Jesus Lived by Faith AUGUST 16, 2026 Pastor Steven L. Anderson

Man the title of my sermon this evening is Jesus lived by faith

Jesus lived by faith. Of course. Jesus Christ is the ultimate example

For our lives the Bible says in 1st Peter 221 for even here on to where you called because Christ also suffered for us

Leaving us an example that you should follow his steps go if you would do Philippians chapter number two

So Jesus Christ left us an example to follow his

Steps in Philippians chapter 2 the Bible also

Philippians 2 · chapter mention

Hammers this point beginning verse 5 let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus

So the idea here is that we should have the same mentality that Jesus Christ had about humility and so forth

It says in verse 6 who being in the form of God

Thought it not robbery to be equal with God

So Jesus Christ is up in heaven before he was ever born in Bethlehem's manger

Of course in the beginning was the word the word was with God the word was God God

Eternally exists as the father the son and the Holy Ghost and so Jesus Christ is God

Has always been God always will be God. He's the same yesterday and today and forever

And so he thought it not robbery to be equal with God meaning that

Equality with God isn't him stealing something that doesn't belong to him

It's not considered robbery for him to be equal with God because he is

Equal with God because God the father God the son and God the Holy Spirit are all

Co-equal and co-eternal and what we mean by co-equal is that they are all equally divine

They're all equally got it's it's not that the father is more God than the son

No, it's that they are all equally divine

And so it says although that he was in the form of God and he thought it not robbery to be equal with God

But he made himself of no

Reputation right and he took upon himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men

So Jesus Christ God himself came down to this earth and just made himself of no reputation just became an ordinary

Man and he took upon himself the form of a servant and he was made in the likeness of men verse 8

He being found in fashion as a man

He humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross

Wherefore God also had highly exalted him and given him a name

Which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth

And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the father

Right as opposed to God the son the Lord Jesus Christ God in the flesh came and dwelt among us

And he left us an example that we should follow in ourselves. We should be humble

We should be obedient even unto death the Bible tells us in Revelation to be thou faithful unto death

And I will give thee a crown of life. So we see that Jesus is the example now flip over if you would to Hebrews 2 where we started

Hebrews chapter 2 and

Hebrews 2 · chapter mention

The title of the sermon again is that Jesus lived by faith now

Here's the thing we get saved by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ

So we are saved by faith not of works listen any man should boast

But faith does not stop at salvation

The entire rest of the Christian life is lived by faith and I would say that faith is the most important ingredient in our Christian lives

It's the one thing more than anything else that is going to make or break us how strong is our faith

How much faith do we have that's really going to determine how far we go for the Lord is what kind of faith

Do we have we live from faith to faith that just live by faith?

And so when it comes to the attacks of Satan upon us and we talked about this this morning briefly

But it says above all taking the shield of faith

We're with you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked

So everything that the devil is throwing at you can be quenched with the shield of faith

What a super important component of our lives is faith every day

Not just for salvation, but the whole rest of our Christian life is hanging on to promises of God

believing the promises of God and pushing through difficulty

Believing what God has said in his word doing what the Bible says because we believe it's right even if other people are telling us

It's wrong even if circumstances might point to something in the Bible being wrong

We know the Bible is never wrong and so we have the faith to always believe God's word all the time

And that's what keeps us going in the Christian life, you know without faith. It's impossible to please him

For he that come into God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him

Now here's the thing if the Lord Jesus Christ came to this earth as a human being and

Live the perfect life that none of us could live

And he's leaving out an example that we should follow in his steps

You know, it wouldn't really be much of an example if Jesus Christ never had to exercise any faith at all

If Jesus Christ never lived by faith

Then how can he be the ultimate example for us when that's like all our Christian life is about is faith every day all day

And then to have this idea that Jesus Christ himself did not live a life of faith

Well, then you know what he didn't live as a human being then and he didn't live the life

That would be an example for us because our life is totally by faith now

Let's look what the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9. It says but we see Jesus

Hebrews 2:9

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

Now what does this mean when the Bible says that Jesus was made a little lower than the angels?

Well, the Bible tells us in 2nd Peter chapter 2 verse 11 that angels are

Greater in power and might than human beings are and that should be obvious to us

Right, you know, we don't have the kind of power that we see angels having in the Bible

And so he was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death

And so he is you know, basically as a human being on this earth Jesus Christ

He did not walk around

Omniscient and omnipotent

He just didn't okay now. It's funny because some

Faggity bozo from Miami who's not saved

Said that I was teaching heresy and he actually

Slandered me and lied about me because he said that I said that Jesus stopped being God while he was on this earth

And you know what that's a bold-faced lie

Coming from a guy whose father is the father of lies because he's an unsaved idiot

But let me tell you this right now. I would never say such a thing because Jesus Christ is a hundred percent God and a hundred percent man

And here's the thing Jesus Christ doesn't start or stop being God. He just is God all the time

He's the same yesterday today forever. He's always been and always will be but the problem with these bozos

These self-styled little theologians who are so into church history and church fathers and everything is that they

Literally believe that God is just like a list of attributes. They have this retarded doctrine called

Divine simplicity and they basically believe that God is just a list of attributes

So, you know, it's just omniscience. I'm that's just what God is so that basically to them

If Jesus stops knowing everything while he's on this earth or stops having all power while he's on this earth

That somehow that means he stops being God and then they can lie and say that we you know claimed that well

Let me tell you something if you do not believe that Jesus didn't know everything while he's on this earth

You're just rejecting the Bible if you're gonna tell me that Jesus knew every single thing while he walked on this earth

You're a liar and you're calling God a liar and you're calling the Bible a liar because what does the Bible clearly say?

