Grace Chapel Bible Ministries
Worship Call 1108 on the cross - 2024/07/09
[MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] Welcome to Worship Call with Bible Teacher Buzz Lullbeck. Buzz is the pastor of Grace Chapel Bible Ministries located in Duncan, South Carolina. This ministry is dedicated to the verse-by-verse teaching of God's Word and discipleship programs aimed at strengthening the faith of God's people. Now here's today's message. The Gospel, the Gospel gave us a personal view of those who were during that day. And they were scattered all except for John. John could give us the most personal view as he was in the vicinity at that point. The rest of them I do not believe they were there. And Luke depends upon those who he interviewed people of that time who were there. Of course Mary was there, the other Marys were there. It's Psalm, if we get to it today, it is Psalm 22 that gives us even a more personal direct. It brings us right there to the cross. This is the third day of the week in God's created order, the ninth day of July, 2020, fourth year of our Lord, and this is another fine day in the Lord. Father in Heaven, thank you for this opportunity this morning. Once again, to look at this so important passage, the critical place in all of human history, that pinpoints where our so great salvation lies and where our faith lies. And without this we have no faith. Open our hearts to the study of the Word of God this morning, your Word, as we continue to grow in grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and whose name we pray. Amen. And let's see. Find out where we are. There we go. There we are. Hey, glad to have you here. All right, we're at 27 this morning. We were with John yesterday and we are again on a crucifixion. Let's look at 27, 27 with me. And yeah, I'll put this up on the board. There we go. Twenty and we'll go Matthew 27 and 27. All right. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. And after twisted together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. And a reed in his right hand. And they kept, they knelt down before him and mocked him, saying, "Hail, the king of the Jews." They spat on him. They took the reed and began to be him on the head. After they had mocked him, they took the scarlet robe off of him and put his own garments back on him and led him away to crucify him. As they were coming out, they found a man of Korean sirene named Simon, whom they pressed into service to bear his cross. Jesus at this point was breaking down. He was unable, physically unable. Remember, this is not God. He is God. He is still fully God, but he's still restricting. He is still in his humiliate and his humble state as a human being. And as a human being, no human being can, let's just say, has its limits. The omnipotence of God has no limits. And when they came to a place called Gogdatha, which means the place of a skull, they gave him wine to drink mixed with gall. And after tasting, he was unwilling to drink. When they had crucified him, they divided his garments among themselves by casting lots. And sitting down, they began to keep watch over him, just watching a process. And above his head, they put up a charge against him, which read this. This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. And yes, they reread how it's given in three different languages. And that the Pharisees went back to Pilate and said, no, no, change that and make it. He said he was the King of the Jews. And fed up with them, Pilate says, no, what's on there? That stands. At that time, the two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. He goes to the cross about nine o'clock in the morning, and he's going to be there for approximately six hours from nine to three. Beginning of the day, two of the robbers, two of the criminals, one on the right and one on the left. They begin to, they're casting their own insults at them as well. And those passing by were hurling abuse at him, wagging their heads and saying, you who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourselves. If you are the son of God, come down from the cross. See, they're believing the lie. Notice here, they, at this point, they have, these are the ones chanting the lie because this was a lie. He didn't say he was going to tear down the building. Maybe this was, this was wrong context. He didn't say that. And he meant his own body. You tear this body down, his temple, and it's going to be brought back up in three days. And they bought into the lie. You listen, you listen to the lie enough and it's patted upon you. Unless your mind is fixed upon the truth, you're going to buy into the lie. And these people are buying into the lie. Oh, you're going, you're going to tear down our building. Oh, you're going to cause a rebellion. And so they, so they fell into that. And, and they're going to grieve for it. Save yourself. If you are the son of God, come down from the cross. Now, who else did we hear that from? Who else did we hear those words? If you are the son of God, let's say, turn these stones into bread. There's Satan. So they are, if these are mimicking the words of Satan. Satan has given them words to say and they're, they're falling right along with it and saying