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Seeing Jesus in Psalm 69

  Psalm 69 MAIN POINT: A sinless Jesus suffered all the pain of sin for me (and you) while He lived and hung on the cross. Need I remind you that I am looking for Jesus Christ in the Psalms? So it is obvious that through the ages Psalm 69 is considered a Messianic Psalm because of Matthew’s inclusion of the detail of Jesus twice being offered sour wine. “But instead, they give me poison for food; they offer me sour wine for my thirst.”  Psalm 69:21 NLT  “ The soldiers gave him wine mixed with bitter gall, but when he had tasted it, he refused to drink it”. ... “One of them ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, holding it up to him on a reed stick so he could drink.”  Matthew 27:34, 48 NLT Many who comment on this Psalm say that only some parts of it apply to Christ because when David talks about being a sinner, that obviously can not apply to Jesus who was perfect and did not sin. I want to consider what Jesus did on the cross.  Jesus suffered humiliation. Dav...