DECEMBER 01 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#33 “Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46)

 

DECEMBER 01  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, Lord I start today with another prayer of praise for I think of

 my life and where I could have ended up had it not been for 

Your Guiding Light in my life! Indeed I can remember seeking darkness

 and was not aware that seeking darkness would lead to no good

 in my life and today I look around at what Your Love has done 

and the fruit that Your Love has produced in my life and now I can see

 that all the “good” in my life has come because I have started 

walking in Your Light. 

Lord I pray to be always in Your Light and that my life will continue

 to bear good fruit, then on That Day, God will look upon my life

 and see Jesus in it and say,

 “Well done my GOOD and FAITHFUL SERVANT!”    

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is now standing alone in the midst of His accusers 

and He has spoken only the

 TRUTH OF GOD 

that JESUS IS the Christ and that JESUS IS the King of the Jews 

and both statements are being used against Him in their effort

 to take His Innocent Life. Jesus has been taken to Pilate and amid

 accusation upon accusation, Jesus has fulfilled 

the prophecy from Isaiah about the Messiah: 

“He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened

 not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, 

and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, 

so He opened not His mouth.” (Isaiah 53:7) 

Matthew records that Jesus 

“answered [Pilate] not one word, 

so that the governor marveled greatly” (Matthew 27:14). 

But had Pilate known the Scriptures he would have understood

 that he was part of God’s Plan that had been put into writing 

800 years earlier as Isaiah wrote about the Messiah,

 King of the Jews and now prophecy is being fulfilled with Jesus

 being the fulfillment of prophecy about the Passover Lamb and the

 Ultimate Truth of God was that Jesus dying on the cross 

 as the ULTIMATE SACRIFICIAL LAMB would be the culmination 

of GOD’S  PLAN of SALVATION — 

yes if Pilate had known the 

TRUTH of God 

that

 Jesus IS the Son of God, the Messiah, 

the Passover Lamb, and the King of the Jews 

then Pilate would have truly “marveled” that he was 

just one little part of prophesy and with the 

Death, Burial, and Resurrection of God’s Only Begotten Son

 that God’s Plan of Salvation 

would be completed and the 

Ultimate Victory over sin would be accomplished! 

But Pilate did not know Scripture and he listened to the voice of evil

 and even though Pilate knew Jesus was innocent, 

Pilate pardoned Barabbas, a known notorious criminal — 

this is the condemnation of our modern society, we do not know Scriptures

 and we do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God

 (billions of people today do not believe God has a Son!) 

and we listen to the “high priests” speak evil and demand the death of Jesus

 yet deep in our hearts we know that Jesus has done nothing deserving of death. 

Pilate knew Jesus was innocent,

 “When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, 

but rather that a tumult was rising (against Jesus), 

he took water and washed his hands before the multitude

 (calling for the death of Jesus), saying, 

‘I am innocent of the blood of this just Person.

 You see to it.’” (Matthew 27:24) 

And the people that day condemned themselves just as our world 

condemns ourselves as we deny Jesus is the Son of God: 

“And all the people answered and said, 

‘His blood be on us and on our children.’” (Matthew 27:25) 

This could have been one of the first times you could hear the cliche — 

“Be careful what you ask for because you just might get it!”  

 The fact that Jesus is facing this condemnation alone, 

having been abandoned by all his disciples is just a foreshadowing

 of His last Question uttered from the cross,

 JQ#33  “Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is, 

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” 

 (Matthew 27:46) 

——— as it says repeatedly in Psalms

 “Selah - think on this!”