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Welcome back to Anchor Baptist Church. It is time to go ahead and get started this evening our first hymn
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revive us again
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revive us again
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Heavenly Father, we thank you for another opportunity this evening to gather together.
Lord, I pray that you just be with those
salvation from this afternoon and also those that we talked to to plant that seed. I pray that you
would just help those that need it to humble themselves and to believe and to be saved.
I pray this evening that you would incline your ear to us as we continue to sing praises
and that you would open our hearts and minds to the message this evening.
our second hymn this evening number 43 we're marching to Zion hymn number 43 4 3 we're marching to Zion
43 we'll sing there starting right on the first come we
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Acre Baptist Church. At this time, we'll go through some announcements. If you don't have a bulletin from this morning, please raise your hand and an usher can come and bring you one. On the front, we do have our weekly Bible memory passage. We're on Genesis chapter number one, verse 13. So keep working on that.
On the inside, our service times are listed Sunday morning at 10 30 Sunday evening at 4 30
and our Wednesday Bible study through Proverbs at seven o'clock.
We also have all of our soul winning times listed there and all those
start out here at the church building and then go out into the community.
We have our year to date soul winning statistics and I think we could add two
Had a unique experience today also winning. I got someone saved in Spanish
Which that part is normal, but Spanish was their second language
Which was kind of weird and their first language was
Kiche or Kiche or something like that and it's a southern American native language of Guatemala
So it's kind of weird where I'm you know preaching this brown person, but my Spanish is actually better than theirs
So that was very very odd. I don't experience that very often, but it was funny
You know the guy got saved. So praise the Lord for that. He understood enough
So yeah, you know, Spanish is a great tool like brother Eric was preaching about on sour Saturday soul winning rally.
So we have our year to date statistics there as well as our upcoming event or Bahamas mission trip teaming up with said fast Baptist church really excited for that.
Make sure you get any last minute shopping done for that trip, bring your sunscreen, brother Cameron, all that kind of stuff.
You're going to need it.
We're looking forward to it.
October 12th when we return is our next men's preaching night.
and I'll be ordering pizza for the church that evening so no need to worry about bringing a dish to share.
For that evening, then October 31st is the next chili cook-off.
I'm gonna need a couple volunteers that want to judge.
So if you're interested in judging, please talk to me and let me know and we can get all that squared away.
Then November 22nd is the Oklahoma Solaning Marathon.
It's also our one year anniversary as a independent church.
And so it's gonna be a great weekend.
We're gonna get lots of people saved that Saturday.
And the next day, Pastor Shelley will be preaching
both services for us.
And I'm sure some folks from Steadfast
will come and visit as well.
So definitely a great weekend to be in church. Then a few days after that November 26th is the pie
Fellowship, I don't know. Maybe maybe some ladies need to coordinate with what they bring so that it's not just all pumpkin pie
We do need pumpkin pie and I don't trust anyone that doesn't like pumpkin pie
I'm just letting you know but it can't be just all pumpkin pie and stuff like that
So looking forward to that see I could tell them offending some people. That's okay. We'll stick with the Bible this evening. Don't worry
We do have on the the right our visitor card as well as our online giving and our prayer list if you have any requests
Please do email the church be happy to add that for you and at this time. We'll go and go to our next song
Our third song this evening 288 I am resolved
two hundred eighty eight I am resolved to 88 singing out I am resolved on the
You're the same.
it's a little bit faster so ladies you can stay on the top I don't ever hear
other guys singing the bottom part and if you are you're just not singing loud enough
okay 288 on the third and I'm gonna sing that lower part with you to show you how
it's done on that third verse I am resolve
the offering plates are being passed, turn to John chapter 19. John chapter number 19.
John chapter 19. Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him and the soldiers played
at a crown of thorns and put it on his head and he put him in a purple robe and he said,
Hail, King of the Jews and they smote him with their hands. Pilate therefore went forth again
and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you that you may know that I find no fault in him.
Then Jesus then came Jesus forth wearing the crown of thorns and the in the purple robe and
Pilate sayeth unto them behold the man
Then the chief priests therefore and officers saw him
They cried out saying crucify him crucify him
Pilate sayeth unto them take ye him and crucify him for I find no fault in him
the Jews answered him
We have a law and by our law he ought to die because he made himself the son of God
Then Pilate therefore heard when Pilate therefore heard that saying
He was the more afraid
And went again into the judgment hall and say it's under the Jesus
Went start though, but Jesus gave him no answer
Then said Pilate to him speakest thou not unto me
Knowest thou not that I have the I have power to crucify thee and have power to release thee?
Jesus answered thou couldest have no power at all against me
Except it were giving thee from above
Therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin
And from thence forth Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out saying
If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend,
whosoever maketh himself a king, speaketh against Caesar.
When Pilate therefore heard that saying,
he brought Jesus forth and sat down in the judgment seat,
in a place that is called the pavement,
but in the Hebrew, Gabbathah.
And it was
the preparation of the Passover in about the six hour,
and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your king.
But they cried out, Away with him, Away with him,
crucify him.
Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your king?
The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
Then delivered he, him, therefore,
unto them to be crucified.
And they took Jesus and led him away.
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha.
There they crucified him and two other with him, one on either side, one.
And Jesus in the midst and Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross.
the writing was Jesus of Nazareth the king of the Jews. This title then read
many of the Jews for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city
and it was in it was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latin. Then said of the
chief priests
of the Jews, right not the king of the Jews, but that he said,
I am king of the Jews.
Pilot answered, what I have written, I have written.
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus,
took his garments and made four parts to every soldier
apart, and also his coat.
Now the coat was, without seam, woven from the top
They said therefore among themselves. Let us not rent it but cast lots for it
Whose it shall be that the scripture might be fulfilled which sayeth they parted my raiment among them and for my vestured is cast lots
These things therefore the soldiers did
Now they're stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister
Mary the wife the wife of Cleophas and Mary Magdalene
When Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple standing by whom he loved he saith under his mother woman behold thy son
Then saith he to the disciple behold thy mother and from that hour that disciple took her
into his own home
after this
Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished that the scripture might be fulfilled saith I thirst
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it upon his up and
Put it to his mouth
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar he said it is finished
And he bowed his head and gave up the ghosts the Jews therefore because it was the preparation
that the bodies
should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day,
for that Sabbath day was an high day.
They sought Pilate that their legs might be broken
and that they might be taken away.
Then came the soldiers and break the legs of the first
and of the other, which was crucified with him.
But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already,
they break not his legs.
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side and forthwith came out blood and water
And he's in he that saw a bear record and this record is true, and he knoweth that
Knoweth that he saith
True that ye might believe
For these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled a bone of him shall not be broken
And again, another scripture saith,
they shall look on him whom they have pierced.
And after this, Joseph of Arithmothea,
being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly,
for fear of the Jews besought Pilate,
that he might take away the body of Jesus
and Pilate gave him leave.
He came therefore and took the body of Jesus.
And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night and brought a mixture of myrrh and allows, about a hundred-pound weight,
then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spices as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
And in the garden a new sepulchre wherein was never man yet laid and they
There they laid their laid day Jesus therefore because of the Jews preparation day for the sepulchre was nigh at hand
Let's pray gracious Lord. Thank you so much for your word
Amen. Well, we've been going through a Bible study series on the sayings of Jesus on the cross.
And I think a series like this is important for us as Christians.
Of course, we know the Bible talks about how the preaching of the cross is to those that perish foolishness,
but to us which are saved, it is the power of God.
And really, these sayings testify to the power of our Lord Jesus Christ because they're such short sayings.