This is not a gray area

This is something that the Bible spells out in Mark chapter 13 32. It says but of that day and hour

Mark 13 · chapter mention

Knoweth no man know not the angels with her in heaven neither the son

But the father only so if the Bible spells out that the son of God does not know the day or the hour of his return

But that the father does know

Then you have to reject Jesus you have to reject the Bible

You have to reject the words that are on the page in front of you in mark 13 32

In order to try to claim that Jesus knew everything while he was on this earth

So who's the heretic now buddy because you know what I've said this often nothing that the Bible says can ever be heresy

The Bible says something it's not heresy and you know who the heretics are are the liars

Who are denying the board the word of God that's on the page that says that Jesus?

Christ while he was on this earth did not know the day nor the hour of a second coming

Anybody who denies the truth of that verse is a liar and a heretic and a false prophet

Anybody who can look at a bullet just a bold statement in the Bible playing his day and just not believe it

It just means that they're not saved and that they're a liar and a fraud

Because saved Christians don't just point at a verse and just reject what that verse says

This verse spells out and explicitly states that Jesus Christ did not know everything while he was on this earth

And of story full stop and here's the thing is that Jesus Christ also when he came to this earth

He was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death

He took upon himself a mortal human flesh a mortal human body so that he could die on the cross for our sins

he did not have superhuman powers and

Superhuman knowledge of just knowing everything that is a false doctrine. It's just wrong and it's that simple

so it's kind of funny when people will come at you with all their theology and all their

Philosophy and all their Catholic mumbo jumbo but at the end of the day

The Bible just cuts through all that stuff like a knife and just says hey

Jesus didn't know the day or the hour of his second coming done over and of story

But let's keep going here in Hebrews chapter 2 jump down if you would to verse number 14

Hebrews 2 · chapter mention

It says for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood

He also himself likewise took part of the same that through death

He might destroy him that had the power of death

That is the devil and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage for verily

He took not on him the nature of angels

But he took on him the seed of Abraham

Wherefore in all things that behooved him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful

High priest and things pertain to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people friend that he himself had suffered being tempted

He is able to suck or them that are tempted to suck or means to help or to give assistance

If you speak Spanish, you know this word so called oh, which means, you know, you're crying for help and so forth

So here's the thing it says in verse 17 in all things

This is about Jesus Christ in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren

So, okay, you know according to the Bible Jesus Christ became totally human

Okay, Jesus Christ lived a real truly human experience and in all things

He was made like unto his brethren and because he suffered being tempted

He's able to sucker them that are tempted and what's the idea here is that Jesus knows what we're going through

Because he went through the same thing he experienced the same thing

He was tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin

And so because he experienced that what we're going through as human beings

He is able to help us out. We have not a high priest

Which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was at all points tempted like as we are yet without

So, oh, you're saying stop being got no, no, here's that he's a hundred percent God and a hundred percent man

See what these people actually believe is they say well, he's a hundred percent God and

80 percent man 60 percent man 40 percent man, you know

They don't think that Jesus actually did the real human experience and I do that's the difference is that I actually believe that Jesus

Christ actually lived the life of a human being and here's the thing if Jesus Christ is going through life where everybody he looks at

He just knows everything about them and he just knows everything that's on their mind

He's just a mind reader reading every single person's mind

It's just like he's just like the terminator getting like a printout of everything about that person

Okay, well, here's the thing about that then Jesus Christ did not live as a human being and he did not live

The life that I live or that you live or that anyone else has ever lived

Because none of us are going through life reading everyone's mind and just knowing everything and knowing all things

No, that is not the human experience Jesus Christ took upon himself human flesh, which includes a human brain

That's why the Bible also explicitly says in Luke 2 52

Jesus increased in wisdom and

In stature and in favor with God and man the Bible is spelling out that Jesus gained wisdom

Well, how do you gain wisdom if you already know everything? You don't Jesus Christ was born as a baby

He didn't come out of his mother's womb and start talking on day one

He's a baby he had to learn how to talk he had to learn how to walk he had to you know

Rely fully on his mother to breastfeed him and take care of him and change his diaper and everything like that

He did not come out talking like he does in the Quran where in the Quran Jesus literally comes out

He just starts talking and saying a bunch of Muslim

garbage

Look what Hebrews chapter 5 says if you're there in Hebrews chapter 2 flip over to chapter 5 Hebrews chapter number 5 says this in verse 7

Hebrews 5 · chapter mention Hebrews 2 · chapter mention

Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears

Under him that was able to save him from death and was heard and that he feared though

He were a son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered so again Jesus Christ is growing in wisdom

He's learning obedience

He you know did not know the day or the hour of his second coming. He said only the father knows that

I don't know that because Jesus Christ living life as a bonafide

Legitimate real flesh and blood human being up

Here's why I'm so passionate about this doctrine is because I feel like people are ruining

the entire story of the life of Jesus by turning Jesus into a

Superman with

Omniscience and omnipotence as he walks on this earth because then he's not even doing the experience

He's not even leaving us an example that we can follow steps. Yeah, just be like Jesus

Here's how you start you first know everything and have all power

Wow, good luck with that

How does that work it ruins the whole story? No Jesus Christ when he was going through life

He hungered he was thirsty. He was tired. He was frustrated. He was angry

He went through

Everything that we go through as human beings and he was having a bonafide human human experience

And you say well, what about the part where it says Jesus knew their thoughts?

Yeah, but here's the thing read a little further and keep going and compare scripture with scripture in a parallel passage

It says Jesus perceived their thoughts

Perception is when you look at somebody's face and you look at them and you perceive what's going on in their head

I mean, how many times have you said this someone? Hey, I know what you're thinking right now

Okay, so he perceived their thoughts. Okay, also, you know, there'll be people that will point out like well

What about when Jesus says hey when you were under the fig tree Philip?

I saw you earlier when you were under the fig tree and then he's like oh wow

You're the son of God. You're the king of Israel

But here's the thing and I've pointed this out many times also is that all kinds of

Prophets and men of God throughout the Bible did miracles and received visions and did supernatural things

I mean think about it go through the Bible. You see Elisha

Raising the dead back to life. You see Elisha

Multiplying food you see Moses parting the Red Sea

Turning water into blood calling forth all kinds of plagues

And you also see the prophet of God when he's blind and he's physically can't see anything when the wife of King

Jehoram comes in he says oh come on in wife of King Jehoram why famous thou thyself to be another why because God revealed

That to him in a vision so here's the thing

Jesus Christ when he was living on this earth was filled with the Holy Spirit to the max more than any other person

Who's ever lived the Bible says God gave not the spirit by measure unto him now we in our Christian lives

Unfortunately, we spend a lot of time in the flesh and we're living in the flesh and then other times we're walking in the Spirit

Sometimes run the flesh sometimes run the Spirit sometimes we're filled with the Holy Spirit sometimes we're not

Okay, Jesus Christ though was just filled with the Spirit to the max all the time

So of course God's giving him all kinds of revelations

God is giving him all kinds of visions and knowledge and

Supernatural wisdom and awareness that doesn't mean that he knew every single thing though does it and not only that

But because he's filled with the Holy Spirit and he's praying in the will of God all the time

He's constantly doing miracles

Be through the power of the Holy Spirit just like Moses did miracles through the power of the Holy Spirit

Just like the Apostles went around and healed the sick raise the dead

Cast out devils cleanse the lepers the Apostles did all those things

Through the power of the Holy Spirit guess how Jesus did those things through the power of the Holy Spirit through prayer

He prays and asks God to raise Lazarus from the dead

Okay, so you have God the Father up in heaven and you have Jesus Christ down here on this earth

actually living as a human being not just some Hindu version of the of the gospel where Jesus just comes down as like an

Avatar or something like God is just an avatar as Jesus on this earth kind of pretending to be human

Going through the motions of being human

I know I believe he's actually born as a baby as a human when he was three

He had the mentality of a three-year-old. It was just a perfect three-year-old

He had a perfect mentality of a six-year-old

15 year old 20 year old 30 year old

But he grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God a man

Now I think that this should be a really basic doctrine and I think this is like Christianity 101

And it's really sad that people are goofed up on this and that people have been taught wrong on this because again

Frankly just ruins the entire story

How can you really appreciate Jesus Christ and everything that he's doing if you think that he has all these

Cheat codes turned on if you think he's playing with the game gene he plugged in and he's got all the cheats turned on and he's playing on

Super duper easy mode and before he started his life

He went up up down to the left right left right B.A. Start and now all of a sudden

He's got 99 lives and he's got 30 lives and four continues and then the rest of us are over here playing on difficult mode

Now I'm telling you he's playing on the same mode that we played on

Amen

Why would you ruin the story?

Why would you ruin the example of Christ by saying?

Oh, he has all these cheats turned on that we don't have he's like a super you is like a spider man

Superman Batman whatever no no he's Jesus the son of God and he was the son of man as well

He's human and he had the limitations. He took upon himself the limitations that we as human beings have

Where our brain holds a certain amount of information and our bodies can do a certain amount of work

And that's the life that Jesus and you say I don't know why you care about this why you preach it because I love Jesus and

You know to know him is to love him

And if you have wrong ideas about who Jesus is or what he was like on this earth

That's going to take away from your appreciation for the Savior

Whereas if you actually know what the Bible says about him and and you can appreciate him for what he is

So look at John chapter 11

John 11 · chapter mention

Let's just look at a couple examples of this because I want to I really want to apply this tonight

But I want to you know first off to prove the doctrine because you got all these bozos out there

Getting this wrong and then they act like oh pastor Anderson really stepped in it pastor. It's like bro

The jokes on you I'm preaching sound biblical doctrine based on what the Bible explicitly says y'all are reading up a bunch of Catholic

Philosophical Greek mythology crap and then passing it off as Christianity because let me tell you where this idea of

Divine simplicity and God just being a list of attributes it comes from ancient Greek

Philosophy from before Christ people who didn't believe in Christ

So Plato and Aristotle they're writing about their conception of what they think God is and

What they think that the ideal or perfect God would be like then you have medieval Catholic scholars

Trying to take Aristotle's view of God and making it fit the Bible. No, thanks. I'm not interested

I don't want to be spoiled by philosophy and vain tradition of man

because I am so less scriptura and I'm only going by what the Bible says and

Aristotle's burning in hell and Plato's burning in hell and anybody else who didn't believe on

The God of the Bible is burning in hell. It's that simple

So

I had you turn to where?

So John chapter 11 this is this is of course, you know

John 11 · chapter mention

One of the most powerful

passages of scripture in the entire Bible the raising of Lazarus John 11 is just a tour de force of a chapter

But look at verse 33 it says when Jesus therefore saw her weeping and the Jews also weeping which came with her

Watch this he groaned in his spirit and was troubled

I mean, is this just fake is he just pretending is he just going through the motions? No, I don't believe that I believe that he's really

legitimately upset

He's upset. He's struggling right? He's he's he's troubled and he's groaning in himself

I mean think about you know you groan when you're struggling you're upset you're in pain

That's what he's going through emotion here. He's groaning in the spirit

He's troubled and said wherever you laid him they said in him Lord come and see

Jesus wept and again Jesus is actually

Crying and shedding tears from the heart because he felt bad because he was upset because he was troubled because he's groaning in his spirit

He's not just play acting or pretending

You know Jesus actually went through what we went through and here's the thing none of this takes away from his divinity

You know why Jesus is divine you want to know the proof that Jesus is divine just he does is

And of story well, how could you be divine if he's if he's going through all these motions?

