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Jesus The Lamb Of God

Jesus The Lamb Of God

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Lord Father Shepherd of our lifes we give you this time tonight and every day, we give you back the time you have given us and speak now Lord whatever our circumstance or situation In Jesus name amen

And so we look at Psalms 20 to 23 together and you may wonder why we are looking and glancing through these four songs to God.

Well the Lord was speaking to me about trust and about trusting Him and as I worked away I began a kind of dialogue with the Lord and I saw a vision

I felt God speaking to me about intimacy, He wanted me to draw nearer to Him

This scripture came to me

Matthew 6:31-33 31 So do not worry, saying, What shall we eat or What shall we drink or What shall we wear?

32 For the pagans run after all these things,

and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

(NIV Bible)

To seek Him through the noise and fears and worries, to seek Him and to simply seek a close and real relationship, putting aside the " Lord do this and Lord do that and Lord I have this problem and that problem and this thing and that thing "

To seek Him for whom He is and not for what He might do

As I worked away and talked to Him I saw a vision of steps, the steps were cold and concrete and hard and I looked for a meaning and a voice but there was none

And so as we walk on our journey of life things can seem hard and cold at times and difficult but God longs to have intimacy and to take us up those steps .

not looking to what we can see , but looking to Him alone.

A few days or so later, again this word about trust came to me and so I turned to what this message might be about and saw that Psalm 21 was about King David singing to the Lord about how he rejoiced in Gods strength.

This was confirmed by meerkat in our chat rooms speaking about strength in God

Then I saw that David went on to sing to God about trust in Psalm 21

And so a few days later again God began to speak to me and this time again it was about trust and how His rod and staff guide us and guide me and how He is the Shepherd of the sheep.

And so as I looked at these psalms so I saw how they came together and how maybe we were to look at psalms 20 - 23 as a continious song and Psalm of David together.

And so this week we will look at Psalms 20,21 and 22 and next week we shall look into the Father heart of God as the Shepherd Father.

The week after we will be looking at Psalm 23

so lets begin this week under the usual theme of " Cross references "

You know David was a man after Gods own heart, David being a shepherd Himself would have sang from His heart , to the Father God, Psalms that were new songs and David is known to sing out later in the Psalms " sing a new song to the Lord all the earth"

This is exactly what David was doing, He was composing from his heart new songs of praise and worship all the time, he was composing psalms or songs of the heart, inspired by the Holy Spirit within Him.

David sang psalms,songs to Father God that were prophetic and spoke of things past, presentt and future... things that were to happen as we see in Psalm 22

You could say the Holy Spirit was singing through David to God

And In Psalm 20 we read a few verses

Psalm 20

For the director of music.

A psalm of David.

1 May the LORD answer you when you are in distress may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

2 May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.

3 May he remember all your sacrifices and accept your burnt offerings Selah

4 May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

5 We will shout for joy when you are victorious and will lift up our banners in the name of our God.

May the LORD grant all your requests.!!

6 Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he answers him from his holy heaven with the saving power of his right hand.

This Psalm reminds us of Gods steregth , you can change the word "support" in verse 2 to "strength"

And in verse 6 we see the "right hand " strength

We also see here that David sings of God giving us our hearts desire and make all our plans succeed !! wow

As we walk in Gods will ...as we pray in Gods will...when we seek God above all else ..

Not looking at what is in front, but looking to God alone for who He is and not for what we might get ....as David indeed did ...then we find Gods strength as we trust in Him alone.

Note this

4 May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

And verse 5 , May the LORD grant all your requests.

Trust is hard, trust requires that we trust in Him that He knows what is best.

Its trusting that no matter what pathway He may lead us down with His Rod and Staff that He knows the path we should take

And while we walk down this faithwalk path we do what His voice tells us and we then speak back to Him ...(May the LORD grant all your requests.)

Then the Shepherd will give us what we need, He will hear us speaking back to Him, ( He will hear our prayers ) as we walk with Him in His will.

Do not always expect Him to do this ...if you are not walking with Him, in the way..

Do not be a King Saul, but be a King David.

And so we begin to look at Psalm 22 and we hear the new song from the heart of the Shepherd King David singing a prophetic song looking into the Future being inspired by the Holy Spirit David sings of " The Lamb of God " the servant King.

The Holy Spirit sings through David and David composes a song about the Saviour to come.

The Great Shepherd who would lead His people , a shepherd who would be a Servant King and be like a Lamb led to the slaughter.

We again see in Psalms 22 and 23 some more simple pictures or images, this imagery displays before us the picture of The Shepherd and the sheep and the LAmb and the rod and the staff, but we shall look more into this when we look at psalm 23 in two weeks time.

Lets now look and focus on Psalm 22 and go through some Cross references as we look at " The Lamb Of God " and again you will notice the word "trust"

I shall post a few verses as the Psalm is 31 verses long

Psalm 22

For the director of music.

To the tune of "The Doe of the Morning."

A psalm of David.

1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?

2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.

3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel.

4 In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.

5 They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.

6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

7 All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads:

8 "He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him.

Let him deliver him, since he delights in him."

and

12 Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

13 Roaring lions tearing their prey open their mouths wide against me.

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint.

My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me.

15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth you lay me in the dust of death.

16 Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me,

they have pierced my hands and my feet.

17 I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me.

18 They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

19 But you, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.

Indeed David hear is singing about Jesus on the Cross, he utters the very words of Jesus who was to come, the Lamb of God led like a Lamb to the Slaughter ,

The servant King, the Shepherd of the Sheep ,

And so we look at Cross references and we glance at the book of Matthew as we hear the words uttered once more

Matthew 27:46 (New International Version)

About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi,[a]

lama sabachthani?"—which

means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Psalm 22: 1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?

You see sin separates, our sin, my sin separates us from the Shepherd Father, it is as if He cannot hear us, as if He is not there, it is as if the earth has grown dark, it is as if He has turned away from us and we cry out to Him ...

Jesus took our sin and the sin of the world upon Himself and the punishment He bore, that we might be free, He paid the price, and He cries out to the Father,My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

And again Matthew

Matthew 27:39 (New International Version)

39Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads