DECEMBER 10 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#33-14 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#33 “Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46)

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

DECEMBER 10  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#33-14  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#33  “Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”  (Matthew 27:46)

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Jesus, thank you Lord for the wonderful life You have provided for me and my family. Lord these indeed are evil times and our world is in a spiritual mess because we have abandoned your Commandments and have no Moral Compass to guide us as a society — Lord I thank you for the remnant of believers that encourage one another and keep seeking together Your Truth and Your Way. Lord forgive me my daily shortcomings and may Your Grace and Mercy abound!!!    AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

DECEMBER 10  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#33-14  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#33  “Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”  (Matthew 27:46)    Jesus has been obedient to the Father and has Given His Life for the Remission of sin which is what Jesus Himself stated as His purpose. Joseph of Arimathea has taken His body down from the cross for it is the Preparation Day for the Passover and Jesus has been laid into Joseph’s tomb. Jesus has stated on many occasions that He must suffer at the hands of sinners and that God the Father has promised to Resurrect the Son on the Third Day. The disciples fixed on His death like many today do and failed to hear that death was necessary to fulfill the Justice of God! God had declared in the garden of Eden that the Penalty for sin is death and then to cover the nakedness and shame of Adam and Eve after they partook of the forbidden fruit and disobeyed God, God demonstrated Grace and initiated the Substitutionary Sacrifice Principal as God sacrificed an animal and took the skin of the sacrificed animal and used it to cover their guilt. Here at Calvary God again in His Mercy and Grace has Substituted His Only Begotten Innocent Son as the Passover Lamb and has provided Deliverance from sin for those who believe Jesus indeed was the Lamb of God Sacrificed for the sins of the world. We are ALL SINNERS and fall short of God’s Glory and through the Sacrifice of God’s Son the Plan of Salvation is complete and we can receive the  Forgiveness of God. Just as God put a rainbow in the sky after the Great Judgement of the earth after the flood as a Promise that He would never destroy the earth again by a flood, God now after the Great Sacrifice is going to give us a Promise that our sins are forgiven and that we will as Jesus said in John 5:24 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he who hears My words believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment but has passed from death into life.” (John 5:24) The Sign of the Promise of our Salvation is the Empty Tomb in which Jesus has been laid — because the Tomb Is Empty then God has kept His Promise to Resurrect Jesus on the Third Day and we as Sinners Saved by Grace can celebrate an Empty Grave and realize that the One that Defeated Death Promises us Everlasting Life! God has demonstrated His Absolute Power over Death and we can rejoice because JESUS IS ALIVE!!! Man and Satan has done everything in their evil power and have managed to crucify the Son of God and now the dead body of Jesus has been put in the tomb, they have rolled a great stone over the entrance to prevent Him from coming out or from any one else to go in and get Him, they have posted guards at the tomb to prevent anyone rolling the stone away and they have placed a seal on the stone — man has put Jesus in the grave but man cannot stay the Hand of God from doing what God has “Purposed” and that is to Raise His Beloved Son on the Third Day thereby completing the Plan of Salvation! “When Joseph had taken the body [of Jesus off the cross] he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of the [solid] rock; and he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.” (Matthew 27:59-60) Everything man could do to put Jesus in the grave has been accomplished but instead of “victory for evil”, Satan is about to experience the “Ultimate Defeat” as God fulfills His Promise to provide the Lamb and to provide Salvation, and the Promise is about to be fulfilled with the Resurrection of Christ on the Third Day. The Bible is full of God’s Promises and the only one’s not kept are those in the future and when it is in God’s Timing, GOD WILL KEEP EVERY PROMISE EVER MADE — we have the Promised Rainbow after the rain and now we have the Promised Resurrection after death!!!