Title: The Cross of Christ
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: Psalm 22
When I was in college, that's when I first began to grow as a Christian. I became a Christian toward the end of my senior year in high school. And when I went off to college at the University of Texas, lots of kids go off to college and they do terrible spiritually, but the Lord really protected me from getting in with the wrong crowd in college. I got in with the right crowd. I really began to grow. And it was in college my freshman year that I learned how to start studying the Bible. I'd never done that before. I grew up Catholic, and I grew up knowing things about Jesus, and knowing things about the gospel, but I didn't know the Bible very well at all. And I especially didn't know the Old Testament. So, one of my practices was when I would study at night, I would go to the library, and I would take my books, and before I started studying for my subjects in school, I would take the Bible, and I'd start reading the Bible. And I would take that time, "Lord, I'm going to seek You first and Your kingdom, and ask You to bless my studies." And I remember one night I was reading in the Book of Psalms, and I was reading Psalm 22. And I thought Psalms were just all kind of the same. You know, it was just encouragement for your soul and praises to the Lord and things like that. And all of a sudden, I'm reading Psalm 22, and it hits me, Woe! This is a different psalm. This psalm is talking about Jesus. This psalm is talking about the cross. And it blew me away. I wasn't expecting that. You know, Charles Spurgeon, who lived in the 19th century, the great preacher from England, he's called the "Prince of Preachers," calls Psalm 22 the psalm of the cross. It's amazing when you think about it. David is writing by inspiration of the Holy Spirit. David is writing Psalm 22. He's writing about the cross. As we're going to see that clearly, he's writing about the cross. A thousand years before C ...
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: Psalm 22
When I was in college, that's when I first began to grow as a Christian. I became a Christian toward the end of my senior year in high school. And when I went off to college at the University of Texas, lots of kids go off to college and they do terrible spiritually, but the Lord really protected me from getting in with the wrong crowd in college. I got in with the right crowd. I really began to grow. And it was in college my freshman year that I learned how to start studying the Bible. I'd never done that before. I grew up Catholic, and I grew up knowing things about Jesus, and knowing things about the gospel, but I didn't know the Bible very well at all. And I especially didn't know the Old Testament. So, one of my practices was when I would study at night, I would go to the library, and I would take my books, and before I started studying for my subjects in school, I would take the Bible, and I'd start reading the Bible. And I would take that time, "Lord, I'm going to seek You first and Your kingdom, and ask You to bless my studies." And I remember one night I was reading in the Book of Psalms, and I was reading Psalm 22. And I thought Psalms were just all kind of the same. You know, it was just encouragement for your soul and praises to the Lord and things like that. And all of a sudden, I'm reading Psalm 22, and it hits me, Woe! This is a different psalm. This psalm is talking about Jesus. This psalm is talking about the cross. And it blew me away. I wasn't expecting that. You know, Charles Spurgeon, who lived in the 19th century, the great preacher from England, he's called the "Prince of Preachers," calls Psalm 22 the psalm of the cross. It's amazing when you think about it. David is writing by inspiration of the Holy Spirit. David is writing Psalm 22. He's writing about the cross. As we're going to see that clearly, he's writing about the cross. A thousand years before C ...
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