Fear The Lord with Praise
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Intro; This morning was a wonderful experience with Emmanuel Mebasser with Jews for Jesus. Learning from a converted Jew about Christ in the Passover gives us a deeper understanding of Jesus in the Old Testament scriptures which opens our hearts to Him in the New Testament and our daily walk in life.
The Passover is a wonderful picture of Christ’s atonement for His people and His deliverance of us from the bondage of sin. That is something we should celebrate every day of our lives.
Tonight I want to tie together in Psalm 22 the symbolism of the Passover in Jesus with learning to “Fear the Lord with Praise”.
1 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning?
2 O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; And in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in You; They trusted, and You delivered them.
5 They cried to You, and were delivered; They trusted in You, and were not ashamed.
6 But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised by the people.
7 All those who see Me ridicule Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 “He trusted in the Lord, let Him rescue Him; Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!”
9 But You are He who took Me out of the womb; You made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts.
10 I was cast upon You from birth. From My mother’s womb You have been My God.
11 Be not far from Me, For trouble is near; For there is none to help.
12 Many bulls have surrounded Me; Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled Me.
13 They gape at Me with their mouths, Like a raging and roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, And all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It has melted within Me.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And My tongue clings to My jaws; You have brought Me to the dust of death.
16 For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet;
17 I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.
18 They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots.
19 But You, O Lord, do not be far from Me; O My Strength, hasten to help Me!
20 Deliver Me from the sword, My precious life from the power of the dog.
21 Save Me from the lion’s mouth And from the horns of the wild oxen! You have answered Me.
Psalm 22 was written by David 1000 years before the birth of Christ. It contains no less than 30 prophecies that were all literally fulfilled at Calvary. The hand out I gave you contains those fulfilled prophecies.
Adrian Rogers once said “Let me tell you one of the ways that I know that I know that I know that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. May I tell you how? Friend, it is fulfilled prophecy. No one could write a book like the Bible apart from divine inspiration”.
Rogers, A. (2017). An Old Testament Calvary. In Adrian Rogers Sermon Archive (Ps 22:1–31). Rogers Family Trust.
Matter of fact, as you compare Psalm 22 with the Gospel and see these prophecies fulfilled in Christ, it was as if someone was standing at the foot of the cross recording these words in the future and sending them back to David in the past! God did so through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Amen!
1. Fear the Lord with Praise in the Passover;
1. Fear the Lord with Praise in the Passover;
In the first 21 verses we see elements of the Passover in the suffering of Christ at Calvary. You can look at the Passover as an Old Testament Calvary.
A male lamb without blemish had to give its life so the blood could be applied to the doorposts that God’s wrath would passover that home.
Jesus is the Lamb of God that was slain for the sins of the world that God’s wrath would be placed upon Him and “passover” us.
[6] That worm is a crimson crocus which is crushed to use as dye for linen clothes. Jesus was crushed for our offenses and His blood shed for us.
In the passover we see the bitter herbs that were eaten reminding the Jews that they were unable to offer sacrifice and worship to God, and that was bitterer than the slavery of Egypt [vv. 6-8, 12-17]. [Jesus faced the bitterness of the crowd as He was cut off from worship/fellowship with God because he took our sin]
In the Passover, death came to those who were not covered in the blood of the Lamb. Darkness and death covered the land of Egypt.
Jesus suffered darkness and death for us [vv. 19-21]
7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
Now I want you to look with me at the next few passages as we “Fear the Lord with Praise”
22 I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.
23 You who fear the Lord, praise Him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him, And fear Him, all you offspring of Israel!
24 For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Nor has He hidden His face from Him; But when He cried to Him, He heard.
2. Fear the Lord with Praise in the Resurrection; 23
2. Fear the Lord with Praise in the Resurrection; 23
Fear- honor, reverence, be in awe of Him
[22] Resurrection- God answered Christs’ prayer and did not leave Jesus in the clutches of death, but He arose!
All the sadness, darkness, bitterness and death in the Passover/Cross was overcome in the resurrection of Jesus Christ!
“My” is capitalized which shows David is writing in the third person describing the resurrected Christ speaking to the Father [Your name], about us [brethren].
10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 saying: “I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.”
13 And again: “I will put My trust in Him.” And again: “Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.”
14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
John 6:40 (NKJV)
40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
We need to praise God for bringing us to glory in Christ through His death and resurrection!
3. Fear the Lord with Praise for His Grace; 24
3. Fear the Lord with Praise for His Grace; 24
Here we see God’s Grace upon those that are abhorred and afflicted.
Abhorred- to regard with disgust and hatred
Affliction- pain and suffering
Afflicted- the subject of affliction
The Bible teaches us in Habakkuk that God’s eyes are too pure to look upon sin/wickedness [Hab. 1:13]. So when Jesus became our sin bearer, He took on something that was regarded with disgust and hatred by God [our sin], He bore our pain and suffering [sin], and He became the subject of affliction [sin]. Yet in all this ugliness of our sin, He was not despised by God.
Despised- feel contempt or deep disgust towards, repugnant
God never despised/quit loving His Son, but He despised our sin.
Isaiah 53:10–11 (NKJV)
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, ...
11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.
God never despised/quits loving us, but despises our sin.
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
As a sinner we are afflicted with pain and suffering, our sin is abhorred by God, but we are not despised by Him because of His grace!
2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Joy- a feeling of great pleasure and happiness: a thing that causes joy
I have often said that the joy set before Jesus at the cross was that He would receive mankind as His reward. I can even back this up with scripture.
7 “I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.
8 Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
John 6:39 (NKJV)
39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
But I believe I stand corrected after reading a sermon from Charles Spurgeon on this text;
Now, in the Psalm before us, and in the words of our text, we have the last thoughts of our Lord and Master, and they beautifully illustrate the fact that he was governed by one ruling passion: that ruling passion most strong in death, was the glory of God. When but a child, he said, “Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” Throughout his work-life he could say, “The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up;” “It is my meat and my drink to do the will of him that sent me;” and now, at last, as he expires, with his hands and his feet nailed, and his body and soul in extreme anguish, the one thought is, that God may be glorified. In that last happy interval, before he actually gave up his soul into his Father’s hands, his thoughts rushed forward and found a blessed place of rest in the prospect that, as the result of his death, all the kindreds of the nations would worship before the Lord, and that by a chosen seed the Most High should be honoured. O for the same concentration of all our powers upon one thing, and that one thing, the glory of God! Would God that we could say with one of old, “This one thing I do,” and that this one thing might be the chief end of our being, the glorifying of our Creator, our Redeemer, the sovereign Lord of our hearts.
Spurgeon, C. H. (1868). Jesus the Example of Holy Praise. In The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons (Vol. 14, p. 133). Passmore & Alabaster.
Close;
Matthew 18:20 (NKJV)
20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
When we come together in church do we praise God in bible study, song, preaching and fellowship as if He is here in our midst?
We should because He is!
And knowing all He has done for us, and what He still wants to do in us and through us, we need to Fear the Lord with Praise!