Psalm 22:22-31 (All The Ends Of The Earth Will Turn To The Lord)

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In the finale of this series on Psalm 22, we see what the entire purpose of the cross was for. It was not to contain Him, but to enthrone Him, not for a small Kingdom, but to own the entire world.

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Thank you for subscribing to the Shepherd's Church Podcast. This is our Lord's Day Sermon. We pray that as we declare the
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Word of God, that you would be encouraged, strengthened in your faith, and that you would catch a greater vision of who
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Christ is. May you be blessed in the hearing of God's Word, and may the Lord be with you.
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I want to begin today with an assumption, and I want you to tuck that assumption into your pocket and hold on to it throughout the entirety of this message, that God's Word tells the truth.
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And whatever God's Word says, we're going to believe, even if it's bigger and greater and more fantastic than we ever could have imagined.
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Amen? Now, tuck that away for a second.
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Over the past two messages in this Holy Week series, we've been going through Psalm 22, which is a royal psalm.
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It is a psalm that hangs beneath the shadow of the cross for much of it. It's a psalm where we stare right into the abyss and right into the midst of Jesus's agony.
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And it's a psalm that actually unpacks itself in two great acts.
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If it were a play, it would have an act one, and it would have an act two. Act one would be the humiliation of the
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Christ. Act two would be the exaltation of the Christ. Act one would be the cross of Christ, and act two would be the crown of Christ.
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Act one is what we looked at in Palm Sunday and in Good Friday, begins with this great line, my
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God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And David wrote these lines a thousand years before Jesus even came, before Jesus ever spoke those words on the cross.
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So that when you see Jesus in Matthew 27 saying, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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He is quoting David. He is quoting a psalm that David wrote for Jesus to speak.
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And in that way, Psalm 22 shouts the cross. It doesn't mumble it.
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It looks like, and it reads like an eyewitness report in the Old Testament. Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 look like they should belong in the
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New Testament. It looks like someone standing at the cross with an eyewitness, writing down the events.
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That's how clear these two passages are. And that's why we wanted to go through Psalm 22, because in it, we see that Jesus embodies everything in the psalm.
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He calls himself a worm. He says that he was surrounded by scorners.
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He was pierced in his hands and his feet. He was stripped of his dignity. He was laid down in the dust of the death.
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The maker of the dust was buried in the dust. His bones came out of joint.
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His heart melted like wax. His tongue was clinging to the roof of his mouth and his garments were gambled for, which are all events that happen in the life of Christ.
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But yet they were recorded a thousand years before they happened. And what we see in this first act of Psalm 22 is the descent of Christ.
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Yes, he was elevated upon a cross, but he was descending down into the grave, down into the dust, descending, unraveling, decomposing, becoming unrecognizable.
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And what we said on Good Friday is if you understand biblically and theologically what dust means, dust is the uncollected substance that was what
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God made Adam with, but he had to order it first. He had to construct it.
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He had to assemble it. So the fact that Jesus is going down into the dust means he's being disassembled.
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And in that he entered into the great malediction of the Bible, the great curse of the
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Bible, for unto dust you were made and unto dust you shall return.
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He is embodying the curse of Adam. But dear ones, praise be to God that that is not the end of the story because act two is not the descent any longer.
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It's the ascent, the ascent into cosmic victory. It's the anthem and the rallying cry of God that his victory will victory harder than any victory ever victoried before.
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Today we look at the dramatic end of Psalm 22, which doesn't remain in the valley of the dust, but it crescendos into the victory of Christ.
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He entered into a linen tomb and he walked out wrapped in glory. And in that death bit off more than it can chew because it choked upon the lion of Judah.
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Today we're going to look at his faithfulness. And today we're going to see what his resurrection accomplishes. And we're going to see three things that his resurrection accomplished.
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First, it resurrected him. Second, it resurrects us.
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And third, it's going to resurrect everything, the entire world.
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So with that, would you turn with me to Psalm 22, verse 22? It's easy to remember. It's just all twos.
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Psalm 22, 22. We'll go to 31. We'll read it. We'll pray. And then we will dive into the victory of Jesus Christ.