And if he doesn't know everything just because he is

He's just God because the Bible says he's God and he's the same yesterday today and forever

And he claimed to be God and the Bible says he's God and he is God

He was in the beginning with God and he was God

He's got okay. Can we just get that out of the way that he's just God period all the time every day

Okay, so guess what he also was a hundred percent man a hundred percent God a hundred percent man

And so he experienced this whole gamut of

Human emotion including being troubled being upset groaning in spirit

Just you know bursting into tears here. Okay, Matthew 26

Says this if you want to flip over there or you can just listen verse 37

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy

Then say at the end of them my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death

Terri here and watch with me is Jesus just a little bit sad little upset little perturbed. No, he says man

I am exceedingly

Right, what is exceeding? It's like overflowing excess. We talked about excess this morning with alcohol, right?

Exceeding is too much

Overboard it's too much. He says I'm exceedingly sorrowful. I'm extremely

Sorrowful even unto death. He says I feel like I'm gonna die. I'm so upset, right?

And I mean that's pretty extreme emotion here coming from the Lord Jesus Christ

But you know what we go through stuff like that too sometimes sometimes we're gonna be super upset

And we're gonna be exceeding sorrowful maybe even unto death and so we can look to Jesus and say hey

Jesus knows how that feels because he has legitimately been there done that

My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death. Terri here and watch with me

So he's praying to the father in the Garden of Gethsemane because he's constantly depending on

The father for strength depending on the Holy Spirit just like we're supposed to go through life

Depending on God trusting in God and relying on the Holy Spirit for strength

John 519 you don't have to turn there, but you could flip over to Matthew 26

But in John 519

Jesus said of them verily verily. I say to you the son can do nothing of himself

But what he see at the father do for what things so ever he doeth these also do at the son likewise

Verse 30 of the same chapter. This is Jesus talking. I can of mine own self do nothing

This is what the Bible says folks

I can of my own self do nothing as I hear I judge and my judgment is just because I seek not my own will

But the will of the father which hath sent me look at Matthew 26 39

This is when he was super troubled in the Garden of Gethsemane

He went a little further fell on his face and prayed saying oh my father if it be possible

Let this cup pass from me nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt you see Jesus Christ

He doesn't want to go through with being crucified because nobody wants to be crucified

Nobody wants to be physically tortured. Nobody wants to be spat upon mocked and

Execrated by people, but he says you know what I'll do it though. He's trusting God and he's saying you know what?

Whatever you want me to do I'll do it not as I will but as thou will

You know the Bible tells in Hebrews 12 looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith

Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross?

Dispising the shame right he despised the shame nobody wants to be publicly humiliated and Jesus was not only physically tortured

He was also publicly humiliated at the cross

It says he despised the shame and it sat down at the right hand of the throne of God for consider him that endured such

Contradiction of sinners against himself lest he be weary and faint in your minds

What's he saying look when you're going through stuff think about Jesus and what he went through

And think about how he was humiliated. Oh, you're humiliated. So was he you're in physical pain. So was he you're troubled

So was he you're groaning in your spirit. So was he you're exceeding sorrowfully even a death

So was he and this gives us an

Example that we can look unto Jesus and we can keep our eyes on him and keep going through the hard times

Now go if you were to Psalm 22 let's go back to Old Testament

Because remember the title of the sermon is this Jesus lived by faith

Okay, and what does that mean to live by faith? It means you have to believe that the Bible is true

You have to believe the promises of God you have to believe that God is gonna come through for you

You have to believe that God is looking out for you that God is watching over you that God actually cares about you

Because he says that he cares about you. He says that the hairs of your head are numbered

He says that the good the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. Well, guess what?

We can't see that we have to believe that and

Sometimes it becomes hard to believe sometimes. It's easy to believe

We see God working and it's just everything's happening and everything's coming together other times

We don't see it and then it's harder to believe sometimes. It's easy to believe sometimes

It's hard to believe but the Christian life is continually having faith in those promises and those statements of God's work

So here's the thing Jesus Christ when he lived on this earth, you know what he also had to trust

God and he also had to believe the Bible and believe the promises of God in the Bible

Look at Psalm 22 and you say well, I don't think that's true

Okay, well then basically what you're saying is that he was tempted at all points like as we are except in the biggest one

That's the most important one every single day

Because how are we tested every day more than anything it were tested on what our faith?

Well, he's tempted all points like as we are except for the big one

Doesn't make any sense my friend. Look what the Bible says, but but you know, that's just my

argument from you know, the obvious

Teachings of who Christ is and what kind of life he lived and what kind of a life we live and him being an example

But I'm gonna show you some explicit scripture of Jesus actually

exercising faith living by faith and trusting in God the Father because this is spelled out in the Bible

Psalm 22 is of course prophetic about the Lord Jesus Christ and some people will say oh, Jesus quoted

Psalm 22 verse 1 on the cross and wrong

Psalms 22:1

Psalm 22 is quoting Jesus

Don't get it wrong here. It's not it's not that Jesus is just reciting a Bible verse on the cross

No, Jesus is saying this and Psalm 22 is quoting Jesus

You say, you know prove it. Well, here's the thing is that Psalm 22 is written in Hebrew and

Jesus makes his statement in Aramaic, so he's not quoting the Bible verse

he's saying it in his native language Aramaic and then

Hundreds and hundreds of years earlier the Bible is prophesying that he's gonna say that in the language of back then