And you would really wonder, like, how do you preach a whole series just on these short words?
But of course, the words of Jesus Christ are so powerful and so packed with doctrine
that we could spend longer than a series talking about His words.
We've talked about His phrases so far, how He said, Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they do.
Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Woman, behold thy son.
And now this evening we're on this statement in John 19.
The Bible says, after this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled.
Sayeth, I thirst.
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it upon his up and put it to his mouth.
Let's get some lessons from this statement from the Lord where he said, I thirst.
Go to Psalm 69, first of all this evening.
Psalm 69, of course, keeping your place in John 19 throughout the sermon.
But one thing that we can learn right away from this saying of the Lord Jesus Christ,
I thirst, is that Jesus Christ was fulfilling the scripture.
This was not something that Jesus kind of just off the cuff said, or he just was like
only physically thirsting so he's just kind of throwing stuff out there that he's feeling.
I believe this is a very deliberate statement because of the fact that Jesus was testifying
to the fact that he is the Christ and that he is the Messiah up to his dying breath.
From the moment he came on the scene to the moment he died he was testifying to the world
that he is the Messiah that was promised to come. Look at Psalm 69 verse 19.
The Bible says thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor.
Mine adversaries are all before thee.
Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness.
And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none.
And for comforters, but I found none.
Verse 21, they gave me also gall from my meat, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar
This is quite a specific prophecy about the Messiah here and just think about what are the odds of Jesus fulfilling this detailed of a prophecy like this simply by chance, by random coincidence or something like that.
It's virtually zero. The fact that here in Psalm 69, it's talking about how they gave him golfer meat and in his thirst, they gave him vinegar to drink, which he sits there, he's on the cross.
from the brutal six hour crucifixion he's endured,
from the beatings that he endured before that,
the carrying of his cross before that.
I mean, his body has just undergone the most severe trauma
you could possibly imagine
that the human body could go through.
And so of course, he is physically thirsty.
Of course, that is a huge aspect of why he's saying this,
but when he's on the cross and he says, I thirst,
Isn't it interesting how the Romans, what do they offer him up?
They offer him up that vinegar on a sponge,
which is exactly what Psalms prophesied would happen.
Incredible that Jesus just fulfilled every single prophecy
in the Old Testament down to a T.
Go to Psalm 22.
Psalm 22.
Doing this he's doing this because he's saying without saying it that he's the Christ
And of course he said that very clearly as well in his ministry
But really just everything Jesus was doing from his life his ministry his birth his sinlessness
His preaching his very crucifixion on the cross was all just screaming the fact saying hey, I am the Messiah
I am the Christ
Look at Psalm 22 verse 15
My strength is dried up like a pot sherd.
Notice this.
In my tongue cleaveth to my jaws.
Thou hast brought me into the dust of death,
for dogs have compassed me.
The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me.
They pierced my hands and my feet."
So here in Psalm 22, the Bible is giving a prophecy
of the coming Messiah, and it's giving details about
how he would die.
Now here's the thing.
You and I, we don't know the time or the date of our death.
We don't know the manner in which that we are going to die.
And you know, if we just had a book that gave the details of how we died,
and then all of a sudden, lo, that came to pass,
like that would be extremely mind-blowing.
And here we have Psalms written just way, way, way back in antiquity,
way before Jesus showed up on the scene.
and yet he's living that life that the Bible prophesied he would live and in fact he's
even dying the death that the Bible told the Messiah would die.
The fact that people can come away with this idea of how the Old Testament doesn't talk
about Jesus and how the Old Testament you're saved by works because there's just no mention
of Jesus, there's no mention of the Christ will explain this to me then how when Jesus
We found him of whom Moses and all the prophets wrote about.
Why? Because just from Genesis all the way to Zechariah,
the whole Old Testament is prophesying of Jesus Christ.
And it talks about his origin.
And it talks about his birth.
And it talks about his deity.
And it talks about his sinless nature and his ministry.
And it even talks about the way he would die.
Down to the most minute details,
And not just like, hey, I'm kind of thirsty,
but his tongue is cleaving unto his jaws.
Look, I've been thirsty before.
We've all probably felt thirsty before,
but I've never been so thirsty where it's like,
my tongue is cleaving to the inside of my mouth.
That is an extreme level of thirst.
That's a level of dehydration that is what?
It's deadly, it's mortal.
Like you're on death's door
when you are literally that thirsty.
and that dehydrated, you know, the suffering that Christ went through was truly immense and truly just
sickening to think about.
Go to Galatians chapter four. So number one, we realize that Christ said I thirst because he was fulfilling scripture
All the way to the end number two the lesson we can learn from this is that Jesus Christ was fully
Human now we often and rightly so focus on the fact that Jesus Christ was fully
God and amen to that you cannot be saved if you believe Jesus was just a man
You must believe that he is
God in the flesh. Why? Because a man cannot be sinless.
How is it that Jesus Christ was sinless was because he was born of a virgin
and he has that divine nature. He lived his whole life sinlessly because he was
God, but he also is man. Look at Galatians chapter 4 verse 4.
The Bible says, but when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his son
made of a woman, made under
to redeem them that were under the law
that we might receive the adoption of sons.
So Jesus Christ had to be made of a woman
just like those of us, those of us that were humans,
were men, were women, were made under the law.
Christ had to as well be made under the law
so that he could redeem those that are under the law.
If we're gonna become the sons of God,
well then Jesus had to become like us.
That way he could bring us into the fold.
He can make us be the adopted sons of God.
I'll read for you if you turn to Matthew 4.
Luke 1.35 says in the angel answered and said unto her,
that's Mary, the holy ghost shall come upon thee,
and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee.
Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee
shall be called the son of God.
So, Jesus Christ is the son of God, he's also the son of man.
He's 100% God in the flesh, 100%, he's also 100% man.
And my personal opinion of how this works is it seems to me that the sin nature of man
must be passed on through the Father.
I don't believe it's just necessarily passed on through any human being because Jesus truly
did have a real human mother.
She literally gave birth to Jesus Christ, she literally was his mother,
but yet Jesus Christ did not sin.
Why? Because I believe that that's passed on through the man, through Adam.
That's my opinion on that.
You know, otherwise, how was Jesus sinless?
He's born the Holy Ghost, his father was God in heaven.
To me, it makes sense that he got the divine nature from his father
and he got the human nature from his mother.
What are some ways that we could just prove that Jesus Christ was a man?
Well, one of the things is that he has physical limitations, right?
So Jesus Christ was not some sort of, you know, comic book character when he was on this earth.
Yes, he performed miracles by the Spirit of God, but Jesus Christ himself had
physical limitations, like for example, getting thirsty.
Right? So Jesus Christ is getting thirsty because he has physical limitations.
You know, the devil's trying to get him to jump off the pinnacle of the temple
to prove that he's the Son of God.
You know, I believe that if Jesus would have done that, you know, it's possible that he could have died.
He could have received some sort of harm because he is man.
Look at Matthew chapter 4 verse 1.
Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil and when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights
he was afterward and
Hungered so notice Jesus Christ has limitations physically. He gets thirsty. He gets hungry
And, you know, we should appreciate that Jesus did this because he willingly gave up how his life was before in heaven in eternity past when he's living in heaven with God.
He had none of these limitations before, right?
You read John chapter 17 verse 5.
He talks about the glory that he shared with God the Father before the world even began.
So Jesus Christ, he's not a created being.
