Divine Destiny

Episode Transcript

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Good evening.

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Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don Noble of
Pure Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today with exceedingly
abundantly and overflowing joy. This is one of my favorite
weeks of the whole year, and tonight's message is titled
Divine Destiny. Divine Destiny, and of course this weekend we

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will celebrate one of the most important events of the calendar,
the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. As I pondered
about this weekend, I was struck by the thought that
Jesus knew for thirty three years he was going to
die on a cross. The thought was always there. It

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actually was the motivation for healing the sick, raising the dead,
and casting out demons. It was the motivation to minister
to thousands in the fields and though in the synagogue
about salvation. As he rode into Jerusalem on the donkey

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that fateful day, the people cried, Hosanna, Hosanna in the
highest Hosanna means save.

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We pray.

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But as a human with human emotions and feelings, I
somehow cannot relate to thinking that I'm always going to die.
I mean, my mind, I can't imagine thinking all the time,
I'm going to die. I'm going to die young, and

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worse than that, I'm going to be beaten, scourged, nailed
to a cross, to die a very difficult death of asphyxiation.
I can't imagine having to know that that's my future.
But it was his divine destiny.

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King David.

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Had a revelation of this divine destiny when he wrote
in Psalm twenty two, I want to read a few
scripture verses from that Psalm to you. And it's amazing
that David could see into the future and write this.

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But this is Psalm twenty two.

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We're going to read verses one through three and twelve
through nineteen, and David writes this. He says, my God,
my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you
so far from helping me? And from the words of
my groaning, Oh my God, I cry in the daytime,
but you answer not. And by night I am not

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silent or find no rest. But you are holy, Oh
you who dwell in the holy place where the praises
of Israel are offered. And then verses twelve through nineteen,

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many foes like bulls have surrounded me, strong bulls of
bation have hedged me in against me. They open their
mouths wide like a ravening and roaring lion. I am
poured out like water, and all my bones are out
of joint. My heart is like wax. It is softened

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with anguish and melted down within me. My strength is
dried up like a fragment of clay pottery with thirst.
My tongue cleaves to my jaws. And you have brought
me into the dust of death. For like a pack
of dogs, they have encompassed me. A company of evil

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doers has in circled me. They pierced my hands and
my feet. I can count all my bones. The evil
doers gaze at me. They part my clothing among them,
and cast lots for my raiment, a long shirt like garment,

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a seamless undertunic. But be not far from me. Oh Lord,
oh my help, hasten to aid, to aid me. Deliver
my life from the sword, my dear life, my only one,
from the power of the dog, the agent of execution.

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So David has this incredible understanding, and I believe he
probably had a vision, as he could see exactly what
Messiah would be suffering, because he specifically says about his tongue,
you know, is dried and it's cleaving to his jaws

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and the dogs. The evildoers have encircled him, and they've
pierced his hands and his feet, and that he could
count all of his bones. And they parted, if you remember,
a scripture tells us that they parted his clothing among
them and cast lots for his clothing. So it's an

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incredible insight revelation that David has about what Jesus is
experiencing or will experience. Now I'm going to turn to
Isaiah fifty three, and this prophet has very profound, even

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even a clear picture of Jesus's divine destiny. And Isaiah
wrote in Isaiah fifty three, verses one through twelve, the
exact description of Jesus suffering and what that suffering accomplished
for us as believers, many specific details, such as they

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assigned a grave with the wicked and with a rich
man in his death. So let me just begin in
Isaiah fifty three. I'm going to read those verses one
through twelve and just listen. This prophet is writing seven
hundred years prior to Jesus' arrival on the scene, And

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of course David wrote fifteen hundred years prior to Jesus
coming to the earth. So this is Isaiah writing, who
has believed, trusted in, and relied upon and clung to
our message of that which was revealed to us, and
to whom has the arm of the Lord been disclosed?

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For the servant of God grew up before him like
a tender plan, and like a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness, royal kingly pomp that
we should look at him, and no beauty that we
should desire him. He was despised and rejected and forsaken

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by men, a man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted
with grief and sickness, and like one from whom men
hide their faces. He was despised, and we did not
appreciate his worth or have any esteem for him. Surely

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he has borne our griefs, our sicknesses, weaknesses and distresses,
and carried our sorrows and pains of punishment. Yet we
ignorantly considered him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God as
if with leprosy. But he was wounded for our transgressions.

