It tells us that it is a Messianic Psalm and when we turn to consider it, we find that it gives us the thoughts of the heart of our blessed Lord during those hours of darkness when He was taking our place, when He was made sin for us. That immediately carries our minds back to this 22d Psalm. In the sin offering we have the Lord Jesus Christ made sin for us “that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” The New Testament does not tell us a great deal of what went on in the heart and mind of our blessed Lord when He was undergoing the awful judgment of God against sin, but we have something that guides us and helps us to understand in the fact that just as the three hours of darkness were coming to an end the Lord Jesus cried in the agony of His soul, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” (Matt. Psalm 40 is the Psalm of the burnt offering, Psalm 85 is that of the peace offering, Psalm 69 that of the trespass offering, and Psalm 22 is the Psalm of the sin offering. The other offerings are the burnt offering, the peace offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering. Every act of that holy life of His went up to God as something in which He could delight. We have seen already that in Psalm 16 we have the blessed Lord Jesus presented as the meal offering, and this speaks of the perfection of His life. The one in which there was no sacrifice of life is called the meal or the meat offering, the word “meat” being used there for food, the food offering. Four of these involved the sacrifice of life the other one did not. In the early part of the book of Leviticus we have five different offerings. In John 10 He says, “I am the good Shepherd.” In Hebrews 13 He is called “the great Shepherd” as “brought again from the dead” and in 1 Peter 5, looking on to His second coming when the under shepherds will give an account to Him, He is spoken of as “the chief Shepherd.” Some one long ago suggested that in Psalm 22 we have the Good Shepherd-giving His life for the sheep in Psalm 23, the Chief Shepherd in resurrection life guiding His people through the wilderness of this world, and in Psalm 24, the Great Shepherd coming again in power and glory to bring in everlasting blessing. This novel is a call for the modern church to return to spirituality.It has been pointed out often that our blessed Lord is referred to in the New Testament as the Shepherd under three different aspects. In the third novel, God and the Groceryman, Wright makes a plea for God’s presence in all aspects of life and offers a criticism of churches run as morally bankrupt businesses. He battles his conscience about whether to be the spiritual puppet of the church elders or to prescribe a dose of heavy ministry to his ailing congregation. In the sequel The Calling of Dan Matthews, Dan Matthews becomes the new minister of the Midwestern town of Corinth. The shepherd, an elderly, mysterious, learned man, escapes the buzzing restlessness of the city to live in the Ozarks. The Shepherd of the Hills, originally published in 1907, is Harold Bell Wright’s most famous work. This trilogy gathers together for the first time Wright’s three novels featuring the character Dan Matthews, based on Wright himself. He taught his religious principles through his many novels, which address moral and social problems. “An amazingly interesting and absorbing story of people you know, the people who live round the corner or up and down your street, and behind it all a message filled with hope and inspiration.”Ī best-selling writer of fiction, non-fiction, and essays during the first half of the twentieth century, Harold Bell Wright was a self-taught man who founded permanent churches in Missouri, California, and Kansas.
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