3-6-2016 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 23:1-6

Main scripture: Psalms 22:20-31

Subject: The grace of God that made the sinners be the brothers of the Lord Jesus Christ

              Twenty second chapter of Psalms is the prophecy of the suffering and death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, the only begotten Son of God to be appearing in the earth spoken through the mouth of King David long time ago.

…………..King David began to pray saying, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” It was his own crying of screaming in the situation that he felt himself as if he were forsaken by the LORD God. But the LORD God had chosen him as the figure of Jesus Christ to come; and he anointed him as prophet, a priest and a king as Jesus. He ate the breads in the Holy Place. Not only Psalms 22, but in other Psalms of him, there are written of the Lord Jesus Christ such as his suffering, and his death and his resurrection; and also of his appearing to take the Christians home in heaven, and of the things to be happening in the period of Seventy’s week of Daniel that is the Great Tribulation to come, and of judgment of the Lord Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and of his kingdom to be built in the earth for thousand years.

             To fulfill the prophecies of himself, Jesus cried out unto the Father God in the midst of extreme suffering on the cross being forsaken by the Father for a while. Apostle Matthew testified of this scene as he saw and heard:

“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”(Matt. 27:45-46)

               In the books of the gospel written by the apostles of Jesus, there are not written of the words of Jesus in details. But the Holy Ghost used the mouth of King David to prophesy of the words of Jesus in the midst of extreme afflictions by King Saul, a figure of the Antichrist to come choosing David as the figure of Christ to come:

“But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.”

               Apostle Matthew testified of Christ Jesus prophesied through the mouth of King David:

“Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.

And straightway 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.”(Matt. 27:47-49)

           King David prophesied of Jesus nailed on the cross, and received vinegar in other psalm:

“They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.”(Ps. 69:21)

               King David had never eaten gall for his meat nor drank vinegar; but the Holy Ghost made him prophesy of the suffering of Jesus Christ, the Messiah to come. He had never had his hands and feet nailed on the cross; but he testified of the crucifixion of Jesus as if he had seen him on the cross:

“For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.”(Ps. 22:15-18)

                 Now, from the verse 22 through the end of the chapter, we see the prophesy of declaration of the victory for the people of Israel as well as the church of God that is his body through his suffering and death and resurrection:

“I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.”(Ps. 22:22-26)

             The one that knew no sin made himself of no reputation in heaven, and took upon him the form of a servant , and was made in the likeness of man. He also made the sin of the world unto his body to make him sin itself(2Cor. 5:21, Phil. 2:7) to receive the curse and punishment that the sinners deserve to receive. The Holy Ghost declares of what he had done for all men to make his brothers when they believe and receive him, whether they are the Jew of the Gentiles without any discrimination.

                 We are able to confirm of such a surprising fact in the word of Jesus spoken the women after he resurrected:

“Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.”(Matt. 28:10)

Jesus spoke unto Magdalene Mary of this:

“Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.”(John 20:17)

                 The Holy Ghost also prophesied through the mouth of King David of the kingdom of Christ to be established in the earth after he appears again to the world to judge the world:

“All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

For the kingdom is the Lord’s: and he is the governor among the nations.

All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.”(Ps. 22:27-29(

               The LORD God made King David prophesy of the blessing of not only the people of Israel and the church of God in the kingdom of Christ but also the Gentile nations of people that shall repent and receive him by faith through the death of Jesus Christ and his resurrection/ Apostle Paul understood of the blessing in the kingdom of Christ encouraged unto the saints in Corinthian church:

“Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:”(1Cor. 10:32)

           In the final two verses of Psalms 22, King David mad a very important prophesy:

“A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.”(Ps. 22:30-31)

               Yeah! God made a plan to adopt his children (Eph. 1:4-6)through regeneration in the Spirit before the foundation of the world whosoever the Jew or Gentiles believe in Christ Jesus that shall die to take away the sin of the world, and to make them brothers of the Lord Jesus Christ. King David testified of this saying, “a people that shall be born,” “shall declare his righteousness… he hath done this.”

He testified of the righteousness of God that gives salvation unto them through the redemption of sins, even the remission of sins that is given by the blood of Jesus Christ(Col. 1:14).

                Apostle Peter testified of the people that shall be born; thy are the children of God belong to the church of God:

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”(1Pet. 2:9-10)

               Apostle Paul also testified of the children of God that are born again of the Spirit that are the brothers of Jesus Christ in the epistle unto the Hebrews:

“For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.

And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.”(Heb. 2:11-13)

               Apostle Paul testified of the brothers of Jesus Christ that is the church of God that are the members of the body of Christ. He understood of the such a amazing grace so that he was willing to rejoice in his sufferings for the church members:

“Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:”(Col. 1:24-27)

               God made Apostle Paul testify in the Spirit of the blessing given unto his church giving him the revelation of his church, for God wants his church to understand such a amazing n blessing given unto them. We are able to understand of the blessing that we have received through the letters of Apostle Paul unto the church of Roam as well as unto Ephesians:

“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”(Rom. 8:16-18)

“Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”(Eph. 1:20-23)

             The Holy Ghost wants us to understand the glory for the church of God, even the members of the body of Christ through the words given today. Blessed are they that have the ear to hear. Only that understand the words of God could see the glory to receive in the future could fill all kinds of afflictions unto his body for the church of God.

               I pray for all of you that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; the eyes of understanding being enlightened; that we may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power(Eph. 1:17-19). Amen! Hallelujah!