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So Psalm 22, this is how the
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Psalm begins in verse 22. I will tell of your name to my brethren in the midst of the assembly.
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I will praise you. You who fear the Lord, praise him.
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All you descendants of Jacob glorify him and stand in awe of him.
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All you descendants of Israel. For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, nor has he hidden his face from him.
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But when he cried to him for help, he heard. From you comes my praise in the great assembly.
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I shall pay my vows before those who fear him. The afflicted will eat and be satisfied.
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Those who seek him will praise the Lord. Let your heart live forever.
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All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord. And all the families of the nations will worship before you.
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For the kingdom is the Lord's and he rules over the nations. All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship.
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All those who go down to the dust will bow before him. Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.
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Posterity will serve him and it will be told of the Lord to the coming generation. And they will come and will declare his righteousness to a people who will be born that he has performed it.
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Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for Psalm 22. We thank you for the vivid, visceral, viciousness that you took upon your own head.
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An innocent man and in that sense a victim. And yet, Lord, the
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Psalm does not end in the grave. It ends with you, no longer victim, but victor.
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Swallowing up us in your victory. Swallowing up the entire world and death itself in your victory.
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Lord, let us remember that this is the very words of God. That this is out of all the
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Old Testament passages that you could have chosen the very one that you shouted on the cross.
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Which means that you want us to pay special attention to what it means and the implications that it brings.
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Lord, we thank you. We ask that you help us today by your spirit to examine your word well.
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And Lord, like we read earlier, would you write your word on our hearts? And Lord, if there's anyone here today who has not been given a heart of flesh but is still in their heart of stone,
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Lord, would you perform a resurrection even today? It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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I love hearing the children say amen. It tells me that we have about 80 years at least left in this church of life.
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The majority of Psalm 22 deals with agonizing defeat. The majority of this chapter deals with pain, despair, defeat, brokenness, and death.
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But yet in verse 22, his first words that he says there is,
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I will. Now, how is it that someone who went down into the dust of death can say
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I will? How many times have you been to a funeral where you walk up and you see the person laying there and then all of a sudden they say
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I will? That'd be crazy. And yet the one who went down into the dust is the one who says
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I will and he says I will because the grave said I can't hold him.
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The same lips that tasted vinegar, the same tongue that clung to the roof of his mouth, the same God who cried out in agony is the one who said, my
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God, my God, why have you forsaken me is the one here who is saying I will. I will tell of your name, which this is not like in the princess bride where he pushes on his abdomen and some guttural mutterings come out to blathe.
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This is confident, powerful, convicted, living words coming out of the mouth of Christ who has been risen from victim to victor.
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He says, I will again, because death said I can't because death has no hold on him.
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The one who died cannot be killed. The one that was silenced is now speaking.
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The one within the tomb is now the one crushing the tomb. The one shattered in death is the one who will shatter death.
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It even says that he will stand, he will stand in the midst of the assembly. That is resurrection because dead men don't speak.
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So he had to be raised from the dead. If he even were to say, I will, well, the fact that he will stand means that he went from his lying posture in the middle of the tomb to standing and not just in the tomb, but in the midst of the assembly, a thousand years before it happened,
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David proclaimed that this man would suffer and die. But the one who was in the dust would not be silent.
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He would speak. The one who was in the tomb would not lay down, but would stand. The one who was all alone in his final moment would not be all alone forever because he would be the one who stands in the very center of the assembly, which is the church of Jesus Christ.
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The one who is pierced will be the healer. The one who was silenced is going to be the one who needs the chorus.
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And this is why Hebrews, the book quotes Psalm 22 word for word when it says this.
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And in your Bibles, if you have an NASB, it will be an all capital letters where it's quoting
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Psalm 22. If you don't have an NASB and your Bible doesn't do all caps, it's verse 12.
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But we do see him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely
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Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor so that by the grace of God, he might taste death for everyone.
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For it was fitting for him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things in bringing many sons to glory.
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To perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings for both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one father, for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brethren.
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This is where he quotes Psalm 22. I will proclaim your name to my brethren in the midst of the congregation.
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I will sing your praise. What Hebrews is saying, what
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Psalm 22 is saying is that Jesus didn't stay dead. He said, I will say,
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I will sing. He's the one who was raised. And why was he raised? He was raised to call us into the assembly.
