DECEMBER 08 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#33 “Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46)

 DECEMBER 08  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#33  “Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”  (Matthew 27:46)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer   

JESUS, You are the Giver of Life and the Sustainer of our Hope. You Lord took the sins of the world upon Your shoulders and we Lord can only Praise You for the Great Sacrifice You made for our sakes. Your Name is Holy for You are the Holy  One and we give You the Praise and Glory that is due to You. Lead and guide us in our daily lives on earth that when our earthly time is over that we will dwell with You in Paradise forever.     AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has stated very clearly that He must “die at the hands of sinners” and that He would be “resurrected on the third day” and that this was GOD’S PLAN of SALVATION that was conceived BEFORE CREATION. This Master Plan of Redemption has now reached the last minute before Jesus completes the Plan and literally “dies for all mankind”, having suffered the pain of taking ALL SIN upon Himself and having to do it as the Father withdrew His Holy Spirit from the Son in order that the Son could pay the full penalty of sin. Jesus shed every drop of His Atoning Blood and suffered the full wrath of God as the Passover Lamb!!! Matthew then records, “And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.” (Matthew 27:50)  Luke recorded these last words from Jesus as He died on the cross: “‘Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.’ Having said this, [Jesus] breathed His last.” (Luke 23:46) The last words Jesus spoke before yielding up His spirit on the cross as recorded in the Gospel of John are: “‘It is finished!’ And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.” (John 19:30)  Mark wrote in his Gospel, “‘My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?’…And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last.” (Mark 15:34,37) It is interesting to note that each of the 4 Gospels record the same event as is evident that in each Gospel that (1) Jesus died an earthly death for each Gospel records that the Man Jesus “breathed His last” and His body was then removed from the cross and put in a grave. If Jesus were still breathing the soldiers would not have pierced His side with a spear, nor would they have allowed Joseph of Arimathea to remove the body from the cross. By every account, though different last phrases from Jesus were recorded, all 4 Gospels recorded that Jesus indeed died and that His spirit was not taken from Him but that he “yielded” His spirit to the Father. Of significant note is that in the argument that Jesus was All Man and All God (which is as Mysterious as God IS the TRINITY being 3 Persons yet being only 1 God), all the writers of the 4 Gospels recorded that Jesus gave up “His spirit” and then “breathed His last” and we must note that in each Gospel the word is “spirit” signifying man’s “spirit” and not “Spirit” which the Bible records as God’s “Spirit” such as Genesis 1:2 “And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:2) So the Bible makes a clear distinction that man has a “spirit” and that God has a unique “Spirit” for Jesus told His disciples when He spoke of His death on the cross that when He died that “I will pray the Father and He will give you another Helper…the Spirit of truth…for He dwells with you and will be in you.” (John 14:16-17) Jesus is both the Son of Man and the Son of God and as the Son of Man He “yielded His “spirit” and “breathed His last” breath as Man and being “dead” He had “finished” the job of bringing Salvation to mankind and that Jesus as the Lamb of God, having shed every drop of His Innocent Blood  had paid the Ultimate Price for our Redemption. Matthew then writes the “Spiritual Conclusion” to this “Act of Redemption” by the Son of God: “Then [after yielding up His spirit], behold the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, ‘Truly this was the Son of God!’” (Matthew 27:50-54)   Once we have become aware that the entire Bible is about God bringing “deliverance” to His Creation even though it is we ourselves that have rejected Him and brought condemnation on ourselves!  There should come a time in each one’s search for “TRUTH” that we finally see that “TRUTH IS GOD” and that JESUS IS GOD’S SON and we declare “Behold, truly JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD and GAVE HIS LIFE TO DELIVER ME FROM MY SIN!” And then we can bow our hearts to Him and accept GOD’S GIFT OF GRACE and pray with all confidence  “Surely Goodness and Mercy will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the LORD FOREVER!”