You know back when Psalms was written probably this song is written about a thousand years before Christ

Okay, it's hard to know the exact date, but it's about a thousand years before Jesus

It says in verse 1 of Psalm 22 my God my God

Why has thou forsaken me and again? We know that this is a prophecy about Jesus

Why are thou so far from helping me and

From the words of my roaring. Oh my God

I cry in the daytime, but thou here is not and in the night season and I'm not silent

But thou art holy. Oh thou that inhabit us the praise of Israel our fathers trusted in thee they trusted and now

It's deliver them they cried unto thee and were delivered they trusted in thee and we're not confounded notice the emphasis on

Trusting in God. He's saying look our fathers trust in you

They were not confounded and this is what we go through in our lives to where we think to ourselves

You know what people in the Bible trust in God and God took care of them

Right like Sarah herself, you know

She trusted God and she followed her husband Abraham even though, you know

He told her to do some some things that were weird and whatever, you know

He and she ended up just try having faith in God trust in God

Submitting to her husband and in the end, you know God looked out for her and took care of her

And so the idea is that we could look at Bible stories and see people like Moses and Elijah

Trusting in God God comes through for Jeremiah. God comes through for Ezekiel. He's gonna come through for us too, right?

And so this is what Psalm 22 is teaching here. It's saying look our fathers trusted in you

They trusted doubt. It's deliver them verse 5. They cried unto thee and were delivered

They trusted in thee and we're not confounded, but I'm a worm and no man a

Approach of man 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 now

Of course, they do say that exact thing in the four gospels, don't they?

This is the kind of stuff that they're saying about Jesus while he's on the cross and

So it's pretty easy to see the prophetic nature of the Psalm verse 9

But thou art he that took me out of my out of the womb that it's make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts

I was cast upon thee from the womb thou art my God from my mother's belly be not far from me for trouble is near

For there's none to help many bowls have compassed me strong bowls of Baychan have beset me around they gaped upon me with their mouths as

A ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint

My heart is like wax. It is melted in the midst of my bowels

My strength is dried up like a pot shirt and my tongue cleave it to my jaws and I was brought me into the dust of death

For dogs have compassed me the assembly of the wicked have enclosed 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

But be not thou far from me. Oh Lord my strength hasty to help me and on and on it goes

I mean it's you have to be blind to not see that this is just over and over again

Referencing the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in every possible way

Piercing his hands and feet

Parting his garments casting lots upon his vesture

Gaping at him looking and staring upon his bones are out of joint

That's part of the crucifixion process of being hung in this awkward way on the cross and on and on it goes

And so, you know, we see here that Jesus Christ here

Going through this in his mind. Hey, you know what these other people in the past have trusted in God

And you know what they were not let down and I'm not gonna be let down either

If I trust in God now, what are they saying about him?

They're saying well

He trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him let him deliver him seeing he delighted them now go to Psalm 16

Now with that in mind kind of with this idea of Psalm 22 in your mind now go back to Psalm 16

Now

Psalm 16 is another

Very messianic Psalm and again, we don't have to just guess this Psalm 22 is quoted repeatedly in the New Testament

And guess what Psalm 16 is also quoted repeatedly in the New Testament about Jesus and how does it start?

What's the first verse preserve me? Oh God for in thee do I put my trust?

Okay, but now let's see

Exactly how did Jesus Christ trust in God or have his faith in God in the story look at verse 8

It says I've set the Lord always before me and and look

This is not my opinion that this is about Jesus because Peter says this is about Jesus in the book of Acts

Repeatedly Paul says it's about Jesus. This is explicitly stated to be about Jesus in the New Testament

It says I've set the Lord always before me because he is at my right hand

I shall not be moved

Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices my flesh also shall rest in hope

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither what thou suffered on holy one to see corruption

Thou wilt show me the path of life in my presence's fullness of joy at thy right hand

There are pleasures forevermore. Let me tell you something. These are the promises of God that Jesus is relying upon

Jesus is relying upon the promises of the Word of God. He's saying look, you know why I have hope

because I know

That God the Father is not gonna leave my soul in hell

Neither is he gonna suffer his holy one to see corruption and in his presence. There's gonna be false. What's he saying?

He's saying here that he is fully trusting and relying upon the fact that God the Father is going to raise him from the dead

So when Jesus went to the cross and he was obedient unto death even the death across he went with faith

believing that Jesus Christ would be risen from the dead, right?

So Jesus went to the cross

Believing that God the Father is not gonna leave his soul in hell. He's not gonna let his flesh see corruption

But that he would resurrect him from the dead

This is why in Luke 23 46 when Jesus had cried with a loud voice

He said Father into thy hands. I command my spirit and having said thus he gave up the ghost now

What does it mean to command something? Now the word command has multiple definitions

So if you look this up in a dictionary the relevant definition here is definition number two, which is to entrust

To entrust to give in charge to deliver with

Confidence, okay, so for example if I said hey Fidel come here Fidel

I am going to commend my wallet unto you. Okay. I'm commending my wallet unto Fidel. Okay good. No

I'm trusting you with my wallet. I commend that unto you. Okay. Look

What does that mean if I said I commend my wallet unto you now definition number one of command is to praise something like

Like if I said hey Jonathan, I'd like to commend you, you know on what a great church member you are, right?

That is me commending him as in praising him. Hey, let's give him a big hand. You know, that's what it means. Yeah, amen

He's like

You know, so, you know, that's that's definition number one of command

Totally different definition to command is to praise or to like a police officer will get a commendation

Okay, but then definition number two is hey, I am commending my wallet

Unto Fidel. What does that means? He's gonna watch it for me and it means I'm

Entrusting it to him for safekeeping. I'm giving it to him with confidence. It's like hey

I want to make sure nothing happens to my wallet while I'm preaching so I'm gonna go ahead and leave it with Fidel

So that because his name is Fidel he has to be faithful or else that wouldn't be his name

That's literally what his name means trustworthy

So if you can't trust the guy named Fidel you can't trust anybody, okay?

