Brother Gary Sunday Morning 3/29/15

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 3/29/15

Mat 26:26  And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

Mat 26:27  And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;

Mat 26:28  For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Jesus was there with His disciples.  It appears that they had already eaten and this was a separate occasion.  He took the bread, broke it and said, “This is my body which is broken for you.”  Then He took the cup and said, “Drink ye all of it for this is my blood of the New Testament.” 

Without the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ there could be no new covenant written on our heart.  Without Him giving us life, our heart could not be changed.

Mat 26:30  And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

It is so interesting that Old Testament worship had the singing of hymns as a part of it.  We are blessed to have hymns to sing.  I believe the hymns they sang were Psalms 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, and/or 118. 

They sang a hymn.  Whether they sang all of them, we don’t know.  The hymns they sang usually are recorded in the book of Psalms as we know it.  They were singing that which was inspired by God.  It was not just chanting or off the wall.  It had real meaning and bearing to it.

Mat 26:31  Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.

This exact thing happened with Jesus and His disciples.

Mat 26:32  But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.

Mat 26:33  Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.

Mat 26:34  Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

Mat 26:35  Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

This is a very sad setting.  The message doesn’t end sad but this is a sad setting in the scripture.  Jesus was in a particular moment in his life that would have a great bearing on all mankind.

You and I don’t choose when battles will come.  We don’t choose, “This would be a good time to have this trial or for this to come across our way.”  We don’t have the power of choice in that.

Jesus did not lose his focus at this point.  We will be challenged to stay on course and especially so in crucial times of our life.  This morning I am of the conviction that there is no time in our life to get off course. 

May God help me and you to know this morning that even though the eleven got off course according to the Word of God, none of them acknowledged that they planned to draw back.  But they did.  The important thing is that Jesus stayed on course.

Mat 26:36  Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.

Mat 26:37  And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

Mat 26:38  Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

They had been at the Lord’s Supper and left there.  Judas had left the eleven.  They sang a hymn.  Jesus went to the Mt of Olives and spent time there and now He was going to Gethsemane. 

Jesus often resorted there in prayer.  It is vital that you have a place of prayer.  He said to James, John, and Peter that He was sorrowful and very heavy and instructed them to tarry there and watch with Him. 

The Bible says that He went a little further.

Mat 26:39  And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Jesus’ words were this, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful.”  We know that Jesus was the Lamb of God without blemish and without spot that came from heaven, a land of no sin, to a land of darkness.  He came into the world as a babe and came with a definite purpose to bring God to us.

He came and would not have had to go to the cross.  May God help me and every one of us to realize that He chose the cross to buy eternal life for you and me.  Jesus himself said, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful.”

Jesus was so burdened and desirous of going through everything that He might by the grace of God taste death for every man and buy eternal salvation for every one of us. 

He was so sorrowful that His strength and vigor began to leave Him.  He recognized, “I have reached a point of exhaustion and desire to finish the course because there is so much at state.”  He looked down through time and saw us that would come and did not want to fail. 

Consider the heaviness of Jesus’ soul.  It was heavy with overwhelming anguish.  There are those of us that have felt the fear of going to a dentist how heavy it makes us feel.  One man wrote, “If you have never experienced anxiety I ask that you remember this for when you do.”

If you have experienced anxiety and know what it means to feel extremely anxious about something: To wake up when you should be asleep but your mind has awoken with anxiety, “God what about this?  I am so concerned.”  Sometimes the anxiety is, “God help me to not fail you, to not fail in the gift and the calling that you have entrusted upon me.”

The anxiety of opportunity:  Knowing God as I know Him, this week will be another week of opportunity.  If we will allow our flesh or our humanity, we won’t consider the opportunity.  If we know God as the Apostle Paul did, we realize, “We are bought with a price and are not our own therefore let us glorify God in our body and in our spirit which are His.”

Jesus knew excruciating anxiety.  We think of those we know that had an impact upon us spiritually.  Jesus knew anxiety in the thought, “In order for that life to be changed, I must suffer some things.”  No one ever suffered like Jesus suffered. 

When we think of the anxiety and the heaviness of Jesus, He looked to March 29, 2015 and realized that our victory depended totally upon Him.  The deepest concern of your and my soul, there would be no hope for if it had not been for Jesus Christ recognizing the sorrow and the heaviness was very great.

He the Son of God knew it.  Jesus bare the immeasurable weight of His spirit being tortured.  There are times in our walk with God when the eternal God of heaven allows our spirit to taste just a little bit of hardship and pain.  Before we ever tasted it, Jesus knew it very well.  The heaviness of His soul was immeasurable.

The sorrow of His soul was because He knew what He would face.  In life Jesus faced rejection, never because he was the Son of God.  That couldn’t be changed.  He bore that rejection and felt that rejection.

I think of the marvelous work of the veil of the temple being rent in twain.  We rejoice with joy unspeakable that the barrier between the Jews and the Gentiles, the barrier between individuals and the Kingdom of Heaven has been rent in twain.

