In the sermon 'He Is Our Sufferer' by Scott Brown, Jesus Christ is depicted as our sufferer for two primary reasons: compassion and substitution. The sermon explains that Jesus suffered in every way humans do but without sin, demonstrating his compassion as a high priest who fully understands human sorrow. His suffering was also substitutionary, as he endured the wrath of God that humanity deserved. It is emphasized that from his incarnation, Jesus's life was marked by continuous trials and suffering, not just from Gethsemane onward, but from the moment of his birth. The sermon highlights that Jesus was perpetually filled with the Holy Spirit, which empowered him to live sinlessly and with compassion, serving as a perfect sacrifice. Through various life stages, from his mother's womb to his ministry, Jesus's sinless suffering stands in contrast to human frailty, offering believers both an example and a substitutionary atonement for their sins.

During this hour. I want to focus on how the Lord Jesus Christ as our mediator carried our sorrows and how he demonstrated how he would carry our sorrows in every part of his life. And There are two of the most encouraging things about Jesus Christ, our mediator, is that his life was lived for compassion. He suffered in every single way that you've ever suffered. Why did he do it?

To prove his compassion. He's a compassionate high priest, and he experienced every one of your sorrows. So he suffered for compassion. And then secondly he suffered for substitution and he suffered in the way that we suffer without sin because when we suffer we usually sin even if we even if we suffer for the most righteous cause we sin I've found that out personally I've suffered for some righteous causes and often my responses were sinful. So he suffered for compassion and he suffered for substitution and for substitution because he suffered without sin, not like us.

I dare say it would be difficult for a human being to suffer without sin. I think it would be difficult for a human being to do anything without sin. Talk, walk, work, whatever, because we're sinful creatures. So all this to say, He is our sufferer for those two reasons. Now, the experiences, the treatment, the punishments of Christ were all to show us that he is your sufferer.

And he suffers in your place. And not only does he take the wrath of God we deserved, his suffering makes him compassionate. And That's why the Bible says that he was made a curse for us because we deserve to be cursed. That his death and resurrection prove what Paul says to the Philippians in Philippians 2, 8, and being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself, became obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross." Now, I want to continue to lay the foundation for how We're going to walk through the scripture on this by saying this the life of Jesus Christ was a Suffering life his entire life he suffered and Octavius Winslow explains it like this The life of our Lord was a life of continuous trial from the moment he entered our world he became plagued with suffering. Here's Paul Washer, His identification with sinful suffering, mankind, did not begin at Gethsemane or Calvary, but at the very moment of his incarnation.

Most of us when we think about the sufferings of Christ, we think about Gethsemane forward. You know, when he's sweating drops of blood, we think of his suffering in these moments But theologians in the past didn't believe that they thought that every aspect of his incarnation Was for suffering washer continues From the cradle to the grave he was exposed to and suffered the consequences of his people's sin and the execution of the curse upon them. Although he was without sin, he lived his entire life under the afflictions, temptations, and sorrows of those who had sinned. He submitted himself to all the consequences of the curse throughout the full course of his life. Let me keep going.

Robert Hawker says it this way, he endured in his person the very curse denounced upon the sinner. All was poured upon Jesus through every part of his life." And then J. William says it like this. He's contrasting the kinds of sufferings that we have with the kinds of sufferings that Jesus had. His proposition is that our sufferings aren't continuous, that God is kind to us, and we experience seasons and moments without very much suffering at all, but not Jesus.

Here's how he speaks of it. Jesus endured in his per... I'm sorry. Ours, our suffering, our sufferings are not perpetual, but his continued through life. He suffered in every part that was capable of suffering.

And all This is important that we grasp that one of the most glorious aspects of the glory of Jesus is that he is your sufferer. He suffered for compassion, and he suffered for substitution. This is such a good thing for us to consider what a treasure it is to have him to stand in our place that way. Now, In order to understand why it was that He was able to suffer for us, yet without sin, we need to understand that Jesus Christ was perpetually filled with the Holy Spirit. He was completely filled with the Holy Spirit.

When the Apostle Paul says to us, be filled with the Holy Spirit, he recognizes that there are times we ain't filled with the Holy Spirit. Jesus wasn't like that. He was always filled with the Holy Spirit. Don't you wish you could be filled with the Holy Spirit all the time? It would be, wouldn't it be nice?

But Jesus was always filled with the Holy Spirit. In Isaiah 11, verse two, there's a prophecy of Jesus. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord." Isaiah 42 verse 1, Behold my servant whom I uphold, my elect one in whom my soul delights. I have put my spirit upon him. Luke 4, 14 through 19 tells us that Jesus walked in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news about him went through all the surrounding region, and he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. All this to prove the point that Jesus was perpetually filled with the Holy Spirit and he was always unceasingly full of the Holy Spirit at every moment of his life from the time he was in his mother's womb to the time of his death. Now I want to walk through his life now. I want to walk through his incarnation. The last time we gathered together and talked about this we walked through the time the time of his suffering from the cross.

