In this text, Pr. Benny continues his teaching on how to disconnect ourselves from the earthly affairs. For the joy that was set before Jesus, he endured the cross despising the shame. Imagine despising the shame and not paying attention to what was going on in his body; he disconnected from the pain and the shame; for the scripture says, consider him; look unto him, lest ye faint in your minds [Hebrews 12:3].
Consider him for he endured such hostilities of sinners and while he was on the cross, they were attacking him, speaking against him. If you are the son of God, come off that cross, and with such things, he completely ignored what was going on around him because he saw the joy.
Can you imagine sweet people, the mental attacks on such a person hanging on the cross. His body completely torn apart, his face marred that it could not be recognized like that of a human being. His flesh hanging on his own bones, his bones exposed, with every breathe he felt pain for six hours. Imagine the agony of Calvary and the bible says, he despised all of that, he despised all the shame. He endured the torments of Calvary for the joy that was set before him.
I wanna show you something unbelievable in Psalms 22. We have read this psalm but there’s something I think we have not paid attention to. Jesus saw the joy and this psalm begins with, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
The word roaring means groaning. Verse 2 says, O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. He makes an amazing statement here in verse 3, But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Do you know why he said that? It’s so powerful when you realize what he said in that verse; why would he say, ‘thou art holy?’
From the most powerful presentation “The Holiness of God” written by an old father of the church called Chinook. “God’s holiness is manifested at the cross wondrously and yet more solemnly does the atonement display God’s infinite holiness and abhorrence of sin.” I am going make you a statement and I want you to hear me. God does not forgive sin, He forgives the sinner. Sin had to be destroyed and judged at the cross.
“How hateful must sin be to God for Him to punish it at its utmost, when it was imputed to His son? It says, not all vows of judgment shall be put out upon the wicked world nor the flaming furnace of a sinner’s conscience nor the irreversible sentence pronounced against the rebellious demons nor the grounds of the dump creatures. Such is the great demonstration of God’s hatred to sin of the wrath He loosed on His son.”
All His wrath was put on His son at that moment when Jesus cried, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”. When he took it upon himself and became sin for us, God’s wrath was completely placed on him. He took the wrath of God for us and sin was judged in his body. What a perfect fulfillment in psalms when the Lord said and repeated in Hebrews, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me [Hebrews 10:15].
Those animals would not satisfy the wrath of God which is holiness, and that’s why he cried, it says this; “never did divine holiness appear more beautiful and lovely…”. This himself acknowledged in Psalms 22 when God had turned his smiling face from him which forced a tremble cry “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”, And then he begins to adore the perfection of holiness as he says in verse 3, “But thou art holy,” in other words, I am glad to take Your wrath because You are Holy.
I am glad to be the sacrifice because You are Holy. Sin has to be judged and I am gladly giving my body to be that instrument of judgment, to be judged. But what kept him, what is the key is here, even after he says; I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people [Palms 22:6], and with such details, he begins to describe the amazing moments at the cross, [verse12-19]
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round; They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion;
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint;
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; dogs have compassed me, meaning the Gentiles and the roman soldiers,
they pierced my hands and my feet; I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me; They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
How amazing that the Holy Spirit gave David the details about the cross, but look at what verse 22 says, in the midst of his pain he cried and said, I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. Verse 25, My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: He saw the church, and I love what it says in verse 20, Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
The darling is the church and the book of Hebrews says, ‘my precious life’ and his precious life is the church. Jesus saw the church and said, I am gonna declare to You. I am gonna tell the church about who You are, Lord.
I am gonna reveal your name to the church, and this is how he was able to stay joyful and despised the shame of Calvary, and not be affected mentally by the enemies all around Him. Hebrews 12:3 says, For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. It’s time we disconnect our mind from earthly matters.
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