Why did Jesus say, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
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Why did Jesus say, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' Why did Jesus feel forsaken and abandoned while He was on the cross?
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- Why did Jesus say, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? At about the ninth hour,
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- Jesus cried with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani. That is to say,
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- My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? This cry is a fulfillment of Psalm 22 .1,
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- one of the many parallels between the psalm and the specific events of the crucifixion. It is difficult to understand in what sense
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- Jesus was forsaken by God. It is certain that God approved his work. It is certain that Jesus was innocent.
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- He had done nothing to forfeit the favor of God. As God's own Son, holy, harmless, undefiled, and obedient,
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- God still loved him. In none of these senses could God have forsaken him. The prophet
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- Isaiah says this about the Messiah. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
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- But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
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- Jesus redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. He was made a sin offering, and he died in our place on our account, that he might bring us near to God.
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- It was this, doubtless, that intensified his sufferings and part of why Jesus said,
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- My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? It was the manifestation of God's hatred of sin in some unexplained way that Jesus experienced in that terrible hour.
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- The suffering he endured was due to us, and it is that suffering by which we can be saved from eternal death.
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- And those awful moments, as evil men were allowed to do whatever they wanted to Jesus, our Lord expressed his feelings of abandonment.
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- God placed the sins of the world on his Son, and Jesus, for a time, felt the desolation of being unconscious of his
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- Father's presence. It was at that time that he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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- There is another possible reason for Jesus to cry out, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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- It could be that Jesus' intent in quoting Psalm 22 .1 was to point his hearers to that psalm.
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- When they read Psalm 22, they would no doubt see the many fulfilled prophecies included in that song of David.
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- Even while experiencing the agony of the cross, Jesus was teaching the crowds and proving yet again that he was the
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- Messiah who fulfilled the scriptures. Got questions?