He had no start date of when his existence created, but there was a change when he became flesh.
when he became man. And when he took on flesh, when he took on manhood, he also took on physical
limitations that he did not have to do. You know, he did that willingly for us. He brought himself
lower than the angels for us. Go to John chapter number 11. John chapter number 11. You know,
another thing is that Jesus Christ experienced human emotional experiences.
You know, Jesus Christ is not some impersonal, distant God that can't be touched with the
feelings of our infirmities.
No, he actually went through the human experience as a man.
He experienced things like tragic loss.
Look at verse 32, then when Mary was come where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down
at his feet saying on him, Lord, if thou hast been here, my brother had not died.
He groaned in the spirit and was troubled and said,
where have you laid him?
Then said they unto him, Lord, come and see.
Jesus wept.
Then said the Jews, behold, how he loved him.
So very powerful.
Words in the King James Bible, very short verse, the shortest verse in the whole Bible is saying,
Jesus wept. You know what, that's very important to understand that Jesus Christ was fully man,
fully went through those emotional experiences.
You know, you and I, when we lose a loved one, or lose a friend, you know, someone dies in a tragic way.
It's not like God doesn't truly understand how you feel. He's been there.
He's truly experienced that, and you know, you lose a friend, Jesus also lost a friend.
And it's not like, of course, he also is divine, and of course Jesus also is all-knowing,
and so I believe Jesus knew that Lazarus would rise again from the dead someday,
but that did not stop him from feeling the same human emotions that we would feel if our friend died.
Because here's the thing, you know, if one of my brothers and sisters in Christ dies, I know they'll rise again too.
I know I'll see them again too.
I know that we'll see each other in heaven,
but does that stop us from being sad?
No.
Now, of course, we don't mourn like the world
that has no hope, but of course, we still mourn.
We still are sad by these things, and even Jesus,
he too, had the human emotional experience
of being sad at loss.
Go to 1 Corinthians 15.
Matthew 26.38 says, then saith he unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.
Terry here, and watch with me.
So Jesus knows the feeling
being anxious at the impending death he's about to face you know he's exceeding
sorrow his soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death and you know I would
venture to guess most people in this room have never faced down death where
you thought you were about to die but I bet you it's possible in this room that
there are there is someone where they have either gone through a traumatic
experience where they thought oh I'm about to die like you're about to get a
or you're about to get shot or something crazy going on,
maybe someone's experienced that.
And you know, that exceeding sorrow or that anxious feeling
that you're facing death, Jesus Christ faced that.
Or maybe, you know, you've had some sort of medical issue where you thought,
hey, I might die, or you go to the hospital and you think, I might die.
Those feelings of anxiety, man, Jesus faced those feelings himself.
You know, so much that he was just sweating as it were, great drops of blood,
and he's praying, and he's asking the Father, Lord, if you could let this cup pass from me,
please let this pass from me, nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done.
Right? So, that, I mean, that's, he's gone through the whole human experience.
joy, you know, pain, loss, anxious at death, all of the things that we will ever feel in our life,
Jesus Christ felt those. And then of course physical death itself. Look at 1st Corinthians 15.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received and wherein you stand,
by which also you are saved if you keep in memory that which I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.
For I delivered unto you, first of all, that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.
So Jesus, he went through the whole human experience, even up to and including experiencing death.
There are cults out there in this world, the Jehovah's Witnesses, or Muslims, Islam,
Islam will say that Jesus did not die on the cross,
that there was a body double that was brought in at the last minute to replace him,
and that Jesus was kind of whisked up to heaven, that he never died.
You know what that is? It's denying the fact that Jesus is fully human, that he is fully, man,
and Jesus Christ fully died.
Now when it says that he tasted death for every man for every man
That's the fact that he was in hell for a short amount of time. He just tasted it
But he did not just taste a physical death. He fully died
He fully went through the torture, the excruciation, the pain, the agony, the suffering of the cross, and he fully died.
You know what it took for someone to do that? It took someone who is fully man.
And Jesus Christ was 100% God. He's also 100% man. Why is it important that we believe Jesus was also 100% man?
Go to Hebrews chapter 4.
Well, one reason is the fact that God's plan was that to redeem man, a man had to be the redeemer of man, okay?
So, it's not going to be some sort of angel that's a sacrifice for our sins.
It had to be Jesus made in the image of God, of course, and he's made lower than the angels, but he still was the sacrifice for our sins.
Notice what Hebrews 4.14 says, it says,
that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession,
for we have not in high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our
infirmities. But was in all points tempted like
as we are yet without sin, let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in time of
need. You know, it's also important to emphasize the humanity of Christ so that we could realize
that when you're going through something hard, when you're experiencing something, some sort of
challenge in your life, when you're feeling a human emotion, you can know that Jesus indeed
can be touched with the feelings of your infirmity, that Jesus truly does know what you're going through
and has experienced what you're going through and cares what you're going through. And because of
to obtain help in time of need.
See, I can only truly understand what you're going through
if I've been through exactly what you're going through.
You know, hey, you know, we've had a miscarriage before. If you had a miscarriage, I've been there. I know what that's like, right?
But here's the thing, you've gone through challenges in your life, and you have hardships in your life that I have not faced,
that I don't know what that feels like. And I can imagine, and I could pray for you, and I could be there for you.
But at the end of the day, I can't truly be touched with all the feelings of your infirmities.
You can't truly be touched with all the feelings of my infirmities. But here's the thing, Jesus can.
You know, you're not going through anything in life where you could truly say like no one knows how I feel
I'm going through this alone
That's not true because Jesus has been touched with all the feelings of our infirmities because he lived the human experience
So he knows what it's like to be hungry to be thirsty to be cold to be mocked to be ridiculed to be forsaken
to be, you know, ashamed, when he's on the cross naked, to be in pain, in physical pain.
He knows all these things. He's experienced all these things. That's why he's the best high priest,
so that we can go to him.
You know, I love the hymn that we sing just when I need him most.
Here's the lyrics for it.
Does Jesus care when my heart is pained too deeply for mirth and song?
As the burdens press and the cares distress and the way grows weary and long, oh yes,
he cares.
I know he cares.
My heart is touched.
His heart is touched with my grief.
I know my Savior cares.
That's not just words that we sing.
That is true, folks.
That no matter what it is we are going through,
no matter what hardships we face,
you don't have to sit here and wonder,
does anyone care?
Does Jesus actually care?
No, He cares today.
He cares because He was fully man.
He lived the human experience.
He can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities.
Go to Isaiah chapter 53.
Isaiah 53. The third lesson we could draw from this statement, I thirst, is that Jesus Christ physically suffered immensely for our sins.
And that's what I want to focus on the most in this sermon is just the physical torture that our Savior went through to purchase our salvation.
And again, these are one of these things that I think every once in a while we should think about just to appreciate the salvation that was given to us, that was purchased for us.
Isaiah 53, in verse number three, the Bible says,
he is despised and rejected of men,
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from him.
He was despised.
and we esteemed him not.
So not only does the Old Testament foretell
the fact that the Messiah would die for our sins,
but it foretells the fact that he would die
a gruesome, horrific, terrible death
so much so that people, when they see him,
they're hiding their faces from him.
You know, if you've ever seen some sort of gore
or some sort of horrific video or something,
you know, your instincts kind of look away from that.
It's hard to look at that.
It's hard to look at human suffering and people just getting slaughtered and killed.
You know, it's not natural and normal to want to see something like that.
And when Jesus is dying, people are turning away their eyes from him because it's so gruesome,
the death that he died.
You know, he did not get a quick, easy death.
He did not get, you know, like, what would be a quick, easy death?
There's no fun way to die, folks.
But like, what would be a very quick, easy death?
You know, getting shot in the head.
getting beheaded or something like that.
It's not fun, I'm not saying it'd be great,
it'd be gruesome still,
but you know it's a pretty quick way to go.
Jesus Christ suffered and was tortured for hours and hours.
Verse 4, Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him
stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted, but he was wounded for our transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes are we healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord
hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth.
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shears is dumb,
so he openeth not his mouth."
So the Bible's foretelling about how gruesome
the crucifixion would be,
but the amazing thing about this is that
Jesus Christ willingly submitted himself
to the death of the cross.
And here's the thing, submitting himself, meaning it was not his will, it was not his first choice.
He wasn't thinking like, yeah, I can't wait to go get tortured on the cross.
He was asking for another way, but guess what? It was the only way.
And he loved us enough to submit himself to the death of the cross.
And even like a sheep going before her shield, he's not even opening his mouth.
He's a hundred percent man, but he's also hundred percent God if he wanted to he could send 10,000 legions of angels to destroy the people crucifying him
But he willingly subjected him to that death on the cross and get this
He willingly
Subjected himself to the level of torture and pain that he experienced on the cross one way we could prove this I'll read for you
Mark 15 verse 23 says,
and they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh,
but he received it not.
Myrrh, if you look it up, is known as some sort of sedative or possibly something that's
used like a natural painkiller.
So when he gets just the vinegar, when he says, I thirst, he receives that.
But then there's this wine mingled with myrrh.
Who knows?
Maybe it's alcoholic or this myrrh has some sort of medicinal property that's going to
tone down his pain.
He was offered this on the cross and he didn't receive it.
I mean, that is intense to think about because if I'm getting a surgery, I want to be put
out.
That's just me.
I don't care if it's wisdom teeth, I've had the wisdom teeth done, I've had my shoulder
surgery done, and I'm just like, if you're cutting me, I want to be out.
If you're doing stuff to my mouth where I'm going to hear things crushing and moving around,
just knock me out.
I'm done.
and then give me the pain medicine when I'm done.
That's me, okay?
Jesus is going to endure the worst suffering
a human could ever go through,
and he's offered some sort of sedative,
something to chill out the nerves,
chill out the pain, he doesn't receive it.
He fully embraces the death of the cross, you know, that's a man right there
There's no more of a manly man than the Lord Jesus Christ to endure that level of pain endure that level of suffering
How is it that he suffered physically go to Luke 22?
Well, one way that he suffered physically was getting beaten
spit upon and mocked.
And of course, I guess that's a combination of physical and mental suffering there.
Getting beaten, spit upon and mocked.
That doesn't sound fun.
Luke 22 verse 63,
And the men that held Jesus mocked him and smote him.
When they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, saying,
Prophecy, who is it that smote thee?
and many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
You know, there's not very many men in this world
that would be able to lower their pride enough to take something like that,
where you're going to get blindfolded
and you're going to have a bunch of people smiting you in the face,
spitting at you and mocking you.
You know, we're not really designed to take that type of abuse,
but he submitted himself to it and allowed himself to go through that.
You know,
people listening this guys you probably wouldn't let someone do that to you.
Yet Jesus did. Getting mocked, getting spit upon.
You know if you spit on a police officer you're gonna get roughed up.
You're going to get the spit mask put on your head.
You're going to be thrown violently into a vehicle.
Why?
Because no one wants to get spit on.
That's disgusting.
It's humiliating.
It's just like your natural response to getting spit on
is you want to get violent with someone.
Because it's just horrific to go through something like that.
I unfortunately have been spit on.
And it was disgusting, and at that moment I just wanted to crawl in a hole and die because it was a trainee, believe it or not.
Because let me just take a quick detour of the sermon.
I had a soul-warning partner.
who just had not gone that much,
and did not have much discernment,
and there was a tranny that opened the door.
When I see a tranny or saw them I open the door,
I just like, hey, we're inviting people to church,
have a good day.
I just leave, I don't want to start any trouble with them,
because I just want to get out and go to the next person.
Well, this person in their wonderful wisdom said,
are you a tranny?
And then this trainee blew up and got this close in our face, was screaming and spitting in my face.
I was just like, thank you, thank you silent partner.
You know, the word silent is there for a reason, you know?
But I mean, I had a freaking tranny spit in my face.
That is disgusting. That's not fun.
My reaction inside was to do something very bad to that person, but I didn't.
But you know, I'm sure it was a lot worse what Jesus is going through,
because he's getting beaten as well.
He's getting punched in the face. He's also blindfolded.
They're blindfolding him and of course he's God
and they're blaspheming him as well. Oh yeah, you're the Messiah. Oh yeah, you're God in the flesh.
Well, why don't you prophesy and tell me who it is that's punching you?
They're just, you know, laying combos on him, just punching him in the face
saying, oh, go ahead and prophesy. Tell me Jesus who it is
that's hitting you.
I mean, it's chilling to think about the eternal destiny of those people's souls.
I hope they got saved.
But could you imagine?
Either way, either they got saved and you're in heaven and it's like you punched the Savior
in the face.
Boy, you are a testament to the grace of God and to the fact that, yeah, how forgiving
God is.
Or it's like you're burning in hell and it's like, oh, what did you do?
Oh, I punched God in the face.
I punched the Savior in the face.
I spit in his face.
You know, I blindfolded him. I mocked him.
There were real human beings that did that to the Savior.
It's gross to think about, but it's what he went through.
Go to John 19.
You know, another thing that he went through is he got scourged.
And scourged just think of taking a whipping
and just crank it up to 10.
That's what it means to get scourged.
In John 19 verse 1, the Bible says,
Then Pilate therefore took him and scourged him.
that when the Romans would scourge someone they used a device, I hope I'm pronouncing this right,
I believe it's called a phlegrum. That's how it's spelled here, I hope I'm pronouncing that right,
but they used a brutal whipping device called a phlegrum, and a phlegrum is a whip with multiple
So it's got this handle and it's got all these different, you know, leather thongs coming out of it and on that leather has
Bone metal glass shards so that when it's hitting someone
It's hitting them with a wide surface area of all of these barbed metal pieces and as they're hitting
They're pulling back really hard and all of that bone metal and glass is going deep into someone's skin and flesh and it's tearing
off their flesh
it's tearing off their skin. It's not like you got a you know think of like a cord or some sort of
rope or something. If you were to hit something with someone with that it would leave like
bruises and welds and stuff. Well this would actually just tear into your flesh and rip your
flesh off. Picture like a fishing hook how it has that barb that when you pull on it it just
It says, this tore open the flesh of his back, shoulders, and legs, causing massive blood
loss, shock, and exposure of muscles or bones.
It often left victims near death.
Keep your place there and go to Psalm 22.
Psalm 22.
So you've got to realize that the suffering Jesus Christ went through was immense before
He endured the cross, but before he even hung on the cross, he was punched in his face.
You can imagine the black eyes, the swelling of his face.
He was spit upon, he was mocked, he was buffeted, then he was scourged.
And you have to imagine the amount of blood loss that he's already enduring before he
even gets to the cross.
That's why, because when you lose so much blood, you get dehydrated.
And so imagine the level of dehydration, like Psalm 22 said, where the tongue is cleaving
to the jaw.
Where like you'd have to like use your hands to move the tongue off the inside of your
mouth because of how much blood he's lost and how thirsty he truly is.
Look at what it says in verse 15 of Psalm 22, my strength is dried up like a pot shirt.
and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws, and that was brought me into the dust of death.
So of course, by taking such beatings, by being so brutalized, by losing so much blood,
one of the things that's going to happen to him is he's going to lose strength.