it. In the same way, the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, his, his, the arch nemesis, you might say, were mocking him saying, you've saved others. Look at this, and they admit it. They admit that, hey, they say, but remember what they said. You, you saved them from the power of the devil, not from the spirit, but from the devil. He said, he saved others. He cannot save himself. He is the king of Israel. Let him now come down from the cross. And we will believe him. That would be a shocking, that would have been a shocking day for him. But nonetheless, he's not going to give them that satisfaction. He trusted God. Let God rescue him. Now, if he delights in him, for he said, I am the son of God. The robbers who have been crucified with him were also insulting him with the same words. All this, Jesus is alone. I said to a man one time, the closer that Jesus came to the cross, and now he's on the cross, he's all alone. And he's only got God in. Pretty soon, he's not even going to have God. For God is going to distance himself also from the sun as he's going to become sin for us and take the sin upon his own body. And his disciples, they have flown. Yes, John, John was still there. John was still at the foot of the cross, but at this point, on the cross, he's alone. He's got even those on his right and on his left are hurling insults at them. There's no companionship with him at this point. And this is a hard thing to bear. It's a hard thing. And I'm sure it was hard for him to do. You hear the words. You know, they had this cute little rhyme to deal with, "Sticks and stones. I break my bones, but words will never hurt me." How can we, we can never believe that. We really can't believe that. Because those words go down and they, they hurt to the quick. They go to the heart. They go into the ear gate. And they go into the people that, especially when it comes with injustice. Especially when it comes from people you love. And the people that, and God so loved the world and so did Jesus. He loved these people. These were his people. These were his brethren. And I have to believe that those words and those mockings hurt him as bad as the beatings themselves, as the physical beatings themselves. His human soul was in anguish and saddened for the attacks that was placed upon him. Okay, moving forward. Now, from the sixth hour. And this, the times we, we have to work out the times on this. But right now I'll just tell you this is about the noon hour. The sixth hour starting at, at six o'clock. And I go back for it. I've got to work on this. That's some work to do on it. But the time itself that he went to the cross was nine o'clock. And that was the third hour. And this, and this viewpoint, you have the Roman time, you have the Jewish time. However it is. So you come to the sixth hour, which is noon. And at that point, darkness, it says here darkness fell upon the land until the ninth hour. It does, I'm surprised it doesn't describe this, this, the type of darkness. But I have to believe that it was kind of a darkness that like we read back in excess, that it was a, a curtain. And basically it was, it was, it was blackness that, that what's getting ready to happen was the judgment of the judgment of that, our sins. You see, up to this point, Jesus remained silent. And everything, everything that man could do from his beating, from his torch of a noun to the cross, from the mocking, and everything else. All that, all that was leveled against Jesus was man. All the, all the, and everything that was leveled against the wrath of God or the wrath of man, he faces. You know, it kind of reminds me of the, the upcoming seven year, the Daniel seventeenth week. Because you want to have the first portion of Daniel seventeenth week that there's, that it's going to be all about man. It's going to be what man is doing. It's going to be what the Antichrist is doing. It's going to be, and it's going to be coming down upon the believers, and the full wrath of man is going to come down on the believers. And this is what this was from going up to the cross. It was the full wrath of what man was, that what man could do, inspired by Satan, by the way. And then, unlike the tribulation, the believers are going to be taken out. And then the full wrath of God is going to come down upon the poor men. But for Jesus, he's going to have to take also darkness. He's going to have to take the full wrath of God. Give me another analogy too, when throughout history, man or the believers were not privy to the full brunt of the justice of God. They were not to witness it. Take an example of the judgment of the flood. When the flood came, where was the believers, Noah and his family? They were sealed away in the ark. They were sealed out from the view of what God was about to do to the world. They were sealed. Then you have the judgment of Solomon. You have the judgment of Lot, Sodom and Gomorrah. And the Lord is going to bring his full brunt of judgment down on Sodom. He brings Lot in his family. And Peter says that you have to look in the New Testament and you find Peter. Peter calls him righteous. And positionally, Lot was righteous. He was a believer. So he brought his family out. And the angel gives Lot