He knew humiliation.  When we look upon someone being humiliated we think, “That is so wrong.”  It is wrong of an individual to take advantage of a situation. 

There were false witnesses.  It was a part of the cost so that when you are lied upon, you will be; you might as well brace yourself.  Why would any tell a lie?  They are false witnesses.  It is not what you did wrong, it is what is in them.

The evil in the world made His soul so sorrowful.  Jesus knew that He faced bearing the sin of all mankind. 

They robed him with scarlet.  Our sins were as scarlet.  He did this so that He could identify the exact condition that sinners are in, robed in sin, in heartache, without peace, without joy.  He faced it and wore the change of apparel.

He wore the crown of thorns.  Whether it was intended for pain or mockery.  He wore it.  He counted the cost.  He didn’t have to go through it.  He counted the cost of going through this and then seeing what the results would be.

We cannot praise Him enough.  We can never praise Him too much.

He had to come to terms of being forsaken by all and His heavenly Father not able to look upon Him.

The love of the saints and the strength of that love is extremely strong.  When He was on the cross, ridiculed, tried.  When He carried that cross whether the entire, or a portion, to Him it was the cross.  He bore that cross.  Before He was ever headed up the trail, in Gethsemane He realized that He would bare the cross

Many times people hope that things won’t go like it looks like it will.  We hope that we won’t have to suffer whatever it might be.  Jesus suffered; there was no shortcut.

Unjust trial, abandonment:  His own disciples went off course.  My God help us to stay close to God and when anything would lead us off course, may we have the unction of a hymn to say, “I’m going to stay on course.”

Jesus knew everything.  He knew, that as He laid on the cross, it would have to be picked up, and as painful as it was laying down, it would only increase.  That cross had to be placed into a hole.  You brothers know about building a fence.  Can you imagine the thud of the cross going into that hole? 

There were thieves mocking.  There were those that passed by and wagged their heads and made fun of Him.  They said, “If He is the son of God…”  He was the Son of God.

They entitled Him, “The King of the Jews.”  People have been making titles for a long time.  The loneliness that He went through…

It was a sacrifice acceptable to God for our sin.  The youngest children know already that the price has been paid for their sins to be forgiven.  I preached to an audience where many did not grasp the idea, “I can be forgiven.”

Jesus was willing to be very heavy so that we could be forgiven.  Forgiveness gives such opportunity.  Many times people are headed down the wrong road.  Life is miserable, their conscience is guilty.  Their life is messed up because of sin and bad choices.  If they would repent and truly get saved, they would find a place of forgiveness.  It opens a new door of opportunity. 

People who are hopeless, desolate, their minds shot because of sin and drugs.  If they repent and find forgiveness, a door of opportunity opens up.  The door opens not just to spiritual things, it opens a door of opportunity to life.

Jesus suffered and His suffering brought healing, hope, light, and opportunity.  It brought conversion and new creature.  Let us consider the purchase the blood of Christ brought for us.

He purchased forgiveness.  It is wonderful.  You look at a life that has such pain because of sin.  To think they can be forgiven!  Their sin cast as far as the east is from the west and the sin buried in the sea of forgetfulness.

It purchases sanctification.  Dying to self.  If people think of it as hard, they don’t understand the blessing of having the carnal man removed.  The blood of Jesus brought our unity.

The body of Christ has many members but we are all one.  The blood of Christ breaks the thought of superiority.  We are all brothers and sisters and Christ is the head.

The price could only be paid by Jesus Christ.

The heaviness of a life out of course:  in a terrible plane accident, 150 passengers were killed, the co-pilot intentionally put the plane off course and it crashed.  They locked the pilot out of the cockpit and the plane crashed.

Do we realize what it is like to have a plane out of course, someone take over our life that plans to destroy us?  You precious children and young people are blessed at a young age to realize, “We are not our own, we are bought with a price.”

Get that education so that you can be used of God.  Use your talents for God at a young age.  We too have been bought with a price and our age is no excuse to not use our time for Christ.  If we fail to seek God, our life will be full of so many things.  The heaviness of lives that are off course! 

We cannot afford a newspaper.  It is not the money but the terrible things that we read there we cannot afford to have in our mind.  Don’t be afraid to question a teacher.  If the teacher doesn’t want to talk to you then they shouldn’t be teaching.  We need to be fearless when it comes to these little souls. 

Lift a high standard as you teach.  We live in a terrible day.  Jesus suffered heaviness.  I think of people that have been abandoned.  Some by their own family, some by their husbands, some by their relatives, they know you one day and the next they are gone without a word.  Only Jesus can bring healing.  No matter what they have done, Jesus suffered so that you could be well.  You don’t have to repeat what your mother did.

In an altar of prayer, I met Jesus Christ.  He understands heaviness, and anxiety.  He prayed through it and yielded.  He concluded by saying, “Not my will but thy will be done.”

At that time an angel appeared strengthening Him.

