasn't very good at it the more that's what the mormons try to say
that joseph smith did more for christianity than jesus ever did
it's wicked but there's also christians today that would say well
you guys went out there and you didn't you didn't try to get them into church
and you didn't do this and you didn't do that
you just left them in the dumpster like a like a baby that was unwanted or
whatever well at least they're saved babies in
the dumpster right i mean that sounds bad doesn't it but
that's but that's what people accuse us of
you know you just left them with as a sheep with no shepherd
you you told them how to get saved but now what are they going to do
it's like hey i'd rather have them be saved then you know and obviously not
everybody comes to church it gets saved not everybody comes and gets baptized
it gets saved and we we understand that but some people do
look at there's a whole room full of people right here that are saved and
most of you are baptized so they went somewhere they're going to
go somewhere and maybe it's not to the greatest church in the world but at
least they're following him in some way shape or
form but you know soul winning is what you know he died for our sins to
deliver us from this present evil world but also that we could go
and be a light for him in the world look at
look at first john chapter two verse two first john
chapter two verse two the bible says and he's the propitiation
for our sins he is the propitiation for our sins what does that mean like the
appeasement to god like something was required for
our salvation something was required and jesus did
those things something was required for us to be
redeemed unto god and it was everything that
jesus did and so that means he's the appeasement
it satisfied god what was done he's satisfied everything
that we required for mankind to be saved that's what that's what the plan was
operation jesus into the world and that way
i can redeem man who i created unto me and so look what it says he's the
propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of
the whole world so he's making a distinction here he's
like there's people that are saved and it's not just for our sins that he
died calvinism smoked right here but also for
the sins of the whole world he died for the sins of the whole world
whether they receive him or not whether they believe it or not he's
still their savior and so these people that say all these
wicked things you know what it's funny he's still their savior
all they would have to do is call upon him and believe
so point number five we're redeemed through the shed blood of christ and
that's what we're gonna we're gonna show in the lord's
supper this evening that we are redeemed through the shed
blood of christ it's very important that we understand this so turn back to
isaiah chapter 53 look at verse number five
it says but he was wounded for our transgressions
he was bruised for our iniquities and the chastisement
of our peace was upon him with his stripes
we are healed so that term stripes is talking about
the whip that he took on his back the stripes that he
uh and a stripe is something when you when you whip someone with a whip
it's going to leave a bloody mark after it and so
his stripe by with his stripes we are healed
you know they put the crown of thorns upon his head and the
your head is what bleeds the most if you just even if you just get a tiny nick on
your head it bleeds really bad so he was you know people get this
picture of jesus when he died that he was just
you know like the catholics make it look like there's just a couple trickles of
blood coming down but in reality it was brutal it was
gruesome and he shed his blood for us it's an
offense to people when you bring up the cross the cross
offends people why does it offend people because it's
so brutal it's so gross and grotesque what happened to him the
bible says his face was marred like more more than any other man i mean so
that means have you ever seen someone really beat
up before his face was worse than theirs and that blood was just literally all
over his body he was whipped multiple times his beard
was ripped out i'm sure that probably left some bloody marks on
him and also that crown of thorns digging
into his his skin up top all probably blood all
over his face in his eyes down the back um you know
and of course when he was nailed through with the spikes
on the cross those obviously those wounds bled when he was pierced through
with the spear and water and blood came out i mean he
he drained himself of his blood that precious blood that that's the only
way that we can be safe through he put that blood on the mercy seat
for us right so we are healed by his stripes it says all we like
sheep have gone astray we have turned everyone to his own way
and we like to live our lives you know even as christians sometimes we get
caught up with i just want to live my life
well we that that's the bible says that we like sheep have gone astray we've
turned everyone to his own way even as christians people will turn to their own
way instead of following christ and obviously
it happened it can happen to anybody it happens to everyone
where we like man this is just this is too hard this is too
it's too hard to live the christian life but the lord it says
hath laid on him the iniquity of us all so the iniquity uh all the iniquity
that we've committed was laid on christ now turn to first peter chapter 2 verse
21 first peter chapter 2 verse 21 and he
explains this concept in the new testament
first peter chapter 2 verse 21 says for even hereunto
were ye called because christ also suffered for us
leaving us an example that you should follow
in his steps and that's a hard that's a hard saying right there because
how many people are really willing to suffer
the way that christ suffered and obviously no one's probably gonna ever
have to suffer like he suffered but sometimes you know
people throughout history have been martyred and obviously the bible
teaches that people will be martyred in the future
and it says that we're supposed to follow in his steps
