WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.839 Called a treasury of devotion, seven weeks through the psalms. 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:06.240 And sadly, this is the seventh week. 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:13.519 So I originally said we'd do it for seven weeks, and we would read three Psalms each day that will continue until next Sunday. 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:25.039 And we went through the seven genres of Psalms: Psalms of wisdom, Psalms of Praise, Psalms of Lament, Thanksgiving, Psalms of Confidence, Psalms of Remembrance. 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:28.399 Today we will talk about messianic psalms. 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:34.719 I mean, just from the beginning, I said, you know, not every psalm is of the same genre with the same purpose. 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:38.240 It took me decades for me to figure that out. 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:42.399 That actually there's different genres of psalms with different purposes. 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:50.640 And just like songs in our own church today don't need to be all of the same genre, the psalms in the book of Psalms are unique. 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:55.840 Some are instructional for wisdom, some give us insight and how to lament. 00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:00.159 Today we'll focus on Psalms of the Messiah. 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:07.040 Last week I talked about encouraging us to just write out what does your heart sing? 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:13.760 As I've been reflecting through the Psalms and reading through them and studying them, it just moved me. 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:16.000 Okay, what is my song? 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:17.760 What do I praise? 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:21.120 How am I personally impressed by God? 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:24.719 When I sit alone with God, how am I impressed by him? 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:26.079 What am I saying to him? 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:28.719 What about him captures your heart? 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:34.400 What do you think or know that why do you think or know that he is worthy of your worship? 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:36.000 How do you love him? 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:38.000 And I talked about last week. 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:47.040 Every single day is a new opportunity just to praise him, to love him, to worship him, to know him, right? 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:48.959 And that is beautiful, right? 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:51.680 Yes, we might have praised him yesterday. 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:57.280 We might have praised him years ago, but today is a unique opportunity. 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:02.400 We have life in our lungs where we can praise and love and know God. 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:04.239 So what is your song today? 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:09.280 Maybe it's different than it was yesterday because our life is continually changing. 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:12.000 I gave some examples of just poetry in Psalms. 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:19.439 If you want to kind of use these as you're reflecting in Psalms, you can't really read this, but parallel synonyms is really common throughout Psalms. 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:25.520 For example, Psalms 19, the heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:33.680 There's also antithesis and wisdom psalms, there's similes, metaphors, acrostics, there's climactic psalms. 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:36.639 And then last week we talked about chiasm. 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:48.560 But the encouragement really is just for you to reflect, whether you use poetry from psalms, whether you write just prose, whether you just reflect in your own heart of okay, God, what is my worship to you? 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:51.520 To you to take some time alone with God, just reflecting. 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:53.439 God, what is my psalm? 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:57.680 With that, I will just pray for us and then we will get started. 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:01.039 But Lord Jesus, we thank you that you give us a song. 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:06.879 Lord, as it says through many psalms, you give us a new song to sing to the Lord. 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:09.039 So Lord, we don't sing to each other. 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:11.919 We don't sing even just to ourselves over our own heart. 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:13.280 Lord, we sing to you. 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:21.439 So Lord, just give us new songs, new hearts of worship, or we sing to you, we love you, we know you, God. 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:25.520 And I just pray that our hearts would just have greater affection for you today. 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:26.560 We thank you, God. 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:27.520 Amen. 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:32.400 Well, if you remember when we started, I talked about Psalms as being the school of prayer. 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:32.800 Right? 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:34.960 We all want to learn how to pray, right? 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:36.080 And what is our tutor? 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:37.280 Where is our school? 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:39.360 We find it in the Psalms. 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:44.240 And I describe there's three ways that we we this the Psalms can be our tutor. 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:50.800 One, in we're knowing Jesus, in particular, we're knowing the heart of Jesus, the prayers of Jesus, right? 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:55.680 We see throughout the gospels Jesus continually going away, praying to the Father. 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:59.039 And there's always this curiosity: what did he pray? 