Mark 15 records Jesus saying, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?"
vs 37: And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed His last.
Father God says He will never give us more than we can handle. I weep a lot these days because I think I need relief. Then I think of Jesus on the cross. We all have our own cross to bear on this earth. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Jesus continues ministering even while He hung on the cross. Of the accounts from the 4 Gospels. He forgave the thief at His one side, He spoke directions to John, "This is your mother" and Mary, "Woman, this is your son." Jesus prays for us that we be forgiven. these are the words Jesus spoke: He notes his severe dehydration as, "I thirst." Then two of the Gospels records Jesus saying, "It is finished." and "Into Thy hands I commit My spirit."
Mark 15:33-39 records the following:
At the Ninth hour (3 PM) Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" which is translated, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed His last.
When the Centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"
I believe Jesus could have thought when He said, "It is finished." and, "Into Thy hands I commit My spirit," that His work on the cross was fulfilled to its completion.
Could it have been the Father placed the sin of all the world upon the body of Jesus like a black shroud just the moment before Jesus' anguished cries?
Though Jesus knew in eternity past the full extent of the sacrifice He would make to pay the debt of sin, I believe Father God did not give the man, Jesus, foreknowledge of the experience of the separation from His Father, in order to carry the sin of the world with him to hell. It stands to reason and in line with the character of the Father and the humanity of the Son of Man that letting Jesus know beforehand could have been excesive torture. That knowledge would have been more than He could handle. He had it thrust upon Him. And notice how Jesus cried out loudly, "WHY?" I also believe it was immediately after that moment when Jesus gave out His gut wrenching, loud cry. Jesus' heart ruptured within his chest cavity and He breathed His last.
His Spirit immediately left His body, and Jesus was sent to hell to taste the second death, paying the price of sin, that we might never die. He spent those hours in hell in the depths of the earth, as Jonah in the belly of the great fish. But gloriously, He awkened a few saints of old and they were allowed to walk the streets of Jerusalem. At the end of his time in hell the debt was paid. He took the keys to the gates of hell and death from Satan. He visited the garden tomb and stood before Mary. And after all this, He ascended to the highest heaven to the eternal throne of Father God, that He might fill all places with Himself. He is standing at the right hand of the Father.
Pretty heavy, huh? I cried, with overwhelmed feelings. Such a great love from Jesus and Father God; and while I was yet, a sinner.
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