Saturday, December 7, 2024

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!!!”  


Friday, December 6, 2024

DECEMBER 06 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#33 “Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46)

 


DECEMBER 06  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, I thank You for the Gift of the Holy Spirit to guide me through 

these latter years of my life and to help me realize it has never been 

about my personal glory but it is all about Your Glory. Lord, when I look at 

just Your last few minutes on the cross it is evident that indeed all men

 and especially me, fall short of Your Glory for I know I must be counted

 among those that let the world tempt me when I should be praying

 and resisting the world.  Lord Jesus, have mercy on me a sinner. 

All I desire is for others to see Jesus in me but I yield to my worldly fears

 and I keep jumping up and screaming “Look at me” and once again

 my weakness is exposed.  Lord, You are the Light, the Truth, and the Way

 and I pray to seek Your Light, I pray that through Your Holy Spirit 

that I speak only Your Truth, and walk only in Your Way.    

AMEN


THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is nailed to the cross and His garments have been divided up, 

He has been brutally beaten and scourged and His final minutes on this earth

 are at hand. One would think that at this point all anyone would think

 about would be getting through this extreme personal pain or even 

if anyone in this position even thought about doing something for

 others that they would be completely helpless to do anything at all,

 for after all, Jesus is in the greatest physical pain imaginable, 

He is literally nailed hands and feet to a cross, all His possessions have

 been taken from Him so what possibly could such a disadvantaged person do? 

Matthew describes the scene where the soldiers have just “divided

 His garments” and Jesus is hanging on the cross above them —


 “Sitting down, [the soldiers] kept watch over Him there. 

And they put up over His head the accusation written against Him:

 THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS

Then two robbers were crucified with Him, 

one on the right and one on the left.” 

(Matthew 27:35-38) 


There is so little we attempt to do for the kingdom because of our 

lack of faith in God because we let the world tell us that we never have

 enough to help ourselves therefore we never consider helping others.

 In describing this same scene we read from the Gospel of Luke, 

“Then one of the criminals…blasphemed Him, saying, 

‘If you are the Christ, save Yourself and us.” (Luke 23:39)   

This is so typical of our proclivity to question God just as Satan

 tested Jesus saying “If You are the Son of God…” 

and then we give God some test to pass in order to “prove Himself”!?!? 

How ridiculous it is to imagine that we as mere mortals need personal proof

 that God is God —

 because when we are asking God to “prove Himself to us [sinners all]”

 we fail to realize that without God’s Miracle Gifts of our God-given life

 and God-given intellect we would not have the ability 

to even ask questions in the first place!  

The scene taking place at the cross illustrates the entire Gospel

 as Jesus demonstrated in these three crosses a summary of the entire Bible.

 Here it is: (JT1) Jesus has come into the world to save the world 

but is rejected by His own. 

(JT2) Those in power sought to retain their power therefore they 

condemned the innocent to protect their guilt 

instead of accepting God’s leadership. 

(JT3) Jesus stated that the Father would grant eternal life to everyone

 that believed that Jesus, God’s Only Begotten Son, was sent 

by the Father to Save sinners from eternal hell. 

(JT4) Jesus then stated that He was not here to condemn 

but to Save the world. 

(JT5) God never gives up on trying to draw us to Himself. 

(JT6) Jesus Taught time and time again that it is 

our “Faith in God” that is the Key to our Salvation 

(JT7) Jesus has the Power to Forgive sins, even if He and the sinner

 are both nailed to a cross with absolutely no other resources! 


We see this played out as Luke records: 

“But the other [criminal], answering, rebuked [the blasphemer], 

saying, ‘Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under 

the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we receive 

the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong.

 Then he said to Jesus,

 ‘Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.’” 

(Luke 23:40-42) 


It was at this point that Jesus proved it is not a product of our

 circumstances that equals our Salvation but rather it is our 

Confession that Jesus is Lord 

that leads to our Salvation for even though Jesus was 

breathing some of His lasts breaths on earth

 and having been beaten and nailed to a cross, 

His Spiritual Powers were not diminished in the least as Luke records

 the Power of God to Save: 


“And Jesus said to [the repentant one], ‘Assuredly, I say to you,

 today you will be with Me in Paradise.’” (Luke 23:43) 

There is nothing that the world can do to Jesus to prevent Him

 from forgiving those that call upon the Name of Jesus 

as Lord and Savior 

because the Power is not with men 

but with God!  


The thief on the cross was guilty and was nailed to a cross — 

he could not go to church, he could not tithe, he could not be baptized,

 physically he could accomplish nothing — 

but spiritually he could recognize his eternal need for Jesus and recognize 

Jesus as the Way, the Truth, and the Life 

and Jesus proved Himself despite all the limitations the world had placed on

 the Son of God !!! 


GOD IS FAITHFUL TO SAVE ALL WHO 

CALL UPON THE NAME OF JESUS FOR SALVATION! 


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There is no worldly circumstance that prevents us from 

acknowledging our spiritual need for a Savior 

and no worldly circumstance will prevent God from being Faithful 

and Just to Forgive us our sins ——— 

we CAN have Eternal Fellowship with God 

for God Desires that we share Eternal Life 

with Him in His Eternal Paradise!!!


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