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He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities. The chastisement
needful to obtain peace and well being for us was
upon him. And with the stripes that wounded him, we
are healed and made whole. All we, like sheep, have

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gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way,
and the Lord has made to light upon him the
guilt and iniquity of us. All he was oppressed. Yet
when he was afflicted, he was submissive and opened not

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his mouth, like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shears is dumb, So
he opened not his mouth. By oppression and judgment, he
was taken away and asked for his generation. Who among

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them considered that he was cut off out of the
land of the living, stricken to his death for the
transgression of my Isaiah's people, to whom the stroke was due.
And they assigned him a grave with the wicked and

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with a rich man in his death, although he had
done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise him.
He has put him to grief and made him sick.
When you and he make his life an offering for sin,

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and he has risen from the dead. In time to come,
he shall see his spiritual offspring. He shall prolong his days,
and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper
in his hand. He shall see the fruit of the

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travail of his soul, and be satisfied by his knowledge
of himself, which he possesses and imparts to others. Shall
my uncompromisingly righteous one, my servant, justify many, and make

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many righteous, upright and in right standing with God, For
he shall bear their iniquities and their guilt with the consequences,
says the Lord. Therefore, will I divide him a portion
with the great kings and rulers, and he shall.

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Divide the spoil with the Mighty.

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Because he poured out his life unto death, and he
let himself be regarded as a criminal and be numbered
with the transgressors. Yet he bore and took away the
sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors, thebell,

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the rebellious. It is stunning to me that a prophet
could know this, see this, It really is profound. Isaiah
fifty three is very profound for many reasons. And of

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course I'm not going to talk tonight about how important
these war words of what the death of Jesus on
the chross did for us, like bearing our griefs and
sicknesses and distresses and caring our pains, our punishment and
giving us peace and well being. But just the point

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is that Isaiah is showing us the divine destiny of Jesus,
what he would experience, what he would look like. Right.
He was despised, he says, and rejected. He was not
pretty to look at. There was no beauty in him
that we should desire him, Isaiah says. And it said

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that men hid their faces from him. But one of
the greatest things about Jesus divine destiny is and I
just love this when Isaiah writes that he's going to
see his spiritual offspring, and that's us. We are his

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spiritual offspring. And he's going to see the fruit of
the travail of his soul, and he's going to be
satisfied about it. And that is you know, that's all mankind,
because he died for all the world. But his fruit

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of the travail will be those who have come into
the kingdom, will be those who believe in him and
believe he is the Christ, and that he has come
to save us. That will be the fruit of the
travail of his soul. That's going to satisfy him. And

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I just I just love that. It's amazing. Again, it's
amazing to me that Isaiah can see this off saio
It and all of these things that the prophet said,
every detail came to pass. He poured out his life

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unto death. He was regarded as a criminal.

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He was.

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When he was on the cross, he was between two thieves,
two criminals. So he was numbered with the transgressors. But
yet he bore and took away the sin of many
and made intercession for the rebellious.

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And you know that one thief was so he was so.

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Vile in his words and his accusations towards Jesus, you know,
like if you're really, if you're really the son of God,
you know, get us down off this cross. But yet
the other thief was so tender in his heart, and
he reckocked. He knew who Jesus was and that Jesus

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had the power to save him, and that's why Jesus
was able to say, you will be with me in paradise.

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Now.

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Jesus also told his disciples. So I want to turn
to John chapter six. And he gave them lots and
lots of warning of what was coming in the future,
and he told him many times, and.

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I mean pretty much.

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They didn't believe him, and I don't think they wanted
to believe him, and it did perplex them. But in
John chapter six, I want to read verses thirty eight
through forty. Jesus says this. He says, for I have
come down from heaven not to do my own will
and purpose, but to do the will and purpose of

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him who sent me. So he makes a clear declaration,
This is why I've come, not to do my own will,
but to do the will and purpose which would be
the cross of.

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Him who sent me.

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And this is the will of him who sent me,
that I should not lose any of all that he
has given me, but that I should give new life
and raise them all up at the last day. For
this is my father's will and his purpose, that everyone

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who sees the Son and believes in and cleaves to,
and trusts in and relies on him should have eternal life,
and I will raise him up from the dead all
at the last day. There you go in a nutshell.

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This is the will and purpose of the Father. This
is g this is divine destiny that everyone, every person
who will believe in him, cling to him, trust in him,
rely on him, will have eternal life. And He's going
to raise him up from the dead on the last day.
And that last day, I presume is referring to when

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he comes in a second coming and we all go
up with him. At least I hope I'm still alive
for that experience. So Jesus is praying and saying these things.
And John chapter seventeen is a whole dialogue which I'm

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not going to take time to read, but you can
read for yourself. You can read sixteen and seventeen. It's
pretty much Jesus throughout those scripts. Sure's speaking about his
hour has come, that he's going to glorify and exalt

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and magnify, you know, the Father, And and he's praying,
he you know, a lot of it is prayer. He's
praying to the Father regarding his disciples and how he's
going to glorify the Father. So Jesus tells them in
many different ways and in many different settings that he's

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going to leave them, and they are having a struggle
with that because they just can't seem to wrap their
brain around that. But it was his destiny, destiny, and
he knew it was his destiny, and he had that,
you know, he knew it from before the beginning of time.

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He knew his destiny, I said, the thirty three years
like when he came on the earth. Now he's really
experiencing in the flesh what is going to happen. So
he knows that. He knows the hours going to come,
the day's going to come when he will leave these disciples,

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and he will be sacrificed on the cross, and he
will suffer.

