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1 | "why have you forsaken me?" | Mark 15:34 | puppytoes | 226481 | ||
I read a little bit about when Jesus said, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" in the Read Answers section, but I still don't really understand why he said this. Can anyone help me to understand it better? | ||||||
2 | "why have you forsaken me?" | Mark 15:34 | Makarios | 226482 | ||
Greetings Puppytoes, You asked, "..when Jesus said, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?"... Can anyone help me to understand it better?" "My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me?" There is a mystery behind that cry which we cannot penetrate. Maybe it was like this. Jesus had taken this life of ours upon Him. He had done our work and faced our temptations and borne our trials. He had suffered all that life could bring to Him. He had known the failure of friends, the hatred of foes, the malice of enemies. He had known the most searing pain that life can offer. Up to this moment Jesus had gone through every experience of life, except one- He had never known the consequence of sin. Now if there is one thing sin does, it is that it separates us from God. It puts up between us and God a barrier like an unscalable wall. That was the one human experience through which Jesus had never passed because He was without sin. It may be that at this moment that experience came upon Him. It did not come because He had sinned, but it came because before He could completely identify Himself with our humanity He had to go through it. In this terrible, grim, bleak moment Jesus really and truly identified Himself with the sin of man. Here we have the divine paradox- Jesus knew what it was to be a sinner. No man can understand an experience unless he goes through it. And this experience must have been doubly agonizing for Jesus, because He had never known what it was to be separated by this barrier from God. That is why He can understand so well. That is why we need never fear to go to Him when sin cuts us off from God. Because He has gone through it He can help others who are going through it. There is no depth of human experience which Christ has not shared and plumbed." (pg. 383, The Gospel of Mark, by William Barclay, 1956 The Westminster Press) --Makarios |
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3 | "why have you forsaken me?" | Mark 15:34 | EdB | 226488 | ||
Actually "My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me?" is the opening verse of Psalm 22:1 (NASB) 1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Far from my deliverance are the words of my groaning. That Psalm written by David is a vivid picture of the crucifixion and eventual victory over the enemy. David in dire distress when he wrote it felt as though God had forsaken him, yet we know God has promised never to leave nor forsake us. Many say God must turn away from sin but yet we know it is when we are most mired in sin that God extends His hand of mercy and grace to pull us from the mire of sin. I believe Jesus was quoting this verse for two reasons, first He was in agony of death and being fully human as well as fully God was letting forth a cry. But more importantly Jesus knew the Jews loved the prophet David and that they would instantly know the Psalm this first verse started. I believed Jesus in His love and even at the point of death of giving those that would, one more testimony of who he was. Read the Psalm you can picture Christ on the cross as you do. Now think about someone standing there witnessing the actual event and having Jesus call to their memory a Psalm written by the prophet hundreds of years earlier that prophetized this exact event. God didn't forsake Jesus just as God will never forsake us. |
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4 | "why have you forsaken me?" | Mark 15:34 | Beja | 226489 | ||
EdB, I agree with you entirely on this. I also like to point out that this psalm ends with an expectation of God's triumph and glory. I think not only was Christ calling out in anguish, but at the same time He indeed, as you said, had the entire psalm in mind and that means that it was also a declaration of faith that even in this it would end to the glory of God. In Christ, Beja |
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