Nor does it detach Him from the Holy Spirit. The physical darkness signals a deeper and more fearsome darkness. . This small word illuminates our darkness and unites Jesus Christ with sinners. Is it the Devil attacking me? Post was not sent - check your email addresses! ), be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.”. But when Jesus was on His way to the cross – when all His disciples had turned away and His friends were no where to be found, and the priests and scribes and pharisees had all judged him and betrayed him there is no voice from Heaven? How stupendous is the love of God!
Therefore, there must be another reason why He cried out, “My God, why hast thou forsaken me.” As we continue we shall see the reason.
3:26). Jesus crying out, “My God My God, why hast thou forsaken me,” we know God was suffering for humanity, and that is all we need to know because it was said again, “He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5). Christ was made sin for us, dear believers. That’s the thing about the word ‘why?’ It can be extremely obnoxious as I’m sure you’ve felt when making what you thought was a clever statement at a seminar and then your professor responding ‘but why?’! Second Part. Where are you now? No words of encouragement, No whisper of love from the Father, nothing? 12.
The Father is not capricious, malicious, or being merely didactic. in all its fullness to as many people as possible. 53:10)? Those words were so courageous because they didn’t know if God was going to move it, or if they were going to have to go through it. %PDF-1.5 %����
If we were ever to know all about God, then the relationship between God and man would change. If you’ve asked God to “move it,” and it’s still there, just praise God, because the answer is, you are going to have to go through it.
Amen. So we won’t try and tidy this one away like Miss Bartlett does with George’s question mark, but we leave the sign up on the wall, the sign of the cross. II. Outsiders It is different from the other sayings that were said.
That will not do at all! When Jesus most needs encouragement, no voice cries from heaven, “This is my beloved Son.” No angel is sent to strengthen Him; no “well done, thou good and faithful servant” resounds in His ears. Is the Ex-Gay Movement? Feeling disowned by all, Jesus endures the way of suffering alone, deserted, and forsaken in utter darkness. Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God” (1 Corinthians 2:11). This being true, the conversation was far above man’s ability to understand it and to even attempt to explain it. He endured it for us, not with us.
Mark and Matthew reveal a Jesus to us that we can readily identify with. Jesus says: [Mat 26:39 KJV] 39 “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.” In other words God – is there any other way we could do this? However, the full meaning of that escapes our finite minds. The scripture says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). Today’s words from the cross are no exception. My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? He asks God, can you move this – or do I have to go through it. The physical darkness signals a deeper and more fearsome darkness. Here is a recording of it, but to hear it live in the chapel was something else! Concerning Jesus’ crucifixion, Matthew 27:46 says: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” Then in verse 27 He says: “Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? God was Suffering for Humanity: The interpretation of this passage of scripture is further clouded by the fact that this God was suffering for humanity. If you’ve been crying out, and Heaven is quiet, get your praise on, because that means you’re going to have to go through this thing, but in the end you’re going to get through this thing – and when you come out on the other side you’re going to be stronger than every devil that tried to hurt you — You’re going to be stronger than every fear that tried to discourage you. But it is one that I believe Jesus already knew the answer to. D in “through it” experiences. Archives. The songwriter says,“We’ll understand it better by and by,” we are not saying that we will understand all that there is to know about God. This phrase represents the nadir, the lowest point, of Jesus’ sufferings. I don’t have to understand His words from the cross, but I rejoice and glory in the fact that I am healed by His stripes. It doesn’t feel right. My God, My God, Why….? I don’t know how long your three days are going to be, some time three days is 5 years, and sometimes your three days is 3 hours, but when your three days are over, you’re gong to have the victory. They don’t have the words of comfort Jesus offers to his Mother, to the thief on the cross or the words ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’. And finally, it does not cause Him to disavow His mission.
He endured it for us, not with us. 3:13) because Christ bor… but for this cause came I unto this hour.”, And He knows full well that death is coming. But I think that that little intellectual exercise somewhat robs this cry of its power. It is the kind of “roaring” mentioned in Psalm 22: the roar of desperate agony without rebellion. MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME? Thou didst support me there. … and I can imagine Jesus thinking of this very moment on the cross when He told the prophet Isaiah to pick up his pen and write verse 10 “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, and in verse 11: He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.”. endstream endobj startxref Bryony, that music was invoking and both haunting, it touched my soul, thank you for sharing.
Why have you abandoned me? God Speaking to God: It is certainly a mystery when we say that this statement of Jesus from the cross was God speaking to God. Those of you who laughed just then, understand the three references I made in that one sentence. I don’t think we want to be like Miss Bartlett there do we? Can you hear Him – speaking through the silence and saying “I know you’re hurting right now, but some things you just have to go through.” I hear God saying “Listen, this situation’s not going to change —- but you are.”.
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ne of the more puzzling things for many christians is the lament of Christ when He uttered on the cross, "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?" 3:13) because Christ bore it for you in that outer darkness.
This verse has been called by many commentators as the most staggering verse of the Bible. God’s answer is in his cry himself on the cross of ‘why’: identifying with all the suffering in the world. On the cross Jesus uttered a fascinating sentence. But why would God bruise His own Son (Isa. 5:21). I’m sure they asked God to help them in their situation, but obviously when it came down to the question of, are you going to deliver us or not, the Hebrew boys heard silence. Often times when this word is preached, we focus on the question that Jesus is asking during this, his time of agony, this His time of bearing the full weight of the sins of all of mankind throughout all of time. I believe that Jesus cried these words, My God, My God, Why Has Thou Forsaken Me, because out of all that He had been through, His humanity Gave Voice To what His emotions Gave Way To while under pressure.
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However, it is true. This supernatural darkness is a symbol of God’s judgment on sin. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? Christ’s penal suffering, therefore, is vicarious — He suffered on our behalf. Mark 15:33-34 “And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.