Good morning, good morning, good morning.

Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another Mornings with the Masters.

We're devoted ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We're going to be picking back up with New Morning Mercy's, I'm just going to take it from here.

It says this. Jesus endured suffering in the here and now so that you and I could escape suffering for eternity. It didn't just start with the cross. From the very first breath he took until he

ascended, Jesus suffered. He suffered an uncomfortable and unsanitary birth in a stable.

He suffered the terror of fleeing for his life as an infant. He suffered the trials of growing

and learning as a boy. He suffered powerful temptation. He suffered exposure to disease. He suffered homelessness. He suffered hunger. He suffered sadness and grief. He suffered disloyalty and betrayal. He suffered physical pain. He suffered disrespect and mockery. He suffered misunderstanding and misrepresentation. He suffered the emotional pain of the rejection of his father.

He suffered punishment for the sins of others. He suffered injustice. He suffered violence. He suffered death.

He suffered the full range of the hardships of life in the swollen world. His calling, his mission,

was to suffer, and suffer he did. His suffering was wide-ranging and constant. For the Messiah,

suffering was an everyday thing, even a moment-by-moment thing, and every act of his suffering was substitutional.

He suffered in our place. He suffered in every way we do so that he could be a savior to us

in our suffering and put an end to our suffering. He suffered every day so that there would be a time when all suffering would

end and so that we could live with him in a world where suffering is no more. He did not come to

earth in regal slender. He did not come to earth to live in a palace and be given homage as a king.

Although he was the king of kings, he became as a suffering

servant who, in his suffering, would save us from ourselves and finally from our suffering.

His suffering is our salvation. His suffering is our hope. Wow.

There's a few things that really, really got to me there.

Of course, just laying out all the different ways that he suffered.

From the first breath to Herod wanting him killed and fleeing and just all the way until getting whipped and rejected people who love them the most,

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