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

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 79 PART 3 of the MESSIANIC PROPHECIES – PART 3 Psalms 40 and 41 Okay, good to have you all back again. For those of you out in television, you don’t know what you’re missing. Come in some afternoon, and every thirty minutes you can go get another cup of coffee and another something to eat. We just have a good time all afternoon. Anyway, we appreciate everybody coming in. For those of you out in television, we just thank you again for your letters. My, how we feast on your letters and to know that the Lord is accomplishing more than we had any idea. Okay, now let’s go back to where we left off in the last lesson. We’re still in the Messianic Psalms. We are presently working on Book 79. If you want to know how many programs are available for the next few years, multiply 79 times 12. And that’s pretty close to a thousand programs. So, if something happens to me, the program will keep right on going. We’ve got girls in the office that are handling all that. So if you ever have the question: what if something happens to me or both of us together? Why, everything will keep right on going as long as the Lord wishes it to be done. Okay, back to Psalms chapter 40. We want to finish that before we go into the next one, which will be chapter 41. But come back to Psalms 40. We made reference to the Lord responding in His earthly ministry to the very things He spoke of here in verses 9 and 10. Now, let’s come down to verse 12, and all of a sudden there’s a different kind of language. Psalms 40:12-13 “For innumerable evils (Now we’re talking about the other side of the coin.) have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head; therefore my heart faileth me. 13. Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.” Now remember, this is still from the lips and the mind of the Lord Jesus as He is suffering there at the cross. Now jump all the way up—and I think the best verse I can find to explain this, in the whole New Testament in this case, will be in Paul’s II Corinthians chapter 5. And get the picture here in Psalms. “Innumerable (uncountable) evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I’m not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of mine head; therefore my heart faileth.” Well, what’s He talking about? Well, it’s not His own sin; it’s the sin of the world. Now II Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 and, again, it’s a verse, I think, that encompasses everything that we talk about—how that Christ suffered and died for our sins by taking them upon Himself. Now a word that some Bible scholars will use is substitutionary. Christ became our substitute by taking our sin upon Himself. Even though it was 2,000 years ago, yet my sin was laid upon Him back there, as well as yours and anybody that’s still out in the future. And that’s beyond human comprehension. But, here we have it. II Corinthians 5:21 “For he hath made him (Who has? God made Christ Jesus--) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; (He was sinless Himself, but God laid upon Him all of our sin, and He became our substitute. He took our place. And what’s the result?) that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” Okay, now Paul puts it so beautifully. Back up a few pages, if you will, to Romans chapter 3. I’m going to start at verse 20. We’ve done this before, but can it can never be repeated enough. That now we’re coming out from the system of Law, and we’re into Paul’s Gospel of Grace—which is unmerited favor. God became our substitute in the person of Jesus Christ. Romans 3:20-21a “Therefore by the deeds (or the keeping) of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: (No one. Why?) for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (The Law tells us what God’s mind is concerning our activity as humans.) 21. But now…” Now you remember we had a whole bunch of those—and I think it was a pretty good series, if I say so myself (Books 64-68). Romans 3:21 “But now the righteousness of God (What righteousness? God’s righteousness—which is beyond human comprehension. God does not know how to sin. All right, reading on then.) without the law (See that?) is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; (That’s why I’m doing these Psalms lately. It is to show that all the Old Testament writers, even though they didn’t understand what they wrote—it was back there. All right, so here it is as Paul now puts it.) witnessed by the law and the prophets;” Romans 3:22a “Even the righteousness of God which is by the faith…” Now, I had an interesting little article come in the mail yesterday. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible