Jesus: Delivered By God & Acknowledged by Men

Driving home: But here in Psalm 22, one will search in vain for anything in the life of David that has any parallel with the words here recorded. For this psalm is not a psalm in which the author is describing what the old mystics cal…

Martin uses King David's potential confusion over his own writing of Psalm 22 to illustrate how Old Testament prophets often spoke beyond their full understanding of Christ's sufferings and glories, as described in 1 Peter 1:10-11.

Now let us turn again to the psalm that was read in our hearing, Psalm 22, the 22nd psalm. Those of you who have been present for the expositions in 1 Peter will, I trust, remember when we came to chapter 1, verses 10 and 11, where Peter is demonstrating that this great salvation in which the people of God now rejoice under new covenant light and privilege is a salvation with its tap roots in the Old Testament scriptures. And referring to that reality, Peter wrote that the prophets were continually searching what time or manner of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, did signify when ...

0:12 - 1:35 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Focusing on Psalm 22:22, Martin first explores the 'relationship envisioned' by Christ: 'my brethren.' He explains that Christ sees believers as siblings, part of a vast family…

He asks children what makes people brothers and sisters (being born or adopted into the same family) to explain the concept of 'brethren' and how Christ envisions His people as a domestic, fraternal arrangement.

Whenever the Spirit of God savingly reveals Christ, the disposition of the renewed heart is that expressed in the language of Saul of Tarsus, Lord, what will you have me to do? But that which our Lord focuses upon is this, I will declare your name unto my brethren. What our Lord envisions with respect to the relationship he will sustain to those for whom he is being forsaken by God and abused by men is the relationship of brethren. Now you children, let me ask you, what makes people brothers and sisters? Well you say they are born or adopted. Born or adopted into the same family. And you are r...

10:08 - 11:03 Read in full sermon

Driving home: For both he who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one. We're not sure what that one is. One root in Adam. One father. One nature. But note, they that are sanctified and he who sanctifies are all of one fo…

Martin describes the experience of being ashamed to introduce certain relatives due to their appearance or reputation, contrasting it with Christ's unashamed designation of believers as His brethren, highlighting the depth of His grace.

Saying, and then a direct quotation of our passage in Psalm 22. Now this is something we would not know. In what way does Jesus designate us brethren? Some of us have had relatives, even siblings.

12:56 - 13:13 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Not present in his glorified body. That's a teaching held by one wing of the professing church called the ubiquity of the humanity of Christ. No, his glorified body has spatial dimensions. It is at the right hand of the …

He uses the examples of sound waves, radio waves, and TV signals to illustrate that reality is not bounded by what can be physically seen or touched, thereby explaining the reality of Christ's spiritual presence in the assembly.

Can you show me the sound waves that come out of my mouth and get on your ear? Can you hold them in your hand? You know they exist. You know that this room right now is full of all kinds of radio waves and TV signals.

36:00 - 36:16 Read in full sermon