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Introduction
This Good Friday we are going to turn in the Psalms to Psalm 22. Good Friday is about remembering the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross for us.
This Psalm is specifically quoted by Jesus while He is on the cross in the fourth of seven statements Jesus is recorded making during His crucifixion.
Peter spoke of the prophecy of grace of the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
Psalm 22 is that prophecy.
It is the words of a man enduring execution.
Describing the crucifixion hundreds of years before the method of execution was even known and fulfilled in Christ Jesus 1000 years after prophesied.
Psalm 22 has been described as the best description in all the Bible of Jesus crucifixion by James Montgomery Boice.
Martin Luther refers to it as the gem among psalms and Spurgeon refers to it as beyond all others the Psalm of the cross.
A Psalm of lament containing prayers of petition and praise and absent of any confession of sin - for He had none.
It divides perfectly from Suffering to Glory at verse 21
Abandoned By The Father
This Psalm while written by King David at the first line - being on this side of the cross cannot help but see it as the prophetic words Christ would speak from the cross.
My God, My God why have you forsaken Me?
The fourth statement Jesus spoke from the cross.
Why are you so far from my deliverance and from My words of groaning.
My God I cry by day and you do not answer me, by night, yet I have no rest.
This emphasizes the isolation and the separation Jesus is experiencing while on the cross.
In this sense of abandonment Jesus felt in totality God’s complete displeasure against sin.
Jesus has always been one with Father and had always experienced the presence of the Father but here in this time God was turning from Him.
For it was in this time that Jesus had taken on the sins of the world and at this moment God regarded the Son as a sinner.
This is the great exchange that took place - He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us...
Horrible as it was it fulfilled God’s good and loving plan of redemption and this is why Isaiah the prophet writes that it pleased the LORD to crush Him
The next couple of verses show us the contrast - God is Holy and their ancestors who trusted God rescued, and those who cried out set free - they trusted and were not disgraced.
God listened to their cries and their prayers.
This is not the experience of Jesus on the cross.
He was shamed more than any other man, and instead of delivered He was forsaken.
God was unwilling to hear and listen to His prayers.
He had shut His ears to the cries of His Son on the cross.
He would not hear Him for He bore our sins and suffered the fires of judgment in His body for us on the cross so God would hear our prayers and cries for help.
Despised and Rejected By People
Enduring mocking and ridicule on the cross.
I am a worm and not a man - scorned by mankind and despised by people.
Everyone who sees me mocks me, sneering and shaking their heads.
The great I AM who was made lower than the angels is now made lower than man.
The hateful faces, the mocking, the spitting, and the laughing all while He was dying - for them, for their sins - even these ones being committed now.
The Psalm describes the crowd as saying He relies on the LORD let Him save Him and the record of the crucifixion shows that these words were fulfilled that day so long ago at Golgotha.
The sad truth is many still today ridicule and mock Him rejecting Him as Lord and Savior.
God has been active in His life since the start and Christ has trusted Himself to God the Father.
He has always had the security and safety of the Father.
Now He finds Himself at the hour in which evil has its time.
The people are ruthless and ferocious with Him.
Described as being surrounded by ferocious animals - the goring bull, the roaring and devouring lion.
I am poured out like water - completely drained of vitality, strength and energy.
All my bones are disjointed and my heart like wax melting withing me.
A description of being so racked in pain that the fight of life is leaving the body and ebbing away.
My strength is dried up like baked clay and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth You put me in the dust of death.
Dehydration is getting severe, no life, no moisture and thirst and dryness are extreme, perhaps even entering into shock.
The one who created the springs of waters, rivers is now desperate for a drink of water writhing in agony.
They pierced my hands and feet, I can count all my bones (speaks of pain and also of the bones not being broken), they divide my garments among them cast lots for my clothing.
Each one of these is a prophecy fulfilled in the crucifixion of Christ.
The people all stare - it was a public execution.
Amazing description of crucifixion written hundreds of years before it would be known.
Arising as a method of torture somewhere East, maybe the Medes and Persians?
Alexander the Great learned it and brought it West.
The Romans learned it and perfected it as a means for the worst criminals.
It was a brutal and tortuous humiliating means of execution.
Jesus looked out from the cross, He saw the ridicule, the ruthless nature of those who represented each one of us and our sins.
Victory Through The Cross
Now while it doesnt specifically state that Christ was resurrected but there are some indications we gather.
There is a call for help and a call to rescue His life.
There is a implied pause a period of time between the request and the answer, but we definitely note a change in the speakers tone - from prayer to praise with a glorious proclamation YOU ANSWERED ME!
I will proclaim Your name to my brothers and sisters - and we read from these verses a description of results that have come from the resurrection.
Jesus never referred to the disciples as brothers before the resurrection
Victory over sin and death!
Victory over all the kingdoms
Conclusion
We must see both the greatness of our own sin and the greatness of Christ’s love.
Our own sin sent Jesus to the cross, but it was His love for us that made Him willing to go to it.
The famous Dutch artist Rembrandt did a painting of the crucifixion.
The focus of the painting of course is the Savior on the cross, but he also painted the crowd gathered around the cross.
Standing there in the shadow at the edge of the picture, Rembrandt painted himself!
Depicting himself as an active participant in Christ’s crucifixion!
How true it is and we must like Rembrandt put ourselves there as participants because it must be personal - It was MY sin that put Jesus on the cross.
Do not minimize the sin that you have - it may not seem as egregious as others, but it still drove the nails.
See your sin accurately and understand the hell Christ has saved you from and forgiven much you will in turn love Him much.
The greatness of our sin was met with the greatness of His love as He was forsaken for us.
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