Paul wrote, “You are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God’s.”  Jesus paid it all.

You can become a convertible.  Your life can be in the wrecking yard or almost headed there, but when you come to Jesus Christ, way back then He paid it all.

1Pe 1:18  Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

1Pe 1:19  But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

Isn’t that wonderful, we are redeemed by the blood!  We are blessed to know that Jesus suffered all things so that we could be His children.

Rev 1:5  And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

Rev 1:6  And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

John wrote this and when He was on that Isle of Patmos he looked back and said, “Unto Him that loved us and washed us from our sin.”

Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

We are so blessed this morning that Jesus paid the full price.  He went through everything and came out victorious so that no matter where our need is He is able and ready to supply every need.

Sister Sharron Sunday School 3/29/15

Sister Sharron Sunday School 3/29/15

He that shall endure unto the end shall be saved.  Jesus is our perfect example.  What does it mean to endure?  To undergo hardship without giving in.  Continue in the same state, remain firm in suffering without yielding or giving in.

Pontius Pilate was a supreme judge under the emperor.  His job was to retain law and order.  He was the type that if he had any trouble with that, he would use brute force. 

Pontius Pilot is told in history to have committed suicide.  He was in trouble on an issue and fell on his own sword and took his life.  In one account, the Roman emperor preordered this suicide. 

The soldiers divided His garments and cast lots for a seamless robe. 

Luk 23:27  And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.

Jesus had followers there; not just a few, there was a great company.  They were weeping and grieved with the whole situation. 

Luk 23:28  But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.

Jesus was the only one that could take away our sins.  We cannot take the sins of anyone else.  We know in part.

Luk 23:29  For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

Luk 23:30  Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

Luk 23:31  For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

Luk 23:32  And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.

Luk 23:33  And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

Luk 23:34  Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

Isa 53:12  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

It was prophesied that He would be numbered with the transgressors.  He made intercession for them. 

I had a time in my life where I had the thought, “I will forgive you totally but there will be a day of reckoning.”  God spoke to my heart, “That is not the example that Jesus left.”  He didn’t say, “I forgive you but one day you will have to deal with my father.”  No, he said, “Father forgive them.”

It is only through God’s mercy that we can have this attitude.  If we are going to make it to heaven then it will take God. 

Luk 23:34  Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

Luk 23:35  And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.

Luk 23:36  And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

Luk 23:37  And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.

Luk 23:38  And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

They had this written in several languages so that everyone there knew exactly who Jesus was. 

Luk 23:39  And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.

This man was looking for someone to bail him out.

Luk 23:40  But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?

Luk 23:41  And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.

Luk 23:42  And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

Luk 23:43  And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

This guilty man had a better understanding and a different heart than the other.  You can see that the fear of God had come upon him.  There are two different pictures of repentance here.  The one wanted to get out of his present distress and the other said, “I am guilty.” 

Sometimes people want to get saved because they want to just get out of their present trouble.  This other man said, “I am guilty.  Lord remember me.  I am not trying to get out of this present distress.  Remember me when you go to heaven.”

The second one had a fear of God.  The fear of God is a wonderful blessing.  He truly repented in a way that was acceptable to God.  He acknowledged Jesus as Lord. 

He said, “Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.”  He was dying, God had to have given him some insight.  What faith he showed!  All of them were dying yet he said, “Remember me when…”

Luk 23:44  And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

Luk 23:45  And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

It was dark for three full hours.  We have to look past the hardship to what is ahead.  That is the true test of faith and enduring, if we look to what is ahead.

Joe 3:15  The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

Joe 3:16  The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

Mat 27:45  Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

Mat 27:46  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?

Mat 27:47  Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.

Mat 27:48  And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

Mat 27:49  The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.

Even in the darkness they held that unbelief and were in a mode of making fun of Jesus.  Even if we didn’t believe there would still be some of the “What if?” in our heart.  It is a sign of the great unbelief that can get a hold of souls. 

Mat 27:50  Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

Mat 27:51  And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

Exo 26:31  And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:

Here we see that the veil of the original temple was 50 to 60 feet and was a finger’s width in thickness.  It was not just a single cloth but was made at least four inches.  It was so strong that two horses could not pull it apart.  Only God could have done what happened. 

What significance to us!  Before then, we had no access to God.  It was not only a miracle for the veil to be rent in two but it took the wall between the Gentiles and Jews it did away with it.  It did away with us having to go through a priest to get to God.  We can go to God.

It was a miracle because of the strength and the way it was made, it didn’t just come apart.  It was made strong and thick.  That didn’t even stir the ones that were tormenting Jesus and had done wrong by Him.  It did nothing.

When we get into sin there is no end.  I ended up in places where I never thought I would have gone. 

In the burial of Jesus they wrapped Him in linen.  Joseph was a rich man; people have the idea that riches are a detriment to our faith.  But riches can be used for God.  He had probably bought this for himself.  He had a tender heart. 

Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 3/25/15

Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 3/25/15

I can look at a picture of my wife but you don’t hold hands with a picture.  I felt bad leaving her at home tonight as she was sick.  There is something about the tangible bible that has been left for us.  I am not against the modern technology that we have today as long as it is used for good.  It can work for bad and it can work for good.

Isa 56:8  The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

Earlier in the chapter it leaves the thought, ‘Let there be no whining from the strangers and from the eunuchs.’  Every day if you leave your home, you see people that are so much less fortunate than we are.  Every day our mind goes to those that are in dire straits spiritually because they don’t know God and His kingdom.  We are blessed to know about God, His kingdom, and His church.

This marvelous God gives to us that are a part of His kingdom a house with walls.  The kingdom of God is a home of righteousness, of peace, and of joy in the Holy Ghost.  This kingdom of God, of heaven, and the church is a kingdom with walls.

We live in a day when many times people want no boundaries in their life.  God has ordained that there be definite lines drawn.

Isa 60:18  Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

The walls of salvation provide deliverance, help, safety, victory, wonderful boundaries and protection.  In the Lord’s Prayer it says, “Lead us not into temptation.”  Jesus was endeavoring to help us understand, “God help us to let you lead us so that we don’t find ourselves in situations that we don’t know how to handle.”

We thank God for the boundaries: how to live, how to conduct ourselves, how to act, and how to handle our money.  Isn’t it wonderful to have walls that make us happy?  They provide wonderful boundaries. 

“Wasting, violence, and destruction cannot exist and grow in God’s kingdom.”

The gates are the gates of praise.  In our coming and our going, help us to be found praising God.  Jesus comes to the sheep fold and helps us to go out to green pastures. 

Psa 48:1  A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

Psa 48:2  Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Psa 48:3  God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

Whatever season we are in, God remains great and is to be praised.  My thought went today to having goals.  I couldn’t help but think of the precious souls that I am concerned be at vacation bible school.  It is important and vital that we are challenged with a goal.

Summer is coming on, it is important that our children have goals. One of my goals is, “Higher in Mt Zion.”  It will never reach the point where we can say, “I have attained.”  The God we serve will ever challenge us.  If we are not challenged then we will find a spot to sit down on Mt Zion and not go any higher.

Psa 48:8  As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

Psa 48:9  We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

Psa 48:10  According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

Oh the loving kindness of God: we want to know a greater depth of that. 

Psa 48:11  Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

Psa 48:12  Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

Psa 48:13  Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Psa 48:14  For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

Let Mt Zion rejoice.  Rejoice ever more.  Pray without ceasing. 

The city of Zion has walls and bulwarks.  God has His ministry walking on the walls and climbing into the towers, “God help us to receive and preach the Word that will have the people of God being her best.

The walls go down deep so that the enemy cannot in anyway tunnel under and bring havoc to any of the church of God.

Life without the walls and bulwarks is described in Isaiah chapter 59.  I think of precious children being left without knowledge of the walls.  It looks like for the children and young people today it is scary.  Their parents have failed them.  They let them dress how they wanted, watch what they wanted to watch, and made available to them to know what they should not, way too young.

Verse 5 when people leave God and truth and don’t have walls and convictions in their lives, they actually create monsters.  This congregation knows some monsters.  We can thank God for the walls and for the boundaries.  We can thank God that we shake and tremble before God. 

Life of the rebellious is described in the first 14 verses.

Isa 59:10  We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

I think of life without walls, how groping around and falling off into whatever.  We talk to people and they say, “I don’t know how I got here.”  We can tell them.  “You didn’t have the walls of salvation.”

Isa 26:1  In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

Isa 26:2  Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

Isa 26:3  Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Isa 26:4  Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:

Brother Gary Sunday Evening 3/22/15

Brother Gary Sunday Evening 3/22/15

Mat 13:44  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

There are times when we must really press for the righteousness, for the peace, and for the joy.  There are times when we really need a vein of gold or a pearl to help us press for righteousness.  The vein is real.  The mine is real.

I couldn’t press too strongly how the world always leads to heartbreak and disappointment.  You look upon precious souls.  Some of them are very young, just getting to be teenagers.  Some I talked to had set out to get a college education and found themselves in disappointment. 

The world leaves individuals disappointed, beat up, and scarred.  There is a wonderful thing that God made us with a hunger for God.  David in Psalms 139: 23, 24 said, “Search me, try me, and see if there be any wicked way in me.” 

Among the many truths that my mother dug out and taught us is that the ‘wicked ways’ are our own ways.  It is tough to change our own ways.  The power of the kingdom of God gives us power to change.  A vehicle can look like a regular vehicle but if it has the right mechanisms it can become a convertible.

It is so wonderful how it cleans us up and changes our direction.  Indeed there is great power in the kingdom! 

It is as a mine that can be mined for unending resources for the soul.  I am not sure how much oil there is in Eastern Montana and the Dakotas.  It is so much that they cannot even grasp how much is there.  Yet we have something that is more sure and unending and unrestricted resources for the soul, the mind, the body, and more.

