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!”