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Jesus didn't raise to stand in the middle of an empty room. If he stands in the midst of the assembly, it means he's called us.
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It means we've gathered around him, which means that the very center of the universe is
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Christ, which means that there's a Christo -centrism to even reality, which means that when we are with Jesus at the center of all things, we then praise.
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We stand in the sanctuary with him. We raise our voices from death to life.
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The one who said, I will, is the one who now leads us to say he is.
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We also see in this passage that the one who was despised was not abandoned. Verse 24, for he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, nor is he hidden his face from him.
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But when he cried to him for help, he heard. Heard. This same
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God who cried out, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? It says right here, he wasn't forsaken.
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That was our point on Palm Sunday, that the one who cried out, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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He's quoting David, not saying that divine abandonment has occurred because here in verse 24, it says he was not forsaken.
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The Lord never stopped hearing him. The Lord never stopped listening to him. The Lord, when he cried out for help, answered him.
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He was rejected by men. Yes. He was rejected by us. Yes, but he was not rejected by God, the righteous judge who never forsake him.
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And then we see here, what was God doing in his death? Pronouns are very important and not just in our lifetime where people have made a fuss of pronouns.
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Pronouns are very important in the Bible. We need to know what they mean. So I'm going to read you verse 24 again, but I'm going to put in the proper nouns where the pronouns are just to help not all of them, but where they help.
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This is verse 24 with the proper nouns. God, the father has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of God, the son, nor has
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God the father hidden his face from Jesus. But when Jesus cried out to God for help,
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God heard him. Jesus wasn't forsaken.
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Jesus wasn't abandoned. Jesus was obeying the will of his father and being destroyed to save us.
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The pain that he was going through was real. The cry that he cried out was real. What he was pointing to was real, but he was not forsaken.
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The father did not turn his face away. The father heard him. The father answered him. The father said, well done, my good and faithful servant.
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And on the cross, heaven was leaning in. And on the cross, even after they buried our
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Savior, he was not left to rot in Sheol. He was not forgotten in the dust.
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He was not cast off in decay. He was raised, he was exalted, and he was glorified.
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The bruised one became the crowned king. The one struck down was the one lifted up.
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This is why Isaiah says that it pleased the Lord to crush him. And if you finish reading that passage, it says he will see his offspring and he will prolong his days.
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Resurrection. Now, that's what
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Christ has done for himself. He was raised. He was vindicated. He was glorified.
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But the passage doesn't end in verse 24. It ends in verse 31. We've seen how he has resurrected.
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But now what else? We learn now that he also has resurrected a people.
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He's resurrected us. Look at verse 23. You who fear the Lord, praise him. Jesus doesn't praise
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God in solo fashion. He's not singing a solo anthem. The one who was crucified is now raised, but the one who is singing is singing in a chorus and not solo.
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Because why? Jesus is assembling a group of people around him, a choir around him, who is going to herald the anthem of resurrection to the ends of the very earth.
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The one who mocked him is now mandating that we, his people, would also be raised because Paul says that we are dead in our trespasses, right?
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The punishment for our sins is death, right? So the fact that Jesus can stand in the midst of an assembly means that a whole lot of resurrections has happened.
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He's resurrected us to life. Why? To sing. That's what he's saying.
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He's resurrected us from death so that we can sing. And this isn't just a suggestion from Jesus.
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His resurrection authority commands it. And praise be to God. I'm preaching to the choir here because we have a lot of padded seats, we have a lot of carpet, and we have these dinky little tiles.
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And yet we rock this place when we sing. Praise God for that. Whatever that was. When we say amen, those little things flutter, and I love it.
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Because if you belong to the people of God, you must praise him. What else could we do?
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I was dead. Now I'm alive because of him. And what can I do but say thank you,
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Jesus? Thank you, God. The one who raised me commanded me to gather with him in the assembly and to sing.
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And it's for my good. This is such a limited version, such a limited story, but I think like I still am in the military, so I'll just share it with you anyway.
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One of the things that I used to hate until I really understood it was singing in formation and singing when we were running because I have a touch of asthma.
