And, he goes down to the depth. Why? Why, that no matter what depth you go
down and what depth you're in he's with you. There's no depth
that is deeper than his love and his blood given for you.
All punishment for all sin comes upon him. No matter what pit you're in he's there,
No matter how dark it is he's there.
No matter how deep it is he's there. He went, he descended
to the depth, to the depth that we will never even know,
so no matter what depth you're in he's there. You're not alone.
It says in Hebrew, it says he went to the dungeon. In Hebrews it says
bayit sohar, or the house of the prison.
Probably partially underground. In First Peter it says the Messiah's suffering, it says
Verse 3 or Chapter 3, Verse 19 it says he went and he preached to the spirits
in prison. Now we don't even know what that means.
There are people who have theologies about him going to hell ...
The Bible doesn't say he went to hell. But the point is he did suffer hell.
We know that. In a time he did it. But in some way he preached to those who have
been dead. And so he preaches it says to those
in prison. Well here's, here's now Joseph in prison. And now I'm going to
read to you from the rabbis, from a book of,
now listen to the name of this book. The book is the book of Sanhedrin.
This is the Sanhedrin that wrote this book and yet they don't even realize it.
They are bearing witness to Yeshua Jesus as the Messiah.
It says in Sanhedrin 93b, it says this teaches us God will burden
the Messiah and he will put sufferings
on the Messiah. Now this is the Sanhedrin that actually put
the sufferings on him. They don't realize what they're writing.
Another rabbinical writing says, that, they say our sages say that King Messiah
is subjected to sufferings, according to the sins of that generation.
Another rabbinical writing speaks of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
speaking to the Messiah of telling the Messiah how much he's going to suffer
for the sins of Israel. And that, and they quote from Psalm 22, which is actually
what Jesus quoted when he was on the cross and said, my God,
my God, why are you forsaking me? This is
in the rabbinical writings all about the Messiah who is imprisoned
and suffers for our sins.
Chapter 39, Verse 21. The Lord was with him.
And gave him grace. Even in prison God is with Joseph.
And Joseph still prospers no matter where he goes.
And as he goes no matter how deep he goes he still blesses other people.
He's a blessing no matter where he goes. And that's what God wants of us.
And so it says, Verse 22, the keeper committed
to Joseph's hands all the prisoners who were in prison.
So now Joseph is put in charge of all the prisoners, which is interesting
because Messiah went down to the depths
so he would be in charge of all the prisoners. So he would be in charge
of all those who are imprisoned to sin. All those who are
under judgment. Messiah now becomes the Lord over.
It's not death that's over them. Now it's
Messiah who's over them. Amazing thing. Now I want to show you
something that's really amazing here. This is verse 22. Depends on your
translation, but I'm going to read it, one translation.
Whatever they did there he was responsible for it.
Okay. Sounds simple enough. He's in charge and whatever they did he become he's
he's in charge of them so he's responsible.
But the Hebrew doesn't quite say that. The Hebrew says this. Listen.
Whatever they did there he was the doer of it.
Now let me say it again. Whatever they did there in prison,
he was the doer of it. What does that mean?
He's a symbol of Messiah. It means whatever
we did in prison, in bondage, in sin, he is now the doer of it.
Do you understand? He becomes the doer of every sin we did.
He didn't do it. He becomes. He's a tr ... It's, it's,
it's reckoned as if he did what we did. All we did he becomes the doer of it.
The doer of everything. And so now ... going to turn it around. In salvation
now it becomes reversed that now he becomes the doer of righteousness
in our life. So in other words he joins to our bad
works that we could be joined to his good works.
So it's a, it's a holy thing to take your sin
whatever you, whatever the sin is and give it to him, join it to him.
He becomes as if he's the doer of it. He gets the punishment not you. But that
now he can be the doer of goodness in your life.
... we need to learn that secret.
Because the same way he be, he took responsibility
for your actions, my actions, now our new actions are to come from him
doing it in us. It is Messiah in you. So you never can,
no one can live this life without him living in it.
The only one who can live a, quote, Christian life is the Christ. The only
one who can live ... is Messiah. The only one who can live a godly
life is God. There's nobody else. So therefore the secret is having him do it in you.
To live from his living. That he becomes
the doer of what you do. He becomes the speaker
of what you speak. Everything you do, Lord, I want it to come from you.
I want to, whatever I do today I can't do it on my own but with you I can do everything.
So Lord I want it to be your love. I want
it to be your Word speaking. I want it to be your heart
moving me. Love ... loving that it's one life. That's the secret.
It is Messiah who lives in me. One. The two become one.
That's why it says in the Epistles, it says that we are his fellow laborers.
You remember that scripture? We are his co-workers.
Well they, well the Greek doesn't quite say that. The Greek says
we are, it, it uses the word sunergos, which means, which means as one.
Energy as one. Synergy. As everything we do it's one. It's him and us.
It's him doing it as one. That's the secret. That's how to prosper in him.
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