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:01.039 He was praying all night long. 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:03.919 Like what he could he possibly be saying. 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:11.840 Thankfully, the Psalms opens up the window into the heart of Jesus where we can know insight into what he was things he was praying. 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:15.840 So as the school of prayer, we can learn the prayers of Jesus. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:19.279 We can also know ourselves, and we can commune with God. 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:23.839 And we talked about koinania, the sharing of life and resources. 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:26.079 We commune with God in two ways. 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:29.759 One, we know God, we experience God, we encounter God, right? 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:32.000 We walk with God through life. 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:34.959 Two, we participate in his missions. 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:39.920 Um, but today I just want to focus primarily on that first one of knowing Jesus. 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:41.279 Knowing Jesus. 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:46.240 And through in the Psalms, we find these psalms about the Messiah. 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:49.839 There's two kinds generally of messianic psalms. 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:53.920 There's there's psalms that are just describing what the Messiah will do. 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:59.040 Often the royal psalms, talking about his conquest, his victory, his reign, right? 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:01.040 It's describing who he is. 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:09.519 There's other psalms that are reflecting the prayers of the Messiah, the heart of the Messiah, the prayers of Jesus. 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:16.560 For example, we read in Psalms 31:5, Into your hand I commit my spirit. 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:22.240 If that sounds familiar for me for you, it's because Jesus said it, right? 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:24.240 And when did he say this? 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:30.240 On the cross, his last statement, into your hand I commit my spirit. 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:34.079 Father, into your hands I commit my spirit from Luke 23. 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:44.800 But what he is doing in re in reciting that psalm, it's not just just a quote from a previous passage, he's aligning himself with the whole of the psalm. 00:05:45.040 --> 00:06:01.519 So when we read, I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction, you have known my the distress of my soul, and you have not and not delivered me into the hand of the enemy, you have set my feet in a broad place. 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:05.759 We can see a window into the heart of Jesus throughout Psalm 31. 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:11.439 So we know it as a messianic psalm that is reflecting the heart of Jesus. 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:14.079 Jesus is aligning himself with Psalm 31. 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:16.720 Another example, Psalm 41. 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:24.560 Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me. 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:29.439 Where do we find something similar with Jesus in John 13? 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:30.319 He even quotes it. 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:32.800 He says, the scripture will be fulfilled. 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:39.439 He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me, quoting from Psalm 41. 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:48.240 And he says, I am telling you this now before it takes place, that when it does take place, you may believe that I am He. 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:57.279 Already by the time of Second Temple Judaism, Jews recognize that many Psalms seem to be prophetically pointing to the Messiah. 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:02.959 They're both describing the Messiah as well as revealing prayers of the Messiah. 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:03.360 Right? 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:11.040 Psalms that David wrote, the son of David, the Messiah, was going to come, and these were going to be a reflection of his heart. 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:21.680 So when Jesus is saying, I'm telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place, you may believe that I am He, he's saying, You will believe that I am the Messiah. 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:31.120 That you're seeing in Psalm 41, that you're even anticipating that Psalm 41 would point to this coming Messiah. 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:45.600 Another great example in Matthew 21, when Jesus is coming down the Mount of Olives, says the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, Hosanna to the Son of David. 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:50.959 The son of David at that time was very clearly a reference to the Messiah, right? 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:56.959 So they're saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, to the Messiah, he is coming into Jerusalem. 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:00.720 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:01.439 Right? 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.720 The second statement, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:09.439 It's not just a neat phrase that they were singing and shouting through the streets. 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:14.560 No, they were actually quoting a messianic psalm, saying, This is it. 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:18.800 This is the psalm we've been knowing, this is the moment, this is the time. 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:23.199 Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:24.800 Psalm 118. 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:28.399 A messianic psalm, a psalm of the Messiah. 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:34.000 They're quoting from Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.919 Obviously, the chief priest didn't like that. 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:38.720 Why? 