so what what was christ like you know was he
did he get back at people for what they were doing no
he just he took it he took the abuse he took
the reviling look what it says who when he was reviled
reviled not again when he suffered he threatened not but committed himself
to him that judgeth righteously so he was suffering and look he's the king of
kings and lord of lords he could have called
multiple legions of angels to come and just
destroy those people he could have spoke them out of existence
because when christ speaks those things happen
so but what did he do he threatened not you know
i i think it was pastor schiller i was listening to one of his sermons and he
said that some of those little pipsqueak guys
that want to walk up and say that they're all bad they're going to knock
some big dude out right and obviously it can't happen but like
that having self-control when you know that you could just destroy someone
very easily is is hard it's hard to
when someone's making fun of you not to say something back it's hard when
someone threatens you or when someone makes you suffer not to
try to threaten them back you know hey if you do it i'm going to
knock you out instead you're just like okay whatever
you know so that's the way christ was that we should follow after his steps
hey so it says there's no guile in his mouth he
he did no sin in verse 22 and when he was reviled he reviled not
again he didn't he didn't threaten them he didn't go back after them
he just kept his mouth shut and took the suffering
so it says who himself in verse 24 bear our sins in his own body on the tree
that we being dead to sins should live unto
righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed
so he's directly referencing isaiah chapter 53 here
and and so stripes again are those blood those
those uh those blood bloody marks that are left behind after someone whipped
somebody verse 25 for years for ye were as
sheep going astray but now but are now returned unto the shepherd
and bishop of your souls so that likeness of sheep going astray
look when you get saved you're returned to the shepherd
the bishop of your souls and that's the way we should remain
for the rest of our lives and obviously we all mess up we all screw up
but hey you can always get back on the horse you know just because
uh you've committed some great sin doesn't mean you can't rise up again
a just man uh fall seven times and rise up again
so we can still live that christian life you're not destroyed
you know just because you committed sin so
look at first peter chapter 1 verse 18 first peter chapter 1 verse 18
it says for as much as you were that you were not redeemed with corruptible
things as silver and gold from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers but with what the
precious blood of christ the precious blood of
christ and the blood of christ is very precious
it's the most precious thing on earth it's the most precious thing that was
ever you know and you think that's kind of
weird to say that blood is so precious but it is
that's because it's the only way that you can be saved it says as of a lamb
without blemish and without spot talking about the
blood of christ and that picture of that that perfect
lamb was that picture of christ now i'm going to scroll through some
uh some verses about the blood real quickly so
make sure you turn as fast as you can here first john chapter one verse seven
first john chapter one verse seven says but if we
walk in the light as he is in the light we have
fellowship one with another and the blood of jesus christ his son
cleanseth us from all sin and so the bible is very clear that the
blood of christ was like better than the best laundry
detergent you could ever get right laundry detergent could take out a
lot of stains blood stains are hard to get out of something
right but it's it's it's interesting that it's saying that blood
actually cleanses because blood usually stains stuff
doesn't it but that stain um if you get that blood
stain from christ that actually cleanses every every
disgusting thing that is in your body that comes out of
your mouth and it cleanses you from all of your sin
it's a very interesting concept because blood stains
blood is hard to get out of stuff if you got if i got blood on this shirt
it's hard to get out but that blood of christ
actually cleanses every stain that we have
so uh look at matthew chapter 26 verse 28
matthew chapter 26 verse 28 the bible says for this is my blood
of the new testament which is shed for many for the remission
of sins it says for many but that basically means for everybody
that that means for everybody so because it's the bible has been very clear on
the verses i've already showed you that he died for all
right so when it says for many it is talking about all
and that blood of the new testament that is
that is the testament that so without blood there's no remission of sins
so someone had to shed their blood for that new testament it was the lord jesus
christ the lamb slain from the foundation of
the earth look at hebrews 9 12 hebrews chapter 9
verse 12 the bible says neither by the blood of
goats and calves but by his own blood he
entered in once into the holy place having obtained
what's it say eternal redemption for us so not only is it just it so some
people say well as long as you repent right they
have that doctrine where they say well you know we say well if you committed
some bad sin would that you know would would you
still be saved and a lot of times they'll say no but a
lot of times they'll also say yes as long as you repent right but what
does the bible actually say it says that through his own blood he
entered into the whole once into the holy place that's all it
had to be is one time having obtained eternal redemption
for us and so it's an it's not just a redemption until you sin again
no it's an eternal redemption that you get
from the blood of christ and the fact that he one time went into the holy
place as the high as our high priest and put his blood on
the mercy seat and that blood was enough to obtain
