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What Jesus teaches us is how to deal with crucifixion in our own lives. Anyone who speaks necessary truths will face crucifixion - be mocked, beat up with words, possibly lose their job, and be ostracized socially.
One properly faces that ordeal calmly, without recrimination, forgiving persecutors for their hatred and ignorance - in other words, in the way that Jesus faced crucifixion. Another lesson is that stating aloud our feeling of being abandoned by God is not a sin. There is an amazing level of fear about speaking up within the Church.
We have no dialogue at all among the women and no dialogue between the women and the men of the Church. This fear is an unfathomable mystery to me. What are we so afraid of? Perhaps we afraid that if we start talking, someone will say, "This makes no sense" and that spark of truth will start a wildfire. We talk about the crucifixion as a past event, but it is ongoing reality. Your source for jobs, books, retreats, and much more. Faith February 15, issue.
February 03, When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. Show Comments 3. Comments are automatically closed two weeks after an article's initial publication. See our comments policy for more. No words But I know how it all ends. Thank you Jesus At least so it really seemed. And it really was! And He experienced that for you, for me. To be forsaken by God means God will turn the forsaken one over to his enemies, often to kill and destroy him.
This actually happened to Jesus on the cross. He was literally, fully, objectively turned over to them, and they killed Him. Though this was not the primary sense in which Jesus was forsaken on the cross, it was certainly a part of His utter forsakenness in that God did not deliver Him from His enemies. See the love of God, who gave not his Son up only to the hands of men to be executioners of his body, but himself laid on upon his soul; and that because justice called for the soul, the very soul, ere it would be satisfied.
Which no creature being able to reach, rather than we should not be redeemed, he will be the executioner himself; ties him to the cross, and with his own hand whips him, because no creature could strike strokes hard enough Christ The Mediator, Though God always loved His Son, even while He suffered on the cross, God was angry with Him because of our sins and forsook Him because He Who knew no sin was made sin 2 Corinthians Thomas Goodwin has masterfully written on this point , over and over again:.
And also this offering up himself was so sweet a smelling sacrifice to God as Eph. Christ The Mediator , Why, say they, can God love his Son and be angry with him at the same time?
And he that is God blessed for ever, can he be made a curse in his soul? Yes, take him as a surety. They take part with one truth of the gospel to exclude the other, whereas the gospel is a reconciliation of both these, and therein lies the depth of it The Glory Of The Gospel, The Old Testament is clear that when God forsakes, He hides His face from the one He forsakes, turns him over to his enemies, and burns in anger toward him. All of this happened to Jesus while He suffered for sinners on the cross.
It was a real, objective forsakenness. If you look it up you will find that Bashan was the chief cattle-raising area of Israel where the biggest, best, strongest bulls came from. It was the Pharisees who had inspired, cajoled, and manipulated the Romans to pound the nails. Psalm 13 Roaring lions tearing their prey open their mouths wide against me. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me.
Using metaphorical language, these verses clearly describe a person dying. It is a figure of speech. In regard to Jesus, crucifixion dislocated a number of his bones, and no doubt it felt like all of them. Psalm 16 Dogs have surrounded me, a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet.
When the Romans crucified someone, they formed a cordon of soldiers around the cross to keep the people away. People spit on him, taunted him, and gloated over him. The Messiah calls upon his God, Yahweh, to save him. Not by taking him off the cross, but by raising him from the dead in accordance with other Old Testament prophecy. Look at these next verses:.
Psalm and 23 22 I will [in the future] declare your name to the brothers; in the congregation I will praise you. All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
How is the Messiah going to praise God in the future when it is clear that he was to die? Only if God keeps His Word and raises him from the dead. And the next verse indicates that God had not forsaken him and would do just that!
Psalm For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help. Psalm 25 From you comes my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you I fulfill my vows.
The last clause of verse 31 should be translated a bit differently. Jesus Christ knew that, and in the final agonizing moments of his life had the presence of mind and the love for all men, including those who were killing him, to once again hold forth to them the Word of Life.
He quoted the very first clause and the very last clause of a section of Scripture that they knew very, very well. With his dying breaths he affirmed one more time that he was who the Word of God said he was—the Messiah, the Son of the living God, the Redeemer of Israel and all who in the future would believe on him. What a man!
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