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From Lion to worm...

He has roared like a lion; now He says, “I am a worm.” It is because He has reached the very lowest place,

“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not” Isaiah 53:3.

~ J. Vernon McGee

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Lower Still - My Epic (Lyric Video)

Look, he's covered in dirt The blood of his mother has mixed with the Earth And she's just a child who's throbbing in pain From the terror of birth by the light of a cave

Now they've laid that small baby Where creatures come eat Like a meal for the swine who have no clue that he Is still holding together the world that they see They don't know just how low he has to go Lower still

Look now he's kneeling he's washin' their feet Though they're all filthy fishermen, traitors and theives Now he's pouring his heart out and they're fallin' asleep But he has to go lower still

There is greater love to show Hands to the plow Further down now Blood must flow

All these steps are personal All his shame is ransom Oh do you see, do you see just how low, he has come Do you see it now? No one takes from him What he freely gives away

Beat in his face Tear the skin off his back Lower still, lower still Strip off his clothes Make him crawl through the streets Lower still, lower still Hang him like meat On a criminal's tree Lower still, lower still Bury his corpse in the Earth Like a seed, like a seed, like a seed Lower still, lower still

Lower still, lower still...

The Earth explodes She cannot hold him! And all therein is placed beneath Him And death itself no longer reigns It cannot keep the ones he gave himself to save And as the universe shatters the darkness disolves He alone will be honored We will bathe in his splendor As all heads bow lower still All heads bow lower still

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Psalm 22 parallels will blow your mind! The Messiah's suffering and reign prophesied by David. | One For Israel

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The ONE to do it!

The blood of the sacrificial lamb, the Messiah, is what sets us free. It is interesting to note that the word blood (dahm) shares the same root for the word red (aw-dehm), which ultimately came out of the Hebrew word for humankind (aw-dahm/‘Adam’). Yeshua, through the shedding of blood, was the crimson worm who would remove our scarlet sin so that all that would be left was pure white. We needed redemption and Yeshua was the one to do it. ~ Sarah Fisher

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Psalm 22: Prophecy Explained | Evidence Unseen

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"We should speak of what Christ has done. That last verse from Psalm 22 tells us that this message will never get old! It says that each generation to come will speak to the next and tell of what the Lord has performed - that He has done it! It is finished! And you and I get that privilege of sharing that message as well. A message of the Son of God, who became a lamb, and the lamb, a worm... so that we, who are worms, could take our place in the family as sons of God. It is an eternal message that never gets old."

Gordon Wilton

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A pertinent question and a hidden answer in the Book of Job

Bildad asks probably the most important question anyone can ask; “How can a man be just (clean, righteous) before God.” He says how can it happen? “Man is a maggot, and the son of man, that worm!” [Job 25:4-6].

I don't think he knew that the answer to his question was in his very words!

He rightfully points out that man is a worm (or maggot). Fair enough! He is right. And then he says and the son of man, that scarlet worm! I can almost see God nodding saying…

"Yes, exactly Bildad. That is how I am going to do it. You ask how man, an unclean maggot, can be righteous and clean before Me and rightfully so for that is the most critical question a man can ask. My Son, my precious Son, will become the Son of Man. And the Son of man will become this very crimson worm you speak of, giving His life so that you and others may be washed clean. That is how I will do it and that is the only way a man can be just before Me.'

~ Gordon Wilton