GOD’S PUROSEFUL YOUTH (G.P.Y.) ONLINE TEACHING THE MYSTERY OF THE CROSS (Third Session)

GOD’S PUROSEFUL YOUTH (G.P.Y.) ONLINE TEACHING

THE MYSTERY OF THE CROSS (Third Session)

TEACHING BY: BRO SEGUN MAUTON

PRAYER: Pray for clarity in the explanation of the word and also in the understanding of the same.

Pray that the Spirit of Christ will guide us into His truth and enlighten us richly tonight!

Father our study of your word tonight is blessed, by Your Spirit we have clear understanding of everything that will be shared, our minds will receive Your word with humility and contriteness, there's no confusion in us.

We've learnt that the man Jesus was born to die, and His death was what made going to the cross inevitable for Him.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Phil. 2:5-8

In fact, close to the end, He felt like abandoning His purpose but He asked for strength to fulfill it. He endured it.

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Heb. 12:2

We've also seen that everything He accomplished had all already been written by prophets before He came.

Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. Luke 18:31

His destiny had been documented by Moses in his laws, the prophecies of Old time prophets like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel and King David too.

Hear what He told His disciples that were ignorant of these things...

Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Luke 24:25-27

And what was the purpose for the "bible study" He gave them??

See it, the next verses...

And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And ye are witnesses of these things. Luke 24:46-48

That His death and resurrection was for the remission of sins.

And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. Luke 24:44-45

So, what God did was to reveal beforehand everything that His Son would accomplish.

He was going to be a man like every other person, He wasn't born with knowledge of all things concerning Himself. He had to read about it in the scriptures.

And He could read them because God had inspired prophets to compile their prophecies. These compilations became useful to the Son in identifying His purpose.

It was from what was written (in the scriptures) that Jesus knew He had to die/suffer, be raised on the third day and be glorified....

And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day. Luke 24:46

Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Luke 24:26-27

It was also from the scriptures that He knew his death would be on the cross...

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up. John 3:14

Jesus must have read Moses account in Numbers;

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. 21:9

So everything Jesus came to do, his birth, ministry, death and resurrection had all been written before He came.

These people had unbelief, not only in Jesus but also in Moses. See what Jesus told them before saying this;

And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. 38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. 39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. John 5:37-40

Hear Jesus...

For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. 47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? John 5:46-47

In fact, Jesus accredited the books of Moses, that the things He wrote were concerning Him.

The Father had used the writings of Moses and all the prophets to bear witness of the Son, but these people didn't believe.

Their forefathers behaved the same way, when Moses preached God's grace to them in the Gospel, they didn't believe Moses...

And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after. Heb. 3:5

Moses declared the testimony of God to them, BUT...

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Heb. 3:16-19

They had unbelief and so they couldn't enter into the promise of God for them.

They preferred sacrifices and religious ceremonies like they were doing while still in Egypt.

I hope someone is getting this...

The Gospel was preached to them but they didn't have faith in it.

For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. Heb. 4:2

"Them" here refers to the Israelites that Moses led out of Egypt. "Them" are the people being described from chapter 3.

We'll also see that the Gospel was preached to Abraham and he believed it.

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. Gal. 3:8

That's why we can find his name in what is called the "Hall of Faith" in Hebrews 11, all the people mentioned there are examples of people that believed the Gospel in the Old Testament.

Abel too heard this same message and he believed it, or why do you think his sacrifice was an animal?

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. Heb. 11:4

Let’s take a closer look at Abraham...

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. Heb. 11:17-19

Can you see why Abraham wanted to sacrifice Isaac?

It was because according to the Gospel that was preached to him, God could raise the dead.

Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. Heb. 11:19

Even though there has never been an account of anyone being raised from the dead before then, Abraham already saw it in the Gospel. So, he reasoned that if I sacrifice this son, God would give me many others.

And he was correct, see what he was thinking here...

For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. Heb. 2:10

Jesus taught this in a sermon...

And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. John 12:23-24

And indeed many sons came after the suffering (death) of Christ.

That's what Abraham saw and believed.

He was told that his seed would be a blessing to the world, he thought it was Isaac.

But God wasn't referring to Isaac as the seed, but JESUS, who would come from the lineage of Abraham, then Isaac and down that blood line...

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. Acts 3:25-26

Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. Gal 3:16

I love the way Paul puts it here, I'll use it as a summary for this session;

1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) 3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; Rom. 1:1-3

So, anyone that reads the Holy Scriptures must realize that God inspired them as witness to the Son and all that the Son will accomplish in saving man from sin and death.

We'll visit some of the prophets in the next session and see why Jesus death had to be on the cross.

Glory to God!

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