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:45.519 Because the whole of the city is celebrating this, the the return, the coming of the Messiah. 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:50.159 They're quoting the messianic psalm saying he is coming into the city. 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:58.080 So when the chief priest and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, they heard the children crying out in the temple. 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:02.639 They were indignant. 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:04.000 They were mad. 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:05.200 They were angry. 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:05.840 Why? 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:08.080 Because it was incredibly clear to them. 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:09.679 It was clear to Jesus. 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:15.360 It was clear to the whole of the whole of the city that there was this celebration of aligning. 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:20.799 This is the Messiah that we knew about, that we read about, that we were anticipating in the Psalms. 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:23.519 Blessed is he who is finally coming. 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:25.440 Why were they mad? 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:29.519 Not because they didn't know what was happening, but because they didn't believe it. 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:30.159 Right? 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:35.919 They they the the city was anticipating and saying, declaring that he was the Messiah. 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:40.480 The chief priests and the scribes were saying, No, he can't be the Messiah. 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:41.440 They were mad. 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:45.600 So they said to Jesus, Do you hear what these are saying? 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.639 They're quoting a messianic psalm about you. 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:58.399 Jesus said to them, Yes, have you never read, Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies, you have prepared praise? 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:00.960 It's such a brilliant response. 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:05.440 Because if you had a guess, right, you would be right that he's quoting another psalm. 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:10.559 Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies, you have prepared praise. 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:15.840 And that psalm, Psalm 8, is very clearly a messianic psalm. 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:24.799 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes to still the enemy and the avenger. 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:28.159 It continues later in that psalm. 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:35.840 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings, and crowned him with glory and honor. 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:40.320 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands. 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:58.720 You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea, O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name and all the earth. 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:00.000 Psalm 8. 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:07.840 They the whole of Jewish leaders knew this is clearly a messianic psalm, describing, anticipating this coming Messiah. 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:17.840 And how did Jesus respond to the scribes saying, hey, we're upset with these people saying that you are this Messiah, aligning Psalm 118 with you. 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:28.799 He responds with another messianic psalm, even a very more clearly, Psalm 8, declaring that he was the Messiah, which is why in Hebrews 2, what do they quote? 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:32.159 They quote Psalm 8 when they're describing Jesus. 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:37.759 You have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:41.519 So naturally, they they were upset. 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:51.519 Jesus later responded in that same passage, have you never read in the scriptures the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:56.639 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:00.879 He is again quoting a different part of Psalm 118. 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:10.720 The point is, Jesus himself was aligning himself, declaring himself that he is this Messiah that you see throughout the Psalms. 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:19.519 Even prior to his arrival, the Jewish people were recognizing many of these Psalms must be pointing to this coming Messiah. 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:22.399 Jesus is aligning himself with those psalms. 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:27.759 Many of them recognized it as he's coming down the mountain. 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:30.960 The Jewish leaders for some reason rejected it. 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:38.639 But probably the most famous messianic psalm revealing the heart of Jesus is Psalm 22. 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:40.080 Psalm 22. 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:42.080 Last week we talked about chiasm. 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:45.679 I know you can't really see it, see all this, but I will email it out again. 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:52.480 But chiasm being reflecting idea, reflecting concepts with a central point in the middle. 00:12:52.639 --> 00:13:12.960 And verses 1 through 3 kind of give one building up to the crucifixion, starting with being abandoned by the Father, a declaration of trust, despised and rejected by man, prayer for God's nearness, surrounded by enemies, with the central point of Psalm 22 being a chiasm. 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.679 I'll go through that, that and you will see. 00:13:23.679 --> 00:13:27.360 Again, a very common phrase for the most of us know. 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:29.600 And why do we know it? 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:38.000 Because in Matthew and Mark, after he had been hanging on the cross for six hours, it says, Darkness covered the land. 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:40.000 And what did he cry out? 