eternal redemption for us look at revelation chapter 1
verse number 5 revelation chapter 1 verse number 5
it says them from jesus christ who is the faithful witness
and the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth
unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins
in his own blood so the bible is very clear about the blood of christ
washing our sins away it's like it's a cleanser
of the soul it's a cleanser of sin and disgusting things
and iniquity hebrews chapter 13 verse 20 hebrews chapter 13
verse number 20 why is the the blood so important in the remembrance of the
lord's supper of the lord is that because his
blood is so important it's it's it's what saves you it's what
washes away the sins in the first place your faith in the precious blood of
christ is what saves you so look at verse 20 in hebrews 13 it
says now the god of peace that brought again from the dead our lord jesus
that great shepherd of the sheep through what the blood
of the everlasting covenant it's an everlasting covenant
and that blood is what earned us eternal redemption
through christ so the blood is so important
that's why it's one of the things that we is represented in the lord's supper
the blood of the new testament that he shed for us
that doesn't just wash away our sins until the present moment when you get
saved then you have to repent of every sin after that that's ridiculous that's
not what the bible teaches and when people say that stuff you
really have to you have to make them understand that that's not true
so i usually give some pretty funny uh analogies when it comes to that kind of
stuff like say you flipped someone the bird and then died
in a fiery car crash right after that would you still be saved
you're saying all kinds of you know sometimes you get ramped up when you're
driving at least i do but
but like if they didn't have what the point i'm trying to make is that
if they don't have a chance to repent are they going to die and go to hell
and so you really have to talk them out of that and make sure that they
understand that you don't have to just keep repenting every time you sin
in order to be saved you're saved once he put the blood up once
he died once and that's it so it paid for our eternal redemption that blood
that he shed was so precious that it washes away all
of our sins and gets us uh eternal life so point
number six jesus christ willingly laid down his
life for us he willingly did it see he didn't have he didn't have to let
them kill him he allowed them to kill him now you'd
say well that sounds like suicide it wasn't suicide either he just he just
didn't stop them from killing him because he
that's why he was born into this world to take away our sins and that had
to result from his death so look at verse number seven in our text
says he was oppressed he was afflicted and yet he opened not his mouth
he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before the shearers is
dumb that means not speaking right so he opened not
his mouth so when all these people are just saying all this manner of evil
against him he goes before pilot he refuses to
answer him he goes before harrod he refuses to answer him he refuses to
answer the high priests and and the questioning that they do
with him and he just you know because basically he already lived that life in
front of them he did those miracles in front of him
he raised Lazarus from the dead in front of them
why you know people could see the works that he did
what this was was a kangaroo court where they're just trying to get him to
say something so he could you know so they can entangle him with his word but
he just kept his mouth shut how many of us if someone was sitting
there accusing us over and over of things
would just keep their mouth shut and let let it be
uh however they presented it a lot of people wouldn't
but Jesus was a special person in that way
or he he could do that but what are we supposed to do we're supposed to follow
in the steps of what he does and obviously we're not
perfect in this manner i'm not perfect in this manner sometimes i let people
get me riled up and i say something back when you're out soul winning sometimes
it's really frustrating when people are talking talking back to you and saying
all kinds of men are evil against you and it's hard to not just say we'll have
fun in hell then or something but uh you know there's some people i
wouldn't have a hard time saying that too but
i mean but Jesus didn't do that that's my point look
luke chapter 23 verse number eight luke chapter 23
verse number eight luke chapter 23 verse number eight says when Herod saw
Jesus he was exceeding glad for he was
desirous to see him a long season because he had heard many things of him
and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him
he thinks like Jesus is like part of the circus and he's just there to perform
for him but the funny thing is is that he i
think at this point that he's already a rep
been given over to a reprobate mind yeah and
it says then he questioned him with many words
but he answered excuse me he answered him
nothing he didn't answer him he didn't say anything
and that really made him mad and it says and the chief priests and scribes stood
and vehemently accused him so they're just like accusing
him all this stuff he's just like he's being taken from place to place and and
he ends up going back to pilot and basically
pilots just like are you going to answer anything you know i have the power to
to let you go and jesus basically tells him i'm not going to quote it perfectly
but he says you know if he if it hadn't been
given to you from heaven to
that power then you you would have no power over me basically is what
he tells him so but uh he laid his life down
of his own volition nobody nobody took it from him
look at john chapter 10 that explains it here
uh really detailed john chapter 10
jesus explains this concept to them because i mean you think about samson
like i would say you know some people would say well samson killed himself
he died with the philistines his arms were outstretched and he