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And when we were running, I was focusing on not suffocating. So I would always hate it when we would sing until I got it.
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And one day I finally got called out. One of the drill sergeants looked at me and almost ripped my head off my shoulders.
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And he told me to sing, and I started singing. And I realized that it's probably the most glorious thing that you can do is be running towards a supposed enemy and singing anthems.
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And that's in the army. Think about when you and I gather here before the presence of our commander,
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Jesus. And when we are leaving this place and going out into the nations, we are singing people.
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I used to think too in church that singing was only for women.
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Singing is for the entire people of God. Brothers, I've said this before in men's group, but it's true.
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The loudest, most boisterous singers in all of history were Vikings in route to plunder.
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And they didn't even have a good reason for singing. How much more do we have a reason to sing?
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He was dead. He's alive. You were dead. You were raised. Amen. The one who is worthy is owed it.
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And now you may be asking yourself, who is he telling to sing? Maybe not me. Maybe someone else.
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Maybe you're covering the Manili Vili portion of the choir. What it says here, all the descendants of Jacob glorify him all and stand in all, all of the descendants of Israel.
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Well, what does that mean? Well, Jacob is the biological, physical, genetic descendant of Abraham.
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So if you want to break this down very easily, you need to be an Israelite to sing.
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But then he says, all the descendants of Israel sing. But the time of Jesus, the 10 northern tribes of Israel did not exist.
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So does that mean that only Jews are singers in the choir of God?
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No. Paul says that when Christ raised us from the dead, the true seed of Abraham, that he made his people, both
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Jew and Greek, both slave and free, both male and female, one people called the
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Israel of God. So if you are spiritually descended from Abraham through faith, then you have been called to the choir to herald the anthem of Christ until the rafters of every square millimeter of planet
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Earth shakes. And that's why he raised us, so that we would praise.
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Not flippantly, not with emotionalism. I watched a video this week of a pastor who installed a roller coaster on the stage so that he could really rile the people up.
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And it was a really sucky roller coaster. It was one that like the two -year -olds would ride, and he was riding it thinking he had done something.
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We are not called to whip people up into a frenzy over cheap tricks and frills and emotionalism and everything else.
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I'll tell you this. If the resurrected Christ doesn't get your heart beating, what is a stupid, cheap, plastic roller coaster going to do for you?
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And it's not just you. It's not just us that he's raised. He means by this that he is assembling a chorus of people together that is not just individuals, but generations.
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A people who will fill the world with his praises. A people who will sing an anthem that can never die.
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A people who will praise his thunderous name down into the final day of physical, material
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Earth's history. A people that will include every tribe, tongue, and nation. A regenerate family who will sing.
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Why do I know that? Because he tells us the afflicted will eat and be satisfied.
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Those who seek him will praise the Lord and let their heart live forever. We'll get to this more in just a moment.
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But anyone who seeks Jesus, see this passage is about anyone who seeks
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Jesus will praise him. That means you. That means your children. That means your children's children.
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And again, we're going to get to that more in just a second. He raises us to be a praising people.
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He raises us to be a singing people. What else does he raise us to? He raises us to be a feasting people.
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He raises us so that we will have sacramental joy. The afflicted will eat and be satisfied.
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Those who seek him will praise the Lord. Let your heart live forever. Did you notice what it's doing here in this passage?
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The one who was hungry on the cross is going to be the one who feeds us. The one who was thirsty and his tongue was stuck to the roof of his mouth is going to be the one who who quenches our deepest thirst.
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The one who was afflicted is going to be the one who serves the afflicted. The one who was the one who was killed on the cross is going to be the one who now keeps you and I alive.
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By what? By his body and his blood. There's so much communion elements in here that the one who afflicted will eat and be satisfied.
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How is that going to happen? Because he's going to give us his own body to nourish us. He's going to give us his own blood to be our wine that satisfies our thirst.
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His body is going to feed his people. His blood is going to quench his people for eternity.
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So why have we been raised? We've been raised to sing. We've been raised to praise. We've been raised to feast upon the living
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Christ who nourishes us every time we gather corporately and every time we worship.
