Divine Destiny

Good evening.

Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don Noble of

Pure Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today with exceedingly

abundantly and overflowing joy. This is one of my favorite

weeks of the whole year, and tonight's message is titled

Divine Destiny. Divine Destiny, and of course this weekend we

will celebrate one of the most important events of the calendar,

the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. As I pondered

about this weekend, I was struck by the thought that

Jesus knew for thirty three years he was going to

die on a cross. The thought was always there. It

actually was the motivation for healing the sick, raising the dead,

and casting out demons. It was the motivation to minister

to thousands in the fields and though in the synagogue

about salvation. As he rode into Jerusalem on the donkey

that fateful day, the people cried, Hosanna, Hosanna in the

highest Hosanna means save.

We pray.

But as a human with human emotions and feelings, I

somehow cannot relate to thinking that I'm always going to die.

I mean, my mind, I can't imagine thinking all the time,

I'm going to die. I'm going to die young, and

worse than that, I'm going to be beaten, scourged, nailed

to a cross, to die a very difficult death of asphyxiation.

I can't imagine having to know that that's my future.

But it was his divine destiny.

King David.

Had a revelation of this divine destiny when he wrote

in Psalm twenty two, I want to read a few

scripture verses from that Psalm to you. And it's amazing

that David could see into the future and write this.

But this is Psalm twenty two.

We're going to read verses one through three and twelve

through nineteen, and David writes this. He says, my God,

my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you

so far from helping me? And from the words of

my groaning, Oh my God, I cry in the daytime,

but you answer not. And by night I am not

silent or find no rest. But you are holy, Oh

you who dwell in the holy place where the praises

of Israel are offered. And then verses twelve through nineteen,

many foes like bulls have surrounded me, strong bulls of

bation have hedged me in against me. They open their

mouths wide like a ravening and roaring lion. I am

poured out like water, and all my bones are out

of joint. My heart is like wax. It is softened

with anguish and melted down within me. My strength is

dried up like a fragment of clay pottery with thirst.

My tongue cleaves to my jaws. And you have brought

me into the dust of death. For like a pack

of dogs, they have encompassed me. A company of evil

doers has in circled me. They pierced my hands and

my feet. I can count all my bones. The evil

doers gaze at me. They part my clothing among them,

and cast lots for my raiment, a long shirt like garment,

a seamless undertunic. But be not far from me. Oh Lord,

oh my help, hasten to aid, to aid me. Deliver

my life from the sword, my dear life, my only one,

from the power of the dog, the agent of execution.

So David has this incredible understanding, and I believe he

probably had a vision, as he could see exactly what

Messiah would be suffering, because he specifically says about his tongue,

you know, is dried and it's cleaving to his jaws

and the dogs. The evildoers have encircled him, and they've

pierced his hands and his feet, and that he could

count all of his bones. And they parted, if you remember,

a scripture tells us that they parted his clothing among

them and cast lots for his clothing. So it's an

incredible insight revelation that David has about what Jesus is

experiencing or will experience. Now I'm going to turn to

Isaiah fifty three, and this prophet has very profound, even

even a clear picture of Jesus's divine destiny. And Isaiah

wrote in Isaiah fifty three, verses one through twelve, the

exact description of Jesus suffering and what that suffering accomplished

for us as believers, many specific details, such as they

assigned a grave with the wicked and with a rich

man in his death. So let me just begin in

Isaiah fifty three. I'm going to read those verses one

through twelve and just listen. This prophet is writing seven

hundred years prior to Jesus' arrival on the scene, And

of course David wrote fifteen hundred years prior to Jesus

coming to the earth. So this is Isaiah writing, who

has believed, trusted in, and relied upon and clung to

our message of that which was revealed to us, and

to whom has the arm of the Lord been disclosed?

For the servant of God grew up before him like

a tender plan, and like a root out of dry ground.

He has no form or comeliness, royal kingly pomp that

we should look at him, and no beauty that we

should desire him. He was despised and rejected and forsaken

by men, a man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted

with grief and sickness, and like one from whom men

hide their faces. He was despised, and we did not

appreciate his worth or have any esteem for him. Surely

he has borne our griefs, our sicknesses, weaknesses and distresses,

and carried our sorrows and pains of punishment. Yet we

ignorantly considered him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God as

if with leprosy. But he was wounded for our transgressions.

He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities. The chastisement

needful to obtain peace and well being for us was

upon him. And with the stripes that wounded him, we

are healed and made whole. All we, like sheep, have

gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way,

and the Lord has made to light upon him the

guilt and iniquity of us. All he was oppressed. Yet

when he was afflicted, he was submissive and opened not

his mouth, like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,

and as a sheep before her shears is dumb, So

he opened not his mouth. By oppression and judgment, he

was taken away and asked for his generation. Who among

them considered that he was cut off out of the

land of the living, stricken to his death for the

transgression of my Isaiah's people, to whom the stroke was due.