Now I'd like to begin way before that and demonstrate his suffering beginning at the beginning of his life. So I'm just going to go until I am finished, not until I'm finished with my notes, because There are maybe a couple of dozen points and I don't have enough time for that, but you'll get the idea by the time we get to the end. First of all, he was filled with the Spirit in his mother's womb. Jesus never lived a moment of his holy redeeming life on his own power even in his mother's womb. Jesus was filled with the Spirit in his mother's womb.

There's some women who are pregnant here and guess what? Jesus was actually filled with the Spirit in his mother's womb. And in Matthew 1 18, when his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph before they came together, She was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit Matthew 120 Joseph the son of David Do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife for the child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. Luke 1.35, the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you and for that reason the Holy Child will be called the Son of God. Jesus Christ was filled with the Holy Spirit in his mother's womb.

Why is that important? Every, all of us came from our mother's wombs and I believe that Jesus Christ was filled with the Holy Spirit in his mother's womb. Why is that important? Every all of us came from our mother's wombs and I believe that Jesus Christ was filled with the Holy Spirit in his mother's womb because all of us sinned in our mother's wombs. We weren't even conscious of it now.

We don't remember how we sinned in our mother's wombs. We don't remember very much about how we sin anyway, but Jesus Christ never sinned in his mother's womb. Number two, he was filled with the Spirit when persecuted at his birth. After he was born, persecution broke out against him. Herod hunted him down to kill him, and his family had to flee as a result of that.

But he was filled with the Spirit when persecuted at his birth. Number three, he was filled with the Spirit in his growing up years. There are various places where we learn that Jesus Christ grew in wisdom and stature, favor with God and man, that Jesus Christ was full of grace and truth, and he was filled with the Spirit in his growing-up years. All of us sinned in our growing up years. When we were one year old, two years old, people often ask Deborah and I, when should you start correcting and disciplining and even spanking a child?

I mean, Our response has always been, well, you can see rebellion in a child pretty close right after they're born. Like when you're trying to change their diaper and they arch their back. It's actually rebellion. You don't have to teach a child to rebel. They rebel right out of the gate.

And Jesus Christ didn't sin growing up. You know, you reach the terrible twos and then you turn 12 years old, you know, and if you're a son you start driving your mother crazy because you're sinning against her, you're rebellious, you're not kindly following her direction, you're not respecting her. This happens to teenage boys all the time. I don't know how many men or women and men come to me and say, my son, he's 12 years old, 13, 14 years old, he won't respect my wife, What do I do? We'll get to the answer to that some other time, but you must be dealt with but Jesus grew up and He knew in his growing up years.

He never sinned and by the way his parents were normal parents they were inexperienced young parents, and Jesus submitted to them, and he submitted perfectly to them. Number four, He was filled with the Spirit in all of his behavior. He always did his Father's will. Psalm 40, verses 7 and 8, Then, behold, I come in the scroll of the book it is written of me. I delight to do your will, O my God, and your law is within my heart." Jesus Christ always did his Father's will under the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Baptist confession makes the point that Jesus Christ was perpetually filled with the Holy Spirit in the section on the mediatorial role of Jesus Christ. He was filled with the Spirit first so that He might have compassion on us, having experienced what we experience, and second, to serve as a sinless sacrifice for us. Sacrifice for us when we were in the womb and we sinned, when we were adolescents and we sinned, when we were in our behavior, in all the various manifestations of our behavior, number five, he was filled with the Spirit in his ministry. Isaiah 1, 2, the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness." That's Hebrews 1.9.

The Lord Jesus Christ was filled with the Spirit in his ministry, and he was filled with the Spirit in his ministry because we also are in ministry. He was filled with the Spirit in his ministry because we also are in ministry. He was filled with the Spirit so that he might have compassion on us when in our ministry we sin. He was in the ministry with perfection. Your elders are in the ministry, and they sin in their ministry.

They do. And all the deacons do, too—especially the deacons, of course. But all of us in the ministry, we sin in the ministry, but Jesus Christ suffered for those in the ministry so that he would have compassion on those who sin in the ministry so that he would be a substitute for those who are in the ministry. I am really thankful for Jesus Christ's compassion for my sin in the ministry and that he was perfect and He is my substitute for the things I have not been able to accomplish in the ministry. Six, he was filled with the Spirit in his speech.