the instruction not to look back. They were not to look back. And his wife looked at us. There are some applications there, folks. When judgment comes, how much are we connected with the world? That's a side note. How much are we connected with the world that God is judging? But his wife turned back, looked, and she turned into a pillar of salt. So they were not permitted to look upon the judgment of God. Then you turn into, then you go up to the Passover. Again, instructions are given to those who, the believers, go into your homes, shut the door. Do not look out when the Passover, the death angel passes over. And those with the blood on the door, on the door, the lentil, he will pass over those. But those without the blood, they will, the firstborn will die in them. They were not allowed to look outside to see that judgment. So there is that judgment, the full brunt of God's judgment. But here on Calvary, on Galgatha, again, darkness falls over. Darkness goes over the hill. I'll say one more thing. And anytime that the Lord's glory shows up, an angel of the Lord or the glory of God, when the presence of men and people, there was fear. There is abstract fear that they seek God. You see, not only is God loved, but God is justice and righteous. And we are unrighteous. We can't look upon God in our unrighteous state. Judgment right there. So we are not permitted to look upon that. That's a principle as well. So when darkness fell upon Galgatha, it put a curtain over that hill. Because now God is getting ready to do the worst, the worst on his own son. And that is pouring out the sin of the world. That is pouring out your sin, my sin. We might think, ericantly, that we would have made, you know, we wouldn't have been ones at the cross hurling up insults and mocking him and doing this. Nonetheless, and there were people who were firmly toward him there. Of course, the Mary's, Mary Magdalene was there and Mary's mother, John, and they certainly weren't hurling insults. But nonetheless, their sins were there. Their sins were placed upon that cross. And all sin is against God. Every time that we sin is that David said it in the Psalms. Against you and you alone have I sinned. And while these people were doing mockingly, every time that we sin, we violate the holiness of God. And those sins are represented there upon the cross. Because at that hour, the judgment, what we were not, what man was not permitted to look upon throughout the ages and where there was a, where they were, they were taken out of view and separated from it. Here it is that Jesus had to face the full brunt of God's justice. Why? Why? Before you ask, how can a loving God cast His creatures into the lake of fire? How can a loving God do this? How can a loving God do this to His own son? See, God cannot just arbitrarily forgive sins without Him condoning it. From the very beginning, when you look back in Genesis, I wanted to get to Psalm today, but I don't look like I'm getting there. But when you go back to Adam in the garden, in Genesis chapter 2, there was those two trees, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Place there in the center of the garden, served as that tree of the knowledge of good and evil, served as a test. And the door of the obedience is a test. Those things that are, God doesn't test us, but He didn't put that tree of knowledge of good and evil up on a shelf, up on a high shelf where the kiddies couldn't get to it. Every time that the woman and the man passed by that tree, they could demonstrate their love for God by avoiding that, recognizing their boundaries that God had set. But it was too much for the woman she took from that tree. But anyway, on that, he tells the man that in the day that you eat thereof, you will surely die. It was a violation against God's law, and where there's perfect justice, there must be consequences for breaking that. Man was created in the beginning with a body, in a soul, in a spirit. He was tricodum, and he has those three elements. He has a body, and that body contains the two immaterial parts of man, the soul and the spirit. When we find in Genesis chapter 2, that God breathed into the breath of life, that breath is breaths of life. It's plural, and for the Hebrew, the construction is plural, is three or more. And so there were three lives. There was the biological life, there was the soul life, and there was the spiritual life. And when Adam 8 of that tree, he died very much that day. He died spiritually. His spirit was dead to a relationship with God. And when he started bringing, when man started producing, when he started having babies, those babies were born in Adam's image. That's what Genesis chapter 5 says. He was born in Adam's likeness. He had a body, he had a soul, but a spirit that was dead to a relationship with God. Because through Romans chapter 12, let's look at Romans chapter 12, verse 5. I think it's either 5, 12, let me try 5, 12, verse, I think Romans 5, 12. Back it up. Romans 5, 12. Yes, it's curious. Okay, here we go. Therefore, just as through one man, sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned. All of them. We were born into this world, physically alive, but spiritually dead. We were born separated from a relationship