And they assigned him a grave with the wicked and

with a rich man in his death, although he had

done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise him.

He has put him to grief and made him sick.

When you and he make his life an offering for sin,

and he has risen from the dead. In time to come,

he shall see his spiritual offspring. He shall prolong his days,

and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper

in his hand. He shall see the fruit of the

travail of his soul, and be satisfied by his knowledge

of himself, which he possesses and imparts to others. Shall

my uncompromisingly righteous one, my servant, justify many, and make

many righteous, upright and in right standing with God, For

he shall bear their iniquities and their guilt with the consequences,

says the Lord. Therefore, will I divide him a portion

with the great kings and rulers, and he shall.

Divide the spoil with the Mighty.

Because he poured out his life unto death, and he

let himself be regarded as a criminal and be numbered

with the transgressors. Yet he bore and took away the

sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors, thebell,

the rebellious. It is stunning to me that a prophet

could know this, see this, It really is profound. Isaiah

fifty three is very profound for many reasons. And of

course I'm not going to talk tonight about how important

these war words of what the death of Jesus on

the chross did for us, like bearing our griefs and

sicknesses and distresses and caring our pains, our punishment and

giving us peace and well being. But just the point

is that Isaiah is showing us the divine destiny of Jesus,

what he would experience, what he would look like. Right.

He was despised, he says, and rejected. He was not

pretty to look at. There was no beauty in him

that we should desire him, Isaiah says. And it said

that men hid their faces from him. But one of

the greatest things about Jesus divine destiny is and I

just love this when Isaiah writes that he's going to

see his spiritual offspring, and that's us. We are his

spiritual offspring. And he's going to see the fruit of

the travail of his soul, and he's going to be

satisfied about it. And that is you know, that's all mankind,

because he died for all the world. But his fruit

of the travail will be those who have come into

the kingdom, will be those who believe in him and

believe he is the Christ, and that he has come

to save us. That will be the fruit of the

travail of his soul. That's going to satisfy him. And

I just I just love that. It's amazing. Again, it's

amazing to me that Isaiah can see this off saio

It and all of these things that the prophet said,

every detail came to pass. He poured out his life

unto death. He was regarded as a criminal.

He was.

When he was on the cross, he was between two thieves,

two criminals. So he was numbered with the transgressors. But

yet he bore and took away the sin of many

and made intercession for the rebellious.

And you know that one thief was so he was so.

Vile in his words and his accusations towards Jesus, you know,

like if you're really, if you're really the son of God,

you know, get us down off this cross. But yet

the other thief was so tender in his heart, and

he reckocked. He knew who Jesus was and that Jesus

had the power to save him, and that's why Jesus

was able to say, you will be with me in paradise.

Now.

Jesus also told his disciples. So I want to turn

to John chapter six. And he gave them lots and

lots of warning of what was coming in the future,

and he told him many times, and.

I mean pretty much.

They didn't believe him, and I don't think they wanted

to believe him, and it did perplex them. But in

John chapter six, I want to read verses thirty eight

through forty. Jesus says this. He says, for I have

come down from heaven not to do my own will

and purpose, but to do the will and purpose of

him who sent me. So he makes a clear declaration,

This is why I've come, not to do my own will,

but to do the will and purpose which would be

the cross of.

Him who sent me.

And this is the will of him who sent me,

that I should not lose any of all that he

has given me, but that I should give new life

and raise them all up at the last day. For

this is my father's will and his purpose, that everyone

who sees the Son and believes in and cleaves to,

and trusts in and relies on him should have eternal life,

and I will raise him up from the dead all

at the last day. There you go in a nutshell.

This is the will and purpose of the Father. This

is g this is divine destiny that everyone, every person

who will believe in him, cling to him, trust in him,

rely on him, will have eternal life. And He's going

to raise him up from the dead on the last day.

And that last day, I presume is referring to when

he comes in a second coming and we all go

up with him. At least I hope I'm still alive

for that experience. So Jesus is praying and saying these things.

And John chapter seventeen is a whole dialogue which I'm

not going to take time to read, but you can

read for yourself. You can read sixteen and seventeen. It's

pretty much Jesus throughout those scripts. Sure's speaking about his

hour has come, that he's going to glorify and exalt

and magnify, you know, the Father, And and he's praying,

he you know, a lot of it is prayer. He's

praying to the Father regarding his disciples and how he's

going to glorify the Father. So Jesus tells them in

many different ways and in many different settings that he's

going to leave them, and they are having a struggle

with that because they just can't seem to wrap their

brain around that. But it was his destiny, destiny, and

he knew it was his destiny, and he had that,

you know, he knew it from before the beginning of time.

