4. Matthew 27:46 –My God My God Why have you forsaken me
(Flashback to Psalm 22:1 Where King David says ”My God, My God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? “
The name Jesus means: God who saves; God carried out this plan perfectly, fully mapped out from Eternity past
Predestination makes it so that this saying on the cross from Christ was planned to be said from a time before the earth was ever formed
Meaning that when King David was alive during his time on earth, the God of Heaven and Earth heard his cries of lamentation and had already planned to include David’s words into His
own dialogue during His crucifixion. This was done as a memorial to King David and is a signal to mankind, that the Creator of the universe hears the cries of pain that His sheep
experience, and He can relate to them so perfectly that He will even quote from His creation and show all that He is Truly The Son of Man as well as the Son of God.)
5. I am thirsty (John 19:28) when I see this, I think of the humanity of Christ. Thirst is something that every human can remember feeling at one point in time, highlighting the sobering
reality of the cross. This saying also brings my mind back to the woman at the well, the first human Christ revealed His Deity to. When Christ said in John 4:13-14 “Anyone who drinks
ordinary water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give will never be thirsty”… On the cross, Christ: The Living Water, experienced thirst even though he is the source of
Water Everlasting. This is yet again, another example of Christ’s ability to fully empathize with the human condition, as He is, The Son of Man and The Son of God. This exclusive ability
qualified Christ alone as the appropriate sacrifice for the atonement of human sin.
6.It is finished (John 19:30) These words stand to symbolize the fulfillment of all the Prophesies in the Old Testament that point to The Messiah coming to save Gods chosen people from
the inevitable death that comes from sin.
7.Father into your hands I commit my Spirit (Luke 23:46) God The Son is fully giving His Spirit into the Hands of God The Father, an example of Christ’s complete obedience to the
Everlasting Father. Furthermore, The Holy Spirt that Christ sent as a comforter to all who believe in Him as Lord, is also affirmed to be in union with God The Father and God The Son. It
could be said that the saying “Father into your hands I commit my Spirit” serves as a foreshadowing of what was to take place 53 days later at Pentecost.
Thank you LORD for all you have done,
Amen!
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