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Every time we sing Psalm 22 where it says those who seek him will praise the
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Lord has been fulfilled. And every time we get here and we gather around this table and it says the afflicted will eat and be satisfied this verse has been fulfilled in our presence.
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The afflicted tell me you're not. Tell me the world that you live in is perfect and easy and you have everything that you want.
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Tell me you don't have any bruises, any hurts, any scars, any pains, any disappointments. What this passage is saying is that the one who was perfectly afflicted now is here to serve you in your affliction, to feed you in your starvation, to give you his bone blood in your thirst.
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This is why not the only reason that we gather every single week and we do the
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Lord's table every single week because we are afflicted every single week and we need to eat every single week and we need to drink every single week and we need to be nourished every single week.
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And I can't for the life of me understand why the majority of Christendom does not take this glorious table every single week.
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Because at this table the same truth that was true for the thief on the cross, you remember the thief on the cross?
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Lord when you come into your kingdom remember me. Today you will be with me in paradise. Welcome.
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In the Lord's church you were here. At the Lord's table you're eating at the garden table.
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He has raised you not to keep you in starvation but to feed you, to nourish you so that you will praise him, so that you will worship him, and so that you will fill the world with his glory.
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Look at what this passage is promising us. Those who seek him will praise the Lord. Their hearts will live forever.
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The afflicted will eat and be satisfied. The prosperous will eat and worship from the very lowest to the highest, from the most broken to the most healthy, from the newest to the oldest, from the smallest to the tallest.
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We will be fed and satisfied if we are in Christ. And it's not just a blessing for this life.
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Praise God for that. Now let's be clear. Based off what we were owed, if Christ invited us once to this table, fed us with his body and blood, and then let us slip away into hell, we would have infinitely more than we deserve.
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The fact that he invites us every day, every week to this table is infinitely more than we deserve.
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And the fact that this passage tells us that it goes beyond just the physical life that we live is infinite upon infinite upon infinite more than we deserve.
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Look at what David says. All those who go down into the dust will bow before him. Why? Why can you have any confidence in that?
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Because he went to the dust first. The one who went down into the dust will grab you and pull you back out with him.
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That's why Paul can say, you were not only crucified with Christ, you were not only buried with Christ, but you were raised with Christ.
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Yes. Though we die, we will rise.
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And not just spiritually. In the same way that death came upon the world, it came in two ways.
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They died instantly spiritually, and they died eventually physically.
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In the same way, you will be raised. When you are saved, when you come to know
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Jesus Christ, when you are awakened, you come to life instantly spiritually, and then eventually physically.
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At the end of time, when your body is raised, your salvation, salvation, justification, sanctification, and glorification are now complete.
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If you die, you will rise. That's a promise. Because it says that we will bow down before him with bodies.
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Kind of hard to bow down if you don't have knees. Kind of hard to bow down if you're just an ethereal spirit.
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So much of church history has painted heaven as this either cute shaman babies riding on clouds, or an ethereal, spiritual, mystical kind of heaven.
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Brothers and sisters, heaven is an exit ramp en route to eternity.
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It's where you're dead and body but present with the Lord, but the story's not finished there. The story's finished when your body and your soul are reunited, woven back together perfectly in incorruptible flesh so that you will live with Jesus physically.
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Where your knees will feel earth again as you bow and worship him. Where your vocal cords will vibrate with glorious vibrato as you worship the raised and glorious King.
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The same Christ who defeated dust will assemble us. I don't care where you die.
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Let's say that you were cremated. I think the one who created the cosmos can figure out where your ashes are and how to reassemble you again.
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What if you fell off a boat and you were eaten by a shark? I think the same thing. I don't know, it's kind of a crazy way to go, but the one who invents it all flesh can put you back together again perfectly, can he not?
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Some are going to be assembled in that great day for condemnation, and some are going to be assembled for joy.
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Everyone will get an incorruptible body, but not everyone will have it with Christ in joy.
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1 Corinthians 15 42 says this to you and I, believer, if you're in Christ. So also is the resurrection of the dead.
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It is sown a perishable body. He's talking about Jesus there.
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Farming term, sown, planted Jesus in the ground. Okay. It is raised an imperishable body.
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That's resurrection. It is sown in dishonor. It is raised in glory.