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:45.120 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:47.840 Why have you forsaken me? 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:57.039 He's not just again quoting a scripture, he's declaring, he's aligning himself with the whole of Psalm 22. 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:00.960 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:07.519 In the Psalms, you know, when in the early in Jewish in Jesus' day, there weren't numbered, obviously. 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:07.840 Right? 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:10.159 He didn't say, I'm quoting Psalm 22. 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:16.480 The way that they knew or titled Psalms was from the first statement, similar to many hymns today. 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:20.960 We know hymns based off of the first line because they didn't necessarily give them a title. 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:23.279 They called it an insipid in Latin. 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:24.799 It means it begins. 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:28.480 A lot of uh books in Hebrew, they're titled that way. 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:33.360 So for example, Genesis was known in Hebrew as Bereshit, in the beginning. 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:33.919 Why? 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:36.639 Because the book starts with in the beginning. 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:39.600 Exodus, shemut, names, these are the names. 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:43.360 Deuteronomy, Devarim, words, these are the words. 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:50.159 But the point is in Jewish culture, they titled things often by either the first word or the first phrase. 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:53.200 They called it an insipid, or we call it an insipid now. 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:57.279 Jesus, he's reflecting on, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:08.799 He's declare, he's he's he's giving the title of Psalm 22, not just to reflect on that one passage, but to show the whole of Psalm 22 that he is calling to mem to memory. 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:13.840 It's thought that in synagogues, when when a choir leader would lead a psalm, right? 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:16.879 He wouldn't say, hey, turn in your hymnal to Psalm 22. 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:19.039 He would start with the first line. 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:22.159 And by memory, everyone then would know the psalm. 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:23.759 Jesus doing something similar. 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:26.720 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:30.960 Reflecting to the whole of Psalm 22. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:37.120 A lot of people have wrestled with, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:38.399 Reflecting to the Father. 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:45.360 How can the Son be forsaken or abandoned or left by God, by the Father? 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:49.919 Most people think it's related to what we call substitutionary atonement. 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:52.559 Atonement in English being at one mint. 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:10.639 And substitute substitutionary atonement is the doctrine that Christ died on the cross as a substitute for the death of sinners, so that those who believe in him may have eternal life, right? 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:16.480 He substituted himself to die as a sinner in our place. 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:22.639 It's how God rescues his people from judgment without compromising his justice. 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:32.559 So when we read in 2 Corinthians, God made Christ, the Father made Jesus, who had no sin to become sin for humanity. 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:36.639 It's a reflection of this substitutionary atonement. 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:42.960 So in some sense, there is a leaving of the Father from the Son. 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:54.080 Or in Isaiah, when he says he was pierced for transgressions, crushed for iniquities, with the Lord laying on him the guilt of all people. 00:16:54.879 --> 00:17:04.400 Or Galatians, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole. 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:12.799 So in some sense, there is there's Jesus being abandoned or even left forsaken, punished by God. 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:13.279 Why? 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:16.799 Because the punishment of us all was put upon him. 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:25.759 Why are you so far from saving me? 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:28.319 From the words of my groaning. 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:36.000 Oh my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:41.759 The psalm beginning with lament, with agony, with pain. 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:49.359 If you remember through when we went through Psalms of Lament, the points of lament is not that we just stay in the emotion of pain, right? 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:51.359 We're moving toward God. 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:57.119 In the next passage, it shifts to a declaration of trust. 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:02.160 Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:05.680 He's declaring truth in the midst of his pain. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:07.839 In you, our fathers trusted. 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:10.160 They trusted and you delivered them. 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:13.039 You proved faithful to your covenant. 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:19.279 To you they cried and were rescued, and you they trusted and were not put to shame. 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:25.680 As we talked about through lament, lament is not just an emotional dumping or deadening or deconstructing. 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:27.519 No, we're lamenting toward God. 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:33.680 So we are acknowledging the pain or the agony of a moment, but moving beyond that unto truth. 