CHRIST, THE MAN OF SORROWS

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Night, With Ebon Pinion

The text was written by Love H. Jameson, more
that one hundred thirty years ago.
The tune for the hymn (also known as Sorrows or
Ebon Pinion) was composed by Joseph P. Powell,
who was born in 1832 in Oregon.
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Hallelujah! What a Savior!

Written by Philip P. Bliss in 1875, shortly
before his death
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• Isaiah 532-3
• 2For he grew up before him like a young
  plant,and like a root out of dry groundhe had
  no form or majesty that we should look at
  him,   and no beauty that we should desire him.3
  He was despised and rejected by men a man of
  sorrows, and acquainted with grief and as one
  from whom men hide their faces he was despised,
  and we esteemed him not.
• (1 Pet 222-25)

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• Why a man of sorrows acquainted with grief?
• John 1511 
• 11These things I have spoken to you, that my joy
  may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

John 1713  13But now I am coming to you, and
these things I speak in the world, that they may
have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
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• Why a man of sorrows acquainted with grief?
• Examine three areas of Christs life
• (1) Sorrow of being rejected
• (2) Sorrow for the sins of the Jews and His
  immediate disciples
• (3) Sorrows because of the suffering He had to
  experience

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• I. Sorrow of being rejected
• gtHis reason for coming to earth

Luke 199-10  9And Jesus said to him, "Today
salvation has come to this house, since he also
is a son of Abraham. 10For the Son of Man came to
seek and to save the lost."
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• I. Sorrow of being rejected
• gtHis reason for coming to earth
• gtAnd His own rejected Him

John 666-67   66 After this many of his
disciples turned back and no longer walked with
him. 67So Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you want
to go away as well?"
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• I. Sorrow of being rejected
• John 517-18 
• 17But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working
  until now, and I am working."
•  18This was why the Jews were seeking all the
  more to kill him, because not only was he
  breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God
  his own Father, making himself equal with God

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• I. Sorrow of being rejected
• John 1133-35 
• 33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who
  had come with her also weeping, he was deeply
  moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. 34And
  he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to
  him, "Lord, come and see." 35 Jesus
  wept.

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• John 111-12 
• 11He came to his own, and his own people did not
  receive him. 12But to all who did receive him,
  who believed in his name, he gave the right to
  become children of God,

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• II. Jesus sorrowed because of the sins of the
  Jews and His disciples.
• Matthew 1116-19 
•  16"But to what shall I compare this generation?
  It is like children sitting in the marketplaces
  and calling to their playmates, 17"'We played the
  flute for you, and you did not dance we sang a
  dirge, and you did not mourn. 18For John came
  neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He
  has a demon.' 19The Son of Man came eating and
  drinking, and they say, 'Look at him! A glutton
  and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and
  sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."

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• II. Jesus sorrowed because of the sins of the
  Jews and His disciples.
• Matthew 1120-24  20 Then he began to denounce
  the cities where most of his mighty works had
  been done, because they did not repent. 21 "Woe
  to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if
  the mighty works done in you had been done in
  Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago
  in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I tell you, it
  will be more bearable on the day of judgment for
  Tyre and Sidon than for you. 23And you,
  Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You
  will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty
  works done in you had been done in Sodom, it
  would have remained until this day. 24 But I tell
  you that it will be more tolerable on the day of
  judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.

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• II. Jesus sorrowed because of the sins of the
  Jews and His disciples.
• Matthew 15
• 2-3 2 "Why do your disciples break the tradition
  of the elders? For they do not wash their hands
  when they eat." 3He answered them, "And why do
  you break the commandment of God for the sake of
  your tradition?
• 7-9 7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of
  you, when he said 8 "'This people honors me
  with their lips,   but their heart is far from
  me9 in vain do they worship me,   teaching as
  doctrines the commandments of men.'"

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• II. Jesus sorrowed because of the sins of the
  Jews and His disciples.
• Matthew 23
• 13 15  13"But woe to you, scribes and
  Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom
  of heaven in peoples faces. For you neither
  enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter
  to go in. 15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
  hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to
  make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a
  proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of
  hell as yourselves.
• 27  27 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
  hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs,
  which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are
  full of dead peoples bones and all uncleanness.

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• II. Jesus sorrowed because of the sins of the
  Jews and His disciples.
• Matthew 2337 
•  37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills
  the prophets and stones those who are sent to it!
  How often would I have gathered your children
  together as a hen gathers her brood under her
  wings, and you would not!

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• III. Did the Lords impending death fill His
  heart with sorrow?
• Hebrews 121-2 
•  1Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great
  a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every
  weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let
  us run with endurance the race that is set before
  us, 2looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter
  of our faith, who for the joy that was set before
  him endured the cross, despising the shame, and
  is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

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• III. Did the Lords impending death fill His
  heart with sorrow?
• Matthew 2636-39 
•  36 Then Jesus went with them to a place called
  Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit
  here, while I go over there and pray." 37And
  taking with him Peter and the two sons of
  Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
  38Then he said to them, "My soul is very
  sorrowful, even to death remain here, and watch
  with me." 39And going a little farther he fell on
  his face and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it be
  possible, let this cup pass from me
  nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will."

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• III. Did the Lords impending death fill His
  heart with sorrow?
• John 1016-18 16And I have other sheep that are
  not of this fold. I must bring them also, and
  they will listen to my voice. So there will be
  one flock, one shepherd. 17 For this reason the
  Father loves me, because I lay down my life that
  I may take it up again. 18 No one takes it from
  me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have
  authority to lay it down, and I have authority to
  take it up again. This charge I have received
  from my Father."

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• Jeremiah - often called the weeping prophet
• Jeremiah 1315-17  
• 15Hear and give ear be not proud,for the LORD
  has spoken. 16 Give glory to the LORD your God
  before he brings darkness, before your feet
  stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you
  look for light he turns it into gloom and makes
  it deep darkness. 17But if you will not listen,
  my soul will weep in secret for your pride my
  eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,
  because the LORDs flock has been taken captive.

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• Jeremiah, often called the weeping prophet.
• Lamentations 112  
• 12"Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?   
  Look and seeif there is any sorrow like my
  sorrow,   which was brought upon me,which the
  LORD inflicted   on the day of his fierce anger.

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• Dont cause Jesus to weep tonight because of your
  sins, but rather obey