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It is sown in weakness. It is raised in power. It is sown a natural body. It is raised a spiritual body.
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If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Brothers and sisters, what
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Psalm 22, what 1 Corinthians 15 is anticipating is Christ being the first fruit of the resurrection.
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And he's raised us now spiritually to praise him. He's raised us now spiritually to be nourished by him, but he's raised us ultimately and totally for physical existence with him in a material and spiritual world that has been woven back together again to be with him forever.
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And verse 29 through 31 proves this. 29 and we're in Psalm 22 again.
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Even he, everybody say I, even he who cannot keep his soul alive.
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That's all of us. Posterity will serve him. It will be told to the
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Lord, to the coming generation, they will come and will declare his righteousness to a people who will be born that have not yet been born, that he has performed it.
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What a gospel comfort that is because everyone in this room cannot keep your soul alive.
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There's not a single thing you can do. You can't duct tape it. You can't gorilla glue it. And yet the one who went down into the dust first for us is the one who will keep us is the one who will sustain us is the one who will hold us because he lets none that are his out of his hand.
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Like Jude says, we will not stumble in the presence of God. Have you thought about how deep that statement is?
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In the presence of a thrice holy God, us who are so frail and so finite will stand erect and strong and tall and boldly and joyfully.
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Why? Because we're like Israel and they were eating dirt when they saw a mountain shake.
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They weren't even standing before the presence of almighty God. Why is it that they were being ripped apart in their humanity by the holiness of God and that we will stand there without stumbling?
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It is only because you've been clothed with Christ. Like a fireman entering into a fiery building with his suit on, he's protected.
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And yet if he goes in without it, his flesh is compromised. When you and I walk into the presence of God clothed with the robes of Christ, we are safe.
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The one who went down into the dust for us transforms our dust forever.
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And the passage is even more glorious than that. It says, posterity will serve him. What Jesus is doing here is an unbroken chain reaction.
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His people, past, present and future are going to be made alive. It's not just us. It's our children. It's our children's children.
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It's our grandchildren's grandchildren's grandchildren's children's. And this is the promise that this
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Jesus who's been raised from the dead is raising you. He's raising up your family. He's raising up your generation.
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He's raising up your legacy. One legacy, one generation after another. Until what? What is this passage?
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What is this psalm? What is it pointing towards? It's pointing towards the one who went down into the darkest defeat, having the greatest victory ever.
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Our theology of Jesus must be that if anyone can have total victory, it's Christ.
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Amen. This is why I said earlier when we started that we must follow the Bible where the Bible goes. We must follow the
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Bible where the Bible says, because this verse right here in 27, if my family and your family are set apart by God for generations and grandchildren's and legacies and all of that unto what end?
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What is God doing in that? Why did Jesus die? Why did he raise? What is the end for which
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God created the world so that he would own it all? Verse 27, all the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the
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Lord. I point this out a lot. All is not a very complicated
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Hebrew word. It doesn't take a linguistic scholar or a philologist.
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All the ends of the earth, which means the entire earth, the entire earth, the entire earth will remember and will turn to the
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Lord and all the families, all the families, all the families of all the nations, of all the nations will worship before you,
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King Jesus. The order of salvation in this passage is that one man is going to defeat death and then he's going to share that victory and he's going to share that victory and he's going to share that victory and he's going to share it with men and he's going to share it with women and he's going to share it with families and he's going to share it with generations and he's going to share it with towns.
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It's going to share it with neighborhoods and he's going to share it with commonwealths and he's going to share it with nations and he's going to share it until all the ends of the earth remember and turn to the
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Lord. That's the end for which God created the world. The whole earth is going to remember and turn to the
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Lord. And you look around and you say, well, that's not happened yet. Be patient. Jesus is not writing with the same motivations as our microwave generation, where we can have everything at the click of our fingers.
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This is like leaven, leavening a lump. This is like a mustard seed growing until it's the largest tree.
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It's like a tiny pebble becoming a large mountain that fills the entire earth. He, the one who conquered death, is going to be the one who spreads life.
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If he conquered death in full, he will spread his life in full. It is inevitable.