with God. And you really did not have to make a decision for or against God. You really didn't. You were born. It could be morally right all your life and make no decision for God or against God. You could be as good as, good as good to be, but no matter, you're dead in the Lord. And to make that and you could be, well, religion is, you know, it's just religion. I don't want to have no part of it because I'm all right. I'm a good father. I'm a good husband. I do what's right. You know, all well, fine. Religion may be good for you, but, you know, for me, you know, I'm happy you've got something. But you know what? You're still lost. You're still lost, because a non-decision leaves you lost. We were born into this world, physically alive, but spiritually dead, because we are, what does it say here? I guess I'm again. Therefore, just as through one man's sin entered into the world and dead through sin. And so, death spread to how many? All men, because all sinned. We were born with an imputation of Adam's sin nature, where sin, that sin has been passed down to our Father. And so, where there is perfect, where there is perfect justice and God is perfect justice, there must be a penalty. There must be a, there must be consequences for the breaking of God's law. And that weighs upon us. That's for us. There's so many pictures you can go through, we can spend the next year going back through the Old Testament. And talking about the sacrifice, talking about the substitutionary atonement, because this is what it is. The innocent, taking the place. And this is what it is. Remember the term substitutionary atonement. Remember that, I'll give you a little hint. You might see that next week on the Bible challenge. But this sin, but the substitutionary atonement, will be poured down upon the Son on the innocent. So, somebody standing in my place. Jesus didn't take the, I see it, the accolades. He didn't take Barabbas's place on the cross. He may have taken Barabbas's place on the cross, and he may have taken Barabbas's nails for the cross. But he tasted death for all of us. That we all might believe in him and trust in him and have eternal life. Because he took our sins. He took the sins of the world upon his own body. That was what the darkness is all about. The full brunt. That was what was in the cup that the Lord said to him. He wasn't so disturbed about all the process of getting into the cross. He might have been, but I think that was the cup. That bitter cup was what he was so driven. That the sins of the world. That which he's so to test. Listen, he's perfect righteous. He's perfect. And when you understand, it's like, if your house thinks all the time, I'll put it like this. I'll throw this out. If your house thinks all the time, you get used to it. But when you walk into, but if you're used to smelling roses and the sweetness of the world and stuff, and you walk into a smelling house, your gag reflexes, your senses. That's awful. Those are used to it. I'll say also about TV. We'll talk about that. If you watch TV often, do this. Turn it off for a month and then turn it back on. And your gag reflexes come up because you'll see the unrighteousness. You know, really? Because you've been desensitized to it. The Lord was perfect. He's perfectly righteous. And so the sense of the world was the worst thing that was going to happen to him. It was just the awfulness to perfect righteousness to be made sin for us was the most courageous experience that anyone could ever have. Adam fell. He often said that Adam, no man has ever fallen and landed as hard as Adam. No, it was Christ. Christ hadn't fallen. But he had experienced the worst of any man ever because perfect righteousness, perfect, innocent man. And Jesus was perfectly innocent and righteous. And it was a righteousness, his own character. And sin was poured out upon him, not only upon him, not only that it was poured out upon him, but God, his father poured it out on him. And God's full brunt of justice attacked. And that wasn't just all. Then tomorrow Lord Willensburg will get to Psalm 22. You can go ahead and read Psalm 22, but Psalm 22 gives us a personal look at what was happening in that darkness. Father in Heaven, thank you for this opportunity this morning to be fellowshipping any word once again. That is appreciate what was done on our behalf. That our lives may show that appreciation by our walking in the light. We pray these things in Christ's name, amen. All right, it's notifying day in the Lord. Keep your armor on. Keep fighting. Good fight of faith. Remember Thursday night we have George Whitten going to be with us for the excited about that. And so again until then they motivate the Lord. Keep one more thing tonight Bible study seven o'clock. Hope to see you there. So try this one more time, shall we? So until this evening say motivate the Lord. Keep your armor on. Keep fighting a good fight of faith. Lord Willensburg, God, that's depending. We'll see you this evening. All right, remember that. Remember that you can join us at www G R chapel dot or there you can get our. You can look back on our archives and you can get other things. All right, so we'll see you there. 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