Somebody else? Alright, well before I get started, before I get started, I'm going to tell you all what I told Josh's class a few weeks back when he was preaching revival and I had the privilege of teaching that class. I told him, of course this was about Josh, but now I'm saying it to you all, I know you all appreciate Pastor Tom. And I know you love listening to him teach. Well, by the time we get done tonight, you're going to appreciate him a whole lot more. I'm going to do my best to present God's Word to you in this lesson. If you have your Bibles, turn to Psalm 22. The Lord laid this on my heart, like I say, when Josh asked me to teach and I started Lord, what would you have me to give to him? This is what he gave me. I feel like I can, I'm confident in saying that I can speak for Brother Greg, and Brother Greg, and for Pastor Tom, and Josh, and anybody else who teaches God's Word. There are times when you get into something, you don't feel competent or adequate enough to teach it. But this is what he, am I correct? Always more, right. And when I started studying this, I had sent Tom a text and told him, I said, I really understand what you all go through when you're trying to prepare for a message or a teaching or a sermon or something, because there's more in this psalm than, we're going to skim across the top and hit some highlights, but there's more in this psalm than it would take me a long, long time to try to go through this whole psalm and teach everything that it has to offer. But, like I said, we'll go through and we're not going to hit every verse. We're just going to go through and we'll hit a few and see what the Lord has for us. Of course, you all know this psalm is about Christ's crucifixion, and if I titled it, I would title it either an X-ray of Christ's cross or an X-ray of Jesus. Because we're, in this psalm, we're looking at Him, we're, in the gospels, we stand at the foot of the cross and look up at Christ. But in this psalm, we're hanging on the cross with Him. And He's laying His soul bare in this psalm and telling us everything that's in His heart, in His mind, what He's going through while He's on that cross. And one of the things I thought too is, real quick, as Christians, do we look at that cross and think about what Christ did for us? Or do we just think, well, He died on the cross for us? Do we really give thought to what He went through for us, for you, and for you, and you, and you, and you? I mean, do we make it personal? Enough. You know, I know this is Easter, and we, of course, we always, our thoughts are always on the cross, and always on Christ and what He did for us around Easter time. But do we do it the rest of the year? We should. if we don't, but it's just, that's something that I don't ever wanna lose sight of. I don't ever want that just to be something that's a, what's the word? Just a symbol. Just a symbol that you. What is it? Right. I don't want that to be, that's not what I want to be in my life. As long as Lord lets me keep a sound mind, I'll never forget the sunrise service morning that I gave my heart and life to Christ. I'll never forget it. And I never want to take, I don't ever want to just look at the cross and take it for granted as just an emblem. And I hope and pray that I can maybe teach y'all something. I told somebody, I can't even remember who it was now, that when I get up here in this and teach up here, y'all make me nervous. I don't know why, but I think I said because I think y'all know more about what I'm going to teach than I do. But at any rate, we're going to jump into this see how we do here. So, all right, let me look at what I've already said. Okay, we're going to see what took place in his soul as he took my sins and your sins and the sins of the world upon himself and became our sacrifice. In 2 Corinthians 5.21 says, for he meaning God, hath made him, meaning Jesus, to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. And 1 Peter 2.24 says, who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live under righteousness by whose stripes ye are healed. So starting in verse number 1 in Psalm 22 says, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me and from the words of my roaring? We can stop right there and you try to wrap your mind around God was forsaken of God. I mean, I know my little mind can't do it, but that's what happened. He was forsaken of God while he was 100% man, minus the sin nature, and 100% God. And I think sometimes I think the Christians will think, well he was God and it didn't hurt him or it didn't, you know, because he was God. It didn't bother him to be crucified on a tree. He was a man. He was a hundred, like I said, a hundred percent man. He felt pain. He got hungry. He got angry without sinning. he, all the emotions we have, all the feelings we have, he had while he was on that tree. And so we have to, well let's see, let's turn to Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9. It says, but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that he, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man." So he, he, while he was on the cross, you know, he, well we see him, he was the perfect man that had learned, he knew he could trust in God. He, he, he had set the example. But to think that while he was on that tree, the one he had trusted in, he turned his back to him. Couldn't look on him. And why did God forsake him? Right, right, and that's what, if we go, what? Right. Exactly. So, and he gives us the answer in verse three. He says, but thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praise of Israel. He's a holy God that couldn't look on sin, and that's why he forsook him. That's why he had to turn his back on him When my sin and your sin and the sin of the world was placed on Christ, He had to forsake Him. He had to turn His back on Him. We have, in our lifetimes, we've probably had people that have forsaken us or turned their backs on us, but we know Christ never will. We know that He is He tells us in his word, I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you. He's a friend that sticks closer than a brother. So he is the only one who has ever been truly forsaken. He was forsaken of God, and he was forsaken of man for sure, because they're the ones that wanted to scream and crucify, crucify. You know, we can't even begin to imagine, you know, when, like I say, when we've had people turn their backs on us or forsake us, but we've never truly been forsaken the way that Christ was. Well, and