DECEMBER 11 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#33 “Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46)

 

DECEMBER 11  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, 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, 

I must surrender this wretched “self” to Your Graciousness, 

LORD forgive me when I cannot understand with my limited intellect

 Your Infinite and Divine Wisdom. 

LORD, we are blinded by the world and even when we see TRUTH

 in its purest form we believe it to be “Too good to be true” 

and we cower back into the shadows of our misunderstanding —

 Why indeed would The One True Holy God give 

His Only Begotten Son as the PERFECT Sacrifice

 as the Atonement for 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

JESUS IS the SON OF GOD that was SENT BY THE FATHER 

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 for Sin!

 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 GOD for the Resurrection

 of GOD”S BELOVED SON 

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 of God Most High 

being played out as Abraham and Isaac travel to the mountain 

God had 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 

and this Father/Son/Sacrifice 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 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!”