And so the point is that you know Jesus on the cross literally says

Father into thy hands. I commend my spirit. Oh, just kidding psych. I'm actually in control of it all the time

See I look I'm sick of people ruining the story of Christ by just taking away

All of these elements of Jesus living by faith and living an actual human life that we could actually

Follow and see the example because you know what I believe I believe that when Jesus said into thy hands

I commend my spirit that he's basically saying you know what God? I'm trusting you with my spirit right now. I

Am entrusting my spirit to you and I'm gonna rest in hope that my soul is not gonna be left in hell

Neither is my flesh gonna seek corruption. He said I'm trusting you to

Resurrect me. That's what the Bible is saying and look

I feel like this stuff is just so clear in the Bible and it's really sad that people miss out on this and

I don't know why they believe the dumb things that they believe but the Bible is just so clear

You know, I'm trusting my spirit with you. I'm trusting in you Lord

I trust you Lord my souls rest in hope because you're not gonna leave my soul in hell

You know what that shows me is that Jesus when he went to the cross he believed

That he is going to be resurrected and that he's relying on God to resurrect him

Now look at Acts chapter 2 acts chapter 2 and we go there and see

Acts 2 · chapter mention Acts 2 · chapter mention

Exactly what I just said the quotation of Psalm 16 and it's spelled out even further

It says in Acts chapter 2 verse 24

Acts 2:24

It says whom God hath raised up right because God raised Jesus from the dead God the Father raised Jesus from the dead

Having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible

That he should be holding of it now again don't miss verse 24

Whom God raised up having loosed the pains. What does pain mean?

pain hurts

Right again, why don't we just believe what the Bible says?

Whom God raised up having loosed the pains of

Death

Because it was not possible that he should be holding of it

You see here's the thing is that when an unsaved person

Dies right a person who has not believed on the Lord Jesus Christ their Savior when that person dies

They go to a place called death and they go to that place and it's that place also called hell

Okay, and so like if I were to die today

I'm gonna go straight to heaven my body will stay here on this earth

But my soul my spirit is going straight to heaven. I'll be up in heaven immediately in heaven enjoying that

Even before my body is resurrected my body is going to be resurrected way in the future end of the world

But for now my soul is going to be up in heaven

Well guess what an unsaved person, you know the rich man died in Luke 16. He lift up his eyes in hell

He's in hell that fast

Because the body stays here, but instead of the soul going to heaven the soul goes to hell

Okay, and here's the thing about people who go to hell is that they are punished eternally

So it's not like they get a second chance. They don't get reincarnated

They don't get you know asked hey, I know you've been in hell for a while

Do you want to stay or would you like to change your mind and get saved now?

Because I feel like pretty much everybody be like yeah, I think I'll believe in Jesus now

You know if given that option

But the thing is once you're in hell, it's too late. You got to get saved while there's still hope while you're still alive

Now is the accepted time now is the day of salvation

You got to get saved now and if you're not saved right now

You should be scared to death

You should be horrified and scared and afraid to even get in the car and drive anywhere or go to bed tonight

You should get saved before you even leave this building

You should be begging people to tell you how to be saved before you leave this building if you're not safe

Because if you die without Christ and make no mistake you could die on the way home tonight

You could die in your sleep tonight. You could die during this sermon while I'm preaching

Nobody's ever died while I've been preaching but there's a first time for everything and this could be the night

Okay, I

Mean look if I weren't saved right now

I'd be literally getting out of my seat right now and just and grabbing somebody that looks like they've been here for a while

I'm just being like hey, let's go to the back and get me. I want you to get me saved right now

I want you to tell me how to be saved right now

If you knew what's at stake

Okay, once you go to hell it's over for you now here's the thing yeah at the end

The the the souls that are in hell are going to be brought up before the great white throne and judged again

Because they're already condemned already, but then they're going to be judged further and then thrown into the lake of fire

Okay, which is like the other

Location of hell because there's hell in the center of the earth at this time

And then there's hell and outer darkness for all eternity, but either way you're gonna burn in hell forever

You know the rest is just details

Okay

But here's the thing about this is that once you die that's it you're dead you don't come back

Now Jesus said that those who live and believe in Jesus will never die

So those of us that are saved we don't ever really die like our body dies

But we have eternal life eternal means it never ends

So we're not actually going to die because if I were to quote-unquote die tonight

It would only be my body dying and I'd still be alive and well up in heaven

Abraham Isaac and Jacob are alive in heaven right now according to Jesus and so yeah

The body will die, but I will not die, but let me tell you so once you die. That's it for you

You die you go to hell and you're done, and you you know, you're not gonna live again. Okay

But here's the thing about that is that Jesus Christ though

He actually died and he was dead. He said in Revelation 1. I'm he that live it then was dead and

Behold I'm alive forevermore. Amen and have the keys of hell and death Jesus Christ actually conquered death

Jesus actually

Conquered hell. He's the only person who went there and came back and

Resurrected after three days and three nights in the heart of the earth

Nobody else has ever done that nobody else is going to do that where they go to hell and die are truly dead

And then resurrected, you know, that's unique to the Lord Jesus Christ

Because the rest of us by believing in Jesus, we just avoid death altogether

You know, we just we just open our eyes and boom

You know, hopefully we'll all die peacefully in our sleep and just wake up in heaven, right?

And so he says here

That God raised him up verse 24 having loosed the pains of death

Because it was not possible that he should be holding of it

There was never a chance that Jesus was going to be left in hell never was a chance

But here's the thing about that is that Jesus had to believe that

Because God the Father had made that promise and that's what the Bible taught and

Jesus knew hey, my soul is not going to be left in hell. My flesh is not going to seek corruption

Keep going. It says in verse 25 for David speaketh concerning him

I foresaw the Lord always before my face for he's on my right hand that I should not be moved

Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope

Because thou will not leave my soul in hell neither with thou suffer line holy one to seek corruption thou has made

Known to me the ways of life thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance men and brethren

Let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David that he is both dead and buried and his sepulchre is with us under this day

He's saying this is not David talking

This is David speaking of christ

It says men and brethren

David's dead his we can go visit his tomb if you want his body's there

Therefore being a prophet verse 30 and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins

According to the flesh he would raise up christ to sit on his throne. He's saying this before

spake of the resurrection of christ

That his soul was not left in hell now that it is flesh see corruption

So there are two aspects to the resurrection of jesus christ aspect number one is that his soul was not left in hell

Aspect number two his flesh did not see corruption and that shows you that jesus resurrection is a bodily resurrection

Okay, the key doctrine of the faith that we must believe to be saved is we must believe in the bodily resurrection of jesus christ

Why because the gospel is the death

burial

And resurrection of christ. Do you bury a soul? Do you bury a spirit? What do you bury?

You bury the body and so the essential doctrine now

Here's the thing there are a lot of people who may not understand

The fact that jesus soul was in hell for three days and three nights

That is not something that someone would have to know or believe in order to be saved

That's a more like higher level doctrine or something like that

What's the most basic doctrine of just you know getting someone saved is the death burial and resurrection of jesus

You know and why because you know, it's a bodily resurrection

And this is why the jahoba's witnesses are not saved

Actually, there's a lot of reasons why they're not saved, but that's the biggest one

Is that they don't believe in the resurrection of jesus because according to them

Jesus rose means that his soul left his body bro. That's called dying

Isn't it called dying when your soul leaves your body? I mean if I die right now, my soul would leave my body

That's not a resurrection. That's called death

No, you want to know what the resurrection of jesus is is that he physically

Got up and walked out of the tomb with flesh and bone and literally went to his disciples

Showed them the hole in his side showed them the holes in his hands and said be not faithless

But believing and what did he do? He said hey you guys have anything to eat

And he ate food with them just to show them how he was literally physically there

He said hey a spirit hath not flesh and bone as you see me to have

And he ate some fish. He ate a broiled honeycomb. He's eating food to show them

I am bodily physically here risen from the dead. How can you not believe that?

Well, it's called being unsaved when you just reject what the bible just flat out says

It's a sign of somebody who is not actually saved

And if you don't believe in the resurrection of christ, I mean you don't believe the gospel

And specifically what aspect of the resurrection you need to believe in the fact that it's a bodily resurrection

Because it's the death burial and resurrection and the burial is what happens to a spirit

No a soul. No a body. Yes

And so he says

Neither did his flesh see corruption

He's seeing this before spake of the resurrection of christ that his soul was not left in hell

Neither his flesh did see corruption

This jesus hath god raised up

Whereof we all are witnesses

Therefore so again notice verse 24 god raised up jesus verse 32 god raised up jesus

We could look at 10 other verses that say the exact same thing, but we're not going to

Verse 33 therefore being by the right hand of god exalted and having received of the father the promise of the holy ghost

He has shed forth this which he now see in here

And so notice that when we study the life of jesus jesus christ, he did always those things that please the father

He grew in wisdom

He grew in stature. He grew in favor with god and men

He lived a perfect life in the sense that he never sinned

He was tempted all points like as we are yet without sin

But he still had to learn and grow

And he still had to you know read the bible

He had a custom of going to the synagogue and reading the bible the bible

You know the bible tells us that and that jesus christ when he went through life

He was hungry

You know the bible says when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights

He was afterward and hungry when he was on the cross. He said i thirst

saw him 22

prophesied the dryness of his mouth and his tongue cleaving to the roof of his mouth with

Thirst and being parched

He was super troubled

Grieved upset

Groaning in his spirit

He gets angry at times in the four gospels because he is living the bona fide human experience

Now look does jesus do supernatural things? Absolutely

Through the power of the holy spirit

But you know what so did other prophets so did other apostles that didn't mean that they aren't human

Right elisha can still be human and do miracles

Jesus can still be human and do miracles right jesus can still pray and get miraculous answers to prayer

Raise the dead cleanse the lepers heal the sick cast out devils, but so can the apostles also

And so jesus truly left us an example that we should follow in his steps

And just as jesus christ

Lived by faith and trusted in god because the big the big thing that that jesus had to trust the father for is

You're not going to leave my soul in hell. You're not going to suffer your holy one to see corruption

You know that's the big thing that the bible hammers him trusting in god about and that's why he said hey, okay lord

I'm commending my spirit unto you now. I'm turning it over to you for safekeeping, which reminds me if I give my wallet back

So don't forget

All right, it looks a little lighter than what I gave it to you, but hey

Well, guess what when we go through our lives

Faith is the big one

I mean look when you see people

living a life

That's just

carnal

And worldly and they're just looking out for themselves and not caring about

Other people not caring about putting god first not seeking first the kingdom of god

You know what it tells me is that this person is lacking in faith

Like what if somebody's like well, you know what I'm just gonna totally get out of church and just focus on only work

I'm just gonna focus on work focus on career

I don't have time for church because I'm too busy making money

You know what this tells me is that this person does not believe the promise in the bible that says

Seek he first the kingdom of god and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you

Now it doesn't mean that they don't believe it at a superficial level

Like yeah, of course every saved christian believes everything in the bible on some level

But there's kind of like believing something there's like believing something

How much faith does it take to get saved?