Isaiah 61, 1, The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted. Isaiah 48, 16. Come near to me and listen to this. From the first I have not spoken in secret, from the time it took place, I was there, and now the Lord God sent me and his Spirit." Jesus Christ was filled with the Spirit in his speech. In Isaiah 59 we read that God put His words in His mouth, in Jesus Christ's mouth.

Jesus was perfect in His speech so that He would have compassion on us in the sins of our tongue. He was perfect in his speech so that he would be the perfect sacrifice for the sins of our tongue. Number seven. He was filled with the Spirit in the deeds of his body. He did not come with a body like Adam.

He came with a different body. After the fall, our bodies were stained by sin, defiled by the fall. And the Bible says in Romans 8.3 that he came in the likeness of sinful flesh. In other words, he had desires of the flesh of his physical body, and often the desires of our physical body cause us to sin. And he was filled with the Spirit in his body so that when we would sin in the cravings of our body, he would have compassion for us in the cravings of our body that lead us to sin.

And that He would also be the perfect sacrifice for all of us who have mismanaged the cravings of our bodies of various kinds. There are many ways that the cravings of the body can lead us into sin. Jesus never did, and He did that for you, and He did that for me. Number eight, he was filled with the Spirit in the midst of his corrupt companions. In John chapter one verse 14, it says that he dwelt among sinners.

And if you think, you know, turn the clock back to Lot in Sodom. It says that he was oppressed, he was vexed by the sinfulness of his culture. The people around him were so corrupt and it just grieved him. It's difficult to live among people that hate God. It rubs off on you.

It affects you. You enter into the sins of those of your culture and your people. Jesus Christ was filled with the Spirit perfectly in the midst of his companions. There are various kinds of companions in this world, and some of your companions can lead you astray in sin. Jesus never did that.

Jesus Christ suffered being filled with the Spirit while he was in the presence of corrupt companions for two reasons so that he would have compassion on you when you followed your corrupt companions and So that He would be your perfect sacrifice for every sin that you committed in that way. I hope you are getting an idea of how massive the grace of God is, how marvelous the Atonement is, how amazing it is that Jesus Christ is our substitute and that he was filled with the Spirit in everything in his life. I'm just going to give you headings without proofs and following statements, but I want to keep on going. He was filled with the Spirit in the midst of his poverty because he was poor. He entered the world having nothing.

He used a borrowed boat to get across the sea. He was using donations, often from women, to keep him going. He lived in a borrowed home and he was buried in a borrowed tomb. He was poor. Often you sin when you're poor.

Your poverty will cause you to sin. Jesus never sinned in his poverty. He was filled with the Spirit at his baptism. Did you ever think that maybe you you you sinned at your baptism? You did.

You sinned at your baptism at some point. You had some wrong thought at your baptism I guarantee you did either before your baptism or during your baptism or after your baptism you know maybe it was pride maybe who knows what it was there was definitely pride in everything we've ever done but he was he was filled with the Holy Spirit perfectly in his baptism. Matthew 3, 16, and 17 prove that. He was filled with the Spirit in his temptation. Matthew 4, Mark 1, Luke 4.

He was filled with the Spirit during the times he was hated. He was filled with the Spirit during the times he was hated. He was filled with the Spirit when he was denounced by his countrymen. You know, often when you're denounced, you sin. It's hard on you.

You know, I spoke earlier today of dumpster diving. When my wife says, have you been dumpster diving, you know what she means? She means, have you been reading the things that people say about you who hate you? Yeah, yeah, it was. I was going back and reading the things that people hate me or saying about me.

That's dumpster diving. Stop it. You know, that's what she says. But he was filled with the Spirit when he was denounced by his countrymen. Next, he was filled with the Spirit when he was denounced by his countrymen.

Next he was filled with the Spirit when he was accused of crimes like Sabbath breaking and violating traditions, and he was accused of bearing false witness and that he was possessed by the devil, the ruler of demons. He was actually accused that his father was the devil. He was accused that way. He didn't sin when that happened. He was filled with the Spirit when his authority was openly challenged.

The Lord Jesus Christ did not suffer and die like every other person suffers and dies. The Lord Jesus Christ didn't live like everyone lives in this world. He is your sufferer. The old church father, Irenaeus, I think sums it up beautifully. He passed through every stage of life, he was made an infant for infants, sanctifying infancy.

A child among children, sanctifying childhood. And setting an example of family affection, of righteousness and obedience, a young man among young men becoming an example to them and sanctifying them to the Lord. Praise God. He is your sufferer. He suffered in your place so that He would have compassion on you in your sin and so that He would pay the price for all of your sins as a substitute.

Praise God for the glory of Jesus Christ. Lord, Lord, you are so kind. Your grace is more amazing than we can imagine. Lord, today is a day of celebrating Your grace. We thank You for this celebration.

Let us spend the rest of the day continuing. In Jesus' name, Amen.