destroyed you know he knocked the pillars down and everybody died
including himself so that's kind of a picture of what
jesus did he he died um you know samson does picture the
lord jesus christ in a lot of different ways
but but what i'm saying is that you know i don't know
to say samson killed himself i don't know if you know he he did but
it's it is in a different way but he did die for the people
he killed the philistines so the people would be
freed in israel but jesus died because he's the good shepherd look at verse 14
it says i am the good shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine
as the father knoweth me even so know i the father and i lay down my life
for the sheep and other sheep i have which are not of this fold them also i
must bring and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold and one
shepherd speaking of the gentiles here it says
therefore doth my father love me because i lay down my life
that i might take it again and no man taketh it from me
see no man's going to take his life from him it says but i lay it
down of myself so he he allows himself to be offered
as this sacrifice nobody took it from him he laid it down himself isn't that
what the bible says i have power to lay it down and i have
power to take it again this commandment have i received of my father
so he knew that by laying down his life he was also going to be able to take his
life back again and that's the the resurrection that
he's obviously talking about so let's move on to the last point point
number seven jesus body was crushed for our sins
jesus body was crushed for our sins look at verse number eight in our text
isaiah chapter 53 it says he was taken from prison
and from judgment and who shall declare his generation for he was cut off
out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he
stricken so obviously he's talking about him being killed and the transgression
of my people he was stricken for this reason
but the bible talks about and the psalm the psalms there's a lot of
prophetic things concerning the savior concerning the the messiah jesus christ
and i'll just read it for you but turn to john chapter 19 in psalm chapter 34
verse 20 it says he keepeth all his bones not one of them
is broken so his body even though it was beat up
it was whipped he was tortured not one of his bones was broken during this
process and you know usually if you took a beating
like that you're going to have some kind of
broken bone or damage in some way i mean even getting hit in the face you can
break your orbital bone or your nose really easily
but it says that his he he keepeth all of his bones and not one of them
is broken obviously this is a miracle of god but look at john chapter 19 it
kind of kind of shows us the how how this was
played out in the scriptures look at john 19 verse 31 it says
the jews therefore because it was the preparation
that the body should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day
for that sabbath day was in high day be sought pilot that their legs might be
broken and that they might be taken away so
normally that what the romans did is if some high holy day like this was
happening some religious day for the jews they were they were
offering them kind of concessions because the romans ruled over the jews
but they didn't want to mess too much with their religion and so
um but one of the things that they did when someone was crucified would they
break their legs before even probably with a big hammer of some
sort which sounds really bad but like it would hurt really bad but it
says when they when the verse 32 then came the soldiers
and break the legs of the first and of the other which was crucified with
him the thieves on the cross but when they came to jesus and saw that
he was dead already they break not his legs so his legs he
was already dead so his legs didn't get broken and look
what it and look what it says in verse 34 it says but one of the soldiers with
a spear pierced his side and forthwith
came there out blood and water and they
and he that saw it bare record and his record is true
and he knoweth that he sayeth true that you might believe
for these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled
a bone of him shall not be broken so when his body was beaten
as much of the damages he took nothing none of his bones were broken in his body
and you know for what he went through that should have been the case
but his his body is not a not a bone of his shall be broken it says
and again the scripture saith they shall look on him
whom they pierced so his body was severely beaten
and i and i kind of already told you about the damage that he had taken
but not a bone was broken so the bible even down to the resume even when he was
dead still the truth of the scriptures is
shining through to us let's look back at chapter
53 verse 9 in isaiah it says and he made his grave with the
wicked and with the rich in his death because he had done no violence neither
was any deceit in his mouth yet it pleased the lord to
bruise him and so what is a bruise a bruise is
something that you get and you know it discolors your arm or
whatever whatever part of the body you have the bruise on
those bruises are blood vessels being broke and coming forth to
to your skin and so it says it pleased the lord to bruise him
that might sound people say that's sadistic or whatever
but this was for a purpose of the whole creation being saved for everything
being restored to the right and remember i said that word
propitiation that propitiation was the appeasement of god what had to be done
to secure our salvation was all this violence towards the lord
jesus christ for someone that didn't deserve it
for someone to live the perfect life no guile was in his mouth all he did was
good people hated him for no reason but yet
it pleased the lord to bruise him
he hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his soul
an offering for sin so you know a lot of people say well it's just the death
that paid for everything and i agree that the death paid