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.319 So we see that in Psalms 22. 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:39.359 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:45.519 Moving to yet you are still holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:49.119 You are faithful, you were del you delivered. 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:54.480 And moving to another section of being despised and rejected by man. 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:58.799 He says, But I am a worm and not a man. 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:02.319 It's a strange phrase for us in English. 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:04.480 I'm a worm and not a man. 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:08.880 But in Hebrew, there is two primary words for worm or maggot. 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:18.160 The first, rima, is just a general maggot or a rotting worm that is generally associated with decay or graves or food going bad, right? 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:26.400 If you leave food out on the table, like they did in Exodus, there was a worm or a maggot that decayed the food. 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:31.039 There's another Hebrew word which is used here, which is tolaat. 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:38.319 And it's it's the word that's used in verses six, and tola'at refers to a crimson worm. 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:40.000 A crimson worm. 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:54.240 In ancient Israel, this creature was harvested and crushed to extract a deep blood-red dye used to make crimson fabrics for royal garments, priestly robes, the tabernacle curtains. 00:19:55.599 --> 00:20:02.400 The word tola'at is the same word used for crimson, if you remember from Isaiah 1. 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:14.319 Though your sins are like scarlet, though they are red like crimson, though they are red like crimson, it's the crimson worm. 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:33.599 So I am a worm. 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:41.759 I am this crimson worm that was crushed, scorned by mankind, despised by the people. 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:48.240 All who see me mock me, they make mouths at me, they wag their heads, he trusts in the Lord. 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:53.519 Let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him. 00:20:54.400 --> 00:21:06.640 Reminds me of Isaiah 53 that he was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, familiar with pain, like one from whom people hide their faces. 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:12.480 He was despised, and we held him in low esteem. 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:14.160 Not just them. 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:19.519 Then it moves to a prayer for God's nearness in verse 9. 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:23.119 Yet you are he who took me from the womb. 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:26.400 You made me trust you at my mother's breast. 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:32.480 On you I was cast from my birth, and from my mother's wound, you have been my God. 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:43.759 In ancient Near Eastern legal custom, when a child was born, often the midwife would physically place or cast the newborn onto the onto the knees of the father. 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:46.400 It's called casting onto the knees. 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:54.880 This gesture was a formal act of legal adoption, stating, This child is under my protection and inheritance. 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:57.039 I am the father of this child. 00:21:57.359 --> 00:21:59.599 Find it fascinating in Psalm 22. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:05.920 He's saying he was cast on the father's knee from birth. 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:13.200 He was adopted by Yahweh at the very moment of birth, the Son of God. 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:19.440 God alone took responsibility for his survival from birth onward. 00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:23.279 Jesus is saying, On you I was cast from birth. 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:25.440 You are my father from birth. 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:28.480 From my mother's womb you have been my God. 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:35.839 Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to help. 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:49.920 They're bulls, they're lions, they're later dogs or wild oxen. 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:53.119 He says, Many bulls encompass me. 00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:56.160 Strong bulls of Bashan surround me. 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:01.599 They open wide their mouths at me like a ravening and roaring lion. 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:05.759 They're encompassing, they're surrounding, they're opening their mouths. 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:10.160 There is no apparent escape, and we see this through the gospels. 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:10.640 Right? 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:12.720 They question his authority. 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:17.039 They accused him of blasphemy, being a child of the devil. 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:19.200 They criticized his disciples. 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:21.279 They plotted to destroy him. 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:25.599 They attempted to trap him with impossible questions. 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:27.920 But also Satan was present. 00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:30.160 Satan tempts him in the wilderness. 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:33.039 Demons repeatedly confronted him. 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:37.279 Satan entered Judas, leading to the betrayal. 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:46.720 And at Jesus' own arrest, he tells them, This is your hour when darkness reigns, surrounded by enemies. 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:54.480 Then the central part of the psalm moving to the crucifixion, I am poured out like water. 00:23:55.039 --> 00:24:00.240 Similar to Isaiah 53, he poured out his life unto death. 