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He'll be the.

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Suffering servant for the entire world, reconciling all.

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The world to the Father. All the world.

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See, everyone, every human ever born or to be born,
has already been reconciled to the Father. But if they're
not born again, if they have not accepted Jesus, if
they don't believe in Jesus as the as the risen Christ,

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then they'll never taste of that great work that was
done on the cross. They'll never taste of the reconciliation.
But they've all been reconciled. They just have to believe
they just have to know now in Hebrews, if you'll

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turn with me to Hebrews. And by the way, I
have been reading out of the Amplified Classic the entire
time today. I haven't used any other translation of the Bible.
But Hebrews, Chapter ten, We're gonna look at verses one

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through nine.

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And the writer writes.

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For this, for since the law has merely a rude
outline foreshadowing of good things to come, instead of fully
expressing those things, it can never buy. All the same sacrifices, continually,
year after year make perfect those who approach itsalters. In
other words, we talked about this the last couple of weeks.

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The law did not have the power to perfect us.
The law did not have the power to transform us.
The law didn't have the power to save us. Those
sacrifices year after year had no power to those who
approached its salters Verse two. For if it were otherwise,

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would these sacrifices not have stopped being offered since the
worshippers had once for all been cleansed, they would no
longer have any guilt or consciousness of sin. But as
it is, these sacrifices annually bring a fresh remembrance of
sins to be atoned for, because the blood of bulls

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and goats is powerless to take sins away. We talked
about this in the last couple weeks when we talked
about the blood applied, and that the High Priest took
the blood of bulls and goats and went into the
Holy of Holies and cast that blood on the mercy seat,

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but that that was powerless to take our sins away.
Verse five says, Hence, when he Christ entered into the world,
he said, sacrifices and offerings, you have not desired. He's
speaking to his having, He's speaking to his heavenly father.

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You have not desired these sacrifices and offerings, but instead
you have made ready a body for me to offer
in burnt offerings and sin offerings. You, Father, have taken
no delay. And then I said, this is Jesus speaking.

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Then I said, behold here, I am coming to do
your will, Oh God, to fulfill what is written of
me in the volume of the book. When he said
just before, you have neither desired nor have you taken

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delight in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings.
All of which are offered according to the law. He
then went on to say, behold, this is Jesus speaking.
Behold here, I am coming to do your will. Thus

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he does away with and annuls the first former order
as a means of expiating sin, so that he might
inaugurate and establish the second latter order. So Jesus is
even saying here in the Book of Hebrews that he's

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coming to do the will of God. And he says,
it's written of me in the volume of the book,
and he's probably referencing David, referencing Isaiah. It's they wrote
it fifteen hundred years and then seven hundred years before
he arrives on the scene. So he knows he is

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to fulfill that divine destiny.

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And I just.

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Want to say that, you know, in accomplishing this divine destiny,
Jesus made a way for us. And it says this
in Hebrews Chapter ten, verses nineteen through twenty three. It says, therefore,
since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into

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the Holy of Holies by the power and virtue in
the blood of Jesus, by this fresh, new and living
way which he initiated and dedicated and opened for us
through the separating veil, the separating curtain, the veil of
the Holy of Holies, that is, through His flesh. And

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since we have such a great and wonderful and noble
priest who rules over the House of God, let us
all come forward and draw near with true, honest and
sincere hearts, in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by
faith that by that leaning of the entire human personality

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on God, in absolute trust and confidence in His power,
wisdom and goodness, having our hearts sprinkle and purified from
a guilty evil conscience, and our bodies cleansed with pure water.
So let us seize and hold fast and retain without

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wavering the hope we cherish, Hallelujah, and confess and our
acknowledgment of it, for he who promised is reliable, sure,
and faithful to his word. Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness.
I don't know about you, but I could just shout

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my way through this day because of that.

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That is just so good.

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So I think my God and my Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ for fulfilling his divine destiny so that
I might have eternal life, and that I might live

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forever in His presence.

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My question is what about you?

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Are you going to live forever in the presence of
the Lord Jesus Christ. If you don't know Jesus as
your savior, you can just pray this prayer with me. Yes,
you pray this from your heart, believing and having faith

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to believe that when you pray this prayer and you
mean it with all your heart, that Jesus is going
to become your savior.

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So just pray with me. Just say, Jesus, I come
to you.

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Believing that you are the Christ. I confess with my
mouth the Lord Jesus Christ is my savior, and I
believe in my heart that God raised you from the dead.

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Thank you for washing me clean. Thank you for washing
all my sins away. Thank you for forgiving me and
making me brand new. I want to serve you all
the days of my life.

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Amen.

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If you prayed that prayer, would you please email me
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four to seven. Well, this is Don Noble. I wish
you a beautiful and wonderful resurrection Sunday and I look forward.

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To being with you next week.

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Shalloam, shalloam, Peace be unto you