When a man found it he hid it.  My thought about this is to hide that treasure so that no one can steal it away from us.  There are many people that plan to get right with God.  Bill Valentine said, “If I ever get religion, I want the kind Chuck Sheppard has.”  I doubt that he planned for his life to go in the direction that he went in and it kept going the wrong way.

Remember the prophet that said, “The summer is ended, the harvest is past.”  In this part of the world, we think of the spring time and ordering our seeds.  I have a notion to dig up a trough right down the middle of the garden and take the compost and put it there and then the rotor tiller and till it in. 

We think of spring time, the growing season and then we think of harvest.  God saves folks that are 60, that are 70, that are in their 80’s and 90’s.  The treasure is an individual that found it.  He didn’t let the pride convince him to leave it and go away. 

We are blessed to have individuals that encourage us here.  There are people out there that will steal the seed and quench the desire.  It is a terrible thing and it will happen; adults will say to children, “You don’t have to stay in that home if you don’t want to abide by those rules, opening the door to rebellion.  We know where rebellion leads to. 

Brother Gyme talked to a young man and gave him a book.  He was reading it and enjoying it and probably saved.  Someone came along and said, “God doesn’t require all that.  He doesn’t require living holy.”  How sad.

When it comes to this mine, it has veins, pearls, stepping stones to develop character.  Hide it in the thought, “Don’t let the world steal it away.”

That soul that realized, “I need to be saved; I want to be saved.”  God help us to help them to not let it slip. 

I wonder if eternity will reveal those that stood in little congregations like this and were just about ready to get saved.  Some of them you and I know and remember: Someone just about ready to go to the altar and someone else saying, “Don’t do that.”

May God help us to keep being a miner and working the veins of gold and silver, and of instruction.  That vein of honoring our convictions.  We have convictions of the conscience and convictions of how we need to live and behave ourselves.

“I will not talk away my need.”  Sometimes people know they are really needy, they talk and talk and make excuse, and they talk away their need. 

For joy:  I thought of this joy.  There have been a few occasions in our life, we have thought we knew how to find a motel on the internet and thought that we knew how to reserve a room.  We looked at Eureka California and it looked like there were plenty of motels.  We got there and found no vacancy.  We drove 50 to 100 miles and I slept with one eye open.  I didn’t know what we would find.

The vacancy of the kingdom of God will not be filled with tangibles.  Why do people drink or take drugs?  They are vacant of God.  They are vacant of going to the mine, of being satisfied in the soul. 

We are taught that in order to buy the field and have the kingdom we must sell everything, “God I will forsake all my own ways.  I will forsake peer pressure.”  It is not just children that have peer pressure.  “What will people think?”  We must come to the place, “I want the kingdom more than the approval of the world.”

We must count the cost and yield to godly sorrow.  It is so important when God begins convicting the soul.  We need to encourage those that are feeling conviction to yield to godly sorrow.  It works repentance not to be repented of.  It causes them to want to clean up their life.

It buys the field when we confess and turn from our sins.  We receive a changed life.  It is not just religious.  We are not the same person with just a religious garb.  When we buy the field, we buy life and quickening. 

I have experienced a quickening in the thought, of praying the Lord’s Prayer where it says, “Thy kingdom come.”  When I am tired and weary then I begin to pray, “Thy kingdom come.”  It is easy to get upset and to worry when you are tired.  It is easy to have disappointments, to have leaven go into them, and they get bigger and bigger.

You can go to this mine and it is open all the time.  You can begin mining the promises of the Word of God.  You don’t have to chip off much gold and get many pearls and this kingdom has quickening in it.  You can still be tired and yet have peace and joy. 

There is quickening.  The abounding treasures of the kingdom of heaven are revealed in the Bible.  I think of this treasure, the Bible.  Never lose the grip of having this treasure in your hand.  It is such a treasure! 

We usually have a plan as we are reading in the Bible and many times our need is met through that plan.  But there are times when we have a special need.  We go to the Word of God and say, Lord where do we turn.  It is a mine that is abounding and never closed.

This motherlode meets the need of salvation, of sanctification, it gives a special grace.  It is wonderful to have something so sure.  It has been mined on for years and it is just as powerful as it ever was.  You can find thousands of Bibles through eternity that have been well marked.  “God came to me one night.  He came to me one morning, and I marked this scripture” 

It describes the veins of gold and the pearls of fellowship.  It has been so warming to my heart for the Paradise Church to carry the burden for Brother Rod.  Every time a report or request comes in, there are jewels of fellowship.  We are one with all the redeemed: the saints in Cuba, the saints, north, south, east, and west.

I thought of the power of the mind.  In Isaiah 45 God said to His anointed, “I will disarm those that would try to resist you.”  There is such power in this mine.  If you are faced with a difficult situation in life if you go in your own strength, it probably won’t clear it up.  If you go in the strength of the Lord, “God I am trusting you to help me.”  He will.