And again, what is Jesus? He's 100% man.
So you imagine just getting beaten like that, losing so much blood, and he still has to carry his cross.
He still has to get on the cross. He still has to endure six hours on the cross.
And already he's losing strength. Verse 16,
For dogs have compassed me. The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me.
They pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones.
and they look and stare upon me.
What it means when it says I may tell all my bones
is that he could look down at himself
and he could count the bones that are visible to the eye.
How does that happen?
It happens through the scourging that he received
where these whips are ripping chunks of flesh
and skin off of our savior and exposing his bones.
I know it's graphic, but this is actually what happened
to our savior.
to where you could literally tell his bones.
Man, no one's gone through this level of suffering
like Jesus has.
And he's, you know, his bones are exposed.
This is again, before he was nailed on the cross,
this level of pain.
Go back to John 19.
Another aspect of his physical suffering,
we'll see in John 19, verse two,
it says in the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns
and put it on his head.
And they put on him a purple robe and said,
Hail, King of the Jews.
They smote him with their hands.
Now, when the Roman Catholic Church makes artistic renditions
of what the crown of thorns looks like,
it's usually this perfectly circular little crown.
It has a little bit of spikes on it.
It looks like you could just place it on your head.
But, you know, from the research that I've seen, and obviously I can't go back in history and tell you 100% sure this is the case,
but what I've seen of what the Roman crown of thorns was, was it was like a 3D sphere, like a sphere of thorns,
not just some little circular crown that was nicely placed on the head, but it was like this big ball of thorns
that you would have to just smash on someone's head to get it to hold in place.
Meaning that there's thorns going deep into his skin, into his face, into his head, into his neck, probably into his upper trap area.
You know, it's not like a little, you know, tiara or something that you're putting on your dolls.
It's a brutal torture device.
That's what the crown of thorns truly is.
Just slamming that on his head, the amount of pain would be just incredible to think about.
Look at verse number 17.
Here's another aspect of his suffering.
Went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha
So, you know think about this and compare this to some physical suffering you've gone through
Imagine just getting punched in the face over and over getting spit upon getting mocked getting scourged
Your bones are exposed, your blood vessels are cut, your muscles are torn out, your skin is cut.
You've got the crown of thorns on your head and they say, oh by the way, pick up your gigantic wooden cross and start carrying it.
Boy, does that take a lot of strength?
Does that take a lot of power?
Does that take a lot of will?
I couldn't imagine my body being in such a depleted state
and then being told to carry the cross.
The cross is a torture device that
is used to hold human beings.
I mean, these things are big.
These things are big and they're robust and heavy
because the Romans would not just make a cross
for one individual and then just burn that wood. They would use that
over and over and over again because it's a big, hefty, probably expensive
torture device. So these things were what? Strong,
robust, reusable. These things had to have been extremely heavy
and yet after that level of torment and torture
Go to, keep your place there, go to, if you would, Matthew, chapter number 27, Matthew 27, and we'll see that he ends up getting so weak here that he physically can't keep going.
Verse number 30 of Matthew 27.
And after that they had mocked him.
They took the robe off from him
and put his own raiment on him
and they led him away to crucify him.
And as they came out they found
a man of Cyrene, Simon by name,
him they compelled to bear
his cross.
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull.
So, in one of the Gospel accounts, we're told that Jesus bears his cross.
In Matthew, we're told that Simon had to come and bear it for him.
How do you reconcile these things?
Well, Jesus started bearing his cross.
He started carrying it, but he's lost so much blood.
He's so dehydrated. He's so weak.
and depleted from the torture he's already been through
that he literally cannot keep going.
You say he's God, yes he is, but he's also 100% man.
And he literally just got to the point
where his body failed him, where he could not go any farther.
And so this man had to carry the cross for Jesus Christ.
What's another aspect of his suffering?
Go to John 20, John chapter number 20.
Now, what we're gonna read, this is a post-resurrection account.
but it gives us some details as to what he suffered when he was on the cross.
John 20 verse 25, the other disciples therefore said unto him,
We have seen the Lord.
But he said unto them, except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands, and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side, and be not faithless, but believing.
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord, and My God.
So, here we get the account that Jesus had, holes in his hands and in his feet.
Where do those come from?
That came from the fact that when the Romans would tie a crucifixion victim to the cross,
they would not only just use rope to try to keep that person into place, they would drive
big steel or iron stakes down into the hands and feet of the crucifixion victim.
severed blood vessels, it would have severed nerves.
I mean, nerve pain is terrible,
and it would have just pinned him to the cross
by his hands and by his feet.
That is just a horrific thing to think about,
but he went through it.
Then go to Mark 15, Mark chapter 15.
So they've already beaten him. They've already spit on him. They've already mocked him.
They've already scourged him. They've already put the crown of thorns on his head. They already made him carry his cross.
He fell down. He couldn't do it anymore. Simon had to help him. Then they finally got him to the cross.
They nailed his hands and his feet. They prop up that cross. That leads us to
Mark chapter 15 verse 24 says, and when they had crucified him. They parted his garments casting lots upon him.
what every man should take.
And it was the third hour and they crucified him.
So the third hour in the Bible is referring to the third hour
since sunrise, since the beginning of the day.
So the third hour would be roughly what we would equate to
as 9 a.m., 9 in the morning.
So, you know, people don't like to wake up early.
Imagine all the things that Jesus had already gone through
at this time just by 9 a.m.
You know, people don't even like to wake up or that's too bad for their flesh.
You know, he's enduring all of this even before 9 a.m.
Then at 9 a.m. they crucified him.
So meaning they had nailed him down, they put him on that cross and they prop up that
cross into some sort of deep hole or something like that to keep him there crucified.
Let's find out how long he stayed on the cross.
Go to Matthew chapter 27, Matthew 27.
So keep in mind he got on the cross. He was crucified at 9 a.m. the third hour
Matthew 27 verse 46 it says and about the 9th hour
Jesus cried with a loud voice saying Eli Eli
Lama suboxan I that is to say my God my God. Why has thou forsaken me?
Some of them that stood there when they had heard that said this man called it for Elias
In straight way, one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink.
The rest said,
Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. When was that? The ninth hour.
So how long then would Jesus have been on the cross? He would have been crucified on the cross for six hours.
six grueling hours getting on the cross at 9 a.m. dying on the cross at roughly
3 p.m. you know six hours of unbearable agony is just unfathomable for us to
comprehend you know I think about when I was in baseball we would have to do
timed workouts that seemed brutal for example you know who's ever done like a
wall squat where a coach makes you just sit on the wall and holds a squat I
And five minutes of wall squats feels like five hours.
It feels like five lifetimes.
You know, when you're going through pain,
time just works differently.
And you're like, oh yeah, I could do anything for five minutes.
No, you couldn't.
Probably couldn't do a wall squat for five minutes.
Probably couldn't do like a plank for five minutes
or something like that.
And when you go through even just
minuscule amounts of pain and physical discomfort,
time slows down a lot.
OK, now imagine going through actual real stuff.
Actual real pain, Jesus Christ is on the cross for six hours.
And the thing about dying on the cross is that it is a torture device.
It is a slow, agonizing, brutal, horrific death.
And victims of crucifixion usually died of asphyxiation.
or heart failure, you know, one of the reasons being is that
when you're on the cross, you're being held up by your hands and by your feet.
You're in such an awkward position that victims of crucifixion
would have to push up on their legs to take a breath in
and they'd push down to be able to take a breath out and they would have to keep
that going.
