I.　The subject of Psalm 22 is the Christ who has passed through His redeeming death and entered into His church-producing resurrection.

II.　Psalm 22:1-21 gives a detailed picture of Christ in His suffering of death (cf. Isa. 53), as typified by David in his suffering:

A.　The question in Psalm 22:1 was spoken by David in his suffering, but it became a prophecy concerning Christ in His suffering of His redeeming death.

B.　Verses 6 through 8 display Christ's suffering unto death through men's reproach, despising, deriding, sneering, headshaking, and mocking.

C.　Verses 9 through 11 show that while people were mocking Him and deriding Him, Christ trusted in God for deliverance, that is, for resurrection; He intended definitely to die and expected to be delivered from death, that is, to be resurrected from the dead—Luke 18:31-33; Heb. 5:7.

D.　Psalm 22:12-18 depicts in vivid detail how Christ passed through His suffering of crucifixion—Mark 15:16-37.

E.　God judged Christ and put Him into death for our redemption—Psa. 22:15:

1.　On the one hand, man crucified the Lord Jesus; on the other hand, God killed Him:

a.　In the first three hours that Christ was on the cross, He was persecuted by men for doing God's will.

b.　In the last three hours, Christ was our Substitute, He became sin on our behalf, and He died a vicarious death to redeem us from our sins and from God's judgment—2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Pet. 3:18; 1 Cor. 15:3.

2.　All the sin of the world was laid on Christ as the Lamb of God; God judged Him and put Him into death for our redemption—Isa. 53:6b, 10a; 1 Pet. 2:24a; John 1:29.

F.　On the cross Christ was forsaken by God—Psa. 22:1; Matt. 27:45-46:

1.　While Christ was on the earth, God the Father was with Him all the time, but at a certain point in His crucifixion, God forsook Him—John 8:29; Matt. 27:45-46.

2.　When the Lord Jesus died on the cross under God's judgment, He had God within Him essentially as His divine being; nevertheless, He was forsaken by the righteous and judging God economically—1:20; 3:16-17:

a.　The Lord Jesus had been born of the Spirit; thus, the Spirit was one of the two essences of His being—1:20; Luke 1:35.

b.　Before the Spirit of God descended and came upon the Lord Jesus, He already had the Spirit of God within Him—Matt. 3:16.

c.　On the cross Christ, the God-man, presented Himself to God as the all-inclusive sacrifice through the eternal Spirit—Heb. 9:14.

d.　After God had counted Christ as a sinner to be our Substitute and had accepted His offering, God, as the Holy Spirit who had come upon Him, forsook Him—Matt. 27:46.

3.　Although God as the Spirit left the Lord Jesus economically, Christ nevertheless died as the Son of God, a God-man; hence, in His death there is a divine and eternal element—Acts 20:28; 1 John 1:7; Heb. 9:12.

III.　After passing through His redeeming death, Christ entered into His church-producing resurrection—Psa. 22:22-31:

A.　Verses 22 through 31 refer to Christ in His resurrection, as typified by Solomon in his kingly reign.

B.　I in verse 22a is the resurrected Christ who declares the Father's name to His brothers—Heb. 2:12:

1.　It was in His resurrection that Christ called His disciples His brothers, for in God's eternal view His disciples were regenerated and became God's sons in Christ's resurrection—John 20:17; Matt. 28:10; 1 Pet. 1:3.

2.　In His resurrection Christ Himself was begotten to be God's firstborn Son (Psa. 2:7; Acts 13:33) and became the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b), and all God's chosen and redeemed people were regenerated to be the many sons of God, the many brothers of Christ (Heb. 2:10-12; Rom. 8:29).

C.　In Psalm 22:22b the assembly signifies the church, indicating that the Lord's brothers constitute the church; thus, His resurrection is the church-producing resurrection—Heb. 2:10-12:

1.　The church is a living composition of the many sons of God, who are the many brothers of Christ, brought forth in His resurrection—vv. 10-12.

2.　As the many brothers of Christ, we are the same as the firstborn Son; He is divine and human, and we are human and divine, and thus the church is both human and divine—an organism with two lives and two natures combined and mingled together—v. 11;1:6;Rom.8:29; cf.Lev.2.

D.　In Psalm 22:22 You and Your refer to the Father:

1.　In resurrection Christ declared the Father's name to His brothers and praised the Father in the church—Heb. 2:12.

2.　The praise in Psalm 22:22 is the firstborn Son's praising of the Father within the Father's many sons in the church meetings—Heb. 2:10, 12:

a.　It is not that the Son praises the Father apart from us and alone; rather, He praises within us and with us through our praising.

b.　When we, the many sons of God, meet as the church and praise the Father, the firstborn Son praises the Father in our praising—v. 12b; cf. Matt. 26:30.

E.　The church ushers in Christ's kingdom for Christ to rule over the nations; the church, produced by Christ's resurrection, is the reality of the kingdom and a precursor to the manifestation of the kingdom in the millennium—Psa. 22:27-28; Matt. 16:18-19; Rom. 14:17.

F.　Jehovah as Christ will rule over the nations in the millennial kingdom—Psa. 22:28; 2:8-9; Rev. 19:15; 20:4, 6.

G.　The believers are the seed of Christ, and their declaring the Lord's righteousness (justification, salvation) to a coming generation refers to the preaching of the gospel—Psa. 22:30-31.