Some in this audience have such burdens.  Souls are in the valley of decision.  Life is just a little part of the story.  We are facing eternity.  Souls that need divine intervention in their lives. 

“Is not this the fast that I have chosen?”  It doesn’t just profit those you are fasting for.  You cannot begin to fast without looking into the mine.  Looking, “God is there any faultfinding in me?  Any thought of putting people in bondage?”

Is not this the fast that I have chosen to undo heavy burdens and break every yoke?  There is a power of burden and the power of light.  The Word of God leads us to light.  Light is sown for the righteous.  “Thy word is a light to my feet and a lamp to my path.”

This gold mine reveals the thoughts of God to us.  In Jeremiah 31 God said that He would do marvelous things.  Then He comes to the thought, “I will bring my remnant to the height of Zion.”  There is higher ground in Zion.  Not in a proud way, but “God I want to climb higher.”

We can expect God.  We say, “God I love you and want to serve you; make me what you would have me to be.”  He says, “I have chosen the furnace of affliction and difficulties in life.”  You say, “To get above so that I see past the afflictions of the moment and see afar.”

The gold mine tells us what to think on.  I find that it works.  When there is a thought going way too fast in my mind.  “Think on these things.”

It is wonderful to have fellowship and unity.  It is wonderful to have the family of God. 

Rev 22:17  And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

Come and mine a while. 

I used to go over to Brother Ricks and cut fence pickets out and sand them so they were nice and smooth.  You can go to the mine any time.  “Let him that is athirst come.  Whosoever will, let him come and take of the water of life freely.”

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 3/22/15

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 3/22/15

Mat 13:44  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

The kingdom of God is not as a pot of gold in a field.  It is as a mine.  When you find it and begin mining, it is as veins of gold that go every direction in the Word of God. 

The kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of God and God’s church.  Romans 14:17 it is not meat and drink but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.  We are thankful that we know what the kingdom of God is. 

It is a great treasure.  Greater than we can tell you.  God is awesome and His kingdom is a wonderful kingdom, a marvelous life and instruction. 

The kingdom of God is as a treasure hid in a field.  Not a literal kingdom visible to the eye, not a throne set up with a king sitting upon it with subjects. It is a spiritual kingdom.  It is sad that most people are willing to live with it hid from them.

Mat 5:6  Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Righteousness is a part of the kingdom.  The thought of decisions without the thought of consequence has been mentioned by many.  The children in this audience may or may not have reached the age of accountability.  But even without a decision, “I am just getting through life, school, the job…”  That will have its consequence.  Don’t allow the kingdom of God to be hid from you.

Blessed are they that hunger.

You can have the kingdom of God.  You can have righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost today.  It will never be easier at a later day.  We have millions of examples of people that delayed getting saved.  “We’ll just lay God aside for a while.  At a more convenient time we will pick Him up.” 

King Agrippa said the same thing.  “At a more convenient time.”  One thing I know and you know if you stop to think about it.  The world blinds people from seeing the kingdom of God.

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

It is a command to love not the world.  “I am just going to play around this for a little while.”  John Miller let someone have $50,000 and they said they would bring back $100,000 or a million if they could just have the $50,000…  You cannot play with the world without losing.

It is not possible to love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength and to love the world, something tangible.  You have to love God. 

We live in a world that is full of disappointments.  Millions even today are saying, “I thought things would turn out better.”  There is only one way for things to turn out better.  It is when we serve God and determine, “I am going to find this treasure.  I am going to work this mine of the kingdom of God.  I am going to work this motherlode.” 

There are all the veins of precious stones and gold in the Word of God.  It is designed to satisfy the soul of children, young people, single individuals, married couples, widows, and widowers. 

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

The world and the lusts of the flesh make an appeal to every age.  Sometimes we think, “That little bit of worldliness won’t damn the soul of the child.”  It may set the pattern for life for them.  

Whatever position we are in, the parents are in a wonderful position because those children are yours.

You can say, “I have a conviction.”  It doesn’t matter what the conviction is.  Some may say it is fanatical, you have a heart, a soul, and a spirit.  As you are convicted; one thing we need to remember is how the world disappointed us.  Don’t think for a minute that the world won’t do the same to all your children, your grandchildren, great grandchildren.

The world ruins lives, marriages.  We have this mine full of veins of gold.  We must work the mine; we must work the vein. 

You husbands, we are glad that you are here.  We challenge you to work, pray, and be heads of the home.  If you have an unsaved husband, then dig around in that mine.  Pray.  Fast and pray.  Go to Isaiah and hold onto that vein of gold with one hand and the vein of silver with the other hand and pray.

We are created to love God and to be loved of God.  There was a Jewish lady that wrote a song, “There is nothing sadder in all creation than a soul in isolation away from God …”

The world takes people’s love but it cannot give love back.  Love is holy.  The world, the lusts of the flesh, it will take our love but it cannot give love back. 

