In this sermon, Paul Washer discusses the importance of understanding who Jesus truly is and what he did for humanity on the cross. Washer describes the suffering that Jesus endured and how it is this suffering that drives people to spend their lives on Christ. He also emphasizes the need to study and understand the person of Jesus so that one can have the mind of God.

Hello, my name is Paul Washer, and I'm a member of Christ Church, Radford, and I also am one of the staff workers for the Heart Cry Missionary Society. What's burning on my on my heart? Then the year the King, Isaiah died, I saw also the Lord high and lifted up the train of his robe filled the temple above him, stood the seraphim, each having six wings With two, they covered their face and with two, they cover their feet. With two, they did fly. One cried unto the other, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory.

The post, the door moved at the voice of him who cried. And this same magnificent person is described this way. And he went a little beyond them and fell on his face. And prayed, saying. My father, if it is possible.

Let this cup pass for me. Yet not as I will. But as you will. And this same magnificent person. About the ninth hour, cried out with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabakhthani.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Forsaken me. I am not a great expositor, nor a academic. I have been called a one hit wonder. The man only preaches about one thing.

Does he study nothing else? From the day as a young Christian. That I read. And it pleased the Lord to crush him. I have very few thoughts That stray far from that.

That this magnificent God. This magnificent son, everything the father has ever done is done for him. He created the world for the sun and through the sun, he sustains the world for the sun and through the sun, He reveals himself through the sun, He redeems through the sun. He will judge through the sun. He will give all honor, glory and praise to the sun.

But this one place. In our history. This one place in the cosmos, this one moment in time. When the land became dark. And I do not believe it was.

Cloudy or just rainy or just thunderbolts filling the sky, I believe that you couldn't have seen your face, your hand in front of your face, a darkness like that covered Egypt. Engulfed the son of God. On that tree. Because, you see, he had to be locked up, shut up. He couldn't even look out at the mourners and find compassion from them.

He had to be shut up entirely as billow after billow after billow of the wrath of Almighty God. Crushed him and crushed him. Reformers and Puritans were quick to point out evidence of his deity for who can withstand the wrath of Almighty God. And yet beware the statements true. But it wasn't that his deity acted as a dome protecting him.

His deity strengthened his humanity so he could suffer that as a man, what would pulverize worlds in a fraction of a second. He suffered as a lone man for three hours upon that tree. That. Is what drives. From where do we find passion, where do we find motivation, what engine is strong enough?

To burn within, to cause us to cause a man, a woman to spend their life. It is that magnificent person. Of Jesus Christ. He is everything. He is everything in the mind of God.

And when he is everything in your mind, you have the mind of God. And it is to take this message To the world. We work in so many countries, so many places where people cannot go. So many deep and dark jungles and high mountains. I want to see those people gathered.

For Christ. But I don't want just a. Elemental or primitive. Basic, I don't want them to have just this basic little understanding, I want the tribesmen. To understand who this person truly is.

And to revel. When his heart to be so captivated That he can't sleep at night. That he takes the night watch, but with gladness in his heart. I want especially for you young people. There is.

A time coming, it appears that the Lord has decreed for you to suffer. There is only one thing to drive you through that storm, and that is an awareness of who this marvelous person, Jesus Christ, truly is and what he did for you on Calvary. As I've said. I say it so many times. But I'm just following in the footsteps of my father's when I say it.

Whether it's Flaval or Owen. Our Spurgeon or Octavius Winslow or Philpott, Hugh Martin. William Bates. All of the men who wrote much and thought much of Christ, they always felt the need almost in every chapter to offer an apology. And then to walk away from what they had written with disgust, because we're talking about such a glorious person.

That I suppose that. You would have to be supernaturally strengthened. Just to catch the tiniest glimpse of him, lest it kill you, lest it fracture your mind. Exaggerate your heart. Put an end to you, pulverize you.

This is Christ, and this is what we as Christians come from, but this is also as Christians what we are going to. This is a fraction of a moment that we live. I agree so much with the Wesley brothers. Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing. Oh, for a thousand lives to lay down.

Oh, anathema to every wasted moment that's not given to him. It becomes barbaric and foolish, Christ, Christ, Christ. That you young people would see him study Calvary. Study his pre-incarnate glory, study his humiliation. Study his death, study his perfect life, study his resurrection and power, study as he cries out to the parapets of heaven for the doors to be opened and that he might walk through as a man.

By his own virtue, by his own merit, the conqueror. I am a weak and pitiful man. It's Martin Lloyd Jones says at the end of his life, everyone who visited him, he said, I am a great sinner, but oh, Christ is a great savior. Think much on him. Buy books on him.

Study him, pray to him, cry out to him just to know him more. Just to know him more. Thank you.