You know, I think that it takes a just a super little tiny amount of faith to get saved

Thank goodness. Amen. I mean look jesus said hey if you have the faith of a grain of mustard seed you could move mountains

So here's the thing

Does it take a lot of faith to get saved? I don't think it takes a lot of faith to get saved at all

But whatever little tiny microscopic faith you have you just have to put it all on jesus

It doesn't matter how much faith you have you just have to believe on jesus with all your heart

And just put all your faith on jesus

So you might you know walk up with you know a dollar worth of faith or a thousand dollars worth of faith

You just got to put it all on jesus and you're saved

But here's the thing people who just have a little tiny bit of faith and then they believe in jesus they're going to heaven

You know like the guy who said to jesus lord, I believe help that on my unbelief

How much faith did that guy have if he's literally saying?

Well, I believe but help my unbelief

Well, that was enough because jesus does it for him

So yeah, you know believing and doubting

Is just part of being a christian. This is part of being a human. It's part of life. Okay

So here's the thing about that is that you put all your faith on jesus. Maybe it's just a tiny bit

Well, here's the thing as we read our bible

As we pray as we sing the hymns as we go to church as we win souls to christ as we live for god our faith grows

Right because the fruit of the spirit is faith

So the more we walk with god the more experience we get the more our faith increases and grows

As a christian then we start having more faith. So there's the thing. Yeah, of course

We all believe the bible right unless you're an unsaved person like these unsaved people who say

Jesus knew everything while he walked on this earth because I think mark 1332 is a lie

Well, you're a liar and you're going to hell because you're just proving to everybody

You're a false prophet when you say that because mark 1332 is a bible verse. That's true

And and so here's the thing obviously we all believe the whole bible in the sense that we believe

That it's all from god. We're not we're not saying that any of it's false or a lie or anything like that

Right because you know if you add to or take away from god's word. Well, you know, we know what kind of person you are

According to revelation 22

But here's the thing about that

Is that there's believing that all these things will be added unto you on a very superficial

Minor level and then there's being like, you know what man?

I really believe that if I seek first the kingdom of god

All these things will be added under and the more that we really believe that and have more faith in that

We're going to be more like prioritizing the things of god because it would be stupid

To prioritize other things over god if we know that if we seek first the kingdom of god, we're going to get both

I mean think about it

You know what what you know just to make it real simple what if there's a doughnut and there's a glass of milk

Okay, and it's like look if you seek first the doughnut the milk will be added unto you

Okay, and then you're just like well, you know what?

I just really want that milk and I don't know if I can really trust that if I go for the doughnut

I'm going to end up with the milk also

So I'm just going to go straight for the milk

It's stupid because if you seek first the doughnut the glass of milk will be added unto you

If you truly believe that you'd get the doughnut you'd get the milk and you'd have it all, you know

Amen

So if you seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness

And then the food and the clothing the other things will be added unto you

If you're just like well, I got to put god on the back burner to go seek this stuff

Isn't that a lapse in faith?

No, look, that's one example

I could give you example everything in the christian life is like this

Every if you truly believe on a visceral level and you have just great faith in the promises of god

You're going to be constantly doing what the bible says to cash in on those promises

And this is why the entire christian life every day is walking by faith

Believing if I obey my parents, I'm going to be better off than if I don't obey my parents

Right now here's the thing when you see kids just being like well, you know

I'm going to disregard what my parents say

I'm going to do something totally different because I know better

You know what they're saying is they don't really believe what the bible says

That if you honor your father and mother, it's going to be well with you

And your days are going to be long on the earth and that if you despise to obey your mother

Well, god's going to curse you, you know if you actually believe that you'd be super respectful

Of your parents you'd be fearing your parents honoring your parents

Loving your parents obeying your parents. Am I right?

You know if you knew that stealing

Is going to cause you problems with the lord, you know, you wouldn't you wouldn't steal

Right, but here's the thing all of us are human and we all make mistakes

And when we do make those mistakes, it's typically because our faith is weak

You know or we're going through trials and tribulations

And it's just like god's not coming through for me

Our faith gets weak and then we want to quit on god and people quit going to church quit reading their bible

Quit soul winning and get disillusioned disenchanted. That's a lack of faith

In the promises of god

Okay, and so everything in the christian life is

faith

All the fiery darts of the wicked quench by the shield of faith

So then

How could jesus be our example if he didn't live by faith? Well, guess what?

We have this awesome example of jesus exercising faith

In a greater way than any of us could even really amount. I mean he's going to the cross

He's going to die for our sins. He's going to be in hell for three days and three nights. I mean

trusting

That he's not going to be left there. I mean, that's

A huge amount of faith to be obedient unto death. I mean, here's the thing if one of us

Went to the cross and got literally crucified because you know, there have been people who crucified christians

After jesus right people people, you know

The romans crucified a bunch of people and japanese people were crucifying people and everything, you know, it has happened to people

You know if I just marched off to be crucified you'd say like wow, there's a man of great faith

right

And so the lord jesus christ he modeled the way for us

He left us an example to follow in his steps and he actually also showed us a life of faith

Let's bear it in our word of prayer father. Thank you so much for your word lord

And thank you for the example of our lord jesus christ and how he trusted you and and

And he relied upon you and did always those things that please you lord help us to follow that example

Help us to have faith

please lord increase our faith and help us to trust in you and to just

Cash in on the promises that you've made

by

Doing what you've said in the bible would would get us those promises lord help us to live by faith

As jesus lived by faith and it's in his name. We pray amen