Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and

Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up. This week, we're camping out in some psalms of lament. As with yesterday,

we're going to spend some time with David, this time in Psalm 22. This Psalm is one of the more

schizophrenic Psalms that you will see in all of the Old Testament. You can tell that David is

incredibly conflicted the entire time that he's writing this down. Okay, so let's look at

verses two and three. Oh my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no

rest. Yet you are holy enthroned on the praises of Israel. Now let's go to verses five and six.

To you they cried and were rescued. In you, they trusted and were not put to shame but i am a worm

and not a man scorned by mankind and despised by the people now guys i've been sad before but i don't recall

ever feeling like a worm okay so but i digress the point is that david can't stay on one line of thought because he is in such a muddled

state of confusion. I'm sure part of the reason for that is because David sees himself as innocent.

Now, as we know, no moral man is innocent, but it does seem like David is suffering unjustly

here. However, it is David's unjust suffering described in Psalm 22 that points to what

the ESV study Bible commentary calls the innocent sufferer par excellence, and that's our perfect

Savior Jesus. Specifically, the parallels between Psalm 22 and Matthew 27 are so stunning

that many see Psalm 22 as a foretelling of the work of Jesus

on the cross of Calvary. Let's look at a few examples. Psalm 22 verse 1. My God, my God, why have you

forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me from the words of my groaning? And then in Matthew 2746, we see this. And about the ninth

hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, Lama sabakhtony. That is, my God, my God,

why have you forsaken me? Psalm 227, all who see me mock me. They make mouths at me. They wag their heads.

And then in Matthew 27, verse 39,

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