The lusts of the eyes will cause us to look to whatever it might be.  There is a way for a dream, a hope, or a visual of “How beautiful that looks.”  Hold on.  Those things cannot give love back.  The crocuses and daffodils are beautiful.  The forsythia are beautiful.  I would like to get you all in front of it and take your picture.  You may love the picture but the picture will not love you back.  It will leave you empty. 

I am not against pictures and photographs.  They are on our wall.  I appreciate how my wife decorates.  I like seeing the pictures.  But loving those pictures will not give me any love back.  

Loving the world only leaves us full of disappointments.

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

This is not of the father.  All of us that had good fathers, and godly fathers that loved us, they drew lines.  I can still remember my dad drawing lines.  You parents don’t be afraid to draw lines.  Don’t be afraid to be misunderstood.  Don’t worry about what the town says.  If you are convicted then draw a good line.

My dad drew lines because he knew that if that door were opened, I would be opened to something that could destroy my life.  You children are given parents to draw those lines.

1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

The whole world, those things that promise individuals happiness, success, joy, life pleasure.  The bible says they will pass away.  Go visit the rest home.  You will see people whose world has passed away.  What motivated them and controlled their lives is gone. 

Have you ever wondered why those that were successful quit?  Their love passed, their world passed.  Why do people drink?  Why do people take drugs?  Why do men father children and then not be dads to those children?  Why do girls get in trouble?  They are seeking for something and so soon it passes away.

The desires fade away.  The world is gone.  You all know the hymn story of “Just as I Am.”  Charlotte Elliot had been an entertainer, but it lost its appeal.  She lived in isolation a lonely life. 

I want to tell you, we are so blessed.  The kingdom of heaven is as a treasure that is as a mine.  It is unending resources for the soul.  It wasn’t so real to me that the kingdom of God is righteousness and peace and joy as it as a leaven that has been growing.  It is as leaven designed to grow in our soul.  It becomes bigger and more real to us daily as we travel through the day, “I want righteousness, peace, and I want joy.” 

As my body tires, I get extremely weary.  I have been convicted to go back and pray, “Thy kingdom come.”  It is just as real when we are exhausted as when we are rested. 

It is as a mine, a marvelous mine.  Supposing the mineral rights on the Snead’s property have not been sold.  Suppose Brother Jim is out there digging around, and as one of the brothers helps, they scrape the ground and there is mineral.  “This is a gold mine!”  They start using hammers and chisels and take the ore in and it is a lot of money. 

“I can buy more cattle.”  They then need more land.  One thing leads to another and to another and soon there is quite a hole dug there.  It turns out it is the motherlode.  They cannot even estimate its value.  They hear of someone with a need and they take the hammer and chisel and send some money to the saints in Cuba.  And send Brother Figueroa $10,000 for their next convention. 

It would take care of the financial needs, but it would not take care of the spiritual needs.  The motherlode of the kingdom is designed to take care of more than our financial needs.  It takes care of the sin business.  Gold can cause people to wander away.  The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, we know where it puts people.  There is something about this treasure hid in the field.  It has unending resources for the soul. 

This mother lode is designed to provide for the emotional needs of those that have lost the one that cared for them.  You that have had unfaithful companions; I will not try to describe your pain or what you felt.  There is one thing that I know.  There is the motherlode and veins that supply all emotional and spiritual needs.

The emotional needs of us parents: for every parent with a son or daughter in spiritual trouble this morning.  The saints will give everything they have, but there is a resource that will give you strength, support, and hope. 

There will be a lot of worldly counselors for the precious young people.  “You will really do good in this world and go a long ways.”  I am not against education.  These days you need education to get a good job.  Listen to that mom and dad that are saved.  Before you buy into that same story that the song, “Pick me up on your way down,” tells; they had an excellent picture of the world. 

The world inoculates young people and children with pride, “I’m going to be able to conquer.  I can partake of things that are questionable without it hurting me.”  No.  That is the inoculation of children and young people with pride.

They think, “I am going to be able to go that way and I am going to be the exception.”  They begin in their mind to live a fantasy.  The inoculation makes them deaf and numb.  The presence of God and conviction gets less and less.  Then one day it is as whoever wrote the song said, the crash comes. 

Stars of man’s making have short duration.  Very talented people: the world stands in applause for a moment and then crash, they are gone. 

The kingdom of God is as a treasure, unending resources for the soul, the mind, and the body.  The treasure is hid.  The proud, the self-righteous, the worldly ambitious, the undisciplined, the religious, or good without God will never see the kingdom. 

The treasure can be found.

Sister Sharron Sunday School 3/22/15

Sister Sharron Sunday School 3/22/15

Gall is a bitter herb that you would not ingest of choice.  It is meant to dull the senses.  When gall comes in the throat it is bitter and burning.  Since it is called gall it might be like that.

Deu 18:15  The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

Deu 18:16  According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

Isn’t it wonderful that God provided a perfect prophet?  We have something more and greater than one to rule in this life.  We can reign over sin.  It is a wonderful deliverance that works 24/7.  Only Jesus can do this for us.

