940 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 4 Book 79 - Part 3 of the Messianic Prophecies Part 4

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 79 PART 3 of the MESSIANIC PROPHECIES – PART 4 Psalms 40 and 41 For those of you out in television—I trust most of you know by now that we tape four of these in a row. Then we put three months, or twelve programs, together in a little booklet, a video tape, a DVD, and so forth. So whenever you buy one of these products, you’re getting twelve programs. We also thank you for your response and your prayers and everything that goes with it. All right, we’re going to keep right on now with our series in the Messianic Psalms. We are in Psalms 41. Then in the next taping, we’re going to jump up to the next Messianic Psalm, which I’ve picked out as Psalms 45. Now, like I said earlier this afternoon, that doesn’t mean there are not other Psalms that make a reference to Christ. But it’s not as graphically as these that I’m picking out. All right, Psalms chapter 41 and we got down as far as verse 7. Psalms 41:7-8 “All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. (In other words, that’s the ridiculing crowd around the cross.) 8. An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: (Anything to put scorn and rebuke upon him.) and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.” I think that’s a reference to His death. They thought surely that since He was dead, He wouldn’t be bothering them any more. Because that’s what they really thought, you know. They thought He would just be bringing misery to Israel, because He was reprimanding them for their self-righteousness, for their religion, and for knowing nothing of faithfulness to the God of Israel. So they hated Him. And that’s always been that way. The Truth cuts deep, and people don’t like it. All right, now verse 9. We’ve got a different subject to cover for a little bit. I imagine a lot of people do not realize that Judas was so completely foretold as he is here in this Psalm. Psalms 41:9 “Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.” Who’s He talking about? Judas! All right, now let’s do it scripturally. Let’s go back to John’s Gospel chapter 13. Because the beauty of Scripture is that it all fits if we’ll just take the time to find it. John’s Gospel chapter 13 and we’ll drop in at verse 10. Now here, you remember, He was washing the disciples’ feet. And this is one time I know I have taught these verses a long time ago. And, you remember, when the Lord came to Peter—now I always qualify—I know they weren’t sitting on chairs like we do today. But had they been, and He came to Peter, what did Peter do with his feet? Boy, he just pulled them back under the chair, so to speak, and he says what? “You’re not going to wash my feet.” And then the Lord gave that classic statement, “If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.” All right, now come to verse 9. I’m just picking up the flow here—get the picture of Jesus washing the feet of these twelve men. Just showing how that He was not above being their servant. John 13:9-10 “Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. (And then Peter said, well, then give me a bath. And look at Jesus’ answer.) 10. Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save (or except) to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but (What?) not all.” Eleven of you are. But the twelfth one, who was it? Judas. He wasn’t a believer. He was an impostor. He was a hypocrite. He was a master at hypocrisy, do you know that? For three years the other eleven men never caught on to who he was. He could go right along with everything, with the ebb and flow, and nobody caught on that he was a rebel, until it was the night at the Garden. Jesus knew, of course, verse 11. John 13:11-12 “For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean. (One of you is not a believer.) 12. So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?” And now, of course, He explains the whole idea of the servitude of even the Master. Verse 13: John 13:13-14 “Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. 14. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; (A humiliating task, if ever there was one.) ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.” Now there are some groups that still practice foot washing. I don’t condemn them for it. But I maintain that Paul doesn’t teach it in his epistles, so neither do I. But whatever. It was a lesson in humility. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible