Sermon: The Day God Turned His Face Away | "My God, My God Why Have You Forsaken Me?"

[@jennyturner3174]

Now that’s a good word right there

[@clarodelrosario139]

Jesus was truly in mental, physical, emotional and psychological agony when he utters that cry. He inflicts this on himself by giving his all (by bringing himself to the limit of human suffering) in order to pay for the penalty of man's sin (Is. 53) - to glorify his Father. While on the cross he feels the consequence of being in the judgment seat of God as the Substitute of sinful man, paying for his sin. The Father can never be angry with his Son since He says, "In him I am well pleased." He can never be separated from the Father since that's impossible. He is of one substance with him. He said "the Father is in me and I am in the Father." He declares to his disciples on the night of his betrayal that God will strike him, the Shepherd, and his sheep (disciples) shall scatter but he shall never be alone since the Father is always with him. Jesus also knows that in Psalm 22:24 God will never turn his face on him, the AFFLICTED. How did he know about these things? Well, he is equal with God in all his attributes which includes omniscience. So, with this foreknowledge (he is Omniscient like his Father) why did he cry to God of being forsaken to die on the cross? Because according to Paul in Philippians 2, Christ did not consider equality with God something to be taken advantage of. He did not take advantage of his omniscience by not exercising it. That is how he empties himself ("kenoo"). Consequently, on the cross he feels what a true human would feel while in full pain and agony and seeing only the truth of his being forsaken since by temporarily not exercising his omniscience he could not see what would become of him beyond the grave. Christ deprives his humanity the advantage of his omniscience and allows himself to realize that no one is saving him on the cross. What is the natural and inevitable result. He feels forsaken or abandoned. When he cries and asks the question To God he is just following the expressed command of God in scriptures that in time of trouble one must pour out his misery to him. Thus he fulfills the will of God even with his feeling and perception of abandonment. He calls his Father "My God, My God" proving his faith in him despite his human perception that he is indeed forsaken to suffer and die on the cross, although the objective reality is that the Father never leaves him. But when he feels that his life is about to leave him he declares his work complete and then allows his omniscience again to see the objective reality of what is to become of him beyond his death (that he will be preserved and resurrected to a new life and victorious over sin) and then he commits his spirit to his Father.

[@sdjnjferri]

Psalm 22:24 "For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; But when he cried to him, he heard."

[@PureWater-w7c]

Sean Ferri thank you

[@Kevinmichel58m]

Qqqq

[@rokitman5753]

Jesus spoke Hebrew saying my lord my lord for this i have been kept. its impossinle to explain this verse with just useing kjv

[@serouniankeir8379]

Excellent message.

[@winarhay5859]

Jesus was singing that David's psalms from old testament to remind people that God promise has been fulfilled trough David's Son.. no One is forsaken bcz He is that God Himself

[@mafia461]

Exactly! 🧡

[@alivessdead980]

I AM I

[@stevrgrs]

😭

[@mafia461]

At 17:44 he says something entirely and TOTALLY opposite of what verse ( 24 ) of Psalms 22 says regarding the Messianic Prophecy; 👉"He did NOT turn his face on Jesus"! So WHERE does this messages about God turning his face away from Jesus comes from..?? Smh Please people, c'mon!!

[@stevrgrs]

Spartacus Maximus Im not saying he's right, but I think there are two ways to turn your head. Just as there are misinterpretations about "turning the other cheek". The turn he was referring to was in sadness at what He had to do for Jesus to truly sacrifice Himself for our sins. It wasn't a turning away in shame/anger. Hence why he emphasized how God did NOT take away His love, but that Jesus was temporarily unable to feel it.

[@coolhandluke6438]

God did not turn His face, back, break fellowship, abandon or in any negative way separate Himself from Jesus. This false teaching adds to the suffering of Jesus that is not found in any prophecy in the OT or any evidence in the NT. Paul, James, John, Peter or the writer of Hebrews ( which would have been the perfect place to teach it) these writers know nothing of this.

[@lettherebelight1492]

The word "Hell" is NOWHERE found in the scriptures. The word used in the OLD covenant scripture is: sheol. Sheol means GRAVE. The wordS used in the NEW covenant scriptures are: Hades (= GRAVE), Tartarus (=Abyss), And Gehenna. Gehenna was a RUBBISH dump outside the Gates of Jerusalem that was kept burning 24/7. Look it up. On judgment day the sinners will be cast into the Lake of Fire and turned into ASHES. Rev. 20.: 7 - 14. Bless you.

[@Jonathan-mr8pz]

Letthere belight 💯 I learned this awhile ago n I think it’s important to spread this truth to other Christians

[@Jonathan-mr8pz]

Did you happen to learn this from pastor Greg Boyd?

[@dr.alanhales544]

Letthere belight, The Hebrew word for Hell, Is, Sheol, and the Hebrew word for Grave, is quber, Two different Hebrew words, two different places. The Greek word for Hell, Is, Hades, and the Greek word for Grave, Is Mnemeion. Two different Greek words, two different places. Tartyarus, is the place for the fallen angels, 1 Pet 3: 19. 2 Pet 4: 2. Jude 6.

[@tamitha20]

Letthere belight you are deceived. you have no idea how serious sin is. it took the cruxifiction of Jesus to pay for the elect's sins. that's what sinners have to bear in hell if they are not saved.

[@Dlee-eo5vv]

Blasphemy.