Psa 2:2  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

Psa 2:3  Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

The rulers were the ones that were banding together against Jesus.  To sit with Judas during the last supper and partake of that bread with him was some of what Jesus endured.  Judas was so bold.  He had already betrayed Jesus.  He came and sat among them. 

I have seen boldness by people that are deceivers.  It is not a pretty sight.  Jesus’ heart was grieved of what was to become of Judas.  “It was intended from the beginning, but had to be.  Wo is he.”  He was grieved. 

We fear for what is ahead for those that don’t serve God.  We know as sure as our salvation that sin will not treat them good. 

Judas was sure that Jesus would have recovered himself.  He was so sure, he had it set in his mind.  Sometimes I am that way.  I get my mind so set that I cannot see the whole picture.  Judas when he came to the place, wanted to give the money back and get rid of the wrong that he had done.  It was too late.  The die was cast.  He was so grieved that he took his own life. 

The plan is for us to be a body and to take counsel.  We not only get counsel from our pastor but from the whole body.  We need to take heed to the counsel.  We remember the story of the elephant that was ‘seen’ by 7 blind men.  This is the way that we are.  God is the only one that sees everything.  We see this or that according to where we are coming from.  That is why we need to be joined to each other. 

Without the body we will not be well rounded.  We need to not only take heed and listen but also step over the line and give counsel. 

We need to be easily entreated.  When we are in a tangle that is all we can see.  It is hard for someone to come and say, “I see this and if you are not careful it can hurt you.”  It is really hard if someone has a spirit that gets offended easily.  You feel that no matter what, they will be offended.  We want to help them to get the victory. 

Sometimes the advice giver doesn’t see a portion of it but it is no reason to take offence.  Had Judas been really listening and walking close to Jesus.  That would have been the key.  That is the key for us. 

The other disciples probably didn’t know that Judas was in a place to betray Jesus.  Peter when Jesus said, “Get behind me Satan.”  Took it.  There is grace.  God has a way to help us in those circumstances.

Psa 45:2  Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

This is a wonderful description of Jesus.

Jesus betrayal:

Psa 41:9  Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

Because Jesus was in the human He was hurt.

Psa 55:12  For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

Psa 55:13  But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

Psa 55:14  We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

Psa 55:15  Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

This was the experience that Jesus had.  It wasn’t the Roman soldiers that had betrayed Him.  It was one that He had eaten bread with and one of His disciples.

Mat 26:47  And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

Mat 26:48  Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.

Mat 26:49  And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.

Mat 26:50  And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.

Can you envision this?  He plotted to kiss the one that the soldiers were to capture!

Mat 26:51  And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.

Mat 26:52  Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Jesus was the one that they were after yet Jesus showed such mercy.  He did not have a fight in Him as to what was to happen.  He had it fully surrendered.

Mat 26:53  Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?

Mat 26:54  But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

Mat 26:55  In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.

Mat 26:56  But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

The scriptures were being fulfilled and Jesus was fully submitted to what was ahead.

Zec 11:12  And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

Zec 11:13  And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

Exo 21:32  If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

When people go out unsaved they don’t realize the price of the betrayal that they are making.  He came back and said, “I have betrayed innocent blood.”  It was not enough to stop the action.  Like Judas people don’t think of the price of the consequences that sin brings. 

The Jewish leaders didn’t care about Judas’ soul.  They said, “What is that to us see thou to that.”  They should have been concerned about his soul but were not.  This happens when men join hands with the wicked.  The scheme goes deeper into sin than they were willing to go. 

Judas found that blood money could not give him the happiness that it had promised.  He thrust that money away.  How different those thirty pieces of sliver appeared before and after.  Sin always promises more than it can bring.  Thirty pieces of sliver cannot buy a clean conscience.  They could not give him peace. 

In his remorse he hanged himself.  Thirty pieces of silver couldn’t bring him a clean mind and a clear conscience.  Returning it could not save his soul.  “Wo to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed.”  Thirty pieces of sliver could not save his soul.

Isa 50:6  I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

Mat 26:67  Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

Jesus was silent before His accusers:

Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

It takes a lot sometimes to not say anything.  It has its affect to not defend yourself.

Mat 26:63  But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.

Mat 27:12  And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

Mat 27:13  Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?

Mat 27:14  And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.

It made the governor uncomfortable.  The governor realized that Jesus was innocent and marveled that in his innocence he still did not fight back or argue.  You can imagine what a normal human would be saying, “I am innocent.  Let me call my attorney.”  Pilot marveled.  This was like nothing that he had ever seen. 

This was so different from the normal that I wonder what the prophets thought as they wrote down these prophecies.

Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

The just for the unjust.

Isa 53:9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

He suffered without the camp:

Exo 29:14  But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.

This was the sin offering of that time.

Isa 53:10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Isa 53:11  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Isa 53:12  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

He poured out His soul unto death.  I read that it touched my heart.  It was for the transgressors. 

Zec 12:10  And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Psa 22:18  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.