for our sins on the earth but you know when when someone's soul has made an
offering in every offering in the old testament
there was no offering offered without salt there was no offer
offering offered um that was um that was not roast with fire
so every offering in the old testament you had to be roast with fire
that's what the bible teaches very clearly and so these people that say
that you know we're preaching heresy because
we say that jesus suffered in hell for three days and three nights well i
don't know what else you would be doing in hell
i mean hell doesn't have like a poker table
right where people are just all the all the bad guys are just down there playing
cards and stuff you know people use that well jesus
preached to the to the you know jesus preached to the
prisoners and they'll like apply that to he was
preaching to people in hell so you could bring him back up or whatever
that's complete garbage anybody that's saved
has never spent a second in hell and so he wouldn't need to preach to people
that were in hell to bring them back up because the
people that are in hell are staying in hell
the only person that's rose from hell is jesus christ
and he's the one that had the power to take his life also right isn't that what
we just read about so just think about that he's the only
person that was able to escape hell why because he didn't deserve to be there
and so when he called out you know he was raised and said the holy
spirit raised him up god the father raised him up and he raised himself up
and in different scriptures you'll see that i don't have time to get into that
but you know he suffered in hell
that says his soul was made an offering for sin
and so i don't understand how you could have an offering that
that you know every other offering is roast with fire
but then when it comes to jesus which those
picture jesus then how do you how do you get rid of the fire part of it
i don't understand how you can come to that conclusion but
i'm just going to read for your verse because we're getting past time here but
genesis chapter 2 verse 8 says and abraham said my son
god will provide himself a lamb for the burnt
offering god will provide himself you know people say well he was literally
talking about the literal ram or the lamb the literal lamb
you know and obviously god did provide himself that lamb but also i believe
that that's a prophetic picture of the fact that god himself would come
and die for our sins and be risen from the dead and that he
would suffer in hell for three days and three nights
his soul was made an offering for sin and no other offers none of the
offerings are done without fire so please explain that to me
i don't understand how you can come to that conclusion verse 11 and 12
we'll finish up here he shall see the travail of his soul
and shall be satisfied this is talking about the father by his knowledge shall
my righteous servant justify many for he shall bear
their iniquities therefore will i divide him a portion with the great
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong because he hath poured out his
soul unto death and he was numbered with the
transgressors and bear the sin of many and made
intercession for the transgressors and i'll just point you to this part of
verse 12 he poured his soul out unto death yes
but what is death
when you die you go to hell right if you're saved you go to heaven
right so jesus he poured his soul out unto death
and so he did experience the the he did experience death in hell
just like any other person would so um anyway so point number one what is
the report the report will be the gospel being preached point
number two he made himself of no reputation jesus was humble and uh and
not prideful he made himself of no reputation point number three jesus was
hated and rejected in a man of sorrows and
people not only showed their hate and people tell us of
their hate nowadays but they did it back into and they showed
it by the things that they did to him how much they hated him because nothing
says hate like being spit in your face or the beating that he took for us point
number four jesus christ took upon himself the sins of the whole world
he died for all point number five we're redeemed by
through the shed blood of christ and without the shedding of blood is no
remission point number six jesus christ willingly
laid down his life for us nobody took it from him he laid it down
as a zonal cord point number seven jesus body was crushed for our sins but
not a bone was broken so isaiah chapter 53 is a very
powerful chapter and it's so powerful
the ethiopian eunuch was saved by it being preached to him
so um and as as we uh go forward to our second service
i just pray that you'd be thinking about what jesus did for you on the cross
and and obviously raising from the dead was a big part of that
but we need to remember the fact that he bled for us and that his body
was bruised for us let's pray heavenly father we thank you lord so much for
this wonderful day lord i pray that you'd help those that
are sick in our church helping to feel better
pray you to be with us as we partake of the lord's supper
today and that lord today would be a somber day of remembrance of you
and lord that we would take very seriously what we're going to do this
afternoon and that we tarry for one another lord
that we make sure that we're right with you
before we partake in jesus name we pray amen
last song is song number 275 almost persuaded
song number 275 almost persuaded
song 275 almost persuaded let's sing it out on the first
almost persuaded now to believe
almost persuaded christ to receive
seems now some soul to say go spirit go
thy way some more convenient day
on thee i'll call almost persuaded
come come today almost persuaded
turn not away jesus invites you here
angels are lingering near prayers rise from heart so
dear oh wanderer come
almost persuaded harvest is past
almost persuaded doom comes at last
almost cannot avail almost his butt to fail
sad sad that bitter wail almost but lost
amen good seeing brother ramon could you close your word of prayer