DECEMBER 07 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#33 “Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46)

 

DECEMBER 07  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, today I bring before Your Throne this uneasy spirit that I have 

been feeling for I know this cannot be of God

 for the Spirit of God is Peace 

and this spirit of uneasiness  is not bringing my soul peace — 

therefore I bring my life once again before You, Jesus Christ 

and pray for Your Spirit to overcome my thoughts and my desires 

so that my soul is again at Peace which can only come from 

the Holy Spirit as we yield to His Spirit, 

the Spirit of Unity and Peace.     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has just demonstrated that He is the Son of God because 

He DID NOT come down from the cross 

as challenged by the unbelievers to “save Yourself” by

 coming down from the cross to prove Himself to men, NO, 

Jesus proved Himself to His Father by staying on the cross, 

for suffering for those that had rejected Him, and His Final Act of Proof

 was that He stayed nailed to the cross yet He fulfilled His Purpose 

and saved the thief who was also being crucified with Jesus 

WHEN THE REPENTANT THIEF ACKNOWLEDGED JESUS AS LORD 

and the thief asked Jesus:

 “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom” 

and Jesus replied, 

“Today you will be with Me in Paradise.” (Luke 23:41-43) 

Matthew documents the LORD’S final earthly hours: 

“Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there 

was darkness over all the land. And about the ninth hour 

Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying 

“Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is, My God, My God, 

why have You forsaken Me?”  (Matthew 27:45-46)  

Jesus proved Himself to His Father by staying on the cross,

 obedient to the Father unto death but now God is proving Himself 

to the Son and to the world that

No One, nor anything, not even God’s Great Love 

for His Only Begotten Son Jesus 

will stay His Mighty Hand 

nor upset His Master Plan of Salvation!  

Jesus proved He is the Son of God the Father by being Obedient 

and staying on the cross and God proved He is the Father God 

and that He Truly Loved the world and hated sin enough to

 RESOLVE the SIN PROBLEM 

and demonstrate to the world that beyond any question that 

God’s Purpose 

in becoming flesh in the form of 

His Only Begotten Son was to ADDRESS the SIN PROBLEM 

and to 

PROVIDE A SOLUTION IN THE FORM OF SALVATION 

THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF HIMSELF — 

“For God so loved the world that He gave

 His only begotten Son [Jesus to die on the cross,

 the Perfect and Acceptable Sacrifice 

of the Passover Lamb of God] 

that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish 

but will have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) 

We must as believers accept, as did the condemned thief on the cross,

 the Gift of Grace from God that was paid for by the Blood of Jesus 

on the cross at Calvary and then acknowledge that this 

Death of Jesus was the Solution to the Sin Problem 

for by His Death Jesus brought Eternal Life into the world for all who will call

 upon His Name for Salvation and we must believe that 

“… God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, 

but that the world through Him might be saved.” (John 3:17) 

And for those that reject Jesus and God’s Plan of Salvation, Jesus said

 “And this is the condemnation that the light has come into the world,

 and men loved darkness  rather than light, 

because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:19) 

God was serious enough about RESOLVING the SIN PROBLEM

 to develop a MASTER PLAN OF SALVATION 

and then GOD PROVED HIMSELF SOVEREIGN for who but God

 could use His enemies to actually defeat themselves as they became

 a major part of bringing about SALVATION by condemning Jesus

 to death by crucifixion!!! Again I can hear Jesus saying,

 “But all this was done that the Scriptures

 of the prophets might be fulfilled.” (Matthew 26:56) 

Now that Jesus has been Obedient to the Father’s Will and  stayed

 on the cross, God has punished sin by the death of His Only Begotten Son

 on that cross, the Plan of Salvation has been 

EXECUTED to ABSOLUTE PERFECTION, 

the prophecies are fulfilled, and Jesus can claim VICTORY 

 as He cries out from the Cross: 

“It is finished!” (John 19:30) 

I can hear the Gavel of God’s Justice ringing loud 

and clear throughout the whole world as God declares 

“COURT ADJOURNED!!!”