if you think, when Christ was crucified, they had They had the psalm. So why didn't somebody there, when they heard him cry, my God, my God, why is thou forsaking me, why in somebody's mind that was there didn't they go, wait a minute, I've heard that. Wait a minute, I've read that before. Wait a minute, this is him. This is the one that we've, you know. Why didn't they do that? That thought crossed my mind. You took one of my points. This psalm was written 1,000 years before Christ was crucified. Before there was ever a Roman Empire, before there was ever crucifixion. And he gives us a detailed description exactly of what crucifixion is like. And that is, it's, the Lord is saying, this is my book, this is, you know, it's just another proof that, you know, Oh, not everybody had a, right, yeah. Right, yeah. But they would go to the synagogue and hear it read, and you know, yeah, no, not everybody had. If you can hold it in your lap and read it, that's true, Connie, yeah, that's good, yeah. All right. So, you know, in John 8, 29, Jesus said, I do always those things that please Him. And not a one of us here can say that. I'd like to, but being honest, and if you are too, we don't always do the things that please Him. So, you know, yet in that ninth hour, You know, he was abandoned of God. And he had no one, like I said, no one on the human side to turn to, no one on the divine side to turn to. So. Well, not really. Yeah, I was going to say, he could. He could use it. Yeah. He could have, but he just chose not to because of his love for us. Wasn't the Father's will. Right. Wasn't the Father's will. And so imagine, it's one thing. I've done some stupid stuff in my life, believe it or not. I've done it. And I've had to pay the consequences for it. And the consequences weren't good. I didn't like them. But I knew that I was getting what I deserved because I had done wrong, and I got caught doing wrong, so I had to pay for doing wrong. Think of Christ. He was sinless, pure, had done nothing wrong, yet He took all of our sins. Everybody's potentially past, present, and future upon himself. So he's paying for something that he didn't even do. If that ain't love, I'm not going to go to prison for something somebody else done. If I didn't do it, and it ain't my fault, Sorry, you send them. I ain't going. But like I said, if that isn't love. Right. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, and that's something that I believe. Just to touch on what you're saying, unsaved people are blessed. every day by the Lord. Now, they don't acknowledge it, they don't see it, but they're blessed every day of their life. Huh? Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. Right, yeah, yeah, so. Oh. No. His, the scriptures say that his vestige was marred more than any man's. We can't even, the best, Hollywood special effects, they can't reproduce what he went through. It's shit. It's shit. People give the devil a lot of credit. They say, oh, the devil made me do it. Well, he don't make you do anything. Any sin that we commit, it's right on us. You can't blame anybody, because you had to think about it before you did it, or whatever it may be, the thought had to go through your mind, and then and there you could have chose. Yeah, He's not going to force anything on you. So, you know, we have the choice of whether we are or are not going to sin. And the Bible tells us, you know, that He gives us a way of escape. when we're tempted. So, alright, I'm going to move on to verse 6. And he says, But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised of the people. So what do you think he meant when he said, I am a worm? He was. He was, he had hit, I mean, you couldn't get any lower than that. And I do believe that's what he was saying. But as I was studying, I run across, and my English is not good, so I'm not even gonna try to pronounce the Hebrew word for it, but at any rate, this word worm translates out to the caucus worm or the crimson worm, which is only found over in the Middle East in that area. And this worm, my printer is broke, so I had to bring my phone in. But I want to read something to you about the cacus worm that I hope you find interesting because I sure did. And if this isn't a picture of Christ, let me know what you think. Alright, so it says the life cycle of the crimson worm. The crimson worm, scientific name Coccus illicus or Kermes illicus, looks more like a grub than a worm. And the life cycle of this worm is where it points to the work of Jesus on the cross. It says, when the female crimson worm is ready to lay her eggs, which only happens once in her life, She climbs up a tree or a fence and attaches herself to it. With her body attached to the wooden tree, a hard crimson shell forms. It is a shell so hard and so secured to the wood that it can only be removed by tearing apart the body, which would kill the worm. The female worm lays her eggs under her body, under the protective shell, The larvae hatch, they remain under the mother's protective shell so the baby worms can feed on the living body of the mother worm for three days. For three days. After three days, the mother worm dies and her body excretes a crimson or scarlet dye that stains the wood to which she is attached and her baby worms. The baby worms remain crimson-collared for their entire lives. Thereby, they are identified as crimson worms. On day four, the tail of the mother worm pulls up into her head, forming a heart-shaped body that is no longer crimson, but is turned into a snow-white wax that looks like a patch of wool on the tree or fence It then begins to flake off and drop to the ground like snow. So when he said that he was a worm, I truly believe that he meant, yes, he had hit his lowest state, but Wow. I mean, that was just something that I thought was really... Right. Yeah. What did he say? Lest you eat of my flesh and drink of my blood, you're not of me. Right, and to have, and that's what, oh, I'm running out of time. I can't find it. At any rate, yeah, I mean, only the Lord could put that in his word and have, when you look up the root meaning of where that word originates in the Hebrew, it's specifically that worm that does that thing. I mean, it's just, it's awesome and amazing. So yeah, Isaiah 1.8, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. I guess I better quit. I guess it would be, yeah there it's no I think it's more of scoffing they were scoffing him and making fun of him oh you know yeah yeah yeah so I'm gonna turn it over to Greg