Title: My God, my God/Matthew 27:46
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Hallelujah! It is the continuing season of Lent.
What will you do for Lent?
First, we must pray a lot.
You just need to meditate on how our Lord prayed for 40 days during Lent.
Before Jesus began his public ministry, he prayed for 40 days. I hope that you will be able to pray a lot to the Lord by attending the special early morning prayer meeting on the 40th.
Second, we must strive to lead a godly life.
Do all you have to do, and don't go everywhere you want to go.
Which child can be arrogant in the face of his parents' sacrifice?
'What did our father leave us? What shall I do?' Just as a person who makes a worldly sacrifice and lives reverently while thinking about his back, he must remember the day the Lord died and act reverently and modestly.
Third, we must do a lot of evangelism.
The Lord saved my life, so I should be able to participate in saving the lives of others. I pray that we can once again meditate on the cross during Lent and be victorious.
There are many ways to kill a death row inmate in this world.
There are many formal methods of killing a person, including hanging by strangulation with ropes, single-headed death by cutting off the neck, shot-by-shot, slaughter-by-kill, burning to death, and electric torture to death.
Among them, death by crucifixion was the most severe punishment.
When a prisoner is hung on the cross, some people die at once, while others do not die for several days. If he was hung on the cross for a long time, blood would come out of the place where the nail was nailed, and the pain would be aggravated.
During the crucifixion ritual, the punishment that made you feel pain was the crucifixion. It was the punishment of the cross to kill life, but to make it feel extremely painful. Also, the more severe pain in the crucifixion consists in stripping the hanged man, beating him, and hanging him in extreme disgrace.
The icon on the cross of Jesus Christ is depicted as a blindfold, but the actual situation is with all his clothes removed.
Crucifixion was a punishment that caused not only physical pain but also mental disgrace to a death row prisoner, killing his or her personality.
The pain and suffering on the cross adds to the shame and shame.
Hunger can be tolerated, and pain can be tolerated, but shame is unbearable.
It is because of shame that we hide ourselves when the image of a criminal is shown on TV. The real shame is when I get pointed at by the many people who come and go in front of him running naked.
Dear saints! How do we see the cross on which the Lord was hung?
victory? is it a failure?
In the eyes of the world, there is no greater failure than this.
At the age of thirty-three, what great sin had he committed to be crucified so horribly?
However, from a religious point of view, the cross is the site of victory over the powers of sin and death.
Seen with the eyes of unbelief, the cross is a cruel and shameful place, but when viewed with the eyes of faith, it is a field where we can give praise and glory to the Lord.
Our Lord spoke seven words on that cross.
"Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing" (Luke 23:34).
The first words were a prayer of forgiveness for those who crucified themselves, crowned them with thorns, and pierced them with spears. Ordinary people would have prayed for revenge towards those who tried to hurt and kill them, but the Lord prayed for them to forgive them. He said they didn't know what they were doing.
The Lord prayed not only for those around the cross, but for us. During the season of Lent, we must know how precious this time is and avoid sinning.
I'm tempted to put off weddings during Lent. I hope that the joyous and joyful can be postponed until after Lent.
“I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43).
The second is the word that grants paradise to a crucified thief when he desperately said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
The Lord has granted that paradise “today.”
Paradise is not granted when the Lord returns in the distant future, but is granted today at this time.
"Woman, behold, your son. Behold, your mother."
The third verse was speaking to the mother of the flesh, asking for a mother to the beloved disciple John. "Mother, do not see me as a son of the flesh anymore, but see me as the Son of God and the Savior. Look at this victory and the fulfillment of Heavenly Father's will."
"About the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani.' This means, 'My God, my God. Why have you forsaken me?'" (Matthew 27:46).
The text is the fourth word on the cross, and from these words we can hear three outcries.
First, he cried out, 'My God, my God.'
“My God, my God. Why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46)
The first words of the Lord on the cross were, "Father, forgive us." He prayed to Heavenly Father, but the text of the text cried out, 'My God, my God.'
The Lord taught us to pray to our Heavenly Father to pray, “Our Father in heaven,” even when He sets the example of prayer.
Anyone who has raised a child will know how it feels the first time a child says, “Dad, Mom,” during weaning. That was the heart of our Lord.
'Dad. The parents who hear, 'Mom,' are determined once again to take responsibility for everything for their children.
However, although our physical parents have their limitations, our Heavenly Father welcomes us not only on this earth but also into heaven.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you” (John 16:23).
However, in the text of the text, the Lord did not say, 'God, Father,' but prayed, 'My God, my God.'
In these words, we should be able to see the culmination of the suffering and suffering of Jesus Christ.
"Righteous God, loving God. See if it is right for me to die like this. Please judge whether this fact is right from God's point of view objectively, leaving the relationship between God and me as a child."
Karl Barth said that whenever you look at the cross, you realize two things: "How great is God's love and how great a sinner I am."
First, he cried out, 'Have you forsaken me?'
“My God, my God. Why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46)
Being 'forsaken' is an intolerable pain.
People abandoned by friends, lovers abandoned by lovers, husband abandoned by wife, wife abandoned by husband, parents abandoned by children, children abandoned by parents... "Do whatever you want," and leave it alone. However, there are limits to human abandonment.
The greatest rejection is the fact of being abandoned by God the Creator.
“How long will you mourn for him, since I have already rejected Saul from being king over Israel?” (1 Samuel 16:1)
From a human point of view, Saul is tall and handsome and looks like a king, but our Lord has given up on him.
But why was the Lord without sin forsaken?
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you far from helping me, and do you not hear my groaning?" (Psalm 22:1)
The psalmist earnestly prayed to God not to forsake him in a desperate situation.
But our Lord Himself was forsaken so that we might live as children of God.
The Lord reconciled us to God by first being forsaken.
First, he cried out, “Why?”
“My God, my God. Why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46)
There are many ways to save mankind, so why do you have to die on the cross?
"He was pierced for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. The punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5). )
Jesus died on the cross for our sins.
'Sin' cuts our relationship with God and our neighbors.
This sin was so great that when the Lord was crucified, the sun obscured its light, the veil of the sanctuary was torn, an earthquake occurred, rocks burst, the tombs were opened, and the saints woke up.
Second, the Lord paid the penalty for our sins.
“The wages of sin is death.”
Jesus died on the cross to save us from this death.
In reality, we should fear the second death after physical death rather than physical death.
“But the fearful and the unbeliever and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, and this is the second death.” (Revelation) 21:8)
Jesus died on the cross so that he would not suffer this death.
Third, the Lord was crucified for my life.
Dear saints! God the Father has worked together with God the Son in all things, including creation, predestination, and providence. But on the cross our Lord was completely forsaken by God the Father.
Realizing this amazing fact, I pray in the name of the Lord that I will pray more during Lent, strive for a godly life, and become a saint who can save many people.