Imagine just that constant physical exertion of
pushing up on your legs, going down, taking a breath, pushing up, going down,
taking a breath.
You know, you're going to be dehydrated, you're going to be weak on top of the fact that Jesus already had lost so much blood.
He already was so weak.
He already was so thirsty and so depleted.
You know, to imagine six hours of that, it's hard to imagine how he even made it six hours.
And of course, the Romans, if they wanted to hasten death of crucifixion, they would do what?
They would break the person's legs.
Why would they break the legs because then that person would not be able to push up anymore and that person would then die of
Choking to death basically asphyxiation
Jesus did not have his legs broken. He had to endure a long terrible
Crucifixion I found this online. I want to read this as crucifixion caused death primarily through asphyxiation
Victims had to push up on nailed feet to breathe leading to muscle cramps dehydration and organ failure over hours
Right? So Jesus was enduring this for six hours.
And this is only the physical aspect of his suffering.
Not to mention the psychological aspect of his suffering.
The fact that people are mocking him.
The fact that he's strip naked.
And he's just, you know, at such an exposed, vulnerable position.
Being mocked. His garments are being sold.
They're making fun of him. They're railing on him.
They're blaspheming him.
You know, that comes into account too,
when you think about the suffering that he went through.
Go to John chapter 19.
John, chapter number 19.
Look at what it says in verse 33,
but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already,
notice they break not his legs.
Why? Because again, when they break the legs,
they would hasten death.
Jesus is dead already, they didn't break his legs.
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side
and forthwith came there out blood and water.
And he that saw it bear record, that's John, and his record is true.
And he knoweth that he sayeth true that you might believe,
for these things were done, that the scripture should be
fulfilled, a bone of him shall not be broken.
So, the first-hand witnesses of the crucifixion and the people writing the Gospels,
he's saying, hey, I'm not embellishing any details here, I'm telling you exactly what happens,
what I'm saying is true, I'm bearing witness that it's true,
that Jesus Christ, he did not have his legs broken.
That's very significant, why?
Because again, he's fulfilling prophecy.
So he's manifesting to the world that he's the Messiah, that he's the Christ, even in his death.
Also, there's very interesting detail that when the soldiers pierced his side, there came out water and blood.
Now, I've kind of explained this before, but...
I don't believe what the first-hand witness is saying here is that he saw H2O come out of his body.
I think that what the author is doing here is he's using the words that he had to describe the situation that he's seeing.
But there's actually been many, many medical experts that have done really deep analysis and study into the crucifixion of Jesus,
taking how the Bible describes it, and they've kind of given their verdict on what this could be talking about.
and they've described it as something called
pleural effusion.
Has anyone ever heard of this theory?
Yeah, there's a good book called The Case for Christ
that really describes all this,
and I tend to believe that that is what this is talking about,
but let me just explain this.
Pleural effusion.
is the medical term for the accumulation of fluid in the plural space,
the thin cavity between the lungs and the chest wall.
This can occur due to trauma, inflammation, or severe stress on the body.
So when the human body goes through extreme trauma,
or this could happen with prolonged illness, prolonged bronchitis, prolonged pneumonia,
you could get all this plural buildup
in your chest that is just an excess amount of fluid.
This could also happen due to trauma which Jesus is definitely undergoing.
So the relevance to the crucifixion, I'll read this for you.
The severe scourging with a phlegm, which caused massive blood loss and tissue damage,
combined with the prolonged stress of crucifixion, could lead to pleural and pericardial effusion.
So pleural effusion has to do with your chest, your lungs.
Pericardial has to do with the fluid around the heart building up due to the stress of your heart working so hard,
which again, experts say how do people die of crucifixion through either asphyxiation or heart failure.
I mean, if you're being tortured to death, you could have a heart attack and die from
that amount of pain and suffering.
So that prolonged stress leads to a pleural or pericardial effusion, the trauma from
scourging, tearing the skin and muscles, and crucifixion, the asphyxiation stress, hypovolemic
shock from blood loss, and prolonged immobility can cause fluid to leak into the pleural cavity.
This fluid is typically clear or serous resembling water.
but it can mix with blood if blood vessels are damaged.
So when you think about the fact that Jesus is under labored breathing for six hours,
anyone who is under prolonged labored breathing,
you're going to have this pleural effusion.
You're going to have this build-up of fluid in your chest.
If you're having, you know, extremely high heart rates
and your heart is just beating out of your chest
and your body is literally struggling to provide blood
organs to run your body, which think about it.
If he's been drained of a lot of blood,
his body is absolutely in hypervolemic shock.
It's absolutely trying to get the blood to the brain
and to the central organs just to keep his body alive.
You know, it would make sense from a medical perspective
that there would be a buildup of fluid around his heart
and around his lungs.
Now, of course, it said that, you know,
these medical experts were talking about how
If the spear pierced also blood vessels or the heart,
that makes sense how you'd get the mixture
of the pleural type liquid, the cirrus liquid and the blood.
It says here, if the soldier's spear
penetrated Jesus' chest,
likely on the right side,
it could have punctured the pleural cavity,
releasing accumulated fluid or the water,
as the gospels describe it,
along with blood from nearby vessels or the heart.
I find this to be fascinating because, you know, we believe in reality, we believe in facts, we believe in science, you know,
and I believe that the Bible is true. I believe both of these things.
And so it's amazing to me, and it's actually a testament to the validity of the Word of God,
and to the validity of the accounts that were given of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ,
that this is seemingly such a bizarre detail that you wouldn't just dream something like this up.
You know, if this was just made up, this would be such a weird thing to include.
Just like, you know, you pierced a side and out came water and blood.
Why? Because if you just went to a normal healthy person and did that,
that would not happen to them.
What would just come out? Pretty much just blood, right?
But this detail is given, why? Because it's true.
Because it actually happened.
Because actually, when Jesus' body was pierced,
there came out blood and what appeared to be water.
You know, the Bible matches reality.
We don't have to hide from the, you know, reality or science or act like this is some sort of fairytale or mystical creation.
No, this matches science perfectly.
And even scientists and doctors, when they study the crucifixion and they said,
hey, how would the human body react to the suffering that Jesus is accounted of going through?
What type of medical side effects would you see?
They come away from it saying, yeah, plural effusion.
Yeah, pericardial effusion.
And they look at things like, hey, he pierced his side and out came water and blood and they say, yeah, that checks out.
That makes total sense to me.
That just increases my faith in the validity of the Gospels.
that this is not cunningly devised fables.
If you're making up a story,
you wouldn't include such a strange,
kind of bizarre detail.
The reason it's brought up is because it actually happened
because Jesus was actually tortured,
because Jesus actually spent six brutal,
agonizing hours on the cross
where he struggled to take each and every breath
so much so that it built up that foot around his lungs,
around his heart, and when he was dead
and he pierced his side, all that came out.
Man, what a savior that we have.
What an amazing salvation that Christ has purchased for us
that he was willing to endure that much suffering for us.
Go to John chapter number four, John chapter number four.
It's not necessarily something pleasant to think about,
but you know, this is the reality
of what Jesus did to purchase our salvation.
It's a beautiful thing.
Number four lesson we can learn from this is that Jesus Christ thirsted so that our thirst can be quenched.
Look at John chapter 4 verse 10.
Jesus answered and said unto her, that's the woman at the well,
if thou newest the gift of God.
And who it is that saith to thee, give me to drink, that wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
See, Jesus shows up to the woman at the well, and what does he tell her?
Hey, give me to drink. Why? Because he's fully human. Why? Because he's thirsty.
But then he gets on a spiritual level.
