DECEMBER 11 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#33-15 >>> 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 11  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#33-15  >>> 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)

Daily Prayer to JESUS    

Jesus, that You would go to the grave for me, that You, being the Very Son of God, would suffer the Agony of the Cross and Shed Your Innocent Blood for the Remission of my sin, LORD forgive me when I cannot understand with my limited intellect Your Infinite and Divine Wisdom. LORD, we are blinded by the world and when we see TRUTH in its purest form we believe it “Too good to be true” and we cower back into the shadows of our misunderstanding of The One True Holy God that would give His Only Begotten Son as the PERFECT Sacrifice as the Atonement of our sins??? LORD, I pray for the filling of Your Holy Spirit to understand Your Plan of Salvation that my vision of Your Peace will be One with Your Vision for both Jews and Gentiles to be Unified by the receiving of Your Holy Spirit into our lives, bringing first our families into Your Unity and then our communities so that all with be One Family of God! (See Acts Chapters 10 & 11)      AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

DECEMBER 11  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#33-15  >>> 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 IS the SON OF GOD sent to the world to take on “flesh” (John 1:14) and be “betrayed into the hands of sinners” (Matthew 26:45) with the single purpose that Innocent Blood would be the Atonement of Sin as Jesus said plainly, “For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” (Matthew 26:28) And now as the crucified dead body of the Messiah, Jesus Christ has been put into a borrowed grave all that remains in the fulfilling of prophecy is the waiting for Three Days for the Promise of Resurrection which can be traced by the prophecies throughout the Holy Scriptures and without any doubt we can see that what God has spoken, God has done! God’s Plan of Salvation is about to be “Fulfilled and Divinely Sealed” as the stone that had been rolled over the tomb and sealed by the ruling world power of men will be rolled away by the Power of God illustrating God’s Sovereignty over Life, Death, the Grave, and Eternity Itself! Man has done everything possible to thwart God’s Plan but once again God Proves Himself Sovereign by doing exactly what He had allowed to be written in Scripture thousands of years before the event to bring about the events exactly as God said they would unfold — The prophets wrote in Genesis how God called Abraham and gave him the Promised Son and required Abraham and Isaac “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I shall tell you.” (Genesis 22:2) We see Jesus being the obedient Son being played out as Abraham and Isaac travel to the mountain God told them to go to and  “Then on the third day, Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off…’I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back’ {A foreshadowing of the Resurrection of Jesus on the Third Day}…So Abraham took the wood [the cross] of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and [Isaac’s father]  took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together…Issac asked his father, ‘Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?’ And Abraham said, ‘My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.’ So the two of them [Abraham/Isaac & God-the-Father/Jesus-His-Son] went together. Then they came to the place which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and Abraham [God-The-Father] bound Isaac [Jesus] his son [His Son] and laid Isaac [Jesus] on the altar, upon the wood [cross]. And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.” (Genesis 22:4-10) It was at this point of Abraham’s obedience that God revealed His Purpose in testing Abraham and Isaac thusly as the “Angel of the LORD” said of Abraham’s and Isaac’s OBEDIENCE to the WORD OF GOD ‘For now I know you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” God then provided the lamb as promised and “Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.” (Genesis 22:1-18) There can be no doubt in anyone’s mind that this incident was Divinely  Planned and is recorded in Scripture had not “Just Happened” as the world would have us believe — God had Planned from before the creation and showed by example through Abraham, the Father of Faith, and his obedient son Isaac that God had Planned to offer His Only Begotten Son as the burnt offering and Passover Lamb of God for the Atonement of Sin of All Mankind — God demonstrated His Commitment as a Holy God executing the Perfect Sacrifice as God had to “Forsake” even “His Only Son” as “God the Father” took the “burden” of the sin of the world and “laid it on [Jesus] His Son” and God offers HIS GIFT OF GRACE to all who “OBEY HIS WORD!”