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Every soil that was lost to sin is going to be reclaimed. Every tongue that once cursed will confess.
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Now, I don't mean that everyone is going to be saved. That's not what I mean. I don't mean that.
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There will be people who die and go to hell. What I mean is that the direction of redemption is heading towards an entire earth filled with believers.
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That in every 100 -year span you look at, the church has grown. And that's anecdotal.
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And we don't base our theology off of anecdotes. But look in history.
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I mean, from 12 to 2 .5 billion is a pretty amazing growth rate.
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Do you know in the last 100 years that the church has quadrupled in size from 800 million to 2 .4,
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2 .5 billion? Just in 100 years. And yet, one of the enemy's greatest tactics has been to convince the team that is overwhelmingly going to have victory that we are going to lose.
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This is the Boston Celtics against a middle school girls team, quivering in the locker room, thinking we're not going to do it.
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We're not going to make it. Jason Tatum, pull yourself together. This is a promise from Jesus that the entire earth is going to know
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God through Jesus Christ. Why do we look at the promises like this and we say, that doesn't mean what it means.
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What else can it mean? What else can those words mean than the entire earth will remember in turn to the
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Lord? B .B.
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Warfield says this. I don't agree with B .B. Warfield and everything, but this is a good one.
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This is what he says. If you wish, as you lift your eyes to the far horizon of the future to see looming on the edge of time, the glory of a saved world and that in his own good time and way,
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God will bring the world in its entirety to the feet of him who he has not hesitated to present to our adoring love, not merely as the savior of our own souls, but as the savior of the entire world.
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The scriptures teach an eschatological universalism, not in each and every universalism.
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When the scriptures say that Christ came to save the world, that he does in fact, in the end, save the world and that the world shall be saved by him.
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They mean that he came to save and does save the human race and that the human race is being led by God into a racial salvation, that in the age long development of the race of men, it will attain at last into a complete and total salvation and our eyes will be greeted with the glorious spectacle of a saved world.
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From Tokyo to Tehran, from Cairo to Cape Town, from Appalachia or Appalachia, wherever you're from, to Antarctica, from Bangkok to Beantown, from Moscow to Moscow, every family on earth eventually will worship him.
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That's the covenant promise that was given to Abraham in Genesis 12. In you, all the families of the earth will be blessed.
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In who? In Isaac? In Jacob? In Judah? Paul tells us the you there refers to Christ, the seed of Abraham.
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In Christ, all the families of the earth will be saved. Means there's no family outside of it.
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And the proof is at the end here in verse 28. How can we know this is gonna happen?
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We promised it in 27, but 28 is icing on your cake. For the kingdom is the
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Lord's and he rules over the nations. I wanna end like this.
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Governments do not rule the nations. Wicked people do not rule the nations.
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The cabal does not rule the nations. The Trilateral Council does not rule the nations.
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The World Economic Forum does not rule the nations. Klaus Schwab, the
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Rockefellers, and anyone else that you can read on a Reddit sub -thread do not rule the nations.
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The nations are ruled by God. God gave the nations to Jesus as his inheritance.
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And Jesus is filling the nations with his people so that we will praise him in the nations, so that we will glorify him in the nations, so that we will feast with him in the nations until the entire world is handed over to Jesus who will hand it back to God the
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Father as being the true Adam who succeeded where the first Adam failed. And here's the point.
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This is not just a grand vision. If you are with Christ, then you are marching in that direction.
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But hear me clearly. If you are not with Christ today, then that vision does not belong to you.
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In your affliction, you will not be nourished. In your thirst, you will not be quenched. In your hunger, you will not be fed.
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You either are in Christ, which means that you have everything that he has because he shares his inheritance with us, or you are not in Christ and you have absolutely nothing.
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Because the one who rules over all the nations also rules over you.
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And the one who rules over all reality can either lift you up or crush you.
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Do not gamble with your eternity when
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Christ is king. Turn to him. Turn to him even today.
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And if you are in Christ, the best application that I could think of for this sermon is that let's sing and come to the table and eat with the one who promised to feed us.
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Because who here is afflicted? A lot of you lied to me right now.
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Who here is afflicted? So let's come to the table where our king will feed us and nourish us.