And he says, hey, if you knew who you were talking to, you would actually be asking me
for a drink.
You would be asking me for the gift of God.
And you know what?
I would give you that living water.
What is that talking about?
Salvation.
Spiritual salvation.
You know, we have physical thirst on this earth,
but you know what, there's that spiritual thirst
that we all have for that living water of salvation,
and there's only one person that could satisfy that.
That's the Lord Jesus Christ.
And you know what, Jesus thirsted
so that we could have our thirst quenched.
Look at verse 11.
The woman saith unto him sir thou has nothing to draw with and the well is deep from whence then has thou that living water
She doesn't get it. She's thinking in a carnal, you know frame of mind, right?
But Jesus often uses physical truths to illustrate spiritual truths just like he says hey
You must be born again to Nicodemus and he's like what are you talking about?
Am I supposed to crawl into my mother's womb and be born a second time though?
He's talking about being born of the spirit
by trusting in the gospel, being born again, becoming a child of God.
You know, Jesus is not talking about taking a drink of literal water here.
He's talking about taking the drink of salvific waters by believing in Him.
Verse 12,
Are thou greater than our Father Jacob, which gave us this well
and drank thereof himself and his children and his cattle?
It's funny, she's saying, like, are you greater than Jacob?
It's like, yeah, yeah, he actually is by a lot.
Jesus answered and said unto her,
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again.
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.
But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water
springing up into, notice, everlasting life.
Jesus uses this opportunity to explain the gospel to her that if you spiritually drink of the waters of Jesus Christ you're going to have that spring of ever of living water inside of you and it's going to spring up to whatever lasting life.
Meaning you go to the waters of salvation one time, you understand the gospel, you realize the fact that you're a sinner, that you are deserving of hell.
that Jesus Christ is the perfect Son of God, that He came into this earth, He lived a life as a man,
He never sinned, He endured the suffering of the cross, He did fully die on the cross to pay for your sins,
and if you believe in Him, if you trust in Him, if you call upon Him, if you know that water, you ask Him for that water,
you know what, you will never thirst again.
Meaning, you could never lose your salvation.
Once you trust in Jesus Christ, you are saved, you are sealed unto the day of redemption,
and your thirst spiritually is eternally quenched.
In this world, you're going to take a drink today, and you're going to get thirsty tomorrow.
You're going to eat a meal tonight, and you're going to be hungry in the morning.
You're going to be hungry tomorrow afternoon.
But you know what? Spiritually, once you believe on Jesus Christ, you're never hungry again.
You're never thirsty again.
He is truly the only thing that is satisfying for your soul.
Go to Galatians chapter number two.
Galatians chapter number two.
You don't want to close it with this thought.
Just imagine for a second.
all the suffering that Jesus Christ endured for us.
The fact that he was lied about,
that he was accused of being a troublemaker,
that he was accused of trying to overthrow the Roman government,
then he's taken before these people,
and he's lied about, he's railed against,
he's beaten, he's probably got black eyes,
he's spit upon, he's blindfolded,
he's blasphemed against, they're selling his clothes,
they use the flagrum,
to tear his flesh, to shreds, to the point where you can see his bones.
He's dehydrated, he's losing blood, he's carrying his cross, he collapses on the ground,
he can't carry it anymore.
He gets nailed to the cross with the nails through his hands, through his feet, he gets
propped up and he suffers for six hours, dying a brutal death, struggling for every
single breath.
Expending what little bit of energy he has to die for the sins of this world.
Just imagine Jesus going through all of that just for someone to say
that salvation is by them living a good life.
I mean, it's just sickening.
It's so insulting to our Savior.
It's so blasphemous, this idea that Jesus is going through the war suffering anyone's ever experienced
but you're going to get to heaven by not cussing, by giving the homeless some food.
By not drinking every day. Oh, I've never killed anyone. Well, great. That's wonderful. Have you died for the sins of humanity?
Did you suffer the death on the cross? Did you live a perfect life though? No, you didn't.
How disgraceful and despicable is this false gospel that's taught even by Baptists today this repent of your sins for salvation. It's garbage.
You teach that someone has to repent of their sins to be saved?
What you're saying is that the sacrifice and suffering of our Savior wasn't enough.
Oh, you know Jesus, your blood wasn't enough.
I have to give you my filthy rags.
I have to give you my good works.
I have to give you my time that I dedicate to God.
It's garbage.
The Bible says that we are saved by faith, for by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
Imagine reading the account of Jesus Christ, suffering on the cross, and having this foolish thought in your mind of boasting about how you're a good person, and about how you do good things, and about how you do works for God.
No, you and I are nothing, friend.
Our works are nothing. You know what we are? We are sinners deserving of hell.
Our sin is such an abomination to God that God had to pour out his wrath on his perfect son.
And you know, Jesus had to be separated from the Father and enduring all this physical pain because it's the only way that you and I could be saved.
Because you know what the Bible says about this?
Look at Galatians chapter 2 verse 20,
I am crucified with Christ.
Nevertheless, I live, yet not I.
But Christ liveth in me,
and the life which I now live in the flesh.
I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me,
and gave Himself for me.
See, you do not give your life for Jesus.
Jesus gave Himself for you.
Jesus, bear His cross
for you.
Jesus suffered sickers of torture for you and for me.
That's a humbling thought.
You know what? The Gospel should humble us.
The Gospel is not about,
let's get up and have you share your testimony.
You know, someone showed me some sort of tract or invite
from this church in Oklahoma City
where it was openly advertising,
hey, we've got this ex-Cartel member
who's gonna get up and talk about how his life has changed.
You know what? That's a bunch of trash.
Because you know what, the gospel is not about some cartel member living his entire life, snorting cocaine, being with prostitutes, murdering people, and then stopping doing that.
We're all supposed to clap and cheer and hooray for this cartel freak.
No, the gospel is the fact that Jesus, the Son of God, who was perfect, who never sinned, who deserved no wrong, stood in the place of us who deserved hell.
He took the lashings that we deserve. He took the scourgings that we deserves that we could be saved. Look at verse 21
I do not frustrate the grace of God for if righteousness come by the law then Christ is dead in vain.
If you could be saved by your good works, then why did Jesus even have to die?
I mean, it's so mind-boggling to me that we go out soul-winning and we ask people,
what do you think it takes to get to heaven?
And the word Jesus does not even escape their lips.
I mean, some people will tell you, believe in Jesus and live a good life.
That's wrong.
That's taking glory away from God, but most people,
they don't even let the name Jesus escape their lips.
They just say, be a good person.
Live a good life.
Repent of your sins, portarse bien, as they say in Spanish.
Behave yourself, be a good person, and Jesus doesn't even cross their mind.
Let me tell you what, those people are on their way to hell.
And I'm not mad at people that are deceived by a false gospel.
I feel terrible for them.
I want to reach them with the gospel.
I want to get them the light, get them exposed to the truth.
But who I am mad about are false prophets that teach lies about salvation that are damning
people to hell.
That's what I'm mad about.
Yeah.
Go to Galatians chapter number one.
Galatians chapter number one, you know, we live in this Christianity of get along with everyone
and we shouldn't divide over anyone for any reason. You know what?
If there's something to divide over, it's the gospel of Jesus Christ.
If there's something to divide over, it's about salvation.
You know, we as God's ministers should make salvation very clear.
And we as soul winners should make salvation very clear.
And we should use good terminology when it comes to salvation.
There's nothing more important.
You know, I saw today that Charlie Kirk had his memorial service,
and his pastor got up and had an opportunity to speak to millions of people.