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:04.480 It goes on, on all my bones are out of joint. 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:08.640 My heart is like wax, it is melted within my breast. 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:14.000 My strength is dried up like a potshirt, my tongue sticks to my jaws. 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:25.759 You lay me in the dust of death, bones dislocating, heart rupturing, the mouth drying out with severe dehydration. 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:31.119 All of these are consistent with crucifixions, physical effects. 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:34.720 Some even suggest that his heart, why did he die so quickly? 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:36.640 His heart ruptured. 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:56.720 Crucifixion victims experienced severe dehydration as they hung exposed, and the weight of the body pulling against nailed limbs would dislocate joints and create the sensation of bones separating, poured out like water, all my bones are out of joint. 00:24:57.039 --> 00:25:00.480 My heart is melting like wax. 00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:07.119 For dogs encompass me, a company of evildoers encircle me. 00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:11.599 They have pierced my hands and feet. 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:18.720 If nothing is more profound as a prophetic statement, it is Psalms twenty-two. 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:40.799 They were wagging their heads, saying, You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself. 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:46.160 If you are in fact the Son of God, come down from the cross. 00:25:46.960 --> 00:25:49.680 But also are also the religious leaders. 00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:57.599 They were mocking him, saying, Well, he saved others. 00:25:57.920 --> 00:25:59.839 He cannot save himself. 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:06.240 He trusts in God, so let God now deliver him, if God desires him. 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:18.319 Even the soldiers, the Roman soldiers, mocked him, coming up and offering him souring wine and saying, If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself. 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:23.839 For dogs encompass me, a company of evildoers encircle me. 00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:26.880 They have pierced my hands and feet. 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:28.720 Crucifixion. 00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:37.200 I can count on my bones. 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:46.079 They stare and gloat over me, and they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. 00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:47.279 Found it interesting. 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:52.880 I've always thought they cast lots for the clothing before the crucifixion, because that's what the movies do, right? 00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:59.519 I read in Matthew 27, after they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots. 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:05.519 Sure enough, same thing that's in 22, they divided my garments among them. 00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:08.640 For my clothing they cast lots. 00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:18.240 Again, if nothing is more convincing of a prophetic assurance of the Messiah, that Jesus was the Messiah, it's Psalm 22. 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:23.039 They wrote this hundreds of years before Jesus' life. 00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:31.519 But you, O Lord, do not be far off. 00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:35.680 O you my help, come quickly to my aid. 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:40.960 Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog. 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:44.160 Save me from the mouth of the lion. 00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:48.160 He's crying out, deliver me, save me. 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:50.079 Then it switches. 00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:54.559 You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen. 00:27:54.720 --> 00:28:06.880 The Hebrew verb changes from a request, a plea, deliver my soul, help me, come quickly, to a declaration or an exclamation. 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:13.440 You have rescued me, indicating the salvation is achieved and complete. 00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:17.839 It moves back to not being rejected by God. 00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:23.279 Not rejected by God. 00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:26.799 It says, I will tell of your name to my brothers. 00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:34.079 If that is another passage that seems familiar, we find it also in Hebrew 2. 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:49.599 Hebrews 2, in bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:55.279 Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. 00:28:55.599 --> 00:28:59.680 So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters. 00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:10.319 And it directly says, He says, Jesus says, and he quotes Psalm 22, I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters. 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:14.319 In the assembly I will sing praises. 00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:22.319 So the book of Hebrews, it's again saying, Psalm 22 is Jesus' words, it's his prayers, it's his heart. 00:29:24.319 --> 00:29:36.400 It's also moving from a personal prayer to a corporate, per corporate personal declaration in the great congregation, in the midst of the congregation, I will praise you. 00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:53.519 The psalm started personal with God, it moved to a declaration in the congregation, it made moved to something corporate, and then it moves to an exhortation to for all peoples to praise. 00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:56.160 You who fear the Lord, praise him. 00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:01.119 All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, stand in awe of him. 00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:04.160 All you offspring of Israel. 00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:16.640 So just as you're you're personally reflecting on where you praise Jesus, what is your heart, what is your song, what is your love for Jesus, what are you celebrating today for Jesus, right? 