He knew his destiny, I said, the thirty three years

like when he came on the earth. Now he's really

experiencing in the flesh what is going to happen. So

he knows that. He knows the hours going to come,

the day's going to come when he will leave these disciples,

and he will be sacrificed on the cross, and he

will suffer.

He'll be the.

Suffering servant for the entire world, reconciling all.

The world to the Father. All the world.

See, everyone, every human ever born or to be born,

has already been reconciled to the Father. But if they're

not born again, if they have not accepted Jesus, if

they don't believe in Jesus as the as the risen Christ,

then they'll never taste of that great work that was

done on the cross. They'll never taste of the reconciliation.

But they've all been reconciled. They just have to believe

they just have to know now in Hebrews, if you'll

turn with me to Hebrews. And by the way, I

have been reading out of the Amplified Classic the entire

time today. I haven't used any other translation of the Bible.

But Hebrews, Chapter ten, We're gonna look at verses one

through nine.

And the writer writes.

For this, for since the law has merely a rude

outline foreshadowing of good things to come, instead of fully

expressing those things, it can never buy. All the same sacrifices, continually,

year after year make perfect those who approach itsalters. In

other words, we talked about this the last couple of weeks.

The law did not have the power to perfect us.

The law did not have the power to transform us.

The law didn't have the power to save us. Those

sacrifices year after year had no power to those who

approached its salters Verse two. For if it were otherwise,

would these sacrifices not have stopped being offered since the

worshippers had once for all been cleansed, they would no

longer have any guilt or consciousness of sin. But as

it is, these sacrifices annually bring a fresh remembrance of

sins to be atoned for, because the blood of bulls

and goats is powerless to take sins away. We talked

about this in the last couple weeks when we talked

about the blood applied, and that the High Priest took

the blood of bulls and goats and went into the

Holy of Holies and cast that blood on the mercy seat,

but that that was powerless to take our sins away.

Verse five says, Hence, when he Christ entered into the world,

he said, sacrifices and offerings, you have not desired. He's

speaking to his having, He's speaking to his heavenly father.

You have not desired these sacrifices and offerings, but instead

you have made ready a body for me to offer

in burnt offerings and sin offerings. You, Father, have taken

no delay. And then I said, this is Jesus speaking.

Then I said, behold here, I am coming to do

your will, Oh God, to fulfill what is written of

me in the volume of the book. When he said

just before, you have neither desired nor have you taken

delight in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings.

All of which are offered according to the law. He

then went on to say, behold, this is Jesus speaking.

Behold here, I am coming to do your will. Thus

he does away with and annuls the first former order

as a means of expiating sin, so that he might

inaugurate and establish the second latter order. So Jesus is

even saying here in the Book of Hebrews that he's

coming to do the will of God. And he says,

it's written of me in the volume of the book,

and he's probably referencing David, referencing Isaiah. It's they wrote

it fifteen hundred years and then seven hundred years before

he arrives on the scene. So he knows he is

to fulfill that divine destiny.

And I just.

Want to say that, you know, in accomplishing this divine destiny,

Jesus made a way for us. And it says this

in Hebrews Chapter ten, verses nineteen through twenty three. It says, therefore,

since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into

the Holy of Holies by the power and virtue in

the blood of Jesus, by this fresh, new and living

way which he initiated and dedicated and opened for us

through the separating veil, the separating curtain, the veil of

the Holy of Holies, that is, through His flesh. And

since we have such a great and wonderful and noble

priest who rules over the House of God, let us

all come forward and draw near with true, honest and

sincere hearts, in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by

faith that by that leaning of the entire human personality

on God, in absolute trust and confidence in His power,

wisdom and goodness, having our hearts sprinkle and purified from

a guilty evil conscience, and our bodies cleansed with pure water.

So let us seize and hold fast and retain without

wavering the hope we cherish, Hallelujah, and confess and our

acknowledgment of it, for he who promised is reliable, sure,

and faithful to his word. Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness.

I don't know about you, but I could just shout

my way through this day because of that.

That is just so good.

So I think my God and my Father and the

Lord Jesus Christ for fulfilling his divine destiny so that

I might have eternal life, and that I might live

forever in His presence.

My question is what about you?

Are you going to live forever in the presence of

the Lord Jesus Christ. If you don't know Jesus as

your savior, you can just pray this prayer with me. Yes,

you pray this from your heart, believing and having faith

to believe that when you pray this prayer and you

mean it with all your heart, that Jesus is going

to become your savior.

So just pray with me. Just say, Jesus, I come

to you.

Believing that you are the Christ. I confess with my

mouth the Lord Jesus Christ is my savior, and I

believe in my heart that God raised you from the dead.

Thank you for washing me clean. Thank you for washing

all my sins away. Thank you for forgiving me and

making me brand new. I want to serve you all

the days of my life.

Amen.

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you a beautiful and wonderful resurrection Sunday and I look forward.

To being with you next week.

Shalloam, shalloam, Peace be unto you