DECEMBER 08 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#33 “Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46)

 

DECEMBER 08  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, You are the Giver of Life and the Sustainer of our Hope. 

You Lord took the sins of the world upon Your shoulders and we Lord

 can only Praise You for the Great Sacrifice You made for our sakes. 

Your Name is Holy for You are the Holy One and we give You

 the Praise and Glory that is due to You. Lead and guide us

 in our daily lives on earth that when our earthly time is over 

that we will dwell with You in Paradise forever.     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has stated very clearly that He must

 “die at the hands of sinners” 

and that He would be

 “resurrected on the third day” 

and that this was

 GOD’S PLAN of SALVATION 

that was conceived BEFORE CREATION. 

This Master Plan of Redemption has now reached the last minute

 before Jesus completes the Plan and literally “dies for all mankind”,

 having suffered the pain of taking ALL SIN upon Himself and having 

to do it as the Father withdrew His Holy Spirit from the Son in order

 that the Son could pay the full penalty of sin. 

Jesus shed every drop of His Atoning Blood 

and suffered the full wrath of God as the Passover Lamb!!! 

Matthew then records, “And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, 

and yielded up His spirit.” 

(Matthew 27:50)  

Luke recorded these last words from Jesus as He died on the cross:

 “‘Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.’ 

Having said this, [Jesus] breathed His last.” 

(Luke 23:46) 

The last words Jesus spoke before yielding up His spirit on the cross

 as recorded in the Gospel of John are: 

“‘It is finished!’ 

And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.” 

(John 19:30)

  Mark wrote in his Gospel, 

“‘My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?’…

And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last.” 

(Mark 15:34,37) 

It is interesting to note that each of the 4 Gospels record the same event 

as is evident that in each Gospel that Jesus died an earthly death 

for each Gospel records that the Man Jesus “breathed His last” 

and His body was then removed from the cross and put in a grave.

 If Jesus were still breathing the soldiers would not have pierced His

 side with a spear, nor would they have allowed Joseph of Arimathea

 to remove the body from the cross. By every account, though different

 last phrases from Jesus were recorded, all 4 Gospels recorded 

that Jesus indeed died and that His spirit was not taken from Him

 but that he “yielded” His spirit to the Father. 

Of significant note is that in the argument that 

Jesus was All Man and All God (which is as Mysterious

 as God IS the TRINITY being 3 Persons yet being only 1 God), 

all the writers of the 4 Gospels recorded that Jesus gave up “His spirit”

 and then “breathed His last” and we must note that in each Gospel

 the word is “spirit” signifying man’s “spirit” and not “Spirit” 

which the Bible records as God’s “Spirit” such as Genesis 1:2 

“And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” 

(Genesis 1:2) 

So the Bible makes a clear distinction that man has a “spirit”

 and that God has a unique “Spirit” for Jesus told His disciples

 when He spoke of His death on the cross that when He died that 

“I will pray the Father and He will give you another Helper…

the Spirit of truth…

for He dwells with you and will be in you.” 

(John 14:16-17) 

Jesus is both the Son of Man and the Son of God and as the Son of Man

 He “yielded His “spirit” and “breathed His last” breath as Man 

and being “dead” He had “finished” the job of bringing Salvation 

to mankind and that 

Jesus as the Lamb of God, 

having shed every drop of His Innocent Blood 

 had paid the Ultimate Price for our Redemption. 

Matthew then writes the

 “Spiritual Conclusion” to this “Act of Redemption” 

by the Son of God: 

“Then [after yielding up His spirit], behold the veil of the temple

 was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, 

and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; 

and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 

and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went 

into the holy city and appeared to many. 

So when the centurion and those with him, who were 

guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened,

 they feared greatly, saying, 

‘Truly this was the Son of God!’” 

(Matthew 27:50-54)   

Once we have become aware that the entire Bible is about God bringing

 “deliverance” to His Creation even though it is we ourselves 

that have rejected Him and brought condemnation on ourselves!  

There should come a time in each one’s search for 

“TRUTH” 

that we finally see that 

“TRUTH IS GOD” 

and that 

JESUS IS GOD’S SON 

and we declare 

“Behold, truly 

JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD 

and GAVE HIS LIFE TO DELIVER ME FROM MY SIN!” 

And then we can bow our hearts to Him and accept

 GOD’S GIFT OF GRACE 

and pray with all confidence 

 “Surely Goodness and Mercy will follow me 

all the days of my life 

and I will dwell in the house of the LORD FOREVER!”    

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!!!”