![]() In that pivotal moment in time, Jesus became guilty of Saul’s persecution and murder of Christians, Hitler’s holocaust, Jezebel’s immorality, Elvis’ drug abuse, Stalin’s massacres, Osama Bin Laden’s murders, not to mention our sins. First John 2:2 says, “He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.” Isaiah 53:6 says: “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” On the cross, God transferred onto Jesus all the sins of the world. There’s no doubt that Jesus did become a sin offering, a sacrifice on our behalf. Second, when He cried: “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” many believe that Jesus became a sin offering, and for a brief moment God the Father abandoned Him. ![]() But there’s more to it than that… A Sin Offering I believe it’s quite plausible that this cry from the cross was the human side of Jesus speaking out. Hebrews 4:15 says, “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are-yet was without sin.”Ĭan you imagine the emotional suffering that accompanied the crucifixion-carrying all the crud that I’ve done, and all of the sins you’ve ever committed, not to mention the sins of billions of people over the years. But we do know that in the garden of Gethsemane, He prayed to God the Father, “Please, Father-let this cup pass from Me.”īut of course, knowing there was no other way, Jesus said, “not my will, but yours be done, Father.” You know, it’s impossible for us to know exactly how “human” Jesus felt throughout the arrest, trials, and crucifixion. In about two hours, you’re going to become the 40th president of the United States!” And as the story goes, Reagan sleepily poked his head out from under the covers and said, “Do I have to?” So he knocked on the President’s bedroom door and said, “Sir, it’s 8:30 in the morning. On the morning of President Reagan’s inauguration, Deaver was concerned because it appeared his boss had overslept. Michael Deaver served as the Deputy Chief of Staff during the Reagan administration. Therefore, you could say that in His humanity, Jesus experienced an emotional separation from His Heavenly Father. John 1:14 says, “The Word became flesh and dwelled among us.” And in Phil 2:6-7, Paul says that Jesus, “although being in very nature God… was made in human likeness.” “Do I Have to?”įirst, when Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?’ many assert that Jesus in His human nature, felt abandoned by God the Father. What exactly did Jesus mean by it? Over the centuries scholars have offered up different explanations and thoughts on this passage-but there can be little doubt that these four Aramaic words are packed with significance. “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” This statement is one of the most debated sentences in the entire Bible. Here Jesus vocalizes the question that was on everyone’s mind: Why was this man of God, this insightful rabbi, this miracle worker, seemingly being abandoned by God? In the Jewish mind, to die such a death, at such a young age, was the epitome of God-forsakenness. About the 9th hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?’ which means ‘My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?’” And then in v 50 it says, “And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He gave up His spirit.” In Matt 27:45 we read, “From the 6th hour until the 9th hour darkness came over all the land. ![]() I want to take us back to that Friday afternoon some 2000 years ago and talk about this. It’s sometimes known as the Cry of Dereliction. One of the most challenging statements in Scripture was uttered by our Lord Jesus Christ while hanging on the cross.
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