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My God, My God, why have You forsaken
Me (Matt. 2746)
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Introduction

• As Jesus our Lord was on the cross, His last
  words teach us many lessons

• In this series I hope to share with you some
  insight into those final moments before Jesus
  took His last breath and died.

• In our last lessons we studied, Father,
  forgive them, for they do not know what they
  are doing

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Introduction

• As Jesus our Lord was on the cross, His last
  words teach us many lessons

• In this series I hope to share with you some
  insight into those final moments before Jesus
  took His last breath and died.

• In our last lessons we studied, Truly, I say
  to you, today you will be with Me in paradise

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Introduction

• As Jesus our Lord was on the cross, His last
  words teach us many lessons

• In this series I hope to share with you some
  insight into those final moments before Jesus
  took His last breath and died.

• In our last lessons we studied, Woman, behold
  your sonBehold, your mother

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My God, my God

• At a time when Jesus is suffering the penalty
  for the sins of the world, He addresses His
  Father like mankind

• At Golgotha the love of God in Jesus is
  outpoured with great clarity toward the lost

• At the cross Gods awesome holiness and
  everlasting love collide and now we can be
  redeemed

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My God, my God

• The first 3 cries from the cross were shouted
  in daylight, but now nature covers its Creator
  in darkness (Matt. 2745)

• We need to be careful that we view the Father
  as loving as He places His Son in this dark
  situation (Is. 534,10)

• Indeed, the Bible reveals that the Father and
  the Son did all of this out of love for all
  mankind (Jn. 316 Lk. 178)

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My God, my God

• The Father never made the Son bear anything
  reluctantly, nor did the Son extract from the
  Father a salvation He was reluctant to bestow

• The Father and the Son took the initiative of
  redemption together (John 1017-18 Rom. 832)

• Whatever happened at the cross was agreed upon
  by both the Father and the Son (John 1232-33)

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My God, my God

• All mankind had did their part in sinning and
  putting Jesus on the cross

• Satan did his work by bruising the seed of
  woman and displaying hostility

• The Son did His work by giving Himself as a
  sacrifice to die, the just for the unjust that
  He might bring us to God (I Peter 318)

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My God, my God

• God does His work by bringing us to Himself
  through His Son in the gospel (II Thess. 213-17)

• On the day of the crucifixion of Jesus the
  Father would finalize the Divine plan for
  salvation in paying for sin

• When the darkness of judgment covered the cross
  and Jesus was bearing all of the sins of the
  world, God turned away from the sinful scene

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why have You forsaken Me

• As Jesus became sin on the cross, light fled
  from the sky until after He died

• God can have no fellowship with the darkness of
  sin, and that day on the cross, the sins of the
  world were laid on Jesus, His Son (I John 15-7)

• In Gethsemane, Jesus is strengthened for the
  duty at hand. At Golgotha He is left to fulfill
  that duty (Mt. 2636-39)

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why have You forsaken Me

• Forsaken is a powerful word (man- friend /
  husband-wife / etc.)

• This Son cherished the love and fellowship of
  His Father from all eternity and in the moment
  that He bore our sins, He drank the cup that
  separated Him from the holy Father

• By crying, My God, My God we see that Jesus
  still realized the hope of being with His Father
  (Lk. 2346)

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why have You forsaken Me

• The withdrawal of the Fathers presence was not
  the withdrawal of His love for Jesus

• When we are suffering do we have a cry that
  longs for God in the moment of our distress

• God the Father had indeed withdrawn from Him
  for His holiness, but God the Son still cleaved
  to His Father. (Psalm 221-3, 9-11, 19)

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Imagine your sins laid on Jesus?
CURSING
STEALING
JEALOUSY
???
MURDER
LYING
IDOLATRY
DRUNKENESS
HOMOSEXUALITY
FORNICATION
ADULTERY
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why have You forsaken Me

• Jesus took on an eternity of hells punishment
  in 6 hours when He accepted the sins of the world

• Jesus bore the darkness of our penalty in hell
  when He hung on the cross, so that we could
  enter the light

• Look at the hours spent on the cross and you
  are looking at hell (darkness, loneliness, and
  abandonment by God)

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why have You forsaken Me

• The purpose of the cross was not only for us,
  but was also for God the Father (Eph. 52)

• We needed to be justified in the sight of the
  Lord our God and Jesus takes care of our
  justification (Rom. 325)

• God passed over those who had the blood of the
  Passover Lamb upon their house, He will pass
  over those who have the blood of Christ (Ex.
  1213)

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Application

• Let us remember that the lesson is, Jesus was
  forsaken by God that we might be accepted (Heb.
  135)

• Now that Christ has died, those who come in
  trusting faith to Him will never be separated
  from Him (Rom. 835-39 81)

• The only way now to be forsaken by God and His
  Son is to reject the gospel (II Thess. 17-9
  Matt. 723)

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Application

• A song that I have recorded has a stanza that
  reads

And can it be that I should gain An interest in
the Saviors blood? Died He for me, who caused
His pain For me, who Him to death
pursued? Amazing love! How can it be That You,
my God, should die for me?
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Will you be forsaken or accepted by Jesus?

• Hear (John 1248)

• Believe (John 824)

• Repent (Luke 133, 5)

• Confess (Matt. 1032-33)

• Baptized (Mark 1616)

• Faithful (Rev. 210)