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:18.480 Even in this psalm, we see it. 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:20.480 It starts in something personal. 00:30:20.799 --> 00:30:23.599 Then it moves to the congregation, right? 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:30.319 And he's declaring in the midst of the congregation his praise that began with something personal. 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:38.799 And from the congregation, it moves to declaring or encouraging, exhorting the people, all the peoples, to praise him. 00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:49.839 So that's the hope for us, is just as we're reflecting personally and how we worship, it'll move to the congregation, and then it'll be just an exhortation for all of us to praise. 00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:52.960 So I ask again, how are you personally impressed with God? 00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:56.240 What about him captures your heart? 00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:59.920 Every day is a new opportunity to praise him. 00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:14.880 And it continues, for he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, though rejected by man, despised by us, according to Isaiah. 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:17.039 God did not reject him. 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:25.839 But he has heard when Jesus cried to the Father. 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.319 It all started with Jesus feeling abandoned or left. 00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:33.200 My God, my God, why have you forsaken him? 00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:39.039 But we read in verse 24, God has not hidden his face from him. 00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:44.960 There's some who will say that Jesus or the Father turned his back on the Son. 00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:51.759 We know at least from Psalm 2022, verse 24, that no, his face was still present. 00:31:52.000 --> 00:32:04.480 There was still a unity in the Trinity, even though there was some sort of distance once Jesus was receiving our sin, the penalty of our sin. 00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:19.359 The cross does not depict a father rejecting his son, but it demonstrates Christ's ultimate confrontation with death and his solidarity with humankind, not rejected by God. 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:23.359 Moving back to a declaration of trust. 00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:27.599 From you comes my praise in the great congregation. 00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:33.920 Find it interesting that from God we receive our praise. 00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:39.039 God is both the source and the object of our praise. 00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:43.839 My vows I will perform before those who fear him. 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:57.279 His vows, his declaration of trust, most likely thanksgiving vows, promises to fulfill vows by offering sacrifices, singing praise to God in the presence of the worshiping community. 00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:01.680 The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied. 00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:04.720 Those who seek him shall praise the Lord. 00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:07.519 May your hearts live forever. 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:10.559 We talked about it a little bit last week. 00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:16.240 That there's a direct correlation in us seeking God and us praising God. 00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:16.960 Right? 00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:20.480 And so as we're given an encouragement, hey, what is your heart singing? 00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:21.440 What are you praising? 00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:23.279 What do you love about him? 00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:26.400 And you're like, well, I don't know. 00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:27.759 Well, go to seek him. 00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:28.160 Why? 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:30.160 Because those who seek him praise him. 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:32.960 And so it begins with a seeking. 00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:42.160 We seek him, we we we we seek him, and as we seek him, we praise him, and also realizing that it is from him comes our praise. 00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:47.119 He is the source and the object of our praise, and our hearts will live. 00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:55.680 This is more than a physical survival, it points towards flourishing, joy, enduring life under God's favor and nearness. 00:33:56.160 --> 00:33:59.039 I love you know the Psalms of joy. 00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:06.799 Hearts are hearts alive, human flourishing, that we should be prosperous in our soul, happy, excited. 00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:10.800 But it's not based on like earthly circumstance, right? 00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:20.000 It's based in our revelation of God, our knowledge of God, and our praise of God that we can be we can eat and our stomachs, our life can be satisfied. 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:24.239 Then it finally ends with worldwide worship. 00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:29.599 Well began with a lament, ends in worship. 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:33.920 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord. 00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:38.159 All the families of the nations shall worship before you. 00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:02.239 It shall be told of the Lord to coming generations. 00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:09.519 They shall come and proclaim his righteousness to people yet unborn, that he has done it. 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:15.920 Well, began with this lament, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:19.519 Ends with this global movement of worship. 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:23.280 It reminded me of a song by Carrie Job. 00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:25.360 Forever. 00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:29.760