I mean, there's probably tens of thousands of people in person listening to him, hundreds
of thousands of people listening online live, and probably hundreds of thousands more that
will watch the replay once it's done.
And he gets up and he gets an opportunity to preach the gospel.
And he did make an attempt at preaching the gospel, and he quoted some verses, and he
did not do the worst job I've ever seen.
But let me tell you something.
I was not impressed.
I thought in my mind, literally the children in our church that go soul-winning, the teenagers
in our church that go soul-winning would have been doing a much better job.
And it's like, why can't pass?
I mean, I just cannot, I cannot, I would be salivating.
I would be like a dog on a bone if someone said, hey, I'm going to give you the mic
and you could preach the gospel to a million people in America.
You better believe I would eat that up with fork and spoon.
And I would preach the most crystal clear salvation message that you've ever heard in your life.
And I would make it so clear that, hey, we're all sinners, that we all deserve hell.
I would explain what hell really is.
I would explain the fact that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, that He was 100% God, that He was 100% man,
that He lived a perfect life, that He performed miracles, that He preached the truth,
that He died on the cross to pay for our sins, not just some peoples, not just the elect, all people.
All those who have ever lived past, present, and future.
And you know what? I'd really hone in on the fact that salvation is by faith.
That it's a gift. That it's not of works.
I'd make it clear that it's not by repenting of your sins.
It's not by cleaning up your life. It's not by starting to go to church.
Starting to read your Bible. It's by taking the trust off of yourself,
off of whatever religion you have, and putting all that trust on Jesus Christ.
You know what I would explain?
I would explain to the fact that when you receive that gift, when you believe on him,
we receive eternal life.
which means that your salvation is not, you know, in place until you sin,
until you mess up next time, but that you're eternally secure in Christ,
that you would always have your salvation. I'd go to Hebrews 12, I'd explain,
you know, getting chastised by God, what's going to happen to you if you sin.
Then I'd end Romans chapter 10, calling upon the name of the Lord.
You know, a lot of that was missing today.
I don't hate this man, I don't know what this guy is like.
I just heard his 10 minute gospel and I thought it was lacking, that he should have done a
better job is what I thought.
And I thought, man, there's a lot of saved laymen in our church, in little anchor Baptist
church in Oklahoma City that would have done a better job.
We need to make Christians good at explaining the gospel again.
We need to equip and train people on how to preach the gospel because what an opportunity that is as people's hearts are softened right now.
as people in America are so much more open to Jesus Christ and the things of God and the Bible.
And you know, there's not, I don't want to use the word revival in the sense that like everyone's coming to biblical doctrine
and coming to the truth on salvation and coming to the King James Bible.
But there is a revival right now in America in the sense of people want religion, specifically they want Christianity.
They want Christianity. You know what? It's up to us to bring them the truth.
It's up to us to go out there and lead them to the everlasting waters and not allow them to get sucked away with the synthetic.
What's that type of drink where you just like pour it and you pour in that little sugar thing?
You know, that's what a lot of false Gospels are like. It's like it's not the clear water.
It's not the pure water of salvation. They're adding the little aspartame to the drink and all that kind of stuff.
That's what the false Gospels are like today. We need to bring them to the clear salvation. Look at Galatians chapter number one.
Verse 6, the Bible says,
that they're not going to come to you saying,
hey, here's Islam, here's Hinduism, there are bad people,
there are false prophets, they're going to come to you saying, hey,
here's the Gospel of Jesus Christ, here's the Bible,
you know, the Mormons will say, here's another testament of Jesus Christ,
and it's not going to be a completely different gospel
where Jesus is just removed altogether, but what they'll do is they'll
pervert the gospel.
Romans chapter 3 talks about, hey, therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
There's the crystal clear word of God just settling the debate for us that salvation is by faith, it's not by works,
but what do people do? They'll come in and they'll pervert the gospel of Christ saying, yeah, Jesus died for our sins.
Of course, we got to believe in him, but you just can't live however you want.
You just can't keep on sinning and expect to go to heaven and it's just like, how much
of an idiot do you have to be to think that you no longer sinned?
I mean think about that.
These idiots say, you can't just keep on sinning and go to heaven.
Okay genius, well please explain to me how you have stopped sinning.
Please tell me that.
They're liars. They're false prophets, and the Bible tells us how to react to them in verse 8.
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you,
then that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preached any other gospel unto you, then that you have received, let him be accursed.
And people look at that and they say, that's mean, that's so harsh.
How could you look at another minister or another religion or another brand of Christianity
and how could you look at them and say, let that person be a curse, let that person go
to hell?
Well, first let me just say that that is biblical, that is what the Bible says, whether you like
it or not, whether you understand it or not, my attitude towards the Pope of the Catholic
My attitude towards every Catholic priest preaching a false gospel is let them burn in hell.
I feel that way about the Mormons.
I feel that way about every single Christian that perverts the gospel of Christ,
that teaches a work salvation.
Let their mouths be stopped.
Let them die and go to hell.
Why?
Because people's souls are on the line.
There's a real heaven.
There's a real hell.
And that hell lasts for all of eternity.
And there is no escaping it.
People that go there will be tortured with fire, with brimstone.
They will be under the curse and wrath of God forever and ever.
How could I allow someone that's preaching something,
that's going to send them there, think that they're okay.
Oh, have a good day.
Oh, God bless you.
Oh, you know, we disagree on the gospel, but that's okay.
We all serve the same God.
No, we don't.
You have the wrong gospel.
You're going to hell and you're sending people to hell.
Why would we have this attitude?
Towards False Prophets, I'll tell you the real reason why, is because all the things we read about Jesus Christ suffering on the cross.
And what an insult it is to him.
When we read the story, we know what Jesus went through.
We know all the physical suffering that he went through. Why? To purchase our salvation.
because if salvation, if righteousness came by the law, Christ is dead in vain.
You know what? False Gospels, at the end of the day, they're extremely blasphemous
and disrespectful to the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I don't care if they say His name, if they sing songs about Him
and act like they're praising Him, when you preach a Gospel
that takes away the saving power of Jesus and puts it in the hand of man,
you're blaspheming Him and what you're preaching is wicked.
We need to look at the story of Jesus dying on the cross and we need to remind ourselves how
expensive the gift of salvation was.
We need to be thankful for the fact that Jesus Christ endured this amount of suffering for us.
And you know what? We should take this message because we know the gospel, because we love the gospel.
We should take this message and we should share it with every single person we possibly can.
And we should do so with clear terminology.
And we should do so making it very clear
that salvation is because of one thing.
It's because Jesus thirsted.
It's because Jesus suffered.
It's because Jesus died on the cross
so that he could give us that everlasting water.
Let's pray. Lord, thank you so much for your word.
Thank you for sending your son to die on the cross
for our sins.
I pray that we would never take
the beautiful story of salvation for granted.
That we would always be reverent and respectful when we read these passages in our Bible and help us Lord to spend our lives
Showing other people the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ Jesus name we pray amen
Our last hymn this evening will be number
115
hymn number one hundred fifteen one one five no one ever cared for me like jesus
one hundred fifteen starting there on the first
of Jesus since I found him in a friend so strong and true I would tell you how he changed my life
completely he did something that no other friend could do no one ever cared for me like Jesus
All my life was full of sin when Jesus found me, all my heart was full of misery and
There's no other friend so kind as he
No one else could take a sit at darkness from me
Oh, how much he cared for me
Every day he comes to me with new assurance
More and more I understand his words of love
to save me till someday I see his blessed face above.
No one ever cared for me like Jesus.
There's no other friend so kind as he.
No one else could take a sin and darkness from me.